Timeline: Daniel Boone in the Wilderness
Other items for my timeline consideration: Hunting Seasons and Planting/Harvest schedules
- I've found NO scholarly calendar dates accounting for Daniel's whereabouts from 1780 July02 through December.
- Today, corn is planted April/May. However, the heritage corn of 1780 could be planted through June, with a growing period of 60-90 days til harvest. Old saying, "Thigh high by the 4th of July" refers to height of corn. Heritage corn can grow 15 feet.
- Today, deer and turkey hunting seasons are regulated. Had 1780s hunters followed a similar calendar, they would have hunted deer and turkey from September through mid-January.
- Spring Turkey - today regulated for Late April, Early May
- Whose land was being cultivated, when Daniel returned with Bulger in 1781, where they remained at the hunting camp, AND cultivated a patch of land? Did they remain throughout a growing season? a hunting season? Questions allow for a time range from May planting through a late-January hunting season.
"Did Boone walk this land?", Timeline from Folklore to Reality
1766 - first recorded exploration of Hardin County, by Col. John Smith while on a hunting expedition
1774, June 6, Daniel Boone is solicited to go the Falls of the Ohio to conduct into the settlement a party of surveyors. They completed the tour of 800 miles in 62 days. [62 days from day 1 would end on 06AUG1774]
1778 Feb 7, Daniel Boone taken prisoner near the Blue Licks.
1778 June 10, Daniel Boone escapes, reaches Boonesboro 160 miles in 10 days.
1779 OCT - The Virginia Land Commission began hearing settlers claims
1779 Christmas Day - Daniel Boone's party arrives at Boonesboro, erected "half-faced camps made of boards and forked sticks" and settled in for the Winter.
*1779-1780 "The Hard Winter": Daniel had brought in ample supply of corn and shared it with (Boonesborough) station inhabitants "even to his last pone"
1780 Jan - The Hard Winter (Nov'79-Feb'80), game frozen in the forest, and cattle around the stations. Corn sells at $50-175 per bushel. [find source that says $60] Livestock froze to death, wild animals starved, and hunting was difficult because the cold made it impossible to load guns.
excerpt from Daniel Boone: Backwoodsman, by C.H.Forbes-Lindsay
The intensity of the cold confined the Indians more closely than usual to their villages. But though the settlers were thus exempted from the annoyance of marauding parties, they suffered severely on account of the insufficiency of food. The crops of the previous Autumn had been in large part destroyed, and many immigrants had arrived too late in the year to plow and sow. Buffalo meat, and a scanty allowance of that, formed the main subsistence of the people for several months. With the opening of Spring a number of Indian parties crossed into Kentucky...
excerpt from Westward into Kentucky: The Narrative of Daniel Trabue, edited by Chester Raymond Young
This hard winter began about the first of November 1779 and broke up the last of February 1780. The turkeys were almost all dead. The buffalo had got poor. People's cattle mostly Dead. No corn or but very little in the country. The people were in great distress. Many in the wilderness frostbit. Some Dead. Some eat of the dead cattle and horses. When the Winter broke the men would go and kill the buffalo and bring them home to eat but they was so poor. A number of people would be taken sick and did actually Die for the want of solid food. The most of the people had to go to the Falls of Ohio for corn to plant, which was brought down the Ohio.
*1780 FEB - Daniel (and his cohorts) makes trip (rides) to VA (to register land claims) and is robbed of some $20,000 in depreciated currency given to him by William Hays, Thomas and Nathaniel Hart and others to buy land warrants in Williamsburg, VA (entrusted to him to secure their surveys). On the way, the men stopped at an inn. After supper, Boone arranged a buffalo robe on the floor before the fireplace and bedded down. When he awoke well past dawn, his first groggy thought was of his money bag. He searched, but it was gone--stolen.
*1780 MAR - Boonesboro station inhabitants built cabins with portholes and stockade; made sugar from maple sap; gathered nettles and used it as warp(?) with buffalo hair as well; lots of wild friuts and nuts in abundance; corn and pumpkins did well.
1780 April or May - Edw. Bulger listed in writing from Boonesboro. (image below)
*1780 MAY - James Hickman confronts Daniel and John Floyd at the land office at Harrodsburg over Floyd's failure to enter a second 2000-acre tract on Boone's Creek that Boone had surveyed for him in 1774.
