Those subscribers who have access through their public library to the online genealogical database called HeritageQuest may be interested in reviewing the index (first) of the following digitized book. (As I understand it, public libraries, and not individuals, are the main subscribers to Heritage Quest. Originally, some genealogical societies were allowed to subscribe, but I think that practice has been discontinued.) My search term in HQ: Calendar [there will be other books which begin with that word, so go down the list] Pass this along to other rootsweb sites to which you belong--especially those linked with not only Kentucky but North Carolina [whence came many of the people who first settled Boonesborough], Pennsylvania, and, of course Virginia. The author is said to be anonymous, but I believe the calendar was compiled by Mabel Clare Weaks, as indicated on the Family History Library catalog [www.familysearch.org] Calendar of the Kentucky papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1925. 630 pgs. You can click on the index, and you will see many indexed references to Boonesborough, and a lot of pioneers of early Kentucky. The word Calendar refers to a kind of index, so you will NOT see great amounts of information, but enough to whet a genealogist's appetite. The Draper Manuscripts have been filmed, but the copies I read some years ago at my local LARGE State University [microfilm room] were barely legible. I had to transcribe the letters which one of my ancestors wrote to Draper [Lyman Copeland Draper] concerning his own father, who was a sidekick of Daniel Boone. There was another anecdote about the old pioneer given in an interview by his brother-in-law--about his being treed by a bear. Ask at a nearby LARGE library, preferably a State Historical Society or a large University library, whether these microfilm can be read by the general public. In my case, I had to have a card issued by the University library, as that was my *passport* to the guarded microfilm room. (Well, not a security guard at that time, but who knows what the procedure may be these days.) The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has the films of the Draper Manuscripts. You may want to do an author search in the FHL Catalog for *Lyman C. Draper*. There are 147 reels of film at the FH Library. Be prepared that you may have to transcribe the article/letter/newspaper clipping if the film is as bad as I found it to be. Nonetheless, the information is very precious to me. Oh, yes, a grandson of the old pioneer also wrote letters to Draper, indicating there was a quarrel within the family. (Not surprising!) E.W.Wallace PS If you have access to HeritageQuest, how about posting your *finds* on a rootsweb list. For instance I found some information on the family of Nathaniel Hart, an early pioneer in Madison Co., KY [near Boonesborough] entitled Susan Hart Shelby: a memoir. It was written by Samuel M. Wilson, and published in Lexington, KY, 1923. It gave some dates of the birth of Susan's mother, Sarah Simpson, the wife of Capt. Nathaniel Hart. The couple were probably married in Virginia 1760, but I am thinking it may have been North Carolina. Sarah Simpson was the sister of Mrs. Jesse Oldham (Bettie or Elizabeth Simpson), formerly of Caswell Co., NC but later of the Boonesborough area. **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489