Boone, Daniel. Autograph document signed, "June the 12th 1787"....

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Boone, Daniel. Autograph document signed, "June the 12th 1787". Autograph document signed ("Daniel Boone"), 1 page (8 x 6 in.; 203 x 152 mm.), with irregular margins), no place, "June the 12th 1787". The document is Boone's handwritten survey for 1092 1/2 acres owned by Henry Burds, situated in Madison County, Kentucky, signed by Boone as Deputy Surveyor. The document includes Boone's plat drawing of the bounds of Burds' acreage in the upper left corner. Small dampstain at upper right edge. Daniel Boone handwritten survey for a Kentucky property, including a plat drawing of the bounds of the acreage. The document states in part; misspellings uncorrected: Survaid for Henry Burds 1092 1/2 acres of Land By virtue of a tresury Warrant No 11924 Duly Enterd Janury the 16th 1784 - Situate Lying and Being in the County of Madison on the Cantucke about 15 or 16 Miles Below Danelsons Line at a Lick in the North Bank of the River...Daniel Boone D.S. At the lower left, Boone has entered the names of the survey's chainmen (John Jones & Daniel M. Boone) and marker (Jesse B. Boone). American pioneer, hunter, and frontiersman, Daniel Boone was influential in extending the new nation beyond the Allegheny Mountains. Boone explored the Kentucky wilderness with his brother for two years (1767-69) and later brought his family there to settle in 1775. He extended the Wilderness Road over the Cumberland Gap through the Allegheny Mountains and built three settlements there, one of which was named "Boonesborough" (later "Boonesboro"). Boone was kidnapped by the Shawnees in 1778, though he escaped and warned Boonesborough of an impending attack.