Daniel Boone’s daughter, Jemima Boone, was kidnapped by a group of Native Americans but was later rescued.
In the summer of 1776, when Jemima was 14 years old, she and two other girls were abducted by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party while they were boating on the Kentucky River near Boonesborough. The incident was part of the broader conflict between settlers and Native American tribes during the period of westward expansion. Daniel Boone, along with a group of men from the settlement, pursued the kidnappers. After a relentless chase, Boone and his party managed to catch up with the raiders two days later and rescued the girls. The event was one of many conflicts on the frontier but gained notoriety due to Boone’s fame as a frontiersman and explorer. The rescue added to Daniel Boone’s legend and was later romanticized in literature and folklore. Jemima Boone’s kidnapping and subsequent rescue highlighted the dangers and hardships faced by settlers during the westward expansion of the United States.