Information was provided by G. Montgomery.

Birth: 10 Jan 1785, Warrington, York Co., PA
(after 1765 PA Quakers used January as 1st month)
Death: 1883 (age 98)

Parents:
father:
Daniel Bonine b. 1736, Drawer's Creek, New Castle Co., DE
m. 1779, Newberry Meeting (Age 43)
d. 1817 (Age 81)
mother: Mary (Copeland) Bonine

Spouse: Prudence (Williams) Bonine
b. 14 Aug 1788, Chatham Co., NC
m. 7 Sep 1808, Blount Co, Tennessee
d. 25 Nov 1857 (Age 69)

David Bonine's parents were situated for a time on Shelly's Island, a long, narrow island which runs north and south, parallel to Three Mile Island, just off the west bank of the Susquehanna river near the town of Goldsboro, PA. There, David Bonine was born in 1785. Later, the family migrated to Blount County, TN.

The little boy, David, never forgot those early years on the large island farm. He remembered the long boat ride across the river to attend Meetings on "First Day" mornings in the little brick Meeting house. It was brand new and quite a long walk from the river. His family had secure feelings on their island land when rumors of Indian attacks reached them. Also, he never forgot the cemetery near his home with the French tombstones for his grandparents' graves. Sometimes he would ask his father to speak a little of the language which already seemed strange to the children of his English mother. He remembered these things all his 98 years and passed on to his grandchildren the stories he had heard as a boy on that island of his French grandfather; how he had fled as a boy with his brother and father, first to England and then to find refuge in America for freedom to worship God and freedom to own land in peace.

The long trip over the mountains to Marysville stayed in David's mind. They went with other families to help establish Quakerism there, transporting their goods in a Conestoga wagon after ferrying them across the river.

New Hope Meeting was organized February 28, 1795 in Greene County, TN beside Ripley Creek by settlers from PA and NC. Amoung the founders were Samual Ellis, Clerk, Samual Frazier, Recorder, Benjamin Iddings, Ellis Ellis, Eliker Swaim and Joseph Thornburg, overseers; David Bonine and George Haworth, overseers of the poor. (location is about 3 miles North by Northeast of Greeneville, TN which was first settled about 1780).

In Marysville, David reached manhood. He met Prudence Williams. They were married in 1808. They moved to Wayne County, Indiana Feb. 4, 1814 - three children and an expectant wife. They arrived there May 28, 1814. The location of Clarks's birthplace in unknown, but listed as their destination, Wayne County, Indiana. They attended three different meetings in Wayne County.

Prudence (Williams) Bonine was the daughter of William Williams from England who had come to Tennessee to do missionary work among the pioneer families. Some of their brothers and sisters had stayed in England. William died in Richmond, Indiana in 1824. Prudence was the aunt of Sir George Williams who founded the Y.M.C.A. in England.

Later David's family moved on to Sangamon County, Illinois, where they spent much of their lives. When David was 80 years old he and his wife lived with their son, Isaac's family near Muncie, Indiana. At 80 years of age David ploughed [cultivated] forty acres of corn four times during the growing season, and did all the other work while his son was sick with typhoid. He probably died there.

David Bonine's religion was : Society of Friends (Quaker).


Family Links:
Parents:
father: Daniel Bonine #
mother: Mary (Copeland) Bonine #

Spouse: Prudence (Williams) Bonine #

Children:
Clark Bonine (b. 22 Apr 1814) #
John Wesley Bonine Sr. (5 Jun 1816 - 12 May 1905) #9412996
Betsy Bonine (b. 13 Aug 1820) #
Joshua Bonine (b. 18 Mar 1824) #
Malinda Bonine (b. 11 Jan 1827) #
Mary Ann (b. 3 Sep 1829) #