USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Daniel Boone did not attend church again, although he always considered himself a Christian and had all of his children baptized. The Boones eventually settled on the Yadkin River, in what is now Davie County, North Carolina, about two miles (3 km) west of Mocksville.

Detailed explanation-2: -After Boone blazed the trail, which became known as the Wilderness Road, he helped establish one of Kentucky’s earliest settlements, Boonesborough, which became Transylvania’s capital.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fort Boonesborough was a frontier fort in Kentucky, founded by Daniel Boone and his men following their crossing of the Kentucky River on April 1, 1775. The settlement they founded, known as Boonesborough, Kentucky, is Kentucky’s second oldest European-American settlement.

Detailed explanation-4: -Boone was born on November 2, 1734, in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the sixth child of eleven born to immigrant Quaker parents, Squire and Sarah. He spent much of his childhood tending his family’s cattle and wandering the woods near his home.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1775 Boone blazed the 300-mile trail from Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky, at a time when few European settlers had ever crossed the Appalachian Mountains, and established a fort at the Kentucky River named Boonesborough, where he and his family settled.