Dinah Boone

Dinah Boone -- first cousin to Daniel Boone.

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Dinah was a first cousin of Daniel Boone, and their fathers lived on adjoining farms in Berks County. The Boones were humble Quakers, residing in lovely Devon in Southwestern England. George Boone III, a weaver from Collompton, near Exeter, came to America for freedom. Freedom of thought, opportunity and action. He settled among others of his faith, near Pennsylvania, in 1717. Dinah Boone, clinging to these inheritances, always wore grey garb and the small shoulder cape of the Friends.

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Benjamin and Dinah had 14 children. The writer's great-grandfather, John Tallman, was the

youngest of the children and so is designated as 1-12-4-2-14. Two of these children died in infancy (Benjamin, b. 26 May 1776, died 3 days later; Annah, died 5 (end p 32) Sept. 1778, 122 [90 crossed out] days of age. A second Annah, however was born 15th December of the same year, 1778.) A son Thomas , died in his 20th year. So Benj. & Dinah had eleven surviving children.

[The Tallman Genealogical Record, by Virgil Burdette Tallman (1885-1969) of Canal Winchester, Ohio, circa 1908.]

[cltj NOTE: My 4th great-grandfather, William Tallman, was one of these 14 children and a brother to the above referenced "youngest of the children", John Tallman.]

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From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996:

Page 304 -- 2 July 1791 Dinah (Boone) Talman was baptised -- copied from a micro-film copy of record filed at the Rockingham County Public Library.

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Benjamin Tallman was the 2nd and only surviving child of Wm. T. and his wife Ann (Lincoln) Tallman and so is designated as No 1-12-4-2. He was born in Berks Co., Pa., Jan. 9, 1745, and died June 4, 1820, about 1 1/2 mi. in a northwesterly direction from the town square in Canal Winchester, Ohio.

He married Nov. 9, 1764, Dinah Boone, daughter of Benjamin Boone and 1st cousin to Daniel Boone the famed frontiersman. She was born May (one record says 3rd, another 10th) 1749, in Berks Co., Pa. and died July 25, 1824 near Canal Winchester, O. (Note by V.B.T.; according to above.dates, Dinah was 15 years of age when she married.

[See page 90 of "The Boone Family" by H. A. Spraker, published by The Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1922.] )

Benjamin Tallman sole surviving child of William Tallman and his wife Ann (Lincoln) Tallman, born 9 June 1745, in Berks Co., Pa., died 4 June 1820, (end p 4, p 5 consists of only the two notes shown below.) about 1mile NW of Canal Winchester, Ohio. Served two enlistments in Revolutionary Army. Married 9 Nov., 1764, Dinah Boone, 1st cousin of Daniel Boone, daughter of Benjamin Boone, and his 2nd wife, Susannah _____. Dinah Boone was born 3 or 10 May 1749, in Berks Co., Pa., and died July 25, 1824, one mile NW of Canal Winchester, Ohio.

(Clarification, Dinah and Daniel Boone, the frontiersman, were first cousins.)

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Benjamin Boone in his will dated 5 Jan. 1762 and proved 27 Oct., 1762 bequeathed his daughter Dinah £100 to be paid her when she arrives at the age of 15 yrs'. Dinah reached the age of 15 yrs. in 1764 when she married and also, presumably, got the £100. Her husband, Benj. T. was 19 yr. 10 mo. of age.

Benjamin Boone's will also provides that "My will is that my Negro man Dick shall be free.__ and likewise shall have 2 acres of land on Samuel's place" etc. So, therefore, Benjamin Boone, (born 16 July Old Style or 27 July New Style in Devonshire, England; died 14 Oct., 1762, aged 57 yrs.) ancestor of the writer, was a slave owner as were other ancestors, Peter Tallman, Thomas Durfee and Ann Lincoln.

[The Tallman Genealogical Record, by Virgil Burdette Tallman (1885-1969) of Canal Winchester, Ohio, circa 1908.]