From a posting online From E. & P. Chapman to Charles Cummins on a chat board at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/:
'John left NC about 1780 to settle briefly in Botetourt County, VA, where he met Capt. Charles Gatliff and James McGuire. The three men set out to investigate Kentucky. This visit must have been around the time when Indians attacked a large group of settlers in 1786. Those settlers, known as McKnitt's company, lost twenty-one people who were slaughtered in the area between the Big and Little Laurel Rivers. Capt Charles Gatliff first married James McGuire's daughter Christina and later married John Cummins' eldest daughter Rachel.
John and Nancy had travelled from North Carolina with their seven children (Rachel, Margaret, Hugh, William, Alsy, Elizabeth and James) all of whom were born in North Carolina.
The family settled in Knox County, Kentucky, sometime in 1799. John bought land at Stanfield Bend on the Cumberland River at Big Poplar Creek. John became Knox County Judge. He built the first water mill in what became Whitley County, Kentucky. The county was formed January 17, 1818, from a section of Knox County, named in honor of Col. William Whitley, a Kentucky pioneer and Indian fighter. Two more children, Judy and John, Jr, born in Knox Co.
Capt Charles Gatliff first married James McGuire's daughter Christina and later married John Cummins' eldest daughter Rachel.'