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• FSID: LHFD-ND8

Notes:

In the deed given by Reynolds Elledge (son of Benjamin) to the Sleights in 1865, the grantors (Reynolds M. Elledge and his wife Zerilda) reserved one-eighth of an acre, a plot 4 ½ rods square, for "a burying ground for the heirs of the late Benjamin Elledge deceased," the plot being described with great particularity. This burial plot was 60 rods north and 32 rods east of the southwest corner of the old Elledge 80. It lay about 100 yards from the early Elledge log house; it is today traversed by a farm driveway, along which are strewn a few fragments of stones that once marked the burials of numerous descendants of the Boone line."
… >The cemetery is located in Griggsville Township.

Sometime in the past, tombstones found in the Benjamin Elledge cemetery were moved to a shed/garage/barn to be protected. They have since been moved (by persons unknown) to the Uriah Elledge Cemetery. It is unknown if there are remaining stones buried underground in the old Benjamin Elledge cemetery location.

The following was given to me by Alice Huitt Preston (thank you!):

Father: *Edward (Neddie) BOONE b: 19 NOV 1740 in Exeter Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania
Mother: Martha BRYAN b: 19 MAR 1740 in Winchester, Frederick Co., N.C. Colony, British Empire

Married: Francis ELLEDGE III b: 18 FEB 1750 in Yadkin District, Rowan Co., North Carolina Married: 25 DEC 1776 in Rowan Co., North Carolina

Children:
Mary Polly ELLEDGE b: 19 OCT 1777 in North Carolina
Jesse Bryan ELLEDGE b: 12 AUG 1779 in 20 miles from Squire Boone Station,Clark Co., Kentucky
James ELLEDGE b: 12 OCT 1779 in Clark, Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 5 OCT 1780 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
Benjamin ELLEDGE b: 19 AUG 1782 in Bryans Station, Clark Co., Kentucky
Leonard Boone ELLEDGE b: 24 DEC 1783 in Boone's Fort, Clark Co., Kentucky or Georgia
Martha Jane ELLEDGE b: 24 JUL 1786 in Adair, Kentucky or North Carolina
Nancy ELLEDGE b: 4 OCT 1788 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
*Edward Boone ELLEDGE b: 30 SEP 1791 in Clark Co., Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 4 MAY 1794 in Kentucky
William ELLEDGE b: 12 JUN 1797 in Boone's Creek, Clark, Kentucky
Jemima ELLEDGE b: 29 SEP 1803 in Kentucky
The following was given to me by Alice Huitt Preston (thank you!):

Father: *Edward (Neddie) BOONE b: 19 NOV 1740 in Exeter Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania
Mother: Martha BRYAN b: 19 MAR 1740 in Winchester, Frederick Co., N.C. Colony, British Empire

Married: Francis ELLEDGE III b: 18 FEB 1750 in Yadkin District, Rowan Co., North Carolina Married: 25 DEC 1776 in Rowan Co., North Carolina

Children:
Mary Polly ELLEDGE b: 19 OCT 1777 in North Carolina
Jesse Bryan ELLEDGE b: 12 AUG 1779 in 20 miles from Squire Boone Station,Clark Co., Kentucky
James ELLEDGE b: 12 OCT 1779 in Clark, Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 5 OCT 1780 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
Benjamin ELLEDGE b: 19 AUG 1782 in Bryans Station, Clark Co., Kentucky
Leonard Boone ELLEDGE b: 24 DEC 1783 in Boone's Fort, Clark Co., Kentucky or Georgia
Martha Jane ELLEDGE b: 24 JUL 1786 in Adair, Kentucky or North Carolina
Nancy ELLEDGE b: 4 OCT 1788 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
*Edward Boone ELLEDGE b: 30 SEP 1791 in Clark Co., Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 4 MAY 1794 in Kentucky
William ELLEDGE b: 12 JUN 1797 in Boone's Creek, Clark, Kentucky
Jemima ELLEDGE b: 29 SEP 1803 in Kentucky

Family/Spouse: Elledge, Francis. Francis was born on 18 Feb 1750 in Yadkin, North Carolina, USA; died on 18 Aug 1827 in Griggsville, Pike, Illinois, USA; was buried after 18 Aug 1827 in Benjamin Elledge Cemetery, Griggsville, Pike, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elledge, Nancy was born on 4 Oct 1788 in Wilkes, North Carolina, USA; died in 1861 in Graysville, Sullivan, Indiana, USA; was buried in 1861 in Mann-Turman Prairie Cemetery, Graysville, Sullivan, Indiana, USA.

