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Pioneers of the Old Southwest

CHAPTER I
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Among the Welsh Quakers was a family of Morgans.

In 1720 Squire Boone married Sarah Morgan.

Ten years later he obtained 250 acres in Oley on Owatin Creek, eight miles southeast of the present city of Reading; and here, in 1734, Daniel Boone was born, the fourth son and sixth child of Squire and Sarah Morgan Boone.

Daniel Boone therefore was a son of the frontier.

In his childhood he became familiar with hunters and with Indians, for even the red men came often in friendly fashion to his grandfather's house.


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