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          Jonathan Boone, son of Israel Boone and (?) (?), was born on 21 November 1750.³
     Jonathan married Susannah Nixon.¹ Jonathan Boone was ordained in 1791 at Yadkin Baptist Church, Rowan County, North Carolina, a deacon.⁴
     Jonathan died in 1826.⁴

     
     Jesse married Eliza Anne Cansler, daughter of Nathan Henderson Cansler Sr..³
     Jesse married Julia Ann "Gillette" Gelette (her second marriage) circa 1865; Julia was the widow of his brother Israel.³

          Israel Boone, son of Jonathan Boone and (?) (?), was born circa 1810 in North Carolina.³ Israel Boone moved circa 1835 to Missouri.³
     Israel (his first marriage) married Julia Ann "Gillette" Gelette (her first marriage) circa 1835.⁴
     Israel Boone received a land grant, issued under April 24, 1820 Cash Entry Sale (3 Stat. 566) on 1 June 1850 at Maries County, Missouri. The land was described as 40 acres in SESE part of section 27, township 41N, range 10W.⁵
     Israel died circa 1865 in Missouri.³

     
     John married (?) (?).
     John married Minerva Taft, daughter of Peter Taft.³

          Israel Boone, son of Jessie Boone and Sarah McMahon, was born on 7 February 1780 in Burke County, North Carolina.^3,4
     Israel married Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Daniel Moore and Rachel Stone, circa 1805.^3,5 Israel Boone and Elizabeth Moore lived circa 1809 in McMinn County, Tennessee.⁴
     Elizabeth and Israel Boone lived in 1830 in Tennessee. Residing with them were, their children Israel, John, Allen, William, Sarah and Elizabeth.⁶
     Israel Boone was listed as the head of a family on the 1830 U.S. Census at Tennessee. Based on ages, it is possible that the following were also living in the household: Israel Boone, a free white male under five years old, John Boone, a free white male five and under ten years old, Sarah Boone, a free white female five and under ten years old, Joe Nixon Boone, a free white male ten and under fifteen years old, Elizabeth Boone, a free white female ten and under fifteen years old, William Daniel Boone, a free white male fifteen and under twenty years old, Elizabeth Moore, a free white female forty and under fifty years old.⁶
     Israel died in 1839.⁴

          William Daniel Boone, son of Israel Boone and Elizabeth Moore, was born in 1809 in Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina.¹
     William (his first marriage) married Emily "Millie" Triplett (her first marriage) circa 1828.¹
     He lived with his parents, Elizabeth and Israel, in 1830 in McMinn County, Tennessee.³
     Based on age, William Daniel Boone was probably listed on the 1830 U.S. Census at Tennessee as a free white male, fifteen and under twenty years old and residing with Israel Boone.³ William Daniel Boone lived in 1838 in Bradley County, Tennessee.⁴
     William (his second marriage) married Susan Mc Andrew circa 1845.¹
     William died in 1878 in Tennessee.⁴

     
     Nancy married (?) Cansler.¹

     
     (?) married Nancy Boone, daughter of Israel Boone and Elizabeth Moore.¹

          Hannah Boone, daughter of Jessie Boone and Sarah McMahon, was born circa 1783 in Burke County, North Carolina.^3,4
     Hannah married Smith Coffey, son of Thomas Coffey and Elizabeth Smith, circa 1802.¹

          Smith Coffey, son of Thomas Coffey and Elizabeth Smith, was born in 1776 in Albemarle County, Virginia.²
     Smith married Hannah Boone, daughter of Jessie Boone and Sarah McMahon, circa 1802.¹
     Smith died say 1840 in Caldwell County, North Carolina.²

          Jessie Boone, son of Israel Boone and (?) (?), was born in 1748.²
     He was raised by his uncle, Daniel, after the death of his parents in 1756.³
     Jessie married Sarah McMahon, daughter of Jesse McMahon, in 1772.³
     Jessie died circa 1829 in McMinn County, Tennessee.^4,3

          Sarah McMahon, daughter of Jesse McMahon, was born circa 1750 in Rowan County, North Carolina.⁴
     Sarah married Jessie Boone, son of Israel Boone and (?) (?), in 1772.⁵ Her husband, Jessie Boone, died circa 1829.^6,5
     Sarah McMahon was listed as the head of a family on the 1830 U.S. Census at McMinn County, Tennessee. No one was residing with her.⁷

