Ambushed

From The Kentuckians by Janet Holt Giles:

We can get it (a petition) wrote up in the next day or two, Jim said, and signed and then send it over to the Holston to Billy Russell and let him take it to the spring meeting of the Assembly at Williamsburg.  It was decided that way and the vote was taken to petition the Virginia Assembly in our favor.  They they named Jim and me and Isaac Hite to put it in writing.

Source

I was fixing to leave the next morning when Abraham Hite rode in from Boonesburg with the news they'd had an Indian scare.  A fellow by the name of Campbell and *two lads had crossed over the river to hunt and had been ambushed.  One of the lads was killed and the other one taken captive, but the Campbell fellow got away.

*Sanders and M'Quinney