The eldest, James, was killed by the Indians in 1773, and his son Israel was killed at the battle of Blue Licks, August 19th, 1782.

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Bogant gives 11th of February, 1735. Peck, February, 1735. Another account gives 1746 as the year of his birth, and Bucks County as his birth-place. The family record, in the hand writing of Daniel Boone's uncle, James, who was a school master, gives the 14th of July, 1732.

[4]

"Adventures of Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Rifleman." By the author of "Uncle Philip's Conversations."

[5]

"Life of Daniel Boone" By John M. Peck.