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Filson, John

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Filson, John (c. 1747-c. 1788)

American explorer and author. To attract settlers to Kentucky, he wrote Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke (1784), and the alleged ‘autobiography’ of Daniel Boone first appeared in this book.

He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was killed by an American Indian while helping to lay out the settlement of Cincinnati.



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