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Among those by whom Boone was visited in the course of this year, were several men who have subsequently rendered very important services in the settlement of the West, and attained great and deserved celebrity: such were Simon Kenton, John Floyd, the four brothers McAfee, and others.
Among the hunters, surveyors, and explorers who came into the wilderness in 1773 was a band led by three young men named McAfee, typical backwoodsmen, hardy, adventurous, their frontier recklessness and license tempered by the Calvinism they had learned in their rough log home.
More successful than Boone was the McAfee party, five in number, from Botetourt County, Virginia, who between May 10th and September 1, 1773, safely accomplished a journey through Kentucky and carefully marked well-chosen sites for future location."
MS. autobiography of Rev. William Hickman. He was born in Virginia, February 4, 1747. A copy in Col. Durrett's library at Louisville, Ky. There were at least three such "Crab-Orchard" stations in Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The settlers used the word "crab" precisely as Shakespeare does. A Mr. Finley. Hickman MS. McAfee MSS. McAfee MSS.
The McAfee MSS. speak of meeting Boon in Powell's Valley and getting home in September; if so, it must have been the very end of the month. The account of this journey of Floyd and his companions is taken from a very interesting MS. journal, kept by one of the party Thomas Hanson. It was furnished me, together with other valuable papers, through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs.
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