In Search of The Real Daniel Boone A Frontiersman America Could Not Forget

In fact, what I found, as valuable background is that Col Abraham Lincoln, was born and grew up in the same Quaker community at Burke County, PA as did Daniel Boone and his family in the early years till the age of 16.

In fact, Col Abraham Lincoln learnd the trade of animal skin tanning from Daniel Boone's Uncle John, The same man who taught Daniel about such skills that forged his livelyhood as a frontiersman guide for piorneers , and as a hunter in the western frontier beyond the Appalachian in Kentucky and Ohio.

When Daniel was 16, his father moved the family to North Carolina, among the Quaker community in the Yadkin River Valley in the western part of the state. Apparently, President Abraham Lincoln's mother, came from the same N.C. Quaker commuity.

Daniel Boone lived to his 80s's. Boone contemporary George Washington died in 1799.

In that time frame, Nancy Hanks, mother of President Lincoln was just 10 years old. At this time, that Nancy Hanks became an orphan and moved to Virginia to live with her married aunt's family, Mrs. Richard Berry. Mrs. Berry's maiden name was Shipley, same as Nancy Hanks' mother, Nancy Shipley Berry., Mr. and Mrs. Richard Berry lived in a village called Beachland, Ky, near Springfield, in Washington County, Ky.

So this is the background that is helpful to understand the role of real Daniel Boone, the legendary frontierman who loved the American wilderness. And he loved nature from a spiritual side inherited partly from his family and community background. . Boone was not a highly educated person, but a man guided by the natural world of the wilderness and his own heritage rooted in the Quaker community of Burke County, PA.

To Daniel's mother, Sarah, he owed his religious nature. The religious conviction which served the pioneer all his life is poignantly and simply expressed in a letter to his sister-in-law written in his seventy-second year. ***

"I am as ignerant as a Child all the Religan I have to Love and fear God believe in Jesus Christ Dowall the good to my Neighbors and my Self that I can and Do as Little harm as I can help and trust in God's mercy for Rest."