An amusing story is told of the Boone family while they were living in
Moore's Fort by Mrs. Samuel Scott of Jessamine County, Kentucky, who was
also at the time living in the fort. Mrs. Scott says the men had become very
careless in guarding the fort, lounging outside the gates, playing ball and
in general lax in their duties. One day Mrs. Boone, her daughter, Mrs.
Hannah Carr and some of the other ladies loaded their guns lightly, went out
from the fort, shut the gates and shot their guns off in rapid succession
like the Indians. The men all scrambled for the fort, but finding the gates
shut none could get in, but one young man who managed to climb over the
stockade wall. So great was their consternation tha some of the men ran
right through the pond in front of the fort. After they were finally let in
the gates Mrs. Scott says the men were so mad some of them watned to have
the women whipped.