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Subject: [BOZEMAN] Peter Boseman of SC
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:33:13 EST

My greetings to the Bozeman group:

I have been ill for sometime and am just now able to be up and
able to do a little computer work again. I have been researching
my Cottingham family line in 1790 Cheraw District, SC, which is
solidly connected all the way back to George Cottingham who
at age 20 was one of 138 passengers who set sail from London
on 27 July 1635 headed for Virginia. He soon moved from the
Northamption/Accomack area of VA up into Somerset Co, MD,
as did William Bosman who was in VA as some time before 1649.
William Bosman was still on the tax rolls of Northamption Co, VA,
in 1662, but had disappeared by 1676 when Peter Bosman showed
up there.

I include this introduction to suggest that the Peter Boseman that
I found in the 1790 census of Cheraw District, SC, might well
descend from the MD Bosman families. The Cottingham family in
Somerset Co, MD, had associations with Beauchamp, Kellum, and
Conner families, and I see all of those names in the part of Cheraw
District that later became Marlboro Co, SC.

In the 1790 cesus, Peter Boseman was the only male in his household,
and there were four females. A little more searching revealed that
Peter Boseman had married Sarah Brown on 28 Dec. 1787. Three
daughters in three years is growing the family rather fast unless one
or more of them had previously been married or had relatives with
them in 1790.

While I was able to do little else, I read a few books, with one of those
being "Huey Long" by T. Harry Williams. Harley B. Bozeman was a good
friend of Huey P. Long, and is referenced no fewer than 16 times.
Also mentioned as a bodyguard was a former prize fighter called
Harry “Battling” Bozeman. A foot note in the book says that he was
not related to Huey's friend Harley B. Bozeman, but this seems a
little strange.

H. B. Bozeman first remembered meeting Huey Long in 1905 when
Harley was 14 and was about to buy a pair of shoes in Winnfield, LA,
when Huey loudly told him that he was being charged too much and
was being cheated. The Bozeman family had just moved into the area
from the town of Dodson, and their new home there was being built on
a field that had belonged to the Long family. They were said to have
become the best of friends. In 1908 Harley and Huey sold magazines
from door to door, and in 1909 in their junior year in high school they
represented the school in debates held at LSU. After high school,
Harley and Huey became traveling salesmen for the Faultless Starch
Company. When Huey Long became Governor in 1928, Harley Bozeman
was elected to the state legislature from Winn Parish and became a
key figure in the Huey Long administration.

Well, here I have gone from the Primrose in 1635 to Huey P. Long in
1928, so that should be more than enough for one message.
My best regards, Ron Bullock

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