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Newspaper about Daniel Boone
Family
Written by Gordon Tomlinson
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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.
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MOCKRVTTAY
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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.
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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.