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He was killed and scalped, and his body was mutilated.Ĭalloway County, Kentucky, was named after Callaway.

On November 8, 1780, Colonel Richard Callaway was ambushed about a mile outside of Boonesborough by a Shawnee war party. Callaway was angry when the court acquitted and then promoted him. He disagreed with some of Boone's actions and resented the younger man's popularity with the settlers, and later brought court martial charges against Boone. In June 1778, he was appointed a justice of the peace and made colonel of the county's militia.Ĭallaway was a defender during the 1778 siege of Boonesborough. In April 1777, Callaway and John Todd were elected to the Virginia legislature as burgesses from Kentucky County, Virginia. His nephew Flanders Callaway later married Jemima Boone. Richard Hunter, 20, of Roslyn Heights was also placed on five. (AP) A man who broke into a house last year to tickle a sleeping 15-year-old girl’s feet has been sentenced to three months in jail and ordered to undergo psychiatric counseling, prosecutors say. Callaway led one of parties in the rescue of the girls. Man Sentenced to 3 Months for Tickling Teen’s Feet. In 1776, two of Callaway's daughters, along with Daniel Boone's Jemima, were kidnapped outside Boonesborough by Native Americans. He took part in organizing the short-lived colony of Transylvania. Born in Caroline County, Virginia, Callaway joined Daniel Boone in 1775 in marking the Wilderness Road into central Kentucky, becoming one of the founders of Boonesborough, Kentucky. Richard Callaway or Richard Calloway (J– November 8, 1780) was a longhunter and early settler of Kentucky. John Calloway, Keziah Callaway, George Callaway, Zachariah Callaway, Mildred Noel, and 9 other children Boonesborough, Kentucky County, Virginia, present-day Boonesborough, Madison County, Kentuckyįrontiersman, soldier, state militia officer, politician, justice of the peace, hunterīeing one of the frontiersman co-founders, along with Daniel Boone, of the frontier settlement of Transylvania and Boonesborough, Kentucky County, Virginia, a defender of Fort Boonesborough, during the 1778 siege, by Native Americans, and an early Kentucky soldier and politician.