[Americana] Boone, Daniel. Autograph Letter, signed

Hanover County, Virginia, January 18, 1788. One-page autograph letter on bifolium, signed by Daniel Boone to Captain Charles Yancey: "Inclosed you have a few Lines from Coll Marshall I Shewed him the order your Sun Bobey gave me But he Sayes he thinks he owes you Nothing and if he Dos his Sun John Will Satel Withe you Sir Donot be oneaysey about the Balance Due me untill a Convinent opertunity Sarves We are all Well at present My Respects to your famyly..." Addressed by Boone on verso of integral leaf, remnants of red wax seal at same. Creasing from old folds, very small scattered holes along same; later pencil inscription beneath letter, initialed "A.C.P." In green morocco slip case and chemise. Reproduced in Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness (p. 314, John Bakeless, 1939).

American frontiersman Daniel Boone writes to his business associate, Capt. Charles Yancey, about the settlement of a debt. As a result of his service in the Virginia militia in the American Revolution and earlier in the French and Indian War, Capt. Yancey was granted 1,000 acres of land in Western Virginia. Following the signing of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolution, Yancey partnered with Boone in order to identify and survey his land in order to make a claim to it. Their partnership soured after Yancey claimed that Boone did not record all of Yancey's land, and that he even retained more for himself than their original agreement had stipulated. Yancey subsequently filed a successful lawsuit against Boone.

The Colonel Marshall referred to above is Col. Thomas Marshall (1730-1802), surveyor of Fayette County, Kentucky. His son, also mentioned by Boone, is John Marshall (1755-1835), future Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Property from Bethany College

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Capt. Charles Yancey, thence by descent in the family, to Mrs. A.C. Pendleton, Warren, Ohio, thence by descent

Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia, deaccessioned

[Americana] Boone, Daniel. Autograph Letter, signed