The Birth of Jemima Boone – 4 October 1762
Rebecca Boone welcomed her second daughter, her fourth child, into the world on 4 October 1762. Daniel had removed his family from their North Carolina Yadkin Valley home in 1760, taking them all the way to Culpepper, Virginia, due to hostilities between the colonists and the Cherokee, During the next two years, Rebecca often lived alone…