I recently found the following information while researching Boones / Boons of Mississippi. I hope you will find it interesting and maybe helpful. >From The Woodville Republican (newspaper), Wilkinson County, MS, December 6, 1853: "At a meeting of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, held at Philadelphia on the 6th, Mr. Thomas Biddle Jr., the secretary, read a letter in relation to the Boone family. He stated that a number of early records of that family recently came into his hands, one of which gives an account of the Boone family. It states that they left a town eight miles from Exeter, England, in 1717. It names Squire Boone as son of the immigrant and father of Daniel. All the papers were placed in the hands of Lyman C. Craper, some years ago, who is preparing among other lives of western pioneers, one of the great backwoodsman, Daniel Boone. The letter of Mr. Biddle further states that it is an entire mistake that the family originally belonged to the Society of Friends; that the papers prove that they were Episcopalians; that he learned verbally from his half-sister, Miss Boone, who died in 1846, aged 75, that George Boone, on his arrival in 1717, purchased and settled in what was then Berks County, and laid out a town, naming it 'Exeter.' He also purchased land in different places, some as far south as North Carolina and that he purchased and laid out Georgetown, D. C. Mr. Biddle, looking over the papers one day, remarked that 'these Boones all appeared to be Episcopalians,' 'Oh, yes,' replied Miss Boone, 'they were all high church people,' adding that most of them became Quakers out of compliment to Penn and his successors."