Volume 16 , Issue 27

Daniel Boone & Jacob Warwick Fight

There is no reason to question the fact that Daniel Boone and Jacob Warwick had a fight. That is well established. Boone was a surveyor and land looker but lacked the infinite capacity of taking pains to perfect the titles to his locations.

Boone had started to take up land on Elk River, and had sold it to Jacob Warwick and got money for it. Some time later Jacob Warwick found that he had got nothing in the way of a completed title, and being a man who was then acquiring a great fortune in lands, he brooded over his loss. Then when Daniel Boone came into the community there was a quarrel and a fist fight. No one ever heard who whipped who.

The history information also goes onto to state, "I judge from that the old roosters were separated. This might have been at Dunmore but we picture it a Clover Lick. It did not greatly interfere with Boone's visit. Cleared up a misunderstanding, so to speak.

Anyway, Boone said to Warwick: "You have never seen any rich land. Come with me and I will show you where there is rich land." Referring to Kentucky, only Boone probably called it Fincastle if this occurred the first time Boone lived here in the seventeen-seventies, or Kentucky if it was during his second residence in the seventeen-eighties. I think it was the first time, for Boone and Warwick started on a long trip to Kentucky, but were turned back by Indians on the warpath.

Look at any reference book you pick up, you will find in it a life of Daniel Boone, yet none of the standard works even refer to his citizenship in Kanawha county, yet that is the only residence he ever had where he was honored by election to office, or where he ever received an officer's commission. He was elected to the Virginia legislature in 1790, with his colleague, George Clendenin. In 1789 he was elected lieutenant Colonel of the melitia of Kanawha county and that is where he got the title Col. Boone, one that he was fond of using, but a title that his biographers never gave him.

When Daniel Boone sought to record some of the history that he had observed, he hooked up with a school teacher named Filson, and got out a publication called The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, Formerly A Hunter. [This article and be found in Pocahontas Times, 18 Mar 1926.]   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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