AUTHOR OF THE "BOONE GENEALOGY"
WILLIAM BOONE (George4; George3), born 18 Nov. (0. S.), or 29 Nov. (N. S.), 1724; died at Frederick, Md., between 1769 and 1771.
Married 26 Apr., 1748 (0. S.), Sarah Lincoln (b. abt. Apr. 1727; d. 21 Apr., 1810, aged 83 yrs., 2 mo., and odd days), (a) daughter of Mordecai Lincoln and his 1st wife Hannah Salter, and a sister to John Lincoln, great-grandfather of Pres. Lincoln. (See the Lincoln Family Sketch.)
The marriage of William Boone and Sarah Lincoln was reported "orderly accomplished" on 26 Apr. (0. S.) or 6 May (N. S.), 1748. (a)
Several times William Boone was elected to public office in Berks Co.; first in 1752 and again in 1754, he was made coroner; and in 1755 and 1756 he was elected sheriff of the county. (b)
In 1767, William Boone, wife Sarah and seven children removed to
Fairfax Meeting (Va). They lived for a time in Frederick Co., Md., where William and his son Mordecai both died. Sarah (Lincoln) Boone,
the widow, and the other six children returned to Exeter Meeting and were again received "from Fairfax Meeting, 10-30, 1776." (a)
A copy of the Will of William Boone is given below:
"I, William Boone of Exeter in the County of Berks and Province of Pennsylvania Being in Health and proper understanding Through Devine Mercy Do make my Will and Testament as follows; Viz,
I desire my Debts to be paid as soon as the circumstances of my affairs will admit of it.
Secondly, I give to my wife one hundred pounds in money and all my household goods one beast the choice of the horsekine Two Cows and all my household furniture During her widowhood, but if she marries the money shall be returned to my sons and Divided Equally among them and my said Loving wife hold the Remainder to herself her Heirs and assigns forever.
Thirdly, I give to my daughter Abigail the wife of Adin Panecast Seventy pounds over and above what she has already had to be paid unto her three years after my decease.
Fourthly, I give to my daughter Mary one hundred pounds to be paid unto her at the age of twenty years if she lives to that age but if she dies and her sister Abigail survives her or leaves issue lawfully on her Begotten, then the one third of Mary's share aforesaid to my said daughter Abigail or her surviving Heirs if any there be, if not then my Sone Mordecai shall have it and one other third of the said sum together with it the other third shall be assigned to my wife During life and after her Decease to be returned to my Children and Equally divided among them or the surviving of them.
Fifthly, The rest of all my Real and personal Estate only Ten pounds I give and Devise to my Sons to be equally divided among them allowing my eldest son Mordecai fifty pounds more than either of the others to be taken out of the whole and the Remainder to be equally divided among them or the survivors of them.
I give and bequeath the sum of Ten pounds to use of Exeter Meeting to be left in care of the overseers of the said Meeting to be applied in repairing the Bury-ground or such other uses as the Overseers and Elders of said Meeting think proper, to be paid to them out of the money left in the hands of Abel Thomas one of the Ministers of the said Meeting.
Sixthly, It is my will that all my male Children's money shall be put to use for them until they arrive to their proper ages and the interest therefrom arising to be paid to my Loving Wife until they arrive to the age of fifteen yea's to defray the expense of their Education and Maintainance and that then my said Sons be put to Trades of their own Liking until they arrive to the age of Twenty-one years.
I Nominate and Appoint my Affectionate Brother Jeremiah and my son Mordecai my Executors Authorizing and Impowering them to Execute Titles, Deeds and Conveyances for all lands by me sold and all such lands wherein I have claim or the Survivor of them Ratifying, confirming and allowing all such acts and Deeds as my said Executors shall from time to time and at all times Commit, Execute and do in Settling my outward affairs, etc.
I Publish, pronounce and declare this and no other to be my last Will and Testament in presence of the Subscribing witnesses in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the Twenty-third day of the fifth month 1768.
EDWARD HUGHES WILLIAM BOONE (seal) GEORGE HUGHES
This will was probated on 6 Dec., 1771.
Sarah (Lincoln) Boone survived her husband several years, dying
at the home of her son-in-law, Isaac Lee, in Oley Valley, Berks Co., Pa., in 1810. (c)
CHILDREN:- (d)
69 Mordecai Boone. In the old family Bible now owned by Mr. Edwin Boone of Reading, Pa., is this item, written and signed by George Boone, son of William and Sarah Boone, "Mordecai Boone, my eldest brother, departed this life in Aug., 1774, (single man), in same house in which my father died." The death of the father in Frederick, Md., having been previously recorded.
+70 Abigail Boone.
+71 Mary Boone. d. 30 June (0. S.) or 11 July (N. S.) 1732.
