By chance some went to places we now consider important.

By chance the names of a few of these have been preserved.

But the credit belongs to the whole backwoods race, not to the individual backwoodsman.
6.

August 22, 1734 (according to James Parton, in his sketch of Boon).
His grandfather was an English immigrant; his father had married a Quakeress.

When he lived on the banks of the Delaware, the country was still a wilderness.