Squire Boone (1696 –1765). Born in the small town of Bradninch, Devon (near Exeter), he emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1713, to join William Penn's colony of dissenters.
In 1720 Boone, who worked primarily as a weaver and a blacksmith, married Sarah Morgan (1700–77). They had eleven children, the sixth of them was Daniel Boone (1734 - 1820), the famous pioneer, explorer and frontiersman.
In 1720 Boone, who worked primarily as a weaver and a blacksmith, married Sarah Morgan (1700–77). They had eleven children, the sixth of them was Daniel Boone (1734 - 1820), the famous pioneer, explorer and frontiersman.
- "Squire Boone was a man of rather small stature, fair complexion, red hair and gray eyes." https://books.google.it/books…
- "It was there that the grey-eyed, red-haired Squire Boone met and married Sarah Morgan." https://books.google.it/books…
- "Squire Boone, who would become Daniel's father, was a short, red-haired man..." https://books.google.it/books…
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