Toward the close of the summer of 1765 a party consisting of Major John Field, William Hill, one Slaughter, and two others, all from Culpeper County, Virginia, visited Boone and induced him to accompany them on the “long Journey” to Florida, whither they were attracted by the liberal offer of Colonel James Grant, governor of ...
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