Identifier: danielboone00gull (find matches)
Title: Daniel Boone
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Gulliver, Lucile, b. 1882
Subjects: Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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amily went west inOctober and once again passed through Cumber-land Gap. He led a large band of Rowan Countysettlers and carried the first artillery sent by Vir-ginia to Kentucky — two small cannon. Theyarrived in time for the exceptionally cold winterof 1779-80 which seems to have prevailed through-out the East also, as the troops in the Americancamp at Morristown suffered as severely as theyhad on the frozen hillsides of Valley Forge in thatterrible winter of two years before. Boone learnedthat the Indians had destroyed the corn crop inKentucky during the preceding summer, and heand Harrod devoted themselves to bringing inmeat for the new colonists until spring. When Transylvania had passed into history andthe ancient Cherokee hunting-ground had becomeVirginias most western county, land-titles whichHenderson had given were void, and claimantswere obliged to purchase new warrants from Vir-ginia. Up to this time neither Boone nor manyof his friends had registered their claims. So in
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PUBLIC SERVANT AND INDIAN FIGHTER 193 the spring it was agreed that Boone should go toRichmond and act as agent in the matter forThomas and Nathaniel Hart and a few others, aswell as for himself. They gave him money for thetransactions which, added to his own hard-wonsavings, amounted to §20,000 in paper money andabout $10,000 in silver — a large sum for one manto have in his possession in those days. HowBoone carried his treasure, or whether or not hewent East alone with it through the forest, we donot know. History only says that somehow,somewhere, on the way to Richmond, he wasrobbed of all this money. Of course, certain onesat once accused him of dishonesty, but his friends,the Harts, who had suffered the greatest loss bythe theft, announced pubHcly that they believedhim to be above suspicion. Thomas Hart wroteto his brother Nathaniel in August, following themisfortune, that, while he felt sorry for the poorpeople who might have lost not only their moneybut their rights to thei

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