Boone and Relatives

• Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] – September 26, 1820)
• Rebecca Ann (Bryan) Boone (January 9, 1739 – March 18, 1813)
• married on August 14, 1756 (she was 17, he was 21)
  
  Over twenty-five years time, she delivered six sons and four daughters of her own:
  
  
  • 3 May 1757 - James (died 10 October 1773, Clinch Mountains, VA)
  • 25 January 1759 - Israel (died 19 August 1782, Blue Licks, KY)
  • 2 November 1760 - Susannah (died 19 October 1800)
  • 4 October 1762 - Jemima (died 30 August 1829, Montgomery County, MO)
  • 23 March 1766 - Levina (died 6 April 1802, Clark County, KY)
  • 26 May 1768 - Rebecca (died 14 July 1805, Clark County, KY)
  • 23 December 1769 - Daniel Morgan (died 13 July 1839, Jackson County, MO)
  • 23 May 1773 - Jesse Bryan (died 22 December 1820)
  • 20 June 1775 - William Bryan (died 1775)
  • 3 February 1781 - Nathaniel or Nathan (died 16 October 1856, Greene County, MO)
  
  
  
• Nathan Boone married Olive Van Bibber in 1799 (he was 18, she was ...?)
  
  
• Relatives outside children:
  
  
  • Squire Maugridge Boone Jr., Squire Boone Jr., or Squire Boone (October 5, 1744 – August 5, 1815) was an American frontiersman, longhunter, soldier, city planner, politician, land locator, judge, politician, gunsmith, miller, and brother of Daniel Boone. On August 8, 1765, he married Jane Van Cleave, whose father was of Dutch heritage. Together, the couple had five children. (he was 20, she was ...?)
    
    
  • Levi Day Boone (December 6, 1808 – January 24, 1882) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1855–1856) for the American Party (Know-Nothings). ... Boone was born near Lexington, Kentucky, the seventh son of Squire and Anna Grubbs Boone. His father, Squire Boone, was a younger brother of Daniel Boone's, making Levi Boone Daniel Boone's nephew. In 1833, Dr. Boone married Louise M. Smith, daughter of Theophilus W. Smith, Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, with whom he had 11 children. (he was 25, she was ...?)
    
    
  • Daniel Morgan (July 6, 1736 – July 6, 1802) was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia. One of the most gifted battlefield tacticians of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), he later commanded troops during the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion (1791–1794). ... All four of his grandparents were Welsh immigrants who lived in Pennsylvania.[4] Morgan was the fifth of seven children of James Morgan (1702–1782) and Eleanor Lloyd (1706–1748). When Morgan was 17, he left home following a fight with his father. After working at odd jobs in Pennsylvania, he moved to the Shenandoah Valley. He finally settled on the Virginia frontier, near what is now Winchester, Virginia. ... Morgan had served as a civilian teamster during the French and Indian War, with his cousin Daniel Boone.

Men:

• 1) within one year
• 2) 7 days and 5 months over 16 years
• 3) 25 days and 6 months over 21 years
• 4) 29 days and 6 months over 47 years
• 5) Full years, 66 years
• 6) 20 days 6 months over 69 years
• 7) 10 months over 70 years
• 8) 1 month, 18 days over 73 years
• 9) 13 days, 8 months over 75 years
• 10) Unknown dates, 80 years
• 11) 10 months, 24 days over 85 years

Median 69 years and a half.

Women:

• 1) 14 days over 36 years
• 2) 18 days, one month over 37 years
• 3) 17 days, 11 months over 39 years
• 4) Unknown dates, 42 years
• 5) 26 days, 10 months over 66 years
• 6) 2 months, 9 days over 74 years.

Median between 40 and 42 years.

I'd consider Daniel Morgan no big friend of mine, since he invaded Canada (which was slave free or becoming so) and since he killed people to tax them. A bit like Gustavus Wasa over taxing Churches, though the latter was more horrid, since sacrilegious.

Note very well, here the discrepancy between ladies and gentlemen is more notable than in 16th Century German Princes and Feudal Lords.

But only one child dying out of 11 in infancy (for the Boone couple) belies the infant mortality often presented as very high in pre-modern times. Probably, in the backwoods there was very little risk of children getting smallpox.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre University
Maundy Thursday
18.IV.2019