Research indicates my adopted child's 8th great grandfather is Edward Boone (1740-1780) - a younger brother of frontiersman, Daniel Boone. According to The Life and Death of Edward Boone:
Edward Boone was born in Pennsylvania November 30, 1740 and was killed by Indians in Kentucky. October 6, 1780, while he was on a hunting trip with his brother Daniel. Edward and Daniel married sisters, Martha and Rebecca Bryan, whose father, Joseph Bryan, was one of the founders and defenders of Bryan Station near Lexington, Kentucky. Edward spent most of his life in what is today Wilkes County, North Carolina where he was a community leader and family man. He served on juries, was a road surveyor, a tax collector, a constable. Although the Boones had for many years been Quakers, he was baptized in the Baptist Church and loved to sing. He was called Ned or Neddie by his family and friends. He was “A peace man.” (Draper Manuscript 23C17-4)
I tend to agree with Randy Seaver of Genea-musings, who stated in 2007 that it doesn't appear likely that singer Pat Boone is a Daniel Boone descendant. I also find the alleged connection between the Boones and John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, to be unproven. Daniel and Edward Boone had a great grandmother named Mary Milton. John Milton had a daughter named Mary. The geography and timing are a reasonable match. However, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), in Lives of The English Poets, states Milton’s daughter Mary died single. There could have been two Mary Miltons.
However, while I am doubtful of my child's kinship with Pat Boone and John Milton, Edward Boone and Joseph Bryan are American Patriots my child will likely be proud to call ancestor.
Edward Boone was born in Pennsylvania November 30, 1740 and was killed by Indians in Kentucky. October 6, 1780, while he was on a hunting trip with his brother Daniel. Edward and Daniel married sisters, Martha and Rebecca Bryan, whose father, Joseph Bryan, was one of the founders and defenders of Bryan Station near Lexington, Kentucky. Edward spent most of his life in what is today Wilkes County, North Carolina where he was a community leader and family man. He served on juries, was a road surveyor, a tax collector, a constable. Although the Boones had for many years been Quakers, he was baptized in the Baptist Church and loved to sing. He was called Ned or Neddie by his family and friends. He was “A peace man.” (Draper Manuscript 23C17-4)
I tend to agree with Randy Seaver of Genea-musings, who stated in 2007 that it doesn't appear likely that singer Pat Boone is a Daniel Boone descendant. I also find the alleged connection between the Boones and John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, to be unproven. Daniel and Edward Boone had a great grandmother named Mary Milton. John Milton had a daughter named Mary. The geography and timing are a reasonable match. However, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), in Lives of The English Poets, states Milton’s daughter Mary died single. There could have been two Mary Miltons.
However, while I am doubtful of my child's kinship with Pat Boone and John Milton, Edward Boone and Joseph Bryan are American Patriots my child will likely be proud to call ancestor.
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