Mocksville in Davie County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

The Boone Family in Davie County

Photographed by Michael C. Wilcox, March 3, 2012

1. The Boone Family in Davie County Marker

Inscription.

The Boone Family in Davie County. . On 04 October 1750, Squire Boone received a Land Warrant and Survey for a 640-acre tract "lying...upon Grant's Creek, alias Lickon (Licking) Creek" in present Davie County. He received a grant for this 640 acres on the present Elisha and Dutchman creeks 30 April 1753 and a second grant on Bear Creek 29 December 1753. (A roadside marker locates this Bear Creek site on Highway 64 west.)

Eleven children of Squire and Sarah (Morgan) Boone all came and lived in present Davie County. They were Sarah (Boone) Wilcockson, Israel, Samuel, Jonathan, Elizabeth (Boone) Grant, Daniel, Mary (Boone) Bryan, George, Edward, Squire (Jr.), and Hannah (Boone) Stewart Pennington.

Squire Boone's nephew, John Boone (1727-1803), and wife Rebecca (Bryan?) Boone (c1735-1820) received a 630-acre grant on Hunting Creek 21 December 1753. Their nine children were born there. Most of this family migrated to Tennessee, though some of their descendants lived at this Hunting Creek site until the 1850's and some distant relatives still live in Davie County.

In addition to Squire and Sarah Boone, John and Rebecca Boone and John Wilcockson are buried here in Joppa Cemetery in unmarked graves. Israel Boone and his wife are probably buried here also.

Squire and Sarah Boone deeded the Elisha and Dutchman Creeks grant to son Squire Jr. on 12 October 1759. On the same day they also deeded the Bear Creek tract to Daniel and Rebecca.

Daniel Boone (1734-1820), son of Squire and Sarah Boone, married Rebecca Bryan (1739-1813) in Davie County on 14 August 1756. For some eight years, from about 1756 until about 1764, they lived on what was probably Bryan property in the forks of Sugar (tree) Creek in eastern Davie County.

Only tradition locates this homesite. Their first two sons, James and Israel, were born there. Though Daniel farmed some, he was primarily engaged in hunting and trapping. He is said to have killed as many as thirty deer a day, selling the hides in Salisbury, North Carolina.

Daniel and Rebecca moved to Wilkes County, North Carolina, about 1764. In 1773 an attempted settlement of Kentucky failed because of a Shawnee Indian attack and the murder of Daniel's 16-year-old son James and five other youths. Daniel and Rebecca with most of their relatives and many friends migrated permanently to Kentucky in 1779.

Daniel Boone, the archetypal frontiersman, acquired in Davie County the experience, endurance, resourcefulness, and expertness with the rifle which enabled him to become the great explorer and pioneer settler of the trans-Appalachian American West.

Erected by the Committee for the 250th Anniversary of Daniel Boone's Birthday, Inc., Howell Boone, Chairman

On 04 October 1750, Squire Boone received a Land Warrant and Survey for a 640-acre tract "lying...upon Grant's Creek, alias Lickon (Licking) Creek" in present Davie County. He received a grant for this 640 acres on the present Elisha and Dutchman creeks 30 April 1753 and a second grant on Bear Creek 29 December 1753. (A roadside marker locates this Bear Creek site on Highway 64 west.)

In addition to Squire and Sarah Boone, John and Rebecca Boone and John Wilcockson are buried here in Joppa Cemetery in unmarked graves. Israel Boone and his wife are probably buried here also.

Squire and Sarah Boone deeded the Elisha and Dutchman Creeks grant to son Squire Jr. on 12 October 1759.

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On the same day they also deeded the Bear Creek tract to Daniel and Rebecca.

Erected by the Committee for the 250th Anniversary of Daniel Boone's Birthday, Inc., Howell Boone, Chairman

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Photographed by Michael C. Wilcox, March 3, 2012

2. The Boone Family in Davie County Marker

Map on the marker appears to be based on the Lagle Land Grant Map (see link on this page).

Committee for the 250th Anniversary of Daniel Boone's Birthday.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers. A significant historical date for this entry is April 30, 1753.

Location. 35° 54.54′ N, 80° 34.62′ W. Marker is in Mocksville, North Carolina, in Davie County. It can be reached from Yadkinsville Road. Located in Joppa Cemetery. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Mocksville NC 27028, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in North Carolina’s Piedmont.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: In 1827 (within shouting distance of this marker); Basil Gaither (within shouting distance of this marker); First United Methodist Church (approx. 1.2 miles away); Kurfees & Ward Pure Oil Shop (approx. 1.3 miles away); J.T. Angell Building (approx. 1.3 miles away); Princess Theatre (approx. 1.3 miles away); Hanes - Johnson Building (approx. 1.3 miles away); Horn-Harding Building (approx. 1.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Mocksville.

Another marker is no longer nearby. Daniel Boone's Parents (was about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line but has been replaced with another marker now near it).

Additional commentary.
1. My Ancestors
John and Sarah (Boone) Wilcockson

Photographed by Michael C. Wilcox, March 3, 2012

3. The Boone Family in Davie County Marker

Located beside the graves of Daniel Boone's parents, Squire and Sarah Boone.

are my g-g-g-g-g-g-great grandparents.

— Submitted March 4, 2012, by Michael C. Wilcox of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Graves of Squire and Sarah Boone image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Michael C. Wilcox, March 3, 2012

4. Graves of Squire and Sarah Boone

Israel Boone grave image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Michael C. Wilcox, March 3, 2012

5. Israel Boone grave

located beside this marker

Entrance to Joppa Cemetery image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Michael C. Wilcox, March 3, 2012

6. Entrance to Joppa Cemetery

Credits. This page was last revised on March 23, 2021. It was originally submitted on March 4, 2012, by Michael C. Wilcox of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 3,597 times since then and 119 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on March 4, 2012, by Michael C. Wilcox of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.