Boon represents the hunters; the McAfees represent the would-be settlers; and Floyd's party the surveyors who mapped out the land for owners of land grants.
In 1774, there were parties of each kind in Kentucky.

Floyd's experience shows that these parties were continually meeting others and splitting up; he started out with eight men, at one time was in a body with thirty-seven, and returned home with four.
The journal is written in a singularly clear and legible hand, evidently by a man of good education.
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The latter, from his name presumably of Sclavonic ancestry, came originally from New York, always a centre of mixed nationalities.

He founded a most respectable family, some of whom have changed their name to Sandusky; but there seems to be no justification for their claim that they gave Sandusky its name, for this is almost certainly a corruption of its old Algonquin title.

"American Pioneer" (Cincinnati, 1843), II., p.