1748-49

Updated: May 6, 2025

An attempt made to have him entered in the Royal Navy, in 1746, was frustrated by the interposition of his mother. The winter of 1748-49 he passed at Mount Vernon, then the seat of his brother Lawrence, in the study of mathematics and the exercise of practical surveying.

- Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 : A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more : than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

This occurred apparently during the winter of 1748-49. Southward through the Shenandoah goes the Boone caravan. The women and children usually sit in the wagons. The men march ahead or alongside, keeping a keen eye open for Indian or other enemy in the wild, their rifles under arm or over the shoulder.

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground