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The Indian had posted himself behind a tree to take safe aim. McAffee was now prepared for him. As the Indian put his head out from the cover of his tree, to look for his object, he caught McAffee's ball in his mouth, and fell. McAffee reached the station in safety. James, though he did not expose himself as his brother had done, was fired upon by five Indians who lay in ambush.
In 1779 they returned, and settled McAffee's station, which was subsequently compelled to take its full share in the sufferings and dangers of Indian hostilities. Benjamin Logan immigrated to the country in 1775, as a private citizen. But he was a man of too much character to remain unnoted.
Boone's brother killed, and Boone himself narrowly escapes from the Indians Assault upon Ashton's station and upon the station near Shelbyville Attack upon McAffee's station. We have already spoken of the elder brother of Col. Boone and his second return to the Yadkin. A fondness for the western valleys seems to have been as deeply engraven in his affections, as in the heart of his brother.
Early in May, two men, one of whom was Samuel McAffee, left James McAffee's station, to go to a clearing at a short distance. They had advanced about a fourth of a mile, when they were fired upon. The companion of McAffee fell. The latter turned and fled towards the station. He had not gained more than fifteen steps when he met an Indian.
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