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Appreciation is expressed to the staff of the Davie County
Public Library, Nancy Murphy who typed the copy, and Jane
McGuire who lettered the cover.
Copyright 1982
Second Printing 1983
The Davie County Public Library
Printed by
Davie Printing Company
Mocksville, North Carolina 27028
THE SQUIRE, DANIEL, AND JOHN BOONE FAMILIES
IN
DAVIE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Compiled by
James W. Wall - Flossie Martin - Howell Boone
PREFACE:
The following is a collection of documented source materials on the
Squire, Daniel, and John Boone families who lived and owned land in Davie
County, a part of Rowan County, North Carolina, until 1836. It was
compiled to furnish authentic, documented data which will help the
researcher sort out fact from tradition, legend, and hearsay.
For further reference, see:
Records of Rowan County Deeds and the Minutes of the
Rowan County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1753-1836.
Martin Collection, Davie County Library.
Boone memoriabilia researched by Howell Boone, Davie
County Library.
Map of Davie County Land Grants by Andrew Lagle,
Historical Documentation Map by Fred Hughes, and
Historical Research Map by G. P. Stout.
Research data by North Carolina Department of Archives
and History, Martin Collection, Davie County Library.
Research data by Peter W. Hairston, Martin Collection,
Davie County Library.
Lyman C. Draper Manuscripts.
Rowan County Deed Abstracts, Jo Lynn White.
North Carolina Picadillo, J. K. Rouse.
Hi stor�r of Davie County, James W. Wall.
BOONE FAMILIES IN DAVIE COUNTY 2
A. Ownership of land in Davie County by Squire, Daniel, and Squire
Boone, Jr.
Warrant for 640 -acre tract "lying in Anson County upon Grants Creek
alias Lickon Creek including a great Timber Bottom and Paul Garrison's
Cabbin." Oct. 4, 1750.
A land survey for a tract of 640 acres dated Feb. 27, 1752, reads:
"then surveyed for Jeremiah Vail a tract of land lying in Anson
County in the Forkes of the Yadkin ... on the E. side of the path
that leads from Sandy Creek Ford to Squire Boon's It is
signed by James Carter. The location of this creek, ford, and
path or road is not known.
Squire Boone 640 -acre Granville grant "Beginning ... on the South
side of Grants Creek otherwise Licking Creek ..." (the present
Elisha Creek), and Dutchman Creek (present Davie County), April 30
(13th), 1753. Rowan Deeds, Bk. 3, p. T37. Unless otherwise noted
all deed records are from Rowan County.
Squire Boone 640 -acre Granville grant on Bear Creek (present Davie
,.ounty), Dec. 29, 1753. Bk. 39 p. 165.
Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone to Squire Boone, Jr. the 640 -acre
tract on Elisha and Dutchman creeks. Oct. 12, 1759. Bk. 49
pp. 195-197.
Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone to Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone
the 640 -acre Bear Creek tract. Oct. 12, 1759. Bk. 49 pp. 195-197.
B. Deed records pertaining to the 640 -acre tract Squire Boone owned on
present Elisha and Dutchman creeks (then Rowan County) present Davie
County.
Squire Boone 640 -acre grant on Elisha and Dutchman creeks. April 30,
(13th), 1753. Bk. 39 p. 137.
Squire and Sarc-h Morgan Boone sold this 640 -acre tract to Squire
Boone Jr. on Oct. 12, 1759. Bk. 4, p. 196.
Squire Boone Jr. sold 50 acres on "west side of Licking Creek"
to Henry Baker "being part of a tract ... sold by the Earl of
Granville to Squire Boone ... April 13, 1753. Bought by Baker
April 15, 1767. Bk. 69 p. 415.
Squire Boone Jr. sold 590 acres to Jacob Felker "on the south side
of Grants Creek otherwise Licking Creek being part of a tract
formerly granted to Squire Boone by the Earl of Granville." Bought
by Felker Sept. 24, 1767. Bk. 79 p. 255.
