World Wide School features a transcription of the frontiersman's narrative about his adventures in Kentucky. |
Chapter IV - Daniel Boone By John Preston Arthur, 1914. HTML by Jeffrey C. Weaver, October 1998. |
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Boone, Daniel - Adventures Presents the full text of the adventurer's own account of his exploits in the Kentucky back-woods. Includes a large portrait of the man |
Boone, Daniel - Project Research Boone in this scholarly work which strives to separate reality from the myth perpetuated by past writers. |
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Boone, Daniel - Roadside America Guide to attractions in America provides a brief article about the controversy surrounding the whereabouts of Boone's final resting place. |
Boone, Daniel - Infoplease.com Read a profile of the frontiersman in this encyclopedia. Also find links to related topics and a bibliography |
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Boone, Daniel - American West Article provided by the Harrodsburg Historical Society offers a brief look at the expeditions undertaken by the frontiersman |
Daniel Boone's Last Hunt Article written by James Pierce tells of an anecdote extracted from Mack Faragher's biography of Daniel Boone. |
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Boone,
Daniel - Homestead Take a virtual tour of the birth place of this American frontiersman. Contains a biography of Boone and a map to his homestead |
Daniel Boone, Archiving Early America American history resource features a brief overview and a transcription of the frontiersman's "Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone |
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Sep. 3, 1927 visit of Boone Family Association to L.M.U. and Cumberland Gap The Digital Library of Appalachia host many images of our National History |
The Boone Society, Inc. is an association of descendants, genealogists and historians who enjoy studying the lives and times of this remarkable family. |
Another file of the BOONE Family sent by Tom Shawcross:
The
Boon(e), Lincoln, Will, Kimmel and Donalds families
I was contacted a couple weeks ago by Mick Boone, an employee of Homeland Security's Federal Law Enforcement Training Facility in Charleston, South Carolina with the news that there might be something wrong with my Boone Genealogy. (Emails Here) I began looking at it and the DNA evidence of relationships of different lines of Boone families. I have updated the Daniel Boone Genealogy Page to the best of my ability. I hope it is informational and if I have made mistakes, don't hesitate to email me Joe Payne. I will respond with like gratitude and graciousness. |
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1. | George Boone I was born BET 1575 AND 1618 in England, and died BET 1615 AND 1699. He married Sarah Oppy (Uppy) . | ||||
Information for George
Boone, and descendants come from
data in various publications: "Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charlse District" by Lillian Hays Oliver, Published 1964 Burlington, Vermont. Reprint by De an Publications, Rancho Cordova, California 1984. Referenced in this document as: (OBDSC) "Daniel Boone, The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer: by John Mark Fargher, Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, Cop y Right 1992. |
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Child of George Boone I and Ann Fallace is:
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2. | George Boone II (George Boone I1) was born ABT 1636 in City of Exeter, Devonshire, England, and died MAY 1696 in Stoke Cannon, Devonshire, England. He married Sarah Uppey. She was born ABT 1628 in Devonshire, England, and died BET 1708 AND 1709 in Stoke Cannon, Devonshire, England. | ||||||||||||||||
Stoke Canon is
located in the lowlands of the beautiful
rolling countrys i de of Devon. It is situated between the merging of
the River Culm int o t he River Exe, about five miles north of the city
of Exeter. Original ly c alled Hrocastoc (Rooks' Farm), the village
name was changed to Stok e Cano n after King Athelstan granted the
manor to the Exeter monastery i n 938 . The long and ancient bridge
spanning two branches of the Culm a t Stok e Canon received a legacy in
the will of Bishop Stapledon in 1326. As a blacksmith in Stoke Canon, George Boone II and his family were enti t led to a pew in the front of their parish church and their house undoub te dly was one of the better ones in the village. It had probably been r ece ntly remodeled, as many were during the sixteenth and seventeenth ce ntur ies, to have instead of just one large hall, several rooms includin g a parlor, a buttery and kitchen, a hall, and a shop in which the fathe r and h is apprentices and journeymen worked at their trade. |
