Frances Holder

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A018366

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_and_rescue_of_Jemima_Boone

After the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775, violence increased between American Indians and settlers in Kentucky. American Indians, particularly Shawnee from north of the Ohio River, raided the Kentucky settlements, hoping to drive away the immigrants, whom they regarded as trespassers. The Cherokee, led by Dragging Canoe, frequently attacked isolated settlers and hunters, convincing many to abandon Kentucky. This was part of a 20-year Cherokee resistance to pioneer settlement. By the late spring of 1776, fewer than 200 Americans remained in Kentucky, primarily at the fortified settlements of Boonesborough, Harrodsburg, and Logan's Station in the southeastern part of the state.

On July 14, 1776, a raiding party captured three teenage girls from Boonesborough as they were floating in a canoe on the Kentucky River. They were Jemima, daughter of Daniel Boone, and Elizabeth and Frances, daughters of Colonel Richard Callaway. The Cherokee Hanging Maw led the raiders, two Cherokee and three Shawnee warriors. The girls' settlement raised alarm, and Boone organized a rescue party. Meanwhile the captors hurried the girls north toward the Shawnee towns across the Ohio River. The girls attempted to mark their trail until threatened by the Indians.

The third morning, as the Indians were building a fire for breakfast, the rescuers came up. As one Indian was shot, Jemima said, "That's Father's gun!"[2] He was not immediately killed. Two of the wounded Native American men later died. The Indians retreated, leaving the girls to be taken home by the settlers.

One of the Three woman kidnapped by Indians from the Boonsboro, Ky. settlement. The other two were her sister Elizabeth and Jemima Boon.(daughter of the explorer Daniel Boon, who was an employee of Richard Henderson. The settlement was part of an attempt of Henderson to buy vast tracts of land in Tn. and Ky. This scheme was called the Louise Co, later Transylvania Colony. which eventually fell apart as it was rejected by the Virginia govt. as being illegal to purchase land from the Indians. (Richard Henderson and company paid the Cherokees 10,000 pounds for 20,000,000 acres of land .

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