Captain William Russell’s 17-year old son Henry Russell with Daniel Boone’s 17-year old son James Boone departed Russell’s home at Castle’s Woods in Fincastle County, Virginia with a party of 8 carrying supplies to join Daniel Boone’s trek into Kentucky. They would soon become the first casualties in “Dunmore’s War”, an importtant precursor to the Revoluion.

Source: Williams, Glenn F., Dunmore’s War: Tthe Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era, Westholme Publishing, 2017 at p. 3.