Jacob Felker and wife Maudlina sold this 590 -acre tract "on the
south side of Grants Creek otherwise Licking Creek ... and crossing
BOONE FAMILIES IN DAUIE COUNTY 3
It ... being part of a tract formerly belonging to Squire Boone
..." to Abraham Adams, August 16, 1770. Bk. 7, p. 254.
Abraham Adams sold this 590 -acre tract to George Mumford of
Orange County "lying on the south side of Grants Creek otherwise
Licking Creek being part of a tract formerly belonging to Squire
Boone Oct. 3, 1792. Bk. 19, p. 13.
On Jan. 24, 1803, George Mumford sold this 590 -acre tract to
his father Robinson Mumford. It is again described as "lying
on the south side of Grants otherwise Licking Creek" ... and
"being part of a tract formerly belonging to Squire Boone ...
Jacob Felker and wife Maudlina ... Abraham Adams ... and George
Mumford ...." Bk. 23, p. 923. A record of several subsequent
owners is conveniently found in North Carolina Picadillo by
J. K. Rouse, pp. 71-73.
C. Rowan County deeds, grants, and land processionings records
pertaining to the Squire Boone 640 -acre tract on Elisha and
Dutchman creeks and showing the 1750's names Grant's, Licking,
or Elisha Creek to be one and the same.
Bk. 4, p. 141 - Granville to Charles Hunter 480 acres on the
"south side of Elisha's Creek Feb. 22, 1759.
Bk. 49 p. 807 - Granville to George Logall (Lagle) 660 acres
"lying on both sides of Dutchmans and Elisha Creeks Joining
Paul Brocks, Jacob Felker, Stophel Booe & Squire Boone Jr ...."
Dec. 21, 1761.
Bk. 5, p. 152 - Granville to Peter Beam 697 acres "lying on both
sides of Dutchmans Creek and Cedar Creek & Cubb Creek joining
Squire Boone Jr and Isaac Feree". Dec. 21, 1761.
Bk. 129 p. 497 - State of North Carolina grant of 400 acres to
Jacob Booe "called whats left on the waters of Elishas Creek ...."
It cornered at a stump on "Boones Old line ...." Dec. 20, 1791.
Bk. 129 p. 421 - Lewis and Susannah Beard to John Sean 266 acres
"Lying in the forks of the Yadkin River on Lishas Creek waters of
Dutchman Creek adjoining Jacob Booe". Aug. 1, 1791.
January 9, 1815 - Land Processionings of Rowan County, p. 123 -
124, Jacob Booe processioned 59 acres "in the forks of the Yadkin
River on both sides of Lisher [Elisha] Creek formerly called
Licking Creek Being part of a tract granted by the Earl of
Granville to Squire Boone The tract adjoined Daniel Bailey,
Robertson Mumford, and George Booe. (This must have been the
tract Squire Boone Jr. sold Henry Baker April 15, 1767, as
previously noted.)
Bk. 20, p. 447 - Jacob Baker to Jacob Booe 133 3/4 acres "on the
waters of Dutchmans Creek in the forks of the Yadkin River
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adjoining the land of the said Jacob Booe, Daniel Bailey, and
Robertson Mumford, George Booe and others being part of a tract
of land where Robertson Mumford now lives granted by Earl Granville
to Squire Boone ...." It bounded on "Boons old line ...."
January 12, 1815.
D. Deed Records pertaining to the 640 -acre tract Squire Boone owned
on Bear Creek (then in Rowan County) present Davie County.
Squire Boone 640 -acre grant on Bear Creek Dec. 29, 1753. Bk. 39
p. 164.
Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone sold this 640 -acre tract to Daniel
Boone on Oct. 12, 1759.
Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone sold this 640 -acre tract to
Aaron Vancleave on Feb. 21, 1764. "being ... land granted and
sold unto him the said Daniel Boone by his father Squire Boone
bearing Date 12th day of October 1759 and conveyed to Squire
Boone by deed of conveyance from ... the Earl of Granville
bearing date December 29, in the year of our Lord 1753".
