Anyhow, he acquired more property in the Valle della Sieve and founded a churchSanta Maria dell' Assuntapossibly the enlargement of his cellupon Monte Senario, between the valley of the Arno and that of the Sieve.

In 1769, the year that Boon first went to Kentucky, the first permanent settlers came to the banks of the Watauga, the settlement being merely an enlargement of the Virginia settlement, which had for a short time existed on the head-waters of the Holston, especially near Wolf Hills.