Boone

b. 1948

m. Robert Liftig, 1971. b. 1947

Daniel Boone has been long recognized as the quintessential American pioneer. Our ancestors were related to him, in that

Anya Liftig

Daniel’s father and ours were the same person. There have been a lot of problems identifying the exact ancestry of Mary Polly

b. 1977

Boone Couch Campbell. Some researchers have Mary Polly Boone Couch Campbell as Daniel’s younger sister. Others would

m. Noel Hartman, 2011

have her as Daniel’s brother’s daughter. Obviously, there are conflicting opinions as well as dates here. Lately, one of the

Dorothy Liftig

strongest candidates has been that Mary Polly Boone Couch Campbell is the “illegitimate” daughter of Edward “Ned” Boone

b. 1981

and a Shawnee wife by a “legitimate” Indian marriage - of the kind that Daniel himself enjoyed when he was away from his

m. David Martin, 2009

wife Rebecca Bryan Boone (which was often).

George Boone II

ABT 1636 - May 1696

BIRTH: ABT 1636, Exeter, Devonshire, England

DEATH: May 1696, Exeter, Devonshire, England

BURIAL: 31 May 1696, Stoke Canon Parish, Exeter, England

Father:

Family 1 :

George Boone III

m. Mary Milton Maugridge

Squire Maugridge Boone, Sr.

(1696 - 1765)

“Squire Boone Sr.”

b. 1696, Bradnich, Exeter, Devon, England

d. 1765, Mocksville, Davie, NC, USA

Father of 11 children, including Daniel Boone and Edward “Ned Boone”

m. Sarah Morgan, daughter of Edward Morgan and Elizabeth Jarman

:Weaver, blacksmith, gunsmith, farmer, Quaker, and Blacksmith, Weaver/Blacksmith, Farmer. Immigrated to Pennsylvania from the small town of Bradninch, Devon, England in 1713

Edward “Ned” Booth It has long been understood that Edward Boone looked like his older brother, Daniel. (Draper Mss.

2C53). Edward and Daniel married sisters, Martha and Rebecca Bryan, but the brothers’ similarities may have ended there.

While Daniel was off exploring the woods and cutting new trails, Edward stayed home with his family in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Edward and Martha had six children, Charity b. 1760, Jane b. 1762, Mary b. 1764, George b. 1767, Joseph b. 1768, and Sarah b. 1771. It was during these years until 1779 that Edward was a community and church leader in NC.

He served on juries, was a road surveyor, a tax collector, and a constable. (Wilkes Co. Court Minutes, June 1778) Although for many years the Boones had been Quakers, Edward was baptized in the Mulberry Fields Branch of the Dutchman Creek Baptist Church, Jan. 22, 1774. It was said he loved to sing. He served his church as a deacon and a clerk (Draper 23C10). He was “called Ned by his family and friends,” says his grandson Edward Boone Scholl, and Edward Boone “was “a peace man.”

(Draper Manuscript 23C17.4) On September 9, 1779, Edward entered 200 acres of land “lying on Beavers Creek adjoining to Thos. Henderson Beginning and running so as to include his improvements.” (Wilkes Co. Land Entry Book N. p. 393) Only about a month later, in October 1779, he made that fateful decision to move his family to Kentucky with Daniel who was leading a large party of family members there for the promise of free land. Edward and Martha hastily gathered their family and all their belongings and joined the other family members from NC. In Draper Ms. 23C17.4, Edward Boone Scholl said,

“Edward Boone packed 22 horses in addition to the ones the family rode.” They traveled through the Cumberland Gap, up the Wilderness Trail, and settled at Boone Station not far from Ft. Boonesborough, arriving December 22, 1779. Fifteen other 87

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