Simon Kenton was a famous United States

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sman and friend of Daniel Boone

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, Simon Girty

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, Spencer Records

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  and Isaac Shelby

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Simon Kenton was alive even before Ohio was a state. Simon Kenton was born at the headwaters of Mill Run in the Bull Run Mountains in 1755, in what is now Fauquier County, Virginia

Fauquier County, Virginia

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 (birthplace was part of Prince William County at time of his birth prior to formation of Fauquier in 1759) to Mark Kenton Sr. (an immigrant from Ireland

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) and Mary Miller Kenton (whose family was Scotch-Welch in linage).