Individual Details

Birth

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Daniel Boone was born on 2 November 1734 in Exeter Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania.1 Conflicting evidence states that Daniel Boone was born on 22 October 1734 in Exeter Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania.1 He married Rebecca Bryan, daughter of Joseph Bryan and Alice Linville, on 14 August 1756 in Rowan Co., North Carolina.1 Daniel died on 26 September 1820 near St. Louis, St. Charles Co., Missouri.1

Daniel was also known as [Col.] Daniel Boone.

Boone, Daniel was an American pioneer who played a major part in the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. Boone was born near Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1753 his family settled in a primitive settlement in what is now North Carolina, where Boone became a skillful hunter and trapper. Boone set out to explore the wilderness around the Kentucky River, making the first of many trips into the region in 1767. Between 1769 and 1771, he explored eastern Kentucky, following a trail through the Cumberland Gap. In 1775, having been engaged by a Carolina trading company to establish a road by which settlers could reach Kentucky, he built a fort on the site of Boonesborough. The road established by Boone was later called the Wilderness Road. The settlement at Boonesborough was eventually established as a permanent village.2