Hiker: good question, the masonic symbolism was put in to put more mysteries in books about swift. yes one swift was a mason. but he was injured real bad fr0m falling off a horse. but he was a businessman. so who took the real hard trips to Kentucky. there were 2 swifts put on trial for counterfeiting coins. one was a john and the other was George. but I cannot find anything on what happened at the trial. I have a story that they were blacksmiths and worked a small seam of silver and lead. the brits. kept vary good records. so, it looks like a lot of this stuff was made up to sell land in Kentucky. when land sales did not go well, the group started taking out loans. now the people wanted there money back. (this when I said bull). the leader goes off by himself in indian lands next to the ohio river and all of sudden disappears. good story. if you want to sell treasure hunting books. I think you are right, I cannot find any facts that a swift mined in Kentucky. has for the 101 the clues around 2 of the carvings found 2 crowns carved, 3 Spanish buttons and 1 coin. French seem to be Jackson county up to greenup county. all the places I have been, I find only one small carving with stick writing, and that was on beaver creek in Menifee county that was welsh.101, I believe the first ones were trail markers. the one at sand gap has dots next on another rock that points to a ridge. the one at war fork at turkey foot crossing had a map with it. look at my post on turkey foot. line of rock and caney creek or Spanish and French? what bothers me is the Indians. did they kill off the Spanish, did they work together. from all the books the Indians hated the Spanish. now the French, they worked a lot with the different nations? who were the white men that were with the chief joseph group? ahhh it never ends solve one part of the puzzle 2 more takes its place.
