Rebecca Boone (1739-1813) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Daniel Boone. Daniel Boone was a figure connected to a Revolutionary-era family whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Rebecca Boone to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Born in Winchester, Virginia and later dying in St. Charles County, Missouri, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. Including Rebecca Boone in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.