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316 pointment of commandant of the Femme Osage district, but a grant of 8,000 acres. The Spanish possessions passed into the hands of Napoleon. who sold them to the United States, and, in the survey that followed, the Spanish grant of Boone's lands was pronounced invalid. An appeal to the legislature of Kentucky, and another to congress, resulted in a grant by the latter of 850 acres. Boone was then seventy-five years of age, hale and strong. The charm of the hunter's life clung to him to the last, and in his eighty-second year he went on a hunting excursion to the mouth of Kansas river. He had made his own coffin and kept it under his bed, and after his death they laid him in it to rest by the side of his wife, who had passed away seven years before. On 13 Sept., 1845, their remains were removed to the cemetery near Frankfort, Ky., a few miles from the fort of Boonesborough, by the concurrent action of the citizens of Frankfort and the legislature of Kentucky.—His son, Enoch, b. in Boonesborough, Ky., in 1777 ; d. 8 March, 1862, was the first white male child born in Kentucky. Daniel Boone's wife, with her daughters, went to live with her husband in his palisaded fort in June, 1776, and while there gave birth to this son; but after Boone's capture, on 7 Feb., 1778, his family returned to North Carolina.

BOONE, Thomas, colonial governor of New Jersey and South Carolina. He was appointed governor of New Jersey in 1760, was succeeded by Thomas Hardy the following year, and was appointed governor of South Carolina in 1762. He incensed the people of that colony by interfering with the elective franchise, claiming the exclusive right to administer the oath, and assuming the power to reject members whom the house had declared to be regularly elected. The representatives in the legislature, led by Laurens, Gadsden, Lynch, Pinckney, and the Rutledges, refused to hold any intercourse with him. In 1763 he was superseded by William Bull.

BOONE, William Jones, P. E. bishop, b. in Walterborough, S. C, 1 July, 1811; d. in Shanghai, China, 17 July, 1864. He was graduated at the college of South Carolina in 1829, studied law with Chancellor De Saussure, and admitted to the bar in 1833 ; but soon afterward went to the theological seminary of Virginia to prepare for orders. Intending to devote himself to missionary life and work, he went through a course of medical study, and received the degree of M. D. from the South Carolina medical college. He was ordained deacon in Charleston, S. C, 18 Sept., 1836, and priest the year following. Dr. Boone was appointed missionary to China, and sailed for that country in July, 1837. In 1844 he was elected missionary bishop to China, the first one appointed by the American Protestant Episcopal church, and was consecrated in Philadelphia, 25 Oct., 1844. At the close of the year he returned and spent the last twenty years of his life at his post of duty, excepting two visits to the United States, in 1852 and 1857, for the benefit of his health. He returned to the east from his last visit to the United States in December, 1859, and occupied himself with the new mission in Japan. Bishop Boone was noted for scholarship in the Chinese language and literature, and did eminent service in securing an accurate version of the Holy Scriptures and of the Prayer-Book into that difficult tongue. He began his translation of the Prayer-Book in 1846, and in 1847 was appointed one of the committee of delegates from the several missions to recast the translation of the Bible, a work on which he was already engaged.—His son,William Jones, P. E. bishop. b. in Shanghai in 1847, obtained his early education from members of the China mission, after which he came to the United States, and was graduated at Princeton in 1865. He studied theology at the divinity school in Philadelphia, spent two years in the Alexandria seminary, and then went abroad for a year of further study. He was appointed missionary to China in 1869, and reached Shanghai in January, 1870. He was ordained deacon in Petersburg, Va., in 1868, and priest in the English church, at Hankow, China, in 1870. Having been appointed missionary bishop, he was consecrated in Shanghai, 28 Oct., 1884, by Bishop Williams, of Yedo, and Bishops Moule and Scott, English missionary bishops in China.

BOORMAN, James, merchant, b. in Kent co., England, in 1783 ; d. in New York city, 24 Jan., 1866. He accompanied his parents to the United States when about twelve years of age, was apprenticed to Divie Bethune, of New York, and entered into partnership with him in 1805. Afterward, in connection with John Johnston, he formed the firm of Boorman & Johnston, which almost entirely controlled the Dundee trade, and dealt largely in Swedish iron and Virginia tobacco. Mr. Boorman was one of the pioneei's in the construction of the Hudson river railroad, and was for many years its president. He was also one of the founders of the Bank of Commerce. He retired from active business in 1855. The institution for the blind, the Protestant half-orphan asylum, the southern aid society, and the union theological seminary were among the recipients of his bounty.

BOOT, John Fletcher, Cherokee preacher, b. about 1796 ; d. 8 Aug., 1853. He was a brave warrior and a member of the Cherokee national council. In 1825 he was converted to Christianity, and in 1827 licensed to preach. He was subsequently ordained a deacon in the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in Nashville, Tenn., and later received ordination as elder in Lebanon. He preached effectively in the Cherokee tongue.

BOOTH, Benjamin, writer on book-keeping. He was an American merchant, who became clerk in a store in New York about 1759, and when he rose to the chief clerkship introduced a system of book-keeping of his own invention which he employed also in his own business. He was a retail merchant in New York until the war of independence interfered with his business, when he retired and went to England. There he made known his system of keeping accounts in a volume entitled "A Complete System of Book-Keeping by an Improved Method of Double Entry, containing also a New Method of stating Factorage Accounts, adapt- ed particularly to the Trade of the British Colonies" (London, 1789). It was written humorously, with fanciful entries, under the names of noted persons, to illustrate the new method.

BOOTH, James Curtis, chemist, b. in Philadelphia. Pa., 28 July. 1810; d. in West Haverford, Pa.. 21 March, 1888." He was educated at Hartsville seminary, and was graduated at the university of Pennsylvania in 1829, after which he spent a year at the Rensselaer polytechnic institute, where he afterward received the degree of Ph. D. In 1832 he went to Germany, and studied chemistry in Wohler's private laboratory in Cassel, at a time when there were no laboratories in Germany arranged for the regular reception of students. He spent some time under G. Magnus in Berlin, then in Vienna, and afterward devoted himself until 1835 to studying technical chemistry at various places in Germany and England. In 1836 he established in Philadelphia a laboratory, the first of its