Though they first built cabins, as soon as might be they replaced them with substantial houses and barns.

Though they at first girdled and burnt the standing timber, to clear the land, later they tilled it as carefully as any farmer of the seaboard States.
They composed the bulk of the population, and formed the backbone and body of the State.

The McAfees may be taken as a typical family of this class.
The Gentry.
Yet a fourth class was composed of the men of means, of the well-to-do planters, merchants, and lawyers, of the men whose families already stood high on the Atlantic slope.

The Marshalls were such men; and there were many other families of the kind in Kentucky.

Among them were an unusually large proportion of the families who came from the fertile limestone region of Botetourt County in Virginia, leaving behind them, in the hands of their kinsmen, their roomy, comfortable houses, which stand to this day.