of October. The Boones went first to Abingdon, the Quaker
farmers' community. Later they moved to the northwestern frontier
hamlet of North Wales, a Welsh community which, a few years
previously, had turned Quaker. Sarah Boone married a German named
Jacob Stover, who had settled in Oley Township, Berks County. In
1718 George Boone took up four hundred acres in Oley, or, to be
exact, in the subdivision later called Exeter, and there he lived
in his log cabin until 1744, when he died at the age of
seventy-eight. He left eight children, fifty-two grandchildren,
and ten greatgrandchildren, seventy descendants in all--English,
German, Welsh, and Scotch-Irish blended into one family of
Americans.*

* R. G. Thwaites, "Daniel Boone", p. 5.


Among the Welsh Quakers was a family of Morgans. In 1720 Squire
Boone married Sarah Morgan. Ten years later he obtained 250 acres
in Oley on Owatin Creek, eight miles southeast of the present
city of Reading; and here, in 1734, Daniel Boone was born, the
fourth son and sixth child of Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone.
Daniel Boone therefore was a son of the frontier. In his
childhood he became familiar with hunters and with Indians, for
even the red men came often in friendly fashion to his
grandfather's house. Squire Boone enlarged his farm by thrift. He
continued at his trade of weaving and kept five or six looms
going, making homespun cloth for the market and his neighbors.

Daniel's father owned grazing grounds several miles north of the
homestead and each season he sent his stock to the range. Sarah