"Kentucky: Land of Contrast" by Thomas D. Clark, Professor of the University of Kentucky at Lexington, page22:

"The opening act of one of Boonesboro's several domestic ordeals occurred on Sunday afternoon, July 14, 1776, when Jemima Boone, and Elizabeth and Frances Callaway set out across the Kentucky to visit a neighbor. The girls paddled a canoe diagonally across the river from the fort, and at the moment its nose rooted into the gravel on the far bank a tawny arm snatched it aground and four Shawnee bucks laid hold of the girls, but not before the spunky Betsey Callaway had bounced an oar off a brave's head. The younger girls were paralyzed with fright, but Betsey kept her wits and was about as much bother to the Shawnees as a gnawing bear would have been. The Shawnees had always shown a fondness for female captives and now they had three young ones in tow. Immediately they headed home by way of the Blue Licks and the buffalo trace to parade their prizes in the Ohio villages.
There was pandemonium in the fort when news spread that the girls were missing. Daniel Boone dashed into the woods with one search party while Colonel Callaway led another. Time was of the essence---in fact, it might already be too late if the Indians could beat their white pursuers to the Ohio River. They might have done so had the unruly girls not created so many delays by complaining and sulking. Never had three Kentucky girls been pursued by such illustrious company. Besides Boone, who had the advantage of having twice been prisoner of the Shawnees and now demonstrated his expert woodsmanship, there were William Bailey Smith, John Holder, Samuel Henderson, John Floyd, Nationaial and David Hart, John Martin, John McMillan, William Bush, *John and David Gess, and Flanders Callaway. Three miles below the Blue Licks the Indians stopped for the night, and here they were surprised and shot, and the tattered girls escorted home as Kentucky's first heroines. As their rewards, Samuel Henderson married Betsey Callaway and Flanders Callaway claimed Jemima Boone for his bride.