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Descendants of Thomas BOYLSTON, Jr.

31. SARAH⁶ BOYDSTUN (JAMES⁵, DAVID⁴ BOYDSTON, WILLIAM³ BOYLSTON, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born 28 Nov 1768 in near Raleigh, NC (Buncombe Co?), and died Sep 1828 in Galena, Jo Daviess Co, IL, or Randolph Grove, IL. She married JOHN STRINGFIELD 03 Dec 1789 in Buncombe Co, NC, son of JAMES STRINGFIELD and MARY RAY. He was born 13 Feb 1762 in Surry Co, VA, and died 05 Jan 1822 in (or 12th) d. Bloomington, Monroe Co, IL.

Notes for SARAH BOYDSTUN:
Edwin Leigh Tucker's lineage shows a birth for Sarah Boydstun of 29 Nov 1768 and death occurring in Randolph Grove, Illinois.

Notes for JOHN STRINGFIELD:
John Stringfield entered the army in the Revolutionary War when he was 14 years old and was the comrade of the four sons of James Boydstun -- James Jr., William, Samuel, and John. He served 7 years in the army and was discharged at age 21.

He married Sarah Boydstun (Boylston), sister of the four Boydstun brothers, in 1787, and settled near James and Mary Prewitt Boydstun in Buncombe County, N.C. in the Mills River Section after the Revolution. When Stringfield found his land claimed by an older grand, he and the Boydstun family moved to Logan and Warren Counties in Kentucky about 1797.

John Stringfield had a more-than-average education. In the Revolution he fought at King's Mountain under John Sevier. Seven of his children were born in Warren County, Kentucky, but he was near Murphysboro, Tennessee, when his son, Alfred Moore, was born in October 1809. John Stringfield from there moved to Huntsville, Alabama, about 1811, where he lived for several years and ran two ferries -- a large one and a small one -- across the Tennessee River. In 1816, he and his two sons-in-law, Gardner Randolph and James Burleson, decided to go to Illinois, where his brother, James had settled on the Sangamon in 1820. John arrived there in early 1822 and died there January 5, 1822. Sarah Boydstun Stringfield died at Galena, Illinois in 1828.

A descendant of this couple writes in May 1999 -- Ron Bourassa (rcb@cypress.com).

Children of SARAH BOYDSTUN and JOHN STRINGFIELD are:

75.	i.	JAMES JOSEPH⁷ STRINGFIELD, b. 1792, (or James Britton?) Buncombe Co, NC; d. Unknown, Washington Parish, LA.
76.	ii.	WILLIAM RAY STRINGFIELD, b. 05 Jul 1793, Barren Co, KY; d. 04 Mar 1814.
	iii.	THOMAS STRINGFIELD, b. 1796, Warren Co, KY; d. 1856, a methodist minister; m. SARAH KING WILLIAMS, 1826; b. Unknown.
77.	iv.	ELIZABETH ANN STRINGFIELD, b. 14 Mar 1798, "Betsy" b. Warren Co, KY; d. 27 Dec 1880, went to Illinois; d Hicksville, CA.
	v.	DELILAH STRINGFIELD, b. 1800, Warren Co, KY; d. Unknown, went to Illinois; m. JAMES BURLESON, 30 Nov 1816, Alabama; b. Abt. 1795, or Burleston; d. Unknown.
	vi.	TEMPERANCE STRINGFIELD, b. 1802, Warren Co, KY; d. Unknown; m. JOHN TAYLOR, Unknown, Illinois; b. Abt. 1795; d. Unknown.
	vii.	VIRGINIA STRINGFIELD, b. 1804, Warren Co, KY; d. Unknown; m. ROBERT FUNK, Unknown; b. Abt. 1800; d. Unknown.
	viii.	FANNIE U. STRINGFIELD, b. 1805, Warren Co, KY; d. Unknown; m. JESSE FUNK, 1825, Illinois; b. Abt. 1800; d. Unknown.
	ix.	SEVIER STRINGFIELD, b. 1807, Warren Co, KY; d. Unknown.
	x.	ALFRED MOORE STRINGFIELD, b. 1809, near Murphysboro, Tennessee; d. Unknown; m. AMELIA HAND, Unknown; b. Abt. 1810; d. Unknown.
	xi.	MINERVA STRINGFIELD, b. Unknown.

