He Owned Slaves

Slaves played a significant role in Boone's life. He placed a high value on them since, on numerous occasions, slaves had saved him from trouble, most notably when Native Americans besieged Boonesborough. Boone was originally financially successful in Limestone, where he owned seven slaves—a sizable number for Kentucky at the time. In 1786, he paid "Ninety pounds Current Lawfull (sic) money" to buy an enslaved woman from Pennsylvania who was around 20 years old. He was a leader who held office as the county coroner, sheriff, and colonel of the militia. From Bourbon County this time, he was elected to the Virginia state assembly once more in 1787. After participating in land speculation, purchasing and selling claims to tens of thousands of acres, he started to have financial difficulties.

Due to the erratic nature of land speculation in frontier Kentucky and Boone's poor commercial judgment, these endeavors ultimately failed. Boone relocated upriver to Point Pleasant, Virginia in 1789 because he was fed up with the legal complications that came along with land speculation (now West Virginia). He had a trading post there and on occasion assisted a surveyor in his work. Boone was appointed lieutenant colonel of the county militia in the same year that Virginia established Kanawha County. He was chosen to serve in the Virginia legislature for the third time in 1791. He agreed to supply the Kanawha militia, but his debts prohibited him from doing so. As a result, he shattered his store and went back to hunting and trapping, but his rheumatism frequently hindered him. That's all about the seventh fact about Daniel Boone.