OR "WILCOX"
John Wilcox or Wilcoxson (d. 1782, near Bryant's Station, Ky).
SARAH BOONE (Squire; George3), born 7 June, 1724, died 1815. Married 1742, John Wilcox or Wilcoxson (d. 1782, near Bryant's Station, Ky).
The Boones were Quakers, and very evidently John Wilcox (Wil-coxson) was not, for we are told that Sarah was "condemned" for her marriage, (a) There is this entry:-
"5-29, 1742, Sarah, daughter of Squire Boone, treated with for marrying out."
Another entry reads: (b)
"5-29, 1742, Sarah Boone married out of Unity with Friends, (1st offense of this kind). Friends appointed to speak to the father, Squire Boone."
SquireSarah and her husband migrated with the rest of Squire's family to North Carolina (1750-1752) though very little is known of their life
there.
Sarah Wilcoxson with her husband later removed to Kentucky. Mrs. S. B. Davis of Cave City, Ky., who is a descendant of Daniel Wilcoxson,
a son of John and Sarah Wilcoxson, writes as follows:-
"In tracing my Faulkner-Craig kin I ran across a reminiscence written in 1898 by a lady when she was past 80 years old, in which she states what her grandmother told her regarding this attack and other incidents about Bryant's Station. After telling what her grandmother had to say regarding the Girty attack on the fort she quotes her grandmother as saying, 'Another incident, when plowing time came Daniel Wilcoxson and brother were in the fields, Daniel was plowing and his brother sitting on a log picking the flint of his gun (one would plow and the other watch for Indians), when an Indian slipped up and tomahawked the one on the log. Daniel ran, the Indian after him. The Indian was so near that when Daniel was on top of the fence the Indian was at the bottom. His mother, Aunt Sarah Wilcox (I don't know why she called her Aunt, whether it was on account of relationship or her age.-Mrs. S. B. D.) was so excited she went out of the fort gate and would hollow, Run, Daniel, run, and let him in at the gate and then she followed, etc.'"
"The Filson Club's History of Bryant's Station records the fact that Daniel Wilcoxson and another man were in the field at work when the other man (not stating his name) was killed and that Daniel Wilcoxson barely escaped with his life."
The above, taken in conjunction with Mrs. Davis' traditions, establishes the fact that John and Sarah Wilcoxson had one son, Daniel, and other family records prove there was a daughter, Rachael, who married William Bryant, an early Kentucky pioneer. Another child is
also mentioned in the "Life of Daniel Boone", by R. G. Thwaites, page 66:-
"At the close of the French and Indian War there arrived in the Boone settlement a Scotch-Irishman named Benjamin Cutbirth, aged about twenty-three years. He was a man of good character and a fine hunter. Marrying Elizabeth Wilcoxen, a niece of Daniel Boone, he and Boone went on long hunts together, and attained that degree of comradeship which joint life in a wilderness camp is almost certain to produce."
It is said that Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson (Wilcox) died at the home of her daughter, Elizabeth Cutbirth, in 1815, in Madison Co., Ky.; also, that John Wilcoxson, her husband, was killed by Indians in 1782 but these statements have not been confirmed. The death notice of Col. Daniel Boone, published in the "Rural Magazine," Philadelphia, Pa., gives a list of the ages at which some of Daniel's brothers and sisters died. That of Mrs. Wilcoxson (Wilcox) at the age of 91 would
make her death in 1815.
No will of either Sarah (Boone) Wilcoxson or her husband has been found, and no complete list of their children.
CHILDREN
+78 Daniel Wilcoxson.
+79 Rachael Wilcoxson.
+80 Elizabeth Wilcoxson.
REFERENCES:-
(a) Marriages from Minutes of Exeter Meetings 1737-1863.
(b) "Abstracts of Marriage Certificates," Exeter Records.
(c) Draper Mss. 12 CC 283-284.
Israel Boone, b. 9 May (0. S.) or 20 May (N. S.), 1726; m. in Exeter, Berks
Co., Pa., but name of wife unknown. He was testified against in Exeter Meeting for "Marrying out," Dec. 31, 1747. It has been said that Israel Boone went to North Carolina and died there early (i); but other evidence indicates that he went to Fayette Co., Ky., for it is said that in Deed Book D, p. 143, of Fayette Co. Circuit Court, there is record of Israel's deed to his brother Daniel Boone of property, land, etc., of considerable value. This seems to have been made at about the time of Israel's death.
