The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . , inthe southwestern part of Virginia. Boone remainedhere until 1774, and established an enviable reputa-tion for wisdom and uprightness, and was dispatchedby Gov. Dunmore on an im
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . , inthe southwestern part of Virginia. Boone remainedhere until 1774, and established an enviable reputa-tion for wisdom and uprightness, and was dispatchedby Gov. Dunmore on an important mission to rescuea party of surveyors who were in the wilderness ofKentucky, and supposed to be in danger from thehostilities of the Indians. The engagements whichfollowed were afterward known as Lord Dunmoreswar. Boone was absent sixty-two days. March 23,1775, he arrived with a party within fifteen miles ofthe site which they afterward selected for Boones-borough, on the banks of the Kentucky river, andwhere they erected a stockade fort, to which Boonesubsequently moved his family. The inhabitants ofthe settlement having suffered seriously for the wantof salt, Capt. Boone, with a party of thirty men,started for the lower Blue Licks, on Licking river,Jan. 1, 1778, to engage in the manufacture of salt,in which they were successful. Boone was capturedwith twenty-seven of his men during this expedition,. being surprised while hunting by a party of 100Indians, commanded by two Canadians, who tookthem as prisoners, first to the principal Indian townon the Little Miami, old Chillicothe, and afterwardto Detroit, where all the prisoners were ransomed,except Boone, with whom the Indians refused to took him back to Chillicothe, where lie was OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Ill adopted after the Indian fashion by Black Fish, adistinguished Shawanee chief, to supply the placeof his deceased son. The ceremonial of adoptionwas painful, yet withal ludicrous. The hair of hishead was
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