          Israel Boone, son of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan, was born on 20 May 1726 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.¹
     Israel married (?) (?) on 31 December 1747 at Bucks County, Pennsylvania Colony.^1,2 Israel Boone and (?) (?) moved circa 1750 from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Valley of the Yadkin, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina Colony.²
     Israel died on 26 June 1756 at age 30 of consumption.^3,2 He was buried in Joppa Cemetery in Mocksville, Rowan County, North Carolina.²

     
     (?) married Israel Boone, son of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan, on 31 December 1747 at Bucks County, Pennsylvania Colony.^1,2 (?) (?) and Israel Boone moved circa 1750 from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Valley of the Yadkin, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina Colony.²
     (?) died on 26 June 1756 of consumption.²

          Anna Boone, daughter of Jessie Boone and Sarah McMahon, was born on 26 July 1785 in Burke County, North Carolina.^2,3
     Anna married William Coffey, son of Thomas Coffey and Salley Fields, circa 1805.¹
     Anna died in 1876.³

          William Coffey, son of Thomas Coffey and Salley Fields, was born on 26 November 1782.^2,3
     William married Anna Boone, daughter of Jessie Boone and Sarah McMahon, circa 1805.¹
     William died on 15 May 1839 at age 56.^2,3

          Squire Boone, son of George Boone III and Mary Milton Maugridge, was born on 25 November 1696 in Stoak, Devonshire, England.^3,4
     Squire Boone immigrated along with George Boone IV before 1712 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.⁵

     Squire married Sarah Morgan, daughter of Edward Morgan and Elizabeth Jarman, on 4 October 1720 at Exeter, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.^2,6 Squire Boone was buried in 1765 in Joppa Cemetery in Mocksville, Rowan County, North Carolina.⁷
     Squire died in 1765 in North Carolina.⁸

          Sarah Morgan, daughter of Edward Morgan and Elizabeth Jarman, was born circa 1700 in Towamencin Township, Pennsylvania.²
     Sarah married Squire Boone, son of George Boone III and Mary Milton Maugridge, on 4 October 1720 at Exeter, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.^3,4
     Sarah died in 1777 in North Carolina.^2,5 She was buried in 1777 in Joppa Cemetery in Mocksville, Rowan County, North Carolina.⁶

          Sarah Boone, daughter of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan, was born on 17 June 1724 in Pennsylvania.^1,2
     Sarah married John Wilcox in 1742.²
     Sarah died in 1815.³

     
     In regard to his birth, name and death, controversies have arisen among historians and biographers. It is, perhaps, not a remarkable circumstance that doubts and differences exist in regard to the time of Daniel Boone's birth, and as to the orthography of his name, but that there should be any contrariety of statement touching so recent an event as his death, is a little singular.

1. His Birth: He was born in Exeter township, Bucks county, PA, according to Bogant, February 11, 1735; Hartley, same date; Peck, February, 1735; the family record in the handwriting of his Uncle James, July 14, 1732; Flint (who wrote in 1840), 1746; Bogart (who wrote in 1881), August 22, 1734; Switzler (who wrote in 1877), adopts, in his "History of Missouri", the date of James Boone's family record - July 14, 1732.

2. His Name: Was it Boone or Boon? Many of his descendants who, fifty years and more ago, lived in Missouri, for examples, William, Hampton L., Nestor and William C. Boon, and some of them who yet reside in the State, among whom is William C. Boon, of Jefferson City, omit the final "e". In consequence of this fact, perhaps, the early records of this county, as well as our first county seal, spelled it "Boon". And "Boon's Lick", as applied to the extensive region in Central Missouri known by that name, and in the name of the first newspaper ever published west of the Missouri river, at Franklin, in 1819, the "Missouri Intelligencer and Boon's Lick Advertiser", it is spelled without the "e". Nevertheless, the act of the Legislature organizing Boone county, November 16, 1820; the Franklin, Mo., Intelligencer of 1819, and Lewis C. Beck's Gazetteer of Missouri, 1823, when speaking of the county add the final "e". Yet there is higher authority than either of these for the "e", viz.: Daniel Boone himself, for he thus spelled his name. We have before us now, through the courtesy of Col. Thomas E. Tutt, of St. Louis, a lithographic copy of a letter from Boone addressed to Col. William Christian, of Kentucky, - called "Cristen" in the letter - dated August 23, 1785, and concluding, "you will oblyge your omble sarvent", to which he signs his name as "Daniel Boone". The original letter is now in the possession of Thomas W. Bullet, of Louisville, Ky., who is a grandson of Col. Christian. In the museum of the Louisville, Ky., Public Library there is a genuine autograph letter of Boone dated "Grate Conhoway July the 30th 1789", and addressed to "Col. Hartt & Rochester", which is subscribed as follows: "I am Sir With Respect your very omble Sarvent Daniel Boone". (See letter of Prof. P.A. Towne in the Courier-Journal, 1876). In a letter J.E. Paton, Circuit Clerk of Bourbon county, Ky., written at Paris Ky., December 20, 1876, to the Cincinnati Enquirer, he says there are in his office a number of the genuine signatures of Boone with the final "e". In Collins' "History of Kentucky", Vol. II, page 61, there is a fac simile of a letter of Boone, which, in 1846, was in possession of Joseph B. Boyd, of Maysville, and addressed to "Judge John Cobren, Sant Lewis", dated October 5, 1809, that concludes, "I am Deer Sir youres Daniel Boone". These authorities settle the question beyond cavil.

