Native Indians Kidnapped Boone’s Daughter

Native Americans who were dissatisfied with the treaty-related loss of Kentucky regarded the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) as an opportunity to expel the colonists. Attacks on isolated settlers and hunters increased, leading many to leave Kentucky. Less than 200 colonists were still in Kentucky by the end of the spring of 1776, mostly at the fortified settlements of Boonesborough, Harrodsburg, and Logan's Station. Boone and his family were among them.

A war band of Indians seized Jemima Boone and two other girls outside of Boonesborough on July 14, 1776, and took them north toward the Shawnee villages in the Ohio region. Two days later, Boone and a group of men from Boonesborough caught up with them after pursuing them. The girls were freed and their captors were chased away after Boone and his troops surprised the Indians. The episode became Boone's most well-known accomplishment. This episode was adapted by James Fenimore Cooper for his classic book The Last of the Mohicans (1826).