Series: Daniel Boone papers: 20 C
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence and notes concerning a few of Boone's associates and their families: Marcus (Mark) Bird, onetime Pennsylvania ironmaster and his father William, founder of Birdsboro near Reading, Pennsylvania; George Crawford, whom Boone visited in Virginia in 1792; Peter Houston (1764-1854), longtime friend of Boone in North Carolina and Kentucky and author of a narrative on Boone's life; Henry Miller (1735-1790), one of Boone's hunting companions in North Carolina and later an ironmaster in Rockingham County, Virginia; and Alexander Neely, hunter with the Boones and the Long Hunters in the 1769-1771 period. Houston's reminiscent account of Boone, copied for Draper by the author's grandson, is among the letters. Also in the volume is a manuscript copy of a memorial poem entitled “An Ode to Daniel Boone” by Theodore O'Hara.