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raised four additional regiments-two for the eastern, and two
for the western part of Virginia. It is supposed that Col. Joseph
Crockett was promoted to the command of one of these regiments,
and Colonel Todd was appointed to the other; no commission
has been found, appointing him a Col. in the regular service; but
depositions on file in Richmond, and old papers show that he was
acting as a regular Col. from about the time the regiments were
expected to be raised.
   In the spring of 1780, Col. Todd was sent a delegate to the
legislature of Virginia from the county of Kentucky: while
attending on the legislature, he married Miss Hawkins, and re-
turned again to Kentucky, and settled his wife in the fort at
Lexington; but again visited the county of Illinois, and was en-
gaged continually in the administration of its government and in
other military affairs, so that he was seldom with his family, until
the summer of 1782, when, in the month of August, the Indians
besieged Bryant's Station in great force.
  [I pass over the account of the battle of the Blue Lick, which is
the same as that given in the text.]
   Col. Todd fell in the midst of his usefulness, and in the prime
of life, leaving a wife, an only child, (and that a daughter,) about
twelve months old. That daughter was born in Lexington, and
is supposed to be now the eldest female ever born in that place.
She is the wife of R. Wickliffe, Esq., who has still in his family
the Col's body servant-George; who, at the advanced age of
eighty-odd years, retains his health, hearing, and intelligence,
perfectly. George has passed through many trying scenes, with
his master and others, and often speaks with great accuracy. He
assisted, he says, to build the forts of Harrodsburg, Wilson's Sta-
tion, and Lexington, and several times narrowly escaped with
his life, when the parties he was with were attacked by the sav-
ages.
  Col. Todd was a man of fine personal appearance and talents,
and an accomplished gentleman; was universally beloved, and
died without a stain upon his character, and it is believed without
even one enemy upon earth. From the year 1778, he might be
considered as residing in Illinois, (himself,) until he married in the
year 1780. When he married, settling his family in Lexington,
he was up to the time of his death enabled to stay but little with
them. It is believed, that besides aiding in the councils held
by Clark, and accompanying him in one or more of his expe-
ditions, he passed the dangerous regions from Lexington to Kas-
kaskia twice (and often four times) in every year.
  An anecdote, illustrative of the benevolence of his heart, was
told by his widow, after his death, to his child: That, during the
winter succeeding their marriage, the provisions of the fort at