 Some settlers soon returned, only to flee again in the summer of 1779 in the "Little Runaway".Sullivan's Expedition helped stabilize the area and encouraged resettlement, which continued after the war.The Fair Play Men were illegal settlers (squatters) who established their own system of self-rule from 1773 to 1785 in the West Branch Susquehanna River valley of Pennsylvania in what is now the United States.