John Jarman

Mary “Polly” COUCH

m. Margaret

• BIRTH: 1772, Yadkin Valley, NC

Elizabeth JARMAN

• DEATH: 1863, Perry Co. Kentucky

ABT 1674 - AFT 1731

Father:

• BIRTH: ABT 1674, Wales

Mother:

• DEATH: AFT 1731, Philadelphia Co, PA

m. John CAMPBELL

Family 1 :

Nancy Ann Couch

Edward MORGAN

(b. 1777, NC. d. 1851, KY)

ABT 1660 - AFT 1734

• MARRIAGE: abt 1789, NC to

• BIRTH: ABT 1660, Wales

• DEATH: AFT 1734, Gwynedd Meeting, Berks, PA

William Campbell

b. 1765. NC

m.

d. 1820, KY Age 55.

• MARRIAGE: ABT 1689, PA.

m. Nancy Ann Couch d. of John Couch and Mary Polly Boone, b. 1777, NC. d. KY. Mary Polly Boone was the sis-

• Deborah MORGAN

ter of Daniel Boone and daughter Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan OR a native American woman by whom they had

Mary “Polly” (Indian marriages were common among the “long hunters.” Squire Boone (1696-1765) was from Devon

(one of 12 children)

in England and the son of George Boone and Mary. Sarah Morgan was the daughter of Edward Morgan and Elizabeth

Sarah Boone (Morgan)

Jarman. That Mary Polly Boone was Daniel’s sister has been disputed. Some say she was the daughter of Edward Boone, ABT 1700 - 1777

and Daniel Boone’s niece.

There are a few early Boone lines that she didn’t list any descendants for. We may need to look more closely at

• BIRTH: ABT 1700, Towamencin, Philadelphia, PA

brothers of Squire Boone and their children. Were any of them disfellowshipped for any reason along about 1746-50? I

• DEATH: 1777, Mocksville, Rowan, NC

have Mary/Polly’s birth as c1750. I think all of us who are searching for her parents are in agreement of one thing — it is

• BURIAL: 1777, Joppa Cemetery, Rowan, NC

today, and has been for generations, family tradition that Mary/Polly’s parents were Squire Edward Boone and an Indian Father:

woman. Every reference I’ve seen/heard uses both names – Mary Polly. Her granddau., Mary/Polly Campbell was also Mother:

known by both names. -

Family 1 :

Lewis Campbell

b. 1799. KY

• MARRIAGE: 23 Sep 1720, Gwynedd Friends Meeting, Philadelphia, PA

d. 1891 Age 92

1.

(some say)

m. Matilda Martha Fugate, 1820, KY

2.

(others say)

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