John A. BONE, SR

Birth:
Abt 1727
of Chester, Pennsylvania
Marriage:
19 Sep 1746
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Sources:
1998 Ancestral File
Internet IGI (Sep 2003)
Notes:
                   John A. Bone, Sr. moved to Western North Carolina in 1749.  He was originally from Antrim County, Ireland.
He left Chester Co. Penn with his wife Margaret Hill and infant daughter Eliabeth, along with good friends and
neighbors Tom and Henry Potts.  They migrated to some newly opened land in the Western part of North Carolina.


John a. Bone was appointed as constable of Salisbury District, Rowan County, North Carolina.  Held job through
out the Rvolution but by 1776 for "new" Carolina government rather than "old" Royal one which had fled.  In fact held position
until 1789 the year he probably died.  Source:  Colonial and State Records of North Carolina (DAR) Op. Cit. Vol. 9, p 1080; also see Nov. 2, 1774 and Nov 9, 1775 Volume 10, p. 311.


John A. Bone Sr. and Margaret Hill had a daughter 1748 and the following year moved to North Carolina
settling in Bladen County ( that part which became Anson in 1750; Rowan in 1753; and Iredell in 1788).
John purchased 300 ares between the Catawba and Yadkin Rivers on 11 Oct. 1749.  He purchased 300
more the following year and additional land in 1753.  He and his family were quite active in the Fourth
Creek Presbyterian Church (now the First Presbyterian Church of Statesville, NC.).

John was also active in the Safety Committee (usually known as the Committee for Public Safety) in Rowan
County 1775-1776.
Margaret HILL
Birth:
Abt 1727
of Antrim, Ireland
Father:
David HILL
Mother:
Jane
Notes:
                   Margaret Hill when she was about thirteen accompanied her older brother and family to Pennsylvania in 1740
and lived with them until her marriage.

Source: Marriage licenses prior to 1790 - Pennsylvania Archives, Harrisbur, PA, Series 2, Vol. 2 p36 and
p292, "Sept 1746 - John Bowan and Margaret Hill".
Children
Marriage
1
Elizabeth BONE
Birth:
Abt 1748
Lancaster, Chester, Pennsylvania
Death:
Henry SHOUSE 
Marr:
20 Feb 1769
 
2
William BONE
Birth:
Abt 1752
Anson, North Carolina
Death:
28 Aug 1825
Wilson, Tennessee
Jemima KING 
Marr:
29 Jul 1819
Maury, Tennessee 
Notes:
                   William and Margaret moved 1805 with other relatives to Wilson Co. Tenn.  Margaret died there about 1817.
On July 1819 he married a cousin of Margaret's, Jemima King.
3
David BONE, SR
Birth:
Abt 1754
of Anson, North Carolina
Death:
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   David Bone lived in the area Northeast of Statesville all his life.  It is known that his brothers William, John Jr..
and James R. moved to Wilson co. Tenn, in 1805.  he and him family remained with his mother Margaret Bone on
the family farm.  She was living there in Iredell Co. in 1810 as was David.
4
Margaret BONE
Birth:
Abt 1756
Iredell, North Carolina
Death:
 
Marr:
 
5
John A. BONE
Birth:
Abt 1759
Rowan, North Carolina
Death:
1827
Wilson, Tennessee
Jemima KING 
Marr:
27 Jul 1819
 
Notes:
                   SOURCES:  1. Main Archive Record

John bone and wife Rebecca moved to Fall Creek, Tenn. near Murfreesboro soon after Elihu was born (1795).
Enos bone and Lucy Herne move to Texas, she was of Tenn.
Elihu Bone moved to Sangannon Co. Illlinois about if not at the same time James Scott came to Macon Co.,
Illinois from Fall Creek, Tenn.
Church letter of Elihu Bone dated 30 August 1824 from Fall Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church of
Rutherford County, Tenn.
Henry Potts Bone  and Narcissus or Nancy Britton were parents of Rev. Heny F. bone of Greenville, Texas.
(From Frank Randall Records).
Nancy bone married 1) James Walker, 2) Calvin Bone her first cousin of Izard County, Arkansas and had
4 children.  Calvin Bone was a widower with 4 children.

John and Rebecca Potts Bone had seven children in Iredell County and 805 moved to Wilson County, Tennessee.

John purchased land southwest of Slatesville on Fall Creek owning land in both Wilson and Rutherford Counties.
Rebecca was living in 1820 but had died before John made out his 1825 will.  John died in the spring of 1827.
Three of their sons seved in the War of 1812.  Three of the children: Elihu, Elizabeth Scott and Jamima moved
to Illinois in 1824.

Nancy Bone went to Arkansas in 1841; and a couple of years later Enos moved to Texas.  The oldest sons
remained in Tennessee.

Enos Houston Bone, Henry Potts Bone and James Hill Bone served in the War of 1812 in the West
Tennessee Militia.
6
James R. BONE
Birth:
Abt 1759
Rowan, North Carolina
Death:
13 Apr 1846
Asenath POTTS 
Marr:
1793
 
Notes:
                   Moved to Rutherford Co., Tenn 1806

Source:  Helen Randall
7
BONE
Birth:
Abt 1760
North Carolina
Death:
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Died Young
8
BONE
Birth:
Abt 1762
North Carolina
Death:
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Died Young
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John A. Bone, Sr - Margaret Hill

John A. Bone, Sr was born at of Chester, Pennsylvania Abt 1727. His parents were William Bone, II and Margaret Houston.

He married Margaret Hill 19 Sep 1746 at Lancaster, Pennsylvania . Margaret Hill was born at of Antrim, Ireland Abt 1727 daughter of David Hill and Jane .

They were the parents of 8 children:
Elizabeth Bone born Abt 1748.
William Bone born Abt 1752.
David Bone, Sr born Abt 1754.
Margaret Bone born Abt 1756.
John A. Bone born Abt 1759.
James R. Bone born Abt 1759.
Bone born Abt 1760.
Bone born Abt 1762.