Boone’s ginseng expedition — further thoughts on how much he transported

(from historian John Boback):  The frontier ginseng trade has been a topic of personal interest for many years.  In regard to your recent blog post, I would like to “weigh in” on the question of tons versus tuns.  I think that author Robert Morgan was incorrect in speculating that Nathan Boone had meant “tuns” of [...]

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Daniel Boone & the boatload of ginseng: further considerations

This past winter I posted an article here in the Fortblog about Daniel Boone transporting a load of ginseng from Kentucky to Philadelphia sometime in 1787 or ’88, what the route of that journey may have been, and whether or not it brought the Boone party near Pricketts Fort, as one account claims. My conclusion [...]

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Daniel Boone & the boatload of ginseng

A story heard every so often here at Pricketts Fort is that Daniel Boone lost a load of ginseng near here in the Monongahela River and, while searching for it and drying out what could be salvaged, spent some time at the fort before continuing on his journey. The story is usually related with some [...]

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Pricketts Fort origin accounts #2: A tradition regarding the fort among three area families

 A tradition in the Morgan, Prickett, and Haymond families states that the fort stockade was square with walls of equal length, each being 150 yards long and twelve feet high.  The rear wall, or southern wall, was said to have been very near the graveyard.  The front wall of the fort was said to face somewhat [...]

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