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Dickson reports that the Scotch-Irish found Georgia and the Gulf a place to live and that
they spread into Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. By 1790 many Scotch-Irish
settlers had gone from North Carolina to these areas. 1
Unfortunately the documents which were required to make up the "Heads of Families,
1790", in Georgia, have been destroyed.
It should be noted that Governor George McDuffie, of South Carolina, gave this name to a
County in Georgia.
In 1802 the State of Georgia ceded to the United States her unoccupied western lands,
comprising the present-day States of Alabama and Mississippi; " The United State should, at its
own expense, remove all Indians from Georgia … as soon as it could be done peacefully and
upon favorable terms".
Kentucky
Kentucky was originally a part of Virginia as far as the British were concerned. 2 La Salle, a
French explorer probably visited that part of the country about the middle of the eighteenth
century. Emerson Hough reports that John Peter Sailing crossed Kentucky and Illinois as early
as 1738. 3 John Lederer, a Virginian crossed the Alleghanies with Thomas Batts. Daniel Boone,
the son of a Scotch-Irish colonist (1735-1820) to reported to have visited Kentucky in 1752.
He was very young at that time but Kentucky became a dominant theme in his life. 4
Boone joined with John Finley, a friend named Hill and his brother in an exploratory trip in
1767. (Bruce). 5 He had been living in North Carolina and had planned to take his wife and
family through the Cumberland Gap and reside in Kentucky, but the Indians were hostile and
he returned to Carolina.
In May 1769, according to John P. Arthur 4 , Boone left the Yadkin River, North Carolina,
and went through Cook's Gap, Three Forks, Boonetown, Hodges Gap, Straddle Gap, Zionville,
Powell's River and the Cumberland Gap. 4 In June 1769 Uriah Stone took a party of twenty
hunters over the Cumberland Gap. Another hunter, Harrod, had been exploring northeastern
Kentucky from 1760.
Bolton and Marshall reported in their history that the McAfees had been a guide to General
Washington when he was exploring Kentucky in 1767 by the way of the Ohio River. 2 It is
suggested by Bruce that James, Samuel and Robert McAfee had been with Harrod as he
6 Jillson, W.R.; Filson's Kentucky, Filson Club, Louisville, 1930
7 Scudder, Horace R.; American Commonwealths, Cambridge, 1888.
1 Hanna, C.A.; Op. cit. Vol. 11, pp. 30-34, and Chapter III.
2 Bolton & Marshall; Op. cit. p. 416
3 Hough, Emerson; The way to the West
4 Arthur, John P.; The trail of Daniel Boone, Skyland Magazine
5 Bruce, H. Addington; Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road MacMillan, New York. 1923,
pp. 48, 115