Husband: Thomas BOATWRIGHT (1)
Birthdate: Abt 1760
Birthplace: , , Virginia, USA (2,3)
Death date: Abt 1833
Place of death: , Pope, Arkansas, USA (4)
Burial:
Father:
Mother:
Other Spouses:

Marriage date:
Marriage place:

Wife: Amy RUSHING (5,6)
Birthdate: Abt 1775
Birthplace: , Anson, North Carolina, USA (3,7)
Death date: Bef 22 Apr 1839
Place of death: , Pope, Arkansas, USA
Burial:
Father: Richard RUSHING (1749-1841) (8,9)
Mother: RUSHING (Abt 1750-?) (10)
Other Spouses:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Lewis BOATWRIGHT (11)
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1795
Birthplace: , , Virginia, USA (12)
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: 19 Nov 1813
Marriage place: , Gallatin, Illinois, USA (14)
Spouses' names: Sarah SPARKS (Abt 1799-?) (13)

Child No. 2: Richard BOATWRIGHT (15)
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1797
Birthplace:
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 3: Jane BOATWRIGHT
Sex: F
Birthdate: Abt 1800
Birthplace:
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 4: Precilla BOATWRIGHT (16)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 20 Jun 1803
Birthplace: , , Illinois, USA
Death date: 9 May 1873
Place of death: , Milam, Texas, USA (17)
Burial: Gilliland Family Cemetery, , Milam, Texas, USA
Marriage date: 3 Mar 1819
Marriage place: , , Arkansas, USA (18)
Spouses' names: Daniel GILLILAND (1795-1873) (18)

Child No. 5: Friend BOATWRIGHT (19)
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1805 (20)
Birthplace:
Death date: 1848
Place of death: Oakland, Colorado, Texas, USA
Burial:
Marriage date: Abt 1824
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Lydia SPARKS (Abt 1808-Abt 1868)

Child No. 6: Thomas BOATWRIGHT Jr. (15)
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1807 (20)
Birthplace:
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 7: Mary BOATWRIGHT (21,22,23,24)
AKA: Polly BOATWRIGHT
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1809
Birthplace: , Gallatin, Illinois, USA (25,26)
Death date: Aft 1861
Place of death: , , Texas, USA
Burial: Hill Cemetery, , Parker, Texas, USA
Marriage date: [1] Cir 1823 [2] Cir 1824
Marriage place: [2] , , Arkansas, USA
Spouses' names: [1] HARRELL (Abt 1800-?) (27) [2] Willoughby SPARKS (1802-Between 1858/1863) (28,29,30,31)

Child No. 8: Elizabeth J BOATWRIGHT
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1813
Birthplace: , , Texas, USA (32)
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: 14 Jul 1838
Marriage place: , Washington, Texas, USA (35)
Spouses' names: William T CHARLES (1816-?) (33,34)
 
