Daniel Boone

[RJNorton]

Wonderful post, Bill. In the past, folks have written me asking if Abraham Lincoln were related to Daniel Boone. In researching this I found that William E. Barton had traced the lineage of Abraham Lincoln and found that the connection to Daniel Boone was through another branch of the Lincolns, not the Lincolns who were Abraham's ancestors. However, the error (assuming Mr. Barton's research is accurate) that Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Boone were related has been repeated in some books.