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Rebecca Booneand Kentucky Frontier Women
Bluegrass Heritage MuseumMay 13, 2010
Randolph Hollingsworth, Ph.D.University of Kentucky
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Rebecca Bryan Boone – what do we know?
• Born in Virginia, January 9, 1738• Moved to North Carolina at 10 years old• Met Daniel in 1753 and married August 14, 1756• Moves and sets up house again at least 15 times• Marriage lasted 56 years and she had 10 children:
1757 James 1768 Rebecca1759 Israel 1769 Daniel Morgan 1760 Susannah 1773 Jesse1762 Jemima 1775 William1766 Levina 1781 Nathan
• Died March 18, 1813, in Missouri at age 75
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1830s Image of Rebecca Bryan Boone
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A Slave AuctionIllustration by Edmund Ollier (1826–1886)
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“Boone’s Fort”from a drawing by Colonel Richard Henderson
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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
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Kentucky Wealth in 1790s
Size of Land Owned
Slaveholder Families
Non-Slaveholder Families
10,000 acres 87 20
1,000 acres 507 270
100 acres 5,107 7,450
1 acre 5,717 9,450
Source: Lee Soltow, “Kentucky Wealth at the End of the Eighteenth Century,”Journal of Economic History 43 (Sept. 1983): 617-33.
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Evidence of Women’s Work Constant’s Station 1785
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George Caleb Bingham, 1852
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Bryan Station Memorial, KY DAR, 1896
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Bodmer and Millet, Abduction, 1852
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George Fasel, Daniel rescues Jemima, 1851
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Eighteenth century tea party –in the Lexington Fort?
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Early 1800s fashion
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Cane Ridge revival, 1801
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Shakers
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Some Domestic Manufactures
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Slater Mill, Rhode Island, 1793
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Mill Worker Drawing In Warp Threads
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