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Daniel Boone

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Fragment of a deposition, a legal instrument, in which Daniel Boone appears to testify he had been present at the land in question in 1778.

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[recto] Mail by your self or James Peake before you entered [illegible] Land for said Peak Answrd I know of No one_ Lewis Craig ask’d was you (Col Boon) here at any time before you Entered this Land for James Peak Answered I was; for I was here the 19nth Day of June 1778[?] Rosted som[e] Meat And Got Drink near the Mouth of the Three Bra[cut off] Sworn to as affd this third Day of July 1797 {Therefore to certify that we the commissions saw the advertisement as the Law Directs in 3 News Papers} [signed] David Morris John Porter Daniel Boone Marion County Sat Dec. 7 1797 This Deposition was returned and Ordered to be Recorded Teste Tho. Marshall Jnr[?] C.M.C.[?] [verso] We certify that George Stockton Jnr[?] + James Basley [illiegible] were Witnesses present when the above deposition was taken and the plan where the [?] above specified plan is as certified above [signed] David Morris John Porter Dan. Boon Dep Recorded folio 331 S + A 1797 Examined

Creation Date

12-7-1779

County

Mason County

State/Province

Kentucky

Country

United States

Creator Life Dates

1734-1820

Keywords

Mason County, Kentucky, Daniel Boone, David Morris, John Porter, Lewis Craig, Thomas Marshall, land, James Peak, George Hockton, James Bosley

Resource Identifier

080531-21

Date Digital

2-18-2014

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

History | Legal | United States History

Publisher

Wofford College

Format (medium)

manuscript

Format (IMT)

PDF

Language

En-us

Digitization Specifications

800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.

Source

The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Deposition regarding land, signed by Daniel Boone, David Morris, John Porter, Lewis Craig, Thomas Marshall. Mason County, Kentucky, 1797.

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