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On Dreaming Creek Boon fell asleep and dreamed he was stung by yellow-jackets. The Elkhorn was so named because a hunter, having slain a monstrous bull elk, stuck up its horns on a pole at the mouth. At Bloody Run several men were slain. Eagle Branch was so called because of the many bald eagles round it. See McAfee MSS. Marshall, 45. Afterwards General William Ray. Butler, p. 37.
These two events took place on September 26th and 29th; "Am. Archives," 5th Series, Vol. II., p. 540. Ramsey is thus wrong in saying no white was killed on this expedition. McAfee MSS.; one of the McAfees went along and preserved a rough diary of dates. After camping a few days at Double Springs, the head-waters of Lick Creek, to let all the Watauga men come up. They sent spies in advance.
In the McAfee MSS. is a census of Harrodstown for the fall of 1777, which sums up: Men in service, 81; men not in service, 4; women, 24; children above ten, 12; children under ten, 58; slaves above ten, 12; slaves under ten, 7; total, 198. At the end of the year, therefore, Boonsborough and Harrodstown must have held about two hundred souls apiece; Logan's and McGarry's were considerably smaller.
McAfee MSS. This is the point especially insisted on by Cornstalk in his speech to the adventurers in 1773; he would fight before seeing the whites drive off the game. In the McAfee MSS., as already quoted, there is an account of the Shawnee war party, whom the McAfees encountered in 1773 returning from a successful horse-stealing expedition. "Am. Archives," IV., Vol.
"Nice little pot, gentlemen the Judge must hold some cards to take a chance like that," the words uttered with a sneer. "Fours, at least, or maybe he has had the luck to pick a straight flush." Beaucaire's face reddened, and his eyes grew hard. "That's my business," he said tersely. "Sign it, McAfee, and I'll call this crowing cockerel. You young fool, I played poker before you were born.
While I believe McAfee is right, we are not going to bring the Judge back to life by turning into a mob. There is no proof of cheating, and Kirby has the law behind him. Let me talk to the captain about what had best be done." "Who, Thockmorton?" "Yes; he'll know the better action for us to take. He's level-headed, and an old friend of Beaucaire's."
It is printed in the Filson Club publications; see "The Wilderness Road," by Thomas Speed, Louisville, Ky., 1886; one of the best of an excellent series. It is not necessary to say that "corn" means maize; Americans do not use the word in the sense in which it is employed in Britain. McAfee MSS. Some of the McAfees returned with Henderson.
All of this is taken from the McAfee MSS., in Colonel Durrett's library. McAfee MSS. A similar adventure befell my brother Elliott and my cousin John Roosevelt while they were hunting buffalo on the staked plains of Texas in 1877. They evidently wore breech-clouts and leggings, not trowsers. McAfee MSS. Filson's "Boon." October 10, 1773, Filson's "Boon."
No one noted my approach, or so much as glanced up, the attention of the crowd riveted upon the players. There were four holding cards the Judge, Kirby, Carver, and McAfee; but I judged at a glance that the latter two were merely in the game as a pretense, the betting having already gone far beyond the limit of their resources.
In spite of my position and rank, I was far too young in appearance to exercise much weight of authority over such border men, but fortunately I possessed sufficient good sense to rely now in this emergency upon the black-bearded McAfee, who served well.
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