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Newspaper ArticlesArticles in Davie County Newspaper about Daniel Boone Family Written by Gordon Tomlinson - 1W - THE BOONE FAMILY Dania Boone is one of the most colorful figures of Amer- ican history. His career as an Indian fighter. explorer and frontiersman. carved for himself the recognition a s America's foremost pioneer. Much has been written about his life. Much will continue to be written. The nlallne "Boone" has a very special si;nificance to the people of this section of North Carolina ... especially Davie County. It Was here in Davie that the father and mother of Daniel Boone settled after migrating fron Pennsylvania around 7753. It was here that they spent the last days of their lives and are buried al Joppa. Graveyard near IIfocksville. Had Daniel Boone not carved himself so vividly in- to the pages of American his- tory, the Settlement of the Booties in what is now Davie County would be of no more interest than (flat of the many other early settlers of this section. However, the fame of Daniel Boone spilled over onto his family and descend- ants, making- the name of Boone one of legrnd. A legend is defined as a narrative or story based chief- ly on tradition or mytb. A legend docs not ahvays remain true to historical facts, but is often accepted as such upon being told and retold down throu-h the years. In Dade, County. and for that matter elsewhere, there are many legends concerting the Bootie family. 11iany of these legends, historically speaken, cannot be proven and as such are omitted by his- torians seeking to depict only that which can be substantiat- ed. What is the story of the Booties in what is now Davie County? Who were they" What were they? Why did they come to this section? Where did they ffvc? And what did they do? For the past year Mrs. Louise Utley of Cana has been tuttrested in the Boone fam- Davie Co. VLiiiiic Liu: Mo6sviile, N. C. ily. Site has devoted much time and effort toward tragi - ilia the history of this family, attempting to tic sonic of the legends to fact. Commencing this neck, Mrs. Utley and Gordon Tomlinson .ibrarian are collaborating ml the story of the Boone family as it per- tains to Davie County. This story wili appear in several ins(all,nents in The Mocks- ville Enterprise. There are probably, many people who possess informa- tion oil the Boone family. We mould like . to have this in- formation so as to make our story as complete and accur- ate as possible. To anyone having informa- tion on the Boone family, it is requested that you contact either Mrs. Louise Utley, 3focksv isle. r'wutc 5 (Cana), or Gardon Tomlinson, at The Mocksville Enterprise, just as soon as possible. Sec page four for the first installment on the Boone fam- ily. j THE r i MOCKRVTTAY (N V) F.A TVT?VPTQII JOHN BOONE Early settlerof the Cent-,. sr=ot 'being Pointed to by Marsh Dwigg ns of ccnnnun=ty and cousin- of the famous Daniel, 'Moeksville as that which legend says is where is said to be buried in a field aloin de Highway John Boone is buried. 1h. Div ggins is the 64, WCst, in frontof the borne of Brice Garet. present owner of the land. In, the above picture Mr. Garrett looks at.thc THUIP;SDAY, JUNE; 27, 1q1 therein, their said proceedings are' Davin. of by said meeting. Now • l!i° v Co. Public Libr..- these are to certify whom it may E n A� ,('� concern that for the full accom- 1"Aocksvilfp 1'e, Ns C, Edward Boone, Nov. 19. 1740. s Squire Boone, Oct. 744. The Boones �n Pennsylvania , 46. Hannah Boone. Aug., 174d. Very little is known of Squire And Trouble lith The Friends IC and Sarah Boois Candipersonal life in Pennsylvania. His standing in the �Plishlnent of their said -intentions Friends Society was good as he' ggnire Boone and family this 23d day of ye 7th month in'w•as in 1736, a trustee of the Oleg Plan Southern Migration the year of our Lord 1720, the said meeting, and on Nov. 27. 1739, From the fact Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan made an overseer. By GORDON TOMLINSON aypeared at a solemn assembly to that so little imention of him is the said people for that purpose found in The history -of his com- Squire Boone was born in De-! appointed alt their public meeting I moony, and the fact that he ems - vonshire, E'gland. on Nov. 25 (old place in Gwynedd aforesaid, and 'grated to North Carolina as a style) or Dec. 6 (new style). 1696.1 the said Squire Boone took the man of apparently little means. it He was the third child of George said Sar4liivforgan by 1is judged that he was the least, Bobne III and Mary Maugridge! (and) did in a solemn m¢nner de- .prosperous of all the Boone broth- Boone, and was one of nine chil- Clare that he took her to be his ers. dren. wife, promising to be unto her a I Around l742,'Fquhe Boone and Sometimes before 1713, Squire . faithful and loving husband, un- his family were :neginning to find Boone, along with his older bro- :til death should separate there, Birks County. Pa., an unpleasant then, George, and older sister. Sa- and then and there in the said as- � place in which to live. There was rah' took a still) from England to '.sembly the said Sarah Morgan friction with the Friends of Ex-. America. Squire. shipped as a did likewise declare, (etc). Signed: eter Meeting who had been hor-' cabin boy. Squire Boone, Sarah Boone. rified by the marriages of the Being only, 17 years of .age when'' "Witnesses: George, Edward and Beane children. he landed in Pennsylvania, Squire Elizabeth Morgan; George and I In 1742, Sarah, the eldest d¢ugh-; Boone had r the restlessnes of James Boone; William, John and ter of Squire Boone, was "treated', yomll. He roamed for awhile about Philia- Daniel Morgan and 31 others:' by Dr. with for marrying out"—that Ss.; ( through the country Squire Boone is pictured "out of Unity with Friends." She', dclphia. eventually choosing for Reuben Gold Twaites, a biograph- married John Wilcox, who was, his hame.•the frontier hamlet of er of Daniel Boone ,as "a man of not a member. of the Friends So - North Wales, and settling down rather small stature, fair complex_ ` considered a there to the hard life of a Pennsyl-considered ion, red hair and gray eyes" She and was vania backwoadsman• was pictured as: "a woman some - .`wvrlding:' It not only bad enough to It was in North Wales that he thing over the common size, strong was met Sarah Morgan, the daughter and active, w[th black hour and have married a "wm•Iding," but of Edward Morgan, an early settler eyes." n the Meeting heard still darker of,the Welsh Colony of Gynedd in ' rumors.. Two Quakeresses were al) - Berks County. Pennsylvania. On After their marriage the couple I ! pointed to Investigate and found July 23. 