Re: Asa Bowie/Martha Arabella Botts - Abbeville, SC
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Asa Bowie/Martha Arabella Botts - Abbeville, SC
Brian` Scott 2/01/03
Please go to my Homepage at www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/o/w/Everette-W-Bowie/index.html.You will find all I have on Asa Bowie and Arabella Botts.Also, for the information of those posting answers to this query, Abraham Boye (Bowie) was born in Charles County, Maryland, almost certainly.I have a typed copy of his mothers will from that county that names all five of her children, including Abraham. Where the Brambles bloom is out of print, connot yet be ordered from anywhere, although the Bowie Family Historical Society in Abbeville (Contact C. Newell Bowie or Martha Whaley in Due West and Abbeville) are trying to get enough data together to republish the book with updated data. Note alkso that there are mistakes in the early ancestors in Brambles.Bowie's and Their Kindred is available from Higgison Book Company in Xerox copies.They are in Salem Massachnusetts, phone number 978-745-7170 or email at higginsnWcove.com. Please also review my notes below on Abraham Boye (Bowie).I have copied the pertinent section on Seneh's delight for your information.Here are the notes (Will of Jane Taylor) who was Abraham's mother:
In the name of God, Amen. I, Jane Boye, of Charles County in the province of Maryland, widow, being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory praises be to Almighty God for the same--first and principally, I commit my soul unto Almighty God who gave its hoping at the general resurrection through the merits of my Savior Jesus Christ to have free pardon and forgiveness of all my sins and my body to be decently buried at the discretion of my executor hereafter named and for what estate it pleased Almighty God to bestow upon me.I give and bequeath the followeth: Item 1: I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Boye one bed and bedstead with good blankets and silk, rug, and other furniture and ---------(unreadable) and one table and three small chairs and one great chair and three dishes and one-half dozen plates and one tankard and one iron pott and one Bell mettle skillet and one pair of curtains and one pail and piggins and two cow calves and three sows and piggs and two banou (researcher note: probably barrow) hoggs, all the said mentioned goods and chattle to be delivered to my daughter Elizabeth Boye when she shallarrive at the age of eighteen years or the day of marriage.Item: my will and pleasureis that all the rest of my personale estate be equally divided among my five sons, Pigeon, John, Thomas, Abraham, and Bowman Boye, and if any of my said sons live to arrive to the age of eighteen at which years my will and pleasure is they shall be at age give for them.If any of them die before the age of eighteen years then theire part to be equally divided among the survivors. And if any of my said sons die after the death of my daughter Elizabeth Boye then their parts or portions to be equally divided among the rest of my sons that are still alive.Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Boye all my wearing cloaths both lennins and wollings.Lastly I do nominate and appoint my well beloved son Pigeon Boye full whole and sole executor of all Revoking and Disannulling all former wills by me Jane Boye made and this to be my last will and testament.As witness my hand and seal the 28 day of July 1719.
Test: Thos. Evans---Ann EvansSignedJane Boye
Amendment to the foregoing will was the following probate, towit, September
21st, 1719.Thomas Evans Subscribing witness to the within will before on the Holy Evangelist that he saw Jane Bowie sign and seal the written instrument as her Last Will and Testament and that he published and declared the Jane Boye is to be and at the time of her so doing she was of sound and perfet mind and memory to the best of his knowledge before us this day and year above said.
It is not known what happened to John, Bowman, Pigeon, and Thomas.It appears that only brother Abraham remained in Maryland.It is thought that they may have moved south to Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia.The ancestor of Col. Jim Bowie was a John Bowie who married a Mary Mulligan (Mulliken) and was born in 1688. There is no evidence to indicate any relationship between our John Boye and the husband of Mary Mulligan (Mullican, Milliken?)(Note: This is not our line- Everette Bowie).
The will of Jane Boye copied above is entered here exactly as written, complete with grammar and spelling unchanged from the original.
Addendum 4 December 1997:Researcher Everette Bowie, Olive Branch, MS has uncovered a document that may give a clue to the maiden name of Jane Boye - Taylor.Consider this from "Early Charles County Maryland Settlers 1658 - 1745: Boye (Boy), Jane (widow). Mentions dau. Elizabeth; five sons, Pigeon,
John, Thomas, Abraham and Bowman.(Will: 15.200; 28 July 1719, 21 September 1719)" Next of kin: John Taylor. (Inv.:3.254; 3 Nov. 1719---).
The name Taylor will be used until data to the contary can be found.
Addendum February 26, 1998:More evidence of the maiden name Taylor has been located by Diane Atkinson of St. Louis, Missouri in a book titled "Charles County Maryland Probate Records and Inventories 1673-1753, compiled by Ruth King and Carol Mitchell:Page 10: Jane Boye 3 November 1719 - John Tailor the only relation of the deceased. On page 17, same book: John Taylor 15 July 1734 "Jno. Pigeon BoyJno Boy near kin Eliz(a)Taylor Exec.These data can be regarded as further confirmation that the wife of John Boye was Jane Taylor.
Addendum February 7, 2000:Researcher Everette Bowie of Olive Branch, Mississippi has come to the conclusion that Abraham Boye, son of John and Jane Boye never owned Seneh's Delight.This could account for no mention of the farm in the will of Jane Boye.Since Abraham was the only issue to remain in Maryland, it would seem that if the land was still in the family it would have been left to Abraham.Rather, he believes, the farm belonged to another of the same name that is often referred to as Abraham Bowie II. This Abraham was the son of Oswell Bowie and the great grandson of Abraham I.This can be documented in Charles County, Maryland Land Records, 1790 to 1796 (Library ID: 929.3525, Volume 5) Page 230:March 8 1794 from William Poston and Sarah, his wife, of CC, to Abraham Bowie of CC, a tract of land called Seneh's Delight,bounded by the spring valley, a dividing boundary between Abraham Bowie and Isaac Bowie, the dividing line between William Poston & Thomas Bulman, the second line of Danby, the last line of Danby's Addition, Randalls Addition, Bastable Enlarged, Hamills Mistake, Mr. Barnes' land, containing 82 1/2 acres.Signed: William Poston, Sarah Poston.Witness, Richard Barnes, Henry H. Chapman.Said Sarah Postson relinquished her right of dower.Recorded March 12, 1794.
Anothertransaction occurred on the same date as follows:Page 233, March 8, 1794 from William Poston and Sarah, his wife, of CC, to Abraham Bowie of CC, for 125 pounds, 12 shillings, 6 pence, part of a tract of land called Seneh's Delight bounded by Ashbrooks Rest, a stone formerly fixed by William Poston and Thomas Bullm,an as a dividing line between them, and the dividing line as run byDavid L. Ward, the Spring Valley, Mr. Barnes' land, containing and now surveyed for 83 acres, 3 roods.Signed:William Poston, Sarah Poston.Witness Richard Barnes, Henry H. Chapman.Said Sarah Poston relinquished her right of dower.Recorded March 12 1794.
Since Abraham I died in 1752, this could not be his property.There can be little doubt that our thinking on this subject has been in error for more than two hundred years!