A little Pilgrim-Band,
Called by the Lord to be of those
Who through the whole world go,
To bear Him witness everywhere
And nought but Jesus know.

Then, we are told, the Brethren lay down to rest and "Br Gottlob
hung his hammock above our heads"--as was most fitting on this of
all nights; for is not the Poet's place always just a little
nearer to the stars?

The pioneers did not always travel in groups. There were families
who set off alone. One of these now claims our attention, for
there was a lad in this family whose name and deeds were to sound
like a ballad of romance from out the dusty pages of history.
This family's name was Boone.

Neither Scots nor Germans can claim Daniel Boone; he was in blood
a blend of English and Welsh; in character wholly English. His
grandfather George Boone was born in 1666 in the hamlet of Stoak,
near Exeter in Devonshire. George Boone was a weaver by trade and
a Quaker by religion. In England in his time the Quakers were
oppressed, and George Boone therefore sought information of
William Penn, his co-religionist, regarding the colony which Penn
had established in America. In 1712 he sent his three elder
children, George, Sarah, and Squire, to spy out the land. Sarah
and Squire remained in Pennsylvania, while their brother returned
to England with glowing reports. On August 17, 1717, George
Boone, his wife, and the rest of his children journeyed to
Bristol and sailed for Philadelphia, arriving there on the 10th