IL Family Group Sheet for the Thomas BOATWRIGHT Family *********************************************** Copyright © Gina Heffernan. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Gina Heffernan Email address:================================================================================ Husband: Thomas BOATWRIGHT (1) ================================================================================ Born: Abt 1760 - Virginia, USA (2) Died: Abt 1833 - Pope, Arkansas, USA (2) Buried: Marriage: Place: ================================================================================ Wife: Amy RUSHING (3) ================================================================================ Born: Abt 1775 - , Anson, North Carolina, USA (4) Died: Bef 22 Apr 1839 - Pope, Arkansas, USA Buried: Father: Richard RUSHING (1749-1841) (5) Mother: Unknown RUSHING (Abt 1750- ) (6) ================================================================================ Children ================================================================================ 1 F Mary BOATWRIGHT (7) Born: 1809 - Gallatin, Illinois, USA (8) Died: 1863 - Falls, Texas, USA Buried: Abt 1863 - Hills Cemetery, Parker, Texas, USA Spouse: Unknown HARRELL (Abt 1800- ) Marr. Date: Abt 1824 Spouse: Willoughby SPARKS (1802-Abt 1860) (9) Marr. Date: Abt 1825 - , , Arkansas, USA Spouse: Marr. Date: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 M Louis BOATWRIGHT Born: Abt 1795 Died: Deceased Buried: Spouse: Sarah SPARKS (Abt 1799- ) Marr. Date: 12 Nov 1813 - Gallatin, Illinois, USA Spouse: Marr. Date: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 F Precilla BOATWRIGHT Born: 20 Jun 1803 - Illinois Territory, USA Died: 9 May 1873 - Milam, Texas, USA Buried: May 1873 - Gilliland Family Cemetery, Milam, Texas, USA Spouse: Daniel GILLILAND (1795-1873) (10) Marr. Date: 3 Mar 1819 - Old Miller, Arkansas, USA (10) Spouse: Marr. Date: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 M Friend BOATWRIGHT Born: Abt 1804 Died: 1848 - Oakland, Colorado, Texas, USA Buried: Spouse: Lydia SPARKS (Abt 1808-Abt 1868) Marr. Date: Abt 1824 Spouse: Marr. Date: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 M Thomas BOATWRIGHT Jr. Born: Abt 1807 Died: Deceased Buried: Spouse: Marr. Date: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 F Elizabeth BOATWRIGHT Born: Abt 1818 Died: Deceased Buried: Spouse: William T CHARLES (Abt 1815- ) Marr. Date: 1838 - Washington Co, Texas Spouse: Marr. Date: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ General Notes: Husband - ================================================================================ 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 Traceqv to Nacogdoches. In early December they left for Austin's Spanish land grant and arrived at the La Bahíaqv 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 Kuykendallqv 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,qv 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. ================================================================================ General Notes: Wife - ================================================================================ 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: Last Modified: 6 Jul 2010 ================================================================================ Source Citations ================================================================================ 1. Vernone, Tracy Ross. 2. a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/fbo2.html). good 3. Kennedy, Annaliese Lillard (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/e/n/Anneliese-L-Kennedy/). .... Vernone, Tracy Ross. 4. Kennedy, Annaliese Lillard (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/e/n/Anneliese-L-Kennedy/). 5. Donahue, David. .... Kennedy, Annaliese Lillard (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/e/n/Anneliese-L-Kennedy/), http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/e/n/Anneliese-L-Kennedy/GENE 5-0004.html. 6. Donahue, David. 7. Sparks Family Association. I will publish the direct quotes at a later date. .... Vernone, Tracy Ross. .... 1850 Limestone Co, TX Census (http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/limestone/census/1850/), 379A. 8. 1850 Limestone Co, TX Census (http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/limestone/census/1850/). 9. Sparks Family Association. I will publish the direct quotes at a later date. 10. a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/BB/fbo2.html), Daniel Gilliland. good ================================================================================ My Notes ================================================================================ If there is no SOURCE, I have no PROOF! If the source is a person, the information is HERESAY.