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    1. [COWAN-L] McAfee & Ewing's of Virginia to KY
    2. Dear Robert, & List; I do not know if this will give any leads or not...I read thes McAfee Papers & it had mentioned a lot of names of those that moved westward. The research of Kentucky & Indiana has also brought me across the Ewing name which is tied in with the McAfee's of Kentucky . Do you have access to the McAfee Papers? This is a story told by the grandson of Anne Hillis who was a d/o Samuel Ewing, the elder & who was in her 84th year in 1831. Also, his uncle James McAfee gave the accounting as follows: ----(snip)---pages 732, 733----these marriages took place in 1744, about 2 years after they arrived in Virginia (from Ireland) having met with Margaret & Mary Walker, who came to N. America with theuir brother Samuel Walker and landed at Charleston, South Carolina, with an uncle by the name of Thomas Clark, who had married their mothers sister, their family moved to Virginia, and settled on Roanoke, where James McCoun m. Margaret, the eldest sister who (discriptions of people)---(snip)-- My paternal grandfather's mother was Mary Rogers, came with her son to N. America and lived with him on Octorara Creek in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania...she died at 84 there, and her children were as follows: John was killed at the ford of Rudy Creek near New River in Virginia abt. 1768. James m. Nancy Clark, the d/o Thomas Clark (above) and had children as follows: Mary, who m. David Woods & had three children. He died and she m. Samuel Woods, his nephew, and had 4 more kids. viz. Harry, Anne, Sally & Woodford. John who married Margaret Ewing d/o Samuel Ewing, & grand d/o Samuel Ewing who married Margaret McMichael. James who died in his bed suddenly one night, a young man after they had removed to Kentucky in 1783. Elizabeth who married William Davenport. Nancy m. (her cousin) Alexander Buchanan. George (who died unmarried in 1804) Margaret, m. John McKamey. Thomas Clark McAfee m. Nancy Greathouse of Shelby Co., KY. My uncle, George McAfee m. Susan Curry, d/o Wm Curry ........James who m. Rebecka Armstrong, liven in KY & later moved to Clark Co., IN. Mary m. Mr. Purviance & moved to IN. Alex. m. cousin, Nancy McAfee & settled on Salt River at his mill. Margaret, who m. William Ewing, and moved to IN.; Jane, who m. Wm. McCampble & moved to IN.; Nancy who m. Thomas Gilkerson, moved to IN.; Anne, who m. Joseph Woods, lived by me in Mercer Co. KY.; Dorcas who m. Joseph Woods, cousin of the above named Woods, , moved to Fleming Co., KY and lived on Licking River. Robert McAfee, my father, m. Anne McCoun, 10 Dec. 1766 .....(snip)... A lot of these folks lived by the Cowans of Harrodsburg, KY that I have been writing about in my KY-IN series

    05/10/2002 04:13:32