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• FSID: 9W15-Z4V
• Life Event: Between 1757 and 1779; Deacon/Baptist Church
• Life Event: Between 1757 and 1779, Yadkin, North Carolina, USA; Road Surveyor/Tax Collector/Constable
• Migration: 1779, Bryan Station, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA; Left North Carolina for Kentucky
• Residence: Between 1779 and 1780, Blue Lick, Clark, Kentucky, USA

Notes:

find a grave memorial # 8319109

Edward (Ned) Boone
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 family members shared the station. (Draper letter from Edward?s daughter, Sarah, Mss. 22C55)
Gerald E. Collins in his book "Edward Boone (1740-1780), p. 7, says "The Virginia government had authority to issue land certificates for 400 acres where a settler?s right of occupation was established. Hearings began October 13, 1779. If the settlers in NC were to receive valid land claims, it was imperative that they return to Kentucky and submit their claim. Thus a large group from NC set out for Kentucky in October 1779. The exodus was described by one man as like an army movement, and when they camped for the night, would be in a string a half-mile long.
After meeting with the Virginia Land Commission, Daniel Boone, his brother, Squire and his son, Israel, established their claims and were granted lands by the commission? Edward apparently did not receive any land.
He continued living at Boone Station, caring for his family and hunting for food to also share with the Bryan family at Bryan Station. Joseph Bryan was his father-in-law and one of the founders of Bryan Station.
Because the area of Boone Station was so remote and traveling to the county seat was dangerous at best, Edward was one of the signers on May 1, 1780, of Petition #12 that resulted in splitting Kentucky County, Virginia, into 3 counties: Jefferson, Fayette, and Lincoln. Part of the petition reads, "That the Militia Inhabitants of the north side of Kaintucky amount to about 400 with 11 fortified posts ? that the nearest settlement to the Courthouse is at least 40 miles and the farthest about 70 miles ? that the River Kentuckey is rendered impassable half the year by high waters & is ever inconvenient and Dangerous ?" The petition was approved by the Virginia Legislature.
Edward had lived in Kentucky less than a year when on October 6, 1780, he was killed by Indians (probably Shawnee) while he and Daniel were returning from the Blue Licks to make salt and do a little hunting.
They stopped along a stream in Bourbon County to rest and let their horses drink. Edward sat down by the stream near an old Buckeye tree and was cracking nuts, while Daniel went off into the woods in pursuit of game.
Indians lurking nearby shot and killed Edward but Daniel managed to escape. He ran all the way on foot to Boone Station (about 40 miles) where they were all living at the time. The next morning Daniel and a party of men in the area went in search of Edward?s killers. They did not find the Indians, but found and buried Edward near that old Buckeye tree.
Today in that very spot stands an old Buckeye tree, perhaps grown from a seedling of the original tree. The creek was afterward named Boone Creek in honor of Edward?s death there. As Jeff Johnson, a descendant of Edward Boone, says of the death site, "the bubbling sounds of the stream running over the rocks is probably the last sounds Edward heard as he lay dying."
Ned's daughter, Sarah Boone Hunter, in a letter to Draper (22C60) said "My father was killed 40 miles from the Station. He was stabbed in 7 places; his fingers were horribly cut with the Indian's knife. He was scalped and part of his clothing were taken off. I think his coat and pantaloons."
Although still a young woman, Martha never remarried and remained in Kentucky until her death.
Source: boonesociety.org familysearch.org

Buried:
Rockbridge Graveyard

Edward married Bryan, Martha in 1758 in Rowan, North Carolina, USA. Martha was born on 19 Mar 1737 in Orange, Virginia, USA; died on 12 May 1793 in Blue Lick, Lincoln, Kentucky, USA; was buried after 12 May 1793 in Boones Creek Cemetery, Athens, Fayette, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: L58S-S9V

Notes:

Martha Bryan was a daughter of Joseph Bryan and Hester (Hampton) Bryan.

Martha Bryan married Edward Boone. They had six children.

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NOTES:
From: Clark County, Kentucky Will Abstracts
Will Book - I
Martha Boone
My sons, George and Joseph.
My daughters, Charity Ellsay, Sarah Hunter, Jane Morgan, and Mary Sholl.
Grandson, Joseph Hunter
Written: 12 May 1793.
Witnesses: William Creyerap and John Stilwell.
Probated: 23 July 1793
**Martha Bryan Boone's death occurred on or after May 12, 1793 and before July 23, 1793.

Reference shared by Dolores J. Rush on August 16, 2017:
From: The Boone Family - A Genealogical History of the Descendants of George and Mary Boone who Came to America in 1717
Compiled by Hazel Atterbury Spraker of Buffalo, New York
The Tuttle Company, Publishers
Rutland, Vermont
1922
Martha Boone
My sons, George and Joseph.
My daughters, Charity Ellege, [other possible spellings of married name, Elledge, Willege], Jane
Morgan, Mary Scholl, Sarah Hunter
Grandson, Joseph Hunter
Executor: John Morgan, Jr.
Witnesses shown as: John Morran, William Craycraft and John Stilwell.