Rebeckah Bryan Boone signed with an X mark. Bk. 49 p. 450.
Records of the sale of a 200 -acre parcel of this tract by
Aaron Vancleave to Benjamin Vancleave and subsequent sales of
this parcel are conveniently found in North Carolina Picadillo
by J. K. Rouse, pp. 61-63.
E. References in Rowan deed records and Rowan County Court Minutes to
Squire Boone and Daniel Boone in Davie County.
"Boon's Road" - in the southern Davie County. A reference in a
Granville grant to James Andrews. Dec. 21, 1761. Bk. 49 p. 819.
"Squire Boone's Old Mill Road" - the will of William Morgan
dated Aug. 7, 1772, designated that his son John get 'all my
Right Title Claim and property to and Improvment whereon I now
live lying on the waters of Bear Creek and the said Line of to
run along the east side of Squire Boons Old Mill Road." Will
Book A, p. 93. Tradition says that there was a Boone's Road in
the Sugar Creek area.
Minutes of the Rowan County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
name Squire Boone as a member of the first court which met in
June 1753. He was regular in attendance at the court in
subsequent years.
Squire Boone was licensed to operate a "Pubiick House [tavern,
inn, ordinary] at his own Plantation and Israel Boone [oldest son
of Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone] a Publick House where he now
lives." Rowan Court Minutes, Vol. I. p. 44 - July 11, 1754.
BOONE FAMILIES IN DAVIE COUNTY
Daniel Boone was a juror of the Rowan Court Oct. 20, 1759.
Rowan Court Minutes, Bk. II, p. 281. There are other refer-
ences to his serving as juror.
In February 1770 the Rowan County Court named Daniel Boone,
among several others to "Lay off a Road which leads from the
Shallow ford ... the Nearest and Best way through the Great Gap
of said Brushy Mountains ... to George Boons at the mouth of
Beaver Creek ..." (Wilkes County). Rowan Court Minutes, Vol III,
p. 171.
It appears from extant records that Daniel Boone was in debt
most of his life. Rowan County Court Minutes record numerous
references to his being sued in court for debt. Most seem to
have been relatively small debts of less than 20 pounds probably
incurred when he purchased needed supplies for hunting and
exploring. One court action in March 1764, however, was for
50 pounds and appears to have been for unpaid taxes or quitrents.
(He had sold the 640 -acre Bear Creek tract in Feb. 21, 1764.)
F. Members of the Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone Family.
SQUIRE BOONE (1696-1765), Lived in Davie County (except 1759-
1762 French and Indian War period) from probably 1753 until his
death in 1765. Buried at Joppa Cemetery.
SARAH MORGAN BOONE (1700-1777), Lived in Davie County (except
1759-1762 French and Indian War period) from probably 1753 until
her death in 1777. Buried at Joppa Cemetery.
SARAH (1724-1815), Married in Pennsylvania to John Wilcockson.
He was not a Quaker. Lived on land grant near the present
Cooleemee, Davie County. Moved to Kentucky probably in 1779.
All children lived in Kentucky and the West.
ISRAEL (1726-1756), Draper quoting Samuel Boone, Israel's
brother, says that Israel died June 26, 1756, at age 30 and was
buried near the present Mocksville. There is no known tradition
or reference to his being buried at the old Joppa Cemetery. The
Moravian Records, Vol. I, p. 137, refer to the "consumptive ...
Mr. Boone Draper also says that there were four children,
two sons and two daughters, and that the daughters contracted
consumption from their mother and died young. After Israel's
death, two of the four children were reared by Daniel and Rebecca
and two by others of the family. There is no known record of
Israel Boone owning land in Davie County. However, the Rowan
Court Minutes for January 1765 name a road overseer "from the
South Yadkin to Israel Boons old Place". The family may have
lived on one of Squire Boone's tracts. Israel's two sons went
to Kentucky probably in 1779.
SAMUEL (1728-1816?), Lived on present Rowan County side of the
South Yadkin River. All went to Kentucky, probably in 1779.
