Levica Boone

Levica married William Lawfield about 1838. William was born about 1818; died after 1838. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1816, Callaway Co, Missouri

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Complete list of their children:
1. Delinda m James Craig
2. Jemima m Henry Zumwalt
3. Susan m Joseph Van Bibber
4. Nancy
5. Olive m Phil Anthony
6. Benjamin m Mary Stallard
7. John Coburn m Molly Wardlow
8. Levica m William Cawlfield
9. Sarah m Winfield Wright
10. Mahalia m Robert C. Printy
11. Mela
12. James (b Jul 1800) m Polly Allen
13. Melcina m James Howard and Franklin T. Frazier
14. Mary (b 22 Jan 1822; d 13 jun 1915 - Ashgrove, Green Co, KY; m Alfred Hosman on 23 Apr 1841.

children were born in what is today Kentucky(?)
Son of Daniel Boone, Nathan looked after Daniel in his golden years. He married Olive Van Bibber as they joined Daniel in opening up Missouri after Kentucky had "become too crowed." Nathan and Olive settled in the St. Charles, MO area until after the death of Daniel.
After posting bond for a local politician who skipped town, Nathan joined the army based on fianancial need. Nathan was posted in Iowa, Kansas and the New Indian Territory, later called Oklahoma. He moved his family to the Ashgrove, Missouri ea just outside Springfield, Missouri to be closer to his post.

Residence:
Joseph Evans (a Lawyer)& Col Nathan Boone (youngest son of Daniel Boone) surveyed and sectionalized Callaway Co MO.

(Joseph Evans was son of Jesse Evans and Elizabeth Breckenridge, dau of Geo Breckenridge & AnnDoak)

Nathan married Olive Van Bibber on 26 Sep 1799 in Litty Sandy, Greenbriar Co, Kentucky. Olive (daughter of Peter Van Bibber, II and Margery Bounds) was born on 13 Jan 1783 in Kanawha Co, Virginia; died on 12 Nov 1858 in Ashgrove, Greene Co, Missouri; was buried in Nathan Boone Fam Cem, Ashgrove, Greene Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Blazing The Way West: Daniel Boone & Davy Crockett
http://www.letsfindout.com/subjects/america/frntrmen.html

Boone, born Nov. 2, 1734, in Pennsylvania, opened up Kentucky for settlement between 1767 and 1784. He founded towns, served in the legislature, and became the most famous hunter and explorer of his time. As new settlers moved into the land he had opened, Boone moved further west and finally died in Missouri on Sept. 26, 1820.

Encarta:
Boone, Daniel (1734-1820), American pioneer, who played a major part in the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. Boone was born near Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1753 his family settled in a primitive settlement in what is now North Carolina, where Boone became a skillful hunter and trapper.

Boone set out to explore the wilderness around the Kentucky River, making the first of many trips into the region in 1767. Between 1769 and 1771, he explored eastern Kentucky, following a trail through the Cumberland Gap. In 1775, having been engaged by a Carolina trading company to establish a road by which settlers could reach Kentucky, he built a fort on the site of Boonesborough. The road established by Boone was later called the Wilderness Road. The settlement at Boonesborough was eventually established as a permanent village.

Daniel married Rebecca Ann Bryan on 14 Aug 1756 in Rowan Co, North Carolina. Rebecca (daughter of Joseph Bryan, Sr and Hester Hamdon (or Hampton)) was born on 9 Jan 1739 in Winchester, Frederick Co, Virginia; died on 18 Mar 1813 in Defiance, St.Charles Co, Missouri; was buried in Old Bryan Farm Cem, Marthasville, Warren Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Wikipedia:
She was born near Winchester, Virginia. Her father was Joseph Bryan, Sr. but there is no clear documentation as to her birth mother. Some[who?] say her mother, Hester Hampton, died in childbirth, and that Alice (or Aylee) Linville, Bryan's second wife, raised her.

