Squire Boone

• Birth 25 November 1696, Devonshire, England
• Death 16 January 1765, Rowan County, North Carolina, Colonial America
• Burial Joppa Cemetery, Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina,
• Father George Boone III (1666-1744)
• Mother Mary Maugridge (1669-1740)

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Spouses

1 Sarah Morgan

• Birth 23 September 1700 in Gwynedd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,
• Death 1 January 1777 in Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina,
• Burial Joppa Cemetery, Mocksville, Davies County, North Carolina, United States
• Father Edward Morgan
• Mother Elizabeth Jarman
• Marriage 23 September 1720, Gwynedd Church, Burke County, Pennsylvania, Colonial America

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Children:

• Squire Jr. (1744-1815)
• Sarah Cassandra (1724-1815)
• Israel (1726-1756)
• Samuel (1728-1808)
• Jonathan (1730-1808)
• Elizabeth (1732-1814)
• Daniel (1734-1820)
• Mary (1736-1819)
• George (1739-1820)
• Edward (1740-1780)
• Hannah (1746-1828)

Notes for Squire Boone

He had 11 children, one of which was Daniel Boone and another was Squire Boone Jr., who was the father of Sarah Boone, who married John Willcockson (Wilcox). After Squire's marriage they settled first at Bucks County and lived there till 1730. This is where several of his children, including Daniel, were born. They finally ended in North Carolina in 1753 after stopping in Virginia for two years. He and his wife, Sarah, are buried at the old Joppa Cemetery at Mocksville, Davie County. North Carolina where their stones stood, now almost destroyed by vandals and enclosed in an iron cage. Part of the time that they lived in this area they had to flee for some time because of Indian problems.
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Boone Family History by Mayfield says that he was born November 25, 1696. He was a weaver like his father and supplemented his income by farming. He had 5 or 6 looms that he used. He was described as a strong wiry man, rather small in statue, of ruddy complexion with red hair and gray eyes. He sold his land in Burke County, Pennsylvania on 11 April 1750 and arrived in North Carolina in 1752. It is said that here he was a farmer weaver and blacksmith. He also was Justice of Peace in Rowan County, North Carolina and married his son Daniel to Rebecca Bryan
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Boone Family by Carter says that he as born 25 November 1696. He spelled the name of the cemetery where Squire Boone was buried as Joppa Cemetery. He was dismissed from the Quaker Church in 1748 because he allowed two of his children to marry non-members.
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Boone Family by Spraker says that Squire Boone was born 25 November 1696. Also that he died 2 January, 1765 in Rowan County, North Carolina
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OUR BOONE FAMILIES by Sarah Ridge Rockenfield says that Squire Boone was born Nov. 25 1698 and married 23 Sept 1720.
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THE TEA-BOONE CONNECTION says that Squire Boone was born 25 Nov. 1696 and died abt 1744 -----------------------------------------------------------------
From BOONE FAMILIES IN DAVIES COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA

Squire Boone was licensed to operate a public house (Tavern ) at his own plantation and Israel Boone, a publick house where he now lives. Inscriptions on historical markers in Davie County, North Carolina, Pg 11. Boone tract in 1753 Lord Granville granted 640 acres on Bear Creek to Squire Boone who sold it in 1759 to his son Daniel. This was a part of the original Boone tract. Daniel Boone's parents - Squire and Sarah Boone - are buried here.

Daniel Boone, 1734 to 1820, lived many years in this region. Inscription on gravestone at Joppa Cemetery near Mocksville, Davie County, Highway 601 North:

SQUIRE BOONE DEPARTED THIS LIFE THEY SIXTY NINE YEARS OF HIS AGE. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1765 . SARAH BOONE DEPARTED THIS LIFE 1777 aged 77 ----------------------------------------------------------------

From SQUIRE BOONE AND HIS DESCENDANTS Pg 357 Squire Boone born Nov 25 1696 England died in N.C. married June 13 1720 to Sarah Morgan born 1700 died 1777 in N.C. They lived in Oley Twp Berks Co.Penn. near his father George and mother Mary and moved to the Shenandoah Valley after 1750 in Va. Squire moved on to Rowan Co, later called Davie Co., N/C. in 1753. John, son of Benjamin Boone, nephew of the Squire, is said to be buried beside Squire and Sarah Boone at the Joppa Cemetery in N.C. near Salisbury. -----------------------------------------------------------------

From The Boone Bulletin Vol 1 June 1929 Squire Boone, son of George and May in the 5? year of his age moved from Pa. to Ran Co. N.C., with all his children and lived there till his death, which was in the 65 th year of his age A,D. 1764 and was buried in said Roan Co.in the fork of Yadkin River about then miles above the fork on a place called Burning Ring. His wife Sarah died in the 72 nd year of her age and in the year of our Lord 1776 and was buried in the same burying ground beside her husband

IMM:The Greater Tallman Family Newsletter Spring Issue, No. 5 1986 page 2

Squire Boone-81 the son of George Boone III-75 born 25 November Old Style or 6 December New S tyle, 1696, in Devonshire, England; He died 2 January, 1755 in Rowen County, North Carolina . Married 23 Sept., 1720, in Berks Co., Pennsylvania, to Sarah Morgan-2884 who was born in 1700; and died in 1777, according to supposed headstone. She is the daughter of Edward Morgan, an early settler of the Welsh colony of Gwynedd in Berks Co., Pennsylvania. Squire Boone accompanied his elder brother and sister to America a few years before the parents came in 1717.

His marriage to Sarah Morgan is recorded in the records of the Society of Friends as follows:

Marriage

Marriage of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan.

Whereas, Squire Boone, son of George Boone of the county of Philadelphia and Province of Pennsylvania, yeoman, and Sarah Morgan, daughter of Edward Morgan of the said county and province, having declared their intentions of marriage with each other before two monthly meetings of ye people called Quakers, held at Gwynedd in the said county, according to ye good order used among them, whose proceedings therein, after deliberate consideration, and having consent of parents and relations concerned therein, their said proceedings as allowed of by said meeting. Now these are to certify whom it may concern that for the full accomplishment of their said intentions this 23d day of ye 7th month in the year of our Lord 1720, the said Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan appeared at their public meeting-place in Gwynedd aforesaid, and the said Squire Boone took the said Sarah Morgan by the hand (and) did in a solemn manner declare that he took her to be his wife, promising to be unto her a faithful and loving husband, until death should separate them, and then and there in the said assembly the said Sarah Morgan did likewise declare, (etc. etc.)

Signed SQUIRE BOONE

SARAH BOONE

Witnesses George,

Edward and Elizabeth Morgan G

George and James Boone

William, John and Daniel Morgan and 31 others

After their marriage Squire and Sarah Boone first settled in Bucks County, Pa., if we may accept local tradition there and the following statement which appeared in a newspaper clipping sent to the compiler who has, however, been unable to ascertain the names of either the news paper or the writer of the article.