John Webb (d. 18 Oct., 1774, in 80th year). (b) The abstract of their marriage record reads:-
"7-13, (1720) John Webb of Phila. Co. and Mary Boone daughter of George of the same Co., at a Public Meeting. Witnesses George, Squire and Benjamin Boone; Thomas Evan; Edward Foulke; Edward Morgan; Daniel Meredith and 18 others. (b)"At this Meeting John Webb brought a Paper of Condemnation for his outgoing which was received and ordered to be Read at Oley first Day's Meeting; the further Publishing thereof is referred to Friends of Philadelphia. It is as follows, viz. (His acknowledgment). This is to give notice. to All Persons whom it may concern that I John Webb being at the Elechon at Philadelphia in the year 1740, in a very Public Place and after a very Public manner, being taken and apprehended with a grindstone in my Hands as though I had a mind to take it away and when the man spoke to me saying, `Where art thou going with that Stone?' I made answer unwittingly and after a suspicious manner to my own shame I do confess, which was after this manner. 'What if I have bought it?' These words being spoken by me, and have proceeded from the same Wicked Spirit which leads People into such Vile Words and Actions to the great Scandal of our Holy Profesion; all which Words and Actions of Mine as aforesaid with al] the other unsavory Conduct of mine at that time I condemn the whole, and the Spirit that led me thereunto, with desire in my Heart, that for the future I may be more careful so as not to Transgress the Law of God written in the Heart."
"JOHN WEBB"
MARRIED [9/24/1720] JOHN WEBB
MARY BOONE (daughter of George), born 23 Sept. (0. S.), or 4 Oct. (N. S.), 1699, in Devonshire, England; died 16 Jan., 1774, in her 75th year. (a)
Married 13 Sept. (or 24 Sept., N. S.), 1720, in Philadelphia County (now Berks), Pa., John Webb (d. 18 Oct., 1774, in 80th year). (b) The abstract of their marriage record reads:-
"7-13, (1720) John Webb of Phila. Co. and Mary Boone daughter of George of the same Co., at a Public Meeting. Witnesses George, Squire and Benjamin Boone; Thomas Evan; Edward Foulke; Edward Morgan; Daniel Meredith and 18 others. (b)
In some way their courtship did not comply with the regulations of the Society of Friends, for on 26 July, 1720, in Gwynedd Meeting, her father, George Boone, openly acknowledged his fault in allowing John Webb to "keep company with his daughter in order to marry, contrary to ye established order." (b)
After their marriage John and Mary Webb probably settled in Exeter township, as their affairs continue to be recorded in Gwynedd and Exeter Meetings. It is said that they resided on the farm occupied in 1860 by Isaac Herbine, then also included in the paternal estates. (c)
In 1730, John and Mary Webb must have again offended the Meeting, for we find:
"7-29-1730, John Webb and wife Mary produced acknowledgment of misconduct which was accepted." (b)
For ten years they kept within the straight and narrow path laid down by the Friends, but in 1740 John Webb was again called to account: (d)Births recorded in Exeter Record.)
+31 John Webb, b. 14 Mar., 1720. (0. S.)
32 George Webb, b. 3 Sept., 1723 (0. S.); was complained against for "marrying out" 30 June, 1743. (c)
33 Mary Webb, b. 26 Jan., 1726-7. (0. S.)
34 Sarah Webb, b. 17 Oct., 1729 (0. S.); probably married Mitchell, for we find "6-26, 1760, Sarah Webb, alias Mitchell, testified against." (d)
35 Benjamin Webb, b. 28 Dec., 1732. (0. S.)
36 Joseph Webb, b. 6 May 1735. (0. S.) On 29 June, 1758, Joseph Webb was testified against for "marrying out and by a justice." (d) There is record of the administration of the estate of one Joseph Webb, Brunswick, Berks Co., to Rachel and Martha Webb, daughters, Mary the widow renouncing, 21 Mar., 1781. (e)
37 James Webb, b. 4 Mar., 1737-8. (0. S.)
+38 Samuel Webb, b. 23 May, 1740. (0. S.) 39 Moses Webb, b. 2 Oct., 1743. (0. S.)
32 George Webb, b. 3 Sept., 1723 (0. S.); was complained against for "marrying out" 30 June, 1743. (c)
Joseph Webb, b. 6 May 1735. (0. S.) On 29 June, 1758, Joseph Webb was testified against for "marrying out and by a justice." (d) There is record of the administration of the estate of one Joseph Webb, Brunswick, Berks Co., to Rachel and Martha Webb, daughters, Mary the widow renouncing, 21 Mar., 1781. (e)
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