DANIEL BOONE TIMELINE

1720 Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan (Daniel Boone's parents) were married.

1734 Daniel, was born in a cabin in Oley Township, Pennsylvania.

1746 Daniel receives his first rifle and began to provide food for his family at the age of twelve.

1756 Daniel married Rebecca Bryan and they settled in Rowan County, North Carolina. He was 22 and she was 17. They were married with 2 other couples in a triple wedding ceremony.

1756 Brother, Israel Boone, died of consumption (tuberculosis), leaving two daughters and two sons, Jesse (age 8) and Jonathan (age 6). His wife had died shortly before him also of consumption. A little after Israel's death the two daughters died of the disease also.

1756 Daniel and Rebecca took in Israel's sons to raise.

1757 Daniel and Rebecca's first child, James, was born.

1759 Daniel and Rebecca's second child, Israel, was born.

1760 Daniel moved his family to Culpeper, VA

1760 Daniel and Rebecca's third child, Susannah, was born.

1761 Daniel served in Maj. Hugh Waddell's Cherokee campaigns.

1762  Daniel and Rebecca's fourth child, Jemima, was born.

1764 Daniel hunted along Rockcastle Creek.

1764 Daniel sold his farm to relocate to the forks of the Yadkin River.

1766 Daniel and Rebecca's fifth child, Levina, was born.

1766 Daniel explores Florida, but decides not to move his family there.

1768 Daniel and Rebecca's sixth child, Rebecca, was born.

1769 Daniel hunted alone during the winter in Kentucky.

1769 Daniel was captured by the Shawnee Indians, and escaped.

1769 Daniel and Rebecca's seventh child, Daniel Morgan, was born

1771  Daniel returned to his home on the Yadkin with plans to move to Kentucky.

1773 Daniel and Rebecca's eighth child, Jesse Bryan, was born.

1773 Daniel's son, James, was killed by Indians.

1775 Daniel and a party of men departed from Long Island on the Holston to blaze the Wilderness Road leading to Kentucky.



1775 Daniel and his party settled Kentucky, building about 5 rough cabins.

1775 Daniel left Kentucky for North Carolina to get his family.

1775 Daniel and Rebecca's ninth child, William, was born. He died several weeks later.

1775 Daniel returned to Boonesborough with his family, having waited until Rebecca was able to travel after the birth and death of their son, William. Rebecca and her daughters were the first white women to enter and settle in Kentucky.


1776  Daniel's daughter Jemima, along with Fanny and Betsy Calloway, were captured by Indians. Daniel and a party of men rescued the girls.

1777 Indians, led by Chief Blackfish, attacked Boonesborough. Daniel was shot in the ankle but recovered.

1777 Shawnee Indians captured Daniel and forced him to surrender himself and his men. They were marched to Indian villages in Ohio where they were held captive. Daniel befriended his captors and soon was adopted by Chief Blackfish as his son, but always kept guards on him, fearing that he would escape (which he eventually did). Blackfish gave Daniel the name Sheltowee which means "Big Turtle." That name still to this day remains synonymous with the name of Daniel Boone.

1777Thinking Daniel was dead, Rebecca took her children and returned to North Carolina. Daughter Jemima stayed behind at the fort with her new husband, Flanders Callaway.

1777 Daniel escaped and returned on foot to Boonesborough to warn his friends of an impending Indian attack. Jemima was there to meet him. Daniel and Jemima were extremely close and remained close to each other until Daniel's death.

1777 Daniel was brought before court-martial on charges of collaboration with the enemy but he wass acquitted and  subsequently promoted to Major of the Militia.

1777 After the trial Daniel rejoined Rebecca and his family in North Carolina.

1779 September; Daniel set out leading a group of about 100 emigrants from North Carolina to Kentucky. According to son, Nathan, Daniel had considerable difficulty convincing Rebecca that they should return to KY. She opposed it for the many "dangers and exposures". Apparently Daniel was finally able to convince her that they must go. This was one of the largest migration parties ever to travel Boone's Trace over the Cumberland Gap.