1720, Squire Boone and went to live at Gwynedd. Squire) • it was true. Sarah Boone had been —_— -_---- - Boone had learned his father's.) with child before the wedding Sarhh Morgan were married in a trade and settled down to sup- and the little community buzzed. Quaker }meeting - house and in ac- port his wife as a weaver. Squire, the distressed father, cordand with the simple Quake on,DecLmber 3, 1726, he bought was reprimanded by the Meeting ceremon•. t a tract of land of 147 acres in 'and his explanation appears re - This n rriage 1s recolded in th¢ New Britian Township, Bucks corded in the `Minutes of Exeter !:ecoids of the Society of Friends. County, Pa. Two years later, m (Meeting, Book A, Paga 33, as foll- as follocs: y 1730, he bought another tract ad- ows: "Marriage of Squire Boone and joining his father's farm in Oley "6-26-1742.... Squire Boone de - Sarah Morgan. Township, now Berks County, Pa. he did not countenance or (Records of Gwynedd Monthly and settled down there with his lclareth consent to the marriage but con- -Ieeiing) family. This was only a few miles fesseth himself in fault in keeping "Whereas, Squire Boone, son of from the present city of Reading. them in his house after their George Boone of the county of By the time they settled in Oley keepin3 company but he wasin a Philadelphia, yeoman, and Sarah Township, Squire and Sarah were great strelght in not knowing aiorgan, daughter of Edward Mor_ the parents of,three children, born what to do, and hoped to be more. gun of the said county and in: New Brittian Township: careful in the future." pro- vince, having declared their in- 'Sarah Boone in June, 1724. But mdre trouble was in store. -son, tentions of marriage With each Israel Boone in May, 1726. On Oct. 31, 1741. Squire's other before two monthly meet- Saanuel Boone in May, 1726. Israel, was also "testified against" - ings of ye people called Quakers, ' In Bel;ks County, Pa., the fol- in Meeting for "marrying out" held at Gwynedd in the said coun_'� lowing children were born: Again Squire was called upon to tY according to ye good order used Johnathan Boone, Dec. 6, 1730. account for a "disorderly ma among therm, whose proceedings Elizabeth Boone, Feb, 5, 1732. Inge" though there was no breath therein, after deliberate consid- Daniel Boone, Dot. 22, 1734. Iof scandal beyond the fact that, eration, and having consent of par- Many Boone, Nov. 3, 1736. ' Israel's bride was not aQuaker-'i lents and relations concerned George Boone, Jan. 2, 1739. ess. .- therein, their said proceedings are' Davin. of by said meeting. Now • l!i° v Co. Public Libr..- these are to certify whom it may E n A� ,('� concern that for the full accom- 1"Aocksvilfp 1'e, Ns C, The BooneIn And Migration. _to '-153 {for allowing the courC5T�1p..-1rc- tween his daughter and John nglan America Webb. Name In England Was Records indic4te tnat,"GeOrFe Boone and his wife arrived at P nl- IDAtlally Spelled `Bohun' adelphia in the fall of 1717. They By GORDON T0111ILINSON went first to Abington ,a village The Norman family of Boone near Philadelphia, where their had married (spelled originally as Bohun) had eldest son. George, lived. Ther they went to North its beginning probably more than and Walesin Philadelphia County. a thousand years ago. The family where they luted for two years. In rose to the highest honor in Eng- 1120 they moved to Gley Town- land when the Boone blood, ship in Philadelphia County (naw through its female line, reached the of Henry Plantagenet Exeter Township in Berks Coun- person (son of Mary Bohup or Boone) ty ( where George Boone took a founded his who ruled as -Henry V., Mary of her grant of land and permanent hwne.-When the divis- Boone or Bohun, a'cousm husband, Henry IV, was the great ions were made in the township Phil- grand -daughter of Princess Eliza- ..'of Oley and the County of abeth, the youngest daughter of adelphia, the new township was the King Edward I. - called "Ex9ter" in honor of old home in England. There may However, the thread of history have been other families in that through the peones are, locality who came from old Exe- traced Probably b6gins with the, probably tcr, but George Boone and his first-gerlation George, BQq�ee, born flans appcar to have been, the in .England.Almost'no$hing is most prominent members of the known of this man n'ith the ex. community. +- ception that he lived near the city Soon after their arrival in this of Exeter in Devonahfre, England, they became memUers of and had a son, George Boone. country the Guyned& Monthly Meeting of The second George Boone was Friends. This latter section soon a blacksmith, who died at the became a separate meeting called age of 60. He was married to a Coley Meeting, Mhich name ;vas Sarah UppeY, who died at the later changed to Exeter Meeting. age of 80. Ehe was reported to Several items concerning George never have had "am' aching bone Boone are found in the Friends or a decayed tooth:" This couple records, including one with re - also had a son, whom they named gards to being called to account George Boone. Th4,,George Boone was born in 1666 at Streak, England, a village near the City of Exeter in Devon- shire. He was a weaver by trade. lie married Mary Maugridge in Bmaill'ch., England, eight miles from ESCter in Devonshire. They were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Devonshire, from which Meeting they took a letter of recommendation yo the Society of Friends in America. On Aligust 17, 1717, with six children, George Boone and his wife left the village of Bradinch in Devonshire and went to Bris- tol, where they set sail for Amer- ica. Apparently three children of George Boone preceded the family to America. These being George, Jr.. Squire and Sarah. There is a record of the marriage of George Boone, Jr., in 1713. trill iii �' George Boone died in the sulll mer of 1744 in Exeter Township, Berks County. Pa., at the age of 76. In accordance with the cus- tom of the Friends Society, no stones mark the graves of himself or his wife. All of the children of George ian and Mary Boone were born in England. They were as follows: George Bbone IV, born in 1690. Sarah Boone, born in 1691 and died probably before 1744. She married a Jacob Stover. She was one of the three eldest children that came to America in advance of her parents. Squire Boone, born November 25. 1696. Mary Boone, born September 23, 1699. Joh*a Boone, born January, 1701.'i Died Oct. 1765. He never marr- j led. Was a school teacher. It was ,he who preserved the record of the family births and deaths and passed them on to his nephew, James (son of James and Mary) IV compiled them into a geneal- j ogYy Jaseph Boone, born April 5, 1704, and died Jan. 30, 1776. Benjamin Boone, born July 16. 1706. !James Boone, born July 7. 