1780 June - Land entry made by D. Boone for Richard Allen.
1780 July 1 - Daniel Boone was one of a Lexington jury of escheat (defined: The power of a state to acquire title to property for which there is no owner) The estates of Tories were being were being seized and sold, under a recently enacted VA law. The property in question would eventually be devoted to public education by the state, now as Transylvania University. (sourced from pg.253, Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness, by John Bakeless)
1780 AUG 04-14 Likely conception of Nathan, 10th and last child of Daniel and Rebecca born on 03MAR1781
*1780 OCT - Edward Boone killed while returning from hunt with Daniel, after boiling salt at Upper Blue Licks.
1780 Nov 1, The county of Kentucky is sub-divided into 3 counties. lists name of Lt.Col. Daniel Boone in Fayette
*1780 NOV - Daniel promoted to rank of lieutenant colonel in the Fayette County Militia, and elected to serve as county's representative in the VA State Assembly.
1780 Daniel Boone built hunting camp at the "Boone Spring"
1780 Squire Boone deposes that in 1780 "he passed through Bulger's Grove," and that he "became much better acquainted with same.
1780 Squire Boone entered 3,335 acres of land in the name of Isaac Larue in a grove about 10 miles from the Blue Ball.] See 1797 note below
1780 Ed. Bulger was an ensign in Captain William Harrod's company at the stations near the falls of the Ohio.
1780 - Severn's Valley settlement (near Elizabethtown) with 2 forts about 1 mile apart. One year later, Severn's Valley was home to 17 families. source
1780 Nov 1, The county of Kentucky is sub-divided into 3 counties. lists name of Lt.Col. Daniel Boone in Fayette
*1781 - Daniel named Fayette County Sheriff
*1781 APR - Daniel leaves to take his elected seat in the VA legislature; at convening of the session on 07MAY1781, but British advance forces retreat to Charlottesville. Held by the British for several days then released.
*1781 SUMMER - Daniel back in Kentucky
1781 Daniel Boone returned with Edward Bulger, where they remained at the hunting camp and cultivated a patch of land.
*1781 FALL - Daniel returns for second convening of the legislature; assigned to committed on frontier affairs; attendance poor on his part and Sergeant-At-Arms ordered to take Daniel into custody.
*1781 FALL - Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
*1782 Feb or Mar - Daniel returns to Kentucky
*1782 SUMMER - many Indian skirmishes; Boone with party in July to pursue Indians that killed Nathaniel Hart.
*1782AUG18(19) Battle of Blue Licks; Israel Boone killed; also, Maj. Edward Bulger killed.
*1782 NOV - Daniel leading men of Fayette on Shawnee Indian campaign, burning six villages, and British trading store at head of Great Miami River, and destroying 10,000 bushels of corn, but only 20 warriors killed.
*1782 Nov 3 - preliminary articles of peace signed between the United States and Great Britain
*1782 DEC - Daniel sworn in as deputy surveyor of Fayette County
*1782 FALL - Daniel, William Hays and Flanders Calloway spent several days examining land along the Ohio River at the mouth of Limestone Creek (later Maysville)
1783 Daniel Boone made about 40 surveys this year
1783-1786 Daniel Boone made nearly 150 surveys for new settlers.
*1783 March(?) - Daniel learns that he has lost his claim to his station land to James Hickman (on Boone's Creek)
1783 (John) May, Bannister and Company purchased "tomahawk mark", or boundary of Daniel Boone, and took out a patent for this land.
1783 Squire Boone deposes that an entry of Larne (Larue?) was "by my direction and adjoining the same" (referring to the Bulger Grove tract he passed through in 1780)
1782 AUG 7th - date on OK 1057_1, the VA Treasury Warrant, No 13736, for survey of 3,835 acres for Meredith Helm
1783 FEB 2nd - date on OK 1057_2, the reverse side of VA Treasury Warrant No. 13736, signed Isaac Larue
1784 DEC 9th - date on OK 1057_3, 1,000 of 3,835 acres Survey for Isaac Larue, signed John Hundley and William May
1784 DEC 9th - Survey for Isaac Larue, 3,385 acres,
1784 Richard Stith (born 1727) and Lucy Hall Stith (born 1736) settled in Stith Valley.
1792 - final major skirmish between Hardin County white settlers and Indians. source
1793 John May purchased Bulger's claim, received a patent for the "Bulger Grove tract".
1797 an entry by Squire Boone adjoined an entry made by Edward Bulger.