3. His Life: His father, Squire Boone, came from England, and took up his residence in a frontier settlement in Pennsylvania, where Daniel received the merest rudiments of education, but became thoroughly familiar with the arts and hardships of pioneer life. When he was 18 years old the family moved to the banks of the river Yadkin, in North Carolina, where he married Rebecca Bryan, and passed some years as a farmer. He made several hunting excursions into the wilderness, and finally, in 1769, set out with five others to explore the border region of Kentucky. They halted on Red river, a branch of the Kentucky, where they hunted for several months. In December, 1769, Boone and a companion named Stewart were captured by the Indians, but escaped, and Boone was soon after joined by his brother. They were captured again, and Stewart was killed; but Boone escaped, and his brother going shortly after to North Carolina, he was left alone for several weeks in the wilderness, with only his rifle for means of support.

He was rejoined by his brother, and they continued their explorations till March, 1771, when they returned home with the spoils which they had collected. In 1773 he sold his farm and set out with his family and two brothers, and five other families, to make his home in Kentucky. They were intercepted by Indians and forced to retreat to Clinch river, near the border of Virginia, where they remained for some time, Boone in the meanwhile conducting a party of surveyors into Kentucky for Patrick Henry, the Governor of Virginia. He was afterward appointed, with the commission of a captain, to command three garrisons on the Ohio, to keep back the hostile Indians, and in 1775 was employed to lay out lands in Kentucky for the Pennsylvania Company. He erected a stockade fort on the Kentucky river, which he called Boonsborough, which is now in Madison county, and removed his family to the new settlement, where he was again employed in command of a force to repel the Indians.

In 1778 he went to Blue Licks to obtain salt for the settlement, and was captured and taken to Detroit. His knowledge of the Indian character enabled him to gain favor with his captors, and he was adopted into one of their families. Discovering a plan laid by the British for an Indian attack upon Boonsborough, he contrived to escape, and set out for the Kentucky settlement, which he reached in less than five days. His family, supposing that he was dead, had returned to North Carolina; but he at once put the garrison in order and successfully repelled the attack, which was soon made. He was court-martialed for surrendering his party at the Licks, and for endeavoring to make a treaty with the Indians before the attack on the fort; but, conducting his own defence, he was acquitted and promoted to the rank of major.

In 1780 he brought his family back to Boonsborough, and continued to live there till 1792. At that time Kentucky was admitted into the Union as a State, and much litigation arose about the titles of settlers to their lands. Boone, losing all his possessions for want of a clear title, retired in 1795 in disgust into the wilderness of Missouri, settling on the Femme Osage Creek, in St. Charles County. This region was then under the dominion of Spain, and he was appointed commander of the Femme Osage district, and received a large tract of land for his services, which he also lost subsequently because he failed to make his title good. His claim to another tract of land was confirmed by Congress in 1812, in consideration of his eminent public services.

The latter years of his life he spent in Missouri, with his son, Nathan Boone, near Marthasville, where he died September 26, 1820, aged eighty-six. The only original portrait of Boone in existence was painted by Mr. Chester Harding in 1820, and now hangs in the State-house at Frankfort, Kentucky. His remains were interred by the side of his wife's, who died March 18, 1813, near the village named, where they continued to repose until August, 1845, when they were removed for interment in the public cemetery at Frankfort.