1709. Samuel Boone, born about 1711. Of the above children of George Boone the two in which Davie I County people become the most interested are Squire Boone and Bcnjanrier Boonc- moire Boone' migrated to North Carolina and apparently brought with him.l John Boone, the oldest son of his brother, Benjamin. It is from these two men that. the North. Caronn, families descended. Next week we will take up thel migration of Squfie Boone and his family to what was then Rowan County (mow Davie), in the forks of the Yadkin, North Carolina.. mrm� (The infatiori'in the above article was tNken from material, gathered by Mrs. Lav:cd Utley of {Cassa; the book, "The Boone Fam- ily,, by Hazel Atterbnry._ Spraker: and an arlicic by J. Hampton Rich, In possession of Mrs. Z. N. Anderson of Mocksville). This time Squire Boone appears to have been firmer in dealing with the Meeting. He insisted on his son's right to marry whom he .pleased. The Society of Friends did not countenance such goings- on and within a few months 'Squire Boone was "disowned"—a kind of Quaker excommunication.' He was accused of "giving Room to a reflecting Spirit even against his Friends who sought his ever- lasting Peace and Welfare." They tried to "bring him to a Sense of his Outgoings" and make him "sensible of his coming to a God- ly Sorrow in himself." but it was not much use. Squire remain - led stubborn. Thereafter he found himself in a very uncomfortable position. Be- fore he had been rather promin- ent in the Meeting. He had been an "overseer" and also a trustee of the I%tle burial ground. His daughter's forced marriage wag disgrace enough, but now he found himself cast out of the Meeting merely because his son's entirely respectable marriage.) However, his wife, Sarah, and the rest of his family were still in (good standing. lAlso about this time conditions in general were not so good in Pennsylvania. This state was then in the hands of the Penns. Most of the land was owned, by the des- cendan's of the old gm}.;rnor.l Their holdings in lands, which; were valued even in ,that day at N million dollars, were not taxed. This left the taxes to be paid by.� the other people. The population was restless and spent a lot of time appointing committees and: Passing resolutions. Franklin fer- rled back and forth between Phil- jadelphia and London attempting* to do something about it. The crude agriculture dl that Period exhausted.the land quick -i lly. Thera was no rotation of crops, and little fertilization of the fields. At first it had been easy to move on to 'better land. How - lever, now the good land in Penn- s ylvaniaa was filled up. People began to want to move out. West of them were the moun- tains, and beyond them hordes of Indians under the power of the unfriendly French. They couldn't move West. The North was equal- ly inhospitable, and so they look- ed to the South. On April lis, 1750, Squire Boorie and wife, Sarah, conveyed their farm of 158 acres of land in l.k-� eter Township to William Maug,' ridge, ••19 days before they set )out for North Carolina, Ma 1, '1750. Although Saral on ha ob rat rat red a certificate m Exeter Meeting "to Friends of Virginia, Carolina and elsewh4p," there is, no evidence that they were evef•', ;united with any other Quaker Meeting. Many of their children later became Baptists. Davie Co. Pilin Ubrarl THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1957 Later in the year 1753, bquire 3oone acquired land across on' he western side of the Yadkin' • River In what is now Davie Coun- ty. Boone And Fame y ty. There is a grant to Squire Boone of 640 acres on Bear Creek ®from the agent of the Earl of Banks of Yadkin Granville. . ett e n Squire And Nephew Get This was 640 acres of land "on' (1 the South Side of Grant's other- fr Large Land Grants In wise Licking Creek." This record b shows that it was purchased "For What Is Now Davie and h1 consideration of the sum ° n By GORDON TOMLINSON of three shillings proclamation e It was around the first of,May, money." There Is also preserved a n 1750, that Squire and Sarah Boone second grana to Squire Boone on t and their family started on the Bear Creek for 640 acres for the trek that was to bring them into sum of three shillings proclama- what is now Davie County. At tion money. that time Daniel Boone was al -'1 However. land was not that! must i6 year's old. !cheap and the term of the sale Their croute probably carried would worry a modern lawyer. them down Cumberland Valley three shillings merely amount - and then on down the Shennan- ltd to the first payment. In ad- doah. They stopped for a year or dition, Squire Boone bound him - more in Linville Creek, six miles self and his heirs to pay 25 shill - north of Harrisonburg, Va. Here lings and seven pence Yearly on lived John Lincoln. a friend of leach 100 acres. Furthermore. King Squire Boone. It was also here `George II retained the right to thatt Henry Miller, Daniel Boone's jlaif of arry gold or silver that boyhood friend, left the Boone's Squire Boone might find. The Earl to settle permanently. When Dan- I of Granville, himself retained the iel and Henry Miller next met. right to half the rest. Squire nearly thirty years later, one was could have the remaining one - a - prosperous business man and quarter. However, no ore was ever the other a celebrated frontiers- found. man. 1*1"Wi Also there was another irksome' It was not until the late autumn stipulation in this 4nsaction. of 1751, or sometime in 1752, did Squire Boone was required to Squire Boone and party reach sear three out of every 100 the Yadkin Valley in North Car- acres every three years. In those olina. days the clearing of forest land For his home. Squire Boone was a tremendous task. An acre chose a hill overlooking the Yad- a year meant back breaking work. kin River in what was then At the time Squire and his Rowan, and is today Davidson family settled here, there were County. This was on the east less than 25,000 people in the an - bank of the Yadkin, * in Boone tire colony of North Carolina. Township of Davidson County, The Yadkin River at that time about four miles from Church- ] , ass it's extreme western frontier. land. This was near the cave, Wild game was everywhere and; which runs back into a cliff by the trading post at the nearby the Yadkin. The cave, which is town of Salisbury provided a mar. known today as "Boon's Cave," ket for deerskin and furs, and to is within 300 to 400 yards of the supply the few items that a fron- site where Squire. built his first tier farmer could not provide for cabin. It is believed that the himself. family may have lived in this cave while the cabin was being Soon after settling here, Squire built. Boone was named as one of the Old records in the Rowan justices of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. At Courthouse reveal that on April the first court held in Salisbury 30, 1753, Squire Boone purchased i in June, 1753, the name of Squire a tract of land direobly from the Boone is listed among those of agents of the Earl of Granville, to 14 justices. His residence was giv-j whom the King had granted amen as Boone's Ford. enormous tract. j --- - Also, on December 21, 