Daniel boone

Daniel Boone (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, November 2, 1734 – c. Defiance, Missouri, September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and colonizer who led the way known as Wilderness Road and founded Boonesborough, Kentucky (also known as Boonesboro), one of the earliest English-speaking settlements in the region.

Family

Daniel was born in Birdsboro in Berks County, Pennsylvania. he is of English and Welsh descent from Montgomeryshire, Wales and Monmouthshire. His parents were named Squire Boone (1696-1765) born in Devon, England and Sarah Jarman Morgan (1700-1777) born in Exeter, County Berks. His father was a farmer born into a Quaker family in England, moved to the British colony of Pennsylvania.

Daniel was the sixth of 11 siblings (The Boone Family, Spraker, 1922):

• (1724 - 1815) Sarah
• (1726 - 1756) Israel
• (1728 - 1816) Samuel
• (1730 - 1818?) Jonathan
• (1732 - 1825) Elizabeth
• (1734 - 1820) Daniel
• (1736 - 1819) Mary
• (1739 - 1820) George
• (1740 - 1780) Edward
• (1744 - 1815) Squire
• (1746 - 1828) Hannah

Early Years

Daniel received very little formal education. Although he was well educated, his spelling and grammar were not good. Presumably, he had been trained to be a farmer, blacksmith, and weaver.

In 1747 Daniel's brother Israel married Mary S. Wharton, who was not a Quaker. Their parents had given their consent, and they continued to agree even when the local community asked them to repent.

Squire Boone and his family left Pennsylvania in 1750, settling in the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina.

Marriage

On August 14, 1755, Daniel married Rebecca Bryan, a resident of the Yadkin Valley, with whom he had ten children. At first, they lived in a cabin on Squire Boone's farm. Around 1759, the Yadkin Valley was raided by the Cherokee, and many families, including Daniel's, moved to Culpeper County, Virginia.

Activities

Daniel was in British service during the Seven Years' War, escaping the great defeat of General Edward Braddock in 1755.

Boone explored much of Kentucky and Tennessee, which at the time were frontier lands for newly established European colonies. He became instrumental in establishing the Wilderness Road, a road over the Appalachians, through the Cumberland Gap. In 1765 he explored as far as Pensacola, Florida. In 1769 he opened the first known road between North Carolina and Tennessee. He spent the winter of 1769 and 1770 in a cave on the banks of the Cumberland River in Mercer County, Kentucky. Near the cave there is still a tree marked with his name. He spent the next two years hunting and exploring in Kentucky, where he was twice captured by the Indians, and had the chance to escape both times.

In 1773, Boone tried to settle in Kentucky, but an Indian raid killed his eldest son, James. In 1775, he worked as an agent for the Transylvania Company . Along with a group of thirty settlers, Boone began clearing the Wilderness Road and this time succeeded in establishing a colony at Fort Boonesborough, near Lexington. This was the first Transylvanian settlement. This was very significant, because exploring and encouraging the settlement of Boonesborough violated the agreements of the royal proclamation of 1763. He served in the American independence forces, which forced him into frequent clashes with the British and their indigenous allies. The most popular episode of these disputes was the expedition of Daniel and several neighbors to rescue two of Boone's daughters and other girls, who had been kidnapped by the Indians. Combining that fact with Boone's intervention in the French-Indian (or Seven Years) Wars of the 1750s, writer James Fenimore Cooper found inspiration for his novel The Last of the Mohicans, in the which Hawkeye would be the transcript of Boone. About 1800 he settled in Missouri, with his wife and some of his relatives. Until 1804, that territory belonged to Spain, which offered it nationalization, land, and an administrative-judicial position, enthusiastic about the installation of an American hero in its Louisiana. With the Louisiana Purchase by the US (after Spain returned it to France in 1803), the Boones returned to live on US soil. It is said that, despite Daniel's advanced age, he continued hunting and traveling until almost the end of his days, even visiting the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. After his death, residents of Kentucky transferred the remains to that State, but apparently, those from Missouri misled the representatives of Kentucky about the real location of the remains, with which even today both States dispute the real place where they rest. the remains of Daniel Boone.

Legacy

Daniel Boone remains an iconic figure in American history, though his status as an American folk hero and later as a subject of fiction have tended to obscure the actual details of his life. Boone is commonly remembered as a hunter and pioneer.

Boone's name has long been synonymous with "American nature. For example, the Boone and Crockett Club was a conservation organization founded in 1887 by Theodore Roosevelt and a forerunner of the Boy Scouts of America.

Filmography

The adventure film Daniel Boone (1936) directed by David Howard was shot about his life.