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Subject: [BOZEMAN] Re: Early Georgia Bozeman's
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:14:03 EDT



In a message dated 4/1/01 9:12:08 AM, writes:

<< I am wondering if the 100 acres granted to James Boosman in 1774 on the

Ogechee River is the same 100 acres which appears on the 1794 tax list for

John Bozman in Warren County, GA. (See the two abstracts below)


Diana has previously speculated that James of Edgecombe, NC had come to

Georgia in 1774 and then later returned to NC where he died in 1784. His

son, James, could have also come to Georgia but he died in NC in 1796. I

have to admit that I don't know who the James was who was granted the land

in 1774. Steve>>

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English Crown Grants in St. George Parish in Georgia 1755-1775

Boosman, James 100 acres in St. George Parish

Granted on August 2, 1774

Grant Book M, Page 156

100 acres bounded on the south by the Great Ogechee River and on all other

sides by vacant land.

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Warren County Tax List, Capt. Terry's District

John Bozman, 100 acres in Warren County on the Ogechee River adjoining

Kingrey & Beady

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Greetings to Steve and the Bozeman list:

I did not know that a James Boosman was found in GA as early as 1774,
and this is very interesting. Some time ago I found a record posted in
usgenweb material claiming to be from 1776 as copied below.

Georgia
No. 18 By the Court of Justice of Jefferson Cty.
To Richard Gray Esq'r Surveyor for said County.
You are hereby authorized and required to admeasure and lay out or caused to
be
admeasured and laid out unto ANDREW BERRYHILL a tract of Land which shall
contain two hundred acres adjoining land of STEPHEN DERESO on Headrights
in Jefferson County
Taking special care that the same has not been heretofore been laid to any
person or persons And you are hereby required to Record a Platt of the same
in your office and transmit a copy to this Office together with this Warrant
to the
Surveyor General within two years from the date hereof given under our hands
as
presiding Justices of said Court
This 2nd day of May 1776
Attest
Jas Bozeman R. Whitaker
Joseph Jackson
Charles Harvey
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I had assumed that this date of 2 May 1776 had to be in error for two
reasons:
(1) I did not believe that there was a James Bozeman in GA as early as 1776,
and (2) Jefferson Co, GA, was not formed from parts of Burke and Warren
Counties until 1796.

Now, from Steve's information, I see that there was a James Bozeman in
GA as early as 1774. However, the 2nd reason given above for doubting the
date still seems to be valid, so my guess is that the correct date should
have been 2 May 1796, perhaps, and that this James Bozeman was the son of
Samuel.

On another point regarding James Bozeman of Edgecombe Co, I had thought
that he drafted his will on 13 Sept. 1784, but that it was not probated until
the Feb. court of 1796. Am I mistaken about this, and was it the will of
James
Bozeman, Jr, that was filed in 1796 as Steve has suggested?

If there was really such a long delay in the drafting and the filing of the
will
of James Bozeman in Edgecombe Co, then he might well have died elsewhere,
perhaps GA, and this might have accounted for part of the long delay. I have
never seen an actual copy of this will, so perhaps someone could check on
this. I have always thought that it was a little strange that of the 7 sons
named by James Bozeman in his will of 1784, only Jesse Bozeman was
found on the 1790 census of Edgecombe Co. Have the others been accounted
for elsewhere in the census of 1790, or might they have been in GA?

Steve, you have previously mentioned that James Bozeman's wife, Martha,
was found in Burke Co, GA, in 1785, I believe. Would you be so kind as to
post that record at your convenience? My best regards, Ron

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