Life and times of robert b. mcafee

McAfee attended Transylvania University, graduating in , and after studying law with Breckinridge, was admitted to the bar in and opened a practice in Franklin County, Kentucky. In , he was elected to represent Mercer County in the Kentucky House of Representatives and served there until he volunteered during the War of During the War of , McAfee served successively as sergeant, ensign and second lieutenant in the Army of the Northwest in its border campaign, then as quartermaster and lastly as captain of Richard Mentor Johnson's regiment in the expeditions against the Native Americans.

In , his book, History of the War of was published. Following his military service, he lived in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and was reelected to the House in In , he was elected a member of the Kentucky Senate and served in the Senate until resigning his seat in to run, successfully, for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. He cast a tie-breaking vote that prevented the abolition of the "New Court" during the Old Court-New Court controversy in Sign me up!

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I decided to transcribe three of his works in the hopes that it will aid other McAfee researchers in learning more about this branch of the family. I have transcribed "Life and Times. Peter Kuhn provided the transcription of Robert B. McAfee's Last Will and Testament. McAfee's use of punctuation, capitalization and spelling is at times random. Some passages are especially difficult to follow due to a lack of, or overabundance of commas.

We have made all attempts to faithfully and accurately transcribe the material, including punctuation. Obvious errors in the text are indicated with a [sic]. To enable readers to access the material easily, each work was divided into parts which were not part of McAfee's original documents.