In an address delivered by Judge Charles H. Test, in 1878, he said: "My father with his family settled in Indiana sixty-eight years ago [in 1810]. When we arrived in the territory there were no roads or bridges, and the country was a vast wilderness.

The western boundary line of Franklin, Wayne and Randolph counties separated them from the almost boundless territory of the Indians. We were in the midst of a war with the neighboring tribes, and hostilities were about to commence with Great Britain. The savages continued to be exceedingly troublesome until 1814. Murders were frequent all along the border, nor was it unusual that the settler was compelled to fly to some neighboring blockhouse for protection.

Two persons, whose names I have now forgotten, were butchered not far above Brookville, while working in their fields, and their horses were stolen. Three men by the name of Morgan were killed by the Indians on the west fork of White Water. The frequency of such occurrences, and the rumors of bloody massacres, many of which never happened, caused the settlers to live in constant terror.

I recollect on one occasion a man on horseback came dashing up to our cabin, warning us to fly for our lives, to the house of James Knight, in Brookville, as the Indians were killing the settlers some eight or nine miles above, and would soon be upon us. It was a cold night in the fall of 1812. Without giving me time to more than half dress, we were hurried to Mr. Knight's, where we found about fifty persons, men, women and children. A dozen Indians could have captured the whole party without trouble.