He explored the territory that today is Kentucky, blazed a way from North Carolina
and Tennessee, through the Cumberland Pass into Kentucky, where he founded the village of Boonsborough, one of the first colonial settlements west of the Appalachians.
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Daniel Boone decided to explore Kentucky because he had heard of the fertile land and the large amounts of game. In 1769, Boone began a two-year hunting expedition in Kentucky.
Daniel Boone's Full Name Is Daniel James Boone
Here are ten of the children' of Daniel and Rebecca (Bryan) Boone James Boone - 1757 Israel Boone - 1759 Susanna Boone - 1760 Jemima Boone - 1762 Levina Boone - 1756 Rebecca Boone - 1768 Daniel Morgan Boone - 1769 Jesse Bryan - 1773 William Boone - 1775 Nathan Boone - 1780 Here are ten of the children' of Daniel and Rebecca (Bryan) Boone James Boone - 1757 Israel Boone - 1759 Susanna Boone - 1760 Jemima Boone - 1762 Levina Boone - 1756 Rebecca Boone - 1768 Daniel Morgan Boone - 1769 Jesse Bryan - 1773 William Boone - 1775 Nathan Boone - 1780 Here are ten of the children' of Daniel and Rebecca (Bryan) Boone James Boone - 1757 Israel Boone - 1759 Susanna Boone - 1760 Jemima Boone - 1762 Levina Boone - 1756 Rebecca Boone - 1768 Daniel Morgan Boone - 1769 Jesse Bryan - 1773 William Boone - 1775 Nathan Boone - 1780
In North Carolina (He soon moved there as a child)
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