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The Winning of the West, Volume One

CHAPTER XII
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The names of the three girls were Betsy and Fanny Callaway and Jemima Boon, See Boon's Narrative, and Butler, who gives the letter of July 21, 1776, written by Col.

John Floyd, one of the pursuing party.
The names of the lovers, in their order, were Samuel Henderson (a brother of Richard), John Holder, and Flanders Callaway.

Three weeks after the return to the fort Squire Boon united in marriage the eldest pair of lovers, Samuel Henderson and Betsey Callaway.

It was the first wedding that ever took place in Kentucky.

Both the other couples were likewise married a year or two later.
The whole story reads like a page out of one of Cooper's novels.


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