+72 William Boone.
+73 George Boone, b. abt. 1759.
+74 Thomas Boone, b. 25 Sept., 1761.
+75 Hezekiah Boone, b. 1764.
+76 Jeremiah Boone, thought to have been born in 1765.
Sarah Lincoln (b. abt. Apr. 1727; d. 21 Apr., 1810, aged 83 yrs., 2 mo., and odd days), (a) daughter of Mordecai Lincoln and his 1st wife Hannah Salter, and a sister to John Lincoln, great-grandfather of Pres. Lincoln. (See the Lincoln Family Sketch.)
Mordecai Boone. In the old family Bible now owned by Mr. Edwin Boone of Reading, Pa., is this item, written and signed by George Boone, son of William and Sarah Boone, "Mordecai Boone, my eldest brother, departed this life in Aug., 1774, (single man), in same house in which my father died." The death of the father in Frederick, Md., having been previously recorded
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OR "NANCY"
Married about 1750 on the Yadkin River in North Carolina to William Grant (b. 1726; d. 22 Jan., 1804, at the age of 78, in Fayette County, Ky.)
ELIZABETH BOONE (Squire4; George3), born 5 Feb., 1732 (Old Time) or 16 Feb., 1732 (New Time) in Berks County, Pennsylvania; (a) died 25 Feb., 1825, in Kentucky. (Other dates given as 5 Feb., 1814 & '15.)
Married about 1750 on the Yadkin River in North Carolina to William Grant (b. 1726; d. 22 Jan., 1804, at the age of 78, in Fayette County, Ky.)
William Grant was the son of a Scotch father, also William Grant, and an Irish mother, Margaret Venner. He was born and raised in the Scotch Highlands, imbibing a great love for his country and a desire for her independence from English sovereignty. Knowing this, it is not surprising to find him taking part in the Rebellion of 1745-46, in which it is said he served under Prince "Charlie." Following the defeat of the Scottish army at the Battle of Culloden 16 April, 1746 (which sealed the fate of the house of Stuart and its supporters), Grant emigrated to America and located in the Yadkin country, where a great many others of the Pretender's adherents settled. Here he met and married, about 1750, Elizabeth Boone, and here too all their children with the exception of William (94) were born. At the time of their marriage a Dutchman said to Grant, "Well, Billy, Betsy will make you a good wife if you will take her down at the first loaf." She was a beautiful, high-spirited woman, and the Dutchman thought she needed subduing. (b)
Up to the time of the Indian outbreak in 1759, the Western portions and borders of the Carolinas had grown and been settled rapidly, but during this outbreak we find "the Bryans, and probably some family removed to the old settlements in South Carolina, and old Squire Boone and wife (Sarah), his son Daniel Boone, and son-in-law William Grant, with their families, retired to Virginia and Maryland." (b) It was while the Grants were living in Virginia, near where Washington, D. C., now stands, that their son William was born. Except for this short period they lived in North Carolina until the fall of 1779, when they moved to Kentucky, probably going out with Daniel Boone. A description of this moving in Draper Mss. 22 C 16 says, "It was like an army coming out. There was no occasion to strike fire of night. They wo'd
be camped mile maybe, all along in a string. The road was worked into steps, thro' the cane, where they co'dn't go out of the regular track." It is recorded in this same Mss. that Airs. Grant and her daughter "came out" in the fall of 1779, but it is not stated which daughter this was. They came by way of Fort Boonesborough, where they stopped awhile. Then Grant joined the four Bryan brothers (William, Morgan, James and Joseph) and helped establish Bryan's Station, five miles northeast of the present city of Lexington, which at that time was a small settlement enclosed within a stockade. (c)
About 1783 William Grant (II) procured a pre-emption and settlement of 1400 acres on the Little Elkhorn River in Kentucky, but finally became discouraged and resolved to return to North Carolina. He sold 400 acres of his land for an Indian pony worth about $40.00, which was stolen by Indians ten clays afterwards with all his other horses. This loss precluded the idea of returning to North Carolina and the plan was abandoned. He remained on the Elkhorn. The log house which he built there was still standing as late as 1851, in its original state, the roof put on with wooden pins. This house was one of the preaching places of the Craigs (Baptist preachers), for although in her early years Elizabeth (Boone) Grant had been a strict "Friend" (Quaker), she and her husband soon after their marriage became members of the Baptist Church and never left it. Both Grant and his wife died there, he in 1804 at the age of 78, and she some years later. They are buried under an apple tree which he set out on the place when they first went there to live. This homestead descended to their son William (III), who together with his wife are buried there also, and as late as 1868 it was owned and occupied by a Grant descendant.
Following is a copy of William Grant's will, found in Fayette County (Kentucky) Will Book "C," Page 349.
