BOONE, DANIEL. Document signed in full, Lafayette County [present-day Fayette County, Kentucky], 15 June l795. One page, folio, evenly age-browned, minor dampstains at top edge affecting one line, clean separation along top central fold, laid down on card at edges, a clean crack at left-hand-edge. BOONE GIVES TESTIMONY IN A CASE OF DISPUTED TITLE An interesting relic of Boone's last years in Kentucky. From l785, Boone's large land holdings in Kentucky had been severely reduced as the deeds, filed years before, were voided by the courts due to his improper filing of them. To judge from the contents of the present deposition, taken in another dispute over deeds, Boone continued to have problems with the legal recognition of deeds he had filed on behalf of other settlers. By this date Boone himself had moved to new settlements in present-day West Virginia. "The Deposition of Danyel Boone Taken in Behalf of Ricd. Allen at the house of Walker Carr in Lafayette County...in a Controverse [sic] now Defending in the Court of Appeals wherin the s.d Allen is Complain[en]t & William Daugherty Defendant. This Deponent [Boone] being of full Age Deposeth & saith..." that on 30 June l781, he "made an Entry of five hundred Acres of Land for Richard Allen on the Waters of Otter Creek"; and that "he knew of no other Entry in the Quarter...that the intent of that Entry was to take in a part of the Last Fork of Otter Creek." At the end, the scribe adds: "Taken & sworn to Before us this Date above written."
BOONE, DANIEL. Document signed in full, Lafayette County [present-day Fayette County, Kentucky], 15 June l795. One page, folio, evenly age-browned, minor dampstains at top edge affecting one line, clean separation along top central fold, laid down on card at edges, a clean crack at left-hand-edge. BOONE GIVES TESTIMONY IN A CASE OF DISPUTED TITLE An interesting relic of Boone's last years in Kentucky. From l785, Boone's large land holdings in Kentucky had been severely reduced as the deeds, filed years before, were voided by the courts due to his improper filing of them. To judge from the contents of the present deposition, taken in another dispute over deeds, Boone continued to have problems with the legal recognition of deeds he had filed on behalf of other settlers. By this date Boone himself had moved to new settlements in present-day West Virginia. "The Deposition of Danyel Boone Taken in Behalf of Ricd. Allen at the house of Walker Carr in Lafayette County...in a Controverse [sic] now Defending in the Court of Appeals wherin the s.d Allen is Complain[en]t & William Daugherty Defendant. This Deponent [Boone] being of full Age Deposeth & saith..." that on 30 June l781, he "made an Entry of five hundred Acres of Land for Richard Allen on the Waters of Otter Creek"; and that "he knew of no other Entry in the Quarter...that the intent of that Entry was to take in a part of the Last Fork of Otter Creek." At the end, the scribe adds: "Taken & sworn to Before us this Date above written."
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