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Daniel Boone: famed Hunter, Pioneer & Explorer
American Minute ^ | September 26, 2019 | Bill Federer

Posted on 12/12/2019 8:18:40 AM PST by Perseverando

Daniel Boone's Quaker family had pioneered North Carolina's Yadkin River Valley.

The Boone family lived four miles from Mordecai Lincoln, the great-great grandfather of Abraham Lincoln.

The sixth of eleven children, Daniel Boone was given his first rifle at age 12 and began to hunt and explore.

Boone once exclaimed:

"I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days."

During the French and Indian War, 20-year-old Daniel Boone, and his cousin - future General Daniel Morgan, served as wagon drivers for the British in the Battle of Monongahela, July 9, 1755.

Also in that battle, 23-year-old George Washington served as a Colonel under British General Edward Braddock. Out of 1,400 British troops, 900 were killed.

In 1756, Daniel married Rebecca Bryan.

Together they had ten children, and had all of them baptized as Christians.

In 1765, at age 30, Daniel Boone explored British controlled western Florida. A family story is that he bought land around Pensacola, but his wife refused to move so far from her family.

In 1767, Boone began exploring Kentucky.

In 1769, he traveled through the Cumberland Gap in the mountains and spent two years hunting and trapping in eastern Kentucky with his friend, John Stewart.

Indians captured and separated them, Unfortunately, Boone later found John Stewart's body shot dead.

In 1773, Daniel Boone and Captain William Russell were ordered by Virginia's Governor, Lord Dunmore, to settle an area called Castle Woods.

Boone's 17-year-old son, James Boone, and Captain Russell's 17-year-old son, Henry Russell, were bringing supplies to Castle Woods when they were ambushed by Indians and brutally massacred.

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TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; History; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: americanhistory; americanminute; danielboonee
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Time for another great American history lesson from American Minute.
1 posted on 12/12/2019 8:18:40 AM PST by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

I remember, as a young boy in the 50’s, playing Daniel Boone in the woods near my rural home.


2 posted on 12/12/2019 8:22:10 AM PST by blam
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To: Perseverando

A Freemason, among several Freemasons mentioned in the article, including George Washington.


3 posted on 12/12/2019 8:27:11 AM PST by RideForever
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To: Perseverando

Daniel Boone was a man. Yes, a big man.


4 posted on 12/12/2019 8:28:03 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Perseverando

I had ancestors who lived along the Yadkin in the 1760s. Makes we wonder if they knew Boone.


5 posted on 12/12/2019 8:38:02 AM PST by Pelham (Coup d'etat tickets available, dial 1 800 Obama)
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To: Perseverando

Bookmark


6 posted on 12/12/2019 8:40:07 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Perseverando
"I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days."
Now that's funny!
7 posted on 12/12/2019 8:41:16 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: rightwingcrazy

But the bear was bigger....


8 posted on 12/12/2019 8:44:28 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: oh8eleven

“..but I was bewildered once for three days...”

“bewildered” as in, lost in the wilderness... ?
:^)


9 posted on 12/12/2019 8:46:58 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Perseverando
"Together they had ten children"

If I recall, D Boone left out on a 18 month excursion and came back to find wife with a newborn kid....from his brother.

D. Boone was to have said *It's all family.

10 posted on 12/12/2019 8:47:44 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Perseverando

My mother lives just a few miles from where Squire Boone and several other members of Daniel Boone’s family are buried, in Davie County North Carolina. But, it was Rowan or possibly even Anson County when they were alive. Counties were split off repeatedly due to population growth. The colonial and later state government believed that smaller county governments that were closer to the people they governed was best. Even new county seat “courthouse towns” were established in the geographic center of newly established counties, if none were already in existence there.


11 posted on 12/12/2019 8:52:23 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Perseverando

Not related to Fess Parker I guess.


12 posted on 12/12/2019 8:53:11 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Pelham

Most likely they did. It was backcountry frontier then. They’d have all known or at least known of everybody there.


13 posted on 12/12/2019 8:54:06 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: rightwingcrazy

With an eye like an eagle and Tall as a mountain was he.


14 posted on 12/12/2019 8:54:12 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Perseverando

Thanks for that...


15 posted on 12/12/2019 9:03:57 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Perseverando

Wow, not many dull moments for ole Dan’l.


16 posted on 12/12/2019 9:09:25 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: Pelham

Probably the coolest thing I discovered on Ancestry.com, Daniel Boone is my first cousin, 7 times removed.


17 posted on 12/12/2019 9:11:35 AM PST by Yogafist
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To: Perseverando
Thanks for posting.

Prior to Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary, there was no standard spelling of words in America.

I live in the same county and about 10 miles from where Boone had his fort. On the nearby interstate there are two signs, within 5 miles of one another, for the state park at the site of the old fort. On one it refers to "Boonesborough", and the other refers to "Boonesboro". Both spellings fail the FreeRepublic and Microsoft Word spell checkers. (However, Duck Duck Go knows about the place using the longer spelling).

18 posted on 12/12/2019 9:13:59 AM PST by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: Perseverando

Daniel Boone, the original Florida Man.


19 posted on 12/12/2019 9:31:19 AM PST by MuttTheHoople
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To: RegulatorCountry

speaking of knowing everyone - my great grandfather was born in Springfield IL in 1858, population 8000 hard to believe my great great grandfather did not know Lincoln as they had both lived there 10 years.


20 posted on 12/12/2019 9:39:31 AM PST by Jolla
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