"Old Boone Homestead.--Finely located on rising ground, overlooking the Upper

Neshaminy, in New Britain Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, stands a fine old stone house which, though remodeled and added to by later owners, gives evidence of the age accredited to a portion of the walls. It was the eastern portion of this building, including the one-story structure and part of the main house, that was the home of Squire Boone, the father of the intrepid Kentucky pioneer, Daniel Boone, until 1730."

We are certain, however, that Squire and his family returned to Berks County (then Phila. County), and in 1730 settled on a farm in Oley township, Philadelphia County. (now Exeter township, Berks County.) not far from the homestead of his father George Boone III, both being only a few miles from the present city of Reading. This property Squire Boone bought from Ralph Asheton of the City of Philadelphia, the twentieth day of November, 1730. Nine of their children were born on this farm, the first three having been born previous to the purchase of the property. A plain two-story house of stone now stands on the site of the original farmhouse, replacing the first log structure. It is said that the stone foundation and cellar belonged to the log house first built by Squire Boone.According to a contemporary, Daniel's father was a man of small stature, with a fair complexion, red hair, and blue-gray eyes; his mother was a large woman, strong and a active with dark eyes and black hair. ("Daniel Boone" by John Mack Faragher, 1992).

He had a weaving business in Exeter with five or six looms. Ibid.

Expelled by the Exeter Friends in 1748 for having allowed two of his children to marry "worldlings" -- people outside the Quaker faith. Ibid.

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Birth Date 11/25/1696 12/6/1696

Squire - B. 25 November 1696, Devonshire, England
Sarah Morgan - B. 1700

Hanna's Siblings:

01 Sarah
02 Israel
03 Samuel
04 Jonathan
05 Elizabeth
06 *Daniel - B: 1734, Berkins County, PA, D: 25 SEP 1820, MD
07 Mary
08 George
09 Edward
10 Nathaniel
11 Squire
12 Hanna

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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rice/master2-o/p5.htm#i278

Squire Boone, Sr was born on 25 November 1696 at Bradwich, England. He was the son of George Boone III and Mary Magridge. Squire Boone , Sr married Sarah Morgan, daughter of Edward Morgan and Elizabeth Jarman, on 17 July 1720. Squire Boone, Sr died on 2 January 1765 at Rowan County, North Carolina, at age 68.

Children of Squire Boone , Sr and Sarah Morgan

Sarah Boone+ b. 18 May 1724
Isarel Boone b. 9 May 1726
Samuel Boone b. 20 May 1728
Jonathan Boone+ b. 6 Dec 1730
Elizabeth Boone b. 5 Feb 1730/31
Daniel Boone+ b. 22 Oct 1734, d. 26 Sep 1820
Mary Boone b. 3 Nov 1736
George Boone b. 2 Jan 1737/38
Edward Boone b. 19 Nov 1740
Squire Boone , Jr b. 4 Oct 1744
Hannah Boone b. 24 Aug 1746

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The First 5 Generations of the George Boone Family

Presented by The Boone Society, Inc.

Updated August 21, 2008

For comments, contact Rochelle E. Cochran, Rochelle@cablelynx.com

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Document owned by the Boone Society:

(4.) 1696 Squire ye son of George Boone baptized December ye 25th

From James Boone Genealogy: “SQUIRE BOONE (son of George & Mary Boone) was born on the Fourth Day of the Week, between 11 & 12 in the Forenoon, on the 25 November 1696.”

Squire married Sarah Morgan 23 July 1720 at the Gwynned Meeting of Quakers, Berks Co, Pennsylvania. Squire died 2 January 1765 and Sarah died 1777; both buried at Mocksville, North Carolina.

(4. Children of Squire Boone)

The 12 Children of Squire & Sarah Morgan Boone: (Additional information is listed below by child number):

( 1) Sarah Boone, b. 7 June 1724

( 2) Israel Boone, b. 9 May (Old style) 1726

( 3) Samuel Boone, b. 20 May 1728

( 4) Jonathan Boone, b. 6 Dec. 1730

( 5) Elizabeth Boone, b. 5 Feb. 1732

( 6) Daniel Boone, b. 22 Oct. 1734

( 7) Mary Boone, b. 3 Nov. 1736

( 8) George Boone, b 2 Jan. 1739

( 9) Edward Boone, b. 19 Nov. 1740

(10) Nathaniel Boone, b. abt. 1742

(11) Squire Boone (Jr.), b. 5 Oct. 1744

(12) Hannah Boone, b. Aug. 1746

(1) Sarah BOONE, b 18 June 1724 (New Style) 7 June 1724 (Old Style) New Britain Twp, Bucks Co, PA d 1815 Madison Co, KY at home of her dau Elizabeth CUTBIRTH m 29 May 1742 (married out of Unity with Friends - the 1st offense of this kind). (Friends appointed to speak to the father, Squire BOONE.) John WILCOX or WILCOXSON b 6 Sept 1720 Exeter, Berks Co, PA d 3 Feb 1782 Lexington, Fayette Co, KY. P56-58 SPRAKER for details and ROCKENFIELD p357.

(2) Israel BOONE b 20 May 1726 (NS) or 9 May (OS) details p38 SPRAKER. d 26 June 1756 Yadkin, Rowan Co, NC and Daniel BOONE reared his children, d bef June 1756 in Rowan Co, NC of “consumption” as recorded by the Moravians who treated him near Winston-Salem, NC. SPRAKER says "He was testified against in Exeter Meeting for "Marrying out," Dec 31, 1747. The name of his wife is unknown, but recent mtDNA tests have proven that she was not of American Indian descent, which some have opined in recent years.

(3) Samuel BOONE, Sr b 20 May 1728 New Britain Twp, Bucks Co, PA d abt.1804 Fayette Co, KY alt 1816 SPRAKER p58-60, “Samuel Boone was one of the first of Squire Boone’s children to marry, although it is not know whether the marriage occurred in Pennsylvania or North Carolina. It is said Sarah (Day) Boone was a young Quakeress of education who taught her young brother-in-law Daniel Boone to read and write. Sarah DAY b 1730 Exeter, Berks Co, PA d 1819 at home of her son-in-law Leonard Bradley in MO.” See also ROCKENFIELD p382-388 Includes desc and p695 #35 regarding Samuel.

