He told them that the claims they had staked in Kentucky would
not hold good with the Transylvania Company. Whereupon James
McAfee, who was leading a group of returning men, stated his
opinion that the Transylvania Company's claim would not hold good
with Virginia. After the parley, three of McAfee's brothers
turned back and went with Henderson's party, but whether with
intent to join his colony or to make good their own claims is not
apparent. Benjamin Logan continued amicably with Henderson on the
march but did not recognize him as Lord Proprietor of Kentucky.
He left the Transylvania caravan shortly after entering the
territory, branched off in the direction of Harrodsburg, and
founded St. Asaph's Station, in the present Lincoln County,
independently of Henderson though the site lay within Henderson's
purchase.
Notwithstanding delays and apprehensions, Henderson and his
colonists finally reached Boone's Fort, which Daniel and his
"thirty guns"--lacking two since the Indian encounter--had
erected at the mouth of Otter Creek.
An attractive buoyancy of temperament is revealed in Henderson's
description in his journal of a giant elm with tall straight
trunk and even foliage that shaded a space of one hundred feet.
Instantly he chose this "divine elm" as the council chamber of
Transylvania.
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