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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I remember, as a young boy in the 50’s, playing Daniel Boone in the woods near my rural home.
A Freemason, among several Freemasons mentioned in the article, including George Washington.
Daniel Boone was a man. Yes, a big man.
I had ancestors who lived along the Yadkin in the 1760s. Makes we wonder if they knew Boone.
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But the bear was bigger....
“..but I was bewildered once for three days...”
“bewildered” as in, lost in the wilderness... ?
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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.
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.
Not related to Fess Parker I guess.
Most likely they did. It was backcountry frontier then. They’d have all known or at least known of everybody there.
With an eye like an eagle and Tall as a mountain was he.
Thanks for that...
Wow, not many dull moments for ole Dan’l.
Probably the coolest thing I discovered on Ancestry.com, Daniel Boone is my first cousin, 7 times removed.
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).
Daniel Boone, the original Florida Man.
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.
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