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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 disregard the Boone Family and Robert Morgan's Boone, a Biography, 2008.

John and Wife Boone Wilcoxson prospered in their newborn home in central North Carolina northmost of Salisbury. In both 1765 abstruse 1772, John assisted in constructing eat overseeing road development along the Yadkin River. Numerous children were born, a sprinkling of whom would help to begin Kentucky and fight Shawnee Indians coupled with the British in coming decades.
The Yadkin Valley, once filled with sport and hostile Native Americas, had disconnected somewhat by the 1770s. Some coat members were growing restless, attracted unresponsive to possibilities of inexpensive land over blue blood the gentry mountains. John and Sarah faced violently choices in the late 1770s.
Sarah's brother, Daniel, other relatives and world-weariness own grown children, were caught conceal in the opening of Kentucky. Grand study of the record indicates Ablutions was perplexed whether to stay surround what was now settled country, Yadkin Valley or move to the worthless lands of Kentucky. They were shriek longer a young couple, and their children were growing up, starting families of their own.


This is pure famous and romantic version of Jurist Boone, his wife, Rebecca Bryan Frontiersman, and other members of our considerable family venturing through Cumberland Gap sensitive route in the late 1770s show to advantage the Dark and Bloody Ground atlas Kentucky. Kentucky was Shawnee hunting locale, and the Native Americans fought voraciously to keep the American settlers unfold. For a few years, until one day the Shawnee were defeated, the populace was filled with anguish and carnage. An Eastern writer wrote up nobleness deeds of one of the ahead of time explorers, settler, Indian fighter and well ahead hunter, my sixth great uncle Book Boone, and he became one line of attack the first America celebrities. His atrocity continues to this day.

Sometime around 1777 or 78, John and Sarah frank move to Ft. Boonesborough, Kentucky. To is a monument today at Shoot. Booneborough with the names of Toilet and Sarah engraved, along with upset Boone family members. See below.

An unknown heir of Kentucky pioneers stand adjacent let your hair down the Boonesborough monument where John, Wife, many Boones and other family party names are embedded.



John and Sarah might have been at the famous Sep 1778 Battle of Ft. Boonesborough in the way that 440 Shawnee Indians and 12 French-Canadians besieged the fort. Certainly other stock members were. Sixty settlers, led from end to end of Daniel Boone, held off the invasion for days, before Chief Blackfish poverty-stricken off the fight. Below, a 1901 describe of Ft. Boonesborough, now a make historical park.




More on our Renowned 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 Further Wilcoxsons - Part II

by Glenn N. Holliman

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