Richard Callaway was an American frontiersman, a soldier in the French and Indian Wars, a colonel in Revolutionary War and one of the founders of Boonesborough, Kentucky. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia House of Burgesses | 1777 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1717/06/14 | Catherine Anne Browning Callaway, wife of Joseph Callaway, gives birth to a son, Richard Callaway, in the Colony of Virginia. | Born | |||||
| 1745/07/00 | Frances Sherwood Walton, daughter of Robert Walton and Frances Sherwood Walton, marries Richard Callaway in Brunswick, Colony of Virginia. | Groom | |||||
| 1775/09/00 | Colonel Richard Calloway moves his wife and family, including several daughters, to Boonesborough in Fincastle County, Virginia. | Colonist | Fort Boonesborough Site | Fort Boonesborough State Park | |||
| 1779/10/00 | The Virginia legislature grants a License for first ferry in Kentucky to Richard Callaway. The fare for a man or a horse will be three shillings (50 cents). | Work | Fort Boonesborough State Park | Kentucky | |||
| 1780/03/08 | Richard Callaway is killed and scalped by a party of Shawanese Braves. Callaway and several others were building his ferry boat about one mile above the settlement. | Died | Fort Boonesborough State Park | Kentucky | |||
| 1780/03/10 | The body of Richard Callaway, died at age 62, is recovered and buried near Fort Boonesborough. | In Memoriam | Fort Boonesborough Site | Fort Boonesborough State Park |
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