aground at ye Fort Detroit. At which place I was taken to ye Shawnee Town, 20 miles distant. Of the 300 marchers taken 90 were count of reaching Fort Detroit. Me thinks Gen. Geo. Clark will be pursuit to liberate us? Please respond by same messenger to Major The DePayster at ye Fort Detroit, a friend of the captives.” 

            At any event Litton lost his land. At the signing of the treaty ending the Revolutionary War in 1783 Litton was freed from slavery. He returned to his Elk Garden home, accompanied by a female Indian slave named “Marka the Mohawk”. The Commonwealth of Virginia gave him a new land grant at the mouth of Big Cedar Creek where it empties into the Clinch River north of Lebanon, Virginia. When Litton's wife, Martha, died in 1821, he married Marka Mohawk. 

            Several of the individuals mentioned in the McConnell land grant are of interest. Jacob Crabtree, the Loyal Company warrant speculator, was among them. John Duncan, who was taken into slavery along with Solomon Litton, had earlier led a militia party from Russell County to the relief of Martin's Upper (Old) Station at Rose Hill, Lee County, Virginia, and the more westerly Chadwell’s Station after an Indian attack, where he had rescued George Rogers Clark. 

The text of the land grant to George McConnell indicates that the tract lay on Priest’s Mountain in Russell Co. This mountain is called Webb's Mountain today. William Priest had settled on a grant between current Smithfield and Rosedale, spilling over from the current north side of US 19 to the northern foot of Priest’s (Webb’s) Mountain.  In 1775 either this William, or his son William, and his family had built a fort in western Lee County. The Great Cherokee War of 1776 had forced him and his family to evacuate themselves back to Priest’s Mountain. Later in the war the garrison at the Glade Hollow Fort in Lebanon was attacked by Indians. William Priest (probably the son) and Burton Litton, Solomon’s son, were both killed.  

William Webb, for whom Priest’s Mountain was renamed, had been an official for Lord Fairfax. William Webb was granted land (LO 28–134) in Priest’s Valley, now Dry Creek.  He taught in the first school in Elk Garden.