Boone, Edward
1740 - 1780 (39 years)-
Name Boone, Edward [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20] Birth 19 Nov 1740 Exeter, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA 
[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20] Life Event Between 1757 and 1779 [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20] Deacon/Baptist Church Life Event Between 1757 and 1779 Yadkin, North Carolina, USA [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20] Road Surveyor/Tax Collector/Constable Christening 22 Jan 1774 Dutchman Creek Bapstist Church, Mocksville, Davie, North Carolina, USA [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20] Gender Male Migration 1779 Bryan Station, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20] Left North Carolina for Kentucky FSID 9W15-Z4V [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20] Residence Between 1779 and 1780 Blue Lick, Clark, Kentucky, USA [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20] Burial Oct 1780 North Middletown, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20] - Rockbridge Graveyard
Death 6 Oct 1780 Clark, Kentucky, USA [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20] Cause: Killed by Indians while hunting with his brother, Daniel Person ID I31847 The Thoma Family Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
Father Boone, Squire Sr, b. 25 Nov 1696, Bradninch, Devon, England d. 2 Jan 1765, Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, USA (Age 68 years) Relationship natural Mother Morgan, Sarah Jarman, b. 23 Sep 1700, Gwynedd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1 Jan 1777, Mocksville, Davie, North Carolina, USA (Age 76 years) Relationship natural Family ID F12216 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Bryan, Martha, b. 19 Mar 1737, Orange, Virginia, USA d. 12 May 1793, Blue Lick, Lincoln, Kentucky, USA (Age 56 years) Marriage 1758 Rowan, North Carolina, USA [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20] Children 1. Boone, Charity Ann, b. 11 Oct 1758, Rowan, North Carolina, USA d. 7 Apr 1843, Pike, Illinois, USA (Age 84 years) [natural]Family ID F12215 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
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Event Map 
Birth - 19 Nov 1740 - Exeter, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA 
Life Event - Road Surveyor/Tax Collector/Constable - Between 1757 and 1779 - Yadkin, North Carolina, USA 
Marriage - 1758 - Rowan, North Carolina, USA 
Christening - 22 Jan 1774 - Dutchman Creek Bapstist Church, Mocksville, Davie, North Carolina, USA 
Migration - Left North Carolina for Kentucky - 1779 - Bryan Station, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA 
Residence - Between 1779 and 1780 - Blue Lick, Clark, Kentucky, USA 
Burial - Oct 1780 - North Middletown, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA 
Death - Cause: Killed by Indians while hunting with his brother, Daniel - 6 Oct 1780 - Clark, Kentucky, USA = Link to Google Earth
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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
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