History of daniel boones family
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Daniel Boone
American pioneer and frontiersman (–)
This article is about the American pioneer. For other uses, see Daniel Boone (disambiguation).
Daniel Boone | |
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Boone depicted in an portrait by Chester Harding, the only known portrait of him made during his lifetime | |
| In office October – December | |
| Constituency | Kanawha County |
| In office October – December | |
| Constituency | Bourbon County |
| In office October [2]– December | |
| Constituency | Fayette County |
| Born | ()November 2, Oley Valley, Province of Pennsylvania, British America |
| Died | September 26, () (aged85) Defiance, Missouri Territory |
| Resting place | Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky, or Old Bryan Farm Cemetery, Marthasville, Missouri |
| Spouse | Rebecca Bryan (m.; died) |
| Children | 10, including Jemima, Daniel, and Nathan |
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| Sign • GenealogyThis section of our Web Site covers the earliest generations of Daniel Boone's family to arrive and live in America, starting with Daniel Boone's grandfather George Boone, Sr. The material herein is considered by most Boone family scholars to be the most reliable Boone family genealogy data available. That does not mean that the upplysning is error free, even though it is considered the best. The Boone Genealogy will be presented in fyra parts as follows:Part 1 - The Boone Family Genealogy () as written by James Boone () (Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscript Collection) Part 2 - The Boone Family Genealogy () as compiled bygd Hazel Atterbury Spraker ()(The Boone Family: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of George and Mary Boone Who Came to America in ) (Some Boone descendants and kindred of the St. Charles District) Part 4 - Yet To Come - The Boone Fam• The History of the HomesteadThe name Daniel Boone is synonymous with the saga of the American Frontier. Born here on November 2, , Daniel was the sixth child, one of eleven, born to Squire and Sarah Boone. Squire, Daniel's father, was an English Quaker born in Devonshire in While still a youth, Squire, his brother George and sister Sarah embarked to Philadelphia to appraise the possibilities of settlement for their father and family, who immigrated in Squire first settled in Abington, Pennsylvania, then moved to Gwynedd, where he met and married Sarah Morgan, a Welsh Quaker. Afterward, the couple moved to Chalfont before purchasing acres here in the Oley Valley in Squire's father and brothers had also settled in the area and became prominent in business, local government, and the Exeter Friends Meeting. As a youth, Daniel undoubtedly helped his father as a farmer, weaver, and blacksmith, and had the usual experiences of a boy growing up in what was the fron | |