1763 roved Oct. 19, 17561 is a grant om Granville by Francis Cor- an in to John Boone of 630 acres n Hunting Creek. On the deed o mentoin is made of any own - rs of adjoining tracts. On the largin of the deed is the nota - ion: "Delivered aosSquire Boone" John Boone was a nephew of Squire Boone ,a cousin of Daniel Boone. He was the oldest son of Benjamin Boone, Squire's broth- er. and was born in Berks County. Pennsylvania, in 1727, In 1750 he came into what was then Rowan County in the party with his uncle, Squire. In 1753 he settled on the 630 acres in Davie County, previously mentioned, in the vicinity of Center Church. Next week we will take up they Boone family in Davie County. (Information in the above was obtained from: "The Boone Fam- ily" by Hazel Atterbury Spraker; "Daniel Boone," by John Bake - less; "On The Trail of Daniel (Boone in North Oarolina," by George H. Maurice: land grants. and other data compiled by Mrs.l iLouise Utley and myself). I MlIn r�o. Public Librar l Boones 1' fve Across River Into What Is Now Davie Squire Boone Marries Mary Boone, born in NGvera-I town now in the District of Co-! There they stayed for 1736. Married William Bry= Daniel, Rebecca Bryan*ber, in Rowan County in 1854. By GORDON TOA'ILINSON an After several years oft residence Sometime in 1753, Squire Boone in North Carolina where all their and his family moved into what children were born they moved to is now Davie County. Just where Kentucky and settled at Bryan's he built his cabin this time has station, which William and his not definitely been established.. brother founded. This settlement His grant of land here called for suffered in setbacks due to 640 acres on Bear Creek. lWe Indian raids, so iVRr•s. Bryan (Mary will attempt to establish a loca-I Boone] did not go. to Kentucky to tion for this settlement in a later live until the fall of 1779. article). 'George Boone, born January, l Near the farm of Squire Boone i1739. Died November, 1820. Was lived the family of Joseph BI•Y-1 married about 1764 to Ann or an. The Bryan family had preceed- Nancy Linville who died March ed the Boone family into this area I em, 1814. by about six years. Edward Boone, November, 1740. Here a son, James• was born to them. Two years afterwards, another son, whom they named Israel. Daniel's time was occupied by farming, weaving, and black- smfthing. with occasional 'trips with other wagoners to coastal cities. Tui the spring of 1759, the Brian Cherokee Indians raided the Yad- kin and Catawba valleys. Insti- gated by the French and also in- fluenced by a well-grounded fear that the English intended .some day to possess themselves of the tribal lands, the Cherokees raided the valleys, destroyed crops, burn- ed cabins, murdered settlers, and dragged wives and children into crual captivity. White settlers fled to escape the carnage. Many of the Boones "forted up" in Fort Dobbs, which ,was besieged by the red warriors. Mary Boone, daughter of Squire Squire Boone and his son, Daniel. and Sarah, married William BrY- Married :Martha Bryan, daughter, � took their families to safety in the ,an, a brother of Joseph Bryan— of Joseph and Alee Bryan, andho East. both son's of Morgan Bryan. It sisted of Rebecca Bryan, Squire and Sarah Boone went was at the wedding of his' sister married Daniel Boone. Died in to Maryland until the Indian wars Mary and William Bryan that 1780 in Kentucky.were over. Their son. Squire, Jr., Daniel Bone first saw his fu- Squire Boone. Jr., born Oct. who had been learning the black- ture wife. She was Joseph Bryan's 5, 1744. Married August 8, 1765, smith and gurismfth trade from daughter, Rebecca. This was in to Jane Van Cleve, who was born I Samuel Boone in Pennsylvania. 1.754 and Rebecca at that time Oct. 16, 1749, and died March 10, had moved with the Samuel Boone was only fifteen. :1829. Squire Boone died in Aug., family to Maryland (near George - Two years later, August 14, 1815. 1 Hannah Boone, born August,' town now in the District of Co-! There they stayed for 1756, Daniel Boone and Rebecca' 1746, and died in 7828. Was mgr-� three y . three e8i's, until 1762. Bryan were married. Squire Bonne, the bust time to John Stew- I - in his capacity as justice of peace,. ried art or Stuart, who disappeared on Daniel and Rebecca Boone and read the service that made them an expedition with Daniel around family took a two -horse wagon man and wife. This wedding took I i She was married the sP•o-,' and went to Culpepper County, place at Squire Boone's place in 11770. end time to Richard Penning- Virginia, near Fredricksburg. Here what is now Davila County. small child Daniel worked,as a wagoner, haul - The record of the other children ton. She was a very to the'. Ing tobacco to market. Bunting a Squire and Sarah Boone is as when her parents came little. lof Yadkin District of North Caro - follows: lira, where she grew up and Also. Daniel during this per - Samuel Scone, born in May, married Jbhn Stuart. iod may have been making trips 1728, in New Britian Township,. After their marriage. Daniel 'back into this area. On October Bucks County, Pa. Married Sarah and Rebecca first lived in a.cabin 12, -1759, while the Indian wars esstauof Day. a young Quakeress of edu- in Squire Boone's yard. Soon, ,still raged, a deed shows him buy- cation, who is said her cation. a however, they built a cabin of fug 640 acres of land from his brother - -law. Daher their own on Sugar Tree Creek' father in Rowan Coutny. A note Boone, to read and write. Samuel (known today as Sugar Creek); added to the original deed ex - Boone died in Fayette County, located between Highway 156 Kentucky, date unknown. Sarah (Winston - Salem highway) and. Day died around 1819 at the home the Farmingbon Road. Sugar Creek of her sonAn=law, Leonard H. empties into Cedar Creek. Bradley. in Missouri. The site of Daniel Boone's cab - Johnathan Boone, born Dec. 6.1 in is believed to have been on th2{ 1730. Died around 1808. Little farm owned by Bryant Smith in fII4 also is known about him. Elizabeth Boone, born Feb., the Farmington community. There Co.[i 1tmlie Library Pavie o is a marker on the rock wall in t 1732, in Berks County, Pa. Marr- ied William Grant around 1751 or front of the Farmington school �ll11 ff `IoeI1J N. building that says: "Daniel Boone iG1 4({(.iP'1 41. 1752. soon after arrival on Yad- used to live two and one-half mikes kin River. William Grant was east of Farmington." ' born in 1726, and died in January, - - 1804 in Fayette County, Ky. Eliz- abeth died Feb. 25,..1825, in Ken- •p. .r ^�,�,. tQ J tucky. They had 30 children. Plains: "Daniel Boone, Planter, bought this tract from his father for 50 pounds." Next week we will take up the end of the Indian wars and the return of Squire and Sarah Boone to Davie County. - (Information in the above ob- tained from: "The Boone Fam- ily," by Hazel Atterbury Spraker; "Daniel Boone" by John Bake - less: "'On the Tradl of Daniel Boone in North Carolina," by George H. Maurice; land deeds, and other data compiled by Mrs. Louise Utley and myself). ENTERPRISE- 7-11- NTERPRISE- 7-iI- l 9 � f Nr,gSyn,tt, (N. �.) ENTEItrI�IST _ -�-- Squire Ind Sarah Room .Bawd' 0 0 a v; a nun -y On Horseback toys incl quarrallad and In file Squire Gies lip Landcitement Sbe bad eseap:a. 