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Author: JudeA04
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Okay, I know that I don't have a lot, but here is some of what I do have:
Generation 1: William Chain, born Lairne (Laine), Ireland 02-12-1739/40, died 01-20-1818
Tyrone Twp, Fayette Co., PA married Margaret (last nm unknown) born 03-03-1754 in PA, died
11-16-1825 in Tyrone Twp, Fayette Co, PA.
See copy of William's Revolutionary War Pay Card at:
http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveItems&...
Generation 2: John Chain, born 02-14-1766 PA. Died Tyrone Twp, Fayette, PA. married
Isabell (last name unknown), born about 1775 in Ireland, died 05-20-1864 Tyrone Twp,
Fayette Co., PA, buried May, 1864, Bullskin
Twp, Fayette Co., PA.
See copy of Revolutionary War Pay Card at:
http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveItems&...
Generation 3: James Chain, born about 1791 KY, died 04-1854 Sardinia, Brown Co., OH,
married Margery Nicholson, born about 1796 in PA, died about 1840, Brown Co., OH.
Generation 4: Robert Chain, born 01-28-1814 Fayette Co., PA, died 1902 Adams Co., OH
(buried in Ginger Ridge Cemetery, Adams Co., OH) married Mary Dehart Boone, daughter of
John Boone and Margaret "Peggy" Cooper Boone, born 09-15-1814 died 09-18-1897
(buried in Ginger Ridge Cemetery, Adams Co., OH).
The De Bohun/Boone connection is through Mary Boone. Here I am inserting some of the Boone
genealogy:
Boone Generation 24: George Boone III, born 11-17-1666, Devonshire, England, died
02-27-1743/1744 in berkes County, Pennsylvania. Married Mary Maugridge in 1689 in
Devonshire, England, born 1668 in Devonshire, England. By this time, the Boones had
become Quakers. George was a philanderer, and went before the congregation to admit that
he had committed adultery. However, his children were all Mary's children, of which
they had ten in all, including Squire Boone, father of the explorer, Daniel Boone, and
Joseph, Squire's brother. Joseph would be first cousin to Daniel Boone, the explorer.
Generation 25: Joseph Boone, born 04-05-1704 in Devonshire, England, died 01-31-1776 in
North Carolina. Married Catherine (Brown) Warren on 08-20-1729 in Pennsylvania.
Catherine was born 08-20-1708 in Exeter Township, Berks county, Devon, Pennsylvania.
Generation 26: Joseph Boone, Jr., born 04-30-1730 in Berks County, PA. Married Elizabeth
Warren in Aug, 1749 in Berks Co., PA. Elizabeth was born in 1728.
Generation 27: Jacob Boone, born 08-15-1754, Berks Co., Pa, died 05-04-1827, Marysville
(Maysville), KY. Married Mary DeHart in 1772 in Berks Co., PA. Mary was born 10-18-1753
in Berks co., PA, and died on 07-30-1828 in Marysville (Maysville), KY. Jacob was a
soldier in the American Revolution. Jacob and his cousin, Daniel Boone, the pioneer, are
considered two of the founders of Maysville, Kentucky (they laid out the town of
Limestone, which later became Maysville) and Jacob donated the land for the cemetery.
Jacob lived in Maysville from 1785 till his death in 1827.
Generation 28: John Boone, born 1795 Adams Co., Oh, died 12-22-1842 in Bradyville, Sprigg
Twp, Adams Co., Ohio. John married Margaret (Peggy) Cooper, daughter of William (fought
in American revolution) and Elizabeth Richmond Cooper in Adams County, Ohio (Rev William
Middleton performed ceremony, according toWest Union, Adams Co., Ohio, Probate Court
Records). John served in the War of 1812, as a Private in Lt James Cambell's 1 Co
17th Infantry from 08-06-1812 to 08-1813. He was at Ft Meigs during both sieges of that
fort by the British and Indians in the spring of 1813.
John is listed in the Jacob Boone family bible as a son of Jacob and Mary, but it looks
like he may have been excommunicated from the Quaker faith, or left it willingly, and was
ostracized for it, because he is left out of many of the records, or listed only on some
as "an unknown relative". Court records of 01-30-1828 show John selling to his
younger brother, William Dehart Boone, for the sum of $600.00, all of his inheritance
which he was entitled to and had not yet received from the estate of his parents, Jacob
and Mary Boone.
John was friend and neighbor to the Rankin family whose home was part of the underground
railroad, and family stories tell of John's knowledge and help with the underground
"passengers".
Two of John's sons served in the Civil war, one for the North and one for the south.
William was a private with the Union, OVI, Co. H, 182nd Reg from August, 1864 to
07-07-1865. Henry served the Confederacy from 07-01-1863, enlisted age 23 in Maysville,
KY, Co. A, 4th Volunteer Infantry, discharged 12-31-1864 at Catlettsburg, KY
Generation 29: Mary DeHart Boone born 09-15-1814, died 09-18-1897, married (December,
1837) Robert Chain, born 01-28-1814, died 1902. Both are buried in the Ginger Ridge
Cemetery, Adams County, Ohio. Mary had a sister, Indian (Indiana) Boone, who married a
Nathaniel Blythe.
Generation 30: Robert Nelson Chain, born 10-26-1862 Manchester, Adams Co., OH, died
11-10-1906 Manchester, Adams Co., OH. Married Mary Frances Moore (born 06-28-1871 Fleming
Co., KY, died 07-12-1919 (buried in Vine St. Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH). Married on
12-12-1888 in Flemingsburg, Fleming Co., KY.
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