In a message dated 7/11/05 4:07:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time > I understand the Boone family (Daniels father and mother and others) > >removed > >from the Yadkin River and moved to Maryland during a period of > >Indian > >attacks on the NC settlements and during that time Daniel Boone > >married in Virginia, possibly in Culpeper co., Va. (This may be wrong) > > From Daniel Boone The Life and Legend Of An American Pioneer, John Mack > Faragher, 1992 - Owl Books (Henry Holt and Company) > > p. 46 - 47. > " Justice Squire Boone officiated at the marriage of Daniel Boone and > Rebecca Bryan on August 14, 1756 [Rowan Co., NC]. The groom was twenty-one, the > bride seventeen. They remembered it to their children as a triple wedding, an > occasion shared with two other couples from the extended Boone and Bryan clans. > > .....the newlyweds' first home, a cabin on Squire Boone's home lot where > Daniel and Rebecca lived during the first few months of their marriage. > > For Rebecca Bryan Boone there was no honeymoon. She immediately became > mistress of a household that included the two young sons of Daniel's brother > Israel, who had died two months earlier. Israel's wife had predeceased him, a > victim of consumption, or tuberculosis; soon after her death, the widower too > came down with the disease. With his four children, he had lived in the > household of his parents, and his two boys had grown close to their Uncle Daniel. In > August of 1755 Sarah Morgan [Boone] appeared with her consumptive son at the > Moravian colony, twenty-five miles northeast of the Forks of the Yadkin at > Salem, appealing for treatment from the resident doctor. There Israel remained, > hospitalized for several weeks, and when he left, the record noted that > there was "small hope of his recovery." (see Fries, ed: Records of the Moravians, > I: 136 - 137). sometime after his death, his two daughters also expired from > the disease........ Rebecca's own first child, James, was born nine months after the wedding, on May 3, 1757. A second son, Israel, followed twenty months later, on January 25, 1759. p. 52 - 53 (February 1760 - Cherokee attacks/Ft. Dobbs) ....as the Cherokees swept down on the Forks, at least a dozen Yadkin men and women met theri deaths. With the war now come to their own yards, the Boones, like many others, decided it was time to fall back to Virginia. In this exodus they were joined by Daniel's parents and the three younger of his siblings, who yet remained at home --- brothers Squire and Edward (always called Ned or Neddy by the family) and sister Hannah --- in addition to his older sister Elizabeth, with her husband and children, and possibly others of his grown siblings and their families. The group traveled more than two hundred miles northeast to accommodations among friends in Culpeper County, Virginia. Rebecca was pregnant, and for the next several months Boone remained with her in Virginia, working as a teamster, hauling tobacco to market, while awaiting the arrival of his first daughter, Susannah, who was born on November 2, 1760. Immediately thereafter that he returned alone to the Carolina backcountry for his winter hunt. > p. 58 Boone rejoined Rebecca and the children in Virginia sometime in 1762. The Cherokee had separated the young couple for nearly two years. Family traditions suggest that before returning, Boone went to their Sugartree farm, put in a crop, and got the house back into shape. In November of 1762 the Boones migrated back to the Forks by packhorse, accompanied by a number of Virginians emigrating to the new country......." Charmaine Ernst