Series: Daniel Boone papers: 6 C
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence and memoranda pertaining to Boone's life in the years 1773-1774. Most of the papers relate to the Boone party's defeat, with the massacre of Boone's son James and William Russell's son Henry by Indian raiders in Powell's Valley, and to the topography of the areas where Boone stayed or intended to travel on this aborted trip to Kentucky in 1773-Fort Blackmore, the Clinch River, Walden's Creek, Powell's Valley, the Cumberland Mountains, and Cumberland Gap. The volume includes copies of a few letters, 1773-1775, written by Arthur Campbell, William Christian, Lord Dunmore, William Preston, William Russell, and Daniel Smith; reminiscences and letters on the settlement of western Virginia by descendants of William Russell; and letters on the massacre of Mrs. Fannie Napper and her children near Fort Blackmore in 1777. From Mrs. Tabitha Moore, Draper obtained a portion of a poem or ballad about the battle of Point Pleasant (1774) in which Mrs. Moore's father, William Bowen, had participated.