General Notes

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 2W3V-V9
ISREAL BOONE, second child and oldest son of Squire and Sarah (Morgan)
Boone,and oldest brother of the famous Daniel Boone, was born 9 May
(Old-Style Calendar), or 20 May (New-Calendar), in 1726, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, movingin early childhood with his parents to Berks County,
where his grandparents,the George Boone's, lived.
He was married in Berks County, in December 1747,when he was 21 years of
age.  The name of Israel Boone's wife is not given inthe only known
record of his marriage. The Boone's all being members of theSociety of
Friends, the young folks were suppose to marry within the Church.At its
monthly Meeting Minutes, ordinarily so thorough in their recordings of
the births, marriages and deaths of its member, indicate by their very
brevity, their intense disapproval of the marriage stating only that
Israel had"Married Out" the entry having been made 31 December 1747.
The southeastern part of Pennsylvania, in the mid-1700's was fairly well
settled by groups of families from various countries of Western Europe,
England, Wales, Scotland, Holland, Germany, and probably others.  The
lives of these colonists revolvedlargely around their respective
churches and religions, but there was nothingto prevent their
intermingling socially, so Israel's wife, was no doubt, from one of these
adjoining communities, as was the husband of his sister, Sarah, whose
marriage out of the church, likewise created a disturbing situation.
Nothing has as yet been found to give credence to the story that Isreal
Boone's wife was an Indian girl.  Inasmuch as it appears to have had its
origin,not in Pennsylvania, where Isreal was born, grew up and was
married, nor in North Carolina, where he and his wife lived and died, and
where their two sonsraised their large families to adulthood, it can
hardly be considered a "tradition", and its authenticity seems doubtful.
It seems to have originated several generations later, among descendants
living elsewhere, and could well have been started quite innocently, from
a casual remark by someone, in a momentof speculation as to her
identity, and then to have spread from person to person.
If anyone is able to explain the origin of this story, or to give
satisfactory proof, well and good, but it is so important at this time,
for us totry to stem the avalanche of misinformation that has been, and
is still being circulated throughout the country about this family of
Boone's.  What we really want to know, if at all possible, is the true
identity of this maternalancestor, and if this story is perpetuated
until it is accepted as an established fact in the minds of the
descendants, it might tend to hinder further research on the matter.
No doubt, this marriage was instrumental in bringing about the move to
North Carolina, of the entire Squire Boone family, in 1750.  It does seem
somewhat unlikely that young Israel and his bride, probably having no
property or possessions to detain them in Pennsylvania, would have
lingered on for more than two years in a colony where he felt strongly
that he had been the cause of the existing friction between his family
and the Church.
More than one tradition has it that the Squire Boone family moved first
toVirginia, where they lived for a few years before moving on to North
Carolina; but the records in Pennsylvania show that Squire did not leave
that state until 1 May 1750, which is the same year they are said to have
reached the valley of the Yadkin, in North Carolina.
A story, which, if it is to be relied upon, may serve to throw some light
on this matter, has come down to us throughthe family of a well-known
gun maker of the early days, Ezra Lockwood and brothers, makers of the
Lockwood gun, in Pennsylvania.  The story goes, that the Ezra Lockwood's,
encouraged by some friends of theirs who had moved to Missouri, had
decided to do likewise; so in 1808, a