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Fair Were Their Dreams The definitive volume on the origins of the Boone family in South Carolina is back in print!! Originally published in 1990 and out-of-print for a number of years, an additional printing has recently been completed.BUY IT, directly from the author! It is the history of John Boone of Boone Hall Plantation, Charleston, and the result of ten years research by the author, Mary Cole Farrow Long. The 244-page, fully-indexed book includes a genealogy of the Boone family originating in Dartmouth with Henry Boone I who died in 1637. Mrs. Long's research shows for the first time the relationship of John Boone of Boone Hall Plantation to his nephew, Joseph Boone, Agent for the Province of Carolina to His Majesty in London, and to his grand-nephew, Thomas Boone, Governor of New Jersey, and Governor of Carolina from 1760-1764. Debrett Ancestry Research provided the basic information for the Boone family in England and noted: "this is obviously an unusually interesting family to research." The author's original purpose in writing Fair Were Their Dreams was to verify the ancestors of her great-grandfather, John Baxter Fraser Boone. Earlier research had indicated that the family was descended from George Boone, the brother of famous pioneer, Daniel Boone. The author began the task of linking Thomas Boone, the father of John Baxter Fraser Boone, to Thomas Boone's father, and subsequently to each generation of ancestors back to Major John Boone, the first English ancestor to settle in the Province of Carolina, "arriving with the first fleet" in March of 1670, and eventually to Henry Boone, butcher of Dartmouth who died in 1637. A section of the book is devoted to Boone allied families: Breaker, Prince and Rutledge. Each generation of the Boone family is dealt with in a separate chapter, beginning with the Boones in England. The history of the Boone family in Carolina is detailed in a background of historical events from 1670, the arrival of John Boone in Carolina, through the War Between the States when John Baxter Fraser Boone enlisted April 17-18,1861, in the 1st Regiment, North Carolina Infantry. Major Boone was Quartermaster of General D.H.Hill's Brigade and participated in the Battle of Big Bethel, Virginia, 10 June 1861. A chapter is devoted to letters from J.B.F.Boone to Martha Sarah Prince, before their marriage. |
The Author: Mary Cole Farrow Long's career as professor of English at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor for eighteen years prior to her early retirement in 1983 uniquely qualifies her to write the history of the family of her paternal great-grandfather, John Baxter Fraser Boone. During her teaching career, she taught Freshman English, Introduction to Literature, Modern Poetry and Creative Writing. Mrs. Long published Stranger in a Strange Land, a biography of her maternal great-grandfather, in 1986. Mrs. Long earned the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Baylor University, with majors in Speech and English. She has studied Creative Writing in workshops in Santa FE, N.M. and in Dallas, Tx. She organized the Central Texas Poetry Society, a chapter of the Poetry Society of Texas, and has published her poetry in a number of literary magazines. Accompanied by her two daughters, Daryl Elizabeth Edwards and Linda Sue Fletcher, in 1984 Mrs. Long interviewed a researcher at Debrett's London office, giving him the information she had collected on the Boone family in Carolina. At the conclusion of the Debrett research, which failed to prove the relationship of John Boone of Boone Hall Plantation to the Boone family in England, Mrs. Long began efforts to discover the family history in Devon, where the family had its origins. The Devon Records Office provided wills and other links that proved the relationship between John Boone to the Boone family in Devon. Sending the Devon research to Debrett, Mrs. Long was then able to make conclusions about the family that have not been published elsewhere, including a genealogy of the Boone family which traces the family back to Henry Boone I, butcher, of Dartmouth, who died in 1637. Mrs. Long holds membership in Sigma Tau Delta, National Honorary English Fraternity. She is listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Personalities of the South, The World Who's Who of Women, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the World, Outstanding Educators of America, and The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership. |
BUY IT NOW ! Purchase the book directly from the author, Mary C.F. Long, through Bear Hollow Publishers, Belton Texas. The price is $50.00 (U.S.), which includes all packing and surface shipping charges within the continental U.S. You can contact Mrs. Long . . .
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