[4] In the Northwest Indian War (1786–1795), he was part of a contingent of mounted volunteers from Lexington and Fayette County that included General James Wilkinson and Thomas Lewis.
In 1787, acting on information by local Shawnees, he launched a preemptive strike against a Cherokee raiding party at Paint Creek, killing three warriors and taking seven others prisoner.
[5] In June 1792, he was appointed a brigadier general and participated in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, commanding the 3rd Kentucky Mounted Volunteers.
He was also one of the commissioners selected to divide the land in Clark's Grant among the veterans of the Battle of Kaskaskia and Vincennes and later one of the original trustees of Clarksville, Virginia.
Of his six children, his youngest son Thomas J. Todd was a member of the Indiana General Assembly representing Marion County in the Senate from 1843 to 1846.