Squire Boone Sr. (1696 - 1765)

Born 25 Nov 1696 in Bradninch, Devon, England

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Morgan) Boone — married 23 Sep 1720 in Gwynedd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 2 Jan 1765 at age 68 in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina

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Biography

Squire was a Friend (Quaker)

Squire Boone was born November 25, 1696 in Bradninch, Devon, England to George and Mary (Maugridge) Boone. He was born an English Quaker.

Squire married Sarah Morgan September 23, 1720 in Gwynedd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania. Marriage Notes for Sarah Morgan and Squire Boone:

Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan apparently met at Gwynedd Meeting where, following Quaker custom, they announced to the group that they intended to get married: 5-26, 1720. Squire and Sarah were married on the 23rd day of the 07th month 1720

Family

1. Sarah Boone, b. 7 June 1724
2. Israel Boone, b. 9 May (Old style) 1726
3. Samuel Boone, b. 20 May 1728
4. Jonathan Boone, b. 6 Dec. 1730
5. Elizabeth Boone, b. 5 Feb. 1732
6. Daniel Boone, b. 22 Oct. 1734
7. Mary Boone, b. 3 Nov. 1736
8. George Boone, b 2 Jan. 1739
9. Edward Boone, b. 19 Nov. 1740
10. Nathaniel Boone, b. abt. 1742
11. Squire Boone (Jr.), b. 5 Oct. 1744
12. Hannah Boone, b. Aug. 1746

One of the earliest settlers in the Forks of the Yadkin, Squire Boone was prominent in Rowan County, formed in 1753. He served as a justice of the first Rowan County Court in June 1753.^[1]

Burial

JAN 1765, Joppa Cemetery, Mocksville, NC (Davie County)

Note

Note: At page 33, "Society of Colonial Wars" it is recorded that Squire Boone

I, 1696-1765, served against the Catawba and Cherokee Indians on several occasions. He was justice for Rowen County, North Carolina. This record establishes membership for Squire Boone's descendants to the Colonial Dames of America.

Squire Boone enlarged his farm by thrift. He continued his trade of weaving and kept 5 or 6 looms going making homespun cloth for the market and neighbors. The Boones were prosperous and happy in Oley and it may be wondered why they left their farms and looms, both of which were profitable, and set their faces toward the unknown. It is recorded that though they were Quakers, they were of a high mettle and were not infrequently dealt with by the Meeting.

Two of Squire Boone's children married "worldlings" -- non Quakers -- and were, in consequence, disowned by the Society of Friends. In defiance of his sect which strove to make him sever all connection with his unruly offspring, Squire Boone refused to shut his door on the son and daughter who had scandalized the local Quakers. The Society of Friends thereupon expelled him. This occurred, apparently, in the winter of 1748-49. In the Spring of 1750 we see the whole Boone family (save two sons) with their wives and children, household goods and stock on the great highway bound for a land where the hot heart and belligerent spirit shall not be held amiss. They moved from Pennsylvania to Rowen County, North Carolina.

Squire Boone died in his 65th year in 1764 and was buried in Rowen County at the fork of Yadkin River about ten miles above the fork on a place called Burning Rigg; his wife Sarah (Morgan) Boone died in the 72nd year in 1776 and was buried beside her husband.

Note: Another record states that Squire and Sarah (Morgan) Boone are buried in Joppa graveyard near Mocksville, North Carolina.

Misc. Notes

Note: Inventor of the fire extinguisher: he would push water out of a gun barrel to put out flaming arrows. He was the father of Daniel Boone, famous frontiersman.

Note: One source lists daughters named Anne and Polly and a son, Nathan. It also said Anne was a grandmother of Abraham Lincoln. I have not looked into that. Squire was said to be a justice of the peace in NC. Another gave about 15 children for him. One of his sons was Daniel Morgan Boone born 10/22/1734. Squire came to this country with an older brother and sister a year or so before their parents. On September 23, 1720 he married Sarah Morgan, in Berks County. Squire purchased 140 acres of land in 1728 and 1730 in New Britain Township. By May 1750 Squire and family had moved to North Carolina. In NC they lived in Rowan Co.in the Yadkin district. There he served against the Catawba and Cherokee Indians on several occasions. He was also a Justice of the Peace. He died Jan. 1,1777. On his tombstone is engraved - "Squire Boone departed this life the sixty-ninth year of his age in the year of our Lord 1865". Squire's daughter, Sarah, married outside the church, bringing censure upon him. When his son Israel also married outside the church, he was disfellowed at a Society of Friends meeting.

Sources

1. ↑ #NCPedia

• Boone Family by the Boone Family Association
• Boone Society
• see The Problem of Dates at the Gwynned Meeting of Quakers, Berks Co, Pennsylvania. Squire died 2 January 1765 and Sarah died 1777; both buried at Mocksville, North Carolina.
• Rockenfeld, Sarah Title: "Our Boone Families and Daniel Boone's Kinfolks"
• Jenkins, Howard Malcolm,. Historical collections relating to Gwynedd : a township of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, settled, 1698, by immigrants from Wales, with some dates First ed., 1884.
• Ackerly, Mary Denham,. "Our kin" : the genealogies of some of the early families who made history in the founding and development of Bedford County, Virginia.
• Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American
• Boone Family
• Find A Grave: Memorial #8318855
• The Boones Fiercely Independent Susan Ingraham Oct 15, 2013.
• NCPedia, Squire Boone

• https://www.phillymag.com/property/2014/06/04/welcome-butlercroft-home-daniel-boones-parents/