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Descendants of Humphrey I Bohun

Generation No. 20

60. GEORGE²⁰ BOONE III (GEORGE¹⁹, GEORGE¹⁸, GEORGE¹⁷ BOON, GREGORY¹⁶, GEOFFREY¹⁵ BOHN, GEOFFREY¹⁴, JOHN¹³ BOHUN, SIR JOHN¹² DEBOHUN, SIR JOHN¹¹, JAMES¹⁰, JOHN⁹, FRANCO⁸, RALPH⁷ DE BOHUN, HENRY⁶, HUMPHREY IV⁵, HUMPHREY III⁴, HUMPHREY III "HUMPHREY THE GREAT"³, HUMPHREY II "WITH THE BEARD"², HUMPHREY I¹ BOHUN) was born March 19, 1665/66 in Stoke Canon, New Exeter, Devonshire, England, and died February 27, 1743/44 in Exter Township, Berks, America (Pennsylvania). He married MARY MILTON MAUGRIDGE August 16, 1689 in Stoke, Canon, Devonshire, England, daughter of JOHN MAUGRIDGE and MARY MILTON. She was born Bet. 1668 - 1669 in Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England, and died February 02, 1739/40 in Exter Township, Berks, America (Pennsylvania).

Notes for GEORGE BOONE III:
George Boone, III was born at Stoak, near Exeter, in Devonshire, England in 1666. He was the son of George Boone II who died at the age of 60 years and Sarah Uppey Boone who died at the age of 80 years. George Boone III grew up and married Mary Maugridge, daughter of John and Mary Milton Maugridge of Bradnich, Devonshire, England. The couple had at least nine children, George Boone IV, Sarah Boone, Squire Boone, Mary Boone, John Boone who never married, Joseph Boone, Benjamin Boone, James Boone and Samuel Boone.

George Boone, III was a weaver. On 17 August 1717, George Boone, III, his wife Mary Maugridge Boone and their children still at home left Bradnich, Devonshire, England, which is a town eight miles from Exeter and one hundred seventy seven miles from London, and traveled to Bristol, England. From their they booked ship passage to Philadelphia. They arrived in Philadelphia on 29 September 1717 (old style). They had sent their children, George Boone, Sarah Boone and Squire Boone to America a few years earlier.

The family arrived at Philadelphia and travelled to Abington where they stayed a few months. They left Abington in 1718 and moved to North Wales where they lived two years. Then in 1720, they settled in Oley, Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Exeter was at the western edge of European settlement in southeastern Pennsylvania. Before the 1750s this frontier was one of the most peaceful in all of North America, though, to be sure, European colonialism had introduced terrible turmoil into Indian societies. As a result of first Swedish, then Dutch, then subsequently English colonization, the native peoples of the Susquehanna and Delaware river region were devastated by imported diseases, reducing their village populations by as much as 90 percent by the eighteenth century. Commercial trade reoriented native economic life and introduced cutthroat competition among colonists and Indians alike for access to valuable fur-bearing regions and merchant centers.

Unlike other colonies, however, Quaker authorities organized no militia or army, negotiated with Indians over the title to land, and promised natives "the full and free privileges and Immunities of all the Said Laws as any other Inhabitants." A de facto alliance between Pennsylvania and the powerful Iroquois Confederacy of western New York further contributed to a half century of peace attracted by this policy, a number of Indian peoples, dislocated from their homelands by the reverberating effects of colonization relocated in Pennsylvania. In the early century Conoys and Nanticokes from the Chesapeake, Tuscaroras and Tutelos from the Piedmont of North Carolina, and Shawnees from southern Ohio joined Susquehannocks and Delawares in the upriver country of southeastern Pennsylvania. Within twenty or thirty miles of the Boone home were numerous Indian settlements, and beyond the Oley Hills, in the Lehigh and Lebanon valleys, were multi-ethnic Indian communities, including Manangy's Town, later renamed Reading when it was Americanized in midcentury. Down the Schuylkill was Manatawny, later called Pottstown.

