Excerpt from The McClanahans The early settlers were not disturbed by the Indians for a time. Through twenty years, they who had fled from Ireland to escape war, lived and died, says Foote, in his Sketches of Vir ginia, in that peace in this wilderness for which their hearts had longed in their native land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.