1. Jerome Boune (Boone, most likely contractions of Bourne), m. Katherine Snowe (St Edmunds, Exeter), 15 May 1603. She was probably of the Snowe family of Winkleigh, situated 23 miles from Stoke Cannon, and 28 miles from Exeter. ‘Richard Snowe of Winckerleigh’ married ‘Ann Squire, widow, of the same’, November 6, 1624. (W. Pollard, Marriage Licenses of the Diocese of Exeter from the Bishop’s Registers, Volumes 1-3, p. 93, 1887). It is reasonable to assume that this union brought about the use of Squire as a Christian name in the Boone family. It also made for an association with the Cruse/Cruwys family of Winkleigh, as Thomas Cruse, baptised 1595, married, firstly, on 24 September 1632, Mary Snowe of West Anstey, in Meshaw, near Winkleigh. She was buried on 17 March, 1642. She was probably the granddaughter of this John Snowe: Snowe v Courtney. Plaintiffs: John Snowe and Joan Snowe his wife. Defendants: Philip Courtney and another. subject: property in West Anstey, Devon. Nat. Arch. ref. C 3/289/44. 1601. Thomas Cruse married, secondly, Susan, buried 23 March 1647. Her Will bequested ‘ To Robert Squire Tenne shillinges, To Walter Squire Tenne shillinges’. (PROB 11/204. Proved 10 May 1648). In the same area, ‘Richard Squire of Thorverton’ married ‘Mary Drew of the same’, May 31, 1626. (ibid. p. 96). Thorverton is 20 miles from Winkleigh, 4 miles from Stoke Cannon, and 6 miles from Bradninch. This was either he, or a son and namesake, who is recorded in this court case: Fursdon v Preston. Plaintiffs: Thomas Fursdon, Thomas Adams and Richard Luscombe. Defendants: John Preston clerk, Anthony Turner and Richard Squire. Subject: property in Thorverton, Devon. (Nat. Arch. ref. C 6/76/46. 1665).
1.1. George Boone. He married Joanne Heale, 21 June 1635. Her name was a toponym, derived from Hele, a manor in the parish of Bradninch, the home of the Hele family of that place. (BEB1841, Hele of Fleet; Visitation Devon, 1620). If George Boone was of the social class of the Heles, he may have married Jane Hele, born circa 1619, daughter of Nicholas Hele and Dorothy Stradling, daughter of Richard Stradling of Bristol, probably related to this Edward Stradling: The following apprenticed in Bristol: John Webb to Edward Stradling, 4 years Virginia, May 30 1662.
1.1.1. George Boone, bapt. 19 March 1666. (Stoke Cannon).
1.1.1.1. Squire Boone.
1.1.1.2. Mary Boone, married John Webb.

1. John Boone, bapt. 10 June 1599, St Margaret Pattens, London, d. 1663, Charles City, Virginia. He received his master mariners certificate from Capt. William Barker, and lived in Charles city, with Barker and associates.* He m. Anna curtis, 14 April 1622, dau. of Robert Curtis, mariner, of London, and Rotterdam. As I have shown elsewhere, William Barker was a partner of Francis Derrick, both originally of Bristol, who purchased land formerly that of Sergeant John Harris.
1.1. Captain Christopher Boone, bapt 3 May 1624, old Flemmish Par., Lion Street, Amsterdam. He m. Mary Radcliffe, 18 Feb, 1646, in the Dutch Reform Church, Amsterdam. She was bapt. 30 Sept. 1637, in St Petroch, Exeter, original home of the Perry family of London. ‘Zeeman Christopher gehuwde Boone von leeftijd 23 von Rotterdam 18 februari leeftijd von 1646 meisje Mary Radcliffe de dochter von Engeland von schip kapitein Jaspis Radcliffe’.
1.1.1.Thomas Boone, bapt. 18 Dec. 1646, Dutch Reform Church, d. aft.25 Nov. 1723, Chowan, NC. He m. Elizabeth Strickland. On May, 1706, William and Olive Strickland sold him 360 ac. on Blackwater River, adj. Colonel Pitt’s line, patented by William’s father, 20 April, 1680.
1.1.1.1. Joseph Boone, d. 19 Feb.. 1728. in Edenton, Chowan
1.1.1.1.1. Ratcliffe Boone, m. Ruth Atkinson, dau. of John Atkinson and Ann Holliman, in 1734. His Will was prob. 1787 (W.B. II, p. 72); witnessed by Robert Harris.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Daniel Boone, m. Mary Harris, born Surry Co., d. 1814, Pendleton, NC.
1.1.1.1.2. Thomas Boone, m. Hannah Atkinson, 14 Sept. 1769, in Santee SC.
1.1.2. Captain Nicholas Boone, b. 1648, Charles City Co,, d. bef. 1700 in Chowan, m. Geertzke von Hendrikks, 24 Jan. 1675, Dutch Reform Church, Amsterdam.
1.1.2.1. Nicholas Boone, m. Mary Pitt, 1709, IOW, dau. of Thomas Pitt, and  Mary, dau. of Col. Arthur Smith, and Sarah Jackson.
1.2 Captain William Boone, bapt, 29 September 1626, same place as his br., m. Mary Cooke, 5 July 1652, in Widecombe, Devon.
1.3. Captain James Boone, b. 1631, in Leiden, Neth., m. Elizabeth Driver, 16 Jan. 1658, in St Dunstans, London. She was bapt. 22 March 1637, at St Mary, Whitechappel, dau. of Alexander Driver, mariner. James Boone emigrated to Virginia in 1666, as head right of John Prettyman.
1.4. Captain George Boone, bapt. 1623, in Rotterdam, emigrated to Virginia in 1652, as head right of Thomas Todd.