The North American frontier was a distinctive milieu, where peoples of different cultural origins made contact and conducted business with one another. This was good for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and during the first half of the eighteenth century the Indian trade accounted for nearly a third of the Commonwealth's foreign exchange. As merchants, Pennsylvania authorities wanted Indians near at hand. But the colony also operated as a land company, and as real estate agents, authorities sought to gain possession of Indian lands in order to sell tracts to emigrants like the Boones who began pouring into the colony in 1713 at the end of Queen Anne's War. That this was accomplished by what one Iroquois chief described as "Pen-and-Ink work" rather than warfare marked the Pennsylvania frontier as distinct.

Despite the peace, however, even Pennsylvania grew tense with growing Indian resentments and settler fears. At Manatawny in 1728, a party of Shawnees got into a fight with settlers who refused to provide them with food. There was an exchange of gunfire and one Indian was wounded. The Boone neighborhood, just ten miles away, was thrown into panic. George Boone, III, local magistrate, sent a dispatch to the colonial governor pleading for assistance "in order to defend our frontiers." "Our Inhabitants are Generally fled," he wrote, but "there remains about 20 men with me to guard my mill, where I have about 1,000 bushels of wheat and flour, and we are resolved to defend ourselves to ye last Extremity." Sometime later a dozen Shawnees, perhaps the same group, extorted food and drink from a few terrorized families in the area. A posse of about twenty local men pursued them, and in a short fight, two settlers were wounded. That concluded the only record of Indian warfare at Olny, but it was evidence of increasing settlement and congestion. Under such pressures Shawnees, Delawares, and other Indians began moving west, into the mountains or beyond. A steady stream of Indians, however, continued to pass along the Perkiomen Path, which cut directly through the Boone neighborhood.

George Boone, III enjoyed a reputation among the Indians for befriending natives. During the conflict of 1728 he led the rescue of two Indian girls held by a group of settlers who harbored lustful and murderous intentions. Indian hunters and diplomats passing along the path knew they could find food, drink, and a place to sleep at the Boone homestead. When Sassoonan, known as "king" of the Schuylkill Delawares, stopped for a time at the Boone place on his way to Philadelphia, with his retinue of twenty-five men, women, and children in 1736, the visit was important enough to record.

Mary Maugridge Boone died on 2 February 1740 at the age of 72 years. She was buried in the Friends Burial Ground in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Squire Boone's father, George Boone, III died on 27 July 1744 at the age of 78 years. He was also buried in the Friends Burial Ground in Exeter Township.

bib: Early Families of Eastern & Southeastern Kentucky and Their Descendants, William C. Kozee, Baltimore, 1979 (Olathe Public Library); Genealogies of Kentucky Families, A-M, The Register of the Kentucky Hist. Society, 1981 (Olathe Public Library); Daniel Boone by John Mack Faragher, Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1992.

George Boone II and his wife moved to Clay, (now Exeter), Berks County, Pennsylvania. The historical site of the home is marked, and was built in 1733 by George Boone.

The site of the original log house built in 1730 is now 14 miles from Reading, Pennsylvania.

The Boones were all Quakers when they came to Pennsylvania.

George Boon III went on to serve for many years as justice of the peace, and when he became too old and frail to continue, the position passed to his oldest son, George Jr.

They "joined themselves to Gwynedd Meeting." When population growth led to the division of Oley township in 1741, the section in which the Boones resided was renamed Exeter, in honor of their English origins.

More About GEORGE BOONE III:
Burial: July 28, 1744, Friends Burial Gound, Exeter Township, Berks, Pennsylvania
Christening: March 19, 1665/66, Stoke, New Exeter, Devonshire, England
Occupation: A Weaver by trade

More About MARY MILTON MAUGRIDGE:
Burial: February 04, 1739/40, Friends Burial Gound, Exeter Township, Berks, Pennsylvania
Christening: December 23, 1669, St. Disen's Church, Bradninch, Devonshire, Enland

Marriage Notes for GEORGE BOONE and MARY MAUGRIDGE:
George Boone III and Mary Milton Maugridge had landed in America at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 20, 1717.

George Boone became prominently identified with the Gwynned Monthly Meeting, by which he was appointed in 1723 to keep the church records of the births, marriages and deaths. In 1725 a monthly meeting was established for the Quakers in Olney, and on Dec. 24, 1736, George Boone and wife granted to a board of trustees (Anthony Lee, John Webb, George Boone, Jr., their son and sons-in-law) one acre of ground in trust for the use of the people called Quakers in Olney. This was the origin of what is now known as the Exeter Monthly Meeting where seven generations of the Boone family have worshiped.

