Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
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Birth22 Mar 1736, Exeter Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania
Death1805, Shelby Co., Kentucky
OccupationGunsmith
FatherSamuel Boone (1711-1745)
MotherElizabeth Cassell (~1707-)
Marriage14 Oct 1760
ChildrenJohn (Died as Infant) (1761-1763)
Notes for Samuel (Spouse 1)
This Samuel Boone was the son of Samuel and grandson of old George Boone. During the Revolutionary War, he filled large contracts with Congress for guns and lost all he possessed by the operation; and in the fall of 1783 emigrated to Kentucky. He spent most of the year 1787 among the Chickasaw Indians, working at his trade. He settled in Shelby County, Kentucky, and there died about 1809 at a good old age. He was the father-in-law of the venerable Judge Moses Boone of Indiana and grandfather of the present Col. William P. Boone, a prominent attorney of law of Louisville, Kentucky.
Draper's notes, p. 180 #16:
11251762 The following was posted to the Boone-L list on Wed, 27 Mar 2002 by Shirley Middleton-Moller. It is an excerpt from The Boone Family by Hazel Atterbury Spraker:
Sometime at about this period, probably during their stay in Maryland, Sarah (Morgan) Boone took her youngest son Squire back to Pennsylvania on a visit. The entire journey was made on horseback, stopping to camp at night. It is not known how long Sarah remained, but she returned home without her son, whom she left in Pennsylvania as an apprentice to his cousin Samuel Boone (No. 58) to learn the gunsmith trade.
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http://www.aths.com/whoWasHiramCBoone.html
SAMUEL BOONE, B. 22 MARCH 1736, THE GUNSMITH
Hawthorne, in her article about the Boones in Kentucky, speaks of the relationships between this Samuel and his cousins, Squire Boone and Squires' brother, Daniel. Samuel Boone's first wife was a Rachel Coles, "probably" a daughter of Dinah Boone and Daniel Coles. Rachel had died in 1763 and their only child, John, died a month later. About three years later Samuel married his cousin, Jane Hughes. Both Hawthorne and Mrs. Spraker call her a cousin to Samuel - indeed Hawthorne cites Mrs. Spraker's book as one of her sources, but Hawthorne goes into some detail and also cites an autobiography of Hiram C. Boone owned by Mrs. Ellen Boone Blakey (said to be a grand daughter, being a daughter of Hiram C. Boone, Jr.)
Hawthorne further states that Samuel moved to Maryland, where he established a gunlock factory, at Frederick town, which he operated for Maryland during the Revolution. She cites "Maryland Archives, Vol. 12, p. 327." As he was paid with continental script he lost his fortune. Arthur Hopkins, on his website, cites Lyman C. Draper's The Life of Daniel Boone when he writes that young Squire Boone, the son of Squire Boone, Sr. (and the youngest brother of the famed Daniel Boone) was apprenticed to "his cousin, Samuel Boone, a gunsmith, to learn the trade", when old Squire Boone and family removed in 1750 from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. Many of these citations can be found on Hopkins' website and are fascinating.
According to Bess Hawthorne, Samuel Boone, the gunsmith, moved to Kentucky in 1783, settling on the Salt River, in what is now Shelby County. "In 1787 with his cousin and warm personal friend, Squire Boone Jr., he went via the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to Chickasaw Bluffs at the mouth of the Yazoo River (near Vicksburg, Mississippi). They were warned of the Indian danger in that area. Samuel lived alone with the Indians, the first white in that region, while his cousin Squire moved on to New Orleans, eventually returning to Kentucky. After working about a year in his gun smithing trade among the Indians (according to Spraker) Samuel returned to his Kentucky home in 1788, there to remain the rest of his life."
