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James Boulware

Also Known As: "Bowler"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: St. Anne's, Essex County, Virginia, Colonial America
Death: February 17, 1718 (76-77)
St. Ann’s Parish, Essex County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
Place of Burial: St. Ann's Parish, Essex Co, VA
Immediate Family:

Son of N.N. Boulware and Tabitha Minge
Husband of Marjory Tabitha Boulware
Father of Elizabeth Dobyns; Mark Boulware; James Boulware, Jr; Benjamin Boulware; Mary Boulware and 5 others
Brother of William Boulware

Occupation: tobacco planter
Managed by: Geoffrey David Trowbridge
Last Updated:

About James Boulware

Not the same as James Bowler


James Boulware (who married Margory Gray) was the ancestor of those descendants who carried on the Bowler / Boulware name. Parents unknown, brother of William.


Disambiguation

http://www.carolshouse.com/familyhistory/boler/ states:

"Many Boulware family members claim descendancy from the prominent Thomas Bowler, owner's of Bowler's Wharf, through his proven son James. But that lineage appears to be in error. Bowler's Wharf was inherited by Thomas Bowler's daughter Anne, who married Richard Cocke, indicating his son probably died without heirs.”


1. JAMES1 BOULWARE1,2,3 was born Bef. 1641 in London, England4, and died Bef. February 18, 1718/19 in Essex Co, VA5,6,7.

Family

http://www.carolshouse.com/familyhistory/boler/

He married MARGORY GRAY8,9 Bef. July 20, 1673 in Old Rappahannock Co, VA10,11,12, daughter of WILLIAM GRAY and ELIZABETH.

1668 Thomas and Elizabeth Page granted their loving friend Thomas Hawkins power of attorney to acknowledge the assignment to James and William Bowler of a patent in Rappahannock Co.

1689 Richard Dison of Sittingburne Parish, Rappahannock Co, husband of Christian and son-in-law of Vail Allen and Mary, his wife, for six thousand pounds of tobacco sold to James Bowlware of said parish and county 450 acres on the south side of the Rappahannock River. Recorded on 22 May 1690.

Children of JAMES BOULWARE and MARGORY GRAY are:

2. i. GRACE2 BOULWARE.

ii. MARY BOULWARE13.

iii. ELIZABETH BOULWARE14, b. Bef. July 20, 167315.

3. iv. JAMES BOULWARE, b. Abt. 1675; d. Bef. April 21, 1752, Essex County, VA.

4. v. MARK BOULWARE, b. Abt. 1677, St. Anns Parish, Essex Co, VA; d. Bef. July 16, 1754, Essex Co, VA.

5. vi. BENJAMIN BOULWARE, b. Abt. 1680, Essex Co, VA; d. January 16, 1727/28, Essex Co, VA.

6. vii. JOHN BOULWARE, b. Abt. 1682; d. Bef. June 15, 1761.

7. viii. WILLIAM BOULWARE, b. Abt. 1685, Essex Co, VA.

8. ix. SARAH BOULER, b. Bef. June 14, 1699.


purchased 783-acre tract of land


Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bowler-141

Notes per Bev Long Oct 2014:

"Two brothers, James and William Boulware, came to the colony of Virginia, almost certainly from England, around 1662. These two brothers bought a 783 acre tract of land in Old Rappahannock County, Virginia. (subsequently became Essex County, Virginia in 1692) on December 29, 1666. This purchase would indicate that the brothers were fairly prosperous and it is safe to assume that they, like most colonial landholders, were tobacco planters. They subsequently divided their land on December 19, 1674. In 1689, James purchased an additional 450 acres from Richard Dyson and in 1696 he bought 200 acres from his brother-in-law, Warwick Gray. Essex County records show that in 1715, James held 500 acres and his sons James Jr. and Mark, each held 225 acres. Clearly, James was a successful planter in his day. Sometime before July 20, 1673, James married Marjory Gray, daughter of William Gray. William Gray was a captain of a sailing vessel."

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James Boulware's Timeline

1641
1641
St. Anne's, Essex County, Virginia, Colonial America
1666
December 29, 1666
Age 25
1673
July 20, 1673
Essex, VA, United States
1677
1677
1683
1683
St. Ann's Parish, Essex Co, VA
1684
1684
St. Ann's Parish, Essex Co, VA
1692
1692
Essex, VA, United States
1697
1697
Essex, VA, United States
1699
June 14, 1699
Old Rappahannock, Essex, Virginia, America