Nancy Horton (C); 26Jul55; R153560. HORTON, MILDRED MCAFEE. Ministerial practices.

SEE McAfee, Cleland Boyd.

MCAFEE, CLELAND BOYD. Ministerial practices.

Mildred McAfee Horton (C); 2Dec55; R160841.

By Mildred McAfee Horton, & others.

Nancy Horton (C); 26Jul55; R153560. HORTON, MILDRED MCAFEE. Ministerial practices.

SEE McAfee, Cleland Boyd.

MCAFEE, CLELAND BOYD. Ministerial practices.

Mildred McAfee Horton (C); 2Dec55; R160841.

By Mildred McAfee Horton, & others.

In consequence, the mass of original material, in the shape of official reports and contemporary letters, contained in the Haldimand MSS., the Campbell MSS., the McAfee MSS., the Gardoqui MSS., the State Department MSS., the Virginia State Papers, etc., not only cast a flood of new light upon this early history, but necessitate its being entirely re-written.

Their names abound on the muster-rolls, pay-rolls, lists of settlers, etc., of the day (Blount MSS., State Department MSS., McAfee MSS., Am.

(Autobiography of Robert R. McAfee).

McAfee MSS. 40.

The story is told both in the "Autobiography of Robert McAfee," and in the "History of the First Settlement on Salt River.

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.

All of this is taken from the McAfee MSS., in Colonel Durrett's library.

The McAfee MSS.

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.

The inrush of new settlers was enormous, [Footnote: McAfee MSS.]

[Footnote: McAfee MSS.]

[Footnote: McAfee MSS.

"Autobiography of Robert McAfee."]

[Footnote: McAfee MSS.]

Among the leading and earliest colonists of the "Blue Grass State" who accompanied Daniel Boone, the ubiquitous Irish were represented by men bearing such names as Mooney, McManus, Sullivan, Drennon, Logan, Casey, Fitzpatrick, Dunlevy, Cassidy, Doran, Dougherty, Lynch, Ryan, McNeill, McGee, Reilly, Flinn, and the noted McAfee brothers, all natives of Ireland or sons of Irish immigrants.