His conversations with some of the fugitives from Kentucky disclosed the first indications of the storm that was to blow away the empire he was going in to found.

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.