 
Documentation:
1. Vernone, Tracy Ross, Thomas Boatright.
2. The Handbook of Texas Online, Thomas Boatwright. a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/
3. 1830 Federal Census, Arkansas, Pope, pg 174. 60-70.
4. The Handbook of Texas Online, Thomas Boatwright.
5. Kennedy, Annaliese Lillard, The Lillard/Kennedy Family Home Page, Amy Rushing. http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/k/e/n/Anneliese-L-Kennedy/index.html
6. Vernone, Tracy Ross, Amy Rushing.
7. Kennedy, Annaliese Lillard, The Lillard/Kennedy Family Home Page, Amy Rushing.
8. Donahue, David, Richard Rushing.
9. Kennedy, Annaliese Lillard, The Lillard/Kennedy Family Home Page, Richard Rushing.
10. Donahue, David, Richard Rushing. Rushing.
11. 1830 Federal Census, Arkansas, Pope, Lewis Boatright.
12. 1830 Federal Census, Arkansas, Pope, pg 173. 30-40.
13. Illinois County Marriages, 1810-1934 (FamilySearch.org), Boatwright, Lewis. to Salley Sparks.
14. Illinois County Marriages, 1810-1934 (FamilySearch.org), Boatwright, Lewis. to Salley Sparks, 19 Nov 1813, Gallatin County.
15. The Handbook of Texas Online, Thomas Boatwright. In 1833 Amy Boatwright and three of her sons, Thomas, Friend, and Richard, were back in Texas making applications for land grants.
16. The Handbook of Texas Online, Daniel Gilleland. Precilla Boatwright.
17. The Handbook of Texas Online, Daniel Gilleland. "Precilla Gilleland died there less than four months later and was laid beside her husband."
18. The Handbook of Texas Online, Daniel Gilliland.
19. The Handbook of Texas Online, Thomas Boateright. In 1833 Amy Boatwright and three of her sons, Thomas, Friend, and Richard, were back in Texas making applications for land grants.
20. 1830 Federal Census, Arkansas, Pope, pg 174. 20-30.
21. Sparks Family Assn, Sparks Family Association Quarterly, Willoughby Sparks. Mary Harrell. This quarterly was published for almost 50 years.
22. Vernone, Tracy Ross, Mary Boatright. Mary Boatright.
23. 1850 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 785 (379A), d/f #369/369. Mary Sparks.
24. Death Certificate, Smithers, Mrs Rachel #11234. Boatwright.
25. 1850 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 785 (379A), d/f #369/369. age 40, Illinois.
26. 1840 Federal Census, Arkansas, Hot Spring, pg 156. 1 female, age 20-30.
27. Sparks Family Assn, Sparks Family Association Quarterly, Willoughby Sparks. Mary Harrell.
28. Sparks Family Assn, Sparks Family Association Quarterly, Willoughby Sparks.
29. 1850 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 785 (379A), d/f #369/369. Willibo Sparks.
30. Death Certificate, Smithers, Mrs Rachel #11234. William Sparks.
31. 1840 Federal Census, Arkansas, Hot Spring, pg 156. Willoby Sparks.
32. 1850 Federal Census, Texas, Burleson, pg 449 hh# 216. age 37, Texas.
33. Texas Marriages, 1837-1973 (FamilySearch.org), Charles, W T. to Elizabeth Boatwright.
34. 1850 Federal Census, Texas, Burleson, pg 449 hh# 216. William T Charles.
35. Texas Marriages, 1837-1973 (FamilySearch.org), Charles, W T. to Elizabeth Boatwright, 14 Jul 1838, Washington County.

Notes:
Thomas BOATWRIGHT
* County: Austin
Abstract Number: 17
District/Class: Title
File Number:
Original Grantee: Thomas Boatwright
Patentee:
Title Date:
Patent Date: 27 Jul 1824
Patent No: 254
Patent Vol: 1
Certificate:
Part Section:
Survey/Blk/Tsp:
Adj County:
Acres: 4,428.40
Adj Acres:
Remarks:
* From the "Handbook of Texas"
BOATWRIGHT, THOMAS (1760-ca. 1830). Thomas Boatwright, early Texas settler, was born in Virginia, moved to Illinois, and by 1819 was living in old Miller County, Arkansas. In the early fall of 1821 he and his wife, Amy, and their ten children traveled with the Gilleland, Kuykendall, Williams, and Gates families down Trammel's Trace to Nacogdoches. In early December they left for Austin's Spanish land grant and arrived at the La Bahía Crossing on the Brazos River on December 31, 1821. They immediately crossed over into Austin's land grant, traveled ten miles beyond the crossing, and on the last day of 1821 camped beside a flowing stream, now known as New Year Creek, in Washington County, Texas. Here, the families of Thomas Boatwright and Abner Kuykendall settled until they received their land grants in 1824.
  On July 27, 1824, Boatwright was granted a league of land now in Austin County, Texas, fronting upon the Brazos River. His son-in-law, Daniel Gilleland, received a grant of a labor in the southeast corner of Boatwright's grant. Neither the Boatwright nor the Gilleland families ever lived on these grants. About 1825 Boatwright and his family returned to Miller County, Arkansas, with numerous other families who had settled in Austin's colony, to protest the United States agreement with the Choctaw Indians that gave to the Indians all of the property owned by these settlers in Miller County, Arkansas. They were unsuccessful in their protests, and the Boatwrights moved to Pope County, Arkansas, where Boatwright died; he was still listed in the 1830 census, but by 1833 his wife was a widow. In 1833 Amy Boatwright and three of her sons, Thomas, Friend, and Richard, were back in Texas making applications for land grants. Mrs. Boatwright was seventy-two. On October 24, 1835, she received a grant of a league then in Montgomery County and now part of Madison County. She died by 1839.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Worth Stickley Ray, Austin Colony Pioneers (Austin: Jenkins, 1949; 2d ed., Austin: Pemberton, 1970).
John G. Gilleland and Thomas R. Underwood, Jr.

