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Generation 6
6-5. WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT (WILLIAM6, THOMAS5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1755 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, and died Abt. 1825 in Lexington County, South Carolina. He married NANCY JOHNSON 1777 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, daughter of MARTIN JOHNSON. She was born 1761 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, and died Abt. 1835 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
Notes for WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT, SR.:
1800 Census: Name: Boatwright, William Township: Chesterfield County: Chesterfield State: South Carolina Year: 1800 Roll: M32_47 Page: 353 Image: 208 1 male, 26 to 45, 1 male under 10, 2 males 10 to 16, 1female, 26 to 45, 4 females under 10, 1 female 10 to 16. 1810 Census: Name: Boatright, William Township: Not Stated County: Lexington State: South Carolina Year: 1810 Roll: M252_61 Page: 170 Image: 115 1 male, over 45, 2 males, 16 to 26, 1 male under 10, 1 female, over 45, 2 females 16 to 26, 2 females, 10 to 16, 1 female under 10. 1820 Census: Name: Wm Boatright Township: Lexington County: Lexington State: South Carolina Year: 1820 Roll: M33_121 Page: 45 Image Number: 86 1 male: 10 - 16, 1 male: 16 - 18, 1 male: 16 - 26, 1 male: over 45, 2 females: 10 - 16, 1 female: 26 - 45,
7-29. i. WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT, b. 11 Apr 1777, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina; d. 06 Apr 1856, Lexington County,
South Carolina.
7-30. ii. MARTIN JOHNSON BOATWRIGHT, b. 1779, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina; d. 1856, Lexington County,
South Carolina.
7-31. iii. DANIEL BOATWRIGHT, b. 1780, Chesterfield County, South Carolina;
d. Bef. 1840, South Carolina.
7-32. iv. NANCY BOATWRIGHT, b. 1785, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina.
7-33. v. JENNIE BOATWRIGHT, b. 1788, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina; d. 1819.
6-6. EDMUND BOATWRIGHT (WILLIAM6, THOMAS5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1757 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
Child of EDMUND BOATWRIGHT and UNKNOWN is:
7-34. i. EDWIN BOATWRIGHT, b. 1795, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
6-7. LEWIS BOATWRIGHT (WILLIAM6, THOMAS5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1758 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, and died Aft. 1830 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. He married SARAH LUNDY 1778 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, daughter of SIMON LUNDY and REBECCA. She was born 1760 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, and died Aft. 1830 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
Notes for LEWIS BOATWRIGHT:
Boatright Research Notes by Norman Hurd Ricker, Jr. - South Carolina Boatwrights:
Lewis Boatwright Sr. – 1802, Son of William Sr.– Chesterfield, South Carolina – Land grant to
Lewis 10-19-1802. Volume 39, Page 102, Post Rev Plats, South
Carolina Archives.
1790 Census: Name: Lewis Boatwright Township: St Thomas County: Cheraws District State: South Carolina Year: 1790 Roll: M637_11 Page: 49 Image: 0226 1 male head of household, 2 males under 16 and two females 1800 Census: Name: Boatwright, Lewis Township: Chesterfield County: Chesterfield State: South Carolina Year: 1800 Roll: M32_47 Page: 338 Image: 193 1 male, 26 to 45, 4 males under 10, 2 males 10 to 16; 1 female 26 to 45, 2 females under 10, 2 females 16 to 26. 1810 Census: Name: Boatwright, Lewis Township: Chesterfield County: Chesterfield State: South Carolina Year: 1810 Roll: M252_60 Page: 548 Image: 297 1 male over 45, 1 male under 10, 1 male 10 to 16, 2 females over 45, 1 female under 10, 1 female 10 to 16. 1820 Census: Name: Lewis Boatwright Township: Not Stated County: Chesterfield State: South Carolina Year: 1820 Roll: M33_119 Page: 121 Image Number: 190 1 male: over 45, 1 female: 10 - 16, 1 female: over 45 1830 Census: Name: Boatwright, Lewis Township: Not Stated County: Chesterfield State: South Carolina Year: 1830 Roll: 172 Page: 236 Household: 1 male: 70 - 80, 1 female: 20 - 30, 1 female: 70 - 80, 1 female slave: 36 - 55, 4 total
Sarah is included in her father's will (Source: Charles Purvis):
In the name of God Amen. I Simon Lundy of Chesterfield County and state of South Carolina being weak of body but of perfect mind, memory and understanding do hereby make my last will and testament in writing as follows:
First it is my will and desire that my beloved wife Becky Lundy have the use of my plantation and negroes with my stock of cattle, horses, hogs, and ____, houses, plantation tools and household furniture during her natural life and at her decease to go to the following persons Vis:
I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Edy Lundy one hundred and fifty acres of land bounding on Gilbert Purvis and Joseph Booth's land & on the East side on one hundred acres that I intend to will and bequeath to Sarah Boatwright and a negro fellow names Charles and a negro girl named Phebe with her future increases with my horses, cattle, hogs, sheep and geese and also my plantation tools and household furniture except a bed blanket and sheet and in case of her death without lawful heirs to her daughter Becky Lundy. But if she should have such lawful heirs, to be equally divided between them and the said Becky Lundy, her daughter, share and share alike. But in case said Edy Lundy and Becky Lundy die without such heirs lawfully begotten, that the aforesaid land, negroes, horses, black cattle, hogs, sheep, and geese with the plantation tools and household furniture be equally divided between my son Drury Lundy and my daughter Sarah Boatwright share and share alike.