"In the name of God Amen, I William Grant of the County of Fayette and the Commonwealth of Kentucky being infirm and full of years but of sound mind and disposing memory, for which I thank God, and calling to mind the uncertanity of human life and being desirous to dispose of all such worldly estate as it has pleased God to bless me with, I give the same in the manner following, that is to say, 1st. I desire that all my just debts should be paid together with my funeral expenses.
2nd. I desire that my Dear and beloved wife Elizabeth Grant have one third part of my estate both real and personal, after my debts is paid out of it & too legisees which are to be hereafter mentioned taken therefrom, and for that third part to include two negro girls Jenny and Fanny, which two girls my desire is that they shall be my wifes forever to do what she pleases.
3d. My desire is that a Certain negro lad now hired to James Lemon named Frank to be kept in the hands of my wife Elizabeth and trustees hereafter mentioned for the use of my daughter Rebecca Lemons, the said negro Frank to be left in the hands of my wife & the trustees that he shall not be taken to pay James Lemon's debts and is not to be considered the property of James Lemons at all.
4th. I give to my Grandson, William Grant son of John, a negro boy named Jesse, but he is not to have possession of the boy till after my wife's death unless my wife see cause to give the boy up sooner if she does not my desire is that my wife have the said boy as long as she lives.
5th. I give all the rest of my estate, both real and personal to he divided amongst my children and Grand children hereafter mentioned, that is to say, my sons John, William & Squire, my daughters, Mary Mitchell, Sarah Sanders, Elizabeth Mosby, and Rebeca Lemmon, likewise one moiety with my above mentioned children to be equally divided amongst my Grand children, the sons and daughters of my deceased son Isarael Grant, likewise one equal moiety as above mentioned to be divided between my two grandchildren Elijah & Betsy Grant, son and daughter to my dec'd son Samuel Grant; my desire is that all my estate mentioned in the 5th article be sold by my Executors to the highest bidders and the monies ariseing therefrom to be equally divided amongst my children above mentioned, the children of Isarael Grant dec'd and the children of Samuel Grant dec'd, to have- each of the familys of grandchildren above mentioned-one equal moiety divided amongst them.
6th. But as my son William is security for my son John to the Executors of William Fry dec'd, for a considerable amount, now my desire is if my son John pay off the above mentioned debt himself and my son William suffers none by it, then my desire is that my son John have his equal moiety as above described, but if in case he should not and my son William should suffer thereby, then and in that case my will and desire is that my son William have the part intended for my son John or so much thereof as will make him whole.
7th. I appoint my son William Grant and John C. Richardson Trustees in this my will.
8th. I appoint my wife Elizabeth Executrix and my son William & John Richardson Ex'ors to this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others and former wills or testaments by me heretofore made.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 18th day of August in the year of-Lord Eighteen Hundred and Three.
WILLIAM GRANT (Seal)
Witnesses:
FRANCIS BROWNING WILLIAM CALDWELL OMBERNORD YUNLING
A codicil to this my last will and testament and it is my desire that it may be made a part thereof Whereas I give to my son Isareal Grant dec'd in his life time one thousand acres of land in Clark County on the waters of Stoner and never made any deed for the same and whereas my said son Isareal by his last will and testament did dispose of the same (reference being thereto had will more fully appear) I do hereby ratify and confirm the same.
Witness my hand and seal this day of 1804.
WILLI'M GRANT. (SEAL)
To William Grant and Elizabeth (Boone) were born ten children.
CHILDREN:-
(All born in N. C. except William, born in Va.)
90 Mary Grant, b. 22 Sept., 1753, in the Yadkin district; d. in Ky.; m. Moses Mitchell. (b)
+91 John Grant, b. 30 Jan., 1754.
+92 Israel Grant, b. 14 Dec., 1756.
-J-93 Sarah Grant, h. 25 Jan., 1759.
+94 William Grant, b. 10 Jan., 1761, in Va.
+95 Samuel Grant, b. 26 Nov., 1762.
+96 (Capt.) Squire Grant, b. 14 Sept., 1764.
97 Elizabeth Grant, b. 28 Aug., 1766; d. 10 July, 1804, in Scott Co., Ky.; m. John Moseby, brother of Major Joseph Moseby.
98 Moses Grant, b. 3 Oct., 1768; killed 13 Aug., 1789, by Indians while on an
expedition over the Ohio River under Colonel Robert Johnson.
- Hannah Grant, b. 30 Mar., 1771; d. 30 May, 1817. (d) +99 Rebecca Boone Grant, b. 4 June, 1774.
Moses Grant, b. 3 Oct., 1768; killed 13 Aug., 1789, by Indians while on an
expedition over the Ohio River under Colonel Robert Johnson.