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BOONE FAMILIES IN DAVIE COUNTY
A
JONATHAN (1730-1808?), Married Mary Carter, daughter of James
Carter of Salisbury. Owned land and had a dam and mill near where
Bear Creek joins the South Yadkin River - also a 630 -acre tract on
Hunting Creek. James Carter gave their daughter (his granddaughter)
Abigale 350 acres "in Rowan County" in 1756. The Jonathan Boone
family went to Kentucky probably in 1779.
ELIZABETH (1732-1825), Married William Grant about 1750. William
Grant according to Spraker, was of Scotch and Irish parentage,
and according to Grant family tradition, emigrated to America
after the Scots were defeated at Culloden. There is no known
record of William and Elizabeth Grant having owned land in Davie
County; however, the early 1750's name, Grants Creek, might
indicate that they lived at Squire Boone's Elisha-Dutchman Creek
site. Spraker in The Boone Fa mil says that ten of their eleven
children were born in North Carolina. Except for about one year
in Virginia during the French and Indian War, they probably lived
in Davie County (perhaps also in Wilkes County) until they moved
to Kentucky, probably in 1779. See: Spraker, The Boone Family,
p. 61.
DANIEL (1734-1820), Married'Rebecca Bryan, daughter of Joseph and
probably Alice (Alee) Linville Bryan and a granddaughter of Morgan
Bryan Sr. Their first 2 children were born in Davie County
probably at a site in the fork of Sugar Creek. (See: History of
Davie County by James W. Wall.) Moved from Davie to Wilkes County
between 1765-66 and lived there most of the time until all went to
settle permanently in Kentucky in Oct. 1779. (On Dec. 30, 1778,
Nathaniel Hart of Wilkes County, entered "400 acres both sides
N Fork Yadkin River one and one-half miles below mouth of Elk
Creek ... to include the improvement Daniel Boone sold to Joseph
Warren and by Warren to said Hart See: Land Entry Book,
Wilkes County 1778-1781. Abstracted by Mrs. W. D. Absher.)
MARY (1736-1819), Married William Bryan, son of Morgan Bryan Sr.
Owned land and lived in Bryan Settlement. After Squire Boone
died Jan. 2, 1765, Sarah Morgan Boone (Mrs. Squire Boone) made her
home with Mary and William Bryan until she died in 1777. All
children of William and Mary Boone Bryan are believed to have
been born in Davie County. All moved to Kentucky probably in
1779. See: History of Davie County and Records of the Moravians,
Vol. II, p. 794.
GEORGE (1739-1820), Married Ann Linville, granddaughter of Morgan
Bryan Sr. On December 21, 1761, acquired a Granville Grant of
640 acres "... lying on both sides of Bear Creek Joining Daniel
Boone ...." This tract was north and slightly west of the original
Squire Boone tract then owned by Daniel. In June 1766, George and
Ann Linville Boone sold this land to James Stewart. (On September 10,
1778, George Boone entered 640 acres and 260 acres on Warriors Creek
in Wilkes County. See: Land Entry Book, Wilkes County). All moved
to Kentucky probably in 1779.
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EDWARD (1740 -1780), Married Martha Bryan, a sister of Rebecca
Bryan (Mrs. Daniel Boone). There is no known record of Edward
Boone owning land in Davie County. There is a warrant dated
October 2, 1773, for a land survey for a 600 -acre tract for him
"on both sides of Sugar Creek joining Evan Ellis." Edward and
Martha Bryan Boone moved to Wilkes County. On January 22, 1774,
Edward Boone is listed as a member of Mulberry Field Baptist
Church, Wilkes County, a "branch" of Dutchman Creek (Eatons)
Baptist Church. (On September 9, 1778, Edward Boone entered
"200 acres on Beaver Creek [Wilkes County] adjoining Thomas
Henderson, including Boone's improvement." See: Land Entry
Book, Wilkes County.)
SQUIRE JR. (1744-1815), Married Jane Vancleave in 1765. Their
marriage bond was framed and hung in the office of the Clerk of
Superior Court in Salisbury until it disappeared in the 1930's.
