With her husband, Colonel William Chapman "Billy" Whitley, a farmer and Indian scout, and toddler daughters Elizabeth and Isabella, in November 1775, Esther traveled on horseback along the 120-mile Boone Trace. The expedition, which included her sister-in-law Margaret Whitley, wife of surveyor and militiaman George Rogers Clark 
, met with snow and hail on the thirty-three-day ride to Boonesborough Station.
- this information appears to be in error. According to wikipedia and other sources, George Rogers Clark never married. Perhaps another Clark Margaret Whitley married, needs additional research.