32. THOMAS⁶ BOYDSTUN (JAMES⁵, DAVID⁴ BOYDSTON, WILLIAM³ BOYLSTON, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born 1770 in Raleigh, Wake Co, NC, and died 21 Mar 1835 in Tennessee, probably Lauderdale County/Ripley Co, MS. He married ELIZABETH NEWPORT 1792 in North Carolina, daughter of RICHARD NEWPORT and SALLIE O'CONNER. She was born 1775 in Virginia, and died 06 Mar 1862 in Lauderdale Co, TN.

Children of THOMAS BOYDSTUN and ELIZABETH NEWPORT are:

78.	i.	JOHN⁷ BOYDSTUN, b. 1793, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1882 - 1883, died in month of October.
79.	ii.	CAVANAUGH BOYDSTUN, b. 20 Mar 1796, Speedwell, North Carolina; d. 02 Aug 1871, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co, TN.
	iii.	THOMAS BOYDSTUN, b. 1800, Campbell Co, TN; d. Unknown.
80.	iv.	ELIZABETH BOYDSTUN, b. 26 Sep 1804, (see notes); b. Campbell Co, TN; d. 10 May 1888, Quitman, Cleburn Co, AR.
	v.	MARY ELIZABETH BOYDSTUN, b. Abt. 1807, Campbell Co, TN; d. Aft. 1870, Lauderdale Co, TN; m. SAMUEL LUSK, Unknown; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

Notes for MARY ELIZABETH BOYDSTUN:
Michelle Miron (kinderknecht@earthlink.net) wrote in August 1999 that a Mary Elizabeth Boydstun, sister of Sabra, married Samuel Lusk, brother of Thomas and James Lusk. (She said it was Thomas, not James, who married Sabra.)

Since there is both an Elizabeth and a Mary, I am asking for more information to determine whether Elizabeth & Mary are the same person.

Michelle responds that it is this Mary Boydstun who was married to Samuel Lusk.

Notes for SAMUEL LUSK:
Michelle Miron (kinderknecht@earthlink.net) writes 30 Sep 1999 that she has learned that Samuel and Thomas Lusk were brothers (both married Boydstuns). There was also a James, William, and John Lusk, and all were apparently the sons of a Samuel Lusk.

There is a Nathan Lusk as well, but it is not clear from the message whether this is a brother of the older or younger Samuel Lusk.

	vi.	SARAH BOYDSTUN, b. Abt. 1808, Campbell Co, TN; d. Unknown.
81.	vii.	SABRA BOYDSTUN, b. Abt. 1809, Campbell Co, TN; d. Aft. 1860, living in Barry Co, MO 1860.
82.	viii.	WILLIAM B. BOYDSTUN, b. 01 Dec 1816, Campbell Co, TN; d. Aft. 1887, res near Ripley, Lauderdale Co, TN 1887.
	ix.	PRISCILLA BOYDSTUN, b. Abt. 1818, lived w/Brother B. F. on 1850 Census; b. Campbell Co, TN; d. Aft. 1850.
83.	x.	BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BOYDSTUN, b. 1820, Campbell Co, TN; d. Aft. 1887, living near Ripley, Lauderdale Co, TN 1887.

33. BENJAMIN G.⁶ BOYDSTUN (JAMES⁵, DAVID⁴ BOYDSTON, WILLIAM³ BOYLSTON, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born 13 Sep 1776 in Hagerstown, MD, and died 01 Apr 1851 in Cedar Twp, Knox Co, IL. He married MARY GARDNER 05 Jun 1795 in Barren Co, KY, daughter of ISAAC GARDNER and HULDA ... She was born 12 Apr 1777 in Rutherford Co, TN, and died 14 Sep 1845 in Cedar Twp, Knox Co, IL.