As previously noted, he acquired the 640 -acre Elisha and Dutch-
man Creek tract from Squire Sr. and sold it in 1767. Moved to
Kentucky permanently with his family probably in 1779.
HANNAH (1746-1828), Married John Stewart. Nothing is known of
their life in Davie County. In December 1769, John Stewart
disappeared on a hunt in Kentucky. Some five years later a
skeleton, believed to have been his, was found in a tree fork.
A rifle and a powderhorn with his initials carved on it were
found nearby. Hannah Boone Stewart continued to live in North
Carolina and later married Richard Pennington. They moved to
Kentucky probably in 1779.
G. Children of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone.
James and Israel, the first two children of Daniel and Rebecca
Bryan Boone, were born and lived several years in Davie County.
It is believed that they were born at the Sugar Creek homesite in
the Bryan Settlement area in the northeastern part of the county.
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JAMES (1757-1773), Never married. At age 16 was wounded, captured,
tortured, and murdered by Indians in the Clinch River Valley, Va.
ISRAEL (1759-1782), Never married. At age 23 was killed instantly
by Indians at the Battle of Blue Licks near Lexington, Kentucky.
The next two children, Susannah and Jemima, were born in Culpepper,
Virginia, in November 1760 and October 1762. Four children were
probably born in Wilkes County, North Carolina: Levinia, March 1766;
Rebecca, May 1768; Daniel Morgan, December 1769; and Jesse Bryan,
May 1773. William, the ninth child, was born in the Clinch River
Valley, Virginia, in June 1775, and Nathan, the tenth, and youngest
child, was born at Boone's Station, Fayette County, Kentucky, in
March 1781.
There is no known record or tradition of any grandchildren of Daniel
and Rebecca Boone being born or having lived'in Davie County.
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H. The John Boone (nephew of Squire Boone) Family in Davie County.
John Boone 630 -acre Granville grant "beginning at an Ash on the
northside of Hunting Creek ...." December 21, 1753. Bk. 3, p. 426.
Proved in open court October 10, 1756. Rowan Court Minutes,
Bk. 2, p. 150.
Warrant for 700 acre tract in the "Forks of Yadkin" probable date
December 8, 1761. (Original warrant now deteriorated and unread-
able.) Nothing further is known about this.
Warrant for 300 -acre tract, "lying on the East Side of Hunting
Creek ... and joining my [John Boone's] own deeded land ...."
September 15, 1778.
John Boone 266 -acre State of North Carolina Grant "on the waters
of Hunting Creek ... joining his own land October 10, 1783.
Bk. 10, p. 253.
John Boone and wife Rebecca to Robert Bell 350 acres on Hunting
Creek "being part of a tract of 630 acres of land granted to the
said John Boon by ... the Earl Granville ...." August 15, 1766.
Bk. 6, p. 388.
John Boone conveyed 228 acres to his son Benjamin Boone "on Hunting
Creek being part of the tracts ... one tract from Earl Granville ...
the other by the State March 4, 1786. Bk. 139 p. 289.
The John Boone original homesite was on the present-day Boone
Farm Road about 150 yards from the present W. J. S. Walker (Lawrence
Walker) house. It was near a spring and Sukey Creek. The John
Boone log house was moved soon after the Revolutionary War to a
site about 30 yards southeast of the present dirt road and about
50 yards north of the present Walker barn. A mound of dirt and
rubble marks this later site. After the sale to Benjamin, John
Boone lived on the rest of his land until his death in 1803.
Beal Ijames of Davie County wrote Lyman Draper in 1884 that John
Boone was buried at Joppa Cemetery. Another letter to Draper,
probably written by H. H. Helper in 1887, notes that his soapstone
gravemarker at Joppa Cemetery could not be read. See: Draper
Manuscripts. Tradition, also, has said that John Boone was buried
at Joppa.
John Boone (1727-1803), Married a Rebecca Bryan, ca. 1735-1820.