Early American Pioneer. She is best remembered as the wife of famed American pioneer and frontiersman Daniel Boone. While no actual portrait of her exists when she was living, people who knew her said that when she met her future husband, she was nearly his height and very attractive with black hair and dark eyes. Born Rebecca Ann Bryan, at the age of 10 she moved with her Quaker grandparents, Morgan and Martha Bryan, to the Yadkin River Valley in the backwoods of North Carolina where she met and courted Daniel Boone in 1753 and married him three years later at the age of 17. This union would product ten children. Additionally, she took in her new husband's two young orphan nephews, who lived with them in North Carolina until the family left for Kentucky in 1773. Without any formal education, she was reputed to be an experienced community midwife, the family doctor, leather tanner, sharpshooter, and linen-maker, resourceful and independent in the isolated wilderness areas that she and her large, combined family often found themselves. In the autumn of 1773, she came through the Cumberland Gap with her family and fifty others under the leadership of William Russell, though they were turned back by the violent resistance by Native Americans to British colonization west of the Allegheny Mountains. In 1775 her husband brought the family to the Kentucky River where, on behalf of the Transylvania Company, he and Richard Henderson laid out Fort Boonesborough. In May 1778 she left Kentucky under a cloud of rumors that her husband, who had been capture by the Chilicothe Shawnee Native American tribe, had turned Tory. She returned to her parents' settlement in North Carolina with five of her children, leaving behind her daughter Jemima who by then had married. In June 1778 her husband escaped his captors and returned to his family in North Carolina and finally convinced her to leave again for Kentucky, this time with nearly 100 of their relatives. They departed in September 1779, the largest emigration to date to travel through the Cumberland Gap. By late October 1779, they reached Fort Boonesborough but conditions were so bad that they left on Christmas Day, during what Kentuckians later called the "Hard Winter," to found a new settlement, Boone's Station, with 15 to 20 families on Boone's Creek about six miles northwest (near what is now Athens, Kentucky). By the following spring, she and her husband moved to a cabin several miles southwest on Marble Creek. In 1781 she lived in a double cabin with five of her children still living at home, the six children of her widowed uncle James Bryan, as well as her daughter Susannah with her husband, and with 2 to 3 children of their own, a household of almost 20 people. In 1783 she and her family moved where for the next few years she assisted her husband in creating a landing site at the mouth of Limestone Creek for flatboats coming down the Ohio River from Fort Pitt in Pennsylvania. They lived in a cabin built out of an old boat (on what is now Front Street in Maysville, Kentucky) and she ran the tavern kitchen and oversaw the seven slaves they owned. In 1787 he husband was elected to the Virginia legislature as Bourbon County's representative, and she moved with him to Richmond, Virginia and their youngest child, leaving the tavern in the hands of their daughter Rebecca and husband Philip Goe. In 1788 they moved to Point Pleasant (now in West Virginia) in the Kanawha Valley, settling on the south side of the river almost opposite the mouth of Campbell's Creek. In 1799 they followed their youngest son Nathan to Spain's Alta Louisiana (Upper Louisiana, now Missouri, about 45 miles west/northwest of Saint Louis) in the Femme Osage Valley. She died there after a brief illness at the age of 74 in the home of her daughter Jemima Boone Callaway and was interred at the nearby Old Bryan Family Cemetery, on the bank of Tuque Creek near Marthasville, Missouri. In 1845 her remains, along with her husband's (reportedly) were disinterred and reburied in Frankfort, Kentucky. (bio by: William Bjornstad)
findagrave

Died:
After a brief illness, Rebecca Boone died at the age of 74 on March 18, 1813, at her daughter Jemima Boone Callaway's home near the village of Charette (near present-day Marthasville, Missouri). She was buried at the Bryan family cemetery nearby overlooking the Missouri River. She and her husband's remains were reinterred and buried again in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1845.
Wikipedia

Notes:

1767 Pittsylsvania CO VA tax list of Hugh Innes-
John, Peter and Isaac Van Bibber listed. Next to Peter and Isaac Van Bibber are Veath Dillingham with negro Jeany 2 taxables;
James Rentfro Sr. & Joseph Rentfro and Peter Rentfro 3 taxables
James Rentfro Jr. also listed.
John Calloway negroes- Flemen, Asher, Nan and Nell.
William and Joshua Dillingham 2 taxables.
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after death of his brother Isaac, 1774, he adoped and raised one or more of Isaac's children.

March 22 1786 Greenbrier County Court Records Vol 1780-1786 P 463. Peter VanBibber appointed Guardian. They did move to southwest Va. in 1786. [NOTE: John VanBibber being appointed Lt of the County Militia May 11 1786 in Russell County is how I found them.]