PITTS AND RUFFINS

1. William Ruffin. Edward Chetwin, IOW probate rec., 27 Sept. 1649: Robert Watson and Henry Pitt, exors. William Ruffin m. Elizabeth Atwell, 23 Sept. 1614, in Rotterdam. ‘Gehuwd net van Lenton van der heer leeftijd 32 van Antwerpen Belgie huwd meisje Elizabeth Atwell leeftijd 31 dochtor van schip kapitein Edward Atwell en zeijn vrouw Jane Townes allebei van Leiden op 23 September 1614 de Vlaamse Straat van de leuw van Parochie Rotterdam’. Elizabeth Atwell was the br. of Thomas Atwell, who m. Jane Chetwin, dau. of the said Edward.
1.1. William Ruffin, d. bef. 9 Mar. 1674, IOW.; m. Elizabeth Pitt, 4 Jan. 1642, Dutch Reform Church, Amsterdam. 7 February 1667 William Ruffin empowered his son Robert Ruffin to defend in court the suit of Nicholas Boone. On 9 June 1670, William Ruffin made over to Katherine Thornton 200 acres of land in case of her death to be equally divided between her two children.
1.1.1. Robert Ruffin, b. in 1644, in Amsterdam: ‘Zoon van Robert Ruffin van Heer William Ruffin en zein vrouw Elizabeth Pitt allebei van deize parochie in Amsterdam Nederland doopte 19 Januari 1644’. He m. his second cousin, Elizabeth Watkins. Virginia land grant 20 Apr. 1687, 422 ac. formerly granted to George Watkins … lately found to escheat. He m. Elizabeth Prime bef. 2 Nov. 1673, in Surry Co.; dau. of Edward Prime and his wife, widow Ann Ridley, nee Pitt, wife of Peter Ridley, of IOW. Elizabeth was the half-sister of Nathaniel Ridley, who m. Elizabeth Day, relict of George Watkins, whose land her second husband, Robert Ruffin, recovered when it escheated. The last Will of Mr. Robert Ruffin, proved in Court by the Oaths of Wm. Chambers, Will. Newsum and Robt. Rawlins, and a probate thereof Granted Mrs. Eliza. Ruffin, the Exx.
1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Ruffin, d. aft. 29 Nov. 1743, m. (as widow Taylor) William Kinchen II., who d. bef. 28 Jul. 1735, IOW. John Gibbins, Prob rec. 25 Sept 1721, IOW. Leg. Mr. William Kinchen, Henry Harris, Matthew Harris, Mary Adkins, the daughter of John Adkins, John Jackson, Thomas Harris, the son of Edward Harris, Robert Harris. Exor. Mr. William Kinchen. William Kinchen, probate 28 Jul. 1735, IOW.

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