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In the McAfee MSS. there is an amusing mention of the skin of a huge bull elk, killed by the father, which the youngsters christened "old ellick"; they used to quarrel for the possession of it on cold nights, as it was very warm, though if the hairside was turned in it became slippery and apt to slide off the bed.
Among the leading and earliest colonists of the "Blue Grass State" who accompanied Daniel Boone, the ubiquitous Irish were represented by men bearing such names as Mooney, McManus, Sullivan, Drennon, Logan, Casey, Fitzpatrick, Dunlevy, Cassidy, Doran, Dougherty, Lynch, Ryan, McNeill, McGee, Reilly, Flinn, and the noted McAfee brothers, all natives of Ireland or sons of Irish immigrants.
Generally the vigilantes, by a series of summary executions, do really good work; but I have rarely known them fail, among the men whom they killed for good reason, to also kill one or two either by mistake or to gratify private malice. See Doddridge. McAfee MSS. Doddridge. Said one old Indian fighter, a Col.
The trail led through forests and marshy canebrakes; across Nolichucky, up Long Creek and down Dunplin Creek to the French Broad. Haywood and Ramsey. McAfee MSS. Nov. 5th. Do. Nov. 8th. Do. The boundary then established between the Cherokees and Watauga people was known as Brown's Line.
While his companion scampered up a leaning mulberry bush, McAfee, less agile, leaped behind a tree trunk, where he stood sideways till the buffalo passed, their horns scraping off the bark on either side; then he looked round to see his friend "hanging in the mulberry bush like a coon."
Of the Kentucky historians, Marshall is by far the most brilliant, and Mann Butler the most trustworthy and impartial. Both are much better than Collins. Benjamin Logan; there were many of the family in Kentucky. It was a common name along the border; the Indian chief Logan had been named after one of the Pennsylvania branch. McAfee MSS. Boon's letter. April 5th.
All his agility and dexterity was now put to the test he flies from tree to tree, still aiming to get to the fort, but is pursued by an Indian; he throws himself over a fence, a hundred and fifty yards from the fort, and the Indian takes a tree Robert, sheltered by the fence, was soon prepared for him, and while he puts his face by the side of the tree to look for his object, McAfee fires his rifle at it, and lodged the ball in his mouth in this he finds his death, and McAfee escapes to the fort."
"As if every month," says Marshall, "was to furnish its distinguishing incident in May, Samuel McAfee and another had set out from James McAfee's Station for a plantation at a small distance, and when advanced about one-fourth of a mile they were fired on; the man fell McAfee wheeled and ran toward the fort; in fifteen steps he met an Indian they each halt and present their guns, with muzzles almost touching at the same instant they each pull trigger, McAfee's gun makes clear fire, the Indian's flashes in the pan and he falls: McAfee continues his retreat, but the alarm being given, he meets his brothers, Robert and James the first, though cautioned, ran along the path to see the dead Indian, by this time several Indians had gained the path between him and the fort.
On Sunday, April 16th, on Scaggs's Creek, Henderson records: "About 12 oClock Met James McAfee with 18 other persons Returning from Cantucky."
These fights were among the numerous backwoods habits that showed Scotch rather than English ancestry. "I attempted to keep him down, in order to improve my success, after the manner of my own country." Watson. Doddridge. McAfee MSS. Watson. McAfee MSS. See also Doddridge and Watson. Doddridge, 156.
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