NOTE: (*) asterisks before year sourced at Archaeological Investigations at Daniel Boone's Station, Fayette County, Kentucky, Uploaded by Nancy O'Malley
1766 - first recorded exploration of Hardin County, by Col. John Smith while on a hunting expedition
1774, June 6, Daniel Boone is solicited to go the Falls of the Ohio to conduct into the settlement a party of surveyors. They completed the tour of 800 miles in 62 days. [62 days from day 1 would end on 06AUG1774]
1778 Feb 7, Daniel Boone taken prisoner near the Blue Licks.
1778 June 10, Daniel Boone escapes, reaches Boonesboro 160 miles in 10 days.
1779 OCT - The Virginia Land Commission began hearing settlers claims
1779 Christmas Day - Daniel Boone's party arrives at Boonesboro, erected "half-faced camps made of boards and forked sticks" and settled in for the Winter.
*1779-1780 "The Hard Winter": Daniel had brought in ample supply of corn and shared it with (Boonesborough) station inhabitants "even to his last pone"
1780 Jan - The Hard Winter (Nov'79-Feb'80), game frozen in the forest, and cattle around the stations. Corn sells at $50-175 per bushel. [find source that says $60] Livestock froze to death, wild animals starved, and hunting was difficult because the cold made it impossible to load guns.
excerpt from Daniel Boone: Backwoodsman, by C.H.Forbes-Lindsay
The intensity of the cold confined the Indians more closely than usual to their villages. But though the settlers were thus exempted from the annoyance of marauding parties, they suffered severely on account of the insufficiency of food. The crops of the previous Autumn had been in large part destroyed, and many immigrants had arrived too late in the year to plow and sow. Buffalo meat, and a scanty allowance of that, formed the main subsistence of the people for several months. With the opening of Spring a number of Indian parties crossed into Kentucky...
excerpt from Westward into Kentucky: The Narrative of Daniel Trabue, edited by Chester Raymond Young
This hard winter began about the first of November 1779 and broke up the last of February 1780. The turkeys were almost all dead. The buffalo had got poor. People's cattle mostly Dead. No corn or but very little in the country. The people were in great distress. Many in the wilderness frostbit. Some Dead. Some eat of the dead cattle and horses. When the Winter broke the men would go and kill the buffalo and bring them home to eat but they was so poor. A number of people would be taken sick and did actually Die for the want of solid food. The most of the people had to go to the Falls of Ohio for corn to plant, which was brought down the Ohio.
*1780 FEB - Daniel (and his cohorts) makes trip (rides) to VA (to register land claims) and is robbed of some $20,000 in depreciated currency given to him by William Hays, Thomas and Nathaniel Hart and others to buy land warrants in Williamsburg, VA (entrusted to him to secure their surveys). On the way, the men stopped at an inn. After supper, Boone arranged a buffalo robe on the floor before the fireplace and bedded down. When he awoke well past dawn, his first groggy thought was of his money bag. He searched, but it was gone--stolen.
*1780 MAR - Boonesboro station inhabitants built cabins with portholes and stockade; made sugar from maple sap; gathered nettles and used it as warp(?) with buffalo hair as well; lots of wild friuts and nuts in abundance; corn and pumpkins did well.
1780 April or May - Edw. Bulger listed in writing from Boonesboro. (image below)
*1780 MAY - James Hickman confronts Daniel and John Floyd at the land office at Harrodsburg over Floyd's failure to enter a second 2000-acre tract on Boone's Creek that Boone had surveyed for him in 1774.
1780 June - Land entry made by D. Boone for Richard Allen.
1780 July 1 - Daniel Boone was one of a Lexington jury of escheat (defined: The power of a state to acquire title to property for which there is no owner) The estates of Tories were being were being seized and sold, under a recently enacted VA law. The property in question would eventually be devoted to public education by the state, now as Transylvania University. (sourced from pg.253, Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness, by John Bakeless)
1780 AUG 04-14 Likely conception of Nathan, 10th and last child of Daniel and Rebecca born on 03MAR1781
*1780 OCT - Edward Boone killed while returning from hunt with Daniel, after boiling salt at Upper Blue Licks.
