1. Simon Kenton was a renowned American frontiersman, soldier, and pioneer who played a significant role in the settlement of Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio.
20 Facts About Simon Kenton
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Simon Kenton was a contemporary and friend of notable figures such as Daniel Boone, Isaac Shelby, and Thomas Hinde.
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Simon Kenton was captured by the Shawnee people in 1778, when they were allied with the British.
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Simon Kenton survived multiple gauntlets and ritual torture applied to war captives, and was said to be rescued by Simon Girty.
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Simon Kenton was later adopted by a Shawnee widow to replace her son and became a member of the tribe.
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Simon Kenton's first son was born before any marriage; Kenton later married twice, and had a total of ten more children.
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In 1771, at the age of 16, thinking he had killed William Leachman in a jealous rage, Simon Kenton fled into the wilderness of what are now West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio.
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In 1774, in a conflict later labeled Lord Dunmore's War, Simon Kenton served as a scout for the European settlers against the Shawnee Indians in what is West Virginia and Kentucky.
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Simon Kenton served as scout on the 1778 George Rogers Clark expedition to capture Fort Sackville during the American Revolution.
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Simon Kenton started exploring the area of the Mad River Valley of Ohio and making claims as early as 1788.
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Simon Kenton had first seen the area a decade before, while held as a captive of the Shawnee.
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Simon Kenton had vowed that if he survived, he would return.
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Simon Kenton was promoted to the rank of brigadier general of the state militia.
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Simon Kenton served in the War of 1812 as both a scout and as leader of a militia group in the Battle of the Thames in 1813.
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Simon Kenton married Martha Dowden and they had four children together.
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Simon Kenton died in New Jerusalem in Logan County, Ohio.
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Simon Kenton Road is a residential street at the base of Bull Run Mountain in Prince William County, Virginia.
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The Simon Kenton Chapter is part of the Frontiersman Camping Fellowship of the Royal Rangers, Indiana.
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The Simon Kenton Pub is a small bar located in the Water Wheel Restaurant at The Inn at Gristmill Square in Warm Springs, Virginia.
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The Simon Kenton Inn is an 1828 historic house and restaurant located near Springfield, Ohio.