(4) Jonathan BOONE, See SPRAKER p60-61 for details and ROCKENFIELD p389 b 17 Dec 1730 New Britain Twp, Bucks Co, PA d 1808 Mt Carmel, Wabash Co, IL bur French Cem at Milton, Wabash Co, IL. m1 Mary CARTER b 1732 prob Cecil Co, MD d Rowan Co, NC. death date of Mary not known, however her last child Daniel was b 1775 so it was after that date. Jonathan then m Elizabeth DAGLEY 23 July 1798.

In an excerpt from a letter to Lyman Draper in Aug 1858 by Enoch M. Boone (son of Squire Boone Jr. & a nephew of Daniel Boone):

“Jonathan BOONE – came early to Kentucky – remembers him at Squire Boone’s Station as early as 1783, and tended Squire Boone’s Mill. After a few years settled on Green River and after living there several years then settled at the Big Falls of the Wabash (near Mt. Carmel, Wabash Co) on the Illinois side, not more than 15 miles if that, above the mouth of the Wabash where he built a mill. There he died abaout 1808 – don’t know where his wife died, or how old he was. Left several daughters … and three sons, John, Joseph and Daniel.”

(5) Elizabeth BOONE, See SPRAKER 61-64 details and ROCKENFIELD p 392, b 1 Feb 1733 New Britain Twp, Bucks Co, PA d 25 Feb 1814 (alt 24 Feb 1814) Boone's Station, Fayette Co, KY bur abt 12 miles NE of Lexington, KY on private property - visitors welcome. Married William GRANT, 11 b 22 Feb 1726 Scottish Highlands d 22 Jan 1804 age 78 Fayette Co, KY. They married abt 1750 on the Yadkin River, Rowan Co, NC. His DAR ID 35402 V36 P149.

(6) Daniel BOONE, See SPRAKER 64-65 details and ROCKENFIELD p397-404 in depth details b 22 Sept 1734 Exeter, Berks Co, PA d 26 Sept 1820 Marthasville, St Charles Co, MO m Aug 14, 1756 to Rebecca BRYAN b 9 Jan 1739 Frederick Co, VA d 18 March 1813 Marthasville, St Charles Co, MO where they both were originally buried and that grave is marked there. (There is the dispute of reburial to Kentucky of Daniel and Rebecca). DAR ID NO 35404 V36 p150 also 38294.

(7) Mary BOONE, See SPRAKER p 65-67 details and ROCKENFIELD p444-445 details b 14 Nov 1736 Exeter, Berks Co, PA d 6 July 1819 Ravens Creek, Harrison Co, KY at the home of her step son John SMITH. Mary m1 William Morgan BRYAN, Capt b 7 March 1773 Orange Co, VA d 30 May 1780 Bryan Station, Fayette Co, KY. On 19 Sept 1818 in Pendleton Co, KY Mary m2 General Charles SMITH, Jr b 15 April 1735 of Harrison Co, KY d 26 Oct 1821 Harrison Co, KY. This was m3 for Genl SMITH.

(8) George BOONE, See SPRAKER 67-72 details and ROCKENFIELD p444,694 b 13 Jan 1739 Exeter, Berks Co, PA d 14 Nov 1820 Richmond, Shelby Co, KY bur In the old George BOONE/Robert HARRIS graveyard, Cross Plains, Madison Co, KY. 11 Nov 1764 Rowan Co, NC (alt 28 Nov 1764) married Nancy Ann LINVILLE b 1744 Frederick Co, VA d 28 March 1814 Richmond, Shelby Co, KY. HIs DAR ID NO 164943 V165 p288 and also #161074.

(9) Edward 'Ned" BOONE, See SPRAKER p70-72 details and ROCKENFIELD p444, 694 b 30 Nov 1740 Exeter, Berks Co, PA d 6 Oct 1780 m Martha BRYAN b abt 1737 Winchester, Frederick Co, VA d abt 23 July 1793 (date will probated) Boone's Creek, Clark Co, KY

Edward was killed by Indians while returning from the Blue Licks with his brother Daniel Boone where they had gone to make salt and do some hunting. They stopped at a stream in Bourbon County and Edward sat down on a log to watch the horses while Daniel went off in the cane in search of game. A small band of Indians shot and killed Edward. Daniel escaped, and returned the next day with men from Boone Station where they and their families were living at the time, and they buried Edward there where he had been killed. Draper letters report that in about 1827, some of Edward's bones were left exposed from flooding, and the Rev. Richard Thomas collected the bones and reburied them at the Rockbridge Baptist Church nearby. For more information about the life and death, burial and reburial of Edward Boone and source documents, plese see www.boonesociety.com and click on the tab “Articles.”

(10) Nathaniel Boone, b. abt. 1742 (died an infant) This may be new information for some, therefore, an extensive documentation follows. The Boone Society gratefully acknowledges the research of Society member Kathryn Weiss for documenting Nathaniel Boone as a child of Squire & Sarah Morgan Boone. Here is documented her findings:

“Two independent, yet strikingly similar accounts of the children of Squire Boone, Sr. and Sarah Morgan were made in: Samuel Bryan’s 1830 History of the Bryans attached to his Revolutionary War pension; and Captain Samuel Boone’s 1855 letter to frontier historian Lyman Draper. Both Samuel Bryan and Samuel Boone were grandsons of Squire and Sarah M. Boone, and the two men (who were first cousins) were naming their Boone aunts and uncles for posterity. Both Samuel Boone and Samuel Bryan named a twelfth child, Nathaniel, for their grandparents Squire Boone, Sr. and Sarah Morgan. Samuel Bryan wrote in his brief History of the Bryans in 1830,

“William, my father comeing to the age of 22 years married Mary Boone daughter of Squire Boone the 1, and sister of Colo. Daniel Boone the explorer and settler of Kentucky. Squire Boone who was from the west of England to Pennsylvania where he maried Sarah Morgan, of welch extraction by whom he had twelve children, Eight Sons, and four daughters, which were named Sarah, Israel, Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Daniel, Mary*, George, Nathaniel, Edward, Squire, and Hannah; with his wife and these children he remov,d from Pensylvania to Rowan County in North Carolina…” (NARA:W9366)

“Captain Samuel Boone, (1782-1869) was a son of George Boone and Ann Linville. Samuel Boone wrote to Lyman Draper, Sept. 10, 1855: “Some time in the year 1717, George Boone Grandfather of the late Col. Daniel Boone came from england and Brought with him I think seven sons and settled all or the most of them in the state of pensylvania. Squire Boone one of the seven sons married Sarah Morgan and settled in Bucks County where they raised the following number of Children to wit: eight sons and four Daughters first Israel; second Samuel; third Jonathan; fourth Daniel; fifth George; sixth Nathaniel who died when young; seventh Squire; eighth Edward. Daughters: first Sarah who married a Willcox; second Elizibeth married William Grant; third Mary Bryan; fourth Hannah who married John Stewart.” (WHS: DM22C67).

