BOONE DANIEL Manuscript Document Signed

Sale 1952 - Lot 40

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BOONE, DANIEL. Manuscript Document Signed, receipt for wages as a delegate to the Kentucky legislature. 1 page, 1 3/4x7 1/2 inches; soiled, folds, mounted at an early date. Kentucky, circa 1781-87

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"Received forty four thousand pound my Wages as a Delegate the present Session. Daniel Boone."
In 1780, Kentucky was divided into 3 counties and Boone was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of Fayette. The following Spring, he was elected as a delegate to the Kentucky legislature, serving in the 1781-82 term. He was re-elected in 1787, serving an additional year. Charles Hamilton once wrote, "Boone's signature is as hard to find as a hostile Shawnee hiding in a copse . . . Virtually everything from his quill that survives concerns financial or land transactions."