Here Daniel's first two sons were
born. In the third year of his marriage, when the second child
was a babe in arms, Daniel removed with his wife and their young
and precious family to Culpeper County in eastern Virginia, for
the border was going through its darkest days of the French and
Indian War. During the next two or three years we find him in
Virginia engaged as a wagoner, hauling tobacco in season; but
back on the border with his rifle, after the harvest, aiding in
defense against the Indians. In 1759 he purchased from his father
a lot on Sugar Tree Creek, a tributary of Dutchman's Creek (Davie
County, North Carolina) and built thereon a cabin for himself.
The date when he brought his wife and children to live in their
new abode on the border is not recorded. It was probably some
time after the close of the Indian War. Of Boone himself during
these years we have but scant information. We hear of him again
in Virginia and also as a member of the pack-horse caravan which
brought into the Back Country the various necessaries for the
settlers. We know, too, that in the fall of 1760 he was on a lone
hunting trip in the mountains west of the Yadkin; for until a few
years ago there might be seen, still standing on the banks of
Boone's Creek (a small tributary of the Watauga) in eastern
Tennessee, a tree bearing the legend, "D Boon cilled A BAR on
this tree 1760.
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