IL Family Group Sheet for the Thomas BOATWRIGHT Family
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Submitted by: Gina Heffernan
Email address: <gina gale h @ yahoo . com>
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Husband: Thomas BOATWRIGHT
(1)
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Birthdate: Abt 1760
- Virginia, USA (2)
Death date: Abt 1833
- Pope, Arkansas, USA (2)
Buried:
Marriage:
Place:
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Wife: Amy RUSHING
(3)
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Birthdate: Abt 1775
- , Anson, North Carolina, USA (4)
Death date: Bef 22 Apr 1839
- Pope, Arkansas, USA
Buried:
Father: Richard RUSHING (1749-1841) (5)
Mother: Unknown RUSHING (Abt 1750- ) (6)
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Children
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1 F Mary BOATWRIGHT (7)
Birthdate: 1809 - Gallatin, Illinois, USA (8)
Death date: 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
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2 M Louis BOATWRIGHT
Birthdate: Abt 1795
Death date: Deceased
Buried:
Spouse: Sarah SPARKS (Abt
1799- )
Marr. Date: 12 Nov 1813 - Gallatin, Illinois, USA
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3 F Precilla BOATWRIGHT
Birthdate: 20 Jun 1803 - Illinois Territory, USA
Death date: 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)
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4 M Friend BOATWRIGHT
Birthdate: Abt 1804
Death date: 1848 - Oakland, Colorado, Texas, USA
Buried:
Spouse: Lydia SPARKS (Abt 1808-Abt
1868)
Marr. Date: Abt 1824
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5 M Thomas BOATWRIGHT Jr.
Birthdate: Abt 1807
Death date: Deceased
Buried:
Spouse:
Marr. Date:
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6 F Elizabeth BOATWRIGHT
Birthdate: Abt 1818
Death date: Deceased
Buried:
Spouse: William T CHARLES (Abt
1815- )
Marr. Date: 1838 - Washington Co, Texas
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General Notes: Husband -
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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.
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General Notes: Wife -
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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
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Source Citations
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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.
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My Notes
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If there is no SOURCE, I have no PROOF! If the source is a PERSON,
the information
is HEARSAY.