Hawthorne writes, "After his death in Shelby County, Kentucky in 1805, Samuel Boone's widow, Jane Hughes Boone, with all her family, except two married daughters, went with Squire Boone to Indiana, settling in Harrison County about ten miles south of the town of Corydon, which later became the Capital of that state (actually the territorial capital). Through her family Jane Hughes Boone became a factor in the founding of Indiana. Her daughter, Hannah, with whom she made her home had married Moses Boone (son of Squire)." Moses Boone became a judge of the Probate Court, under whose direction was constructed the first State House, built of stone, which still stands in Corydon. Samuel and Jane Boone's son, John Hughes Boone, was a member of the Indiana constitutional convention; their son, George Boone, became a state senator; their son, Hiram Cassel Boone, while yet a boy, was commissioned captain by General William Henry Harrison, in 1811, and sent with a company against the Indians. Jane Hughes Boone lived to see Hiram rise to the rank of colonel of the 5th regiment of the Indiana Militia. About 1806, the Boones built a Baptist church one of the earliest churches of the State. "Though of logs, it still stands (in 1982) in good condition, a protecting monument to the clustering of graves of its church yard. Its site was the home farm of Moses and Hannah Boone, and here lie the remains of Jane Hughes Boone."
It is interesting to note that Hazel Spraker stated that Jane Hughes Boone died in Kentucky "at the home of her daughter, Hannah, who was wife of Moses Boone where she was known as 'Little Granny' to distinguish her from 'Big Granny', who was Jane (Van Cleve) Boone, wife of Squire Boone."10 I feel that Bess Hawthorne's information is correct and can be supported by my friend, Ludella Eginger. I can see Moses Boone and John Boone mentioned in Fred Porter Griffin's pamphlet, Harrison County's Earliest Years as being early settlers in Harrison County. Mr. Griffin names "three judges appointed to the Court of Common Pleas" by Governor Harrison on Dec. 8, 1808; Patrick Shields, John George Pfrimmer and Moses Boone. Griffin wrote that the Court of Common Pleas transcribed the major portion of the county's business, only one part of which was Probate Court. I would imagine that much evidence exists in old Harrison County, Indiana records to support more fully the story of the Boones. This short article only scratches the surface.
CHILDREN OF SAMUEL AND JANE HUGHES BOONE Rachel Boone b. 17 September 1767, married Alexander Merrifield Hannah Boone b. 6 Feb 1770m. Moses Boone, son of Squire Boone (Daniel's brother) John Hughes Boone b. 10 Feb 1772 William Boone b. 5 October 1774. Editor's note: This seems to be the same man buried near his brother in the Boone Cemetery at Little Bend, Meade County, Kentucky. He d. 14 Feb 1854. George Washington Boone b. 6 March 1777 Samuel Boone b. 6 October 1779 Susanna Boone m. Gabriel Kirkpatrick Elizabeth Boone m. a Mr. Hayden Hiram Cassel Boone, b. 3 July 178911
Draper's notes, p. 180 #16:
11251762 The following was posted to the Boone-L list on Wed, 27 Mar 2002 by Shirley Middleton-Moller. It is an excerpt from The Boone Family by Hazel Atterbury Spraker:
Sometime at about this period, probably during their stay in Maryland, Sarah (Morgan) Boone took her youngest son Squire back to Pennsylvania on a visit. The entire journey was made on horseback, stopping to camp at night. It is not known how long Sarah remained, but she returned home without her son, whom she left in Pennsylvania as an apprentice to his cousin Samuel Boone (No. 58) to learn the gunsmith trade.
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http://www.aths.com/whoWasHiramCBoone.html
SAMUEL BOONE, B. 22 MARCH 1736, THE GUNSMITH
Hawthorne, in her article about the Boones in Kentucky, speaks of the relationships between this Samuel and his cousins, Squire Boone and Squires' brother, Daniel. Samuel Boone's first wife was a Rachel Coles, "probably" a daughter of Dinah Boone and Daniel Coles. Rachel had died in 1763 and their only child, John, died a month later. About three years later Samuel married his cousin, Jane Hughes. Both Hawthorne and Mrs. Spraker call her a cousin to Samuel - indeed Hawthorne cites Mrs. Spraker's book as one of her sources, but Hawthorne goes into some detail and also cites an autobiography of Hiram C. Boone owned by Mrs. Ellen Boone Blakey (said to be a grand daughter, being a daughter of Hiram C. Boone, Jr.)
