This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Boone Wightman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NC.2ACE/1307.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Always nice to hear from you Thomas.To return to my original question, there being Samuel Boone, father, and Samuel and William Boone, his sons, which Samuel was on the Union? If both came to NB, then how did the other Samuel arrive? This is the information I have put together from information available on the net: 1711 "We, Wm Gibson, Samuel Tift, George Babcock, Samuel Perry, Thomas Parker, Eber Crandall, Jeremiah Crandall, Francis Colegrove, Daniel Tennant, John Tift, Wm Clark, Nicholas Utter Jr., Jabez Tucker, Weston Clark, Peter Parker, Daniel Willcox, Nicholas Utter, James Adams, Samuel Clark, George Foster, Samuel Lewis, Joseph Brown, Wm Knowles, Peter Tift, John Utter and John Enos, inhabitants of Westerly, Kingstown and Newport, having purchased a tract of land of Weston Clark, Richard Green, Philip Tillinghast, Maj. Randall Holden, being gentlmen empowered by the Colony to make sale of vacant land in the Narragansett Country as their deed from under their hands and seals bearing date the 28 June 1709, ...sold to Samuel Boone of Kingstown, Feb. 28, 1710/11. Witnesses: John Hill, John Babcock. Recorded Jan. 6, 1726." 1720 May. The earliest recorded transfer of land in Harpswell, Maine, by the Pejepscot Company. Nicholas Cole and Samuel Littlefield of Wells, deeded to Samuel Boone of Kingston, Rhode Island, one half of Merriconeag Neck, one half of Great Chebeag Island, and one half of Great Island, formerly owned by Nicholas Cole Sr and John Purrmozen. Samuel Boone is not known to have settled there. 1723 January. Samuel Boone and Mary his wife of Kingstown to Robert Knowles of Kingstown, 26 Acres in Westerly bounded: land that was originally Samuell Perry’s, land originally belonging to Nicholas Utter Jr.. Witnesses: Isaac Gould, James Eldred. 1725 ??Baptism: Elizabeth Boone b. 28 May 1725 father Samuel Boone, deceased of St George, mother Katharine September. Deed from Benjamin Perry Jr. to Robert Knowles (both of South Kingstown(, 79½ acres in Westerly bounded: Wm Knowles Jr., Samuel Boone. Witnesses: James Perry, Sabel(?) Hall (his mark). October. Deed from Robert Knowles and Ann his wife of South Kingstown, to Samuel Boone of North Kingstown, 110A in Westerly. 6, Witnesses: Rowse Helme, __ Jackson 1735 December 6, North Kingston. Samuel II married Mary Wightman. 1745 Samuel Boon II Elected Lieutenant of the 3rd North Kingstown Company of Militia. 1746 Samuel Boon II Elected Captain. 1773 "William Boon’s wife, Ruth Hill, was in Boston when men disguised as Indians boarded English ships and threw cargoes of tea into the sea..." Tracy Book 1778 February. At the State Assembly of Rhode Island in, the following resolution was presented: "Whereas, it is represented to this Assembly that Samuel Boone, William Boone, John Wightman, Ebenezer Slocum, Charles Slocum, and Thomas Cutter, have gone to the Island of Rhode Island and have joined the enemy:- Therefore, resolved that if the aforementioned persons have absented themselves, that the Sheriff of the County of Kings County forthwith take possession of their real and personal property in behalf of the State. That their real estate, if any they have, be leased by his Honor, the Deputy Governor, in the manner in which other estates in the possession of the State have been so directed to be leased. And their personal estate be accounted for by the Sheriff with the Assembly." It ordered the Sheriff of the County of Kings County forthwith take possession of their real and personal estate in behalf of the State. 1779 Samuel II's wife, Mary Sweet, "who heretofore obtained liberty to go to the Island of Rhode Island, is also permitted to carry her furniture, etc." 1780 February. The State Assembly resolved that:- A tax assessed of £5000: and that five farms seized by the State, their owners having gone over to the enemy, be pledged and funded for the credit and redemption of the above £5000 in bills; -viz- ... (4) State's Farm, in Exeter, Samuel Boone, 600 acres. Further enacted that these farms with appurtenances be sold on or before December 1, 1780, money for which sold paid into gold or silver and no other currency; same to be lodged in the Treasury and any over £5000 to be at the disposal of the General Assembly. When it came time to sell Samuel's farm, a committee