Simon Kenton -
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Simon Kenton -
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http://www.wyandot.org/emigrant.htm
1755 - April 3; birth of Simon Kenton in Fauquier County, Virginia.
1771 - Believing he has killed a man, 16-year-old Simon Kenton flees west. Assuming the name Simon Butler, for over two years he hunts along the Ohio and the Great and Little Kanawha Rivers, often in danger from the Shawnee.
1774 - June 10; Lord Dunmore's War begins. The skirmishing provoked by colonials with the Shawnee and Mingos escalates into open warfare in western Pennsylvania, as Pennsylvania and Virginia try to assert conflicting claims on the western frontier. War parties kill several settlers on the Muskingum River in southern Ohio. George Rogers Clark, Simon Girty, and Simon Kenton serve together as scouts at Fort Pitt.
1775 - Twenty-year-old Simon Kenton moves from Limestone on the Ohio River to Boonesborough, where he is appointed scout by Daniel Boone.
1779 - Scouting for Boone, Simon Kenton is pursued to the Ohio and captured by the Shawnee. Forced to run the gauntlet eight times and twice threatened with burning, he is reprieved at the urging of Chief Logan and his former comrade Simon Girty. He is turned over to the British at Detroit.
1782 - June 5; the Wyandots defeat a large American force advancing on the villages on the Sandusky, and capture the commanding officer, Col. William Crawford. Simon Kenton, who advised against the expedition, is among the survivors.
1784 - Simon Kenton, now 30, discovers that the man he thought he had killed 14 years before is still alive. Resuming his own name, he again settles at Limestone, Kentucky (present Maysville) on the Ohio River.
1798 - Late in the year, having lost his lands in title disputes, Simon Kenton leaves Kentucky to settle in Ohio.
1820 - Simon Kenton moves to the vicinity of Zanesfield, Ohio.
1836 - April 29; Simon Kenton dies in poverty near Zanesfield, Ohio, at the age of 81.
http://www.wyandot.org/emigrant.htm
1755 - April 3; birth of Simon Kenton in Fauquier County, Virginia.
1771 - Believing he has killed a man, 16-year-old Simon Kenton flees west. Assuming the name Simon Butler, for over two years he hunts along the Ohio and the Great and Little Kanawha Rivers, often in danger from the Shawnee.
1774 - June 10; Lord Dunmore's War begins. The skirmishing provoked by colonials with the Shawnee and Mingos escalates into open warfare in western Pennsylvania, as Pennsylvania and Virginia try to assert conflicting claims on the western frontier. War parties kill several settlers on the Muskingum River in southern Ohio. George Rogers Clark, Simon Girty, and Simon Kenton serve together as scouts at Fort Pitt.
1775 - Twenty-year-old Simon Kenton moves from Limestone on the Ohio River to Boonesborough, where he is appointed scout by Daniel Boone.
1779 - Scouting for Boone, Simon Kenton is pursued to the Ohio and captured by the Shawnee. Forced to run the gauntlet eight times and twice threatened with burning, he is reprieved at the urging of Chief Logan and his former comrade Simon Girty. He is turned over to the British at Detroit.
1782 - June 5; the Wyandots defeat a large American force advancing on the villages on the Sandusky, and capture the commanding officer, Col. William Crawford. Simon Kenton, who advised against the expedition, is among the survivors.
1784 - Simon Kenton, now 30, discovers that the man he thought he had killed 14 years before is still alive. Resuming his own name, he again settles at Limestone, Kentucky (present Maysville) on the Ohio River.
1798 - Late in the year, having lost his lands in title disputes, Simon Kenton leaves Kentucky to settle in Ohio.
1820 - Simon Kenton moves to the vicinity of Zanesfield, Ohio.
1836 - April 29; Simon Kenton dies in poverty near Zanesfield, Ohio, at the age of 81.