Hawthorne further states that Samuel moved to Maryland, where he established a gunlock factory, at Frederick town, which he operated for Maryland during the Revolution. She cites "Maryland Archives, Vol. 12, p. 327." As he was paid with continental script he lost his fortune. Arthur Hopkins, on his website, cites Lyman C. Draper's The Life of Daniel Boone when he writes that young Squire Boone, the son of Squire Boone, Sr. (and the youngest brother of the famed Daniel Boone) was apprenticed to "his cousin, Samuel Boone, a gunsmith, to learn the trade", when old Squire Boone and family removed in 1750 from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. Many of these citations can be found on Hopkins' website and are fascinating.
According to Bess Hawthorne, Samuel Boone, the gunsmith, moved to Kentucky in 1783, settling on the Salt River, in what is now Shelby County. "In 1787 with his cousin and warm personal friend, Squire Boone Jr., he went via the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to Chickasaw Bluffs at the mouth of the Yazoo River (near Vicksburg, Mississippi). They were warned of the Indian danger in that area. Samuel lived alone with the Indians, the first white in that region, while his cousin Squire moved on to New Orleans, eventually returning to Kentucky. After working about a year in his gun smithing trade among the Indians (according to Spraker) Samuel returned to his Kentucky home in 1788, there to remain the rest of his life."
Hawthorne writes, "After his death in Shelby County, Kentucky in 1805, Samuel Boone's widow, Jane Hughes Boone, with all her family, except two married daughters, went with Squire Boone to Indiana, settling in Harrison County about ten miles south of the town of Corydon, which later became the Capital of that state (actually the territorial capital). Through her family Jane Hughes Boone became a factor in the founding of Indiana. Her daughter, Hannah, with whom she made her home had married Moses Boone (son of Squire)." Moses Boone became a judge of the Probate Court, under whose direction was constructed the first State House, built of stone, which still stands in Corydon. Samuel and Jane Boone's son, John Hughes Boone, was a member of the Indiana constitutional convention; their son, George Boone, became a state senator; their son, Hiram Cassel Boone, while yet a boy, was commissioned captain by General William Henry Harrison, in 1811, and sent with a company against the Indians. Jane Hughes Boone lived to see Hiram rise to the rank of colonel of the 5th regiment of the Indiana Militia. About 1806, the Boones built a Baptist church one of the earliest churches of the State. "Though of logs, it still stands (in 1982) in good condition, a protecting monument to the clustering of graves of its church yard. Its site was the home farm of Moses and Hannah Boone, and here lie the remains of Jane Hughes Boone."
It is interesting to note that Hazel Spraker stated that Jane Hughes Boone died in Kentucky "at the home of her daughter, Hannah, who was wife of Moses Boone where she was known as 'Little Granny' to distinguish her from 'Big Granny', who was Jane (Van Cleve) Boone, wife of Squire Boone."10 I feel that Bess Hawthorne's information is correct and can be supported by my friend, Ludella Eginger. I can see Moses Boone and John Boone mentioned in Fred Porter Griffin's pamphlet, Harrison County's Earliest Years as being early settlers in Harrison County. Mr. Griffin names "three judges appointed to the Court of Common Pleas" by Governor Harrison on Dec. 8, 1808; Patrick Shields, John George Pfrimmer and Moses Boone. Griffin wrote that the Court of Common Pleas transcribed the major portion of the county's business, only one part of which was Probate Court. I would imagine that much evidence exists in old Harrison County, Indiana records to support more fully the story of the Boones. This short article only scratches the surface.
CHILDREN OF SAMUEL AND JANE HUGHES BOONE Rachel Boone b. 17 September 1767, married Alexander Merrifield Hannah Boone b. 6 Feb 1770m. Moses Boone, son of Squire Boone (Daniel's brother) John Hughes Boone b. 10 Feb 1772 William Boone b. 5 October 1774. Editor's note: This seems to be the same man buried near his brother in the Boone Cemetery at Little Bend, Meade County, Kentucky. He d. 14 Feb 1854. George Washington Boone b. 6 March 1777 Samuel Boone b. 6 October 1779 Susanna Boone m. Gabriel Kirkpatrick Elizabeth Boone m. a Mr. Hayden Hiram Cassel Boone, b. 3 July 178911