Life of Daniel Boone, The Great Western Hunter and Pioneer | Page 3

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 sort of a Quaker Daniel Boone himself was, will be apparent in the course of our narrative.
Exeter, the native place of Daniel Boone, was at this period a small frontier settlement, consisting of log-houses, surrounded with woods, which abounded with game of various kinds and were occasionally infested with hostile Indians. It is not surprising that Daniel, passing the period of his boyhood in such a place, should have acquired at an early age the accomplishments of a hunter and woodsman. From a mere child it was his chief delight to roam in the