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Contrasting Families of Daniel Boone and Thomas Boone :
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| Many people named BOONE, alive today, are descendants of George Boone, grandfather of Daniel the Pioneer. . . . but not ALL of the BOONES in America are part of this group !
A George / Daniel BOONE Chronology:
- 1713 - Daniel Boone's father, Squire, arrives in Philadelphia from England.
- 1720 - Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan marry in the Friends' meetinghouse in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania.
- 1731 - Boone's parents relocate to the upper Schuylkill River valley.
- 1734 - Daniel is born in Exeter township, near Reading, on October 22.
- 1750 - Family leaves Pennsylvania for the western country and settles (1751) in Rowan County, North Carolina, on the Yadkin River.
- 1756 - Marries Rebecca Bryan on August 14; they soon settle in Rowan County.
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1766 - Family moves to a site farther west, near present Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
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1775 - For the Transylvania Company, leads party cutting the Wilderness Road to Kentucky; founds Boonesborough in the face of Shawnee attacks; brings family to Kentucky.
- 1779 - Leads large party of emigrants to Kentucky in September; settles Boone's Station, north of the
Kentucky River.
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1783 - Relocates family to Limestone, on the Ohio River; takes up tavern keeping, surveying, and land
speculating.
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1799 - Leads extended family from Kentucky to Femme Osage country in Missouri; appointed "syndic" of district by Spanish governor.
Other BOON / BOONE Chronologies:
- 1610 - Lord Dunmore describes a yellow fever epidemic in the Jamestown colony, and that "Dr.Lawrence Bohun's physical provisions are nearly exhausted".
- 1635 - The Bristol Register lists John Boone as going to Barbados aboard the Peter Bonaventure.
- 1653 - The headright of Christopher Boone, and 29 others, is used by William Debnam to patent 1500 acres near Mocjack Bay (near Yorktown) in Virginia.
- 1663 - The headrights of Thomas Boone and Tobias Seely are used by Maj.David Cant for a land patent in Lancaster County, Virginia.
- 1670 - John Boone is aboard the first fleet of ships to land at what will become Charleston, S.C . He will build Boone Hall plantation.
- 1679 - Nicholas Boone and Elizabeth Linsford, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Linsford, have a son, also named Nicholas, in or near Boston, Ma.
- 1685 - Samual Boone is transfered, with many others, from Taunton Prison, Sommerset, to Barbados, aboard the John, probably as a result of the Monmouth Rebellion.
- 1687 - John Boone (same as in 1670 above) is expelled from the Council of Governor James Colleton for "conspiring with pirates" -- the result of a political fight. He remained a successful businessman in Charleston until his death in 1711.
- 1701 - Nicholas Boone co-published the first successful newspaper in Boston, Ma.
- 1723 - Thomas and John Boone separately patent land along the Meherrin River in Bertie County, North Carolina.
- 1759 - Thomas Boone, related to the South Carolina group, is named Governor of New Jersey .
- 1761 - Thomas Boone, former Governor of New Jersey, is named Governor of South Carolina. He returns to England in 1764.
- 1796 - "My" Thomas Boone writes his will, describing himself as a resident of Northampton County, State of North Carolina.
- 1800 - "My" Thomas Boon dies, and his will is recorded in Northampton County, N.C.
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