Thomas BOATWRIGHT

Abt 1760 - Abt 1833  (~ 73 years)

• Name	Thomas BOATWRIGHT  [1]
  Born	Abt 1760	, , Virginia, USA   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	Bef 1811	, , Tennessee, USA
  Residence	Bef 1819	, , Illinois, USA
  Residence	Abt 1819	, Miller, Arkansas, USA
  Occupation	1821
  	Scout for Austin's Colony
  Fact	Dec 1821
  	Old 300
  Property	27 Jul 1824
  Austin Co, Texas
  Residence	Abt 1825	, Miller, Arkansas, USA
  Census	1830	, Pope, Arkansas, USA
  pg 174
  Thomas Boatright males under 5 1 15-20 1 20-30 1 60-70 1 females 60-70 1
  Died	Abt 1833	, Pope, Arkansas, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I10289	An Armstrong & A Heffernan
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family	Amy RUSHING,   b. Abt 1775, , Anson, North Carolina, USA ,   d. Bef 22 Apr 1839, , Pope, Arkansas, USA  (Age ~ 64 years)
  Children	1. Lewis BOATWRIGHT,   b. Abt 1795, , , Virginia, USA ,   d. Deceased   2. Richard BOATWRIGHT,   b. Abt 1797,   d. Deceased   3. Jane BOATWRIGHT,   b. Abt 1800,   d. Deceased   4. Precilla BOATWRIGHT,   b. 20 Jun 1803, , , Illinois, USA ,   d. 9 May 1873, , Milam, Texas, USA  (Age 69 years)   5. Friend BOATWRIGHT,   b. Abt 1805,   d. 1848, Oakland, Colorado, Texas, USA  (Age ~ 43 years)   6. Thomas BOATWRIGHT, Jr.,   b. Abt 1807,   d. Deceased   7. Mary BOATWRIGHT,   b. 1809, , Gallatin, Illinois, USA ,   d. Aft 1861, , , Texas, USA  (Age 53 years)   8. Elizabeth J BOATWRIGHT,   b. 1813, , , Texas, USA ,   d. Deceased
  Last Modified	28 Dec 2009
  Family ID	F2760	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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 Trace to Nacogdoches. In early December they left for Austin's Spanish land grant and arrived at the La Bahía 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 Kuykendall 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, 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S571] Vernone, Tracy Ross, Thomas Boatright. [S335] Handbook of Texas, Thomas Boatwright. [S1751] 1830 Pope AR, pg 174. 60-70