Rebecca Boone

Rebecca (Bryan) Boone (June 9, 1739 – March 18, 1813) was an American pioneer and the wife of famed frontiersman Daniel Boone.

She was born near Winchester, Virginia. Her parents were Joseph and Alee (or Aylee) Bryan. She was married to Daniel Boone at the age of 16. She was brought up as a Friend or Quaker. Her grandfather immigrated to the United States, for religious privileges, from Ireland, when his parents died. He and his brother took the mares his father had left them with them to the United States. He settled in Pennsylvania. One of Rebecca's daughter's name was Susannah Boone, who got married to William Hays and their child was Susannah Hays. A son of hers was named Jacob, who was a child when an Indian whom they had befriended, named Big Jim, while on the trail to Kentucky, tortured him and another child to death with a tomahawk.

The World War II Liberty ship SS Rebecca Boone was named in her honor.

References

• Kleber, John E., ed. "Rebecca (Bryan) Boone." The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0813117720.

Further reading

• Kolodny, Annette. The land before her: fantasy and experience of the American frontiers, 1630-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. ISBN 0807815713.