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Title: Annals of the West : embracing a concise account of principal events which have occurred in the western states and territories, from the discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the year eighteen hundred and forty five
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Perkins, James H. (James Handasyd), 1810-1849 Albach, James R., 1797-1865
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Wars Mississippi River Valley -- History Ohio River Valley -- History Northwest, Old -- History
Publisher: Cincinnati : J.R. Albach : J.A. & U.P. James, printers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ugust 3, 1780. I observe what you say respecting our losses by Daniel Boone. (Boone had beenrobbed of funds in part belonging to T. and N. Hart.) I had heard of the misfortunesoon after it happened, but not of my being a partaker before now. I feel for the poorpeople who perhaps are to lose even their pre-emptions: but I must say, I feel more forBoone, whose character, I am told, suffers by it. Much degenerated must the peopleof this age be, when amongst them are to be found men to censure and blast the reputa-tion of a person so just and upright, and in whose breast is a seat of virtue too pure toadmit of a thought so base and dishonorable. I have known Boone in times of old, whenpoverty and distress had him fast by the hand : and in these wretched circumstances, Ihave ever found him of a noble and generous soul, despising every thing mean; andtherefore, I will freely grant him a discharge for whatever sums of mine he might havebeen possessed of at the time.—Morehead, 105 note. V o
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w 1775. Grant by Cherokees. 137 mining the bounds of the proposed purchase. This done, he setforth with a party, well armed and equipped, to mark out a roadfrom the settlement, through the wilderness, to the lands whichwere about to be colonized. Boone does not say when he started,but as he was within fifteen miles of Boonesboro on the 20th ofMarch, and the grant from the Cherokees is dated the 17th, hemust have left the Council before the final action of the Indianstook place; indeed, Henderson says (April 10th to 20th) thatBoone did not know of the purchase with certainty. By thataction the southern savages, in consideration of the sum of tenthousand pounds sterling, transferred to the Company two pro-vinces defined as follows: The first was defined as Beginning on the Ohio river, at themouth of the Cantuckey Chenoee, or what, by the English, is calledLouisa river; from thence running up the said river, and the mostnorthwardly fork of the same, to the head spring thereof; thence aso

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