The consent of the surviving relations of the deceased having been obtained, a commission was appointed under whose superintendence the removal was effected; and the 13th of September, 1845, was fixed upon as the time when the ashes of the venerable dead would be committed with fitting ceremonies to the place of their final repose. It was a day which will be long remembered in the history of Franklin County, Kentucky. The deep feeling excited by the occasion was evinced by the assembling of an immense concourse of citizens from all parts of the State; and the ceremonies were most imposing and impressive. A procession extending more than a mile in length accompanied the coffin to the grave. The hearse, decorated with evergreens and flowers, and drawn by four white horses, was placed in its assigned position in the line, accompanied, as pall-bearers, by the following distinguished pioneers, viz.: Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Scott; Gen. James Taylor, of Campbell; Capt. James Ward, of Mason; Gen. Robert B. McAfee and Peter Jordan, of Mercer; Walter Bullock, Esq., of Fayette; Capt. Thomas Joyes, of Louisville; Mr. London Sneed, of Franklin; Col. John Johnson, of the State of Ohio; Maj. E.E. Williams, of Kenton, and Col. William Boone, of Shelby. The procession was accompanied by several military companies and the members of the Masonic Fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in rich regalia. Arrived at the grave, the company was brought together in a beautiful hollow near the grove, ascending from the centre on every side. Here the funeral services were performed. The hymn was given out by Rev. Mr. Godell, of the Baptist Church; prayer by Bishop Soule, of the Methodist Episcopal Church; oration by the Hon. John J. Crittenden; closing prayer by the Rev. J.J. Bullock, of the Presbyterian Church, and benediction of the Eld. P.S. Fall, of the Christian Church. The coffins were then lowered into the graves. The spot where the graves are situated is as beautiful as nature and art combined can make it. It is designed to erect a monument on the place.

4. His Death: Timothy Flint, in his biography (1840), states that it occurred "in the year 1818, and in the eighty-fourth year of his age;" Hartley, on September 26, 1820, in his eighty-sixth year; Bogart, the same; Switzler, the same, except that his age was eighty-eight; and Chester Harding, who painted from life the celebrated portrait of him in June, 1820, and who fixes his age at ninety, also fixes his death as occuring in 1820. (See Harding's "Egotistigraphy", for a copy of which we are indebted to his son, Gen. James Harding, one of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for Missouri).

We have, however, recently met with higher authority than either of the above writers, and one that conclusively settles the date of his death. In the Franklin (Mo.) Intelligencer of Oct. 14, 1820, there is copied from the St. Louis Enquirer an obituary notice of Daniel Boone, the first paragraph of which is as follows:

DIED.-On the 26th ult. (Sep.) at Charette Village (which was on Femme Osage Creek, in St. Charles County, Mo.), in the ninetieth year of his age, the celebrated Col. DANIEL BOONE, discoverer and first settler of the State of Kentucky.

He died at the residence of his son, Maj. Nathan Boone, which was an old-style two-story house, the first of the kind erected west of the Missouri river, and it is yet standing. A good wood cut of it can be found in "Switzler's History of Missouri", page 180.

The obituary in the Enquirer also says that on the 28th September, Mr. Emmons, Senator from Saint Charles County, communicated the intelligence of his death to the Legislature, then in session in St. Charles, and that "both branches of that body, through respect to his memory, adjourned for the day, and passed a resolution to wear crape on the left arm for twenty days".

One of his sons, Jesse B. Boone, was at the time a member of the Legislature from the county of Montgomery.²      Daniel Boone, son of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan, was born on 2 November 1734 in Pennsylvania.¹
     Daniel married Rebecca Bryan.¹ Daniel Boone was a witness at the wedding of Israel Boone Grant and Susannah Bryan at home of Daniel and Rebecca Boone, Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky.³ His wife, Rebecca Bryan, died in 1813.⁴
     Daniel died on 26 September 1820 in St. Charles County, Missouri, at age 85.⁵