I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Sarah Boatwright, one hundred acres of land adjoining the above mentioned one hundred and fifty [150] acres on the east and on land belonging to Drury Lundy and to include the plantation where Lewis Boatwright now lives with a negro woman named Celia with her future increase and a negro boy named Bob and also a bed, blanket, and sheet to her and her heirs share and share alike, and it is my will and desire that my said daughter Sarah Boatwright pay unto my beloved son Drury Lundy in one year after my decease one hundred [$100] dollars cash in order to purchase him a negro.
And I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my beloved son Drury Landy and my friend Haywood Todd, Senior Executor of this my last will and testament and I do hereby revoke and disannul all and all former and other Wills and Testaments by me in any wise here to fore made ratifying and confirming this my only Last Will and Testament in witness where I have here unto set my hand and seal this twenty-sixth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced...................Simon X Lundy{seal}
By the Testator in the presence of
Us who in his and at his request
And in the presence of have here unto
Subscribed our names.
_____ Cray, Haywood Todd, William Bevill
1850 Census: Name: Sarah Boatwright Date: January 10, 1850 Age: 90 Estimated birth year: abt 1760 Birth place: South Carolina Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina Page: 177 Roll: M432_851
7-35. i. DAVID BOATWRIGHT, b. 1781, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina; d. Bef. 1850, Marion County, South
Carolina.
7-36. ii. CALVIN BOATWRIGHT, b. 1783, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina.
7-37. iii. ANDREW DRURY BOATWRIGHT, b. 1784, Chesterfield County,
South Carolina; d. Abt. 1832,
Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
7-38. iv. MARY BOATWRIGHT, b. 1785, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina.
7-39A. v. SIDDIE BOATWRIGHT, b. 1786, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina; d. 03 Jul 1861, Chesterfield,
Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
7-39. vi. LEWIS BOATWRIGHT, b. 1789, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina; d. 07 Mar 1863, Chesterfield County,
South Carolina.
6-8. ANTHONY BOATWRIGHT (WILLIAM6, THOMAS5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1763 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
Notes for ANTHONY BOATWRIGHT:
1790 Census Name: Anthony Boatwright Township: St Thomas County: Cheraws District State: South Carolina Year: 1790 Roll: M637_11 Page: 48 Image: 0224 1 male head of household and 3 females
6-9. THOMAS BOATWRIGHT (WILLIAM6, THOMAS5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1764 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, and died 1822 in Lexington County, South Carolina. He married ELIZABETH ANN WING 1809 in South Carolina, daughter of EDWARD WING and MARY LOWERY. She was born 1788 in Orangeburg District, South Carolina, and died Sep 1852 in Carroll County, Georgia.
Notes for THOMAS BOATWRIGHT:
1810 Census: Name: Boatwright, Thos Township: Not Stated County: Marion State: South Carolina Year: 1810 Roll: M252_61 Page: 79A Image: 133 1 male 26 to 45, 2 males under 10, 1 female 26 to 45.
1840 Census: Name: Elisabeth Boatright County: Coweta State: Georgia Roll: 39 Page: 324 1 male: 10 - 15, 2 females: 20 - 30, 1 female: 40 - 50, 4 total 1850 Census: Name: Elizabeth Boatright Date: September 4, 1850 Age: 52 Estimated birth year: abt 1798 Birth place: South Carolina Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 11, Carroll County, Georgia Page: 34 Roll: M432_63
7-41. i. LEWIS B. BOATWRIGHT, b. 01 Oct 1810, Delay, Lexington County,
South Carolina; d. 30 Jan 1898, Lafayette
County, Mississippi.
7-42. ii. LUCY BOATWRIGHT, b. 1811, Lexington County, South Carolina.
