Daniel Boone, Surveyor / Bush Settlement

DANIEL BOONE, SURVEYOR

Daniel Boone earned substantial income as a deputy county surveyor (1783-1797), a dangerous job in frontier Kentucky. He made legal surveys in six Kentucky counties, including Clark. Boone’s first eleven were for William Bush and became the basis for the Bush Settlement. The first was made January 7, 1783.

BUSH SETTLEMENT

Daniel Boone surveyed 6,147 acres for Captain Billy Bush. Bush located the land for himself and others, then served as pilot and marker on the surveys. Baptist families from Virginia and North Carolina began settling here in November 1784. The nucleus of the settlement was Providence Church on Lower Howard’s Creek.

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