She may have been the daughter of Morgan Bryan Sr. and Martha
Strode Bryan; however, Rebecca Bryan is not listed in Morgan
Bryan's will. If she was Morgan Bryan's daughter, she was an
aunt of Rebecca Bryan (Mrs. Daniel) Boone.
I. Children of John and Rebecca Boone.
BENJAMIN (ca. 1754-1836), Married Mary Wilson February 25, 1783.
Acquired 228 acres of the John Boone original grant and lived
BOONE FAMILIES IN DAUIE COUNTY
there from 1783 until about 1793 when he sold his farm to Thomas
Penry. Bk. 135 p. 288. He then moved into the eastern edge of
the present Iredell County. Benjamin Boone joined Eatons Baptist
Church in 1802 and was licensed to preach by the church in 1804.
He preached in the nearby area until 1809 when he moved his
family to Jefferson County, Kentucky. They are found in the
1810 census of that county. He later served as pastor of the
Forks Mulberry Church in Lincoln County, Tennessee. His son-in-
law, John.Donaldson, sold the Iredell County farm in 1811 to
William London.
CATHERINE (ca. 1756- ), Married Mark Whitaker of Rowan (Davie)
County. Nothing known of their life in Davie County. Moved to
Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1783 and then about 1809 moved to
Lincoln County, Tennessee, to be near the Boone, Holman, Whitaker
and several other former Davie County families.
MARY ( - ), Married John Medenhall (also spelled Medennal -
their gravemarkers in Kentucky record the name McDaniel).
Nothing is known of life in Davie County. Moved to Kentucky where
he died in 1811.
REBECCA ( -1816), Daughter of John Boone. Married John Frost
August 21, 1793. He was a Captain in the War of 1812. She died
in 1816 and is buried in the Frost Graveyard, Davie County. The
location of John Frost's grave is not known. Eleven children of
John and Rebecca Boone Frost were born and lived in Davie County.
They are ancestors of or related by marriage to the Frost, Haden,
McClamrock, Gaither, Brown, Hunt, and Garland Anderson families.
See: Frost Genealogy in Five Families.
SARAH ( ), Married John Wilson (probably a brother-in-
law of Benjamin Boone). Nothing known of life in Davie County.
Moved to Lincoln County, Tennessee.
NANCY ( - ), Married Jacob Clifford and moved West. He
drowned in the Ohio River.
ELIZABETH ( - ), Married Samuel Little from present Davie
County. Nothing known of life in Davie County. Moved to Lincoln
County, Tennessee.
HANNAH (1779-1857), Married James Penry. Hannah and James Penry
are buried in the Center Methodist Church Cemetery, Davie County,
and the gravemarkers are readable. All of their children stayed
in Davie County and several are buried at Center. They were
ancestors of or related by marriage to the Penry, Dwiggins, Walker,
Barneycastle, Kurfees, Powell, and Anderson families.
JOHN JR. (ca. 1781- ), Married Elizabeth Little. On November 6,
1806, he acquired (according to Deed Bk. 219 p. 489) 424 acres
from the heirs of John Boone. John Boone (Jr.) and his family
lived at this site. On May 4, 1813, he sold this land to Ashley
BOONE FAMILIES IN DAVIE COUNTY
10
Crews and the Reverend Daniel Dwiggins. He moved to Tennessee
and settled near his brother Benjamin at a place still known
today as Boonshill. Some of his children, said to have numbered
seventeen, probably were born in Davie County.
After these two 1813 land sales, there is no known record of any
land in Davie County owned by anyone by the name of Boone.
J. References to Boones in Minutes of Dutchman Creek (Eatons) Baptist
Church, Davie County.
Oct. 2, 1772 - John McGlamree to preach at Jonathan Boons.
Jan. 22, 1774 - Edward Boon baptized and joined Mulberry Field
Baptist Church (Wilkes County). (This church was a "branch" of
Eatons, then Dutchman Creek Baptist Church).
Aug. 7, 1774 - Edward Boon is listed as a member of Dutchman Creek
Baptist Church.
