Thomas Boswell

The Descendants of John Stubbs of Cappahosic, Gloucester County, Virginia ..., Issue 2 By William Carter Stubbs (New Orleans, 1902), on Google Books

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SAMUEL BOSWELL, aged 23 years, came to Virginia in July, 1635. (Hotten.)

EDWARD BOSWELL, planter, paid his tax levy in Middlesex County (Lancaster), 1654. He was a vestryman of Lancaster parish, 1657, and took John Vause into partnership, 1658, on his plantation for twelve years. Christ Church register notes the “death of Mr. Boswell's servants, 1661. In 1663, Edwin Boswell, 200 acres more in Gloucester county. (Va. Hist. Mag. V. 249.)

Gloucester County Boswell.

FRANCIS BOSWELL (probably his brother) a patent in Gloucester (1656) "972 acres on north side of Ware River, adjoining the lands of Major Curtis." (Glo. Land Patents.)

10th June, 1666, THOMAS BOSWELL, 100 acres on north point of Ware riverside on to a small creek or gut on the point of a marsh of Ware point, including Raccoon island.

1676, DOROTHY Boswell was left a legacy in the will of Mathew Edwards, of Bruton Parish, York County, “to be given her on her marriage day.” (York Records.)

1682, THOMAS BOSWELL, 1100 acres on Timberneck creek, in Abingdon Parish, extending a mile up from the mouth of the creek. (Gloucester Patents.)

1754, Thomas BOSWELL, of Gloucester, lands in dispute between him and John Clayton, gent-(he the defendant) —survey began “in Mr. John Page's line and on to Mr. John Armistead's and to Jasper Clayton's tobacco ground.” (Old Survey Book.)

1751, Petsworth parish indebted to Mr. THOMAS BOSWELL for serving a writ on Elizabeth Mills. (Petsworth Vestry Book.)

12th Aug. 1767, DOROTHY BOSWELL (d. March 17th, 1790) married William Robins of "Robins Neck” (b. Dec. 255, 1747, d. March 27, 1798), and believed to be the daughter of Thos. and Jane (Dunbar) Boswell; was the great-grandmother of the writer.

1767, THOMAS BOSWELL sold a tract of 423 acres in Kingston, parish.

1768, CAPT. THOMAS BOSWELL had a lottery at Gloucester Court House to pay his debts. The managers were Thomas and Francis Whiting, Col. Francis Tomkies, Jasper Clayton and David Kerr, to which lottery John Clayton protested, saying that "the 4 slaves offered as the prizes had been conveyed to him by the late Thomas Boswell” (father of Capt. Thomas?) His claims were paid. The wife of Capt. Thomas Boswell was probably a Machen of an old Middlesex county family. They had at least two children: Dr. Machen, and Jane, who married, first, ____Thornton, and second, John Seawell; and probably also Molly, who married (1775) Churchill Armistead. Old Chancery papers mention "Col. Machen Boswell as administrator of Thomas Boswell, dec'd.” Maj. Thomas Boswell was in the Virginia State Line during the Revolution. (Hening, II., 311.)

DR. MACHEN BOSWELL, will 1793, p. 1794, by Mann Page and Francis Whiting, executors: Ben Dabney of King and Queen, and John Seawell of Gloucester; children: 1, Thomas ; 2, Elizabeth, married, first, 1805, Ralph Wormeley, second, Carter M. Braxton; 3, Martha, married Mr. Roy.

1752. JOHN BOSWELL owned lands on Ware river, when Jane Boswell of London made Capt. Gwyn Reade her attorney for her lands in Gloucester-a part of 400 acres. The land ran up Ware river and was on Jefferson's creek and near to Mordecai Booth and Richard Ransom—218 acres of which belonged to John Boswell.

1754. THOMAS and BENJAMIN BOSWELL lands surveyed. (Old Survey Book.)

1767. GEORGE BOSWELL sold a tract in Ware Neck, North river, 300 acres “almost surrounded by a creek, so as to need but little fencing;' and also, in 1770, a survey for him by Francis Tomkies of 270 acres on North River, and Back creek in Ware Neck..

Boswell—(Abingdon Parish Register, Gloucester County.)

Mary, daughter of Elizabeth Boswell (b. Jan. 15th, 1685). Roger, son of Elizabeth Boswell (b. April 29th, 1688). Richard, son of Elizabeth Boswell (b. March 30th, 1690). John, son of John and Phoebe Boswell (b. March 5th, 1692). Robert, son of John and Phoebe Boswell (b. Sept. 18th, 1698). Joseph, son of John and Phoebe Boswell (b. March 26th, 1700). Diana, daughter of John and Phoebe Boswell (b. Oct. 10th,1701 ). Mary, daughter of John and Phoebe Boswell (b. Jan. 3d, 1703). .

Joseph Boswell, married Oct. 23d, 1731, Jane Shackelford. Their son Benjamin was born July 23d, 1732.

From Kingston Register, Gloucester County (now Mathews.).

