On December 22, 1769, Boone and fellow hunter John Stuart were captured by a party of Shawnee, who confiscated all of their skins and told them to leave and never return. The Shawnee had not signed the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, in which the Iroquois had ceded their claim to Kentucky to the British. The Shawnee regarded Kentucky as their hunting ground; they considered American hunters there to be poachers. Boone, undeterred, continued hunting and exploring in Kentucky. On one occasion, he shot a man to avoid capture, which historian John Mack Faragher says "was one of the few Indians that Boone acknowledged killing." Boone returned to North Carolina in 1771, but came back to hunt in Kentucky in the autumn 1772.
On December 22 1769 Boone and fellow hunter John Stuart were captured by a party of Shawnee who confiscated all of their skins and told them to leave and never return The Shawnee had not signed the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix in which the Iroquois had ceded their claim to Kentucky to the British The Shawnee regarded Kentucky as their hunting ground; they considered American hunters there to be poachers Boone undeterred continued hunting and exploring in Kentucky On one occasion he shot a man to avoid capture which historian John Mack Faragher says "was one of the few Indians that Boone acknowledged killing" Boone returned to North Carolina in 1771 but came back to hunt in Kentucky in the autumn 1772