Daniel Boone timeline
1713 - Boone's father, Squire, arrives in Philadelphia from the family origins in England.
1720 - Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan marry in the Friends' meetinghouse in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania.
1731 - Boone's parents relocate to the upper Schuylkill River valley.
1734 - Born in Exeter township, near Reading, on October 22. Sarah & Squire Boone's sixth child, Daniel, is born in their cabin on October 22 (according to the Old Style, or Julian, calendar; or November 2, per the new Style, or Gregorian calendar).
1750 - Family leaves Pennsylvania for the western country; Boone engages in his first "long hunt."
1751 - Family settles in Rowan County, North Carolina, on the Yadkin River; Boone takes up hunting as his business.
1755 - French and Indian War begins; Boone with Braddock's army during the disastrous defeat near Pittsburgh. A member of Major Edward Dobb's North Carolina militia, serves as wagoner in General Edward Braddock's ill-fated march o Fort Duquesne.
1756 - Boone marries Rebecca Bryan on August 14, and they settle in Rowan County, North Carolina.
1759 - During the Cherokee War, family flees to Culpeper County, Virginia.
1760 - Boone first crosses the Blue Ridge during his winter hunt.
1762 - The Boones return to Rowan County.
1765 - Boone explores the Florida country with an eye to moving there2. Seventh child, Daniel Morgan, born December 23, seven months after Boone lefts to explore Kentucky.
1766 - Family moves to a site farther west, near present Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
1767 - Reaches Kentucky and hunts along the Big Sandy River
1768 - Regulator rebellion in North Carolina
1769 - With five others leaves for a long hunt in Kentucky on May 1; captured by Shawnees on December 22.
1771 - Boone returns home after two years in Kentucky
1772 - Boone and companions hunt as far west as French Lick (now Nashville), Tennessee, then enter Kentucky and establish a station camp in a cave at the mouth of Hickman Creek along the Kentucky River.
1773 - Boone leads party of family and friends to Kentucky, but they are turned back at Cumberland Gap by an Indian attack that kills his eldest son, James, on October 9. Lord Dunmore's War erupts.
1774 - Sent by Virginia authorities to warn Kentucky surveyors of pending war with Shawnees; leads defense of Clinch River settlements during Dunmore's War.
1775 - On March 13 Boone and a party of about thirty axmen depart from Long Island on the Holston to blaze Wilderness Road leading to Kentuckyfor the Transylvania Company. Founds Boonesborough in the face of Shawnee attacks; brings family to Kentucky. On April 19 shots are fired at Lexington, Massachusetts, beginning the American Revolutionary War.
1776 - On May 23 Indians attach Boonesborough. The Continental Congress approves the Declaration of Independence. On July 14,Shawnee Indians capture Jemima Boone and Fanny and Betsy Callaway; Boone's party rescues the girls on July 16. Copy of Declaration of Independence reaches Boonesborough in August.
1777 - Indians attack Boonesborough in April; Boone is shot in the ankle but recovers.
1797 - Daniel Morgan Boone huts in Spanish Missouri and confers with Lt. Gov. don Zenon Trudeau, who invites Boones to settle in Missouri.
1778 - Boone and his men captured by Shawnees while making salt on February 9; he escapes in June; siege of Boonesborough, September 7-18; rejoins Rebecca and children, who had returned to North Carolina.
1779 - Leads large party of emigrants to Kentucky in September; settles Boone's Station, north of the Kentucky River
1780 - Participates in attack on Shawnee towns in Ohio; brother Edward killed by Shawnees in October.
1781 - Takes elected seat in Virginia assembly in April; captured by invading British forces in June, but soon released.
1782 - One of the commanding officers at the Kentuckians' defeat by Indians at the Blue Licks, where son Israel is killed, August 19; in command of a company that attacks Shawnee towns in November.
1783 - Relocates family to Limestone, on the Ohio River; takes up tavern keeping, surveying, and land speculating.
1784 - The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon by John Filson published on Boon's fiftieth birthday.
1786 - Commands an attack on Shawnee towns in October.
1787 - Helps negotiate prisoner exchange with Shawnees at Limestone in August; takes seat in Virginia assembly in October.
