Life & Times of Col. Daniel Boone

the West-Capture of Boone's daughter and the daughters of Colonel Callaway by the Indians-Their rescue by a party led by Boone and Callaway-Increased caution of the colonists at Boonesborough-Alarm a

tack on Logan's Fort, and

inia and the Carolinas. Encouraged by the treaty of Lord Dunmore with the Indians in 1774, and knowing the Indian titles to the lands they were occupying to have been extinguished, they naturally counted on an unmolested possession of the region they were settling. But in this expectation they were sorely disappointed. The English officers and agents in the northwest were indefatigable in stimulating the Indians to attack the American colonists in

. Under this impression they took leases from the Company, and in the course of the year, eighteen delegates assembled in convention at Boonesborough, and acknowledged the Company as lawful proprietors, "established courts of justice, and rules f

tely contiguous to the station, and putting in a crop of corn. The colonists were molested but once by their enemies during the win

onesborough. This was the capture, by some skulking Indians belonging to a numerous band who were now prowling through the woods and brakes of Kentu

had thrown around it all the warm coloring of romance, by writers professing to deal only with t

sight of Boonesborough, Miss Betsey Callaway, her sister Frances, and a daughter of Dani

e track, but found they had totally prevented our following them by walking some distance apart through the thickest cane they could find. We observed their course, however, and on which side they had left their sign, an

kindling a fire to cook. Our study had been more to get the prisoners without giving th

ed their carrying any thing away except one shot-gun without any ammunition. Mr. Boone and myself had a pretty fair shot

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ee little broken-hearted girls, prevented our making any further search. We sent th

amusing themselves by paddling about the foot of the rock in the canoe, were one of the many scouting parties of Indians who were scattered about watching all the different settlements in

t the Colonies east of the mountains, excited so much alarm, that some three hundred land spec

added a new member to its little society, who assisted in the labors of the hardy colonists on the surrounding grounds. But its numbers received no considerable increase till the following su

e settlements, for there were none of them that had not been much molested by the Indians sin

rcely attacked. But the Indians were so warmly received by the garrison on this occasion, that they in a very littl

cements should be sent to Boonesborough, the Indians encamped about the place, with the object of attempting its reduction by a regular siege. After a close and vigorous attack for two days and nights, in which they succeeded in killing b

fter the arrival of the immigrants above referred to, it would, in all probability, have taught its

ntinued to clear the lands adjacent to the Station, and to cultivate corn and garden vegetables, some always keeping a vigilant look-out w

a vigorous siege for several days, was finally relieved by the timely arrival of a reinforcement commanded by Colonel Bowman. On the 7th of March, 1777, the fort at Harrodsburg, then called