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Daniel Boone

A tablet on a Boone Trail Highway monument at the site of Hillsborough’s Old State House says a party under Richard Henderson set out from there for Kentucky on March 17, 1776, led by Daniel Boone. The AmRevNC tour of Hillsborough says Boone was not with them. His documented tie to the town runs through James Hogg of Hillsborough, a member of the Transylvania Company that sponsored his journeys into Kentucky.

Source: American Revolution Tour of N.C. (AmRevNC): Hillsborough

1734–1820 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Daniel Boone, 1820
Daniel Boone, 1820

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  1. Hillsborough dedicates a tablet crediting Daniel Boone with an expedition from the Old State House During a day of patriotic meetings and a war bond drive, Hillsborough dedicated a steel tablet at the site of the Old State House stating that frontiersmen under Richard Henderson, led by Daniel Boone, set out from there for Kentucky on March 17, 1776. A Trading Path tablet was added to the monument on July 4, 1931. The inscription is disputed: the American Revolution tour AmRevNC says Boone was not with the party that left the courthouse that day. People: Richard Henderson, Frank Nash Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina: Old State House, Indian Trading Path and Boone Trail Highway Marker (#5), Hillsborough

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The creative forces in westward expansion

Henderson, Archibald · 1914

Westward expansion in the colonial period as Archibald Henderson treated it in 1914, with Daniel Boone and Richard Henderson at the center of the account. Topics include North Carolina and United States history from about 1600 to 1775, and the piece is filed with North Caroliniana and the Old State Library Collection. Henderson wrote from the university at Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820.

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Picture: Daniel Boone, 1820. Public domain. Photograph by Chester Harding; www.masshist.org; via Wikimedia Commons

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