1780 Nov 1, The county of Kentucky is sub-divided into 3 counties. lists name of Lt.Col. Daniel Boone in Fayette
*1780 NOV - Daniel promoted to rank of lieutenant colonel in the Fayette County Militia, and elected to serve as county's representative in the VA State Assembly.
1780 Daniel Boone built hunting camp at the "Boone Spring"
1780 Squire Boone deposes that in 1780 "he passed through Bulger's Grove," and that he "became much better acquainted with same.
1780 Squire Boone entered 3,335 acres of land in the name of Isaac Larue in a grove about 10 miles from the Blue Ball.] See 1797 note below
1780 Ed. Bulger was an ensign in Captain William Harrod's company at the stations near the falls of the Ohio.
1780 - Severn's Valley settlement (near Elizabethtown) with 2 forts about 1 mile apart. One year later, Severn's Valley was home to 17 families. source
1780 Nov 1, The county of Kentucky is sub-divided into 3 counties. lists name of Lt.Col. Daniel Boone in Fayette
*1781 - Daniel named Fayette County Sheriff
*1781 APR - Daniel leaves to take his elected seat in the VA legislature; at convening of the session on 07MAY1781, but British advance forces retreat to Charlottesville. Held by the British for several days then released.
*1781 SUMMER - Daniel back in Kentucky
1781 Daniel Boone returned with Edward Bulger, where they remained at the hunting camp and cultivated a patch of land.
*1781 FALL - Daniel returns for second convening of the legislature; assigned to committed on frontier affairs; attendance poor on his part and Sergeant-At-Arms ordered to take Daniel into custody.
*1781 FALL - Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
*1782 Feb or Mar - Daniel returns to Kentucky
*1782 SUMMER - many Indian skirmishes; Boone with party in July to pursue Indians that killed Nathaniel Hart.
*1782AUG18(19) Battle of Blue Licks; Israel Boone killed; also, Maj. Edward Bulger killed.
*1782 NOV - Daniel leading men of Fayette on Shawnee Indian campaign, burning six villages, and British trading store at head of Great Miami River, and destroying 10,000 bushels of corn, but only 20 warriors killed.
*1782 Nov 3 - preliminary articles of peace signed between the United States and Great Britain
*1782 DEC - Daniel sworn in as deputy surveyor of Fayette County
*1782 FALL - Daniel, William Hays and Flanders Calloway spent several days examining land along the Ohio River at the mouth of Limestone Creek (later Maysville)
1783 Daniel Boone made about 40 surveys this year
1783-1786 Daniel Boone made nearly 150 surveys for new settlers.
*1783 March(?) - Daniel learns that he has lost his claim to his station land to James Hickman (on Boone's Creek)
1783 (John) May, Bannister and Company purchased "tomahawk mark", or boundary of Daniel Boone, and took out a patent for this land.
1783 Squire Boone deposes that an entry of Larne (Larue?) was "by my direction and adjoining the same" (referring to the Bulger Grove tract he passed through in 1780)
1782 AUG 7th - date on OK 1057_1, the VA Treasury Warrant, No 13736, for survey of 3,835 acres for Meredith Helm
1783 FEB 2nd - date on OK 1057_2, the reverse side of VA Treasury Warrant No. 13736, signed Isaac Larue
1784 DEC 9th - date on OK 1057_3, 1,000 of 3,835 acres Survey for Isaac Larue, signed John Hundley and William May
1784 DEC 9th - Survey for Isaac Larue, 3,385 acres,
1784 Richard Stith (born 1727) and Lucy Hall Stith (born 1736) settled in Stith Valley.
1792 - final major skirmish between Hardin County white settlers and Indians. source
1793 John May purchased Bulger's claim, received a patent for the "Bulger Grove tract".
1797 an entry by Squire Boone adjoined an entry made by Edward Bulger.
NOTE: (*) asterisks before year sourced at Archaeological Investigations at Daniel Boone's Station, Fayette County, Kentucky, Uploaded by Nancy O'Malley