'f,o Di1111C1, Sl'llllrer Jr. Guided by blpe girl, the vengeful By the end of 1700, the white I iitle hand plisbedon to the .kid- II men had the uPP'-t' hand in this nippers caullo. One man had es - section of North Carolina. Strong caped. The dther 1aY unconscious militia forces had laid waste the I wbere his 1)"-tnei had kilocksd t whole Cherokee country, burned lbilii out and 1 �` hlm. He was the viilages, destvoyed the crops, seized and turned d over to the and driven thousands of Indians Ll horitics. Into the hills to starve Or. submit. Around a year later. r stolen'. I a,l welt' found in tilt stook of By November of that yeathe Scdder at one oflthe Yadkin farrns., Cherokees had had encite.'h and a paste' treaty was made. IFare<d to adnnit he had been Daniel Saone apparently lost w'01'klirg with 'the criminals, the little Sime in returning and P1u'ng- I guilty f,,msr saved his own skin ing in'., the mountains and for- by guiding a party to the robbers' ests with Itis rifle. though his lair. Some miles in advance of family .and his father and mother the frontier the robber band had may have stayed in the safety of built a little stockade against a . the East,, for sometime. In Sact .cliff, masking their fortification gone wonti.rs if;Squii•e and Sarah, among the trees and using a nat- I especially ,:during the heightofthe ural chimney in the socks to aid Indians wars in 1759, ever plan=- their concealment. Daniel Boone was in 'the peaty e.d to return to the Yadkin Vall- cy again. that pushed into the woods to the For on October 4. 1759, we find fort, rushed it. and captured sev- Squire Boone selling This 640 acres I eral of the robbers .and recovered on Bear Creek to Daniel Boone a good deal of stolen Praptry. for 50 pounds and - at the same Sometime in the spring of 1762. time giving his other tract on Squire Boone and his wife. Sarah. Grant Creek to his youngest song returnedto hat is horseback all Zlie1 Squire Boone. Jr. Apparently this County, was all his land, for we can Sind way from Maryland. At this time no record of his owning any land Squire was 696 years of ago 4"'di after that. 1 The Cherokee wars had led to Just where they lived �on t•hei march disorder aanong the settlers return, we -are not sure. Many themselves. Effective Policing was believe that they lived with Oil a nearly impossible. Horse thieves near their children. There s) a were active. There was plunder- legend that they lived in a ewtiin ,near of first one kind and another. on Bear Creek on what �is now the -One of the legends involves a George Evans homeplace, This band of desperadoes that settled would tie-in with some of the I down to careers of Professional various this time land transactions tion she cund crime in the Yadkin Va11cY, carry" ing on their raids from a secret cat Johns Braather as nsuccessfull lair in the iripuntahis. quire. Two of the gang kid=aPped a farmer and landowner just across girl from the Yadkin settlements Bear Creek in the Centel' con! and rushed her into the wilder- munity. it we will mess. Several hands of settlers final days of Squiret and ake u5arah set out m pursuit. Daniel Boone was with the band 'Boone in Davisnt County me of the 10- lowing o- I at - and found the girl. He and Others, �fdoerbrush. lowing the trail as fast as they cations nnawhich tion int til a above could. were amazed to meet theily grl herself emerging from the un- twine azelt. Att rburyno SPrakei At their approach she by Thad hidden until she could bel -baniel Boone;to ' by John Bake - sure who they were. Her abduc- I less: land deeds, and other da naviA Co. Public iLibrar, Mocksville, N. C. TRMSnA17, XLY 25' lAround this time Daniel and Re- bocce, Boone lived in his Sugar ^--'- Tree Creek home, about two miles east of whet is now known as 'now known as the Farmington, y farm of Bryant Smith. And just �,p.. , a short distance from Daniel's home was the Bryant settlement in the area now known as "Pudd- ing Ridge." Here lived William Bryant and wife, the former Mary librarian Boone, a sister of Dan9el. Y. At this time the so-called pub- i xt lie road led from Salisbury to Shal- ... low Ford, near Huntsville. This. - d Dutchman Creek , road crossed , just above the mouth of Bryan' a Creek thence over the lower end of"Pudding Ridge" where it crossed, Bryan Creek. Cornwallis was later to travel this route on ?. his inarch to Shallow Ford in 1781 E in pursuit of General Green of the American Army. ws"z q In 1765, Squire Boone died at the age of 69, probably on the. Bear Creek farm, but definitely within this area in which his children were living. He was bur-. .� led at a Place then known as "Burying Ridge," and later, fol- i lowing the establishment of a n` VES OF SQUIRE AND 'SARAH BOONE—'.acated in presbyter. n Church there, as! Joppa Cemetery just outside of Mocksville. The old headstones are encased today in a permanent concrete marker. Joppa A headstone, crudely carved,; A [\1 bears the following inscription: p SCy Liire And Sarah Boone "Squire Boone departed this Squire 1 life they sixty ninth year of his Spend L a s t age in they year of our Lord, Day s Mere Geneary Tha 2." Squire Boone was not the first Couple Are Burled 011 to beburied in this cemetery then) lllo' Ridge,' Now 'Burying In 1764, Daniel Boone sold the known as "Burying Ridge." There on Bear i c + 840 acres in property is every indication that many Joppa Cemetery Creek he .had bought from his 'father, Squire, to this Aaron Van others were buried there to By GORDON TOMLINSON Cleave. On Aug. 8, 1765, Squire .prior Squire's d=ath, with their graves By 1760, the warring Indians in 'Boone, Jr., married Jane Van apparently being marked only by the Yadkin Valley and western Cleave, believed to be a daughter plain stones. It was the custom of part of North Carolina had been 0, this Dutchman. the Friends not -to mark graves, subdued. With the danger from the In- In 1762, Squire and Sarah Boone land it is entirely possible that dians lessened, the caravans from returned to this area riding horse-I Squire Boone's grave was not back all the way from Maryland. marked with an inscribed stone Pennsylvania to •this area resum-' ed. Settlers. Scotch, Irish, English. At that time Squire was 66 years until later years. But this is only German and Dutch drifted south-1 of age and Sarah was 62. APpar_ conjecture ... thetrue answer we ward and settled along the Yad- ently they owned no land and will never know. i kin River and soon farther in- they brought with them only Considering t h e