Notes for BENJAMIN G. BOYDSTUN:
Sources for this family include:
Domonoske: "Boydstun Family"
Weaver: "The Boydstun Family"
Knox County, Illinois deeds
Abingdon, Illinois cemetery records
Notes of Roberta D. Richardson to 1935*
Gerald & Sarah Casey, descendents
Dawdy Bible in possession of Forest Brown, Abingdon, Ill.
US Census records Warren Co, KY 1800, 1810, 1820
US Census records Barren Co, KY 1830
US Census records Knox Co, IL 1840, 1850

*Notes of Roberta Dukes Richardson, great granddaughter of Benjamin Boydstun (Roberta/Martha/Jacob/Benjamin) gives birth location of Benjamin as Hagerstown, Maryland. LDS records indicate Rutherford County, NC as birth location. In no official records found has there been a middle name or initial used, but RDR gave that initial as "G." Other family researchers have used "Franklin" as a middle name. A Texas biography of his son, Jacob, lists Benjamin and Mary (Gardner) Boydstun as natives of Virginia, and gives no middle name or initial. Even his headstone at Abingdon Cemetery in Knox County, Illinois, has no middle initial.

Benjamin Boydstun moved to Logan County, Kentucky with his father, James in 1800. He lived with his wife on his father's land, a 400 acre tract granted to him.

After 1820, but before 1832, Benjamin Boydstun moved to Sinking Spring Creek, Barren County, Kentucky and settled on 110 acres.

On 9 Oct 1824, bought land in Barren County, Kentucky from Harmon Reed. 10 acres on Sinking Spring Creek. This was a military grant of Conrad Walters, 17 Jan 1796.

In August 1833, he sold his land in Barren County (book N, p. 135) and moved to Knox County, Illinois with a large number of kinsmen, including the family of John and Nancy Ann Boydstun.

In 1837, he bought land in Cedar Township, Knox County, Illinois containing 160 acres for $640. This is the N.E. quarter of Section 31 of Township 10 North in Range 1 East.

Many of his children and kin can be found south of the town of Abingdon in Township 9 (Indian Point) Sections 15, 16, 20, 21.

From Gustine Weaver's book:

Benjamin Boydstun, born 1776, and his son James owned 48 head of sheep. They sheared these sheep; then Mary Gardiner Boydstun and her daughters washed the wool in the clear running "brancy" at the foot of the hill, whereon their log house had been built. Next, they dyed this wool whatever colors they wished to use in making it up into dress plaids for bed blankets, or coverlets. They used walnut bark for brown, wild indigo for blue, madre for red, peach leaves for green, and petals of wild flowers for other tints (such as iris for lavender, etc.). This wool was then carded and spun when it was ready for the loom.

This linen was grown, pulled, ripped, rotted, broken, swingled, couched, hackled, washed, bleached, spun on a distaff, and then woven, all by hand. Then it was bleached again and "bucked" over twenty times in lye from a hopper of wood ashes. It was then belted with a maple belter on a smooth flat stone. As all this wringing and washing was done by hand, linen making was indeed a tedious process. These strong, enduring women loved their piles of snow white linen. Only a few pieces remain (1927) to show us the beauty of their handiwork.

Benjamin Boydstun's marker in Abingdon City Cemetery, Knox County, Illinois is constructed of grey granite and was in very fine condition in the early 1980s. It was, as inscribed, erected by the children of J & N (James and Nancy) Boydstun. It is inscribed on three sides as follows:

Right side:
      Benjamin Boydstun born Sep. 13 1776 died Apr 1, 1851
      Mary his wife born Aug 12 1777 died Sep 14 1845
      Samuel T. their son born June 11 1820 died Feb 8 1840
Center:
      James Boydstun born Oct 17 1814 died Sep 2 1891
      Nancy his wife born Mar 12 1817 died Jun 27 1878

Left side:
      Benjamin I. Boydstun born Jan 18, 1845 died Sep 1 1846
      Henry T. born May 10 1854 died May 21 1854
      Eliza A. born Apr 21 1849 died Jan 22 1892

There are a small number of Boydstun and Dawdy family members at Abingdon City Cemetery who remain unknown to this compiler in 1997.

