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Richard Callaway (June 14, 1717 – November 8, 1780) was an American frontiersman, military officer, politician, and hunter who was one of the first white settlers in modern-day Kentucky.
2. Nov. 2020 · The Cherokee-Shawnee Indian raiding party’s kidnapping of Daniel Boone’s daughter, Jemima, and Col. Richard Callaway’s daughters, Elizabeth and Frances, as they were out canoeing on the Kentucky River near Boonesborough on July 14, 1776, is timelessly illustrated in Carl Wimer’s 1853 The Abduction of Boone’s Daughter.
On July 14, 1776, a raiding party caught three teenage girls from Boonesborough as they were floating in a canoe on the Kentucky River. They were Jemima, daughter of Daniel Boone, and Elizabeth and Frances, daughters of Colonel Richard Callaway. The Cherokee Hanging Maw led the raiders, two Cherokee and three Shawnee warriors.
Richard Callaway came to Kentucky with Daniel Boone. He was a founding father of Kentucky.https://linktr.ee/KyhistorypodSources:The Kentucky EncyclopediaLibr...
1. Feb. 2019 · The ferry was the brainchild of Richard Callaway. Callaway, who lived in Bedford County, Virginia, joined Daniel Boone’s party of “road cutters” who blazed the trail into Kentucky in 1775.
On November 8, 1780, Colonel Richard Callaway was ambushed about a mile outside of Boonesborough by a Shawnee war party. He was killed and scalped, and his body was mutilated. Calloway County, Kentucky, was named after Callaway.
After the siege, Colonel Richard Callaway brought charges against Boone, alleging that Boone "was in favour of the British government." Joining Callaway was Captain Benjamin Logan from nearby Logan's Station. Logan and Callaway both had nephews who had been surrendered by Boone at the salt licks and were still prisoners. In the court-martial ...