7-43. iii. MARY BOATWRIGHT, b. 1813, Lexington County, South Carolina.
7-44. iv. JAMES A. BOATWRIGHT, b. 1819, Lexington County, South Carolina;
d. 30 Jan 1895, Carrollton, Carroll
County, Georgia.
7-45. v. RACHEL BOATWRIGHT, b. 1820, Lexington County, South Carolina;
d. 23 Jun 1901, Cedar Bluff, Cherokee County,
Alabama.
6-10. JACOB BOATWRIGHT, SR. (WILLIAM6, THOMAS5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1765 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, and died 1836 in Henderson County, Tennessee.
Notes for JACOB BOATWRIGHT, SR.:
Montgomery County, Tennessee: information from Mrs. Phyllis Files(CA):
In Apr 1807, Jacob was appointed to jury.
On 12 Oct 1807, Jacob was appointed to grand jury,and on 14 Oct 1807,Jacob signed a Deed of Coveyance from Edmund Suter for 96 acres of land in Montgomery County, Tennessee.
He was in the 1810 Census of Montgomery County,Tennessee. (I can not locate him in the Census)
On LDS film reel # 0024778, Jacob Boatright,Sr. filed a complaint that they were taking too much of his land for road improvements.
On LDS reel # 0024774, Jacob Boatwright,Sr. and Thomas Boatright have paid bond for Jacob Boatright,Jr. to apply for job of constable (Jacob Boatright,Jr. was appointed constable).
In 1821,Jacob Boatwright,Sr. signed a Deed of Conveyance for 90 acres (apparently lost 6 acres to road) to Edmund Suter.
No mention of Jacob Boatwright after this date in Montgomery County, Tennessee.
In 1830, Jacob Boatwright is in Henderson County, Tennessee with a son John Louis.
In 1840 there is no record of Jacob Boatwright in Henderson County,Tennessee.
1790 Federal census: Name: Jacob Boatwright Township: St Thomas County: Cheraws District State: South Carolina Year: 1790 Roll: M637_11 Page: 48 Image: 0223 1 male head of household, 1 male under 16 and 3 females. 1800 Census: Name: Boatright, Jacob Township: Not Stated County: Marlboro District State: South Carolina Year: 1800 Roll: M32_50 Page: 59 Image: 115 4 males: under 10, 1 male: 10 - 15, 1 male: 26 - 44, 1 female: under 10, 1 female: 10 - 15, 1 female: 26 - 44, 1820 Census: Name: Jacob Boatwright Township: Not Stated County: Montgomery State: Tennessee Year: 1820 Roll: M33_122 Page: 238 Image Number: 197 1 male: 10 - 16, 1 male: over 45, 1 female: 16 - 26, 1 female: 26 - 45, 1 female: over 45
Children of JACOB BOATWRIGHT, SR. and UNKNOWN are:
7-46. i. ANANIAS BOATWRIGHT, b. 1786, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina; d. Jun 1849, Henderson County,
Tennessee.
7-47. ii. ZEPHANIA BOATWRIGHT, b. 1789, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina.
7-48. iii. THOMAS BOATWRIGHT, b. 1793, Chesterfield County, South Carolina;
d. Saline County, Missouri.
7-49. iv. JACOB BOATWRIGHT, JR., b. 23 Aug 1798, Cheraw, Chesterfield County,
South Carolina; d. 20 Feb 1870, Marshall,
Saline County, Missouri.
7-50. v. WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT, b. 1802, Cheraw, Chesterfield County,
South Carolina; d. 1867, Saline County,
Missouri.
6-11. THOMAS BOATRIGHT (THOMAS6, THOMAS5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1763 in South Carolina, and died 1833 in Pope County, Arkansas. He married AMY RUSHING 1792 in Anson County, North Carolina, daughter of RICHARD RUSHING and ELIZABETH RUSHING. She was born Bef. 1780 in Anson County, North Carolina, and died 1839 in Pope County, Arkansas.
Notes for THOMAS BOATRIGHT:
DNA testing indicates that Thomas is the grandson of THOMAS. Most likely, Thomas is either the son of Thomas, as shown here, or the son of Thomas' brother, LEWIS.
Thomas and Amy and four of their children were part of the original Texas settlers, known as Austin's 300. The Spanish Land Grant and The Austin Papers for Thomas were dated and signed by both Thomas Boatwright and Stephen F. Austin.
In January 1821, Moses Austin (who is also known as the father of Texas) had received a permit from the Spanish to settle 300 families in Texas. However, Moses Austin died in Missouri a short time later before he could realize his plans.