Peter married Margery Bounds in 1756 in Lunenburg Co, Virginia. Margery (daughter of James Bounds and Ann (Dykes) Dicks) was born in 1740 in Maryland; died in 1844 in Charles Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Squire Boone came to America in 1713 when he was 18 with a brother and a sister. The three were sent by their father, George Boone of the town of Bradninch, near Exeter, England. The Boones were members of the Society of Friends. The wento the town of Abington, twelve miles north of Philadelphia. (From the book, DANIEL BOONE, by John Mack Faragher in 1992.
(WFT V 2, 3979)

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Squire Boone was born in Bradninch, Exeter, Devonshire, England to George Boone III & Mary Milton Maugridge; he had the following siblings: George Boone IV, Sarah Boone Stover, Mary Boone b. in 1694 d. 1696; Mary Boone b. 1699 d. 1744, John Boone, Joseph Boone, Benjamin Boone, James Boone, & Samuel Boone.

Squire married Sarah Morgan 23 July 1720 at the Gwynned Meeting of Quakers, Berks Co, Pennsylvania. Squire died 2 January 1765 and Sarah died 1777; both buried at Mocksville, North Carolina.

They had the following children: Sarah Cassandra, Israel Boone (buried at Joppa Cem.), Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth Boone Grant, Daniel Boone (famous pioneer), Jacob, Mary Boone Bryan, George W., Edward, Nathaniel, Squire Boone Jr., and Hannah Boone Stewart Pennington.

Squire had accompanied his brother George, and his sister, Sarah, to America ahead of their parents.
(findagrave http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8318855 )

Squire married Sarah Morgan on 23 Jul 1720 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania. Sarah (daughter of Edward Morgan, (immigrant) and Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?)) was born in 1700 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1777 in Mocksville, Rowan Co, North Carolina; was buried in Joppa Cem, Mocksville, Rowan Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 12 Apr 1744, Frederick Co, Virginia; from Alex Ross

Notes:

(WFT Vol 2, No 3979)
Joseph Bryan was the first of our direct Bryan ancestors to be born in America. Some reccords indicate the year as 1719 and others show 1720. Born in Chester County, PA, Joseph lived there until 1734 when he moved with his family to Virginia. is father, a leader in the formation of a new Quaker settlelment at Frederick Town (now winchester), was one of the builders of "The Hopewell Monthly Meeting of Frederick".

It was here in about 1737 that Joseph first married and the name of his wife remains unknown. They probably had only two children, both daughters, and the best guess is that the first was Martha, born about 1737 and named for Joseph's mother. Rebecca, the second daughter, was born 9 January 1739.

Most biographers of the Bryan family appear to have been unaware of Joseph's first family and have attributed all of his children to his second wife known as "Aylee." Her real name was Alice (as proven by legal documents) and her surname was probably Linville. "Aylee" was no doubt a family nickname. This oversight will no doubt be perpetuated forever, because some researchers use material distributed or published in the past as factual. The clue to the fact that Joseph was married twice can be found on page 508 of Hazel Atterbury Spraker's "The Boone Family," published in 1922. Then on page 509 of this book, Joseph Bryan, Jr. states that he was the half brother of Daniel Boone's wife (Rebecca). None of the numerous volumes in our collection of Boone family history contain this vital information. Bobbie Callaway, historian for the Callaway Family Assocaition, has long suspected that Martha and Rebecca Bryan were the offsprings of a first wife, and that Joseph Jr. was not the oldest son of Joseph, as has been published over and over. As one of the most competent reseasrchers it has been our privilege of knowing, Bobbie has gathered sufficient data to show Joseph Jr., who lived to age 92, was born about 1752 when Rebecca was approximately 13 years old.

Before the Reolutionary War most eligible men served in the Colonial Militia when called upon to do so, and Joseph was no exception. In Augusta County Virginia Court records dated 15 September 1742, we find the following entry: "Joseph Bryan delinquent at muster of Capt. Hugh Thompson at Court Martial. Later excused when returned bearing Arms".

The first deed recorded in Frederick Co., VA, dated 13 April 1744, shows that Joseph Bryan purchased land from Alexander Ross. We presume that Joseph and his young family lived in the Winchester area of Frederick County until his first wife died.