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91. ISRAEL GRANT (Elizabeth' Boone; Squire; Georges), born 14 Dec., 1756, in North Carolina; died October, 1796, in Scott Co., Ky.
Married about July, 1780, in Ky., Susan Bryan, sister of Jonathan Bryan of St. Charles Co., Mo., and a daughter of James Bryan who was an uncle of Mrs. Daniel Boone.
Israel Grant "came out" from Shallow Ford (Yadkin), N. C., in the spring of 1779 with the Grant, Bryan, and Boone families. It is quite probable that he helped his father and the Bryans establish Bryan's Station, and being at the time unmarried he may have divided his time between Fort Boonesborough, Bryan's Station, and his brother John's station (Grant's). About July, 1780, he was married to Susan Bryan, who was one of the six children of James Bryan, all of whom after the death of their mother were taken by their "uncle" Daniel and "aunt" Rebecca Boone to be brought up. It was at the Boone home that Susan was married, possibly at Fort Boonesborough.
Probably after his marriage Israel located at or near Fort Boones-borough, for we find that in October, 1780, he went with Daniel Boone in pursuit of the Indians that had killed Edward Boone. To Israel and his wife were born three children.
CHILDREN
(All born in Ky.)
320 James Grant. Their father having died when the youngest child was quite small, James educated his brothers from the proceeds of their father's farm. He was twice married, first to a Miss Easton, and then after her death to Sally Hunt He settled in Callaway Co., Mo., in 1826, and became an influential citizen. For one term he represented his county in the State Legislature, and was also Judge of the County Court for a time. Later he moved from Callaway Co. to southwest Missouri and settled on the Neosho River. This was his home at the time of his death. Of his descendants nothing is known.
+321 William Grant.
322 Israel Boone Grant; thought to be the youngest son. At the age of 15 he went to Mo. with his uncle Jonathan Bryan, and taught school for one year. Following this he returned to Ky., and began the study of medicine, but tiring of that he bound himself out for five years to a silversmith in Lexington, Ky. After learning this trade he went to St. Louis, where he followed his profession for five years more. At that time he paid a visit to his uncle, Jonathan Bryan, who persuaded him to give up silversmithing and go to farming. Jonathan went with him to Callaway Co. to help him pick out and enter a tract of farming land. This done Israel went back to Ky., and on the 28th of March, 1820, was there married to Lettie Warren, taking her that same spring as a bride to Callaway Co. During his residence in Missouri he was several times elected County Judge, and for two terms was in the State Legislature. About Christmas 1835 be had gone to Fulton to collect some money, and as he returned was waylaid and killed by two of his negro slaves. Both negroes were hanged for this crime, and the skeleton of one, named Jacob, was in a Danville (Mo.) doctor's office for years.
REFERENCES
"Pioneer Families of Missouri," Bryan and Rose.
"Early Western Travels," Reuben Golde Thwaites, Vol. 5, p. 43.
Filson Club Publications, Vol. XII, "Bryan's Station."
Draper Mss. 22 C 46.
Draper Mss. 22 C 16.
Draper Mss. 22 S 230-38.
Susan Bryan, sister of Jonathan Bryan of St. Charles Co., Mo., and a daughter of James Bryan who was an uncle of Mrs. Daniel Boone.
James Grant. Their father having died when the youngest child was quite small, James educated his brothers from the proceeds of their father's farm. He was twice married, first to a Miss Easton, and then after her death to Sally Hunt He settled in Callaway Co., Mo., in 1826, and became an influential citizen. For one term he represented his county in the State Legislature, and was also Judge of the County Court for a time. Later he moved from Callaway Co. to southwest Missouri and settled on the Neosho River. This was his home at the time of his death. Of his descendants nothing is known.
Israel Boone Grant; thought to be the youngest son. At the age of 15 he went to Mo. with his uncle Jonathan Bryan, and taught school for one year. Following this he returned to Ky., and began the study of medicine, but tiring of that he bound himself out for five years to a silversmith in Lexington, Ky. After learning this trade he went to St. Louis, where he followed his profession for five years more. At that time he paid a visit to his uncle, Jonathan Bryan, who persuaded him to give up silversmithing and go to farming. Jonathan went with him to Callaway Co. to help him pick out and enter a tract of farming land. This done Israel went back to Ky., and on the 28th of March, 1820, was there married to Lettie Warren, taking her that same spring as a bride to Callaway Co. During his residence in Missouri he was several times elected County Judge, and for two terms was in the State Legislature. About Christmas 1835 be had gone to Fulton to collect some money, and as he returned was waylaid and killed by two of his negro slaves. Both negroes were hanged for this crime, and the skeleton of one, named Jacob, was in a Danville (Mo.) doctor's office for years