We Are Also Boones, Part 2

by Glenn N. Holliman
(Adapted from a document by Roberta Stuart Sims of Shreveport, LA)

Below is the harbour of Bristol, England at low tide several hundred years ago. Three members of the Boone family, including Squire Boone, our great grandfather, sailed from Bristol, first in 1712 and other members in 1717. Ironically for this writer, another distant relative, The Rt. Rev. John Holyman, was Bishop of the Bristol Cathedral (see background) from 1554 to 1558.


The Boones and thousands of others sailed to Philadelphia, a colony founded by William Penn (below) , an activist in the Society of Friends or Quakers. Penn's fair treatment of Native Americans reduced the threat of frontier warfare, and made settlement in Pennsylvania doubly attractive.















Below the harbour at Philadelphia where the Boone family landed and settled in lands outside of the city in the 1710s. By the early 1710s, Philadelphia was the largest city in the English colonies, and would remain so for another hundred years.

George Boone took 400 acres and built a log cabin in Olay, later to be called Exeter, PA. This great grandfather of ours died in 1744 leaving 8 children, 52 grandchildren and 10 great grandchilddren. The offspring were a blend of Engish, German, Welsh and Scotch becoming, well, Americans within a generation.

Next posting, the life of Squire Boone....