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Led by one James Knox. His real name was Kasper Mansker, as his signature shows, but he was always spoken of as Mansco. Sometimes the term Long Hunters was used as including Boon, Finley, and their companions, sometimes not; in the McAfee MSS. it is explicitly used in the former sense. See Haywood for Clinch River, Drake's Pond, Mansco's Lick, Greasy Rock, etc., etc.
Of course, the Cavaliers no more formed the bulk of the Virginia people than they did of Rupert's armies; but the squires and yeomen who went to make up the mass took their tone from their leaders. Mansco" of Tennessee writers. Every old western narrative contains many allusions to "Dutchmen," as Americans very properly call the Germans.
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