Person:Elizabeth Callaway (10)

Jemima Boone, Elizabeth "Betsey" Callaway and Frances"Fanny" Callaway were kidnapped by Shawnee Indians on July 14, 1776 as they were floating in a canoe on the Kentucky River. Two days later, Daniel Boone and his party finally caught up to the group and rescued the young girls. (see Wikipedia:Capture and rescue of Jemima Boone)

1.   Henderson, A. The Callaway and Henderson Families
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   Samuel Henderson accompanied his brother Col. Richard Henderson and his friend Col. Richard Calloway with the Transylvania contingent to the vicinity of Boonsboro, Kentucky, in June, 1776. The romantic story of the capture of Elizabeth Calloway and Jemimah Boone by the Indians and their rescue by Daniel Boone and Samuel Henderson forms an interesting chapter in early Kentucky history and has often been repeated. Elizabeth Calloway was the eighth child of Col. Richard Calloway and his wife Frances Walton and was born August 14, 1760.

2.   Kentucky Historical Society (Frankfort, Kentucky). The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society)
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   ... Samuel, who married Betsey Calloway, was the father of the first child born in Kentucky of parents married in the state. ...