settlements land. It was around this date, their personal belongings. It is back in those days and also the 1760, that a company of Germans believed that they Joined one of roll of the land, this ridge (to- and Dutchmen settled on the east the passing caravans and came :day known as Joppa) made a; side of Dutchman's Creek in what on down to the Forks of the Yad- plausible site for the burying of is known as the Heidelberg settle- kin to spend their last days with the dead. men. A log church was built which their children, several of whom After the death! of Squire, Sa- 'rah was then called the Heidelberg were still in this area. Boone lived with her daugh-I Evangelical Lutheran Church, but It is probable that Squire and ter. Mary Bryan, on Bryan Creek, became 'better known as the Sarah Boone, upon their return, near the "Pudding Ridge" section '*Dutch Meeting House." lived in a log cabin on Bear Creek, In Volume H of the Moravian In one of these bands that on what was later know nas the records, pages 793-194, is men- settled in what is now Davie Mullican or Helper farm, auditioned visits made by Soelle in County was a Dutchman by the, today the George Evans farm. I61772: name of Aaron Van Cleave (This is also probable that Squire, Jr., r-r . ,` •,+ appears to be the correct spelling, GOR, and new bride, Jane Van Cleave, -,.,Grp„ GO aG,'IICr although in some of the records the writing resided in this same vicinity. �' ' �Yi (}LkSVidey N. �, might be interpreted "Between Dutchman's Creek and the South Yadkin lived Daniel Lewis. He and his wife were of lQuaker stock. Lewis' meeting house was nearby and they begg- ed Soelle to come and live with them. Half a mile from the meet- ing house liver Trautz, a German, willi ason SIXtecn ; ars old and o`heis¢ounger. "Pastor Wavtmann is mention- ed as living in the Dutchman's Creek neighborhood, having be d en born in Hanover, anbeing edu- cated, ordained minister, Van Cleft (Van Cleave) a Dutchman, sixty years old, was a leader in the group that gathered at the, Dutchman's Creek Meeting House.' On page 794 (Vol. ID of Morav- ian Records: "In June, 1772, Saelle turned from John •Boone towards Dutch- man's Creek, having first visited Hughes, a stare -keeper, who had only one arm. It was ten miles from BoOne's, across Dutchman's Creek to Morgan Bryant's - where met 'old Col. Hunt.' James Bry- ant is mentioned as a son of Mor- gan Bryant. (The name Bryan and Bryant are the same. Some times the "t" was used on the end, and at other times it was not. The same was true of the "e" on the end of Boone. Sometimes it was dropped and the name ap- Peared as Boon). "At James Wilsons' house the service was held in the woods on account of the number present. Then Soelle went to Abraham Wil- son's and on to Robert Eirods, where he held` service, baptised ,the child of Henry and Rachel Speer, and spoke with Henn and his wife, -the young people of the Bryant Settlement. I"Atz,Xilliam Bryant's he saw 'old-1Kother Boone' who was a' Quaker; also visited in the home l Of Thomas Bryant. Thomas Bry- ant's wife was the eldest daugh- ter of old Colonel,Hunt. 'The peo- pl2 here speak of building a meet- ing house and ask if I will come to them regularly.' "From William Bryant's Soelle apparently went on to the Shal- low Ford stopping to� speak to Mosby and wife and then back to Salem.,, Sarah Boone lived for 12 years after her husband's death. In 1777, at the age of 77, she died and was laid to rest beside her husband on "Burying Ridge." The inscription on her headstone read: "Sarah Boone desowned this life 1777 aged 77 years." Only the .first two letters of the word Sa- rah are legible. Nest week we will take UP other members of the Boone family in- cluding those who stayed in this area and those that went to Ken- tucky. (Information in the above cb- tained Plum: "The Boone Famly." by Hazel Atterbury Spraker; Mo- ravian Records, land deeds; infor- mation compiled by James B. Childs of 'Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Louise Utley and myself), ENTER PRISL- r% C&. Daniel Boone hard been served THURSDAY, AlJGUST 1, 1917 with a summons requiring him :bo _ - - - '—' appear in court at Salisbury in Dani ` March, 1769. Henderson was there c y� to defend him. John Stuart, Daniel Boone Explores Intoe Bootie's brother-in-law, who had 1 iT (� married Hannah Boone, and John Kentucky and Returns Dere Finley went along to court. While there they discussed with Judge JudaeRichard Henders07 In Salisbury, Finley heard of Henderson the possibility of open- Librarian Daniel on the upper Yadkin, sought mg new land in Kentucky. I There is every indication that Backs Exploring 1OM N Party him out. de had been a licensed Richard Henderson supplied the By GORDON TOMLINSON Indian trader, and had descended the Ohio Riveras far as "The capital for the exploration into - By 1765. Daniel Boone had ap- Falls" and had penetrated inland Kentucky. Daniel Boone was al- parently given up tiny abtempt at as Oar as "Cumberland Gap." ready indebted to Henderson, but farming and devoted almost full Finley remained as guest of Dan- with deerskins fetching a good time to hunting and long trips of iel throughout the winter and price and London clamoring for exploration. .spun glowing accounts of the beaverskins, there was a possi- ' In 1765, Daniel Boone made a Kentucky country, ability of :money in .the venture, trip to Florida in company with Judge Richard Henderson of not to mention the speculation on .five men from Culpepper, Vir- Salisbury was a good friend of land. `ginia. They found little game and the Boone family. Squire Boone On the first day of May, 1769, nearly starved. However, Daniel had been one of the justices of the Daniel Boone, John Finley and Boone, liking a new environment, County Court of Bless and Quar- John Stuart set out. They had bought a house and lot in Pensa-! ter Sessions before which Hender- cola. However, on his return Re- with three other rnen as "Camp - son practiced. There was Render- Beepers" — Joseph Holden, James becca refused to move there, son's law partner, John Williams, Mooney, and William Cool or Cool - The country was now filling up• and Henderson's friend, Thomas ey. Wild game m this section was be- Hart, sheriff of Orange County. As the purpose of these articles coming scarce. The agents of Both of the Harts became lifelong is to deal with the Booties in this Earl of Granville began to de- friends and business associates of mand new deeds for land already the Booties. .section, no effort wird be mrade to follow res into exploration and sol, claiming flaws in the origin - At this time Daniel Boone was adventures into Kentucky. als. a man of Title meatus, depending General discontent seemed ,to almost solely on his hunting as a The party was gone about two prevail. Daniel Boone left his Sug means of livelihd. Hin fears on this trip. It was attacked ooe was ar