71 George Boone was a weaver by trade and a Quaker by religion. He was born in 1665 in the hamlet of Stoak near Exeter in Devonshire, England. In his time the Quakers were oppressed and George Boone therefore sought information of William Penn, his co-religionist, regarding the colony which Penn had established in America. In 1712 he sent his three children, George, Sarah, and Squire to spy out the land. Sarah and Squire remained in Pennsylvania, while their brother George returned to England with glowing reports. On August 17, 1717, George Boone went first to Abingdon, the Quaker farming community. Later they moved to the northwestern frontier hamlet of North Wales, a Welch community which a few years previously had turned Quaker. 

(Ref. "Pioneers of the old Southwest" by Skinner ; 24-25) 

George Boone's wife was Mary Milton Maugridge. (Ref. "The Boone Bulletin" and "The American Pioneer Records") 

Their children were: 

1. George -- born 1690 Married Deborah Howell 
2. Sarah -- born ? Married Jacob Stover 
3. Squire -- born about 1699 Married Sarah Morgan 
4. Joseph -- born 1704 Married Cather ------ 
5. Benjamin born 1706 Married Sussannah ------ 

In 1718 George Boone took up 400 acres in Olay in the subdivision to be later called Exeter and there lived in a log cabin. He died in 1744. He left 8 children, 52 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren, English, German, Welsh and Scotch blended into one family of Americans. 

The marriage of George Boone III to Mary Mogridge provides a circumstantial connection between the Boones and Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Earl of Essex and Lord High Constable of England, who was killed in the Battle of Boroughbridge in Yorkshire on 16 March 1321. Earl Humphrey was the second husband of Elizabeth Plantagenet, widow of John, Count of Holland, and daughter of King Edward I of England by his first wife Eleanor of Castile. Elizabeth Plantagenet de Bohun died in 1316. Margaret de Bohun, daughter of Earl Humphrey and Princess Elizabeth, married Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon, who succeeded to the earldom in 1377 upon the death of his father Sir Hugh Courtenay, feudal baron of Okehampton and Earl of Devon. In 1705 John Mogridge (Moggridge) married Margaret Courtenay and her brother Lewis Courtenay married his sister Jane Mogridge. Margaret and Lewis were children of Philip and Joan Courtenay who also had other children: Philip, Jr. and Thomas Courtenay. Philip Courtenay, who was buried at Molland in northern Devonshire in 1685, was a descendant of Humphrey de Bohun. Mary Mogridge who married George Boone III must have been related some way to John and Jane Mogridge who married into the Courtenay family.70
Children:
Squire Boone
Benjamin Boone I
George Boone IV
Sarah (Boone) Stover or Stuber
Mary (Boone) Webb
John Boone
Johann Diel Boone
James Boone
Samuel Boone I
Joseph Boone
James Boone
Mary Boone I

Mary Maugridge
another source: born BET abt. 1668 AND 1669 brandninch england
Children:
Squire Boone
Benjamin Boone I
George Boone IV
Sarah (Boone) Stover or Stuber
Mary (Boone) Webb
John Boone
Johann Diel Boone
James Boone
Samuel Boone I
Joseph Boone
James Boone
Mary Boone I