(11) Squire BOONE, Jr For details, see SPRAKER 72-83 and ROCKENFIELD p357/473/695 b 16 Oct 1744 Exeter, Berks Co, PA d 15 Aug 1815 Buck Creek, Harrison Co, IN (Corydon) buried in Cave by request, m 8 Aug 1765 Yadkin, Rowan Co, NC to Jane VanCLEVE b 16 Oct 1749 NJ d 10 March 1829 Meade Co, KY at the home of son Enoch Morgan BOONE. Squire DAR ID NO 35260 V36 p95.

(12) Hannah BOONE, See SPRAKER p83-85 and ROCKENFIELD p492,500 b 22 Aug 1746 Exeter, Berks Co, PA d 9 April 1828 Tompkinsville, Monroe Co, KY at the home of her son Daniel PENNINGTON. buried Mill Creek Baptist Church graveyard, then gravestone moved to Old Mulkey Meeting House, Ky State Park in late 1920's. 26 April 2003 marker dedicated by descendants at Old Mulkey Meetinghouse. On 14 Feb 1765 in Yadkin, Rowan Co, NC, Hannah m John STUART (STEWART) b 1744 PA and killed by Indians Jan 1770. (Rockenfield has 22 Dec 1770). He was shot and killed by Shawnee Indians and his body found five years later in a standing hollow Sycamore Tree. Hannah m2 Richard Pennington 15 May 1777 in Rowan Co, NC and they soon settled in White Co, TN. Richard PENNINGTON b 1748 PA>Wilkes Co, NC d 21 Dec 1813 Sparta, White Co, TN and there was a Monument dedication for him 3 Sept 2005 at Bethlehem Church in Doyle.

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Document owned by the Boone Society:

(4.) 1696 Squire ye son of George Boone baptized December ye 25th

From James Boone Genealogy: “SQUIRE BOONE (son of George & Mary Boone) was born on the Fourth Day of the Week, between 11 & 12 in the Forenoon, on the 25 November 1696.”

Squire married Sarah Morgan 23 July 1720 at the Gwynned Meeting of Quakers, Berks Co, Pennsylvania. Squire died 2 January

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Squire Boone, Sr

Birth: 1696, England

Death: 1765

Mocksville

Davie County

North Carolina, USA

Squire Boone, third child of George III and Mary Boone, was the father of Daniel Boone the famous frontiersman.

SQUIRE BOONE Born 25 Nov 1696 (O.S.) Devonshire, England Died 02 Jan 1765 Rowan County, North Carolina. Married Sarah Morgan 23 Sep 1720 (O.S.) Philadelphia County, PA Born 1700 Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Died 1777 Rowan County, North Carolina.

Squire Boone's significance to this genealogy, however, is due to his influence upon his nephew John Boone in settling in North Carolina. On April 11, 1750, Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone sold their land in Berks County and left with their family, including their sixteen-year-old son Daniel, who was destined to become the most celebrated frontiersman in America. The Boones stopped for a year or more in Linville Creek, six miles north of Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was not until the late autumn of 1751, or some time in 1752, that Squire Boone and his party reached the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina. For his first home site Squire chose a hill overlooking the Yadkin River in the area which soon became a part of Rowan County but which is now in Davidson County. At the first County Court held in Salisbury in June, 1753, Squire Boone was listed as one of the fourteen justices. His residence was given as Boone's Ford. Later in that year, on December 29, Squire acquired land on the western side of the Yadkin River in what is now Davie County, but Rowan County at that time. The grant was for 640 acres on Bear Creek from the Earl of Granville.

Burial::

Joppa Cemetery; Mocksville; Davie County; North Carolina, USA

Find A Grave Memorial# 29138895

Note: Father of Daniel Boone

Squire Boone was born in Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England to George Boone III & Mary Milton Maugridge; he had the following siblings: George Boone IV, Sarah Boone Stover, Mary Boone b. in 1694 d. 1696; Mary Boone b. 1699 d. 1744, John Boone, Joseph Boone, Benjamin Boone, James Boone, & Samuel Boone.

Squire married Sarah Morgan on 4 Oct 1720 in Berks Co., PA; they had the following children: Sarah Cassandra, Israel Boone (buried at Joppa Cem.), Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth Boone Grant, Daniel Boone (famous pioneer), Jacob, Mary Boone Bryan, George W., Edward, Nathaniel, Squire Boone Jr. (died young), and Hannah Boone Stewart Pennington.

Squire had accompanied his brother George, and his sister, Sarah, to America ahead of their parents.

Burial:

Joppa Cemetery, Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina, USA

Source: Find A Grave Memorial# 8318855. www.findagrave.com

Burial:

Joppa Cemetery , Mocksville
Davie County, North Carolina, USA

SOURCE: Find A Grave Memorial# 29105422. www.findagrave.com

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Squire Boone came to America in 1717 to Oley Township in Bucks County, which later became Berks County in 1752, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a weaver by trade.

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Squire Boone had 11 children, one of which was Daniel Boone and another was Squire Boone Jr. who was the father of Sarah Boone who married John Wilcockson. After Squire's marriage they settled first at Bucks Co. and lived there till 1730. This is where several of his children including Daniel were born. They finially ended in North Carolina in 1753 after stopping in Virginia for two years. He and his wife, Sarah, are buried at the old Joppa Cemetery at Mocksville, Davie Co. N.C. where their stones stood, now almost destroyed by vandals and enclosed in an iron cage. Part of the time that they lived in this area they had to flee for some time because of Indians problems. -------------------------------------------------------

Squire Boone was significant to the Boone family due to his influence upon his nephew John Boone in settling in North Carolina. On April 11, 1750, Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone sold their land in Berks County and left with their family, including their sixteen-year-old son Daniel, who was destined to become the most celebrated frontiersman in America. The Boones stopped for a year or more in Linville Creek, six miles north of Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was not until the late autumn of 1751, or some time in 1752, that Squire Boone and his party reached the Yadkin Valley in North Carolina. For his first home site Squire chose a hill overlooking the Yadkin River in the area which soon became a part of Rowan County but which is now in Davidson County. At the first County Court held in Salisbury in June, 1753, Squire Boone was listed as one of the fourteen justices. His residence was given as Boone's Ford. Later in that year, on December 29, Squire acquired land on the western side of the Yadkin River in what is now Davie County, but Rowan County at that time. The grant was for 640 acres on Bear Creek from the Earl of Granville.

As indicated earlier, the primary significance of Squire Boone's migration to North Carolina, so far as these narratives are concerned, lies in the fact that he was accompanied or joined soon afterwards by his nephew John Boone, son of Benjamin and Ann Farmer Boone.