Creek home in this county and ' by Indians severs. times and moved to me n 's Ford on the debt. Sometimes he was sued in robbed of all supplies and pelts. the local court at Salisbury. The John Stuart disappeared on a upper Yadkin, seven and a half lawsuits meant new debts to Rich- hunt and was never heard of miles above Wilkesboro. After ward Henderson's law firm. ily again. Hannah later married short while he and his fam Also, social lines were drawing Richard Pennington. moved five miles further up the tighter. Grafting officials oppres- river and one-half mile up Beav- I sed the land -owners with false and Four members of the party re- er Creek. However, this did not fantastic fees. These were the turned in 1776. Squire Boone, Jr.. satisfy him and he soon moved to years when the wild disorders of carried necessary reinforcement his final home in North Carolina, the "Regulators" grew in the back- supplies to his brother this same across the Yadkin, opposite the woods as aprotest: when a mob year. In the spring of 1.771 Dan - mouth of Beaver Creek. of thean beat one unpopular at- iel and Squire, Jr., -returned to In the fall of 1767, Daniel torney in the very courtroom and the Yadkin. Boone, accompanied by William dragged another out of it by his Immedia.tely on his return Dan - Hall and probably his brother, heels; when Judge 'Richard Hen- iel reported to Judge Henderson .Squire, Jr., set out to find a way derson had to flee from the bench; and was employed to act on be- i to Kentucky. After crossing the when the mob seized and ran the i half of Henderson and Company i Blue Ridge and Alleghanys and court to suit itself, until at length to negotiate with the Cherokees the Holston and Clinch Rivers near the-nilitia came' to turn its arms 'as .to their willingness to sell or their sources, they struck the West against its own �ellow-citizens. lease their hunting grounds be. Fork of the Big Sandy. They pen- Although the "Regulators" were iyond the Alleghanys. Because of etrated the wilderness one hun- completely crushed at the battle official duties, Judge Henderson dred miles further, were snowed in of Alaanance, their bitterness and .was not a:bleto follow up thisplarl for the winter, were discouraged discontent remained. Governor until the expiration of court in Ilfrom further progress by impen- Tryon was brutal and domineer- 1773. etra:ble growths of laurel and ins. Taxes were excessive. Fami- Next week we will take up Dan - 'rhododendron. and returned home lies -began to move as far west as ial Boone and family leaving the disappointed in their attempt. possible to -get beyond the reach Yadkin and settling in Kentucky. In the early winter of 1768-69, of such government. (information for the above was John Finley appeared in Salisbury. taken from "Daniel Boone In Finley and Daniel Boone became North Carolina," by George Mau - good friends while serving ie Davie Co. Public Library rice; "Daniel Boone:' by John ' IndianBraddck's campaign against the (�� (� Bakeless; "The Boone Family." by Indians. _ Nlotcksviile, N. G. Elizabeth Sptaker: and other in- fornigtion compiled by Mrs. Lou- ise Utley and myself). 'Boone What happened to the other And Bryan Families f f the that came into the Forks �the Xadkin? • All of Daniel Boones children Make Kentucky family Settlements lucky.'aE dec� indicates What the brothers and sisters of Old Warrant Shows .that the same may be liable Daniel Boone also soon followed to fourteen poundsfi thereupon to and settled •irn Kentucky in !Daniel Being Sought be held at our next Superior, For Debt To Ebenezer Court for the District of Sails-, Fayette County. The Bryans also bury . on the 15th of March, Frost In The Year 1771 next; so as .to compel the said Went to Kentucky and settled at Daniel Boone to appear and ans- Bryan's Station, which was found - By GORDON TOMLINSON wer the above complaint of said ed by William Bryan and his One of the many records in the Ebenezer Frest when and where brothers and located on Elkhorn Rowan Court House relating toil you shalt make known unto our Creek, Fayette County. the Boone family is an old warrant , said court how you shall have Mrs. William Bryan (Mary showing that, Daniel Boone was be- ' executed this writ. Boone) did not go to Kentucky to ing sought by: officers in 1771-72 "Witness: William Temple Coles, live until the fall of 1779. There for non-payinent of a debt of 14 Esq. our said justice of Salisbury, is evidence that she remained in pounds. the 17th day of February, the what is now Davie County until On November 9, 1772, Daniel eleventh year of our reign Annon this -Lime and. that her mother, Boone was hailed into court with I Domini, 1771." Sarah Boon., lived with her until the following Warrant: "The judgements in the case 1her death in 1777. "North Carolina, Rowan Coun- ty. William Temple Coles, Esq., Baal of George III, by the grace of God, of Great Britian, France, Ireland and king defender of the faith, to the Coroner of Rowan County, greeting: "Whereas, Ebenezer Frost has complained on oath to William Temples Cole. Esq., one of our justices assigned to keep .the peace for said county, than Daniel Boone, late of your County, is justly in- debted to him in the scan of 14 lbs., 5 shillings, provisional mon- ey and oath having been made also that the said - Daniel Boonb has privately removed out of your County or so absconds and eon- ceals himself that the ordinary group of law cannot be sewed upon him and has given bond and se- curity to the directions of an act of khe assembly in such case made and provided . . . We therefore command you that you attach the estate of said Daniel Boone if found to be in your baliwick, for as much thereof as available .. . to satisfy the said debt and cost "Ebenezer Frost vs Daniel Boone, jury impaneled and .sworn, and fined the plaintiff the sum of 14 pounds. 3 shillings, 2 pence." The above was during the time that Daniel was exploring the wilderness of Kentucky. By 1773 lie had decided to establish him- self in Kentucky. On September 25, 1773, Daniel Boone and his family set out from his cabin on the Yadkin at the mouth of Beaver Creek with five other families. A party made up of Bryans and other families were also to meet them at a rendevous point in Powell's Valley. Trouble with the Indians was encountered and Boone's eldest son, James, was killed. These explorations and early attempts at settlements in Ken- tucky have been well covered by many authors. We will take leave of Daniel Boone with the state- ment that he and his family settled at Boonesboro, Kentucky, on April 6, 1775, named in his honor by Judge Richard Hender- son of Salisbury who was backing the expedition. - Davie Co, Public Library Mocksviile, N. C. But there was one other Boone that accompanied Sqiure and Sa- rah Boone and family from Penn- sylvania and settled in what is now Davie County. This was John Boone, a cousin of Daniel Boone. John Boone settled between Bear Creek and Hunting. Creek in the vicinity of what is now the Center community. There he ac- quired considerable land. Next week we will take up John Boone and -his family. (Information for the above was taken from "Daniel Boone h1 North Carolina." by George H. Maurice; "The Boone Family," by .Hazel Atteibury Spraker; and oti±er data compiled by Mrs. Lou- ise Utley and myself.) ENL1 EBPRIS`-P`COtb kht- e, 1AY, AbC.UST'15; I;157_ . John Boone Settles 0'n Bank Of Hunting Creek Hear Center Acnuires 0:10 Acres Of 1,811(1 Prom Granville By GORDON 7.OAMINSON . 