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6. | George Boone III (George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 1666 in Stoke Cannon, Devonshire, England, and died ABT 1744 in Gwynedd, Berks County Pa.. He married Mary Milton Maurgridge 16 AUG 1689 in Bradninch Parish, Devonshire, England, daughter of John Maurgridge and Mary Milton. She was born ABT 1669 in Brandninch, Devonshire England, and died ABT 1740 in Gwynedd, Berks County Pa.. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
When the first six children
of George and Mary
Morgridge Boone were born , the Boones were members of the Church of
England and their baptisms wer e recorded in the register of Bradninch
Parish. The Anglican Church in B radninch is St. Disen's which was
built in the middle of the 15th century ; Bradninch is a village about
nine miles north of Exeter. Since subsequ ent children of George and
Mary apparently were not baptized in Bradninch , they must have been
converted to the Quaker faith before their son Jose ph was born on
April 5, 1704 old style. When the Boones arrived in Penns ylvania,
George Boone IV held a certificate of membership in the Religiou s
Society of Friends at Bradninch and George III brought a certificate fr
om the Quaker meeting at Cullompton which is a town northeast of
Bradninc h about a mile up the River Culm. George Boone III generally has been identified as a weaver, but he appare ntly had a blacksmith shop in Bradninch. Since his father was a blacksmi th in Stoke Canon, George III must have been familiar with the trade an d perhaps he operated a smithy in conjunction with his weaving business . George III probably became a weaver due to the growing importance of c loth manufacture in Devonshire during his childhood. He must have serve d his apprenticeship as a weaver in Bradninch because that town had a la w that only those who apprenticed there could be employed in the communit y. The cloth made in Bradninch was a kind of serge called duroy. Early in 1717, before he left for America, George Boone III made a writte n admission to the Quakers that he was guilty of drunkenness and adultery : "Dear Friends, being duly sensible of my transgressions and sins again st God, I do therefore after a long time make my humble confession ... Fr om this my wickedness - which was the keeping of wild company and drinkin g by which I sometimes became guilty of drunkenness - I fell into anothe r gross evil, by whiccch the honour due unto marriage was lost, for the mar riage bed was defiled. Oh, what shall I say, Lord, wash me and cleanse m e, I beseech thee." That summer, George III and Mary and their six remaining children travele d the some seventy miles to Bristol on foot and bought passage to Pennsyl vania. The six full fares and two half-fares cost them thirty-five pound s for a voyage that would leave at the "next good wind and weather." The ir ship sailed on August 17, 1717. After their arrival in Pennsylvania o n September 19, 1717 OS, George III and Mary went to Abingdon, where thei r married son George lived; they apparently did not join the Quakers in A bingdon. After about a month at Abingdon, the family moved to North Wale s Township in Philadelphia County where George Boone III applied for memb ership at Gwynedd Monthly Meeting: "10-31-1717, George Boone Sr. produce d a certificate of his good life and conversation from the Monthly at Cal lumpton in Great Britain which was read and well received." By 1720, the Boones had moved again; George III was described as a reside nt of Gwynedd when he received a warrant for 400 acres of land in Oley To wnship on December 20, 1718. The amount of vacant land surrounding the t ract suggests that he was among the earliest settlers in the area. Late r George III apparently acquired the vacant land surrounding his origina l tract and his sons obtained land near to or adjoining him in Oley Towns hip. The Boone farm in Oley Township in Philadelphia County was include d in Exeter Township when it was set-off from Oley in 1741; the land wa s located in the part of Philadelphia County which became Lancaster Count y when Lancaster and Berks Counties were created in 1752. Being from nea r Exeter, England, perhaps the Boones influenced the selection of the nam e Exeter for the new township in which their