This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Boone King Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NC.2ACE/1307.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hello: We have a common ancestor in Eunice Boone. This is what I have pieced together about her descent, and it is interesting indeed. Wolborough,Newton Abbott,Devonshire, England -15 Roger Boone (~1610- )m. Marian Bennett -14 Thomas Boon (Dec 26,1630-) m. c1680 Frances Manning (c1633-) -13 Roger Boon (1655- ) m. Martha ___ (1659- )He was baptised 7 Dec 1655 Wolborough, England To Rhode Island ~1700 -12 Samuel Boon I (1686-1766 E. Greenwich, RI) Woolcomber & shopkeeper m. 1707 in North Kingston, Mary Sweet (Feb 2, 1684-c1760 b,d Kingston, RI) 11 children/9 daughters. Sweet/Swett Family to Salem MA on the ‘Lyon’ 1630, Important in the founding of the Baptist Church in RI. The ‘Bonesetter’ Sweet Family North Kingston, Rhode Island -11 Samuel A. Boon II (April 9, 1717-October 1796 ?RI) m. December 6, 1736 in North Kingston, Mary Wightman (December 18, 1714-September 12, 1782 b, d Kingston, RI) 6 children, only 1 son survived to adulthood. Baptists, Wightman to Rhode Island mid-1600s To Burtts Corner, New Brunswick with the Spring Fleet, 1783, ship ‘Union’ -10 William Hull Boon Sr (August 22, 1743-April 28,1829) Lumberman/farmer m. 1761 Ruth Hill (February 28, 1744 Civil, Providence, RI-May 14, 1853 ?33) 13 children,d/o Capt. Ebenezer Hill (1703 RI-1753 Island St Estatia, Caribbean) & Mary Fones (1705-___) -9 (Rev.) James J. Boone (May 8, 1780-October 23, 1865) Baptist Minister m. October 1806 Sarah Sisson (1791-1853 ae 62 on g.s.) Sisson from ?England to Portsmouth, Rhode Island by 1644. Her father Loyalist, New York Volunteers Burtts Corner, New Brunswick -8 Humphrey Boone (1811-1851) m. September 1834 Eunice King (1812->1853) d/o Charles King (b. 1785 NB Acadian) & Mary Ann __ b. US Eunice is described as French in the censuses, I assume her father's family name was Roy. -7 Charles Boone (1836-1868) m. 1856 Maria P. White (1839-1868 Douglas NB) Her grandfather White: Loyalist from New York 1783 Her grandmother Green: Loyalist from Rhode Island 1783 Her mother Meek: English farmers from Antrim, Ireland 1830 -6 Eunice P. Boone (1856-1930) m. 1872 Thomas William Gallagher (1850-1932 Upper Caverhill Settlement)His father from Donegal, Ireland (Presbyterian) 1836 His mother from ?England (Episcopalian) in ?1840. Eunice was orphaned at 12, married by 16, and illiterate according to the 1901 census. I welcome help in identifying Eunice's grandparents Mary Ann and Charles King/Roy. Eunice’s brother Elias King married Humphrey Boone’s sister. Elias, Charles and Eunice are identified in the 1881 Census as ‘French’. Any corrections also welcomed, Cordially, Janice