George Boone, Sr. was for many years a Justice of Peace under English sovereignty, an extensive landowner and man of affairs. He was a leader in the Society of Friends and had wide influence among his neighbors. He died in 1740, aged 78 years, and was buried in the Exeter burying grounds as was also his wife. His Bible, now in possession of descendants, states that he left eight children, 52 grandchildren, and ten great grandchildren, in all 70, the number that Jacob took down to Egypt (Bible).

Children of GEORGE BOONE and MARY MAUGRIDGE are:

68.	i.	GEORGE²¹ BOONE IV, b. July 13, 1690, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England; d. November 20, 1753, Exter Township, Berks, Devon, Pennsylvania.
69.	ii.	SARAH BOONE, b. February 29, 1691/92, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England; d. November 20, 1743, Berks, Pennsylvania.
	iii.	MARY BOONE I, b. September 26, 1694, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England; d. May 20, 1696, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England.

More About MARY BOONE I:
Burial: May 20, 1696, Cemetery, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England
Christening: September 26, 1694, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England

70.	iv.		SQUIRE BOONE, b. November 25, 1696, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England; d. January 02, 1765, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina.
	v.		MARY BOONE, b. September 23, 1699, Stoak, Exeter, Devonshire, England; d. January 16, 1774, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania; m. JOHN WEBB, JR., September 13, 1720, Gwynedd Meeting, Berks County, Pennsylvania; b. 1694, Exeter, Berks County, Pennsylvania; d. October 18, 1774, Exeter, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

More About MARY BOONE:
Burial: 1774, Cemetery, Pennsylvania
Christening: October 13, 1699, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England

vi.

JOHN BOONE, b. January 14, 1701/02, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England; d. October 10, 1785, Exter Township, Berks, Devon, Pennsylvania.

Notes for JOHN BOONE:
John Boone was a school teacher and the first to keep track of the family line; he did not marry.

More About JOHN BOONE:
Burial: October 11, 1785, Friends Burial Gound, Exeter Township, Berks, Pennsylvania
Christening: January 30, 1700/01, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England

vii.

JOSEPH BOONE, b. April 05, 1704, Stoak, Exeter, Devonshire, England; d. January 30, 1776, Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania; m. CATHERINE; b. 1708; d. 1778.

More About JOSEPH BOONE:
Burial: February 01, 1776, Exeter Township, Berks, Devon, Pennsylvania
Christening: April 05, 1704, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England

viii.

BENJAMIN BOONE, b. July 16, 1706, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England; d. October 17, 1762, Exeter Township, Berks, Devon, Pennsylvania; m. (1) ANN FARMER, 1726; m. (2) SUSANNAH LYKINS, 1736; b. 1708; d. 1784.

More About BENJAMIN BOONE:
Christening: July 16, 1706, Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England

71.	ix.		JAMES BOONE, SR., b. July 18, 1709, Stoak, Exeter, Devonshire, England; d. September 01, 1785, Exeter Township, Berks, Devon, Pennsylvania.
	x.		SAMUEL BOONE, b. July 07, 1711, Stoak, Exeter, Devonshire, England; d. August 06, 1745, Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania; m. ELIZABETH CASSELL, October 29, 1734, Pennsylvania; b. Abt. 1710.

More About SAMUEL BOONE:
Burial: August 07, 1745, Exeter Township, Berks, Devon, Pennsylvania.

61. ANNA LETITIA²⁰ LOFTUS (JANE¹⁹ VAUGHN, MARY¹⁸ RICE, GRIFFITH AP¹⁷ RHYS, KATHERINE¹⁶ HOWARD, DUKE OF NORFOLK SIR THOMAS¹⁵, DUKE (1ST) OF NORFOLK SIR JOHN¹⁴, MARGARET¹³ MOWBRAY, ELIZABETH FITZ¹² ALLAN, ELIZABETH¹¹ DE BOHUN, EARL OF HEREFORD HUMPHREY VIII¹⁰ BOHUN, EARL OF HEREFORD HUMPHREY VII⁹, HUMPHREY VI⁸, HUMPHREY V⁷ DE BOHUN, HENRY⁶, HUMPHREY IV⁵, HUMPHREY III⁴, HUMPHREY III "HUMPHREY THE GREAT"³, HUMPHREY II "WITH THE BEARD"², HUMPHREY I¹ BOHUN) was born 1606 in Rathfarnham, Ireland. She married RICHARD PARSONS, son of LAWRENCE PARSONS and JANE MALHM. He was born 1605 in BirrCastle, Offaly, Ireland.

