Thomas Boatwright

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Husband Thomas BOATWRIGHT ¹

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         Born: Abt 1760 - Virginia 2
         Died: Abt 1833 - Pope Co, Arkansas 2
       Buried: 

     Marriage: 

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 Other Spouse: Amy RUSHING (Abt 1775-Bef 1839) 1 3

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Events in his life were:

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• Residence, Tennessee, Bef 1811

• Residence, Illinois, Bef 1819

• Residence, Miller Co, Arkansas, Abt 1819

• Occupation, Scout for Austin's Colony, 1821

• Fact, Old 300, Dec 1821

• Property, Austin Co, Texas, 27 Jul 1824

• Residence, Miller Co, Arkansas, Abt 1825

• Census, Arkansas, 1830

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Wife

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Children

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1 F Jane BOATWRIGHT

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         Born: Abt 1800
         Died: Deceased
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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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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).

3 Kennedy, Annaliese Lillard (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/e/n/Anneliese-L-Kennedy/).