[Dreaminghawk]

Since so many of our mixed ancestors spent time in Kentucky before dispersing to other locations, I thought some insight into why and how they went to Kentucky would be enlightening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henderson_%28jurist%29

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Richard_Henderson.aspx

http://www.geni.com/people/Richard-Henderson/325858598080004826

http://dgmweb.net/Resources/Bios/Bio-HendersonRichard-1735-1785.html

Many people do not know that Daniel Boone received his instructions in old Granville Co,NC and was provisioned at a store on what is now Snow Hill Road in current Durham Co,NC. These provisions were provided by Duncan Cameron of Stagville plantation.

[techteach]

I don’t know if my KY ancestors came with Boone. Evidence shows that they were awarded KY land grants from fighting in the American Revolution, but I do not know when my ancestors moved to KY. However, one of my ancestors was involved with Boone in the last war of the American Revolution, the Battle at Blue Licks, Kentucky, a loss for the Americans. My ancestor, Captain John Gordon, lived in Henderson County and was killed in that battle, led on the opposite side by the British and Native Americans. The Native Americans included, ironically for me, some of the Shawnee, a tribe I belong to now, since DNA proved I am related to Blue Jacket, a Shawnee war chief. Ironically also, is that I joined the Daughters of the American Revolution through an ancestor who was a mixed-blood who joined an American Ranger group on the death of most of the members of the group at the hand of the same British Rangers who later attacked the settlers at Blue Licks.

The settlers were short-sighted in their decisions before that battle, not following Boone’s advice. He managed to escape but lost his son, Isacc, and his nephew, Thomas. Almost no one from Henderson County lived, including my 5th great-grandfather, Captain John Gordon.

A couple of years ago, my tribe did their Green Corn ceremony at Cumberland Gap National Park. My tribe also did a reenactment of the crossing of the Cumberland Gap by Boone on that day.

Techteach

[seeker]

I love history. Thanks for sharing.

Though my lines that went through KY came from VA, some did pick up wives there before moving to IN.

[Katfish]

Thanks for sharing this

I just started reading a book called “Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia”. Because of it, I’ve been studying up on the “gentry” early land speculators the “Treaty of hard labour” and other events leading up to the westward migrations of our mixed ancestors.

Seems as if some of our ancestors were given bounty grants to these Cherokee lands (and land in Ohio) at least as early 1750s for their militia service in the French and Indian war.

My Father always said we were “distant cousins” of Daniel Boone. He never could say how or through who. After a few months of working on his family tree I was starting to write this bit of folklore off as myth then I found Catherine Boone, my grandmother’s maternal great grandfather’s maternal grandfather’s mother. Catherine’s father Joseph is Daniel Boone’s uncle.

That oral history is some powerful stuff🙂

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