Aug. 7, 1774 - George Boon is listed as a member of Dutchman Creek
Baptist Church.
Aug. 7, 1774 - Hannah Boone Stewart joined Dutchman Creek Baptist
Church by baptism.
Aug. 5, 1775 - Hannah Boone Stewart was excommunicated from
Dutchman Creek Baptist Church for "uncleaness."
References to Boones in Minutes of Eatons Baptist Church.
Sept. 1802 - .... Benj. Boon ... gave in [his] experience to
the Church and was immediately baptized ...."
July 22, 1804 - "Meeting opened by bro. [Benjamin] Boon ....
Bro. Boon obtained license to exercise his gifts wherever the
Lord should call him."
March 23, 1811 - "... the church proceeded ... to give bro.
[Benjamin] Boon a letter, who was in full fellowship when he
went away in 1809."
K. References to Boones in the Records of the Moravians.
Sept. 1, 1755 - "The consumptive [Israel Boone, son of Squire and
Sarah Morgan Boone] was taken home by his brother, who came for
him last evening. He - Mr. Boon - returned on the 6th, accompanied
by his father, who remained over night. On the 15th, his brother
came for him once more and he left, there being little hope of his
recovery. Vol. I, p. 137. A previous statement would indicate
that he had come for treatment on August 26, 1755:
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Commentary on Soelle's Diary, "... another ferry from Douthits to
David Jones's doubtless the one later called Idol's ferry, for
local tradition states that it was by the ford at this point
that Daniel Boone crossed and recrossed the Yadkin." Vol. II,
p. 787. The 1887 Alderman Map shows Douthits Ferry a short distance
downstream from Idols.
On a Sept. 1771 trip or preaching mission, "Soelle went from
William Grant's fourteen miles to John-Buhn (Boone) ... on the
north side of Hunting Creek." Vol. II, p. 791.
Records of two preaching missions by Soelle in September 1771 and
February 1773 note the following: "From the home of Daniel Lewis,
Soelle went to John Boone ... who will probably join the Baptists
for the sake of communion. In September 1771, Soelle went fifteen
miles from John Boone to William Grant; and then from Grant's to
the home of Nathanael [probably Daniel] Buhn (Boone) 'a good day's
ride to the mountains', over a very bad path .... Boone's wife
was a daughter of Joseph Bryant." (There is no known record of
a Nathanael Boone.) Vol. II, p. 794.
"At William Bryant's he saw 'old mother Boone' [Sarah Morgan Boone]
who was a Quaker ...." Vol. II, p. 794.
On the April 1771 [preaching] trip Soelle went ... to call on
Jonathan Buhn (Boone) Vol. IT, p. 789.
On July 30, 1773, the Moravian minister, Richard Utley, "called
on ... George Boone ...." Vol. II, p. 804.
Nov. 9, 1778, "Mr. Daniel Boone was here [Salem]; he was seized
recently by the English near the Salt Springs in Kentuck, but
escaped." Vol. IIT, p. 1250.
Daniel Boone was captured by Indians at the Battle of the Salt
Licks in January 1778. He escaped in June 1778. Sometime after
his capture, Rebecca and her family returned to North Carolina.
After escaping, Boone hurried to Boonsboro to strengthen the fort
against a pending Indian attack. In late 1778 he returned to
North Carolina. When the harvests were completed in late October
1779, Boone led a large number of Boones, Bryans and others to
Kentucky to settle permanently.
L. Inscriptions on North Carolina Department of Archives and History
Historical Markers near Mocksville, Davie County. Hwy. 64 West
and 601 North.
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, 1734-1820, lived many years in this region.
BOONE FAMILIES IN DAVIE COUNTY
M. Inscriptions on gravestones at Joppa Cemetery near Mocksville,
Davie County, Hwy. 601 North.
Squire Boone departed this life they sixty ninth year of his age
in thay year of our Lord 1765 Geneiary tha 2.
Sah+ Boone departed this life 1777 aged 77 years.
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