[jay1949]

I'll bet they intermarried with or at least lived in the proximity of some Scotch Irish or Scots while they were in NC. ". . . stayed there till they were run out . . . " The use of "till" in this manner is a characteristic of Scottish English which was imported into Appalachian English.

[Inyo-Mono]

I'll bet they intermarried with or at least lived in the proximity of some Scotch Irish or Scots while they were in NC. ". . . stayed there till they were run out . . . " The use of "till" in this manner is a characteristic of Scottish English which was imported into Appalachian English.

Yes, they were German (came over in 1717) but intermarried with the Scotch-Irish Boone family while living in the Forks of the Yadkin in N.C. They then settled in Pendleton County, V.A. in 1763 where they built a stone blockhouse fort.