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287 Notes Abbreviations and Short Titles Bakeless John Bakeless, Daniel Boone (1939; rpt., Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1965) Cresswell Nicholas Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774–1777 (New York: Dial Press, 1924) CVSP William R. Palmer, ed., Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts, 11 vols. (1875–93; rpt., New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1960–69) DHDW Reuben Gold Thwaites and Louise Phelps Kellogg, Documentary History of Dunmore ’s War, 1774 (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1905) DM Draper Manuscript Collection, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison Dorman John Frederick Dorman, The Prestons of Smithfield and Greenfield in Virginia (Filson Club, 1982) Downes Randolph C. Downes, Council Fires on the Upper Ohio: A Narrative of Indian Affairs in the Upper Ohio Valley until 1795 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1940) Draper Lyman C. Draper, The Life of Daniel Boone, ed. Ted Franklin Belue (Mechanicsburg , Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1998) Drimmer Frederick Drimmer, ed., Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750–1870 (New York: Dover Publications, 1961) Faragher John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (New York: Henry Holt, 1992) FCHQ Filson Club Historical Quarterly FDUO Reuben Gold Thwaites and Louise Phelps Kellogg, Frontier Defense on the Upper Ohio, 1777–1778 (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1912) FHS Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Ky. Filson John Filson, The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke: and An Essay towards the Topography, and Natural History of that important Country: To which is added An Appendix Containing, I. The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon, one of the First Settlers, comprehending every important Occurrence in 288 Notes to Pages xiii–1 the political History of that Province (Wilmington, Del.: James Adams, 1784; facsimile reprint by Heritage Books, 2004) Flint, Boone Timothy Flint, The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone, The First Settler of Kentucky , Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country (New York: U. P. James, 1868). First pub. (1833) as Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky. Historical Bureau of the Census, Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States—Colonial Times to 1970 (Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce , 1975) Houston Peter Houston, A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone, ed. Ted Franklin Belue (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1997) JDS John Dabney Shane KHS Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort Lofaro Michael A. Lofaro, Daniel Boone: An American Life (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003) MFDB Neal O. Hammon, ed., My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999) Mereness Newton D. Mereness, ed., Travels in the American Colonies (1916; rpt., New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961) Morgan Robert Morgan, Boone: A Biography (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 2007) Peck John Mason Peck, Life of Daniel Boone, the Pioneer of Kentucky (1847; rpt., New York: University Society, Inc., 1905) Ranck George W. Ranck, Boonesborough: Its Founding, Pioneer Struggles, Indian Experiences , Transylvania Days, and Revolutionary Annals (Louisville, Ky.: Filson Club, 1901) RKHS Register of the Kentucky Historical Society RUO Reuben Gold Thwaites and Louise Phelps Kellogg, eds., The Revolution on the Upper Ohio, 1775–1777 (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1908) Trabue Chester Raymond Young, ed., Westward into Kentucky: The Narrative of Daniel Trabue (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981) Preface 1. Historical Statistics, pt. 1, 8; pt. 2, 1168. 2. Ibid., pt. 1, 28. 3. Ibid., pt. 1, 30. 4. Filson. 1. Old Boone 1. Bakeless, 360. 2. Chester Harding, My Egotistigraphy (Cambridge, Mass.: John Wilson Press, 1866), 35–36, qtd. in Lofaro, 174–75. Statistics 289 Notes to Pages 2–5 3. John C. Boone to Draper, Nov. 20, 1890, DM 16C132. 4. MFDB, 138. 5. “A Traveller,” in the New-York Statesman, copied in the Cincinnati National Republican, Aug. 19, 1823, DM 16C67. 6. Ralph Clayton to the St. Louis Christian Advocate, May 30, 1877, DM 7C43[1–3]. 7. Peck, 186–89. 8. Draper interview with Delinda Boone Craig, 1866, DM 30C79. 2. Quakers in Pennsylvania, Settlers in Backcountry North Carolina 1. Between 1661 and 1685 historians estimate that at least fifteen thousand Quakers were jailed in England for their religious beliefs, and over four hundred died because of those beliefs . David Hackett Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 598. 2. Fischer, Albion’s Seed, 459–62, 598. 3. Jean R. Soderlund, ed., William Penn and the...