Source The Boone family; a genealogical history of the descendants of George and Mary Boone who came to America in 1717; containing many unpublished bits of early Kentucky history, also a biographical sketch of Daniel Boone, the pioneer, by one of his descendants, Ella A. Spraker:
George Boone III was a weaver by trade. He is the progenitor of the Boone family in the New World (the family of the famous pioneer Daniel Boone). George planned his migration and sent his three eldest children to "New England" several years before he, his wife and the younger children arrived. George JR, Squire and Sarah met the rest of the family when they landed Oct 10, 1717 at Philadelphia.
George Boone and wife Mary were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Callumpton, Devonshire, from which Meeting they took a letter of recommendation to the Society of Friends in America. Soon after their arrival in America they had become members of the Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of Friends. No doubt their early residence in North Wales came within the scope of Gwynedd Meeting, which embraced also their new home in Oley. This latter section soon became a separate meeting called Oley Meeting, which name was later changed to Exeter Meeting.