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See also:BOONE, See also:DANIEL (1734-1820) , See also:American See also:pioneer and back-woodsman, of See also:English descent, was See also:born near the See also:present See also:city of See also:Reading, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 2nd of See also:November (N.S.) 1734. About 1751 his See also:father, See also:Squire Boone, with his See also:family settled in the Yadkin Valley in what is now Davie See also:county, See also:North Carolina, then on the frontier. Daniel worked on his father's See also:farm, and spent much of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time See also:hunting and trapping. In 1755 he served as a wagoner and blacksmith in See also:Braddock's disastrous expedition against the See also:Indians. In 1765 he visited See also:Florida, and in 1767 he first visited the See also:Kentucky region. With several companions, including See also:John Finley, who had been there as See also:early as 1752, he spent two years, 1769-1771, roaming about what is now Kentucky, See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting with numberless adventures, coming in conflict with roving bands of Indians, and See also:collecting See also:bear, See also:beaver and See also:deer skins. He served in See also:Lord See also:Dunmore's See also:War (1774), and in 1775 led to Kentucky the party of settlers who founded Boonesborough, See also:long an important See also:settlement. On the 7th of See also:February 1778 he,
and the party he led, were captured by a See also:band of Shawnees. He was adopted into the See also:Shawnee tribe, was taken to See also:Detroit, and on the return from that See also:place escaped, reaching Boonesborough, after a perilous See also:journey of 16o m., within four days, in time to give warning of a formidable attack by his captors. In repelling this attack, which lasted from the 8th to the 17th of See also:September, he See also:bore a conspicuous See also:part. He also took part in the sanguinary " See also:Battle of See also:Blue Licks " in 1782. For a time he represented the settlers in the See also:Virginia legislature (Kentucky then being a part of Virginia), and he also served as See also:deputy surveyor, See also:sheriff and county See also:lieutenant of Fayette county, one of the three counties into which Kentucky was then divided. Having lost all his See also:land through his carelessness in regard to titles, he removed in 1788 to Point Pleasant, Virginia (now W. Va.), whence about 1799 he removed to a place in what is now See also:Missouri, about 45 M. See also:west of St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, in territory then owned by See also:Spain. He received a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of moo arpents (about 845 acres) of land, and was appointed See also:syndic of the See also:district. After the See also:United States gained See also:possession of " See also:Louisiana " in 1803, Boone's See also:title was found to be defective, and he was again dispossessed. He died on the 22nd of September 182o, and in 1845 his remains were removed to See also:Frankfort, Kentucky, where a See also:monument has been erected to his memory. Boone was a typical American pioneer and backwoodsman, a See also:great See also:hunter and trapper, highly skilled in all the arts of woodcraft, See also:familiar with the Indians and their methods of warfare, a famous See also:Indian fighter, restless, resourceful and fearless. His services, however, have been greatly over-estimated, and he was not, as is popularly believed, either the first to explore or the first to See also:settle the Kentucky region.
The best See also:biography is that by See also:Reuben G. Thwaites, Daniel Boone (New See also:York, 1902).
End of Article: BOONE, DANIEL (1734-1820)
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