Boone: A Biography (83 page)

Harrod, John,
216
–17

Harrodsburg,
145
,
155
,
179
,
180
,
190
,
194
,
197
,
201
,
212
,
217
–18,
223
,
316

Committee of Safety,
215

defense of Boonesborough aided by men of,
254

defensive preparations in 1778,
252

Indian attacks on,
218
,
219
,
220
,
221

stockade,
217

Harrodsburg Revolt,
201

Hart, David,
207

Hart, Nathaniel,
87
,
92
,
94
,
154
,
175
,
207
,
212
,
251
,
292
–96,
384

Hart, Thomas,
87
,
92
,
94
,
196
,
292
–96,
368
,
384

Hays, Susannah Boone (daughter),
60
,
148
,
163
,
164
,
165
,
190
,
287
,
406

death of,
397

gossip about,
163

marriage of,
163

move to Missouri,
393
,
397

Hays, Wade (descendant),
425

Hays, William (son-in-law),
163
,
166
,
287
,
292
–93,
295
–96,
333
,
366
,
370
,
374

Missouri, move to,
393
,
394

murder of,
406
–7,
411

Hays, William, Jr.,
394
,
418
,
425

Hazel Patch,
166
,
173

Helvetius,
214

hemp,
369
,
390

Hempinstall, Abraham,
118
–19,
145

Hempstead, Edward,
417
,
423

Hempstead, Stephen,
76
,
417
,
419
,
420
,
432

Henderson, Archibald,
xxi
–xxii,
80
–81,
93
,
106
,
126
–27,
375

Henderson, Elizabeth Callaway

kidnapping of,
202
–13,
429

marriage of,
212

Henderson, Nathaniel,
153
–54,
194

Henderson, Pleasant,
162

Henderson, Judge Richard,
xxi
,
xxii
,
18
,
166
,
167
,
180
,
240
,
344

Boonesborough and,
171
–88,
191
–94

convention of 1775 of representatives of the Kentucky settlements,
179
–83,
261
,
405

DB’s expeditions financed by,
80
–81,
87
,
92
,
93
,
106

DB’s payment in land from,
162
,
185
,
191
–93,
196
,
202

DB’s role for the Louisa Company and,
156
–58

described,
92
,
174
,
178

judgeship,
94
,
127
,
132
,
153

land purchase declared invalid,
192
,
201
–2,
223

as land speculator,
91
–92,
94
,
135

purchasing of Kentucky lands from the Cherokees,
127
,
131
–32,
153
–57,
160
–62,
183
,
184
,
186
,
262

the Regulators and,
125
,
127
,
156

see also
Transylvania Company

Henderson, Samuel,
180
,
207
,
210

Henry, Patrick,
92
,
132
,
135
,
144
,
154
,
184
,
201
,
214
–15,
352

Hickman, James,
142
–43,
285
,
289
,
333
,
357
,
358
,
359

Hickman Creek,
130
,
143

Hickman v. Boofman,
287
,
357
–59

Hill, William,
85
,
86

Hinton, Evan,
145

History of Kentucky
(Marshall),
320

History of the Dividing Line, A
(Byrd),
30

Hite, Abraham, Jr.,
201

Hite, Isaac,
141
,
145
,
146
,
180
,
219

Hogg, James,
186
,
193
,
201

Holder, Captain,
307

Holder, James,
94
,
104
,
269

Hopetown, William,
438

Houston, Peter,
27

Howard, Benjamin,
68

Hoy’s Station,
307
,
311

Hudson River school of painters,
448

Hunters of Kentucky, The
(Belue),
168

Hurons,
41

Husband, Herman,
124

Imlay, Gilbert,
xviii
,
359
,
360
–61,
415
,
454
–55

indentured servants,
28

Indians,
see
Native Americans;
names of individuals; individual tribes

Indian Trails of the Southeast
(Myer),
95

Ingles, Mary,
190

Iroquois,
41
,
47
,
99
,
122
,
160
–61,
218
,
246
,
310

Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768,
88
,
135
,
157
,
172

Irving, Washington,
422

Isbell, Thomas,
67

“I Sing the Body Electric” (Whitman poem),
455
–56

Jackson, Joseph,
229
,
249
,
401
–2

Jefferson, Thomas,
184
,
186
,
343
,
409

John, John Ap,
5

Johnny, Captain (Shawnee chief),
363
,
364

Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman),
xiii
,
301

Johnson, Andrew,
241
–42,
250
–51,
277
,
280

Johnson, Betsy,
314

Johnson, Jemima Suggett,
312

Johnson, Richard M.,
314

Jones, Dr. John,
425
–26,
442
,
443

Jones, John Gabriel,
215

Jouett, John,
302

Judgment Tree (Justice Tree),
405

Kanawha River,
370

Kansa Indians,
410
–11

Kansas,
425

keelboats,
372
–73

Kennedy, Col. Thomas,
354
,
355

Kenton, Edna,
413

Kenton, Simon, xxvi,
138
,
200
,
219
–20,
251
,
254
,
276
,
278
,
288
,
296
,
310
,
334
,
354
,
355
,
365

