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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Big Blue Lick, battle at. (search)
Big Blue Lick, battle at.
Parties of Indians and Tories, from north of the Ohio, greatly harassed the settlements in Kentucky in 1782.
A large body of these, headed by Simon Girty, a cruel white miscreant, entered these settlements in August.
They were pursued by about 180 men, under Colonels Todd, Trigg, and Boone, who rashly attacked them (Aug. 19) at the Big Blue Lick, where the road from Maysville to Lexington crosses the Licking River in Nicholas county. One of the most sanguinary battles ever fought in Kentucky then and there occurred.
The Kentuckians lost sixty-seven men, killed, wounded, and prisoners; and, after a severe struggle, the rest escaped.
The slaughter in the river was great, the ford being crowded with white people and Indians, all fighting in horrid confusion.
The fugitives were keenly pursued for 20 miles. This was the last incursion south of the Ohio by any large body of barbarians.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boone , Daniel , 1735 -1820 (search)
Boone, Daniel, 1735-1820
Explorer; born in Bucks county, Pa., Feb. 11, 1735.
From his youth he was a famous hunter, and, while yet a minor, he emigrated, with his father, to North Carolina, where he married.
In May, 1759, Boone and five others went to explore the forests of Kentucky.
There he was captured by some Indians, but escaped, and returned home in 1771.
In 1773 he led a party of settlers to the wilds he had explored; and in 1774 conducted a party of surveyors to the
Daniel Boone. falls of the Ohio (now Louisville). He had taken his family with the other families to Kentuck veral attacks were made on this fort by the Indians.
They was repulsed, but in February, 1778.
Boone was captured by them, and taken to Chillicothe, beyond the Ohio, and thence to Detroit.
Adopted y defended with about fifty men. At different times two of his sons were killed by the Indians.
Boone accompanied General Clarke on his expedition against the Indians on the Scioto, in Ohio, in 1782
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dark and bloody ground. (search)
Dark and bloody ground.
Two sections of the United States have received this appellation.
First it was applied to Kentucky, the great battle-field between the Northern and Southern Indians, and afterwards to the portion of that State wherein Daniel Boone and his companions were compelled to carry on a warfare with the savages.
It was also applied to the Valley of the Mohawk, in New York, and its vicinity, known as Tryon county, wherein the Six Nations and their Tory allies made fearful forays during the Revolution.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Flint , Timothy 1780 -1840 (search)
Flint, Timothy 1780-1840
Clergyman; born in Reading, Mass., July 11, 1780; graduated at Harvard in 1880; became minister of the Congregational Church at Lunenburg, Mass., in 1802, but resigned in 1814.
He went West as a missionary, but was obliged to give up in consequence of ill health.
He then devoted himself to literature, and edited the Western review in Cincinnati, and, for a short time, the Knickerbocker magazine in New York.
Among his publications are Recollections of ten years passed in the Valley of the Mississippi; Biography and history of the Western States in the Mississippi Valley (2 volumes); Indian wars of the West; Memoir of Daniel Boone, etc. He died in Salem, Mass., Aug. 16, 1840.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart , Albert Bushnell 1854 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Inman , Henry 1801 -1899 (search)
Inman, Henry 1801-1899
Painter; born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1801; was a pupil of John Wesley Jarvis, the portrait-painter, to whom he was apprenticed for seven years. He painted landscapes and historical pictures, but portraits were his chief subjects, and he introduced lithography into the United States.
In 1844 he went to England, where, becoming the guest of Wordsworth, the poet, he painted his portrait.
He also painted the portraits of other distinguished men while in England.
He had begun painting an historical picture for the national Capitol, representing Daniel Boone in the wilds of Kentucky, at the time of his death, in New York City, Jan. 17, 1846.
Author; born in New York, July 30, 1837; educated at the Brooklyn public schools and Athenian Academy, and is the author of The old Santa Fe trail; Great Salt Lake trail, tales of the trail; The ranch on the Oxhide; Pioneer from Kentucky, etc. He died in Topeka, Kan., Nov. 13, 1899.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson , Helen Maria Fiske 1831 -1885 (search)
Kenton, Simon -1836
Born in Fauquier county, Va., April 3, 1755.
Supposing he had killed in an affray a rival in a love affair when he was sixteen years old, he fled to the wilderness west of the Alleghany Mountains, where he was the friend and companion of Daniel Boone in many daring feats.
He was in expeditions against the Indians, was captured by them, and taken to Detroit.
Escaping from a Brit-
Simon Kenton. ish prison there in 1779, he distinguished himself in resisting the invasion of Kentucky by the British and Indians in that year.
Finally, after an expedition against the Indians on the Miami, he settled (1784) near Maysville.
He accompanied Wayne in his expedition in 1794.
In 1805 he was seated near the Mud River, in Ohio, and was made brigadier-general of militia.
In 1813 he served under Governor Shelby at the battle of the Thames.
Beggared by lawsuits because of defective titles to lands, he lived in penury many years.
In 1824 he appeared at Frankfort, Ky.,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Norton , Frank Henry 1836 - (search)
Norton, Frank Henry 1836-
Journalist; born in Hingham, Mass., March 20, 1836; assistant librarian in the Astor Library, 1855; chief librarian of the Brooklyn Library in 1866; subsequently engaged in journalism in New York City.
Among his publications are Historical register of the Centennial Exhibition, 1876; the Paris Exposition, 1878; Life of Gen. W. S. Hancock; Life of Alexander H. Stephens; Daniel Boone, etc.