Edward Boone (1740 - 1780)

Born 19 Nov 1740 in Exeter, Berks County. Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Martha (Bryan) Boone — married 1757 in Rowan, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 6 Oct 1780 at age 39 in Blue Licks, Clark County, Kentucky

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Edward Boone served with North Carolina during the American Revolution.

Edward Boone is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A012098.

Biography

There are many children lines listed on his DAR record page.

"Edward, Son of Squire Boone Sr. and Sarah Morgan Boone was born November 30, 1740 in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Married Martha Bryan, daughter of Joseph and Alee Bryan and a sister to Rebecca, Daniel Boone's wife. Edward moved with his parents to the Yadkin District in North Carolina when he was about 10 years old. He married Martha in the Yadkin District and their children were all born there. He went to Kentucky with his brother, Daniel Boone. He and Daniel and several other men had gone to the Blue Licks Salt Licks to boil down salt. It took 680 galls of salt water to boil down a bushel of salt. It cost a $5 Continental bill to buy a bushel of salt. On their way back to Fort Boonesborough [[Early Kentucky Stations, Forts, and Camps]], they stopped to let the horses graze. Edward was cracking nuts with a stone and was killed by Indians (Shawnees) on 6 October 1780 in Clark Co.(Boonesborough), (near Blue Lick River) Kentucky. Martha Bryan Boone was only in her 30's when Ned Boone was killed and she did not remarry. She lived on Boone's Creek and died in 1793 in Fayette County, Kentucky. Edward "Ned" Boone was a Baptist preacher and loved to sing."

Edward "Ned" Boone was killed by Indians while returning from the Blue Licks with his brother Daniel Boone where they had gone to make salt and do some hunting. They stopped at a stream in Bourbon County and Edward sat down on a log to watch the horses while Daniel went off in the cane in search of game. A small band of Indians shot and killed Edward. Daniel escaped, and returned the next day with men from Boone Station where they and their families were living at the time, and they buried Edward there where he had been killed. Draper letters report that in about 1827, some of Edward's bones were left exposed from flooding, and the Rev. Richard Thomas collected the bones and reburied them at the Rockbridge Baptist Church nearby.

A quote from Nathan Boone about Edward's death:

"I am quite certain my father (Daniel Boone) and his brother (Edward) went to hunt buffalo meat. I think from the locality it was most likely the Upper Blue Licks where they had been. They had their horses loaded with buffalo meat and stopped a t the lick, probably for a rest. They were probably leading their horse or horses and had been just stopped a very few minutes, with the lick close at hand. While Father was cracking some black walnuts, Edward saw a deer enter the lick, and stole up and shot the deer and dragged the carcass into the shade nearby.

Some Indians who had probably been watching the lick from a canebrake ( A dense thicket of cane.) Then shot Edward dead. My father then jumped on a horse and attempted to throw off the load of meat, but the Indians rushed him, so that he had to abandon the horse and dash off into the canebrake. In the bustle he lost his large, cheap, one-bladed pocketknife, which he had in his hand picking out walnut meats, which probably fell into the creek. The Indians chased him into the cane. The Indians had a dog, and Father shot twice at him. Once or twice the dog ran back, and the Indians would sic him on Father a gain. Finally he shot the dog, and he was confident the Indians never followed him any farther. I think it was two or three miles that the Indians and their dog chased him, and that the entire distance was a canebrake.

Edward was interred in Boone's Station Farm, near Athens, Kentucky. Sources: See link to Boone genealogy with Squire Boone, and sources 44, 107.

Note: Edward Boone, Daniel's brother, most likely died in what is present day Montgomery County, Kentucky at the Grassy Lick. See articles about Edward Boone (two) by Donna Dodd Terrell Jones, B.A., M.A., J.D.. on the Journal of Kentucky History and Genealogy. Where he died was, at the time of his death, a part of Fayette County, Kentucky, and later would became a part of Bourbon County, Kentucky, and then a part of Clark County, Kentucky, and FINALLY (so far), the legislature made it into Montgomery County, Kentucky. After the Civil War there was much confusion about the county line between Bourbon and Montgomery but Grassy Lick ended up in Montgomery.

