Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734-September 26, 1820), was a famous United States pioneer and frontiersman who blazed the Wilderness Road and founded Boonesborough, Kentucky (also known as Boonesboro).

Noted activities

Squire Boone and his family left Pennsylvania in 1750 to eventually settle in Yadkin Valley of North Carolina. In 1756, Daniel married Rebecca Bryan, a neighbor in the Yadkin Valley. He fathered 10 children with her. Boone fought the Indians and British during the American Revolutionary War, served in the Virginia Legislature (Virginia encompassed Kentucky at that time) and explored much of the Kentucky and Tennessee regions of the American colonies.

Related Topics:
1750 - North Carolina - 1756 - Indians - American Revolutionary War - Virginia - Kentucky - Tennessee

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In 1769 Boone blazed the first known trail from North Carolina to Tennessee. Boone spent the next two years hunting and exploring in Kentucky, where he was captured twice by Indians and escaped both times.

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In 1773, Boone attempted to settle in Kentucky but an Indian attack resulted in the death of his oldest son James.

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Two years later he succeeded in founding Boonesborough (near Lexington, Kentucky), the first settlement of Transylvania. Continued fighting with the Shawnee and the British resulted in the loss of his second oldest son Israel during one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Blue Licks.

Related Topics:
Boonesborough - Lexington, Kentucky - Transylvania - Shawnee - Battle of Blue Licks

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Boone lost most of his land claims in Kentucky due to faulty titles.

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Taxes and creditors forced him out of Kentucky and in 1788 Boone settled at Point Pleasant on the Ohio River in what is now West Virginia.

Related Topics:
Ohio River - West Virginia

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His son Daniel Morgan Boone met with the Spanish lieutenant governor Don Z.Trudeau in 1798 and was invited to settle the Boone family in Missouri.

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Two years later Boone was appointed "syndic" (judge and jury) and commandant of the Femme Osage region.

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Rebecca died in 1813 and Daniel Boone died at his home in Defiance, Missouri.

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