The name, "Old Three Hundred" is sometimes used to refer to the settlers who received land grants in Stephen F. Austin's first colony in Texas. Stephen F. Austin took up his father's colonization activities and traveled to San Antonio, where he met with the Spanish governor Antonio María Martínez. The governor acknowledged Stephen F. Austin as his father's successor allowing the colonization activities to proceed. Stephen F. Austin recruited some hardy pioneers willing to move to Texas and by the end of the summer of 1824, most of the Old Three Hundred were in Texas.
Since the Spanish were eager to settle the vast expanse that was the Texas territory, it was decided under the colonization decree drawn up by the Spanish that the family would be the unit for land distribution. However, Stephen Austin permitted unmarried men to receive grants in partnership, usually in groups of two or three. Twenty-two such partnership titles were issued to fifty-nine partners.
In all, 307 land titles were issued, with nine families receiving two titles each. Thus the total number of grantees, excluding Austin's own grant, was actually 297, not 300. The colonization decree required that all the lands should be occupied and improved within two years; most of the settlers were able to comply with the terms, and only seven of the grants were forfeited. During 1823-24, Stephen Austin and the land commissioner Baron de Bastrop issued 272 titles, but Bastrop was called away in August 1824, and the work remained unfinished until 1827, when the new commissioner, Gaspar Flores de Abrego, issued the remaining titles. The lands selected by the Old 300 colonists were located along the rich bottomlands of the Brazos, Colorado, and San Bernard rivers, extending from the vicinity of present-day Brenham, Navasota, and La Grange to the Gulf of Mexico. According to the terms of the colonization agreement, each family engaged in farming was to receive one labor (about 177 acres) and each ranching family one sitio (about 4,428 acres).
As one might expect, a sizeable number of the colonists classified themselves as stock raisers, though they were technically planters, to get the additional acreage. Each family's site was to have a frontage on the river equal to about one-fourth of its length; thus the east bank of the Brazos was soon completely occupied from the Gulf to what is now Brazos County. Most of the labors were arranged in three groups around San Felipe de Austin, which formed the nucleus of the colony.
The largest number of the Old Three Hundred colonists were from Louisiana, followed by Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri. Virtually all of the Old 300 were of British ancestry. Many had been born east of the Appalachians and were part of the large westward migration of the early years of the nineteenth century. Most were farmers, and many-including the Bell, Borden, Kuykendall, McCormick, McNair, McNeel, Raab, and Varner familiesalready had substantial means before they arrived.
Because Austin wanted to avoid problems with his colonists, he generally only accepted those of "better" classes and only four of the Old Three Hundred grantees were illiterate.
First Class Headright: Issued to those who arrived before March 2, 1836. Heads of families received one league (4,428 acres) and one labor (177.1 acres), while single men received 1/3 league (1,476.1 acres).
From Austin Colony Pioneers
(This book found in the Texas State Library at Austin, Texas)
From Chapter I page 1. The Birth of Austin's Colony:
On the last day of the year 1821 a small band of foot-weary travelers stood at the break of day on the banks of the Brazos river at a point a little south of where the town of Washington-onthe- Brazos afterwards stood, and looked across at the "promised land" on the other side.
Young Stephen F. Austin only a few days before at the little Mexican town of Nacogdoches, had told them that somewhere in between the Brazos and the Colorado rivers good home-sites, and productive lands lay ready for occupancy to settlers. As near as can be ascertained at this distant period, young and old, there were some fifteen persons in the party, heady by Elijah Allcorn, his wife Nancy, their twenty-four year old son, James, William, John, about 12, Thomas 11, Elliott 8, and four year old Mary Ann; then there was John McNeese and his wife and at least two sons Parrott and Ivy McNeese; Thomas Boatright and his wife and their oldest son, Richard, two younger boys and little Betsy Boatright, a daughter.
The Brazos river, at this point was not very wide, but it's current ran deep. The problem of how to get the party and it's small belongings across the stream was solved, however, when voices were heard on the opposite bank, coinciding with smoke from a camp-fire, and two or three friendly voices hailed them as white men emerged from the timbered growth around them. These persons had crossed at the same point the day before and a crudely constructed tied-together raft they had built for the purpose was shoved into view. With the help of these new found friends and their crude raft, Elijah Allcorn and his small party lost no time in reaching the south bank of the river. Their friends, thus timely discovered, consisted of Andrew Robinson and his family; Joseph, Peter, Robert and Abner Kuykendall; also a Daniel Gilliland. All were in search of the same thing; lands offered them by young Stephen F. Austin, on which to settle.
