statement,  preserved  among  the  Saye  papers,  of  John  Jeffries,  son  of  the  plundered  woman
mentioned  in  the  narrative;  MS.  papers  of  Hon.  William  Cocke  furnish  the  name  of  the
fort  ;  MS.  pension  statements  of  William  Smith,  of  Lincoln  county,  Tennessee,  Alex.  Mc-
Fadden,  of  Rutherford  county.  North  Carohna,  and  John  Clark,  of  Washington  county,
Tennessee,  corroborating,  in  a  general  way,  the  facts  of  the  capture  ;  and  in  a  personal
interview  with  Silas  McBee,  of  Pontotoc  county,  Mississippi,  in  1842,  he  confirmed  Shelby's
statement  that  ninety-four  was  the  number  of  Moore's  party  captured.  McBee  lived  on
Thicketty  at  the  time  of  the  capture  of  Moore  and  his  men.