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Document owned by the Boone Society:

"1696 Squire ye son of George Boone baptized December ye 25th"

From James Boone Genealogy: “SQUIRE BOONE (son of George & Mary Boone) was born on the Fourth Day of the Week, between 11 & 12 in the Forenoon, on the 25 November 1696.”

"Squire married Sarah Morgan 23 July 1720 at the Gwynned Meeting of Quakers, Berks Co, Pennsylvania. Squire died 2 January 1765 and Sarah died 1777; both buried at Mocksville, North Carolina."

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Emigration in 1713 from England...Quaker religion

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Squire accompanied his elder brother and sister to America a few years before the parents came in 1717.

His marriage to Sarah Morgan is recorded in the records of the Society of Friends.

(From Wini Needham Salyer's family history.)

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Came from the west of England to Pennsylvania

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Emigrated tomPennsylvania in 1713, according to Wiki.

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Notes for SQUIRE BOONE: Squire Boone was a son of George Boone III and Mary Mogridge (Maugridge) who emigrated from Bradninch, Devonshire, England, to Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, arriving on 29 September 1717 (O.S.).(1) Sarah Morgan was a daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Morgan of Towamencin Township in Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania. The parents of Edward Morgan have not been proved but he has been identified as the son of Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet of Llantarnam in Monmouthshire (now Gwent), Wales, and his first wife Ann Hopton of Canon Frome.(2) The maiden name of Edward's wife Elizabeth has not been determined. When the first six children of George Boone and Mary Mogridge were born, the Boones were members of the Church of England and their baptisms were recorded in the register of Bradninch Parish. The Anglican church in Bradninch is St. Disen's which was built in the middle of the 15th Century. Squire was baptized on 25 December 1696 (O.S.):(3)

1690 George the son of George Boone bap the 20 day of July
1692 Sarah ye daughter of George boone bapt 28 day of March
1694 Mary ye daughter of George boone bap the 26th day of Sept
1696 Squire ye son of George Boone bap Dec 25th

1699 Mary ye daughter of George Boone bap Oct ye 15th
1701/2 John son of George Boone bap Jan ye 30th
The first daughter named Mary died and was buried on 20 May 1696.(4) Since subsequent children of George and Mary Mogridge Boone apparently were not baptized in Bradninch, they must have been converted to Quakerism before their son Joseph was born on 05 April 1704 (O.S.).

Squire Boone and his older brother and sister, George Boone IV and Sarah Boone, preceded their parents and younger siblings to Pennsylvania, arriving before 27 July 1713 (O.S.) when George IV married Deborah Howell, daughter of William and Mary Howell, at Abingdon Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Although it does not appear that Squire and Sarah Boone joined Abingdon Meeting, as did their brother after his marriage, they probably resided in Abingdon with or near him until their parents arrived there. After a few months at Abingdon, the Boone family, except George IV, moved to North Wales Township in Philadelphia County where they attended the Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of the Friends which George Boone III joined in 1717:(5) 10-31, 1717George Boone, Sr. Produced a Certificate of his Good Life and Conversation from the Monthly Meeting att Callumpton In Great Britain wch was read and well recd.

Cullompton is a town in Devonshire, northeast of Bradninch about a mile up the River Culm. Bradninch is about eight miles from the city of Exeter.(6)

By 1720 the Boones had moved again, settling on a farm in Oley Township in Philadelphia County, which was included in Exeter Township when it was set-off from Oley in 1741. The family attended Gwynedd Meeting until 25 August 1737 (O.S.) when a new church was organized as Oley Monthly Meeting which was re-named Exeter Monthly Meeting on 27 May 1742 (O.S.).(7) The Boone land was located the part of Philadelphia County that became Lancaster County when that county was created and Berks County in 1752. Being from near Exeter, England, perhaps the Boones influenced the selection of the name Exeter for the new township in which their land was located. Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan apparently met at Gwynedd Meeting where, following Quaker custom, they announced to the group that they intended to get married:(8)

5-26, 1720Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan declare intentions: Caddr Evans and Robert Jones Catherine William and Ganior Jones to inquire.
6-30, 1720Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan, 2nd time Caddr Evans and Robert Jones to see the marriage orderly accomplished.
7-27, 1720Marriage of Squire Boone reported decently accomplished.
Squire and Sarah were married on the 23rd day of the 07th month 1720:(9)

Whereas Squire Boone Son of George Boone of ye County of Philad & Province of Pensilvania Yeoman and Sarah Morgan Daughter of Edw Morgan of the Said County and Province Haveing Declared Their Intention of Marriage of Each Other before two Monthly Meetings of ye People Called Quakers Held at Gwynedd in ye Said County According to ye Good Order Used Among Them Whose Proceedings Therein After a Diliberate Consideration Therein and haveing Consent of Parents and Relation Concerned Their Said Proceedings Are Allowed of By Ye Said Meeting Now These Are to Certify All Whom it may Concern that for ye Full Accomplishing of Their Said Intentions This Twenty Third Day of ye Seventh Month In ye Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty They ye Sd. Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan Appeared At A Solemn Assembly of ye Said People for ye Purpose Appointed at Their Publick meeting Place In Gwynedd Afforesd And ye Said Squire Boone Took ye Said Sarah Morgan by ye Hand Did In A Solemn Manner Openly Declare he Took her To Be his Wife Promising To be Unto Her A Faithfull and Loveing Husband Untill Death Should Seperate Them And Then & There In the Said Assembly the said Sarah Morgan Did Likewise Declare She Took ye Said Squire Boone To be her Husband In Like Manner Promiseing to be Unto him a Faithfull and Loveing Wife Untill Should Seperate Them And Moreover The Said Squire Boone & Sarah She According to ye Custom of Marriage Assuming ye Name of Her Husband as Farther Confirmation Thereof Did Then and There to these presents Set There Hands And We Whose Names Are Under Written Being Among Others Present at ye Solemnization of the Said Marriage And Subscription in Manner Afforesd As Witnesses Thereunto have also to These Presents Set Our Hands ye Day & Year Above Written

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Father of famous frontiersman Daniel Boone. Arrived in America in 1717 at Philadelphia Pa.

From the Wikipedia page on Daniel Boone - "In Boone's youth, his family became a source of controversy in the local Quaker community when two of the oldest children married outside the endogamous community, in present-day Lower Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania. In 1742, Boone's parents were compelled to publicly apologize after their eldest child, Sarah, married John Willcockson, a "worldling" (non-Quaker). Because the young couple had "kept company", they were considered "married without benefit of clergy". When the Boones' oldest son Israel married a "worldling" in 1747, Squire Boone stood by him. Both men were expelled from the Quakers; Boone's wife continued to attend monthly meetings with their younger children.In 1750, Squire Boone sold his land and moved the family to North Carolina. Daniel Boone did not attend church again. He identified as a Christian and had all of his children baptized. The Boones eventually settled on the Yadkin River, in what is now Davie County,[9] about two miles (3 km) west of Mocksville. This was in the western backwoods area."

