rebecca boone and kentucky frontier women

Rebecca Booneand Kentucky Frontier WomenA talk given at theBluegrass Heritage Museumin Winchester, Kentucky on May 13, 2010by : 

Rebecca Booneand Kentucky Frontier WomenA talk given at theBluegrass Heritage Museumin Winchester, Kentucky on May 13, 2010by Randolph Hollingsworth, Ph.D.University of Kentucky This work is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

Rebecca Bryan Boone – what do we know? : 

Rebecca Bryan Boone – what do we know? Born in Virginia, January 9, 1738 Moved to North Carolina at 10 years old Married Daniel on August 14, 1756 Moved and set up house again at least 15 times Marriage lasted 56 years and she had 10 children: 1757 James 1768 Rebecca 1759 Israel 1769 Daniel Morgan 1760 Susannah 1773 Jesse 1762 Jemima 1775 William 1766 Levina 1781 Nathan Died March 18, 1813, in Missouri at age 75

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1830s Image of Rebecca Bryan Boone

Women’s Names in Fayette Co. VA Personal Tax Lists 1787-1791 : 

Women’s Names in Fayette Co. VA Personal Tax Lists 1787-1791 31 women’s names in the six lists of recorded taxpayers 7 are slaveowners – averaging 3-4 slaves per household – which puts them into a more wealthy rank than the majority of Kentucky population 4 women paid taxes on their indentured servants (whose first names are recorded) The ethnicity of these women is not recorded