1779 The land commission approved Daniel's claim and on Christmas Day. Daniel,  his family, and other kin, crossed the Kentucky River to where he had previously built a cabin and put in a crop of corn. Here he established Boone's Station, located six miles northwest of Boonesborough near the present-day town of Athens in Fayette County. Daniel's clan living there consisted of 15 to 20 families, including his married daughters, Susannah and Jemima, his brothers, Samuel, Jonathan, and Edward, and his cousins, the Scholls.

1780  At Richmond, Virginia, Daniel was robbed.  He had been persuaded by Thomas and Nathaniel Hart of the Transylvania Company to travel to Virginia with the money to purchase land warrants for them. Several other settlers had joined in on the venture and the money he carried belonged to all of those.

1780 Daniel's Brother Edward was killed by Indians while he and Daniel were coming home from boiling salt at Blue Licks.

1780  Daniel was chosen as a County Lieutenant when Virginia divided Kentucky into Counties. It was at this time that Daniel was also made a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Militia,
and he served as Sheriff of Fayette County Kentucky.

1781 Daniel represented Fayette County in the Virginia Legislature.

1781 Daniel and Rebecca's tenth and last child, Nathan, was born. Rebecca was 40 years old,  Daniel was 45. They had been married for nearly 25 years. At this time they also had with them, the 6 children of Rebecca's uncle James Bryan that they had previously taken in. Daniel and Rebecca raised them and they forever thought of Daniel and Rebecca as grandparents. Daughter, Susannah "Susie" and her husband William "Will" Hays and their children were also living with them.

1781 Two of Daniels daughters gave birth to babies.

Daniel's son, Israel, was  killed in the Battle of Blue Licks.

1783 Daniel moved to Marble Creek, where he lived until about 1785, five miles west of Boone's Station. He tried farming there but he had always hated farming and soon sold the farm to his son-in-law, William Hays.

1783 Daniel endured numerous lawsuits over land claims due to overlapping surveys.

1789 Daniel operated a trading post at the mouth of the Kanawha. He served in the Virginia Legislature.

1792 Kentucky became the 15th state

1795 Daniel moved to present-day Nicholas County, KY to land owned by son, Daniel Morgan Boone, and built a cabin near Blue Licks at Brushy Fork of Hinkston Creek. (Cabin still stands.)
During this time Daniel narrowly escaped capture once again by Shawnee braves as they surprised him while he was hanging tobacco in the loft of his drying barn. He outwitted them and in his old age told the story many times to friends and family, laughing every time.

1797 Daniel Morgan Boone went on a hunting trip into Spanish Missouri. He met with Lt. Gov. Don Zenon Trudeau, who sent back a letter to his father, Daniel Boone, inviting the Boones to settle in Missouri.

1798 Daniel relocated to a cabin on the 400 acre tract one mile from the mouth of the Little Sandy River in what is now Greenup County, KY.

1798 The Sheriff of Mason County, KY issued a warrant to arrest Daniel Boone after he failed to show up for a court summons to testify in a lawsuit over land claims.

1798 Officials of Mason and Clark Counties, KY put much of Daniel's land holdings up for sale.

1798 Boone County, KY was named in honor of Daniel Boone.

1799 Daniel, along with Hays, Bryan, and Callaway kin, moved to the Femme Osage district (now St. Charles Co.) Missouri.



1800 Daniel received a land grant of 1000 arpents (850 acres).

1800 Daniel and Rebecca built a cabin on land owned by their son, Daniel Morgan Boone, near the present-day town of Matson.

1800 Spanish Governor appointed Daniel "syndic" (administrator) and commandant (military leader) of the Femme Osage region; he served in both capacities until the American takeover in 1804 following the Louisiana Purchase.