From margaret on May 14, 2016:
Corrected birth date and birth place.
**Previously had November 19, 1740 in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Corrected death date and death place.
**Previously had October 6, 1780 in Clark County, Kentucky.

From Annette Fullington on December 17, 2018:
Hester Hampton born 1720 in Va. and died 19 Nov 1740 was the first wife of Joseph Bryan Sr. and the Mother of Rebecca Bryan and Martha Bryan who married Daniel and Edward Boone. Not Alice Lynville.

From L. S. Stephens on January 18, 2019:
Suggested birth date: November 19, 1740
**Previously had this date before making the change per margaret's suggestion on May 14, 2016.
Suggested birth place: Exeter Township, Berks, Pennsylvania.
Suggested death date: July 23, 1793.
**This was her probate date.
Suggested death place: Clark County, Kentucky.
**Previously had Clark County before making the change per margaret's suggestion on May 14, 2016.

From janicet on May 1, 2020:
"It has been determined by the DAR genealogists that they cannot verify the mother of any children of Joseph Bryan's born before 1755 (see Joseph Bryan's updated records in the DAR)."
**Quaker Meeting Records-1681-1935 shows Martha Bryan's parents as Joseph and Alee (could be Alic -- maybe Alec).

There seems to be a lot of different opinions about the dates and places for Martha Boone. If someone can provide the correct dates and places, I will be happy to make the changes. For now, I will leave them as they stand.

On this memorial page when it was transferred to me:
LDS reports she is buried at "Boone's Creek" Fayette CO., KY.

If anyone has more/better information, please contact me.

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• FSID: LDFC-VX6
• Occupation: Weaver, blacksmith, gunsmith, and farmer
• Religion: Quaker
• Residence: Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, USA

Notes:

PLEASE don't add or delete information on this site before you read all the information attached. There are many Boone families in Pennsylvania at this time. Squire & Sarah only had 12 children, so please don't add more.

--migrated from England to The Colonies before parents
--1719 married Sarah Morgan in PA
--father of frontiersman, Daniel Boone
--1765 died Rowan, NC

SQUIRE BOONE

Squire Boone was born in Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England to George Boone III & Mary Milton Maugridge; he had the following siblings: George Boone IV, Sarah Boone Stover, Mary Boone b. in 1694 d. 1696; Mary Boone b. 1699 d. 1744, John Boone, Joseph Boone, Benjamin Boone, James Boone, & Samuel Boone.

Some years later the family moved to Exeter, Berks County, PA.

Squire married Sarah Morgan 23 July 1720 at the Gwynned Meeting of Quakers, Berks Co, Pennsylvania. Squire died 2 January 1765 and Sarah died 1777; both buried at Mocksville, North Carolina. [Gwynedd Meeting (the location of Squire's wedding) is located in what is now Montgomery County PA. It was Philadelphia County at the time of the wedding.]

They had the following children: Sarah, Israel Boone (buried at Joppa Cem.), Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth Boone Grant, Daniel Boone (famous pioneer), Mary Boone Bryan, George W., Edward, Nathaniel, Squire Boone Jr., and Hannah Boone Stewart Pennington.

Squire had accompanied his brother George, and his sister, Sarah, to America ahead of their parents.

The Jess M. Thompson Pike County History"
Thompson, Jess M.
Pittsfield, IL; Pike County Historical Society; 1967
Chapters 32, 76: "Squire Boone, son of George Boone III, married Sarah Morgan in Berks county,
Pennsylvania, on September 23, 1720... They became the parents of seven sons and four
daughters, as follows, in the order of their birth: Sarah, Israel, Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Daniel,
Mary, George, Edward, Squire and Hannah..

Squire married Morgan, Sarah Jarman. Sarah was born on 23 Sep 1700 in Gwynedd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 1 Jan 1777 in Mocksville, Davie, North Carolina, USA; was buried after 1 Jan 1777 in Joppa Cemetery, Mocksville, Davie, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: L197-P3T
• Religion: Quaker
• Residence: Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, USA

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• FSID: LTK4-8WW
• Occupation: Weaver

Notes:

--1666 born in England
--son of George Boone II and Sarah Uppey
--married Mary Maugridge, daughter of John and Mary Milton
--Quaker; weaver by trade
--immigrated from England to The Colonies after some of his children had already immigrated
--Daniel Boone's paternal grandfather
--Josiah Noah Boone's grandfather

GEORGE BOONE III

(suffix is in historical writing; just keeps them somewhat straight, but probably isn't accurate as there was a longer line of George Boones)

George Boone, III, the son of George Boone II and Sarah Uppey, was born at Stoak, near Exeter, (AKA Stoke Canon, a hamlet), in Devonshire, England in 1666.

