Children of the American Revolution

State Theme: Galloping Through History with PA C.A.R.

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December 2008

State President: Hannah Edmiston, 2009-2010

State Theme: Galloping Through History with PA C.A.R.

State Project: To raise funds in the amount of $1,500.00 for the production of a book about the life of Daniel Boone as a child.

Daniel Boone was born November 2, 1734. He was an American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States .

2009 will be the 275 th anniversary of Daniel Boone's birth. To celebrate this anniversary we will be working with the Daniel Boone Homestead to write a childrens book on the childhood of Daniel Boone told by Daniel Boone to his son Nathan during their visit to the Homestead in the Oley Valley of Berks County.

We will work with the Daniel Boone Homestead in Birdsboro, PA and Infinity Publishing, West Conshohocken, PA., to write the book. Illustrations will be pencils sketches converted from historic as well as modern reenacted photos taken at the homestead during summer workshop.

The book will be published and marketed by Infinity Publishing and copies will be provided to the Homestead. We will pay for the cost of publishing the book and providing the homestead with multiple copies up to $1,500 total cost. The Pennsylvania C.A.R. and the Daniel Boone Homestead will be the listed Authors of the book. Pennsylvania C.A.R. will get credit for all authorship and illustrations and will be recognized in all the books ever sold. The Homestead will be the author for the receipt of royalties on a monthly basis for all books sold.

Societies will have the opportunity to order books from the first printing at 50% to place in their local libraries.

Boone was a Militia officer during the American Revolutionary War (17751783), which in Kentucky was fought primarily between settlers and British -allied American Indians. Boone was captured by Shawnees in 1778 and adopted into the tribe, but he escaped and continued to help defend the Kentucky settlements. He was elected to the first of his three terms in the Virginia General Assembly during the war, and fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782, one of the last battles of the American Revolution.

He was the sixth of eleven children in a family of Quakers . His father, Squire Boone, Sr. (1696-1765), had immigrated to Pennsylvania from the small town of Bradninch , Devon , England in 1713. Squire, who worked primarily as a weaver and a blacksmith, married Sarah Morgan (1700-1777), whose family members were Quakers from Wales . In 1731, the Boones built a log cabin in the Oley Valley , now the Daniel Boone Homestead in Berks County, Pennsylvania , where Daniel was born.

Daniel Boone spent his early years on what was then the western edge of the Pennsylvania frontier. Boone received his first rifle at age 12 and picked up hunting skills from local whites and Indians, beginning his lifelong love of hunting.

Boone's presence in popular culture continued throughout the twentieth century. Daniel C. Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America, considered calling the group the Sons of Daniel Boone. The frontier hero was featured in films, radio programs, and comic strips.

In 1788 Daniel Boone returns to Pennsylvania to visit relatives and brings his family including is son Nathan who he toured around the homestead and the Oley Valley of Berks County

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