His Family Immigrated To America
A fact about Daniel Boone is that his father fled religious persecution in England and immigrated to the United States. Boone was born in a Quaker family as the sixth of eleven children. In 1713, Squire Boone (1696–1765) moved from the English village of Bradninch to colonial Pennsylvania. Squire married Sarah Morgan (1700-1777), a Welsh Quaker whose family was a weaver and blacksmith. Boone's family became a cause of contention in the nearby Quaker community when he was a little boy. In 1742, Sarah, the eldest child of Boone's parents, married a "worldling," or non-Quaker, while she was clearly pregnant. As a result, Sarah's parents were forced to publicly apologize. Squire Boone stood up for his son and was thus banished from the Quakers when Boone's oldest brother Israel also wed a "worldling" in 1747, though his wife continued to go to monthly meetings with her kids.
Perhaps as a result of this debate, Squire sold his property and relocated his family to North Carolina in 1750. Despite always considering himself a Christian and having all of his children baptized, Daniel Boone stopped going to church. The Boone family finally made their home on the Yadkin River, about two miles (3 km) west of Mocksville in what is now Davie County, North Carolina. In order to provide his family with a living, he bought land in 1753.