land was located. The famil y attended Gwynedd Meeting until August 25, 1737 OS, when a new church wa s organized as Oley Monthly Meeting on May 27, 1742 OS, and later re-name d Exeter Monthly Meeting. In May 1728, trouble arose in the Boone neighborhood between the white se ttlers and a band of Shawnee Indians from Illinois. A Shawnee brave wa s wounded in a dispute over some meat and panic swept through the distric t on a wave of rumors about Indian retaliation. George Boone, who wa s a justice of the peace, had to intervene when some whites threatened t o kill two Indian girls. He sent an urgent call for help to the Governo r in Philadelphia: "Our Condition at Present looks with a bad Vizard .. . our Inhabitants are Generally fled (and) there remains about 20 men wit h me to guard my mill ... we are resolved to defend ourselves to ye las t Extremity. Wherefore I desire ye Governor & Counsel to Take our Caus e into Consideration; And speedily send some Messengers to ye Indians, An d some arms and ammunition to us, with some strength allso, otherwise w e shall undoubtedly perish and our province laid desolate and destroyed. " The homestead of George Boone III, on Monocacy Creek, is a now an histori cal site. Having chosen what is now, and no doubt was then, a most beaut iful piece of fertile, rolling land, George III built a log house upon i t in 1720. Thirteen years later, having prospered, he erected a larger h ouse of stone nearby, which is still standing. Having built the new house, George III refused for some reason to live i n it himself, but turned it over to his children and continued to resid e in the log house until his death. It is quite possible that some of hi s married children were then living at home with young families, and tha t George III and Mary preferred the quiet of the smaller home for themsel ves. When George III died, it is said that his remains were carried int o the stone house and from there to his burial in the Friends burying gro und at Exeter Meeting House. An old family Bible records the fact that " when Grandfather died he left 8 children, 52 grandchildren and 10 great-g randchildren living, in all 70, being as many persons as the house of Jac ob which came into Egypt." In accordance with the custom of the Friends Society, no stones mark th e graves of George Boone III and his wife, Mary, but a far greater memori al is found in the thousands of descendants who unite in honoring their m emory. The George Boone III homestead is a short distance south of Oley Line/Lim ekiln Post Office on a road between highways 73 and 562. The Squire Boon e homestead is about two miles directly south on Owatin Creek, a tributar y of Monocacy Creek. Monocacy Creek enters the Schuylkill River abou t a mile south of Squire Boone's homestead, east of Birdsboro. Exeter Fr iends Meeting House is between the homes of George and Squire and slightl y to the east on a parallel local road, on land purchased from George Boone IV |
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(7) George4
BOONE, (George Boone III3,
George Boone II2, George
Boone I1) was born in 1690, and
married (15) Deborah HOWELL who was born in 1691. George died
in 1753.
Deborah died in 1759. Children: |
16 + William5
BOONE 17 Josiah BOONE b. 1727 d. 1814 |
12. | Joseph Boone Sr. (George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 5 APR 1704 in Brandninch, Devonshire England, and died 30 JAN 1776 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He married Catherine Warren BET 1718 AND 1752. She was born BET 1690 AND 1713, and died 31 JAN 1778. | ||||
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13. | Benjamin Boone (George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 16 JUL 1706 in Devonshire, England, and died 14 OCT 1762 in Berks Co., Pennsylvania USA. He married Ann Farmer 31 OCT 1726. She was born BET 1686 AND 1712, and died BET 1731 AND 1801. He married Susannah 1737. | ||||
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15. | Samuel Boone Sr. (George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 1711 in Bradninch, Devonshire England, and died 6 AUG 1745 in Berks Co., Pennsylvania USA. He married Elizabeth Sarah Cassel 29 OCT 1734 in Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, daughter of Arnold Cassel and Susanna ??. She was born BET 1695 AND 1719, and died BET 1739 AND 1807. | ||||
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(16) William5 BOONE, (George4 BOONE, George3, George2, George1) married (36) Sarah LINCOLN, daughter of Mordecai LINCOLN and Hannah SALTER. |
