Signed the “Oath of Fidelity and Support” 1778, St. George’s Co. MD.88

Moved family to KY in 1796.

According to Betty Bland Boone, in Putting Meat on the Bones, A tribute to our MD to KY Ancestors, Walter moved to the Pottinger Creek Settlement in KY as part of the Maryland League.89

Will of Walter Boone, deceased, written 16 Jan, 1847.  Elizabeth (Hagan) Boone, wife is to receive estate and after her death, all goes to son, HENRY BOONE.  Elizabeth receives all land and negro man Harry.  Son, HENRY, is to stay and manage farm as long as they agree.  Granddaughter Eliza Ann Boone is to receive furniture when she  turns 15 years old.  I will and bequeath to my six older children, each of them, one dollar, viz: Charles Boone`s heirs, John Boone, Christopher Boone, Joseph Boone, Mary Boone (Peak) heirs and HENRY__ the above sum named sum of one dollar to theirs and their heirs.
Witness: George Clark, George Clayton and Pius Hagan.
Recorded: 12 April 1847. 
Page 245-Nelson Co. Will Book

In 1896 a publication titled “The Nelson County Historical Record” says that in 1776 Wattie Boone, a relative of Daniel and Squire Boone settled where Knon Creek runs into the Rolling Fork and in 1780 Boone began the manufacture of whiskey for sale. This would make Wattie Boone the first distiller to manufacture whiskey in Kentucky. Later in 1814, when Thomas Lincoln moved to Knob Creek, he was employed by the Boone Distillery and worked there until moving his family to Indiana. There is no actual evidence that Watty Boone, a Catholic from Maryland, was any relation to Daniel Boone, a Protestant from Pennsylvania.