Pangranparaba Boswell, married January 1756, Sarah Young. John, son of above, born Nov. 10th, 1756.

John Boswell of Gloucester county, married Ann, daughter of Charles Nuttall of Gloucester and sister of Wm. and John Nuttall of the Revolutionary Army. Their son George William Frederick Boswell (b. 1791), married his cousin, Ann New Nuttall, daughter of John. All moved to North Carolina.

Iverson Jacobs Boswell of Gloucester County married a daughter of Reuben Davis, who inherited, in 1806, lands from her father's estate. (Old Surveys.)

Abraham Iverson was Justice in Gloucester, 1681. Gregory and Richard Iverson, in Gloucester 1752.

John Boswell, son and heir of David Boswell, sold lands in New Kent (jointly with Robert Booth) to the father of Francis Page, who in his will, 1694, mentions the transaction. (Page Book 44.)

John Boswell of St. George parish, Hanover, will probated April, 1741 ; eldest daughter, Dorothy; youngest, Frances; sons, Ransom, John, George and James. “The rest of his estate for instruction and education of his youngest children and desired the court' to bind at their ages Ransom and John to a joyner, and George to a blacksmith.” Wife, Ann

Maj. John Boswell of Hanover, 1765, helped furnish provisions to the army (Hening, VIII., 181) and the Virginia Gazette mentions him, 1768.

Capt. William Boswell married in Elizabeth City, March 2d, 1702, Ellinor, widow of Coleman Brough. Their daughter, Grace Boswell, was the third wife of John Selden, who was Justice in Elizabeth City, 1725, and Deputy King's Attorney, 1752.

Ellinor Boswell, married, second, 1727, in Elizabeth City, George Yeo, who in his will (1742) left legacies to the children of John and Grace Selden, calling them “children of my said cousin (nephew) Selden.” John Selden his executor. (Wm. and Mary Quarterly, V., 61.)

William Boswell of Mathews county, student at William and Mary College, 1811.

"John Iverson Boswell of the Revolution (d. March 3d, 1823) had a son, John Iverson, Jr.,* who died Dec. 15, 1846. He made a family register, from the old records, Sept. 24, 1817. His brother, Wm. Washington Boswell of Henrico county, owned the family Bible, now in possession (1902) of Miss Hannah Boswell, living with Dr. Joseph Boswell at Chase City, Macklenburg county, Virginia.

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John Iverson Boswell, Sr., born April 5th, 1761, in Gloucester county(?), married, first, in March, 1784, Mary — , and second, Oct. 27th, 1797, Barbara Walker. Issue:

(1) Eliza (b. Nov. 28th, 1784). (2) Joseph (b. Sept. 3d, 1786), father of Dr. Joseph of Chase City, Mecklenberg county. (3) Thomas (b. May 26th, 1788, d. Sept. 18, 1791).

(4) Charity (b. April 20th, 1790, d. Sept. 15th, 1791). 

(5) Ann (b. March 11th, 1792). 

(6) Mary (b. Feb. 26th, 1794, d. Nov. 6, 1805). .  (7) *John Iverson, Jr. (b. Jan. 23d, 1796, d. Dec. 15, 1846).  (8) Charity (b. Oct. 28th, 1798).  (9) William Washington (b. April 13th, 1801), of Henrico county. 

(10) Susan (b. March 11th, 1803). 

(11) Lucy (b. Nov. I, 1805).  (12) Mary (b. May 4th, 1808).  (13) Martha (b. July 3d, 1811). 

• John Iverson Boswell, Jr., above (b. 1796), married Nov. 29th, 1818, first, Nancy D. Coleman (b. Feb. 7th, 1801, d. May 29th, 1834), and married, second, Dec. 18th, 1838, Ellen J. Somerville. Issue: (1) Sarah A., b. 1819; (2) Joseph C., b. 1820; (3) Mary L., b. 1821, d. 1821; (4) Édwin S., b. 1824, d. 1826; (5) Henry I., b. 1826; (6) John J., b. 1829; (7) Lewellyn, b. 1832 ; (8) Lewis A., b. 1834; (9) Mary E., b. 1840; (10) Edmund D., b. 1841; (11) Thomas R., b. 1843; (12) William W.,b. 1845.

Murdered in the Southampton insurrection, 1831, Mrs. C. hitehead, three daughters, two sons and one grandson.” This is believed to have been Charity Boswell, given above.

1658–Thomas Boswell, 800 acres on the Potomac river; and in 1664 these lands, now 972 acres, renewed in name of his son, Thomas Boswell.

1690—John Boswell, witness will in Perquimans county, North Carolina.

1735–Will of Wm. Boswell, who married Margaret Nicholson, mentions wife and following children: Thos., John, Ichabod and Mary; recorded in State Office, Raleigh, N. C.

1741–Will of Geo. Boswell of Perquimans county, North Carolina, mentions children: Geo., Isaac, and Isabel.

1757—John and Joseph Boswell witness wills in Perquimans county, North Carolina.