In 1780 Squire Boone was killed and Daniel had a narrow escape from capture.
In 1782 Boone was commissioned a lieutenant colonel. One of his sons was killed and the other wounded.
Kentucky was admitted as a State February 4, 1791. Boone’s restless spirit then moved him westward and in 1795 he settled in Missouri. He died September 26, 1820, and his body was buried beside his wife, who had died seven years before.
In 1845 Boone’s remains were re-interred near Frankfort, Ky.
General Sir Guy Carleton Puts End to
Indian War October 23, 1782
After the murder of Colonel William Crawford, which occurred June, 1782, about five miles west of Upper Sandusky, the Scots and other frontiersmen were saddened but far from being discouraged.
The fugitives of the ill-fated expedition to the Sandusky had hardly returned to their homes along the western frontier of Pennsylvania when they began preparations for another expedition.
The borderers possessed a fierce determination to crush out the “red vipers” and one more trip into the Indian country soon as harvest was gathered was but an incident in their exciting life.