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Squire Boone was born to a family of Quakers in Devonshire, England. Squire Boone immigrated to Pennsylvania in early 1713 along with his older siblings George Boone and Sarah Boone to join William Penn's colony of dissenters. Squire Boone's parents, George Boone III and Mary Maugridge, followed their son to Pennsylvania in 1717, and in 1720 built a log cabin at Boonecroft.

Squire settled in Abington Township, Montgomery County, PA but then moved to Lower Gwynedd Township, PA. There he met Sarah Morgan, daughter to a family of Quakers from Wales, who had settled in 1708 in the area which became Towamencin Township of Montgomery County. In 1730, the Boones moved to Exeter Township in the Oley Valley of Berks County, near the modern city of Reading. There they built a 1 1⁄2-story log house on 250 acres, partially preserved today as the Daniel Boone Homestead. One wall was built of native stone. The basement of the house served as a springhouse. It provided easy access to water for cleaning, cooking and drinking. The springhouse also was useful for cold storage.

Squire Boone expanded his property in 1741 when he purchased 25 acres (100,000 m2) of land for use as a pasture for his dairy cattle. Squire Boone was a blacksmith and weaver. The responsibility for tending the cattle was given to his son Daniel. During the summer months he stayed in a rustic cabin at the edge of the pasture. From there he was able to protect the cattle from predators such as the black bear, bobcat, and mountain lions.

Squire's family became a source of controversy in the local Quaker community when two of the oldest children married outside the endogamous community, in present-day Lower Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania. In 1742, Boone's parents were compelled to apologize publicly after their eldest child, Sarah, married John Willcockson, a "worldling" (non-Quaker). Because the young couple had "kept company", they were considered "married without benefit of clergy". When the Boones' oldest son Israel married a "worldling" in 1747, Squire Boone stood by him. Both men were expelled from the Quakers; Boone's wife continued to attend monthly meetings with their younger children.

In 1750, Squire Boone sold his land and moved the family to North Carolina. The Boones eventually settled on the Yadkin River, in what is now Davie County,[9] about two miles (3 km) west of Mocksville. This was in the western backwoods area. Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan had a total of twelve children.

Source Daniel Boone article in Wikipedia,

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Squire Boone was born in Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England to George Boone III & Mary Milton Maugridge; he had the following siblings: George Boone IV, Sarah Boone Stover, Mary Boone b. in 1694 d. 1696; Mary Boone b. 1699 d. 1744, John Boone, Joseph Boone, Benjamin Boone, James Boone, & Samuel Boone.

Some years later the family moved to Exeter, Berks County, PA.

Squire married Sarah Morgan 23 July 1720 at the Gwynned Meeting of Quakers, Berks Co, Pennsylvania. Squire died 2 January 1765 and Sarah died 1777; both buried at Mocksville, North Carolina. [Gwynedd Meeting (the location of Squire's wedding) is located in what is now Montgomery County PA. It was Philadelphia County at the time of the wedding.]

They had the following children: Sarah, Israel Boone (buried at Joppa Cem.), Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth Boone Grant, Daniel Boone (famous pioneer), Mary Boone Bryan, George W., Edward, Nathaniel, Squire Boone Jr., and Hannah Boone Stewart Pennington.

Squire had accompanied his brother George, and his sister, Sarah, to America ahead of their parents.

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Squire Boone Sr. (1696 - 1765)

Squire Boone Sr.
Born 25 Nov 1696 in Bradninch, Devonshire, England Ancestors Son of George Boone III and Mary (Maugridge) Boone Brother of George Boone IV, Sarah Adeline (Boone) Stover, Mary Boone, Mary Polly (Boone) Webb, John Boone, Joseph Boone Sr, Benjamin Maugridge Boone, Margaret Boone, James Boone and Samuel Maugridge Boone I Husband of Sarah (Morgan) Boone — married 23 Sep 1720 in Gwynedd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Descendants Father of Sarah Cassandra (Boone) Wilcoxson, Israel Boone, Samuel A. Boone, Ann Hannah (Boone) Winter, Jonathan Morgan Boone, Elizabeth L. (Boone) Grant, Daniel Boone, Mary (Boone) Bryan, George Boone, Edward Boone, Nathaniel Boone, Squire Boone Jr. and Hannah Morgan (Boone) Pennington Died 2 Jan 1765 in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina Squire Boone Sr. settled in the Southern Colonies in North America prior to incorporation into the USA. Squire Boone was born November 25, 1696 in Bradninch, Devon, England to George and Mary (Maugridge) Boone. He was born an English Quaker. Squire married Sarah Morgan September 23, 1720 in Gwynedd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania. Marriage Notes for Sarah Morgan and Squire Boone: Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan apparently met at Gwynedd Meeting where, following Quaker custom, they announced to the group that they intended to get married: 5-26, 1720. Squire and Sarah were married on the 23rd day of the 07th month 1720 Family Sarah Boone, b. 7 June 1724 Israel Boone, b. 9 May (Old style) 1726 Samuel Boone, b. 20 May 1728 Jonathan Boone, b. 6 Dec. 1730 Elizabeth Boone, b. 5 Feb. 1732 Daniel Boone, b. 22 Oct. 1734 Mary Boone, b. 3 Nov. 1736 George Boone, b 2 Jan. 1739 Edward Boone, b. 19 Nov. 1740 Nathaniel Boone, b. abt. 1742 Squire Boone (Jr.), b. 5 Oct. 1744 Hannah Boone, b. Aug. 1746 Burial JAN 1765, Joppa Cemetery, Mocksville, NC (Davie County) Note Note: At page 33, "Society of Colonial Wars" it is recorded that Squire Boone I, 1696-1765, served against the Catawba and Cherokee Indians on several occasions. He was justice for Rowen County, North Carolina. This record establishes membership for Squire Boone's descendants to the Colonial Dames of America. Squire Boone enlarged his farm by thrift. He continued his trade of weaving and kept 5 or 6 looms going making homespun cloth for the market and neighbors. The Boones were prosperous and happy in Oley and it may be wondered why they left their farms and looms, both of which were profitable, and set their faces toward the unknown. It is recorded that though they were Quakers, they were of a high mettle and were not infrequently dealt with by the Meeting. Two of Squire Boone's children married "worldlings" -- non Quakers -- and were, in consequence, disowned by the Society of Friends. In defiance of his sect which strove to make him sever all connection with his unruly offspring, Squire Boone refused to shut his door on the son and daughter who had scandalized the local Quakers. The Society of Friends thereupon expelled him. This occurred, apparently, in the winter of 1748-49. In the Spring of 1750 we see the whole Boone family (save two sons) with their wives and children, household goods and stock on the great highway bound for a land where the hot heart and belligerent spirit shall not be held amiss. They moved from Pennsylvania to Rowen County, North Carolina. Squire Boone died in his 65th year in 1764 and was buried in Rowen County at the fork of Yadkin River about ten miles above the fork on a place called Burning Rigg; his wife Sarah (Morgan) Boone died in the 72nd year in 1776 and was buried beside her husband. Note: Another record states that Squire and Sarah (Morgan) Boone are buried in Joppa graveyard near Mocksville, North Carolina. Misc. Notes Note: Inventor of the fire extinguisher: he would push water out of a gun barrel to put out flaming arrows. He was the father of Daniel Boone, famous frontiersman. said Anne was a grandmother of Abraham Lincoln. I have not looked into that. Squire was said to be a justice of the peace in NC. Another gave about 15 children for him. One of his sons was Daniel Morgan Boone born 10/22/1734.Squire came to this country with an older brother and sister a year or so before their parents. On September 23, 1720 he married Sarah Morgan, in Berks County. Squire purchased 140 acres of land in 1728 and 1730 in New Britain Township. By May 1750 Squire and family had moved to North Carolina. In NC they lived in Rowan Co.in the Yadkin district. There he served against the Catawba and Cherokee Indians on several occasions. He was also a Justice of the Peace. He died Jan. 1,1777. On his tombstone is engraved - "Squire Boone departed this life the sixty-ninth year of his age in the year of our Lord 1865". Squire's daughter, Sarah, married outside the church, bringing censure upon him. When his son Israel also married outside the church, he was disfellowed at a Society of Friends meeting. Note: One source lists daughters named Anne and Polly and a son, Nathan. It also

