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Squire Maugridge Boone Jr. (October 5, 1744 – August 5, 1815) was an American frontiersman, longhunter, soldier, city planner, politician, land locator, judge, politician, gunsmith, miller, and younger brother of Daniel Boone. In 1780, he founded the first settlement in Shelby County, Kentucky.
Squire Boone Sr. had first joined the Pennsylvania Quaker’s Abington Meeting then transferred to the North Wales Gwynedd Meeting, settling in Chalfont, New Brittain Twp. of Philadelphia Co. to farm and ply his skills as blacksmith and weaver. Chalfont was originally called Butler’s Mill. As tenant, he built a small house.
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His father, Squire Boone (1696–1765), immigrated to colonial Pennsylvania from the small town of Bradninch, England, sometime around 1712. Squire, a weaver and blacksmith, married Sarah Morgan (1700–1777), whose family were Quakers from Wales.
Squire Boone was born November 25, 1696 in Bradninch, Devon, England to George and Mary (Maugridge) Boone. He was born an English Quaker. Squire married Sarah Morgan September 23, 1720 in Gwynedd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania. Marriage Notes for Sarah Morgan and Squire Boone: Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan apparently met at Gwynedd Meeting where ...
- Male
- November 25, 1696
- Sarah (Morgan) Boone
- January 2, 1765
Apr 3, 2014 · His father, Squire Boone, Sr., was a Quaker blacksmith and weaver who met his wife, Sarah Morgan, in Pennsylvania after he emigrated from England. Boone, the couple's sixth child, received...
Daniel and Squire Boone. By JOHN JOSEPH STOUDT. “When grandfather died he left eight children, fifty-two grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren-in all seventy, being as many as the house of Jacob which came into Egypt.”
