Boone
Meadow Creek Property
Booneville
Sentinel May 8, 1978
Moving out
of Boonesboro in 1780 Daniel Boone moved first to Boones Station, now Athens, a
few miles South East of Lexington. It
was while he was living there that Boone took part in the Battle of Blue Lick
where Israel was killed. From Athens he
moved to various locations, in Harrison and Nicholas Counties and in the late
1790’s to Mason County.
While
living around Maysville in the present Mason County, Boone came into possession
of a treasury warrant. Originally
purchased by John Yancy, the warrant called for 2000 thousand acres of land in
eastern Kentucky.
Treasury
warrants were sold by the state of Virginia to anyone who had the
finances. These warrants were issued
during the Revolutionary War and many of them were still floating around when
Kentucky became a state in 1791-1792. After obtaining statehood, Kentucky
continued to honor the warrants.
On
September 14, 1797, Boone along with his brother George Boone and son Nathan,
went to Meadow Creek, on the South Fork of the Kentucky River to locate and
survey his 1000 acre boundary of land, a description of which follows:
Description
Begin a
beech, maple and chestnut on a northern hillside at “A” about 200 poles below
where there has been a large Indian horse pen just above a large meadow on the
North side of the creek and about 100 poles North of the Creek. Thence South 300 poles cross the creek at
100 poles on to two white oaks at “B” on a steep hillside which is twenty poles
South of a small branch. Thence East
533 and one-third poles to a maple and beech at “C” Thence North 300 poles, crossing Meadow Creek to a barren
Huckleberry hill-side, “D”. Thence West 533 and one third poles to the
beginning.
George
Boone, Chain Carriers Daniel
Boone, D.S.M.C.
Nathan
Boone (deputy Surveyor Mason Co.)
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I think
everyone will recognize this tract as the same place where the Owsley
County Stockyards are today on Meadow
Creek. The Indian Horse Pens were some
place near the present site of the stockyards on Meadow Creek.
Boone left
Kentucky in 1799 without disposing of the land. He gave it verbally to his son Daniel Morgan Boone, but did not
make a deed. On February 2, 1819,
Daniel Morgan Boone then a resident of Missouri, had his attorney, Jesse Boone
of Greenup County, Kentucky, sell this tract to William Strong by a “Quit Claim
Deed.” The title held up and no record
exists of any protest to the title.
Nearly all of this 1000 acre tract was later to be owned by Robert Rose
and his wife Ester.
Touching
Boone’s tract was the 4225 acre survey for James Craig (later sold to Richard
Reynolds) and William Gilliam’s 2000 acre tract. Up the creek it was joined by a 2500 acre tract to Joseph
Craig. The National Douglas Survey also
joined it.
As for
Daniel Boone owning other lands within the present boundaries of Owsley County,
I have found no record. He did survey
other tracts in now Owsley at earlier dates than the Meadow Creek track, but
for such people as Nathaniel Hart, John Bailey, Joseph Boone, etc.
Deed
DANIEL
BOONE JR.
to Indenture
WILLIAM
STRONG
This indenture made this 11th
day of Feby in the year of our Lord one thousand eighteen hundred and nineteen
between Daniel Boone Jr. of Missouri Territory by Jesse B. Boone his
Attorney in fact of the county of Greenup and State of Kentucky of the one part
and William Strong of the County of Clay and State aforesaid of the
other part.
Witness that the said Jesse B. Boone for
and in consideration of one hundred and fifty dollars current money to him in
hand paid by the said William Strong the receipt whereof he doth acknowledge
hath given granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth give, grant,
bargain, sell, and deliver, release, convey, and confirm unto the said William
Strong and his heirs forever one certain tract or parcel of land by and lying
in the County of Clay and State aforesaid containing one thousand acres or the
same more or less and bounded as follows to wit:
Beginning at a beech, maple, and
chestnut oak on a North hill side as “A” about 200 poles below a meadow on
Meadow Creek a branch of the Southfork of KY. and on the east side of said fork
of Kentucky, thence south three hundred poles to two white oaks; thence East
533 1/3 poles to a maple and at “C”; thence north 300 poles to a stake at “D” a
barren huckleberry hillside; thence west 533 1/3 poles to the beginning with
all and singular its appurtenances unto the said William Strong his heirs and
assigns forever. To have and to hold
the aforesaid tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances unto the said
heirs forever. And the said Daniel
Boone Jr. by Jesse B. Boone his attorney in fact doth covenant and agree to and
with the said William Strong that he will warrant and defend the said land and
premises unto the said William Strong and his heirs forever against the claim
of no other person or persons whatever.
And it is further covenanted and agreed between the parties that should
the said land or any part thereof be taken by any other prior claim or better
claim than the claim of the said Daniel Boone that no recourse whatever is to
be had against the said Daniel Boone or his heirs. And that it’s fully understood that this is to operate only as a
quitclaim deed. In Testimony whereof
the said Daniel Boone Jr. by Jesse B. Boone his attorney in fact doth hereunto
set his hand and affix his seal the day and year above written.
Signed,
sealed and delivered Jesse B. Boone in the presence of: Attorney in Fact for
Daniel Boone (seal)
Attest: John Strong
John Evins
STATE OF
KENTUCKY
CLAY COUNTY
SCT.
I, Abner Baker Clerk of the county court
of Clay County certify that the within indenture from Daniel Boone to William
Strong on the 4th day of October 1819 was duly proved before me in
my office by the subscribing witnesses John Strong and John Evins to be the act
and deed, the hand and seal of the said Boone for the purpose therein and
specified which is duly recorded in my office the day and date aforesaid. In Testimony where I as clerk aforesaid
subscribe my name the 4th day of October 1819.
A. Baker