visits DB in Missouri,
412
–13

Kentucky,
85

abundance of wildlife,
85
–86

Battle of the Blue Licks, significance of,
330
,
331

bluegrass of,
98
–99

British treaties with the Indians,
88
–89,
134
–35,
154

the caves of,
112
–13,
115

convention of 1775 of representatives of the settlements,
179
–83,
261
,
405

DB and Stoner’s mission to warn surveyors of Indian threat,
141
–47,
357
,
419

DB returns to, in 1779,
282
–85

DB returns to, in 1794 or 1795,
381
,
382
–87

DB’s 1769–71 expedition,
89
–123

DB’s first attempt to settle in,
132
–40

DB’s 1767–68 hunting trip,
85
–86

DB’s 1772 hunting trip to,
130

DB’s return to, after leaving in 1799,
420
–22,
430
–31

disputed land claims,
185
,
197
,
198
,
282
,
288
–89,
290
,
291
,
295
,
351
,
357
–59,
384
,
428

fertility of the soil,
99
–100,
198
–99

Freemasons, and American Revolution in,
214
–15

hemp as cash crop of,
369
,
390

Richard Henderson and,
see
Henderson, Judge Richard

horse breeding,
182
–83,
370

as Indian hunting ground,
47
,
103
,
151
,
162
,
171
,
310
,
429

origin of the name,
89
–91

“outlyers” in,
289

“pauper warrants,”
283

rapid transformation from frontier,
291
–92,
348
–49,
369
,
389
–90

settlements in,
see individual settlements
(
e.g
., Boonesborough; Logan’s Station)

significance of settlement of,
170
–71

speculation and surveying of lands of,
130
–32,
135
,
140
,
141
–47,
155
,
198

statehood,
291
,
346
,
376

Tories migrating to,
282
–83

treasury warrants for land in,
283
,
284
,
288
,
292
–93

Virginia legislature’s offer of cheap land in,
283

“Year of Blood” (1782),
305
–32

Kentucky Committee of Safety,
217

Kentucky Gazette
,
392

Kentucky militia,
332

Battle of the Blue Licks,
308
,
316
–31

offensive against Ohio Indians in 1786,
353
–56

siege of Bryan’s Station and,
314
–15

Kentucky River (Louisa River),
86
,
95
,
97
,
100
,
101
,
127
,
142
,
143
,
366
,
397

flooding of,
196
–97

Kincaid, Robert,
160

Kincheloe’s Station,
274
,
331

Knight, Dr.,
306
–7

Knob Licks,
120

Knox, James,
386

Kolodny, Annette,
49
,
50
,
51
,
67
,
187
–88,
379
–80,
447

Kouns, Rev. Nathan,
440

Krum, John M.,
395

Lafayette, Marquis de,
214
,
304

Land Before Her, The
(Kolodny),
49

La Salle, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de,
100

Last of the Mohicans, The
(Cooper),
447

Lawson, John,
30
,
244

Leaves of Grass
(Whitman),
109
,
452
–53,
456

Lee, Robert E.,
426

Lee, Willis,
145
–46,
200

Lewis, Col. Andrew,
141
,
150

Lewis, Meriwether,
399
,
410
,
415
,
419

Lexington, Kentucky,
311
,
314
,
316

Licking River, Battle of the Blue Licks and,
318
–20,
323
,
324
–25,
326

Life in the Woods
(Thoreau),
451

Life of Daniel Boone
(Peck),
xx
,
456

Life of Daniel Boone
(Draper) (unfinished biography),
xx
–xxi,
214

Belue’s annotated edition of,
xxiii

Life on the Mississippi
(Twain),
398

Lightfoot, Rachael,
368

Limestone Creek,
347
,
348
,
435

DB’s home and life at,
346
–51

DB’s move from,
368
–71,
374

DB’s move to,
333
–34,
358

DB’s tavern at,
see
Boone’s Tavern

Lincoln, Abraham (grandfather of the president),
9
,
30
,
284

daughter Mary,
9

Lincoln, Abraham (president),
172
,
452

Lincoln, Anne Boone,
9

Lincoln, John,
9
,
30

Lincoln, Nancy Hanks,
172

Lincoln, Sarah Boone,
8
–9

Lincoln family, intermarriage between Boones and,
8
–9

Linnville Creek, Virginia,
29
–30,
31

Little Big Horn,
382

Little Turtle,
365
,
381