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Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

Daniel Boone

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Daniel Boone
Age: 85 †
Born: 1734
Born: November 2
Died: 1820
Died: September 26
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Birdsboro
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