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Rebecca Boone and Kentucky Frontier Women Bluegrass Heritage Museum May 13, 2010

Rebecca Boone and Kentucky Frontier Women Bluegrass Heritage Museum May 13, 2010. Randolph Hollingsworth, Ph.D. University of Kentucky. Rebecca Bryan Boone – what do we know?. Born in Virginia, January 9, 1738 Moved to North Carolina at 10 years old

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Rebecca Boone and Kentucky Frontier Women Bluegrass Heritage Museum May 13, 2010

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  1. Rebecca Booneand Kentucky Frontier WomenBluegrass Heritage MuseumMay 13, 2010 Randolph Hollingsworth, Ph.D.University of Kentucky

  2. Rebecca Bryan Boone – what do we know? • Born in Virginia, January 9, 1738 • Moved to North Carolina at 10 years old • Met Daniel in 1753 and married August 14, 1756 • Moves and sets up house again at least 15 times • Marriage lasted 56 years and she had 10 children: • 1757 James 1768 Rebecca • 1759 Israel 1769 Daniel Morgan • 1760 Susannah 1773 Jesse • 1762 Jemima 1775 William • 1766 Levina 1781 Nathan • Died March 18, 1813, in Missouri at age 75

  3. 1830s Image of Rebecca Bryan Boone

  4. A Slave Auction Illustration by Edmund Ollier (1826–1886)

  5. “Boone’s Fort” from a drawing by Colonel Richard Henderson

  6. Women’s Names in Fayette Co. VA Personal Tax Lists 1787-1791 • 31 women’s names in the six lists of recorded taxpayers • 7 are slaveowners – averaging 3-4 slaves per household – which puts them into a more wealthy rank than the majority of Kentucky population • 4 women paid taxes on their indentured servants (whose first names are recorded) • The ethnicity of these women is not recorded

  7. Kentucky Wealth in 1790s Source: Lee Soltow, “Kentucky Wealth at the End of the Eighteenth Century,”Journal of Economic History 43 (Sept. 1983): 617-33.

  8. Evidence of Women’s Work Constant’s Station 1785

  9. George Caleb Bingham, 1852

  10. Bryan Station Memorial, KY DAR, 1896

  11. Bodmer and Millet, Abduction, 1852

  12. George Fasel, Daniel rescues Jemima, 1851

  13. Eighteenth century tea party –in the Lexington Fort?

  14. Early 1800s fashion

  15. Cane Ridge revival, 1801

  16. Shakers

  17. Some Domestic Manufactures

  18. Slater Mill, Rhode Island, 1793

  19. Mill Worker Drawing In Warp Threads

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