Child of ANNA LOFTUS and RICHARD PARSONS is:

72.

ELIZABETH²¹ PARSONS, b. Abt. 1634, Ireland; d. May 27, 1686, Meath, Ireland.

62. GERSHOM²⁰ PALMER (WALTER¹⁹, WILLIAM¹⁸, CATHERINE¹⁷ STRADLING, SIR EDWARD¹⁶, THOMAS¹⁵, SIR HENRY¹⁴, JANE¹³ BEAUFORT, ALICE FITZ¹² ALLAN, ELIZABETH¹¹ DE BOHUN, EARL OF HEREFORD HUMPHREY VIII¹⁰ BOHUN, EARL OF HEREFORD HUMPHREY VII⁹, HUMPHREY VI⁸, HUMPHREY V⁷ DE BOHUN, HENRY⁶, HUMPHREY IV⁵, HUMPHREY III⁴, HUMPHREY III "HUMPHREY THE GREAT"³, HUMPHREY II "WITH THE BEARD"², HUMPHREY I¹ BOHUN) was born in Rehobeth, Massachusetts, and died September 27, 1718 in Stonington, Connecticut. He married (1) ELIZABETH MASON. He married (2) ANN DENISON November 28, 1667, daughter of CAPTAIN DENISON and ANN BORODELL.

Child of GERSHOM PALMER and ANN DENISON is:

73.

MERCY²¹ PALMER, b. 1668; d. 1752.

63. COLONEL ABNER J.²⁰ WOMACK (MILDRED¹⁹ PRYOR, MARGARET¹⁸ GAINES, GEORGE¹⁷, BERNARD¹⁶, MARGARET¹⁵ BERNARD, FRANCIS¹⁴, FRANCIS¹³, JOHN¹², JOHN¹¹, LADY MARGARET¹⁰ LE SCROPE, SIR HENRY⁹, LADY MARGARET⁸ DE NEVILL, LADY MARGARET⁷ DE STAFFORD, LADY PHILIPPA⁶ DE BEAUCHAMP, SIR THOMAS⁵, ALICE⁴ TONI, ALICE³ BOHUN, HUMPHREY II "WITH THE BEARD"² DE BOHUN, HUMPHREY I¹ BOHUN) was born 1778 in Caswell County, North Carolina, and died February 12, 1844 in St. Helen Parish, Louisiana. He married CELIA HERRIN June 19, 1818.

Notes for COLONEL ABNER J. WOMACK:
Abner J. Womack (Sr. designation for convenience since his brother's son was also Abner J. Womack - and designated as Jr.), homesteaded 640-1000 acres in Texas and was followed by his kin from Mississippi. In 1856, the property tax rolls reflect that Abram B., Abner P., David III, and Elbert W. Womack had also migrated from Mississippi to Texas. These were part of an extended family that had lived and farmed in Mississippi from circa 1830-1857, in St. Helena, La. from circa 1815-1830, and in Orange County, N.C. before that.

Several are indicated as owning slaves over this period. A. J. Sr. for example, was listed in the 1860 census as owning $42,000 in personal property, which would indicate 30-40 slaves. (Source: History of Trinity County, pg. 803, story by Robert D. Womack)

Children of ABNER WOMACK and CELIA HERRIN are:

	i.	WILLIAM B.²¹ WOMACK, b. 1806; m. PERMELIA KEMP, February 28, 1821; b. 1810.
74.	ii.	JOHN HENRY PRYOR WOMACK, b. 1809; d. 1888.
	iii.	CELIA WOMACK, b. 1810; m. JOHN BURTON.
	iv.	ABNER WOMACK, JR., b. 1814; m. ELIZABETH KEMP, July 26, 1829.
75.	v.	PERMELIA WOMACK, b. 1822; d. 1870.
	vi.	CHILD WOMACK.
	vii.	LUCY WOMACK, m. JOHN ADDISON.
	viii.	MILDRED WOMACK, b. 1826; m. JONATHAN DAVID KEMP.

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