1789 - With Rebecca and youngest children leaves Limestone and relocates at Point Pleasant, farther up the Ohio River.
1791 - Serves once again in the Virginia assembly; wins contract to supply militia companies in western Virginia.
1792 - Dispute over supply contracts leads to his abandonment of business and return to full-time hunting; with Rebecca, soon moves to a cabin near present Charleston, West Virginia.
1795 - To be nearer family, relocates to a cabin on Brushy Fork in Kentucky.
1797 - Son Daniel Morgan Boone scouts land in Spanish Missouri; governor invites Boones to emigrate.
1798 - Kentucky assembly names county after Boone; Mason County issues warrant for his arrest for debt; leaves Brushy Fork for a cabin at the mouth of the Little Sandy River on the Ohio.
1799 - In September Boone, along with Hays, Bryan and Callaway king, moves to the Femme Osage (now St. Charles County) district of Missouri. He receives a grant of 1,000-arpents (850 acres) Daniel and Rebecca build a cabin on land owned by son Daniel Morgan near the present-day town of Matson. 1800 Spanish governor appoints Boone "syndic" (judge and jury) and commandant (military leader) of the Femme Osage region; he serves in both capacities until the American takeover in 1804 following the Louisiana Purchase. Osage warriors briefly capture Boone during his spring hunt along the Niangua
1803 - Boone is injured in a trapping accident of the Grand River. He remains hidden for twenty days from an Indian hunting party. Relocates with Rebecca to cabin on the farm of son Nathan; Louisiana Purchase.
1806 - Appears before the Federal Land Commission, seeking confirmation of his Spanish land grant.
1808 - Boone and companions are robbed by Indians while on a hunt.
1809 - Gets word of rejection of his Spanish land grant; works on petitions to Congress for reinstatement of his Spanish land titles
1812 - Boone volunteers for War of 1812 duty; he is turned down because of his age (78)
1813 - On March 18 Rebecca Boone dies and is buried in the Boone Family Cemetery on a knoll along Tuque Creek on a farm owned by her cousin David Byran in what is now Marthasville, (Warren County) Missouri.
1814 - Congress grants Boone a tract of Missouri land.
1815 - President James Monroe awards Boone a 1,000 arpent tract of Missouri land (Matson, Missouri), but Boone is forced to sell much of it to pay off old Kentucky claims against him. He sells 300 acres to Jonathan Bryan. He keeps about 180 acres.
1816 - Boone visits Fort Osage (near present-day Kansas City). In time he explores as far west as Nebraska. Some first hand reports allege he pushes on to hunt the Yellowstone country, but family members deny such claims.
1817 - Boone goes on his last hunt.
1820 - In June artist Chester Harding paints Boone's portrait from life while at the log home of Flanders and Jemima Callaway. Boone dies on September 26; he is interred next to Rebecca on Tuque Creek in the cemetery near Jemima's farm. .
1845 - A delegation from Kentucky disinters the Boone graves and reburies remains in Frankfort, Kentucky.
This timeline was taken from http://members.cox.net/treese3/boone/timeline.htm
Thursday, May 5, 2011
daniel boone report
The man you are reading about in my report is Daniel Boone. He made it more of a chance for the settlers to move West on the most well know trail of his, the Wilderness Trail or the Cumberland Gap (what he called it). He was also very rich and was a famous military man also. These are some of the points you will read in my report.
Daniel Boone was born in Exeter township in Pennsylvania on October 22, 1734. He died on September 26th 1820. Many believe that Daniel Boone wore a coon skin cap but Lewis and Clark say he wore a beaver skin cap, also he got his fame for exploring Kentucky, not for his hunting and trapping. These are just some of the many legends that surround this legendary man, Daniel Boone, But we are not covering the legends we are talking about the real man.
He was one of the more famous pioneers to explore the Louisiana Territory. By 1769 he and his brother were living in Kentucky seven years before the U.S.A. was even a country. In 1775 Boone made a trail through the Cumberland Gap from Virginia to Kentucky this was later called the Wilderness Trail, “Boone lead a group of 30 men to forge this trail.” (Davidson, James West., and Michael B. Stoff. America History of Our Nation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Print page 275) The majority of westward moving settlers followed this trail. When he was making this trail he made agreements with the Indians. In the later years he was captured at an Indian compound and the Native Americans attacked and raided a fort. During the raid Daniel Boone escaped and warned the other forts people.
