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Daniel Boone was born on February 11, 1735 and he died on September 26, 1820. Daniel Boone is most famous for when explored and settled what is now the US state of Kentucky, which back then was beyond the western borders of the thirteen colonies. The Indians were very resistant to Daniel Boone and him exploring Kentucky. Because it was one of there main hunting grounds, but he made it through and in 1775 he made the Wilderness Road which went through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. That is where he founded Boonesborough. This was one of the first English speaking settlements beyond the Appalachian Mountains. By the end of the 18th century more then 200,000 people had used the Wilderness Road to get into Kentucky.
Daniel Boone was a Militia Officer during the American Revolutionary War. This started in 1775 and lasted to 1783. The American Revolutionary War was fought mainly between settlers and American Indians that were allies with the British. Daniel was captured by the Shawnee Indians in 1788. He got adopted into the tribe but he escaped and continued to help defend Kentucky settlements. He was elected to the first of his three terms in the VGA (Virginia General Assembly) during the war. He also fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782. This battle was one of the last battles of the American Revolution.
After the war Boone worked as a surveyor and a merchant. But as a land speculator in Kentucky he went into debt and frustrated with legal problems Boone moved to Missouri in 1799 where he spent the last years of his life.
Daniel Boone was born on February 11, 1735 in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. George Boone, who was Daniels grandfather, immigrated to America and arrived with his wife Mary and eleven children, He had 9 sons and two daughters. In Philadelphia on October 10h, 1717. George Boone purchased a large amount of land in what is now known as Berks County. Which George Boone settled and called Exeter. This was named after Exeter, England. This was near Bradninch, England where George was born. His sixth child who was named Squire Bone was Daniels father. In 1720 Squire married Sarah Morgan, whose family was Quakers from Whales.
Daniel Boone spent his early years on what was then the western edge of the Pennsylvania frontier. There were a lot of American Indian Villages nearby. The pacifist Pennsylvania Quakers generally had good relations with the Indians but the growth of the white population was making many Indians relocate even further west. Daniel Boone received his first rifle in 1747 and picked up hunting skills from local whites and Indians. This began his lifelong love of hunting.
In Boone’s youth his family became a source of controversy in the local Quaker community. In 1742, Boone’s parents were forced to make a public apology to the Quaker community after their oldest child Sarah married a non-Quaker. While she was obvisoly pregnant. When Daniels oldest brother married a non-Quaker in 1747, Squire decided to stand by his son so he was kicked out of the Quakers, although his wife continued to attend monthly meetings with her children. After all this controversy Squire decided to move the family t North Carolina in 1750. Daniel Boone never attended church again although he always claimed that he was a Christian and he had all his children baptized. The Boone’s eventually settled on the Yadkin River, in what is now known as Davie County, North Carolina.
Because Boone spent so much time hunting as a kid he had very little time for education. In fact one of his teachers once expressed concern over Boone’s education, but Boone’s father wasn’t concerned, saying “let the girls do the spelling and Daniel will do the shooting” Boone received some tutoring from family members, although his spelling remained very unorthodox. Historian John Mack Faragher warns that the folk image of Boone as semi-literate is misleading, however, arguing that Boone “Acquired a level of literacy that was the equal of most men’s of his times”. Boone regularly brought reading material with him on his hunting expeditions. The Bible and Gulliver’s Travels were two of his favorites. Also he was one of the only people in his hunting groups that knew how to read and he would often entertain everyone by reading to them.
As a young man, Boone served with the British military during the French and Indian War. Which was from 1754- 1763. In 1755 he was a wagon driver in General Edward Braddock’s attempt to drive the French out of Ohio County, which ended in disaster at the Battle of the Monongahela. Boone returned home after the defeat, and on August 14, 1755 he married Rebecca Bryan a neighbor in the Yadkin Valley. The couple initially lived in a cabin on his father’s farm. They would eventually have ten children.
In 1759, a conflict between the British colonists and the Cherokee Indians erupted. Their former allies in the French and Indian War. After the Yadkin Valley was raided by Cherokees, many families, including the Boone’s left for Culpeper County, Virginia. Boone served in the North Carolina militia during this conflict and was separated from his wife for about two years. According to one story Boone was gone so long that his wife assumed he was dead and she began a relationship with Daniels brother Edward. They ended up having a daughter which they named Jemima in 1762. After his return Daniel learned about this but he understood and he did not blame Rachel. Whether this story is true or not is not known, but Daniel raised Jemima as his own child. Boone’s early biographers knew this story but decided not to publish it.
