Capture and rescue of Jemima Boone - Wikipedia
WEBThe capture and rescue of Jemima Boone and the Callaway girls is a famous incident in the colonial history of Kentucky. Three girls were captured by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party on July 14, 1776, and rescued three days later by Daniel Boone and his party, celebrated for their success.
Daniel Boone - Children, Wife & Death - Biography
WEBApr 3, 2014 · In July 1776, the tribes kidnapped Boone's daughter Jemima. Eventually, he was able to release his daughter. The next year, Boone was shot in the ankle during an Indian attack, but he soon...
Kentucky in the Eyes of Women: Jemima Boone
WEBMar 9, 2021 · In 1778, two years after her captivity and around the time of her marriage, Jemima participated in protecting Boonesborough from attack. Now sixteen, Jemima joined other women in the forth by donning men’s hats and clothing to help make the fort appear as if it was more protected than it actually was against Native raiders.
Jemima Callaway (Boone) (1762 - 1834) - Genealogy - Geni.com
WEBDec 23, 2023 · Biography. Jemima Boone was the daughter of Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan Boone. She was the wife of Flanders Callaway. Jemima and two Callaway girls were kidnapped by the Shawnee.
The Boone Family, the Struggle for Kentucky, and the Kidnapping …
WEBOct 7, 2021 · Jemima strolled the banks of the Kentucky River with two friends downhill from the hardscrabble settlement where they had moved with their families. That year-old settlement was Fort Boone—or Boonesboro, as it was increasingly called—named for Jemima’s father, Daniel, but gesturing at her whole family’s contributions.
Jemima Boone (1762–1834) • FamilySearch
WEBWhen Jemima Boone was born on 4 October 1762, in Yadkin, Rowan, North Carolina, British Colonial America, her father, Daniel Boone, was 27 and her mother, Rebecca Ann Bryan, was 23. She married Flanders Isham Callaway in August 1777, in Boonesborough, Madison, Kentucky, United States.
Jemima Boone Callaway (1762-1834) - Find a Grave Memorial
WEBShe was the wife of Flanders Callaway. Jemima and two Callaway girls were kidnapped by the Shawnee. The story of their kidnapping and rescue by Daniel Boone and some of the other men from the settlement, inspired the Story " The Last of The Mohicans".
Frontier Kidnapping - Fort Boonesborough Foundation
WEBJemima. Jemima was born in North Carolina in 1762 and moved to Boonesborough with her mother and five brothers and two sisters in September, 1775. She was about 14 years old in 1776 when she was captured on the Kentucky River with the Callaway sisters Betsy (Elizabeth) and Fanny (Frances).
July 17, 1776: Capture of Jemima Boone — Nations & Cannons
WEBOn July 14, 1776, a raiding party caught three teenage girls from Boonesborough as they were floating in a canoe on the Kentucky River. They were Jemima, daughter of Daniel Boone, and Elizabeth and Frances, daughters of Colonel Richard Callaway.
The Abduction of Jemima Boone - NCpedia
WEBDaniel Boone was a well-known American frontiersman who was important to early colonization and settlement efforts in modern-day Kentucky. Jemima Boone spent the first 11 years of her life in the Yadkin Valley. Daniel brought Jemima and her mother to Kentucky from North Carolina in September 1773.
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