Daniel Boone began to explore Kentucky on this day, June 7, 1769. Six years later he brought the first settlers to Kentucky, founding the fort of Boonesboro. He was captured by the Shawnee Indians and taken to Detroit. There he learned the British had incited an Indian attack on the settlement. He escaped, and his warning saved the town. As to his faith, Boone wrote to his wife: “The religion I have is to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can … and trust on God’s mercy for the rest.”
