Historical Sketches of Kentucky: Embracing Its History, Antiquities, And Natural Curiosities, Geographical, Statistical, And Geological Descriptions;
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Leaving his family on Clinch river, he set out upon this kasardons undertaking at the head of a few men, in the early part of tne year 1775y and arriTod, without any adventure worthy of note, on the 23nd of Marehf in the same year, at a point within fifteen miles of the spot where Boonesborough was afterwards built. Here they were attacked by Indians, and it was not untii after a severe contest, and loss on the part of the whites of four men in killed and wounded, that they were repulsed. The a...ttack was renewed the next day, and the whites sustained a loss of five more of their companions. On the first of April, they reached the southern bank of the Kentucky river, and began to build a fort, afterwards known as Boonesborough. On the 4th, they were again at- tacked by the Indians, and lost another man ; but, notwithstanding the dangers to which they were continually exposed, the work was prosecuted with indefaU igable diMgence, and on the 14th of the month finally completed. Boone instantly leturned to Clinch river for his family, determined to remove them to this new and remote settlement at all hazards.
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