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For this purpose a petition was drawn up, and carried over by Joseph Boone to England. Several merchants in London, after Boone's arrival, being convinced of the illegal means by which those grievous acts were brought to pass, and of their pernicious consequence to trade, joined the petitioners.
Daniel Boone's own account of this period of his life, contained in his autobiography, is highly characteristic. It is as follows: "Thus situated, many hundred miles from our families in the howling wilderness, I believe few would have equally enjoyed the happiness we experienced. I often observed to my brother, 'You see now how little nature requires to be satisfied.
But he turned away without speaking and hurried along the edge of the gorge, evidently searching for a place to go down. General Lodge ordered the troopers to follow King and if possible recover Neale's body. "That lad had a future," said old Henney, sadly. "We'll miss him." Boone's face expressed sickness and horror. Baxter choked. "Too bad!" he murmured, "but what's to be done?"
This, doubtless, prevented them from overtaking the enemy that day; and the night succeeding, not having found quarters as comfortable as Boone's, they had been thoroughly soaked with rain.
Two of the savages stood before them with their tomahawks, while the rest were singing and dancing around them. At length the tomahawks were lifted to strike them; at that instant the crack of rifles was heard, and the two Indians fell dead. Another and another report was heard: others fell, and the rest fled in dismay. Boone's companions had saved them.
In 1773, Boone himself started to lead a band of settlers over the mountains, but while passing through the frowning defiles of the Cumberland Gap, they were attacked by Indians and driven back, two of Boone's sons being among the slain.
Kentucky during its first decade did not have much more than one per cent of its population in its capital city. Kentucky grew as rapidly as Colorado grew, a hundred years later; but Denver grew thirty or forty times as fast as Lexington had ever grown. Restlessness of the Frontiersman. Boone's Wanderings.
Perplexed as well as disheartened, the great scout departed from the settlement which in a large measure was his own work. He was homeless in a land in which he had helped so many to secure homes for themselves. Deep as was Boone's sorrow, he was, as we know, a man whose feeling did not find expression in useless words.
Major Nathan Boone, the youngest child, resided for many years in Missouri, and received a commission in the United States Dragoons. He was still living at a recent date. Daniel Boone's daughters, Jemima, Susannah, Rebecca, and Lavinia, were all married, lived and died in Kentucky.
She caught Boone's almost whispered words: "I tell you, Jones, you shall be brought about, but you know the danger of seeing any Acredale people. My daughter knows you knows the Perleys. I should think that would be reason enough why you should not be seen by her." "Oh, I don't mind; the sight of a pretty girl is the best medicine I know of. I'd risk all Acredale for that."
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