1800 Daniel's and Rebecca's daughter, Susannah (Boone) Hays died.

1801 Daniel and his sons, Daniel Morgan and Nathan, hunted along the Pomme de Terre and Niangua rivers, headwaters of the Grand Osage.

1801 Daniel and his sons, Daniel Morgan and Nathan, hunted the Bourbeuse River region.

1802 Osage warriors briefly captured Daniel during his spring hunt along the Niangua.

1802 Daniel's and Rebecca's daughter, Levina (Boone) Scholl died.

1804 Following the ceding of the Louisiana Purchase American commissioners striped Daniel Boone of his Missouri (Spanish) land holdings.

1804 Daniel and Rebecca moved to son Nathan's farm near present-day Defiance.

1805 Daniel hunted the Gasconade River region.

1805 Daniel build a small log cabin next to Nathan's large stone house as it was being built.

1805 Daniel's and Rebecca's daughter, Rebecca (Boone) Goe died.

1807 Merriweather Lewis, governor of Louisiana Territory, appointed Daniel Justice of the Femme Osage Township.

1808 Daniel and some companions were robbed by Indians while on a hunt.

1809 Daniel petitioned Congress for reinstatement of his Spanish land titles.

1812 Daniel volunteered for War of 1812 duty; he was turned down because of his age (78).


1812 Sauk and allied Indian raids increased in Femme Osage Valley and the surrounding district.

1813 Daniel's wife, Rebecca, died at age 74 and was buried in the Bryan family cemetery in what is now Marthasville (Warren County), Missouri.

1814 Daniel's handwritten biography and other family papers were lost in the Missouri River when his canoe capsized.

1815 President James Monroe awarded Daniel a 1000 arpent tract of Missouri land but Daniel was forced to sell much of it to pay off old Kentucky claims that had been made against him for faulty surveys.

1815 Daniel's grandson, Captain James Callaway, leader of a company of Missouri Rangers, was killed by Indians on Loutre Creek in present-day Montgomery Co., Missouri. Callaway County, Missouri was named in his honor in November, 1820.

1815 Daniel explored and hunted the upper Missouri region.

1816 Daniel visited Fort Osage (near present-day Kansas City). Later he explored as far west as Nebraska.

1817 Daniel went on his last long hunt.

1818 Daniel returned to Kentucky to settle old debts.

1818 The town of Marthasville, Missouri was founded directly adjacent to the Flanders and Jemima (Boone) Callaway farm and near the old fort.

1820  Artist Chester Harding painted Daniel's portrait from life while at the log home of Flanders and Jemima (Boone) Callaway at Marthasville.

1820 Daniel Boone died at the home of his youngest child, Nathan Boone, in St. Charles County, Missouri. His funeral was held in the barn on Jemima's farm at Marthasville.
The Rev. James Craig preached the funeral sermon. He was buried next to Rebecca at Marthasville, as he had requested.



1820 Daniel's and Rebecca's son, Jesse, died. He was a member of Missouri's first legislature. He was 47 years old.

1829 Daniel's son-in-law, Flanders Callaway, husband of Jemima, died at Marthasville.

1834  Daniel's and Rebecca's daughter, Jemima (Boone) Callaway, died.

1839  Daniel's and Rebecca's son, Daniel Morgan Boone, died of cholera. He was said to be the child who looked most like his father.
In 1825 he had become the first American to settle near the mouth of the Kansas River on the Missouri (present-day) Kansas City.
He was 70 years old. He and wife, Olive, are buried on their farm near Kansas City.

1845 A delegation of Kentuckians traveled to Missouri to retrieve Daniel and Rebecca Boone's remains to their newly opened Frankfort Cemetery.

1856 October 16; Daniel's and Rebecca's youngest child, Nathan Boone, died in Greene County, Missouri, near Springfield.

(Written by Andrea Myers, Daniel Boone's 6th Great Granddaughter)
(c) Andrea Myers 2006

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