Life of Daniel Boone, The Great Western Hunter and Pioneer | Page 2

Cecil B. Harley
determination to settle in Kentucky--Other Western adventurers--the Long hunters--Washington in Kentucky--Bullitt's party--Floyd's party--Thompson's survey--First settlement of Tennessee.

CHAPTER VI.
Daniel Boone remains two years in North Carolina after his return from the West--He prepares to emigrate to Kentucky--Character of the early settlers to Kentucky--The first class, hunters--The second class, small farmers--The third class, men of wealth and government officers.

CHAPTER VII.
Daniel Boone sets out for Kentucky with his family and his brother, Squire Boone--Is joined by five families and forty men at Powell's Valley--The party is attacked by Indians, and Daniel Boone's oldest son is killed--The party return to the settlements on Clinch River--Boone, at the request of Governor Dunmore, goes to the West and conducts a party of surveyors to Virginia--Boone receives the command of three garrisons and the commission of Captain--He takes a part in the Dunmore war--Battle of Point Pleasant and termination of the war.

CHAPTER VIII.
The militia discharged--Captain Boone returns to his family--Henderson's company--Various companies of emigrants to Kentucky--Bounty lands--Harrod's party builds the first log-cabin erected in Kentucky, and founds Harrodsburg--Proceedings of Henderson's company--Agency of Captain Boone--He leads a company to open a road to Kentucky River--Conflicts with the Indians--Captain Boone founds Boonesborough--His own account of this expedition--His letter to Henderson--Account of Colonel Henderson and the Transylvania Company--Failure of the scheme--Probability of Boone having been several years in the service of Henderson.

CHAPTER IX.
Description of the Old Fort at Boonesborough--Usual methods of fortifications against the Indians--Arrival of more settlers at Boonesborough--Captain Boone returns to the Clinch River to bring out his family--He enlists new emigrants and starts for Kentucky--Reinforced by a large party at Powel's Valley--Arrival at Boonesborough--Arrival of many new settlers at Boonesborough and Harrod's settlement--Arrival of Kenton, Floyd, the McAfees, and other distinguished persons--Arrival of Colonel Richard Callaway.

CHAPTER X.
Disturbed state of the country in 1775--Breaking out of the Revolutionary war--Exposed situation of the Kentucky settlements--Hostility of the Indians excited by the British--First political convention in the West--Capture of Boone's daughter and the daughters of Colonel Callaway by the Indians--Their rescue by a party led by Boone and Callaway--Increased caution of the colonists at Boonesborough--Alarm and desertion of the Colonies in the West by land speculators and other adventurers--A reinforcement of forty-five men from North Carolina arrive at Boonesborough--Indian attack on Boonesborough in April--Another attack in July--Attack on Logan's Fort, and siege--Attack on Harrodsburg.

CHAPTER XI.
Arrival of George Rogers Clark in Kentucky--Anecdote of his conversation with Ray--Clark and Jones chosen as delegates for the Colonies to the Virginia Legislature--Clark's important services in obtaining a political organization for Kentucky, and an abundant supply of gunpowder from the government of Virginia--Great labor and difficulty in bringing the powder to Harrodstown--Clark's expedition against Kaskaskias--Surprise and capture of their fort--Perilous and difficult march to Vincennes--Surprise and capture of that place--Extension of the Virginian settlements--Erection of Fort Jefferson.

CHAPTER XII.
Scarcity of salt at Boonesborough--Boone goes to Blue Licks to make salt, and is captured by the Indians--Taken to Chilicothe--Affects contentment, and deceives the Indians--Taken to Detroit--Kindness of the British officers to him--Returns to Chilicothe--Adopted into an Indian family--Ceremonies of adoption--Boone sees a large force of Indians destined to attack Boonesborough--Escapes, and gives the alarm, and strengthens the fortifications at Boonesborough--News of delay by the Indians on account of Boone's escape--Boone goes on an expedition to the Scioto--Has a fight with a party of Indians--Returns to Boonesborough, which is immediately besieged by Captain Duquesne with five hundred Indians--Summons to surrender--Time gained--Attack commenced--Brave defense--Mines and countermines--Siege raised--Boone brings his family once more back to Boonesborough, and resumes farming.

CHAPTER XIII.
Captain Boone tried by court-martial--Honorably acquitted and promoted--Loses a large sum of money--His losses by law-suits and disputes about land--Defeat of Colonel Rogers's party--Colonel Bowman's expedition to Chilicothe--Arrival near the town--Colonel Logan attacks the town--Ordered by Colonel Bowman to retreat--Failure of the expedition--Consequences to Bowman and to Logan.

CHAPTER XIV.
Invasion of Kentucky by Captain Byrd's party--He captures the garrisons at Ruddle's Station and Martin's Fort--Colonel Clark's invasion of the Indian country--He ravages the Indian towns--Adventure of Alexander McConnell--Skirmish at Pickaway--Result of the expedition--Boone goes to the Blue Licks with his brother--Attacked by the Indians--Boone's brother killed--Boone promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel--Clark's galley--Squire Boone's Station removed to Bear's Creek--Attack by the Indians--Colonel Floyd's defeat--Affair of the McAfees--Attack on McAfee's Station repelled--Fort Jefferson evacuated--Attack on Montgomery Station--Rescue by General Logan.

CHAPTER XV.
News of Cornwallis's surrender--Its effects--Captain Estill's defeat--Grand army of Indians raised for the conquest of Kentucky--Simon Girty's speech--Attack on Hoy's Station--Investment of Bryant's Station--Expedient of the besieged 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
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