     
     Rebecca married Daniel Boone, son of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan.¹      Rebecca Bryan was born in 1739.³ She was a witness at the wedding of Israel Boone Grant and Susannah Bryan at home of Daniel and Rebecca Boone, Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky.⁴
     Rebecca died in 1813.³ She was buried in 1813 Defiance's Boone grave. Daniel Boone has suffered similar body-snatching shennanigans but with a twist: He appears to have ended up in two graves.
Everyone agrees that Boone died at his son's home near Defiance, MO, in 1820. Everyone also agrees that he was buried nearby in Marthasville (about 14 mi. west), near the grave of his wife, Rebecca. But then the story gets muddled. The folks in Frankfort, KY, would have you believe that Rebecca and Daniel were exhumed 25 years later and reinterred in Frankfort Cemetery. The marker near Defiance mentions the reinterrment, but...
According to Defiance, Frankfort dug up the wrong body. The grave next to Rebecca's was already occupied when Daniel died, they say, so he was buried at her feet. Daniel's relatives were angry at Frankfort and didn't tell them about his true burial plot. They let Frankfort cart away the body next to Rebecca's, the body of a stranger.
Scientific scrutiny seems to support Defiance's claims. A forensic anthropologist studied a plaster cast of the skull in Frankfort's "Daniel Boone" grave in 1983 and said that it really belonged to a large black man. Frankfort, of course, pooh-poohed those allegations.
Both graves have worthy monuments. Frankfort's is bigger (that was, ostensibly, the reason for the move in the first place) but it's in a big cemetery and must share its surroundings with other dead people. The memorial near Defiance is out by itself, and it's worth remembering that Daniel Boone's own reason for leaving Kentucky was that it was "too crowded."⁵

          George Boone III, son of George Boone II and Sarah Uppey, was born in 1666 in Stoak, Devonshire, England, a village near the city of Exeter.³
     George and Mary were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Callumpton, Devonshire. He was a weaver by trade.³
     George married Mary Milton Maugridge, daughter of John Maugridge and Mary Milton, in 1689 at Stoak, Devonshire, England.²
     George was a weaver in 1700 at Stoak, Devonshire, England.⁴ He lived in 1717 in Abington, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Settled here first after arrival in America, this is where his son, George was married in 1713.⁴ He and Mary Milton Maugridge emigrated on 17 August 1717 from Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Traveling with George were Benjamin Boone, James Boone, Samuel Boone, Joseph Boone, John Boone and Mary Boone.³
     George Boone III immigrated between 29 September 1717 and 10 October 1717 to Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.⁴ He was a member of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of Friends, North Wales, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania on 31 October 1717 . Soon after their arrival in America, George and Mary became members of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of Friends. According to the minutes "10-31-1717" "George Boone produced a certificate of his good life and conversation from the Monthly Meeting at Callumpton in Great Britain, which was read and well received."⁵ He lived in 1718 in North Wales, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.⁴
     George died between 27 July 1744 and 7 August 1744 in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, age of seventy-eight years.³ He lived in 1820 in Oley Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Oley Township was later renamed Exeter Township and became part of Berks County.⁴

          Mary Boone, daughter of Jonathan Boone and (?) (?), was born in 1801 in Tennessee.^2,3
     Mary (her first marriage)married Edward Moss (his first marriage) circa 1830 at McMinn County, Tennessee.^1,2
     Mary died in 1846 in North Carolina.²

     
     Jonathan married (?) (?).³      Jonathan Boone, son of Jessie Boone and Sarah McMahon, was born circa 1775 in Rowan County, North Carolina.^2,4 Jonathan Boone moved in 1834 from Rowan County, North Carolina to Missouri.. An 1834 church record in Zion Hill Baptist Church, McMinn County, Tennessee states "moved to Missouri."⁵
     Jonathan Boone was listed as the head of a family on the 1840 U.S. Census at Greene County, Missouri. Based on ages, it is possible that the following were also living in the household:, Elizabeth Boone, a free white female ten and under fifteen years old, (?) (?), a free white female fifty and under sixty years old.³
     Jonathan died between 1850 and 1855 in Osage County, Missouri.⁵

          Rachel Boone, daughter of Jonathan Boone and Susannah Nixon, was born on 11 January 1777.² Conflicting evidence placed her birth 1779 (Israel Boone web site).³
     Rachel married David Moss circa 1800.¹

     
     David married Rachel Boone, daughter of Jonathan Boone and Susannah Nixon, circa 1800.¹

          Edward Moss was born on 19 April 1800 in McMinn County, Tennessee.²
     Edward (his first marriage) married Mary Boone (her first marriage), daughter of Jonathan Boone and (?) (?), circa 1830 at Tennessee.^1,3
     Edward (his second marriage) married Mary Roberson after 1846 at Maries County, Missouri.²
     Edward died on 19 January 1892 in Missouri at age 91.²