Ann (Axtell) Boone (abt. 1677 - abt. 1751)

Born about 1677 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Boone — married after 1699 in Charles Town, Province of South Carolina

Descendants

Died about Oct 1751 at about age 74 in Charles Town, Province of South Carolina

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Biography

Ann Axtell was the daughter of Landgrave David Axtell and Rebekah Holland. ^[1] She had arrived in the Province of Carolina by 1686, ^[2] and she was married to her first husband John Alexander by 1691.^[3]They had a daughter Anne (m. Thomas Waring) before John Alexander's death in 1699.

She married second Joseph Boone, merchant of Charles Town. They had no children, and he died in 1735.^[4][5][3]

Ann Boone of Charles Town wrote her Will on 1 December 1749. She asks to be buried at Mount Boone Plantation, which she leaves to her nephew Joseph Blake. She mentions her granddaughter Slann, sister Rebecca Moore of Philadelphia, nephews Thomas and Charles Boone (sons of her brother-in-law Charles Boone by his second wife), nephews Thomas and John Izard (sons of Walter Izard), and cousin Paul Jenys.^[6]The Will was proved 25 October, but the year is missing. She is said to have died in 1751.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Salley, A. S. “Landgrave Daniel Axtell.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 6, no. 4 (1905): 174–76. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575112
2. ↑ Salley, A. S. Warrants for Land in South Carolina 1680-1692 (1911) p. 196 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070241313&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Smith, Henry A. M. “The Upper Ashley; And the Mutations of Families.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 20, no. 3 (1919): 159-61. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27569491
4. ↑ "South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-J69Y-J6?cc=1919417&wc=M6N4-ZWG%3A210905601%2C211376301 : 21 May 2014), Charleston > Wills, 1731-1740, Vol. 003 > image 298 of 445; citing Department of Archives and History, Columbia. Will of Joseph Boone
5. ↑ Smith, Henry A. M. “The Baronies of South Carolina.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 13, no. 2 (1912): 74-5. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575329
6. ↑ "South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-JVWQ-Y?cc=1919417&wc=M6N4-638%3A210905601%2C211466601 : 21 May 2014), Charleston > Wills, 1747-1752, Vol. 006 > image 573 of 684; citing Department of Archives and History, Columbia. Will of Ann Boone
7. ↑ FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24959954/anne-boone

See also:

• Source: http://www.axtell-surname.org.uk/fam890.html

Acknowledgements

WikiTree profile Axtell-2872 created through the import of Robert C. Bain Family Tree (20.ged on Jul 4, 2011 by Robert Bain.

Thank you to Martha Franklin for creating this profile on February 1, 2012