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17. | Israel Boone (Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 9 MAY 1726, and died 1756. He married Unknown 1748. She was born BET 1710 AND 1734, and died JUN 1756. | ||||||||||||
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18. | Samuel Boone
(Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George
Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 20 MAY 1728
in new Britain Township, Bucks Co., Pennsylvana, and died BET 1749 AND
1818 in Kentucky. He married Sarah Day
BET 1745 AND 1778. She was born BET 1724 AND 1743, and died ABT 1819 in
Missouri. There is a strong possiblity that Sarah Day is of the Christopher Day , Sr family
of Plumstead Twp., Bucks Co., PA The Day family migrated to Tennessee at the same time the Boone family. |
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BIOGRAPHY: FROM THE
MANUSCRIPT "OUR ANCESTRY" BY MRS. HARRY V. DIXON OF 124 NOGALES AVE. IN
NORTH SACRAMENTO, CA. ON DEC. 28, 1950: "Was a Quakeress in
Pennsylvania or North Carolina. Moved to North then South Carolina,
finally settling in Fayette County, Kentucky near Athens in the fall of
1779." DEATH: Died at the home Leonard K. Bradley.Sarah (Day) Boone, wife of Samuel, lived after her husband's death with her daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Leonard Bradley, in Missouri. It was to her that Daniel Bone wrote the well-known letter, inwhich he states his simple profession of fai th. As a reproduction of this letter given in Thwaite's "Life of Daniel Boone," only a transcription is given here: October the 17th, 1816 "Dear Sister With Pleasuer I red a later from your sun Samuel Boone who informs me that you are yet Living and in good health considering your age I wright to you to Latt you know I have not forgot you and to inform you of my own situation Sence the Death of y our Sister Rabacah I Live with flanders Calaway But am at present at my sun Nathans and in tolerable halth you can gass at my feilings by your own as we are So Near one age I Need Not write you of our Satuation as Samuel Bradley or James Grimes ' Can inform you of Every Surcomstance Relating to our family and how we live in this World and what Chance we shall have in the next we know Not for my part I am as ignerant as a Child all the Relegan I have to Love and fear God beleve in Jeses C hrist Dow all the good to my Nighbours and my Self that I can and Do as Little Harm as I can help and trust on God's marcy for the Rest and I Beleve god never made a man of my prinsepal to be Lost and I flatter myself Dear Sister that you are wel l on your way in Cristianaty gave my Love to all your Children and all my frends fearwell my Dear Sister Daniel Boone Mrs Sarah Boone N B I red a Lator yesterday from Sister Hanah peninton by hir gand sun Dal Ringe She and all hir Chilfren are well at present D B" |
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20. | Daniel I Boone (Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 22 OCT 1734 in Oley, Pa. Later Exeter Township, Berks County, Pa., and died 26 SEP 1820 in Femme Osage, St. Charles County, Missouri. He married Rebecca Bryan 14 AUG 1756 in Yadkin Valley, NC. ( Bryan Settlement), daughter of Joseph Bryan and Alice ( Aylee) Linville. She was born 9 JAN 1738/39 in Western Virginia, and died 18 MAR 1813 in Warren County, Missouri. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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21. | Mary Boone (Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 3 NOV 1736 in Exeter Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, and died 1819. She married William (Billy) Morgan Bryan , Sr. 1755 in Rowan Co., NC, son of Morgan Bryan , Sr. and Martha Strode. He was born 1733, and died 7 MAY 1780. | ||||
William Jennings Bryan was a cousin to the
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23. | Squire Boone Jr. (Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 5 OCT 1744 in Pennsyvania, and died ABT AUG 1815 in Indiana. He married Jane Van Cleve 8 AUG 1765. She was born 16 OCT 1749, and died 10 MAR 1829. | ||||||||
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26. | George Boone (Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 2 JAN 1737/38 in Exeter Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, and died 11 NOV 1820 in Shelby County, Kentucky. He married Ann Linville ABT 1764, daughter of William Linville and Elenor Bryan. She was born BET 1727 AND 1753, and died 28 MAR 1814. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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27. | Joseph Boone Jr. (Joseph Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 1730, and died 1776 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Warren BET 1747 AND 1772. She was born BET 1726 AND 1749, and died BET 1772 AND 1836. | ||||||||||||||||
