Series: Daniel Boone papers: 7 C
Scope and Content Note: Mainly correspondence and notes on persons, places, and events associated with Boone in 1775-1776: Indian Old Fields in Kentucky, the Treaty of Watauga, the battle of Island Flats and Fort Patrick Henry in Tennessee, Thomas Teass (Teays) and the settlement of Teays Valley in Virginia (West Virginia), the Callaway family and the capture of the Boone and Callaway girls by Shawnee raiders in 1776. One original letter by Edward Mills (1776) mentions Indian depredations near Detroit and describes Kentucky as “the Garden of America.” A fragment of a narrative by William Cocke copied by Draper relates to Cocke's conversations with Lord Dunmore in 1774 and to border conditions in the following year. Copies of depositions in 1817-1818 by Boone, Flanders Callaway, John McIntyre, James Ray, Peter Scholl, and John Stephenson not only describe events in 1775-1776 but also include extensive reports on the killing of Edward Boone by Indians in 1780.