. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . appeared, and were never heard of again. Booneremained so long away from home that his younger brother, accompanied by afriend, came in search of him. Instead of returning, he sent his brother backfor powder and bullets. b ABRAHAM LINCOLN. After being absent nearly a .year, Boone* retyrned home, with a glowingaccount of the vastness and fertility of the new territory. He reported acountry that abounded in possibili
. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . appeared, and were never heard of again. Booneremained so long away from home that his younger brother, accompanied by afriend, came in search of him. Instead of returning, he sent his brother backfor powder and bullets. b ABRAHAM LINCOLN. After being absent nearly a .year, Boone* retyrned home, with a glowingaccount of the vastness and fertility of the new territory. He reported acountry that abounded in possibilities for the settler. It was not rocky andmountainous. Streams were numerous and wild game was abundant. Heorganized and led forward a band of fifty hunters and trappers into the wilder-ness, and others soon followed. They built a rude fort, calling it Boonesbor-ough. They were typical hunters and adventurers, with rifles on their shouldersand knives in their belts—the picket-line going on before the march of civili-zation. At last the Revolutionary war was over. Peace relieved the restraint on theonward march of the pioneer, and the hunters stories of a boundless country,. )ANIEI, BOONK ESCAPES FROM THE IXDIANS. renowned for soil and climate, across the mountains started an emigration rush of settlers from the Shenandoah valley counties of Virginia assumedstriking proportions. Large groups of families from a single neighborhoodbanded themselves together for protection against the Indians while on the « miM 1. will of ,,], Boone, liis ■ l-n i n- iin ir Squire Lincolus was manitil iithought that AbrahamMary Shipley, whom hiNorth Carolina. It is kTmoved from Berks count (• intimately assoi-iatcd for sivcral Kcrnratioiis. In thehe registry offlrc at riiil;Hl(l|.liia. dati d 17:;-i, (ieorge was made a trustee tl a^-ist in i-aiint, I. ir the property.■ neof the appraisers, one el tlje mimernus .Miraham a first cousin o
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