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GEDCOM Note

FROM THE MANUSCRIPT "OUR ANCESTRY" BY MRS. HARRY V. DIXON OF 124 NOGALES AVE. IN NORTH SACRAMENTO, CA. ON DEC. 28, 1950:

"After their marriage Squire and Sarah Boone (parents of Daniel Boone) first settled in Bucks County, PA., if we may accept local tradition. We ar certain however, that Squire and his family returned to Berks County (then Philadelphia County) and in 1730 settled on a farm in Oley Township. He emigrated to North Carolina a man of apparently little means. No actual record of this long journey to the news land of promise (North Carolina) has been left to us. There is some evidence that the Boones stopped for awhile in Virginai, probably near Winchester. In 1759 there were severe Indian outbreaks along thefrontier settlements of North Carolina, and during that time Squire Boone and his wife, with perhaps their younger children, were among the families that returned to Virginai or Maryland for a period. Sometime in the spring of 1762 Squire Boone and his wife returned to their home on the Yadkin, riding on horseback all the way from Maryland."

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EARLY LIFE Boone was born on October 22, 1734 ("New Style" November 2), the sixth of eleven children in a family of Quakers.[4][note 1] His father, Squire Boone (1696–1765), had emigrated to colonial Pennsylvania from the small town of Bradninch, England, in 1713. In 1720, Squire, a weaver and blacksmith, married Sarah Morgan (1700–1777), whose family were Quakers from Wales. In 1731, the Boones built a one-room log cabin in the Oley Valley in what is now Berks County, Pennsylvania, near present Reading, where Daniel was born.[6]

Boone spent his early years on the Pennsylvania frontier, often interacting with American Indians.[7] Boone learned to hunt from local settlers and Indians; by the age of fifteen, he had a reputation as one of the region’s best hunters.[8] Many stories about Boone emphasize his hunting skills. In one tale, the young Boone was hunting in the woods with some other boys when the howl of a panther scattered all but Boone. He calmly cocked his rifle and shot the predator through the heart just as it leaped at him. The story may be a folktale, one of many that became part of Boone’s popular image.[8]

In Boone's youth, his family became a source of controversy in the local Quaker community. In 1742, Boone's parents were compelled to publicly apologize after their eldest child Sarah married a "worldling", or non-Quaker, while she was visibly pregnant. When Boone's oldest brother Israel also married a "worldling" in 1747, Squire Boone stood by his son and was therefore expelled from the Quakers, although his wife continued to attend monthly meetings with her children. Perhaps as a result of this controversy, in 1750 Squire sold his land and moved the family to North Carolina. Daniel Boone did not attend church again, although he always considered himself a Christian and had all of his children baptized.[9] The Boones eventually settled on the Yadkin River, in what is now Davie County, North Carolina, about two miles (3 km) west of Mocksville.[10][11]

Boone received little formal education, since he preferred to spend his time hunting, apparently with his parents’ blessing. According to a family tradition, when a schoolteacher expressed concern over Boone's education, Boone's father said, "Let the girls do the spelling and Dan will do the shooting."[12] Boone was tutored by family members, though his spelling remained unorthodox. Historian John Mack Faragher cautions that the folk image of Boone as semiliterate is misleading, arguing that Boone "acquired a level of literacy that was the equal of most men of his times."[12] Boone regularly took reading material with him on his hunting expeditions—the Bible and Gulliver's Travels were favorites.[13] He was often the only literate person in groups of frontiersmen, and would sometimes entertain his hunting companions by reading to them around the campfire.[14][15]

Hunter, husband, and soldier

When the French and Indian War (1754–1763) broke out between the French, British, and their respective Indian allies, Boone joined a North Carolina militia company as a teamster and blacksmith.[17] In 1755, his unit accompanied General Edward Braddock’s attempt to drive the French out of the Ohio Country, which ended in disaster at the Battle of the Monongahela. Boone, in the rear with the wagons, took no part in the battle, and fled with the retreating soldiers.[18] Boone returned home after the defeat, and on August 14, 1756, he married Rebecca Bryan, a neighbor in the Yadkin Valley.[19] The couple initially lived in a cabin on his father's farm, and would eventually have ten children, in addition to raising eight children of deceased relatives.[20]

In 1758, conflict erupted between British colonists and the Cherokees, their former allies in the French and Indian War. After the Yadkin Valley was raided by Cherokees, the Boones and many other families fled north to Culpeper County, Virginia.[21] Boone saw action as a member of the North Carolina militia during this "Cherokee Uprising," periodically serving under Captain Hugh Waddell on the North Carolina frontier until 1760.[22]

