Below is the harbour of Bristol, England at low tide several hundred years ago. Three members of the Boone family, including Squire Boone, our great grandfather, sailed from Bristol, first in 1712 and other members in 1717. Ironically for this writer, another distant relative, The Rt. Rev. John Holyman, was Bishop of the Bristol Cathedral (see background) from 1554 to 1558.
The Boones and thousands of others sailed to Philadelphia, a colony founded by William Penn (below) , an activist in the Society of Friends or Quakers. Penn's fair treatment of Native Americans reduced the threat of frontier warfare, and made settlement in Pennsylvania doubly attractive.