Indications are that Joseph then moved up the Shenandoah Valley to Augusta County with his father and the rest of the family in about 1746, where he married his second wife Alice. He remained here after Morgan Bryan and family moved to North Carolina on 1748, probably because of his new family ties. It is believed, however, that his two daughters, Martha and Rebecca went to North Carolina with their grandparents and lived with them until both were married. This part in the life of Rebecca no doubt gave rise to the erroneous assumption that Morgan and Martha (Strode) Bryan were her parents.

We believe that Joseph and Alice lived in Virginia until about 1755 where their first two children, Samuel and Joseph Jr., were born, and then decided to join the rest of the Bryan Family in North Carolina. An Augusta County Court record dated 20 March 1755 stated that Daniel Harrison initiated a suit against Joseph Bryan regarding an attachment levied on Joseph before his removal from the County. This attachment assured Harrison of collecting any debts when Joseph's property was sold.

Once in North Carolina, Joseph settled in what is now Davie County and seems to have prospered. He was described by George Soelle, a Moravian minister who preached in many parts of the County, as a "well-to-do polite and affable man who cannot read, but well-to-do." He lieved here for about 43 years where the rest of his family was born and grew up.

By this time much of his family had moved to Kentucky, and even at the age of about 78 undertook his last big venture. He and Alice moved to Kentucky in 1798 where two of his sons and a son-in-law had established large plantations. He acquired an estate of about 14,000 acres at Floy's Fork, Shelby County. He died early in 1805 at age 85 in Jefferson County and left a will dated 20 Nov. 1804 in which he names his second wife and all of his surviving children, including his daughter Rebecca Boone. The will follows:

Jefferson County, KY
will Book 1, p. 158.

In the name of God Amen; I Joseph Bryan of the County of Jefferson, State of Kentucky, being weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory, blessed be almighty God for the same, do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say) after my lawful debts are settled I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Alee a gray mare, a bed and furniture and thirty dollars, either cash or property. I also bequeath to my sons, Samuel, Joseph and John Bryan the sum of fifty dollars each, either cash or property. I also give and bequeath unto my youngest son John Bryan one negro man names James and all the farming tools. I also bequeath unto my daughters Martha Boon and Rebecca Boon the sum of twenty dollars each, either cash or property. I also give unto my other daughts, Mary Howard, Susanna Hinkle, Aylee Howard, Phoebe Forbis and Charity Davis the sum of fity dollars each. I also give and bequeath unto my daughter Elinor Adams a negro woman named Jean. I also give to my grand daughter Aylee Adams one negro girl named Sarah. I also give and bequeath unto my grandson Noah Adams one negro boy named Sapio. I also give unto my grandson Jacob Adams one negro boy named Bob. I also give and bequeath unto my grandson Wilah Adams a negro girl named Lottie. And Ido hereby appoint my two sons Joseph and John Bryan executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills sand testaments made by me. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentieth day of November 1804.
Joseph Bryan (Seal)
Signed, sealed and published as his last will and testament in the presence of us: Edward Cox Sr., David Enochs, Ephraim Hampton

Property:
Alexander (Ross) (b. 1682 c.) sold a 214-acre section of patent land . . . to Joseph Bryan on 12 April 1744.
Alexander Ross was his father's partner.

Joseph married Hester Hamdon (or Hampton) about 1736. Hester was born about 1720; died about 1739. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He had land on the Pigg River near Stephen Cole, James Cole, John Cole, and Mark Cole.

mentioned by sister-in-law Mary FitzRandolph in execution of Jacob Van Bibber's estate.1733 as bro of her husband Jacob

Peter's sons, Peter, John, and Isaac, fought in the Battle of Point Pleasant at Point Pleasant, Mason County, Virginia against Indians under the command of Cornstalk. This battle has often been recognized as the first battle of the American Revolution. Isaac died in the battle. John was a Captain and served in Indian wars, Dunmore's War, Colonial wars, and the Revolutionary War. Peter Jr. died in Mason County and John died in Kanawha County, Virginia.

The husband of Peters daughter Brigetta was killed by Indians. Brigetta was taken prisoner.

Peter* married Ann* Henriette Gooding about 1715 in Cecil Co, Maryland. Ann* was born on 3 Feb 1696 in Pennsylvania; died after 1738 in Cecil Co, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

one source says her last name Goodin, but most have unk for her last name.

James married Ann (Dykes) Dicks about 1721 in Bedford Co, Virginia. Ann was born in 1700 in Dorchester, Maryland; died in 1740 in Bedford, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]