Boone supported his growing family in these years as a market hunter and trapper, collecting pelts for the fur trade. Almost every autumn, despite the unrest on the frontier, Boone would go on "long hunts", extended expeditions into the wilderness lasting weeks or months. Boone went alone or with a small group of men, accumulating hundreds of deer skins in the autumn, and trapping beaver and otter over the winter. When the long hunters returned in the spring, they sold their take to commercial fur traders.[23] On their journeys, frontiersmen often carved messages on trees or wrote their names on cave walls, and Boone's name or initials have been found in many places. A tree in present Washington County, Tennessee, reads "D. Boon Cilled a. Bar on tree in the year 1760". A similar carving, preserved in the museum of the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, reads "D. Boon Kilt a Bar, 1803." The inscriptions may be genuine, or part of a long tradition of phony Boone relics.[24][25][26]

According to a popular story, Boone returned home after a long absence to find Rebecca had given birth to a daughter. Rebecca confessed she had thought Daniel was dead, and that Boone’s brother had fathered the child. Boone did not blame Rebecca, and raised the girl as his own child. Boone's early biographers knew the story but did not publish it.[27] Modern biographers regard the tale as possibly folklore, since the identity of the brother and the daughter vary in different versions of the tale.[28][29][30]

In the mid-1760s, Boone began to look for a new place to settle. The population was growing in the Yadkin Valley, which decreased the amount of game available for hunting. Boone had difficulty making ends meet; he was often taken to court for nonpayment of debts. He sold what land he owned to pay off creditors. After his father's death in 1765, Boone traveled with a group of men to Florida, which had become British territory after the end of the war, to look into the possibility of settling there. According to a family story, Boone purchased land in Pensacola, but Rebecca refused to move so far away from friends and family. The Boones instead moved to a more remote area of the Yadkin Valley, and Boone began to hunt westward into the Blue Ridge Mountains.[31]

Into Kentucky

It was the first of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness for a time, and left my family ... to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky.

— Daniel Boone[32]

Boone's First View of Kentucky, William Tylee Ranney (1849)

George Caleb Bingham's Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap (1851–52) is a famous depiction of Boone. Years before entering Kentucky, Boone had heard about the region’s fertile land and abundant game. In 1767, Boone and his brother Squire first crossed into what would become the state of Kentucky, but they failed to reach the rich hunting grounds.[33][34] In May 1769, Boone set out again with a party of five others, beginning a two-year hunting expedition in which Boone thoroughly explored Kentucky. His first sighting of the Bluegrass region from atop Pilot Knob became "an icon of American history," and was the frequent subject of paintings.[35]

On December 22, 1769, Boone and a fellow hunter were captured by a party of Shawnees, who confiscated all of their skins and told them to leave and never return. The Shawnees had not signed the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, in which the Iroquois had ceded their claim to Kentucky to the British. The Shawnees regarded Kentucky as their hunting ground; they considered American hunters there to be poachers.[36][37] Boone, undeterred, continued hunting and exploring in Kentucky. On one occasion, he shot a man to avoid capture, which historian John Mack Faragher says "was one of the few Indians that Boone acknowledged killing."[38] Boone returned to North Carolina in 1771, but came back to hunt in Kentucky in the autumn of 1772.[39]

In 1773, Boone packed up his family and, with his brother, Squire, and a group of about 50 others, began the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement. Boone was still an obscure figure at the time; the most prominent member of the expedition was William Russell, a well-known Virginian and future brother-in-law of Patrick Henry.[40]

Included in this group were an unknown number of enslaved Blacks, including Charles and Adam. On October 9, Boone's oldest son, James, and several whites as well as Charles and Adam left the main party to seek provisions in a nearby settlement. They were attacked by a band of Delawares, Shawnees, and Cherokees. Following the Fort Stanwix treaty, American Indians in the region had been debating what do to about the influx of settlers. This group had decided, in the words of Faragher, "to send a message of their opposition to settlement".[41] James Boone and William Russell's son, Henry, were tortured and killed. Charles was captured. Adam witnessed the horror concealed in riverbank driftwood. After wandering In the woods for 11 days, Adam located the group and informed Boone of the circumstances of their deaths. Charles's body was found by the pioneers 40 miles from the abduction site, dead from a blow to his head.[42][43] The brutality of the killings sent shockwaves along the frontier, and Boone's party abandoned their expedition.[44]

The attack was one of the first events in what became known as Dunmore's War, a struggle between Virginia and American Indians for control of what is now West Virginia and Kentucky. In the summer of 1774, Boone traveled with a companion to Kentucky to notify surveyors there about the outbreak of war. They journeyed more than 800 miles (1,300 km) in two months to warn those who had not already fled the region. Upon his return to Virginia, Boone helped defend colonial settlements along the Clinch River, earning a promotion to captain in the militia, as well as acclaim from fellow citizens. After the brief war, which ended soon after Virginia's victory in the Battle of Point Pleasant in October 1774, the Shawnees relinquished their claims to Kentucky.[45][46]

Following Dunmore's War, Richard Henderson, a prominent judge from North Carolina, hired Boone to help establish a colony to be called Transylvania.[note 2] Boone traveled to several Cherokee towns and invited them to a meeting, held at Sycamore Shoals in March 1775, where Henderson purchased the Cherokee claim to Kentucky.[48]

Boone then blazed "Boone's Trace," later known as the Wilderness Road, through the Cumberland Gap and into central Kentucky. Sam, an enslaved black “body servant,” and other enslaved laborers were among this group of settlers. When this group camped near the present day Richmond, KY, Indians attacked, killing Sam and his enslaver. After driving off the attackers, the party buried the two men side by side.[43]

He founded Boonesborough along the Kentucky River; other settlements, notably Harrodsburg, were also established at this time. Despite occasional Indian attacks, Boone brought his family and other settlers to Boonesborough on September 8, 1775.[49]

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Squire Boone was born in Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England to George Boone III & Mary Milton Maugridge; he had the following siblings: George Boone IV, Sarah Boone Stover, Mary Boone b. in 1694 d. 1696; Mary Boone b. 1699 d. 1744, John Boone, Joseph Boone, Benjamin Boone, James Boone, & Samuel Boone.

Some years later the family moved to Exeter, Berks County, PA.

Squire married Sarah Morgan 23 July 1720 at the Gwynned Meeting of Quakers, Berks Co, Pennsylvania. Squire died 2 January 1765 and Sarah died 1777; both buried at Mocksville, North Carolina. [Gwynedd Meeting (the location of Squire's wedding) is located in what is now Montgomery County PA. It was Philadelphia County at the time of the wedding.]

They had the following children: Sarah, Israel Boone (buried at Joppa Cem.), Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth Boone Grant, Daniel Boone (famous pioneer), Mary Boone Bryan, George W., Edward, Nathaniel, Squire Boone Jr., and Hannah Boone Stewart Pennington.

Squire had accompanied his brother George, and his sister, Sarah, to America ahead of their parents.

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In North Carolina, the Boone's neighbor was John Lincoln, Great Grandather of President Abraham Lincoln.

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