Amy RUSHING
* One of the few women ever to receive a land grant in Austin's colony.   "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. Metcalf
  This 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."
[Taproots, A Virginia & Carolina Legacy]
  "Note: There was a Thomas Boatwright in Henderson County in 1850. If this Thomas is the same Thomas as the son of Amy, then the Boatwrights who lived in Henderson and Decatur Counties probably are descendants of Richard Rushing. There are White and Hill descendants of a W. H. Boatwright in the Concord Community of Decatur County."
David Donahue's Home Page ddonahue@netease.net
* County: Madison
Abstract Number: 7
District/Class: Title
File Number:
Original Grantee: Amy Boatwright
Patentee:
Title Date:
Patent Date: 24 Oct 1835
Patent No: 313
Patent Vol: 10
Certificate:
Part Section:
Survey/Blk/Tsp:
Adj County:
Acres: 4,428.40
Adj Acres:
Remarks:

Lewis BOATWRIGHT
* Is he the Lewis in Lavaca County, Texas in 1850.

Richard BOATWRIGHT
* Sevier County, Arkansas?

Precilla BOATWRIGHT
* 13 children, 10 lived to adulthood

Friend BOATWRIGHT
* County: Lee
Abstract Number: 4
District/Class: Title
File Number:
Original Grantee: Freind Boatwright
Patentee:
Title Date:
Patent Date: 23 Oct 1835
Patent No: 285
Patent Vol: 10
Certificate:
Part Section:
Survey/Blk/Tsp:
Adj County:
Acres: 4,428.40
Adj Acres:
Remarks:
* County: Grimes
Abstract Number: 94
District/Class: Montgomery 1st
File Number: 281
Original Grantee: Friend Boatwright
Patentee: U. F. Case
Title Date:
Patent Date: 08 Dec 1847
Patent No: 128
Patent Vol: 7
Certificate:
Part Section:
Survey/Blk/Tsp:
Adj County:
Acres: 177.10
Adj Acres:
Remarks:

Thomas BOATWRIGHT Jr.
* County: Madison
Abstract Number: 8
District/Class: Title
File Number:
Original Grantee: Thomas Boatwright
Patentee:
Title Date:
Patent Date: 20 Oct 1835
Patent No: 245
Patent Vol: 10
Certificate:
Part Section:
Survey/Blk/Tsp:
Adj County:
Acres: 4,428.40
Adj Acres:
Remarks:
* County: Grimes
Abstract Number: 113
District/Class: Montgomery Bounty
File Number: 1
Original Grantee: Thomas Boatwright
Patentee: Thomas Boatwright
Title Date:
Patent Date: 27 Feb 1841
Patent No: 63
Patent Vol: 1
Certificate: 3621
Part Section:
Survey/Blk/Tsp:
Adj County:
Acres: 320.00
Adj Acres:
Remarks:
* County: Colorado
Abstract Number: 91
District/Class: Colorado 3rd
File Number: 43
Original Grantee: Thos. Boatwright
Patentee: Joseph Tinkler
Title Date:
Patent Date: 30 Jun 1848
Patent No: 641
Patent Vol: 4
Certificate: 57
Part Section:
Survey/Blk/Tsp:
Adj County:
Acres: 640.00
Adj Acres:
Remarks:
* There is a Thomas Boatright listed on the Muster Roll of Capt Clapp's Co, Sat, 10th of Sept, discharged 10 Dec 1836.

Mary BOATWRIGHT
* I have a lot of doubts about this line even though three Sparks married Boatwrights.
* Parker Co TX, Land
ABSALOM SPARKS A. SPARKS 1195
MARY SPARKS M. SPARKS 1231
* "A great many years ago, two great-grandchildren of Willoughby and Polly (Harrell) Sparks, Frank Sparks and Segonia (Sparks) Pritchett, found Mary's (Polly's) grave in Hills Cemetery. It had a headstone marker then which read "Polly Sparks, 1813." When they revisited the cemetery the following year for the purpose of replacing the marker, someone had removed it.
  "Hill Cemetery is in Parker County, TX. It is off of I-20 on Gilbert Pit Road. Go down the road past the gravel pit and the cattle guard. It is on the right back off the road." [George Boatright,
  http://boatwrightgenealogy.com/index.html] [This stone is still in the cemetery.]
  I don't believe this information is correct for our Polly Sparks, it would make her only a child when these children were born and she was married previously. I don't believe she married at 10. Her stone may say 1813 but it would be obviously incorrect.

Elizabeth J BOATWRIGHT
* There seems to be some disagreement on whether Elizabeth is a daughter or granddaughter of Thomas and Amy. She has a child named Friend and she is not on Thomas' census in 1830.

* If there is no SOURCE, I have no PROOF! If the source is a person, the information is HEARSAY.

Last Modified: 9 Sep 2019