After a brief conference the following course of action was agreen upon. Andrew Robinson having suddenly conceived the brilliant idea that here was a good point to establish a ferry for incoming settlers who wanted to go back and forth, decided to remain in this immediate neighborhoos, and Peter Juykendall was to stay with him. Joseph and Robert Juykendall with Daniel Gilliland decided to follow the river and locate somewhere down below on the banks of the stream at a faverable location, if found. Abner Kuykendall, the oldest of the Kuykendall brothers, with his wife and six husky young boys, Brizilla and Gibson almost grown, cast his lot with the Alcorn party.
Thus huriedly organized, or re-organized, the Allcorn pary immediately headed in a Southwestern course through the moss-hung live oaks and tall grass of this virgin wilderness, without road, trail or other guide posts, save the cloud dimmed sun on this winter's day to point the directions. All day long they traveled, hoping to get as far as possible, until what sun was to be observed at all dipped low in the West and the sharp North winds chilled them more, keeping a sharp lookout for water and a place to camp for the night. As dusk began to envelope the land they arrived at last on the banks of a small stream or creek, winding its way across the prairie, bordered with a wide strip of small timer, which would serve as a windbreak. Here they halted and pitched camp.
From page 63 same book...Thomas Boatright camped on New Year Creek some four or five miles North of the town of Brenham, as it is today, with the Alcorns, McNeeses and the Abner Kuykendalls. Thomas Boatwright, F. Boatwright, H. Boatwright and Richard Boatwright were all tax payers of Washington County on the first list in 1837. Elizabeth Boatwright, believed to have been daughter of Thomas Boatwright was married to W. T. Charles in Washington County in 1838, and Levy Boatright was married to Dicey Lawrence in the same county on May 25, 1840.
From Buttonhole Kinfolks by John S. Woodward:
Texas Records page 180-181 Thomas Boatright came to Texas with his wife, three sons and a daughter in company with Abner Kurkendall in 1821 and in January 1822 settled near New Year's creek about four miles south of present (1998) Independence. In the summer of 1823, Boatright went with the Kuykendall's to pursue a band of Tonkawa Indians who had stolen horses in the settlement. As one of Stephen F. Austen's 'Old Three Hundred' settlers, Boatright received title to a league of land in present Austin County on July 1824. He was listed as deliquent on direct taxes due in Washington Co., in 1840.
The original settler should not be confused with Thomas Boatright, age 27, who brought wis wife, Lydia, and one son to Texas in 1833 and applied for land on the Navasota River. The second Boatright murdered John Loyd, 24 February 1839, and fled from Texas, probably went back to Arkansas.
Bioliography: E. C. Barker (ed) Austin Papers I, II (1924, 1929); C. A. Gulick and others (eds) Papers of Mirabeau Bonapart Lamar, V. (1927); Lester G. Bugbee 'Old Three Hundred' Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association ibed., VII (1903-1904)'. Texas Sentinel;. 9 September 1941.
NEW YEAR CREEK:
New Year Creek rises (at 30°15' N, 96°30' W) two miles south of Gay Hill and runs southeast for twenty miles through Washington County before reaching its mouth (at 30°08' N, 96°11' W) on the Brazos River at the Waller county line. It traverses moderately sloping terrain, surfaced by loams and clays that support post oak and grasses. Tributaries of New Year Creek include Cedar, Peach, Tommelson, Sandy, Ralston, Davis, Little, Red Gully, and Rocky creeks. New Year Creek was named by members of the Old Three Hundred, among them Thomas Boatright and Jonathan H. Kuykendall, who arrived with their families and camped on the banks of this creek about January 1, 1822.
1821 Austin's First Families, had a grant to Tom Boatright. Present at the 'Run-Away-Scrape', and stood guard over the supplies of Houston's Army at San Jacinto.
Washington County, Texas marriages:
Elizabeth Boatright married W. T. Charles on July 14, 1838 from Austin Colony Pioneers.
Levi Boatright married Dicey Lawrence on January 25, 1840 from Austin Colony Pioneers.
Minerva Boatright married Levi J. Robinson on April 16, 1855 from Austin Colony Pioneers.
Mattie A. Boatright married R. H. Cook January 11, 1866 from Austin Colony Pioneers.
From Austin Colony Pioneers the First List of Taxpapers 1837 of Washington Co., Texas
shows:
Boatright F. (Friend) Boatright M. Boatright Richard Boatright Thomas
Memorandum of Application for Land A book listing the applicants for land in Austin's
Colony. Found in the Texas State Library in Austin. Originally two manuscripts mostly written
in Spanish.
In 1833 the following Boatwrights asked for land:
Thos. Boatwright from Arkansas, 27 years old, 2 male children, and his wife Lydia 23 applied for League D on Navasota river.
