Mary Bouldin, Ancient Planter

Mary BOWLING [Parents unknown].was born about 1590. She married Thomas BOULDING before 1610.

Biography

Dec 12, 1624, Due to being one of the members of Jamestown’s survivors when the Muster at Jamestown was taken, Mary Boulden received a patent in her name of 100 acres in Elizabeth Citie. It adjoined her husband’s land as Ancient Planter. In May, the list of patented lands were sent to England. There she was credited with 200 acres.[3]

Mary Boulden is listed as an "Ancient planter", the wife of Thomas Bouldinge, and she received 100 Acres about a mile and a half from Southhampton river, in the Corporation of Elizabeth City; abutting southward upon a creek called Deep Creek, and eastward upon Southhampton river. Mary's property (100 Acres) is described as (Mary's property is also described along Deep Creek by Southampton River within corporation of Elizabeth City, in an area known as Strawberry Banke and adjoining the land of her husband Thomas Bouldinge. [4]

Mary and Thomas Bouldin are both listed in Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County, Virginia 1688-1800, p 189.

Mary died in 1670 Elizabeth Cittie, Virginia.[6]

Disputed children

As of June 2023, William Bouldin, of Bohemia River seems to be have been the only verified child of Thomas Bouldin of the Swan in 1610.

Children seen as Ann(1606-), William (1612-1671), Thomas(1618-1665), Elizabeth(1623-1650), William(1623-1691), Richard(1626-1669), William(1628-1703) - sources needed.

They had the following children:

• M i Thomas BOULDIN was born 1618 in Virginia.
• M ii William BOWLING was born 1620 and died 1703.
• F iii Elizabeth BOULDING was born about 1624.

Notes:

From the profile for Richard Boulding, of Norfolk:

Some people have claimed that Thomas Bouldin I had other children. According to The Powell Families of Virginia and the South by Rev. Fr. Silas Emmett Lucas Jr , a Richard Bouling or Boulin of Lower Norfolk made a will on 14 July 1668, naming William Ellis as his “brother.” Lucas believed that the name might be Boulding and that Richard might be a younger son of Thomas Bouldin I. He also added that Elizabeth, wife of William Ellis, was a sister of Richard and thus a possible daughter of Thomas Bouldin I.

While it is clear that Richard Bouling’s wife Elizabeth named in his will was not his first wife, she or his prior wife could have been a sister of William Ellis. Richard Bouling signed his name clearly as Boulin in his will, which showed that he was literate. The largely intact 17th-century Norfolk County records do not show any familial relationship between Elizabeth and Richard Boulin under any spelling to Thomas Bouldin I or his son William Bouldin (I?), who could only sign with an initial “W.” Nor do these two Bouldins appear in the Norfolk County records under any spelling. Moreover, Lower Norfolk County was located further south of the Corporation of Elizabeth City while Elizabeth City and Gloucester County was located further north.

No documented proof for possible siblings or half-siblings in either Kecoughtan, Elizabeth City, Newport News, or Warwick, Gloucester and Norfolk counties has come to light. To date, there is no conclusive proof of any connection between Thomas Bouldin I, his son William (I?) and these Boulin(g)s of Lower Norfolk County.

Source: Maryland Genealogy Society Bulletin, Fall 2007, Volume 48, Number 4. Published by the Maryland Genealogical Society, Inc., Baltimore, MD.

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