1734   Daniel Boone is born , November 2, in a log cabin in Berks County near the present day city of Reading, Pennsylvania.

1751  Parents move family of eleven children and settle in Rowan County, North Carolina, on the Yadkin River’ Boone is 17 years old and takes hunting up as his business.

1756  Boone marries Rebecca Bryan on August 14, and they make their home in Rowan County.

1757  Boone’s first son, James Boone is born May 3

1759  Israel Boone is born January 25.  Boone takes his famly and moves to Culpeper County, Virginia.

1760  Susanna Boone is born November 2;

1762  Jemima Boone is born October 4; Boone moves  his  family back to Rowan County.

1766  Levina Boone born March 23 and Boone moves his family near present day Wilkesboro, North Carolina.

1767  Goes to Kentucky for the first time

1768  Rebecca Boone born May 26

1769  Leaves for a long hunt in Kentucky on May 1; and is captured by the Shawnees on December 22.  Daniel Morgan Boone born December 23

1771   Boone comes home after two years in Kentucky

1773   Jesse Bryan born May 23; Boone leads party of family and friends to Kentucky.  They  soon turn back at the Cumberland Gap by an Indian attack that kills his oldest son, James, on October 9.

1774   Boone is sent by Virginia leaders to warn Kentucky surveyors of serious problems with the Shawnees

1775  Boone leads party that cuts the Wilderness Road to Kentucky in March; founds Boonesborough despite   Shawnee resistance; brings family to Kentucky in September

1776  Boone leads rescue of daughter Jemima and Callaway girls from Shawnees in July; copy of Declaration of Independence reaches Boonesborough in August.

1778  Boone and his men captured by Shawnees while making salt on February 8; he escapes in June; battle of Boonesborough, September 7-18; found innocent of charges of siding with British in October; connects up with Rebecca and children, who had gone to North Carolina.

1779  Boone leads a large party to Kentucky in September;

1780  Huge sum of money is stolen from Boone, which was given to him to buy land warrants in Virginia; Nathan Boone born March 3 joins in attack on Shawnee towns in Ohio; brother Edward is killed by Shawnees in October.

1781  Takes elected seat in Virginia assembly

1782   Boone is defeated by the Indians at Blue Licks and his son Israel is killed.

1783  Moves his family to Limestone, on the Ohio River.  For a short time Boone takes up tavern keeping, surveying, and land speculating.

1784  The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon by John Filson is published on Boone’s fiftieth birthday.

1785  Numerous lawsuits begin over land

1787  Takes another seat in Virginia assembly

1789  Boone moves Rebecca and youngest children from Limestone to Point Pleasant, farther up the Ohio River.

1791  Serves again in the Virginia assembly; wins contract to supply military companies in western Virginia.

1792  Disagreements over supply contracts lead Boone to abandon his business and move family to a cabin near Charleston, West Virginia.

1795  Boone moves family to a cabin on Brushy Fork in Kentucky.

1797  Governor of  Spanish owned Missouri invites Boone to move  make Missouri his new home

1798  Mason County issues warrant for Boone’s arrest for debt; Boone leaves Brushy Fork for a cabin at the mouth of Little Sandy River on the Ohio.

1799  Boone leads extended family from Kentucky to Femme Osage country in Missouri; Daughter Susanna dies of  fever.

1803  Boone nearly dies in a hunting accident.  Moves Rebecca to cabin on the farm of son Nathan; daughter Levina dies

1805  Sons open salt works in central Missouri; daughter Rebecca dies; Boone almost killed in fall through the ice on the Missouri River.

1806  Goes before the Federal Land Commisision, to get approval for confirmation of his Spanish land grant.

1809  Boone’s Spanish land grant is rejected; works on petitions to Congress

1813  Rebecca dies March 18

1814  Congress grants Boone a tract of Missouri land.

1815  Grandson James Callaway killed in Indian ambush; Boone goes to Kentucky to settle old debts.

1817  Boone falls sick during a long hunt

1820  Boone dies on September 26; He is buried near Rebecca in the cemetery near Jemima’s farm

1845  Daniel and Rebecca’s remains are brought to Frankfort, Kentucky where they are reburied.
 
 

For  Further Reading:

Bakeless, John E. Daniel Boone. Stackpole, 1965 First published as Master of the Wilderness; Daniel Boone in 1939

Faragher, John  Mack. Daniel Boone : The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer 1992 Henry Holt and Company, Inc.

Lofar, Michael A. The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone. Rev. ed. Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1986