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The DAR application papers of Kathrine Gertrude Young Smith refer to the "Benjamin Boydstone Bible," a copy of which was submitted with national number 81252. Mrs. Smith is a descendant of Isaac Gardner through Mary Gardner who married Benjamin Boydstone/Boydstun. Her ancestor is their son James who married Nancy Roberson.

On the DAR application, not all dates for Benjamin and Mary match those I already had, principally from the headstone. Her dates are:
Benjamin Boidstone b. 18 Sep 1776 d. 1 Apr 1851, married 15 June 1795.
Mary Gardner b. 12 Aug 1777 d. Sept. 1842.

Many sources list the birth date for Benjamin as 18 Sep, but the headstone at the Abingdon City Cemtery in Knox County, Illinois, is a fine one, and the engraving is extremely clear -- 13 September.

Notes for MARY GARDNER:
Parentage of Mary Gardner is dependent upon the source:

Roberta Dukes believed her parents, as well as the parents of Nancy Ann Gardner, were Isaac and Mary (Holten) Gardner. Isaac Gardner was a Revolutionary patriot from Bertie County, North Carolina. Mary Holton (Holten) was from Tyrell County, North Carolina, and married Isaac Gardner on 21 Jan 1764.

Gladys Domonoske believed her father's name was Jacob Gardner.

David Smith shows that she was born in Montgomery County, West Virginia.

Children of BENJAMIN BOYDSTUN and MARY GARDNER are:

84.	i.	SARAH E.⁷ BOYDSTUN, b. 03 Mar 1796, North Carolina or Kentucky; d. Bef. 1835, Woodford Co, IL.
85.	ii.	BARTLETT BOYDSTUN, b. 10 Jul 1797, North Carolina or Barren Co, KY (10 Oct?); d. Aft. 1879, Illinois (or Erath, Texas?).
	iii.	MATILDA BOYDSTUN, b. 04 Oct 1799, North Carolina or Kentucky; d. 1817, Kentucky.
	iv.	LEVISA BOYDSTUN, b. 1800, Kentucky; d. Unknown; m. JOHN BARNARD, 03 Aug 1826, Barren Co, KY; b. Abt. 1800; d. Unknown.

Notes for LEVISA BOYDSTUN:
Note that my information had a Levicia Boydstun, daughter of John and Nancy Ann (Gardner) Boydstun married to John Burnard. This is too close for coincidence. Both were born in 1800, although the information for Levicia had the exact birth date.

86.	v.	WILLIAM BOYDSTUN, b. 03 Oct 1801, Barren Co, KY; d. 24 May 1882, Dallas Co, TX.
	vi.	JOHN C. BOYDSTUN, b. 1805, Barren Co, KY; d. 31 Jul 1849, Knox Co, IL, unmarried.
87.	vii.	MARY B. BOYDSTUN, b. 10 Oct 1805, Barren Co, KY; d. 14 Feb 1867, Dallas Co, TX.
88.	viii.	MALINDA BOYDSTUN, b. 15 Feb 1807, Barren Co, KY; d. 31 Oct 1874, Dallas Co, TX.
89.	ix.	TABITHA BOYDSTUN, b. 08 Jul 1809, Barren Co, KY; d. 02 Aug 1891, Cedar Twp, Knox Co, IL.
	x.	JESSE BENJAMIN BOYDSTUN, b. 1810, Barren Co, KY; d. Unknown; m. JULIA F. WILLIAMS, Unknown; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
90.	xi.	JACOB GARDNER BOYDSTUN, b. 24 Jan 1812, Russellville, Logan Co, KY; d. 25 May 1899, Pleasant Valley, Dallas Co, TX.
91.	xii.	JAMES D. BOYDSTUN, b. 17 Oct 1814, Barren Co, KY; d. 02 Sep 1891, Abingdon, Knox Co, IL.
92.	xiii.	ELIZA ANN BOYDSTUN, b. 03 Jul 1817, Avon, Warren Co, KY; d. 20 Nov 1887, Abingdon, Knox Co, IL.
	xiv.	SAMUEL T. BOYDSTUN, b. 11 Jun 1820, Barren Co, KY; d. 08 Feb 1840, Abingdon, Knox Co, IL.

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