Subject:  American Minute - Sept. 26 - Daniel Boone
Date:  Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:29:22 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

Septmeber 26

Daniel Boone served with George Washington in 1755 during the French
and Indian War. He explored Florida in 1765 and was sent by Patrick
Henry to survey Kentucky.

In 1775, the Pennsylvania Company had Daniel Boone lay out lands in
Kentucky and erect a fort on the Kentucky River, which he named
Boonesboro.

In 1778, during the Revolution, Daniel Boone went to Blue Licks to
get salt for the settlement but was captured by Shawnee Indians and
taken to Detroit.

He learned that the British had incited Indians to attack his
settlement, so he escaped and ran nearly 400 miles in 5 days to warn
Boonseboro.

Boone became a Major in the militia and served in Virginia's
legislature.

He bought land in Kentucky but lost it due to poorly prepared titles.
He left in 1799 and bought land from Spain west of the Mississippi
River.

Boone lost this land in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase, but six
years before his death on SEPTEMBER 26, 1820, Congress gave him back
the land.

On October 17, 1816, Daniel Boone wrote to his sister-in-law Sarah
Boone:

"The religion I have is to love and fear God, believe in Jesus
Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as
little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest."



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