Anny Boatwright from Arkansas, 72 years old, with one male child, a widow applied for League M on the Navasota river.
Wm. Boatwright 22 and single, applies for 1/4 league on the Navasota river.
Richd. Boatwright from Arkansas, 24 years old, with one girl and Barbary 21 years old, his wife, applied for league No. 1 on the Middle Barnard.
Friend Boatwright from Arkansas, 32 years old, with 3 boys and 4 girls, and his wife Lydia 25 years old, applies for a league.
Thomas Boatright's son was Richard and he had a daughter Elizabeth when he appeared on the Brazos River (see above). He also had two other sons. Richard was 24 when he applied for land in 1833. He would have been 13 when the family appeared on the Brazos. William may have been a son of Thomas (OS). He was 11 in 1821. Perhaps Anny was the original settlers wife. John S. Woodward shows the wife of Thomas (OS) as Amy. If so then Thomas died between 1821 and 1833. (According to tradition the family returned to Arkansas where Thomas died. Then Thomas's widow returned to Texas with her sons.)
Note that John S. Woodward shows Thomas (OS) as born in 1760, and that is consistant with his dying ca. 1821-33. If this is so then Thomas (OS) could have had sons that were left behind in Arkansas or even North Carolina. If Richard was indeed his oldest son then Thomas and Amy would have been both over 40 when they had their first child.
All of these Boatrights were from Arkansas.
Some speculation:
Thomas Boatright Sr., was probably in the Arkansas Territory early (perhaps arriving after 1814 and before or around 1820 ...... these dates based on purported marriage dates of daughters Martha and Margaret) and probably was in Old Miller County. Need to check out petitions signed by the residents of Old Miller County to remain on Indian lands they (the settlers) had squatted on to see if Thomas and any sons names appear. Since the Polks were in old Miller County in/around the 1820s, it is likely that is where Benjamin Polk met and married Margaret Boatwright. Then, when the settlers were forced off the land, the Polks went to what became Montgomery County, AR., and the Boatwrights went to Crawford County, part of which became Pope Co., AR., in 1829.
Census records: 1830 Census: CD No. 315, 1830 Name: Thomas Boatright, Sr. State: AR County: Pope Co. Census/Enumeration year: 1832 CD No. 315, 1830 Name: Thomas Boatright, Sr. State: AR County: Pope Co. Census/Enumeration year: 1830Information for the three Boatrights above downloaded from Pope Co., AR., Genweb site at ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ar/pope/census/pope1830.txt, on 15 Jan 2000:
Boatright, Friend - 20002-12001-0 Boatright, Thomas, Sr., - 100110001-000000001-3 Boatright, Thomas, Jr., - 00001-0001-0 1828 Census: CD No. 314, 1820 Name: Thomas Boatright, Sr. State: AR County: Pope Co. Census/Enumeration year: 1828NOTE: Pope Co., AR., was formed from Crawford in 1829, so Thomas could not have been in Pope County in 1828. ALSO NOTE that there were no more Boatrights/Boatwrights listed in Arkansas for any date before 1828 but Powhaton Boatright, Independence Co., AR., 1824, pg. 1 of tax list, who does not appear to be related to the Thomas Boatright Sr. family
1810 Census: CD No. 313, 1810: Name: Thomas Boatright State: IL County: Crawford Co. Page #: 74 Census/Enumeration year: 1818 Age ranges in household: 01-06-00-00NOTE: The above Thomas Boatright MAY NOT be the correct Thomas. The only other Thomas Boatrights (Boatwright/Boteright) on this CD were "Thoas Boatright," Marion Dist., SC., pg. 85, and "Thomas Boatright," Marion Dist., SC., pg. 79., both shown in the 1810 census. There were NO Boatrights or Boatwrights shown as living in AR. on this CD. Crawford Co., IL., formed 1816 from Edwards County. Gallatin Co., IL., formed 1812 from Randolph County.
1800 Census: CD No. 312, 1800: Name: Thomas Boatwright State: NC County: Brunswick Co. Page #: 39 Census/Enumeration year: 1800 Age ranges in household: 10010-1001001NOTE: The age range of the household, one male under 10 and one male 26-45, one female under 10, one female 26-45, (and one slave), would indicate that this is the right Thomas Boatwright. If Thomas was b. in 1763, then in 1800, he ould be in the age range 26-45. His wife Amy would fit in the same age range. Their first child Lewis would be the male under age 10. Their second child Martha would be the female under age 10, and the rest of the children were not yet born.
