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to obtain water--Grand
attack on the fort--Repulse--Regular siege commenced--Messengers
sent to Lexington--Reinforcements obtained--Arrival near the
fort--Ambushed and attacked--They enter the fort--Narrow escape of
Girty--He proposes a capitulation--Parley--Reynolds' answer to
Girty--The siege raised--Retreat of the Indians.

CHAPTER XVI.
Arrival of Reinforcements at Bryant's Station--Colonel Daniel Boone,
his son and brother among them--Colonels Trigg, Todd, and
others--Consultation--Apprehensions of Boone and others--Arrival at
the Blue Licks--Rash conduct of Major McGary--Battle of Blue
Licks--Israel Boone, Colonels Todd and Trigg, and Majors Harland and
McBride killed--Retreat of the whites--Colonel Boone nearly
surrounded by Indians--Bravery of Netherland--Noble conduct of
Reynolds--The fugitives meet Colonel Logan with his party--Return to
the field of battle--Logan returns to Bryant's Station.

CHAPTER XVII.
The Indians return home from the Blue Licks--They attack the
settlements in Jefferson County--Affair at Simpson's Creek--General
Clark's expedition to the Indian country--Colonel Boone joins it--Its
effect--Attack of the Indians on the Crab Orchard settlement--Rumor of
intended invasion by the Cherokees--Difficulties about the treaty with
Great Britain--Hostilities of the Indians generally stimulated by
renegade whites--Simon Girty--Causes of his hatred of the
whites--Girty insulted by General Lewis--Joins the Indians at the battle
of Point Pleasant--Story of his rescuing Simon Kenton--Crawford's
expedition, and the burning of Crawford--Close of Girty's career.

CHAPTER XVIII.
Season of repose--Colonel Boone buys land--Builds a log house and
goes to farming--Kentucky organized on a new basis--Colonel Boone
surprised by Indians--Escapes--Manners and customs of the
settlers--The autumn hunt--The house-warming.

CHAPTER XIX.
Condition of the early settlers as it respects the mechanic
arts--Throwing the tomahawk--Athletic sports--Dancing--Shooting at
marks--Scarcity of
Iron--Costume--Dwellings--Furniture--Employments--The
women--Their character--Diet--Indian corn.

CHAPTER XX.

Indian hostilities resumed--Expedition of Davis, Caffre, and
McClure--Attack on Captain Ward's boat--Affair near Scagg's
Creek--Growth of Kentucky--Population--Trade--General Logan calls a
meeting at Danville--Convention called--Separation from Virginia
proposed--Virginia consents--Kentucky admitted as an independent
State of the Union--Indian hostilities--Expedition and death of Colonel
Christian--Expedition of General Clark--Expedition of General
Logan--Success of Captain Hardin--Defeat of Hargrove--Exploits of
Simon Kenton--Affairs at the Elkhorn settlements--Treaty--Barman's
expedition.

CHAPTER XXI.
Colonel Boone meets with the loss of all his land in Kentucky, and
emigrates to Virginia--Resides on the Kenhawa, near Point
Pleasant--Emigrates to Missouri--Is appointed commandant of a
district--Mr. Audubon's narrative of a night passed with Boone.

CHAPTER XXII.
Colonel Boone receives a large grant of land from the Spanish
Government of Upper Louisiana--He loses it--Sketch of the history of
Missouri--Colonel Boone's hunting--He pays his debts by the sale of
furs--Taken sick in his hunting camp--Colonel Boone applies to
Congress to recover his land--The Legislature of Kentucky supports his
claim--Death of Mrs. Boone--Results of the application to
Congress--Occupations of his declining years--Mr. Harding paints his
portrait.

CHAPTER XXIII.

Last illness, and death of Colonel Boone--His funeral--Account of his
family--His remains and those of his wife removed from Missouri, and
reinterred in the new cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky--Character of
Colonel Boone.

LIFE AND TIMES OF COLONEL DANIEL BOONE.

CHAPTER I.
The family of Daniel Boone--His grandfather emigrates to America,
and settles in Bucks County, Pennsylvania--Family of Daniel Boone's
father--Account of Exeter, the birth-place of Boone--Birth of Daniel
Boone--Religion of his family--Boone's boyhood--Goes to
School--Anecdote--Summary termination of his schooling.
The immediate ancestors and near relations of the American Boone
family, resided at Bradwinch about eight miles from Exeter, England.
George Boone the grandfather of Daniel, emigrated to America and
arrived, with Mary his wife, at Philadelphia, on the 10th of October,
1717. They brought with them eleven children, two daughters and nine
sons. The names of three of the sons have come down to us, John,
James, and Squire. The last of these, Squire Boone, was the father of
Daniel.
George Boone, immediately after his arrival in America, purchased a
large tract of land in what is now Bucks County, which he settled, and
called it Exeter, after the city near which he was born. The records
distinguish it only as the township of Exeter, without any county. He
purchased also various other tracts in Maryland and Virginia; and our
tradition says, among others, the ground on which Georgetown, District
of Columbia, now stands, and that he laid the town out, and gave it his
own name. His sons John and James lived and died on the Exeter
purchase.[1]
Daniel Boone's father, Squire Boone, had seven sons and four
daughters, viz.: James,[2] Samuel, Jonathan, Daniel, George, Squire,

Edward, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, and Hannah.
Exeter Township is situated in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and now
has a population of over two thousand. Here Daniel Boone was born,
on the 11th of February, 1735.[3]
The maiden name of Boone's mother was Sarah Morgan. Some dispute
has arisen respecting the religious persuasion of the Boone family. It
would appear, on a review of the whole controversy, that before their
removal to this country, the Boones were Episcopalians; but during
their residence in Pennsylvania they permitted themselves to be
considered Quakers. What