 | 1786 - 838 pages
...C'etonel bimfclf. IT was on the firft of May, 1769, that I refigned my domcftic happinefs, and left Tny family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin River, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderncfs of America, in quell of the country of Kentucke, in company with John Finley, John Stuart,... | |
 | English literature - 1791 - 686 pages
...river. WritI» ty biafdf. TT was on the id of May 1769 that I rtfigned ray domeftic happinefs, and l:ft my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, to wander through the wildernefs of America, in qutft of the country of Kentacke, in company with John Finley, Jobn Stuart,... | |
 | John Filson - 1823 - 52 pages
...of May 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness, and left my family and peaceable habitation of the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, to wander through...with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Money, and William Cool. On the 7th of June, after travelling through a mountainous wilderness, in... | |
 | Amos Blanchard - Military biography - 1831 - 634 pages
...was on the first of May, 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness, and left my family and peaceful habitation on the Yadkin River, in North Carolina,...with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Money, and William Cool. On the seventh of June, after travelling through a mountainous wilderness,... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...from 1769 to 17B2. WBITTEN BY HIMSELF. IT was on the first of May, 1769, that I resigned my domestick happiness, and left my family and peaceable habitation...with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Monay,and William Cool. On the seventh of June, after travelling in a western direction, we found ourselves... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...ani peaceable habitation on the Yadkin river in Nort Carolina, to wander through the wilderness о America, in quest of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stuart, Josepl Holden, James Monay,and William Cool. On the seventh of June, after travelling in a west crn... | |
 | James Turner Morehead - Kentucky - 1841 - 200 pages
...journey. " It was on the 1st of May 1769," says Boone himself,t whose phraseology I prefer to adopt, " that I resigned my domestic happiness, and left my...wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucke, in company with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Mooney, and William Cool."... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...Ohio, from 1769 to 1762. WBITTEM BY IT was on the first ofcMay, 1769, that I resigned my domestick happiness, and left my family and peaceable habitation...with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Monay,and William Cool. On the seventh of June, after travelling in a western direction, we found ourselves... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - American literature - 1845 - 448 pages
..." It was on the first of May, 1769," that our hunter " resigned his domestic happiness for a time, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky." He assigns no motive for the pursuit. He urges no reason for this " resignation of domestic happiness."... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1847 - 464 pages
...life, " It was on the 1st of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the...of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky." Boone was not unfeeling or indifferent to the domestic relation. His affectionate wife, who was an... | |
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It was on the first of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin River, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of... 