During his time as a soldier he was in the French and Indian War, the Cherokee War and the War of 1812, he also made it to the rank of militia officer in the Revolutionary War. He was married August 14, 1756 and he had ten children. He and his family escaped the Revolutionary War by going to Kentucky. He also led many attacks and raids on Shawnee villages. Once he was separated from his hunting party and was lost for twenty days and finally he finds his way back to his family.
He got most of his fame for blazing the Cumberland Gap. This was from Virginia to Kentucky. The trail was very important for the settlers to move more West instead of going over the Appalachian Mountains. But the overpopulation of Kentucky made him move to Missouri.
Another way he got his fame was his services in the military. He served in 3 wars and evaded another (the Revolutionary War) he was promoted to militia officer buy the time the Revolutionary War rolled around. The reason he didn't want to fight in the war is because he was getting older and had ten children at the time. “A zeal for the defense of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors” (www.brainyquote.com).
This man was a huge part of the movement West in the early years of this Country also we get some amazing folklore from this man and his adventures around this unsettled and unexplored land that we live and thrive on today .
Daniel Boone was very rich, we know this because he had over 100,000 acres, but lawyers sued him and took his land. He always wanted to live where the land was scarcely populated . In 1799 he moved to Missouri because he said “Kentucky was getting too crowded”. He also volunteered for the war of 1812, a couple years later Daniel was too old he couldn't even hold his rifle straight so he learned how to set traps. He died September 26, 1820. His remains were moved to Frankfurt, Kentucky later that year.
Daniel Boone was born in Exeter township in Pennsylvania on October 22, 1734. He died on September 26th 1820. Many believe that Daniel Boone wore a coon skin cap but Lewis and Clark say he wore a beaver skin cap, also he got his fame for exploring Kentucky, not for his hunting and trapping. These are just some of the many legends that surround this legendary man, Daniel Boone, But we are not covering the legends we are talking about the real man.
He was one of the more famous pioneers to explore the Louisiana Territory. By 1769 he and his brother were living in Kentucky seven years before the U.S.A. was even a country. In 1775 Boone made a trail through the Cumberland Gap from Virginia to Kentucky this was later called the Wilderness Trail, “Boone lead a group of 30 men to forge this trail.” (Davidson, James West., and Michael B. Stoff. America History of Our Nation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Print page 275) The majority of westward moving settlers followed this trail. When he was making this trail he made agreements with the Indians. In the later years he was captured at an Indian compound and the Native Americans attacked and raided a fort. During the raid Daniel Boone escaped and warned the other forts people.
During his time as a soldier he was in the French and Indian War, the Cherokee War and the War of 1812, he also made it to the rank of militia officer in the Revolutionary War. He was married August 14, 1756 and he had ten children. He and his family escaped the Revolutionary War by going to Kentucky. He also led many attacks and raids on Shawnee villages. Once he was separated from his hunting party and was lost for twenty days and finally he finds his way back to his family.
He got most of his fame for blazing the Cumberland Gap. This was from Virginia to Kentucky. The trail was very important for the settlers to move more West instead of going over the Appalachian Mountains. But the overpopulation of Kentucky made him move to Missouri.
Another way he got his fame was his services in the military. He served in 3 wars and evaded another (the Revolutionary War) he was promoted to militia officer buy the time the Revolutionary War rolled around. The reason he didn't want to fight in the war is because he was getting older and had ten children at the time. “A zeal for the defense of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors” (www.brainyquote.com).
This man was a huge part of the movement West in the early years of this Country also we get some amazing folklore from this man and his adventures around this unsettled and unexplored land that we live and thrive on today .
Daniel Boone was very rich, we know this because he had over 100,000 acres, but lawyers sued him and took his land. He always wanted to live where the land was scarcely populated . In 1799 he moved to Missouri because he said “Kentucky was getting too crowded”. He also volunteered for the war of 1812, a couple years later Daniel was too old he couldn't even hold his rifle straight so he learned how to set traps. He died September 26, 1820. His remains were moved to Frankfurt, Kentucky later that year.
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