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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Civil Service
Author: Jerry Ray Sayre
John Abner Bone Sr. was born about 1727 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of William and Jane (McWilliams) Bone. On the 19th of September 1746, he married Margaret Hill, daughter of David and Jane Hill. The Hill family had recently emigrated from Ireland.
In 1748, John was the first of William’s children to leave Lancaster County. He took his wife, Margaret and their infant daughter, Elizabeth, along with friends and neighbors, Tom & Henry Potts and migrated to some newly opened land in western North Carolina. They settled in Bladen County, NC in 1748, which became Anson County in 1750, and later Rowan County in 1753 and finally Iredell County in 1788. The family didn’t move, the counties subdivided around them. (Source: The History of the Bone Family of American by Robert G. Bone 1972)
John Bone purchased 300 acres on 11 Oct. 1749 between the Yadkin and Catawba Rivers, and 300 more the next year.
In 1774, in an attempt to appease the Regulators, the Colonial Government appointed John A. Bone as Constable of the Mecklenburg District. John held the job throughout the Revolution and under the “New” Carolina Government rather than the “Old” Royal one. In Fact, John held the job until 1789, the year it is believed he died.
John was also active in the Committee of Public Safety in Rowan County 1775-1776. (Source: The History of the Bone Family of American by Robert G. Bone 1972)
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