Notes for AMY RUSHING:
The below information taken from David L. Donahue's database of the Rushing family, Part. 1, pg. 31, such database located on the Internet at the following location (as of 16 June 1999): http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~ddonahue/gene.htm
Will for Amy Rushing - Born in NC. Died, before 1839, in Pope County, Arkansas:
"Know all men by these presents. That whereas under and by virtue of a power of attorney duly made and executed on the twenty-second day of April 1839 (and duly recorded) by one Thomas Boatwright of Texas, the authorized and legally appointed Agent of Certain Heirs of the Estate of Richard Rushing late of the State of Tennessee, deceased, I, David Rushing of the County of Pope and State of Arkansas, was appointed the proper attorney and agent of sd. Boatwright in the premises to ask for, collect, demand, sue for, receive, and give receipts and full discharges for the same of the amounts of monies respectively coming or due to the late Amy Boatwright, mother of said Thomas Boatwright and also to the others, the children of said Amy, being a portion of the heirs of Richard Rushing, dec'd. upon and under the terms and conditions therein expressed, and whereas sd. David Rushing, being old and unable to travel to carry out the intentions of said power, is desirous and willing and able to appoint some other person to act therein;
thereupon be it known to all whom it may concern that I, David Rushing of the County of Pope and the State aforesaid do hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint Willis Rushing of the County of Benton in the State of Tennessee, my true and lawful Attorney, for me in my name or in the name of Thomas Boatwright the Legally authorized agent of the said heirs of the Estate, of said Richard Rushing late of Tennessee aforesaid. To ask for, receive, collect, sue for and receive, all sums or sums of money or effects of any kind or description of right belonging and appertaining to the said heirs of the said Estate, of said Richard Rushing dec'd. of and from all persons and parties owing or amenable for the dec'd. and I further authorize under and by virtue of the like power herein I am empowered to do and execute all acts to carry into effects the intentions therein expressed, the said Willis Rushing to give all necessary acquittances and receipts in the law for the same, either in my name as attorney and agent for the said Thomas Boatwright or in the name of said Boatwright as the legally authorized Agent of said heirs of the Estate as he the said Willis may be advised or required, and generally to act in the premise as agent or attorney of said Boatwright or myself under the above recited power, so that the monies due the heirs of the Estate of sd. Richard Rushing dec'd. may be collected and applied to the purposes expressed in the original power from sd. Thomas Boatwright.
In witness thereof I have set my hand and seal this 27th day of December 1842. Signed, sealed, and delivered.
David Rushing (seal)
In presence of: Jno. R. A. Scott A. M. MetcalfThis day personally appeared before me an Acting Justice of the Peace within and for the co. and State af. sd. the within named David Rushing who duly acknowledged the name David Rushing at the end of the annexed power of Attorney to be his signature and that he executed the same for the reasons therein set forth. Dated this 27th day of december 1842. A. R. Cheyne, J.P."
Children of THOMAS BOATRIGHT and AMY RUSHING are:
7-51. i. LEWIS BOATRIGHT, b. 1794, North Carolina; d. Jun 1859, Fayette
County, Texas.
7-52. ii. MARTHA "PATSY" BOATRIGHT, b. 1796, North Carolina; d. 1835,
Arkansas.
7-53. iii. MARGARET "PEGGY" BOATRIGHT, b. 1800, Tennessee; d. Aft.
18 Nov 1876, Johnson County, Texas.
7-54. iv. FRIEND BOATRIGHT, b. 1802, Tennessee; d. 1848, Oakland, Colorado
County, Texas.
7-55. v. PRECILLA BOATRIGHT, b. 20 Jun 1803, Tennessee; d. 09 May 1873,
Milam County,Texas.
7-56. vi. SALIDAH BOATRIGHT, b. 1806, Tennessee; d. 1836, Texas.
7-57. vii. RICHARD BOATRIGHT, b. 20 Jun 1807, Tennessee; d. 19 Aug 1860,
Robertson County, Texas.
7-58. viii. THOMAS BOATRIGHT, b. 1808, Illinois; d. 1835, Pope County,
Arkansas.
7-59. ix. MARY "POLLY" BOATRIGHT, b. 1809, Gallatin County, Illinois;
d. 1863, Falls County, Texas.
7-60. x. JANE BOATRIGHT, b. 1810, Illinois; d. Texas.
7-61. xi. WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT, b. 1814, Illinois; d. Abt. 1866, Missouri.
6-12. WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT (THOMAS6, THOMAS5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1765 in South Carolina, and died Bef. 1810 in Brunswick County, North Carolina. He married ANN. She was born Abt. 1772 in South Carolina.
