Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-10-28
THE BOONE FAMILY.
Genealogical Record Made By Daniel Boone's
Brother in l792 aud Just Found.
A DOCUMENT FULL OF INTEREST

Papers regarding the genealogy IF
the pioneer family of Kentucky, have
Just been found near Meadville, in
that State, and the contents of which
are here given:
Squire Boone, son of George the
third, was born in Bradninch, in old
England, in 1899, and in the year
1714 he landed in Philadelphia and
lived a few years in North Wales, New
Philadelphia, where he married
Sarah Morgan, daughter of - Nor
gan, by which marriage he had
eleven children. to-wit: Sarah, Is
rael, Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth,
Daniel, Mary George, Edward,
Squire and Hannah These were all
born in Obey township, Pennsyl-
vania. Sarah married John Will
coxson; Elizabeth, William Grant;
Mary. VIM. Bryan; Hannah, John
Stewart, but the said Stewart had
never son by Hannah to bear his
name, but three daughters, and then
died, as supposed by the hand of the
savage, in Kentucky State. Daniel,
the fourth son of Squire and Sarah,
was a man wonderful for exploring
and maintaining new parts of the
world, good woodsman, an active
warrior, a man of courage and good
conduct. The said Col Daniel
Boone married Rebecca Bryan,
daughter of Joseph Bryan, by which
union he had nine children, five boys
and four girls, to-wit: James, Is
rael, Susannah, Jemimah, Lavinah,
Daniel, Jessie, Rebecca and Nathan.
Squire Boone, son of George and
Mary, in the fftieth year of his age
moved from Pennsylvania to Roam
county. in North Carolina, with all
his children, and lived there till his
death, which was in the sixty fifth
year of his age. A. ID. 1764, and was
buried in said Roam county in the
Fork of Yadkin river, about ten
miles above the fork, on place
called the Burning Rigg, and his wife
Sarah died in the seventy
year of her age, and in the year of
our Lord 1776, and was buried in the
same burying ground beside her
husband.
SQUIRE Boone son of Squire and
and Sarah, was born in Clay town
ship, in Berkes county, Pennsylvania
in the year of our Lord 1714, and
in the fifth year of his age was taken
by his father into North Carolina,
where he lived ten years, and then
was sent again to Pennsylvania to
learn the gunsmiths trade; and
after an apprenticeship OF five years
he came back again to North Caro-
lima. and IN the one and twentieth
year of his age was married to Jane
Vancleave, daughter of Aaron Van
cleave, of the low Dutch decent,
from Holland. He, the said Squire
Boone, had born unto him by the
said Jane, his wife, children, to-wit:
Jonathan, Moses, Isaiah, Sara and
Enoch Morgan, four of which We're
born in Carolina in the
wear OF our Lord 1776; Moses, in
1853; Isaiah, 1772; Sarah, in 1775;
Enoch Morgan, was born in Boones-
boro. in Kentucky, because in the
wear It's. his father, with his family,
moved to Kentucky and settled at
Boone sboro olwhere he lived two years,
and then moved to Brashaer's creek,
thirty miles east of the falls of the
Ohio. where was his place of resi-
dence for twelve years, whore his
son Moses married Hannah Boone,
daughter of Samuel Boone, son OF
George Boone the third. Sarah
Boone. daughter of Squire Boone,
son of Squire Boone, son OF George
the third, was married at b rashear's
creek to John Wilcoxson, in the
wear 1871, This was drawn off by
SQUIRE Boone, son of Squire Boone,
son of George Boone the third, in
the year 1872, at his brothers,
George Boone, in Kentuky.
| Tie said Squire Boone that drew
off the above. record was brother OF
Col. Daniel Boone, of Kentucky no
toriety, and moved from Brashear's
creek to Harrison county, Indiana,
where he lived and died and was
burie. in a cave, after making his
own coffin and preparing vault in
the cave for its reception, where his
remains now rest. The cave is two
or three miles north of Branden-
burg, KY, and his eldest son.
Johncthan, became my step grand
father. He was married in Shelby
county, KY. and moved to Crawford
county, Ind, where he died in the
wear 1910. / became the admin
istrator of his estate, and this record
having been laid aside with other
papers was out of sight for many
years. / have concluded to give il
publication in the Courier-Journo
for the benefit of the descendants
and relatives of the Boone family.