• General Notes

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  [Br²derbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #0725, Date of Import: Apr 16, 2002]
  
  Source: Grolier Electronic Publishing.
  Daniel Boone, b. Pennsylvania, Nov. 2, 1734, achieved fame as a
  frontiersman in the era of the American Revolution. As a youth he settled
  with his Quaker parents in western North Carolina.
  Boone went as a wagoner on the expedition of Gen. Edward Braddock to Fort
  Duquesne (1755), but he came into prominence much later for his
  explorations and hunting expeditions in the Kentucky region. He first
  visited that area in the winter of 1767-68, and on a second expedition
  from 1769 to 1771 he went through the Cumberland Gap.
  When speculator Richard Henderson, who had organized the Transylvania
  Company, planned a settlement in Kentucky in 1775, Boone was the natural
  choice to blaze a trail. He marked out the Wilderness Road and founded
  the settlement of Boonesborough on the Kentucky River. In the Revolution
  Boone helped the kentucky settlements as a hunter and as an Indian
  fighter. He was captured by the Shawnees in 1778, but he escaped and
  later traveled to the East to bring in more settlers.
  Although Boone held public office in Kentucky (including serving in the
  Kentucky legislature), he first became well known in the East, and even
  in Europe, because of the account of his exploits given by John Filson in
  the The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke (1784).
  Boone the figured in Lord Byron's poem Don Juan. As a result, Boone was
  set apart from his fellow hunters and explorers, and a variety of myths
  were woven around his life.
  Boone suffered major disappointments after the Revolution. The absence of
  proper land titles resulted in the loss of his Kentucky lands, and in the
  late 1790s he moved to what is now Missouri. When he died there on Sept.
  26, 1820, he was the most famous of frontier heroes.

Details of Daniel's family with Rebecca Bryan