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28. | John Boone (Benjamin Boone4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 1727 in Gwynedd, Berks County Pa., and died 1762. He married Rebecca Bryan BET 1749 AND 1761. She was born 1737, and died 1820. | ||||
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37. | Susannah Boone (Daniel I Boone5, Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 2 NOV 1760 in Culpeper County, Va., and died 19 OCT 1800 in Femme Osage, St. Charles County, Missouri. She married William (Will) Hays Sr. MAR 1775 in Moores Fort (Fort Blackmore) Va.. He was born 13 DEC 1754 in North Carolina, and died 13 DEC 1804 in Femme Osage, St. Charles County, Missouri. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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38. | Jemima Boone (Daniel I Boone5, Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 4 OCT 1762 in Culpeper County, Va., and died 30 AUG 1834 in Charette, Warren County, Missouri. She married Flanders Callaway 1777 in Boonesborough, Ky., son of James Callaway and Sarah Unknown. He was born 9 DEC 1752 in Bedford County, Va., and died 1829 in Charette, Warren County, Missouri. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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39. | Levina Boone (Daniel I Boone5, Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 23 MAR 1766 in Yadkin Valley, NC. ( Bryan Settlement), and died 6 APR 1802 in Boone's Station, Clark County, Ky.. She married Joseph Scholl Sr. 1785 in Boone's Station, Clark County, Ky., son of William Scholl and Leah Morgan ( Scholl). He was born 1755, and died ABT 1835 in Boone's Station, Clark County, Ky.. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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40. | Rebecca Boone (Daniel I Boone5, Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 26 MAY 1768 in Upper Yadkin Valley near Wilkesboro, N.C., and died 14 JUL 1805 in Clark County, Ky.. She married Phillip Goe 1784 in Limestone, Ky. He was born 24 MAR 1767, and died MAR 1805 in Nicholas County, Ky.. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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42. | Jesse Bryan Boone (Daniel I Boone5, Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 23 MAY 1773 in Upper Yadkin Valley near Wilkesboro, N.C., and died 1820 in Missouri. He married Chloe Van Bibber BET 1788 AND 1812, daughter of John Van Bibber and Chloe Staniford. She was born 13 AUG 1772. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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44. | Nathan Boone (Daniel I Boone5, Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 3 MAR 1781 in Boone's Station, Fayette County, Ky, and died 16 NOV 1856 in Headwaters of Osage River, Ash Grove, Green County, Mo.. He married Olive Van Bibber 26 SEP 1799 in Limestone, Ky, daughter of Peter Van Bibber , Jr. and Margary ( Major) Bounds. She was born 13 JAN 1783 in Greenbriar County, Ky., and died 12 NOV 1858 in Ash Grove, Mo.. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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51. | John Boone (George Boone5, Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 1769 in Shelby County, Kentucky, and died 1845 in Callaway County, Missouri. He married Mary (Polly) Morris 6 DEC 1791. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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57. | Samuuel Boone (George Boone5, Squire Boone Sr.4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 15 JAN 1782 in Madison County, Kentucky, and died 19 SEP 1869 in Callaway County, Missouri. He married Ann Simpson BET 1796 AND 1830 in 1796-1830. She was born BET 1766 AND 1791, and died BET 1809 AND 1878. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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63. | Benjamin Boone (John Boone5, Benjamin Boone4, George Boone III3, George Boone II2, George Boone I1) was born 1754 in Yadkin Valley, NC. ( Bryan Settlement), and died 1836 in Tennessee. He married Rebecca Davis. He married Mary Wilson BET 1777 AND 1806. She was born 1765 in Yadkin Valley, NC. ( Bryan Settlement), and died 1823 in Tennessee. | ||||
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