Individual Details

George was a weaver, a Quaker by religion. He inquired of William Penn as to the colony established in America and is said to have sent George, Sarah & Squire to America about 1712, to see the land. Squire and Sarah remain and George returned to England to report. It is said that the Boones settled about 1717 in Abingdon, a Quaker farming community, later moving to the frontier hamlet of North Wales, a Welch community which was also Quaker.

Document owned by the Boone Society:
George Boone married unto Mary Moggridge the 16th day of August 1689

George is said to be buried in the Friends burying Ground, Exeter Twp, Berks Co, PA.

"He the said George Boone the Third, died on the Sixth Day of the Week, near 8 o'clock in the Morning, on the 27^th of July 1744, aged 78 Years; and Mary his Wife died on the 2d Day of the Week, on the 2d of February 1740-1; aged 72 years; and were decently interred in Friends Burying-Ground, in the said Township of Exeter. When he died, he left 8 children, 52 Grand-Children, and 10 Great-Grand-Children, Living; in all 70, being as many Persons as the House of Jacob which came into Egypt."

Birth	Ca 1665	Exeter, Devonshire, England
Marriage	16 Aug 1689	Devonshire, England - Mary Maugridge
Death	27 Jul 1744	Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Spouse	Mary Maugridge (1669 - )
Child	George Boone (1690 - 1753)
Child	Sarah Boone (1691 - )
Child	Mary Boone (1694 - 1696)
Child	Squire Boone (1696 - 1765)
Child	Mary Boone (1699 - 1774)
Child	John Boone (1701 - 1785)
Child	Joseph Boone (1704 - 1776)
Child	Benjamin Boone (1706 - 1762)
Child	James Boone (1709 - 1785)
Child	Samuel Boone (1711 - 1745)