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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Not related to Fess Parker I guess.
Another Freemason who died 2010.
I love this!! I live in an area that this article makes many references too!!
what a boon, what a doer, what a dream come truer was daniel boone
Population of the Yadkin Valley of NC during the frontier era would have been in the hundreds, so the likelihood of actually knowing any given other settler would have been very high. The closest towns of any size whatsoever would have been either the likely county seat at the time, Salisbury, or the very orderly but very German backwoods theocracy of the Moravians, Salem, but that would require fording the river.
I’ve used that quote often
Fess Parker played Boone like he had played Crockett in the Disney series. Boone & Crocket were very different.
One thing Parker was 6 ft 5 inches
Boone was 5 ft 7 inches with a stocky build.
It is said that this painting is the best representation of Boone in his prime
Best biography of Boone is
When you read this book you will find yourself humming\singing the TV series theme song. You will see that in this case “big” doesn’t just mean “stature”.
eye witness report on Boone’s stature
In 1816, a United States officer at Fort Osage, on the Missouri, wrote: “
We have been honored by a visit from Colonel Boon, the first settler of Kentucky; he lately spent two weeks with us ... He left this for the river Platt, some distance above. Col Boon is eighty-five years of age, five feet seven inches high, stoutly made, and active for one of his years; is still of vigorous mind, and is pretty well informed. He has taken part in all the wars of America, from before Braddock’s war to the present hour....
..............”
Yes, finding a newborn in your home after a long sojourn was not an uncommon thing on the frontier. Rebecca was just keeping the “home fire burning”.
Well come on, let’s see it. :)
All four of my grandparent’ families were here before the Revolutionary war, one of the four was there a long time before as they were Meskwaki.
John Finley, who showed Mr Boone the trail that led to Kentucky is an ancestor of mine, two men of my family married Finley sisters, so there were a bunch of double cousins. I’m in Missouri and any families that were here before it was a state came from Kentucky to Missouri.
That always makes history personal.
“John Finley, who showed Mr Boone the trail that led to Kentucky is an ancestor of mine, two men of my family married Finley sisters, so there were a bunch of double cousins.”
That same double cousin situation occurred in my Yadkin river line. A couple of Lee sisters married Yarborough brothers.
The total population of pre-Revolution British North America was under 2 million.
My mother’s family was native on one side, the other side were actually big planters in the Carolinas who were given a bunch of land grants by King George. He was a loyalist who fought against the Revolution (for obvious reasons), the took his land (3000 acres in 1700’s) and he fled to Jamaica.
His relatives were explorers and wanderers who went through Kentucky to Missouri and most families are still there, there are also a bunch of them in Oregon, as they kept moving west on the Oregon trail. My grandmothers family were Dutch (Van Swearingen) who were also here before the Revolution.
“My grandmothers family were Dutch (Van Swearingen) who were also here before the Revolution.”
I wonder how many Americans know, or remember, that New York began around 1625 as the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Roosevelts are of that old stock.
“He was a loyalist who fought against the Revolution (for obvious reasons), the took his land (3000 acres in 1700’s) and he fled to Jamaica”
The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas featured a lot of that. A neighbor vs neighbor war, Loyalists intermixed with Patriots.
Even George Washington was affected by that situtation. Belvoir next door to Mount Vernon was the home of the Fairfax family, a family with which he was very close. The Fairfax family was visiting England when the War broke out. Belvoir was confiscated, then burned and abandoned.
At what age did he become a racist or was he born that way because you know all those people back then were....
Life wasn’t easy in the New World.
bkmk
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