Notes for WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT:
1790 Census: Name: William Boatright Township: Not Stated County: Brunswick State: North Carolina Year: 1790 Roll: M637_7 Page: 189 Image: 0360 1 male head of household and 1 female over 16. 1800 Census: Name: Boatwright, William Township: Wilmington County: Brunswick State: North Carolina Year: 1800 Roll: M32_29 Page: 15 Image: 56 1 male, 26 - 45, 1 female, 26 - 45, 5 females under 10, 2 slaves
1810 Census: Name: Boatwright, Ann Township: Not Stated County: Brunswick State: North Carolina Year: 1810 Roll: M252_38 Page: 38 Image: 46 1 male under 10, 1 male 10 - 16, 2 females under 10, 1 female, 26 - 45. 1820 Census: Name: Ann Boatwright Township: Not Stated County: Brunswick State: North Carolina Year: 1820 Roll: M33_84 Page: 9 Image Number: 12 1 female, 10 - 16, 1 female, 26 - 45.
6-13. DANIEL BOATWRIGHT (LEWIS6, THOMAS5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1787 in South Carolina, and died Bef. 1870 in Fayette County, Alabama. He married (1) SARAH ANN MASON. She was born Abt. 1780 in South Carolina, and died Bef. 1830 in Marion County, South Carolina. He married (2) RUTH GIBSON. She was born 1779 in South Carolina, and died 1868 in Beech, Scott County, Mississippi.
Notes for DANIEL BOATWRIGHT:
1810 Census: Name: Boatwright, Daniel Township: Not Stated County: Marion State: South Carolina Year: 1810 Roll: M252_61 Page: 85 Image: 144 1 male: 0 - 10, 1 male: 16 - 25, 1 female: 26 - 44, 9 slaves 1820 Census: Name: Daniel Boatright Township: Marion County: Marion State: South Carolina Year: 1820 Roll: M33_121 Page: 54 Image Number: 101 2 males: 0 - 10, 1 male: 16 - 26, 1 male: 26 - 45, 1 female: 26 - 45 1830 Census: Name: Boatright, Daniel Township: Not Stated County: Marion State: South Carolina Year: 1830 Roll: 172 Page: 7 1 male: 5 - 10, 1 male: 15 - 20, 1 male: 40 - 50, 1 female: 15 - 20, 4 total 1840 Census: Name: Daniel Boatright Township: Not Stated County: Marion State: South Carolina Roll: 513 Page: 175 Household: 3 males: 0 - 5, 1 male: 5 - 10, 1 male: 10 - 15, 1 male: 50 - 60, 1 female: 20 - 30, 7 total, 1 agriculture 1850 Census: Name: Daniel Boatright Date: August 10, 1850 Age: 63 Estimated birth year: abt 1787 Birth place: South Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 10, Campbell, Georgia Occupation: Farmer Page: 404 Roll: M432_62 1860 Census: Name: Daniel Boatwright Date: June 17, 1860 Age in 1860: 73 Birthplace: South Carolina Home in 1860: Eastern Division, Fayette, Alabama Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Fayette Court House Roll: M653_9 Page: 376 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Noah WallaceNotes for RUTH GIBSON:
1850 Census: Name: Bitha Boatright Date: August 10, 1850 Age: 63 Estimated birth year: abt 1787 Birth place: South Carolina Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 10, Campbell, Georgia Page: 404 Roll: M432_62 1860 Census: Name: Ruth Boatwright Date: June 17, 1860 Age in 1860: 80 Birthplace: South Carolina Home in 1860: Eastern Division, Fayette, Alabama Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Fayette Court House Roll: M653_9 Page: 376 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Noah Wallace
Children of DANIEL BOATWRIGHT and SARAH MASON are:
7-62. i. ABIJAH BOATWRIGHT, b. Abt. 1806, Marion County, South Carolina;
d. 27 Jul 1878, Marion County, South Carolina.
7-63. ii. WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT, b. Abt. 1807, Marion County, South Carolina;
d. Bef. 1860, Marion County, South Carolina.
7-64. iii. JAMES BOATWRIGHT, b. Abt. 1815, Marion County, South Carolina;
d. Bef. 1850, Marion County, South Carolina.
7-65. iv. THOMAS W. BOATWRIGHT, b. Abt. 1817, Marion County, South Carolina.
d. 25 Jun 1894, Marion County, South Carolina.
7-66. v. DRURY BOATWRIGHT, b. Abt. 1825, Marion County, South Carolina.
Child of DANIEL BOATWRIGHT and RUTH GIBSON is:
7-66A. vi. JOHN BOATWRIGHT, b. Abt. 1826, Marion County, South Carolina.
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