'Jahn alone ems born In Dhksl County. Pfn tlYlfaMA. In 1727, Ile' AMA the oldest son of B*Nnmin1 no,". the bm(her of snuim naonnl .A deed, dated Demmber 21. 1 Us..etlOn John Doane combing 0]o' none of Imus; all Naples dmek This Was (lent the Yaa of OranAlie by Prometa Corbin. No nuntloo 0 Allan* of any Caner, Of adlobmog Md.. On the nunnn appears fill aoustwn: -Dene b Appanmay Jahn Roane rias mArritd around 1151 m Re"em, Volubly Rebrom Bryan oho Was born In Paa lvonln In 1938. tkole: His tousle, the lomat, DAnIaL nbo mauled A R*betm 6;yan, but this has been emend 16 pmrlom avtahs). John Some and his le fe Maw down Odd bulli a mIgn an what 16 how the W. J. V. Walker Wtd In the vldMV of COMW Church. Tia hou4 U nPCrted m have stood About 300 felt north of antro the barn nor (lands. near an old sprbts• Tbis JOM Aeon beeama A very successful former and landowmr. Aamdlm W deeds in fpsxan Can,". Job. own. acquired con. aldemble land betwen Humblg Ci"2 and Bear Creek film' be. tow arc some of the deed: In. Wilbur John Dema: 191, o'ilmsl grant to John Bare meld Roel, 3, pace AM. Owed Dec. 31. 1753, witnessed by Jam" Cartes and William Chur. ION and proved In open court by the cath of Jamar Cartes, OeL 19. 1150, U for 030 aero on Hunt. Ing CrteY. No naUhbming plat Cited. Notation on the doemment says:-Delhtred to Squire Beene:" 77le dem mantlons a MAP maax. ed thenal. _ -Dead Deet 6. P. 355-389. U fold to hurt o deed Iran John no h bank at HuMbrr Creek fort Are 311111111" Aug. I& 1758. ne•I teole-prit'e Wall 83 Pounds, being e Von of the gene Of 610 dose. '?n'0, ren: Of OIX 10. 1783.1 An the Sento of Norlh Carolina! to John Boone I, for 200 ,Cates, on she malars"Hunem: Crc#k.mut- 'lom his Une, the Imes Of JOmm 1Adeh and John BIovW m en on Me pill, thertunto annexed. afmtlon U made of bio no In Rowan Coumyec John Sae ea - turned In the Bemetat'a (m". The deed of aUroh i. 178-3 John Donne ro Berl Daae*,mm. U a only a Arai! of 223 sorer, be - bngaPanofthenaedbar:gro A`. m The line of Jaar looch U nan- Co es. This died b altacased b9 Thomas P alher and John Slavin .P.Wlap Shaved. It ay proceed In -the apn mutt " the AMMI. tions only a.hve& of 323 acres be. I Inge part of the win Above gfnfNs, The tine of Janug Leach U Alen- I Honed, This deed 13 rrltnessed by i 71lonsas Prattler and Jelin Slavbt 'Perhaps Ghharlr). It was pm%%d f In -the Open Court, at the Auguat I seaalon of 17D3, and Is recorded I hl Deed Hook 12. Page M. The deed of Aug. 5, 1793. Ben- I Jamin Boone to Thomas Peary, I auntiolis 200 acres eontatribit part ' of three -!mots conveyed by, John I Boone and by John Slarla for ; Sharer) on the cast aide of Hunt. ; Litz Crtek. Mention Is mfide of the f lines of John Slavin and the oris- lful line of John Boone. it is wit- nilssdd by Isaac Jones and Jnnias , Unch In open court August WM- fon, 17513, and mciiwered In Doed -nook 13, pato 288. , `Tho children of John Boono ware as followi:: . 611'�HeWnmllt BOOM, 1754-16$8. tvlcd Mary Wfteon In 1763. `Catharine married vulxrw lyna" , I' In 1730.' . HAIIIIah, 1719-18M. man9til' James Penry of Davit County. Mary married John Mendenhall. lt Tm mocx8vtMv. - (N:- C.), F.Ntmup.RTSF Benjamin Boone Joins Eaton's Baptist Church And Preaches Leaves This Vicinity In 1809 For Kentucky By GORDON TOMLINSON John Boone, a cousin of the fam-,.us Daniel, lived from 1753 to around 1803 in the vicinity of what is nowthe Center Church community. The eycact date of his death is not knmvn, but is believed to be around 1803. Legends have it that John Boone was bullied in a family bulging ground that once was located in a field that is now just in front of the home of Brice P. Garrett, near Center. The land is now own - cd by Marsh Dwiggins of Mocks - Ville. However, this land has been cultivated and farmed for years and today no signs remain of any grave. The oldost son of Jolm and. Re- becca Boone was Benjanun. This Benjamin Boone name appears on old records as having been a mem- ber of Ea'.on's Baptist Church. He also served in the Revolution- ary War. �He was born in 1765. In 1783 he married Mary Wilson, daughter of John Wi'son. In 1786, he got a farm of 220 acres from his father, which he said in 1793 and moved just across the line to Iredell -County, where he lived until 1809. In 1802 he joined Eaton's'Bap- C,at Church near Cana and soon afterwards -become a preacher. He preached in this vicinity from 1803 to 1809. After proving tho settlement of his father's estate in 1809, the Rev. Benjamin Boone and family dcParted for Jefferson County, Kentucky, ito settle near Daniel and his family. In 1816, the Rev. Benjamin Boone began to preach in Lim - coin County, middle Tennessee, at the Fbrks Mulberry Church, the oldrst Baptist Church In that county. Three sisters of Benjamin and his brother, John, Jr., all settled, in Lincohn County. His mother. Rebecca Boone, died aground 1820, according to the gprobate of will at Salisbury. The place said exact date of her death is not known. Benjamin's wife, Mary Wi'son Boone, died around 1823. Ben- jantin then married a Rebecca Davis but had no children. The children of Benjamin and Mary Wilson Boone, as given in the Boone' family Bible, were as follows: Sarah, 1783-1867, married John Donaldson, Iredell County. John, 1786- (date of death not known], married Cena Wood, St. . Charles County.. Missouri. .. James, 1788-1836, married So-. phi& Smith, Washington County, Arkansas. James is believed to have been one of the first medi- cal doctors .in that section of Ar- kansas. William, 119013854, married Sally Howard, then Margaret Moore, Bedford County. Tenn. Reuben Holman, 1792-1857, mar- ri^d Pmetta Rees. Went to Miss- issippi where he became a lawyer. Polly. 1797 - 1835, married Lem - u21 Broadway, Bedford County, Tenn. Samuel, 1801 - 1860, married Cynnthia Carriger, Lincoln County Twin. Rhoda. 1803 - 1846, married A- W. Reagor, Bedford County, Tenn. Noah Webster, 1607-1660, mar- ried Minerva Trammell, Mcbon- ald Couuty, Missouri. 1 Next week we will take up some of John Boone,s children and their descendants. (Information for the above was taken from data collected by James B. Childs of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Louise Utley and my- self). ENTERPRISE -RECORD 'Avie U. Public Library Mocksvilie, N. C.