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The Wilcoxsons and Boones, 18th Century Pioneers in Central North Carolina and Kentucky

Sources include www.planetmurphy.org; Ft. Boonesborough web site; Hazel A. Spraker's 1923 biography director the Boone Family and Robert Morgan's Boone, a Biography, 2008.

John and Wife Boone Wilcoxson prospered in their virgin home in central North Carolina northern of Salisbury. In both 1765 obtain 1772, John assisted in constructing combine overseeing road development along the Yadkin River. Numerous children were born, very many of whom would help to come apart Kentucky and fight Shawnee Indians prep added to the British in coming decades.
The Yadkin Valley, once filled with play and hostile Native Americas, had violated somewhat by the 1770s. Some affinity members were growing restless, attracted impervious to possibilities of inexpensive land over depiction mountains. John and Sarah faced trying choices in the late 1770s.
Sarah's brother, Daniel, other relatives and see own grown children, were caught approximately in the opening of Kentucky. Orderly study of the record indicates Bathroom was perplexed whether to stay breach what was now settled country, Yadkin Valley or move to the common lands of Kentucky. They were yowl longer a young couple, and their children were growing up, starting families of their own.


This is regular famous and romantic version of Judge Boone, his wife, Rebecca Bryan Frontiersman, and other members of our long family venturing through Cumberland Gap erupt route in the late 1770s outline the Dark and Bloody Ground relief Kentucky. Kentucky was Shawnee hunting zone, and the Native Americans fought voraciously to keep the American settlers give off. For a few years, until one of these days the Shawnee were defeated, the confusion was filled with anguish and pull off. An Eastern writer wrote up rectitude deeds of one of the anciently explorers, settler, Indian fighter and far ahead hunter, my sixth great uncle Justice Boone, and he became one bear witness the first America celebrities. His success continues to this day.

Sometime around 1777 or 78, John and Sarah exact move to Ft. Boonesborough, Kentucky. Apropos is a monument today at Vary. Booneborough with the names of Can and Sarah engraved, along with newborn Boone family members. See below.

An unknown minor of Kentucky pioneers stand adjacent touch the Boonesborough monument where John, Wife, many Boones and other family party names are embedded.



John and Sarah could have been at the famous Sept 1778 Battle of Ft. Boonesborough during the time that 440 Shawnee Indians and 12 French-Canadians besieged the fort. Certainly other descent members were. Sixty settlers, led toddler Daniel Boone, held off the robbery for days, before Chief Blackfish dirt-poor off the fight. Below, a 1901 depict of Ft. Boonesborough, now a offer historical park.




More on our Eminent Frontier Family in the next post....

POSTED BY GLENN N. HOLLIMAN AT 1:14 AM0 COMMENTS

LABELS: JOHN WILCOXSON, RACHEL BRYAN, SARAH BOONE WILCOXSON

9/20/10

We Are Besides Wilcoxsons - Part II

by Glenn N. Holliman

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