He had the following siblings: Sarah Cassandra, Israel, Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth Boone Grant, Daniel Boone, famous Pioneer; Jacob Boone, Mary Boone Bryan, George W., Nathaniel , Squire Boone Jr., and Hannah Boone Stewart Pennington.

Edward married Martha Bryan in Eaton Baptist Church, Yadkin County, North Carolina; they were the parents of the following children: Charity Boone - 4 October, 1760 - 7 April, 1843 Jane Boone - 18 September, 1762 - 1 December, 1812 Mary Boone - 5 December, 1764 - 28 September, 1825 George Boone - 28 April, 1767 - 10 June, 1841 Joseph Boone - 1768 - May 25, 1847 Sarah Boone - 6 March 1771 - 18 July 1866

Edward Boone was one of the signers on 1 May 1780, of Petition #12 that resulted in splitting Kentucky County, Virginia, into 3 counties: Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln. Part of the petition reads, "That the Militia Inhabitants of the north side of Kaintucky amount to about 400 with 11 fortified posts … that the nearest settlement to the Courthouse is at least 40 miles and the farthest about 70 miles … that the River Kentuckey is rendered impassable half the year by high waters & is ever inconvenient and Dangerous …" The petition was approved by the Virginia Legislature.

Edward Boone. ^[1][2][3]

Ned Boone. Found multiple versions of name. Using Edward Boone.

Born 19 November1740. Exeter, Berks, Pennsylvania. Map: Latitude: N41.3206. Longitude: W75.8191. ^[4][5][6] 30 November 1740. Exeter, Berks, Pennsylvania. Map: Latitude: N41.3206. Longitude: W75.8191. ^[7] Found multiple copies of birth date. Using 19 NOV 1740

Died Killed by Indians and mistaken for his brother Daniel. Clark County was created 6 December 1792 from Bourbon and Fayette Counties. 6 October 1780. Kentucky Map: Latitude: N37.825. Longitude: W84.2333. ^[8][9][10] Cause: Killed by Indians.

Residence Pennsylvania Map: Latitude: N40.8583. Longitude: W76.3834.

Buried North Middletown, Bourbon, Kentucky. Map: Latitude: N38.1451. Longitude: W84.1113. ^[11][12]

Military Service: Revolutionary War.

Edward "Neddie" Boone. ^[13][14]

Born 19 October 1740/30 November 1740. Exeter, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA. ^[15][16]

Died 6 October 1780. Hinston, Caneridge, Kentucky, USA-Killed by Indians while hunting w/ his brother, Daniel Boone. ^[17][18]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S32
2. ↑ Source: #S241 Book Title: Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of the Boone Family
3. ↑ Source: #S32
4. ↑ Source: #S32
5. ↑ Source: #S241 Book Title: Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of the Boone Family
6. ↑ Source: #S32
7. ↑ Source: #S241 Book Title: Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of the Boone Family
8. ↑ Source: #S32
9. ↑ Source: #S241 Book Title: Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of the Boone Family
10. ↑ Source: #S32
11. ↑ Source: #S32
12. ↑ Source: #S32
13. ↑ Source: #S1278100366 Book Title: Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of the Boone Family
14. ↑ Source: #S1278100367
15. ↑ Source: #S1278100366 Book Title: Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of the Boone Family
16. ↑ Source: #S1278100367
17. ↑ Source: #S1278100366 Book Title: Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of the Boone Family
18. ↑ Source: #S1278100367

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aeXgTaUm5k

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 20 March 2016), "Record of Edward "Ned" Boone", Ancestor # A012098.

• From Sarah Ridge Rockenfield's "Our Boone Families" -- page 453:

• Find-A-Grave Virtual Cemetery memorial #8319109 in Boone Station Historical Site, Athens, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA

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Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Maria Case, Bill Milligan, Arletta Hudson and Kitty Smith for contributions to this profile. Cooper-1 22:29, 20 March 2016 (EDT)
• Source: S1278100185 Repository: #R1253168544 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=31746049&pid=688
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