 | John Filson - 1823 - 52 pages
...domestic happiness, and left my family and peaceable habitation of the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Money, and William Cool. On the 7th... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...domestick happiness, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin river in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Monay,and William Cool. On the seventh... | |
 | James Turner Morehead - 1841 - 200 pages
...domestic happiness, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucke, in company with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Mooney, and William Cool."... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...domestick happiness, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin river in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Monay,and William Cool. On the seventh... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 pages
..." It was on the first of May, 1769," that our hunter " resigned his domestic happiness for a time, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky." He assigns no motive for the pursuit. He urges no reason for this " resignation of domestic happiness."... | |
 | Henry Trumbull - 1846 - 354 pages
...domestic happiness, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Monay, and William Cool. On the 7th... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1847 - 464 pages
...happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin River, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky." Boone was not unfeeling or indifferent to the domestic relation. His affectionate wife, who was an... | |
 | Charles Campbell - 1847 - 224 pages
...sensible " Travels in the United Stales." i ful home on the bank of the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, "to wander through the wilderness of America in quest of the country of Kentucky." In this exploration of the unknown regions of Western Virginia, he was accompanied by five companions.... | |
 | William Henry Bogart - 1854 - 448 pages
...happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin River, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stewart, Joseph Holden, James Monay, and William Cool. We proceeded... | |
 | 1854 - 532 pages
...his pilot, and four others as companions, the young man, of about three-and-twenty, wandered forth through the wilderness of America, ' in quest of the country of Kentucky,' known to the savages as ' the Dark and Bloody Ground,' ' the Middle Ground ' between the subjects of... | |
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IT WAS on the first of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin river in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America in quest of the country of Kentucky,... 