He married Mary Maugridge, daughter of John and Mary Milton Maugridge of Bradnich, Devonshire, England.

They were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Callumpton, Devonshire, from which Meeting they took a letter of recommendation to the Society of Friends in America.

They had at least nine children: George Boone IV, Sarah Boone, Squire Boone, Mary Boone, John Boone who never married, Joseph Boone, Benjamin Boone, James Boone and Samuel Boone.

George Boone, III was a weaver by trade. He and Mary were part of the Gwynedd Meeting Quakers.

In 1712 his children, George Jr, Sarah, and Squire traveled to Pennsylvania to check out the land. On August, 17, 1717, about five years later, George III and Mary and their children still living at home, left Bradnich, Devonshire, England, a town eight miles from Exeter, 177 miles from London, and traveled to Bristol, where they sailed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, arriving about two months later on October 10, 1717.

They initially stayed in Abington for a few months, then in 1718, moved to North Wales and lived there for two years. In 1720, they moved to Oley, Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, at "the western edge of European settlement in southeastern Pennsylvania. Before the 1750s this frontier was one of the most peaceful in all of North America, though, to be sure, European colonialism had introduced terrible turmoil into Indian societies. As a result of first Swedish, then Dutch, then subsequently English colonization, the native peoples of the Susquehanna and Delaware river region were devastated by imported diseases, reducing their village populations by as much as 90 percent by the eighteenth century. Commercial trade reoriented native economic life and introduced cutthroat competition among colonists and Indians alike for access to valuable fur-bearing regions and merchant centers."

In Pennsylvania, Quaker authorities did not establish militia and negotiated with Indians over the title to land, and promised "the full and free privileges and Immunities of all the Said Laws as any other Inhabitants," to the indigenous population.

In 1728 at Manatawny, a party of Shawnees got into a fight with some local settlers who refused them food. One Indian was wounded. The Boones and their community, ten miles away, anticipated trouble. George Boone III, the local magistrate, sent a message to the colonial governor asking for help, "in order to defend our frontiers . . . Our Inhabitants are Generally fled . . . there remains about 20 men with me to guard my mill, where I have about 1,000 bushels of wheat and flour, and we are resolved to defend ourselves to ye last Extremity."

Later a dozen Shawnees, tried to get food from a few frightened families in the area. About 20 locals pursued them and two of the settlers were wounded. There was no further trouble. Under increased European population pressures, Shawnees, Delawares, and other Indians began moving west. "A steady stream of Indians, however, continued to pass along the Perkiomen Path, which cut directly through the Boone neighborhood."

In Oley, PA George III served for many years as Justice of the Peace. When he became too old to continue, his oldest son, George Jr. took over, and became the Justice of the Peace.

In 1741, the Oley Township was split and the the section of the Oley Township where the Boone's lived was renamed Exeter, in honor of their English origins. --compiled from various sources including previous life sketch and Hazel Atterbury Spraker, "The Boone Family" A genealogical history of the descendants of George and Mary Boone," (1922); and Original Boone Family Genealogy by James Boone March 21st, 1788.

Notes for George Boone III
George and his wife, Mary, emigrated to America from Brandnich, Devonshire, England. They arrived in Philadelphia, PA 10 Oct 1717. They settled in the Town of Exeter, Berks Co., PA. George was a weaver. There is a boulder marking the site of George and Mary home in Berks Co. The inscription reads: "House built in 1733 by George Boone. Grandfather of Daniel Boone. Site of George Boone house. Built of logs about 1720. "Historical Society of Berks County"
Arrival: October 10, 1717, arrived Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Emigration: August 17, 1717, Sailed from Bristol, England_Occupation: Tanner and weaver_Property: Settled in Exeter, Pennsylvania_Religion: Quaker

George married Maugridge, Mary on 16 Aug 1689 in Bradninch, Devon, England. Mary was born on 23 Sep 1668 in Bradninch, Devon, England; was christened on 23 Dec 1669 in St Disen's Church, Bradninch, Devon, England; died on 2 Feb 1741 in Exeter, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried after 2 Feb 1741 in Exeter Friends Cemetery, Exeter, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LBG4-1V1

Notes:

Immigrated from port of Bristol England with 7 children. Had sent oldest 3 children in 1713 or before to scout out new world. Sept 23, 1717 to Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA. The family was Quaker and George was a weaver.