Hunter’s often carved messages on trees or wrote there names on cave walls, and Boone’s name or initials have been found in many places. One of the best known inscriptions was carved in a tree in Washington County, Tennessee which says “D. Boon Cilled a Bar (killed a bear) on (this) tree in the year 1760.” A similar carving is fond in the museum of the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky which says “D. Boon Kilt a Bar, 1803” However, because Boone always spelled his name with the E at the end, these inscription may be fakes but part of a long tradition of Boone fakes.
In the mid 1760s Boone began to look for a new place to settle. The population was growing in the Yadkin Valley after the end of the French and Indian War, which inevitably decreased the amount of game available for hunting. This meant that Boone had difficulty making ends meet, he was taken to court many time for not making his payments. He sold his land to pay off his debts. After Boone’s father died in 1765, Boone traveled with a group of men to Florida, Which was British territory at the time, to look at the possibility of settling there there. According to a family story, Boone bought some land in Pensacola but Rebecca didn’t want to move so far away from friends and family. So the Boones moved to a non-populated area of Yadkin Valley and Boone began to hunt in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Daniel Boone remains an American hero even though he isn’t perfectly remembered. He was a hero of his lifetime. Especially after a biography of his life was published in 1784 which made him famous in Europe and America. After his death he was used many times in tall tales and works of fiction. His adventures some real some fake were very in fluency to many people. He is remembered as one of he greatest frontiersmen ever.
Boone spent his early years on what was then the western edge of the Pennsylvania frontier. There were a number of American Indian villages nearby—the pacifist Pennsylvania Quakers generally had good relations with Indians—but the steady growth of the white population was compelling many Indians to relocate further west. Boone received his first rifle in 1747 and picked up hunting skills from local whites and Indians, beginning his lifelong love of hunting. Folk tales often emphasized Boone’s skills as a hunter. In one story, the young Boone is hunting in the woods with some other boys. The scream of a panther scatters the boys, except for Boone, who calmly cocks his squirrel gun and shoots the animal through the heart just as it leaps at him. As with so many tales about Boone, the story may or may not be true, but it was told so often that it became part of the popular image of the man.
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Boone had numerous encounters with the native people of Kentucky during the Revolutionary War. In 1776, Shawnee warriors kidnapped his daughter and two other girls. Two days later Boone caught up with the Indians and through surprise attack rescued the girls. In 1778, he was captured by another band of Shawnee. Boone learned that the tribe was planning an attack on Boonesborough. He negotiated a settlement with Chief Blackfish of the Shawnee, preventing the attack. The Indians admired their captive for his skill as a hunter and woodsman and adopted him into their tribe as a son of Blackfish. He escaped when he learned the Shawnee, at the instigation of the British, were planning another attach on Boonesborough. The settlement was reinforced and provisioned in preparation for the assault. When British soldiers and the Indians attacked, Boonesborough withstood a ten-day siege and Chief Blackfish and the British finally withdrew.
On May 1, 1769, Boone, Finley, and four other men, started out. They passed Cumberland Gap and on the 7th of June, they set up camp at Station Camp creek. It was nearly two years before Boone returned home, and during that time he explored Kentucky as far west as the Falls of the Ohio, where Louisville is now. There was another visit to Kentucky in 1773, and in 1774 he built a cabin at Harrodsburg. On this trip, Boone followed the Kentucky River to its mouth.
Colonel Richard Henderson of the Transylvania Company hired Boone as his agent, and in March, 1775, Boone came again to the “Great Meadow” with a party of thirty settlers. They began to clear the Wilderness Road and by April they were establishing their settlement at Boonesborough.
The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone by John Filson
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man, and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatsoever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven. Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favorably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent. Here, where the hand of violence shed the blood of the innocent; where the horrid yells of savages, and the groans of the distressed, sounded in our ears, we now hear the praises and adoration of our Creator; where wretched wigwams stood, the miserable abodes of savages, we behold the foundations of cities laid, that, in all probability, will rival the glory of the greatest upon earth. And we view Kentucky situated on the fertile banks of the great Ohio, rising from obscurity to shine with splendor, equal to any other of the stars of the American hemisphere.
The Master of the Wilderness Daniel Boone by John Bakeless
Dissenters of every sort had troubles of their own in those
days, the Quakers not least. Stories began to spread among the
Society of Friends about the new Province of Pennsylvania,
founded by one of the few Quakers whom the Lord had blessed
with wealth and social position. In the new colony religious
toleration, they heard, was complete. The Friends were really
in control of the government. Further, there was land.
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