Documents in Year 1777                     

Links of Interest:

• American Revolution:

American Revolution 1775-1783

All about the American Revolution from battles and commanders to documents and timeline

American Revolutionary War Reenactment organization

Field Guide has drawings of Continental forces uniforms

• Exploration: England explores Northwest Coast 1776-78

Explorer is James Cook (Northwest)
Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996

• Westward Expansion / American Frontier:

The British and Shawnees become allies and the British give guns to the Shawnee to attack the pioneer settlements. The British promised the Native Americans they would recover their land and the British saw it as a way to squeeze the colonists' rebellion on the westward front. Due to the attacks the settlers were staying in their forts and unable to farm. They relied on the game that they caught and needed to preserve the meat with salt. The settlers needed 15,000 pounds of salt for winter. It took about a day to boil enough salty water to obtain 500 pounds of salt. It would take them a month to obtain enough salt. While Boone and his men were at the salt lick 50 miles from Fort Boonesborough they were captured by Shawnee Indians. The British will pay a 100 pound bounty for each captured settler. Boone and his men are prisoners of war. When the men don't return to Fort Boonesborough Boone's wife and younger children went back to North Carolina. (see 1779 for their return to Kentucky)

Sources:

The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen

This 2018 four-episode, high-quality documentary offered on Amazon Prime or the History Channel is well worth watching. The episode titled "Into the Wilderness" covers the time period from 1773-1783. It compares and contrasts the frontiersmen's efforts led by Daniel Boone to fight off the Native Americans led by Chief Black Fish, allies of the British, during the American Revolution. It ends with the Treaty of Paris signed in 1783 where the British conceded control from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River. Although the British surrendered, the Native Americans did not.

My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone

This free ebook preview provides a major portion of an interview of Nathan Boone, the youngest son of frontiersman, Daniel Boone. He and his wife recollect interesting stories they knew about his father's exploits on the American frontier.

State of Kentucky tourism

Photo of Logans Station sign, "In the spring of 1777, while sheltering seven families, including those of Benjamin Logan and William Whitley, six single men and a free African American, Logan's Station was attacked by Native Americans supported by British troops. The Siege left two men dead but the fort survived. This was the first attack in the area by Native Americans, during a year that soon became known as the year of the Bloody Sevens."