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My eyes lifting from the white, ghastly face encountered those of McAfee, and, without the utterance of a word, I read the miner's verdict, and arose again to my feet. "Judge Beaucaire is dead," I announced gravely. "Nothing more can be done for him now." The pressing circle of men hemming us in fell back silently, reverently, the sound of their voices sinking into a subdued murmur.
"I intend to have what is coming to me if I win, and I know the law." Beaucaire angrily wrote in the required extra line. "Now what?" he asked. "Let McAfee there sign it as a witness, and then toss it over into the pile." He smiled, showing a line of white teeth beneath his moustache.
Whereupon James McAfee, who was leading a group of returning men, stated his opinion that the Transylvania Company's claim would not hold good with Virginia. After the parley, three of McAfee's brothers turned back and went with Henderson's party, but whether with intent to join his colony or to make good their own claims is not apparent.
See also Columbian Magazine, I., 122, and Schopf, 406. Boon, Crockett, Houston, Campbell, Lewis, were among the southwestern pioneers whose families originally came from Pennsylvania. The Irish schoolmaster was everywhere a feature of early western society. McAfee MSS. MS. Autobiography of Rev. Wm. "Trans-Alleghany Pioneers," 147.
Haywood, DeHaas, Withers, McClung, and other border annalists, give innumerable anecdotes about these and many other men, illustrating their feats of fierce prowess and, too often, of brutal ferocity. McAfee MSS. The story is told both in the "Autobiography of Robert McAfee," and in the "History of the First Settlement on Salt River." Incidents of this sort are frequently mentioned.
Thet damn sneak Carver must a did it, an' then the two ov 'em just sorter nat'rally faded away through that door thar." McAfee swore through his black beard, the full truth swiftly dawning upon him. "Hell!" he exploded. "So that's the way of it.
At this early date, schools were established in Kentucky and taught in the stockade forts. A Mrs. Coons “kept” school at Harrod’s Station; John May at McAfee, and a Mr. Doniphan at Boonesborough. Later, log cabin school houses were built farther out into the settlements. The school boys were required to carry guns with them to school, that they might be ready to meet any danger.
The borderers had the true Calvinistic taste in preaching. Clarkson, in his journal of his western trip, mentions with approval a sermon he heard as being "a very judicious and alarming discourse." McAfee MSS.
Before the Judge had gone half the distance, he stopped, reeled suddenly, clutching at his throat, and plunged sideways. His body struck the upturned table, and McAfee and I grasped him, lowering the stricken man gently to the floor. That scene, with all its surroundings, remains indelibly impressed upon my memory. It will never fade while I live.
Only a very few of the whites became, like Boon and Kenton, able to beat the best of the savages at their own game. The innumerable sieges that took place during the long years of Indian warfare differed in detail, but generally closely resembled one another as regards the main points. The McAfee MSS. and Butler's history give some valuable information.
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