John Boone

Early purchaser of land and by implication enslaved people on Dominica, selling the Capuchin estate, subject to a mortgage to Thomas and Rowland Hunt and an annuity to Ezekial Lewis of Cambridge Mass., to Francis Eyre c. 1775 in exchange for an annuity of £160 p.a. payable in London to himself and this wife Diana Boone: the annuity was not paid and Boone pursued Eyre in the English courts. John Boone and Thomas Boone were shown separately as the original purchasers of Lots 11-15 totalling 181 and 51 acres respectively in St John Dominica that were all in the hands of Francis Eyres by c. 1777. To date no will or death-date has been found for John Boone: it is conceivable that his wife Diana was the Diana Boone buried at St Luke Chelsea 21/01/1814 aged 74.

Hilary Term 1777 Roll 1455, Lee, reproduced by James Oldham, 'Detecting Non-fiction', in Chantal Stebbings (ed.) Law Reporting in Britain (1995) pp. 166-7; John Byres, References to the Plan of the Island of Dominica, as surveyed from the year 1765 to 1773 (London, 1777); Ancestry.com, Diana Boone in the London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 [database online].