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Teamster
Daniel Boone served as a teamster, driving supplies by wagon for the North Carolina militia. North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs' son Edward Brice Dobbs led the unit of militia in support of General Edward Braddock’s unsuccessful attempt to take Fort Duquesne from the French. The fort was located at present Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. -
Marriage
Daniel Boone married Rebecca Bryan. -
Kids
James Boone was born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone. -
Kids
Israel Boone was born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone. -
Kids
Susannah Boone was born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone. -
Kids
Jemima Boone was born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone. -
Kids
Levina Boone is born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone. -
Kids
Rebecca Boone is born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone. -
Trails
Daniel blazed the first trail from North Carolina to Tennessee on his way to Kentucky with five other men. -
Capture
Daniel and his brother-in-law John Stewart, were captured twice by the Indians. The first time they were set free, and they escaped the second time. -
Kids
Daniel Morgan Boone was born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone. -
Disappearance
John Stewart disappeared while hunting. His body was discovered five years later. Daniel’s brother Squire had arrived in Kentucky with a friend Alexander Neely. -
Return
Daniel and Squire return home from Kentucky. -
Kentucky
Daniel and his friends made the first attempt to settle Kentucky. Indians attacked part of the party killing the Boone's son James and five other men, and as a result the party returned to the settlements. -
Kids
Jesse Boone was born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone. -
Lord Dunmore's War
The war broke out at Battle of Point Pleasant. Daniel was commissioned a Lieutenant and then a Captain, and put in charge of three forts along the Clinch River in southwest Virginia. -
Marriage
Daniel Boone's daughter Savannah married Captain William Hays. -
WIlderness Trail
Daniel led the cutting of the Wilderness Trail from Tennessee to the site of fort Boonesborough along the Kentucky river. This trail became the main trail for white settlement in Kentucky. -
Moving
Daniel moved his family to Boonesborough. -
Kids
William Boone is born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone. However, he died soon later. -
Capture
His daughter Jemima was capture by two Indians. Daniel rescued her two days later. -
Marriage
His daughter Jemima married Flanders Callaway. -
Captain
Daniel Boone was commissioned captain in the Virginia Militia. -
Shawnee Indians
The Shawnee Indians attacked Boonesborough. During the attack, Boone was wounded in the ankle. -
Capture
Daniel Boone was captured by the Shawnee Indians. He was adopted by Chief Blackfish. Boone escaped five months later. -
Moving
After Daniel Boone’s capture by Indians, Rebecca thinking him as possibly having been killed, left Fort Boonesborough to go live with her family back in North Carolina. -
Defense
Fort Boonesborough, was successfully defended by its occupants during a major Indian attack and a nine day siege. Daniel played the lead role in the defense. -
Moving
After Daniel Boone’s capture by Indians, Rebecca thinking him as possibly having been killed, left Fort Boonesborough to go live with her family back in North Carolina. -
North Carolina
After his escape, and subsequent defense during he siege of Fort Boonesborough, Daniel went to North Carolina to retrieve his family. Upon their return he established a new fort called Boone’s Station near what is now Athens, Kentucky. -
Kids
Nathan Boone is born to Daniel and Rebecca Boone. -
Virginia Legislature
Daniel Boone is selected to be a member of the Virginia Legislature. -
Blue Licks
aniel fought in the Battle of Blue Licks, after militia units from the other forts and stations arrived at Bryan’s Station. The Indians had put Bryan’s Station under siege, and had left prior to the arrival of the militia units. The militia units tracked the Indians to the Blue Licks, where the Indians caught them in an ambush. Daniel and Rebecca’s son Israel was killed during the battle. -
Virginia Legislature
Daniel was again elected to be a member of the Virginia legislature. -
Virginia Legislature
Daniel Boone is again elected to be a member of the Virginia Legislature. -
Kentucky
After living a few years at or near Point Pleasant in present West Virginia, Daniel and his family returned to live in Kentucky. -
Daniel Morgan Boone (His Son)
Son Daniel Morgan Boone traveled to the eastern Missouri River region (present Missouri) of Spanish Louisiana, where he hunted and trapped and looked over the land for possible settlement. He met with Don Zenon Trudeau, the Lieutenant Governor of the Spanish Territory, and took out a Spanish Land Grant for himself. Trudeau sent an invitation along with Daniel Morgan Boone for his father to come to settle in Spanish Louisiana. -
Property in Kentucky
Daniel had been losing most of his property in Kentucky. While Kentucky was earlier part of Virginia, the Virginia legislature had accommodated influential land grabbers by enacting laws that resulted in land taxes and revisions to the survey laws. The result was that Daniel had to sell some of his land for taxes while the rest was taken away through disputed land claims. -
Spanish Louisiana
Daniel Boone and his family and some friends moved from Kentucky to Spanish Louisiana, where they all received Spanish Land Grants. Daniel received a Spanish Land Grant for 1000 arpents, equivalent to 850 acres. -
Spanish Commandments
Daniel was appointed as one of the seven Spanish Commandants, a role that included being the civil administrator, military commander, and syndic (judge for civil disagreements). As commandant he was given his own district of Femme Osage. -
Transferred
The Spanish transferred Spanish Louisiana to the French in a secret treaty, however the administration of the province remained the same as under the Spanish. -
Death
Rebecca Boone died at daughter Jemima Boone Callaway's home near the village of Charette (near present day Marthasville). She was buried in the Bryan Cemetery nearby. -
Death
Daniel Boone died at the stone house of his son Nathan, near Defiance. The stone house still stands and is open to the public.