reported that one Stukely Westcott held a mortgage on it for £2600. Westcott, however, conveyed his right to the farm to the State which, in turn, porvided him with a quit-claim deed thus restoring the said land to the mortgage holder. Other records indicate the farm was leased to a Michael Dawley for £91; also that Richard Fry Esq., be empowered to receive of Mrs. Micahel Dawley, the mutton of 14 in lieu of so much beef, in part rent to the State's Farm late belonging to Samuel Boone. Subsequent records indicate that Samuel may have had two farms, one in Exeter, known as Black Plain, and one in North Kingston. July. The State Assembly passed an act to prevent persons listed, (including Samuel Boone), being admitted in the State. If apprehended, he was to be committed to jail and transported to some place in the dominion or possession of the forces of Great Britain. 1780 Autumn. Samuel Boone II and son George were taken prisoner at St. George's Manor, Long Island. During the Revolutionary War the British confiscated the Manor House and erected a small fort. The location was well suited to protect the eastern end of the Great South Bay and the inlet from the Atlantic Ocean that then existed there. The Fort and Manor were destroyed by Major Benjamin Tallmadge and his dismounted dragoons in 1780 and returned to Connecticut with the captured British soldiers. 1781 Hazard's Corps of Refugees: Boone Inquiry William Ellery Esq. Delegate from the State of Rhode Island to Congress is desired by his humble servt. John Franklin to make strict enquiry to find out whether Mr. Samuel Boone Senr. is yet living as last fall he was taken at George's manner on Long Island by Major Talmadge a refugee prisoner and Conveyed to Lancaster in Pennsylvania. I desire at all events that it may be known as my Wife is his daughter and she is very uneasy to know where her mislead Father is. If dead it is desired that it may be certified properly. Library of Congress, Peter Force Papers, Series IX, Reel 105, page 334. 1781 William Boone's wife applied to the Town for financial support: “that the said Town Council of North Kingstown petitions the General Assembly at the session of December 1781 praying for an allowance for support of said Margaret and £10 was allowed to be paid into the Town treasury out of the rents of the said estate; 1783 Loyalists to New Brunswick With the Spring Fleet from New York on the ‘Union’. Signer Women Children > 10 Children <10 Former Place of Abode Occupation William Boon 1 4 2 Rhodeisland Farmer Samuel Boon Rhodeisland Farmer 1784 Rhode Island: Report of a committee appointed to enquire into circumstances of the encumbrances which are on the estates late belonging to Samuel Boone which are under mortgage to Stuckeley Westcott of upwards of £2600. The committee concluded that said Stuckeley Westcott convey his right in the said farm in Exeter to the State, that then the fee simple for the said farm in North Kingston be conveyed by the General Treasurer in behalf of the State to Stuckeley Westcott. This report was acted upon and passed by the State. 1786 William Boone’s wife (and 1st cousin): Margaret Smith. This was the rare instance of a wife not following Loyalist husband into exile, she and their youngest child did not leave Rhode Island. (The allowance she had applied for in 1781) " the said allowance has been continued since up to the 25th of March, 1785; that the said Margaret continues in a miserable condition, has her youngest child with her, and is a real object of charity, the Town Council prayed that the said grant be continued for the support for the coming year. " Resolved: the same be granted. March, 1786.”Rhode Island Records, vol 10. ---------------------------- These are the Boones who I think emigrated from Rhode Island (most dates are approximate) ? Samuel A. Boone II (alone) he would have been c66 at the time. > Samuel Boon III (his wife had died in Rhode Island) their children James Boone George Boone Roger Boon >William H Boone (wife and 6 children). age 40 wife Ruth HILL their children: Samuel Boone III drowned Oromocto River William Hull Boone 1766-1849 Geary NB Hannah Jessica Boone 1768 Providence RI-1860 Keswick Ridge Mary Sarah Boone 1770-1840 Burtts Corner NB Lucretia “Lucy” Boone 1772-1842 Burtts Corner Rev. Henry Boone 1774-June 4,1846 Keswick NB I would love to believe Mary Wightman was the descendant of the martyr, but would like to see a more convincing link... Janice