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Bucks County (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry boone-daniel
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 Kentucky in 1773, where they were in perpetual danger from the barbarians of the forest.
He had several fights with the Indians; and in 1775 he built a fort on the Kentucky River on the present site of Boonesboro.
In 1777 several 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 (Michigan, United States) (search for this): entry boone-daniel
Boonesborough (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry boone-daniel
Chillicothe (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry boone-daniel
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry boone-daniel
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 Kentucky in 1773, where they were in perpetual danger from the barbarians of the forest.
He had several fights with the Indians; and in 1775 he built a fort on the Kentucky River on the present site of Boonesboro.
In 1777 several 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 D
Minford (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry boone-daniel
Boone, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry boone-daniel
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry boone-daniel
Frankfort (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry boone-daniel
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): entry boone-daniel