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Subject: Boone.Squire.1737.Shelby.BIOS


Squire Boone 1737 - unknown
Shelby County KyArchives Biography

Author: The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky, J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878
Squire Boone was born in 1737, in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and was a brother
of Daniel Boone, the celebrated pioneer. He visited Kentucky as early as 1769,
but did not finally settle in the State with his family until the Spring of
1775, reaching Boonesborough about April 1, where he made his home for several
years. In 1779, he settled in Shelby County, on Clear Creek, and erected what
was known as Squire Boone's Station. He was a member of the Transylvania
Convention; was also a delegate, in behalf of the Colony, to the Virginia
Legislature, and in that body met with great success in furthering the
desires of the new settlement. He laid claim to a considerable tract of
land in Shelby County, which was wrested from him in the great contest for
disputed titles, and for a time took up his residence in Louisville. About
1806, he removed to the Territory of Indiana, and settled in what is now
Boone Township, twenty-five miles from Louisville, and in that settlement
he died, in 1815. He left a large family of children.



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