BOYT/E - BOYET/T/E NEWSLETTER

Volume I, Number 3 July/Aug/Sept 1985

Published and edited by Wendy L. Elliott, C. G., 4808 E. Garland St., Anaheim, CA 92807

EDITOR'S MESSAGE

Due to the breakdown of my computer and therefore the word processing system which is used to produce the Newsletter, this third issue is two weeks late. please understand and endure the waiting patiently, if it should ever happen again.

This issue will include many of the early census records which have been compiled by the editor. If you have discovered additional entries for the various states and census years, it would be appreciated if you can share these with the editor for future publications.

Because of the breakdown of the computer, the North Carolina Revolutionary War Service Vouchers will be concluded in the fourth issue rather than this the third.

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ArkansasCensus of 1850

Ashland County

040 BOYTT James 22 laborer AL DeBastrop 18 Nov
Rebecca 17 GA

William 1 AL

(May have married in Barbour Co., AL in 1848?)

Brad1ey County

097 SMITH William M. 55 farmer SC Ouachita 22 Oct
Sarah 53 GA

and others

    BOYT    Jesse    26 farmer    NC
        Emiline    19    AL
        William T.    3/12    AR

Desha County

    062 BOYT    Amos    38    farmer    NC   Franklin twp 4 Oct
        Darcus    38        NC
        Mary    10        MS
        Hilliry                      4M        TN
        Emily    2        TN
        Harriett    1        TN

LaFayette County

185 BOYETT Jessy    38 farmer    NC    Clarke twp    4 Dec
                         Lucretia    37    NC
                         Wilburn J.    12    AL
                         Dickson M.    9    AL
                         Precilla J.    7    AL
                        Thomas I or J.    1    AR

Ouachita County

    097 BOYETT Chatam       55       farmer       SC   Taylor twp 16 Jan
    Charity      44          GA
    Marion       21           AL
    Thomas       19           AL
    Greenberry    15        AL
    Jefferson    13        AL
    Mary A.      12          AL
    Susanah      10          AL
    John         8             AL
    Ellin        7            AL
    Nancy        5            AR
    William      3          AR
    Zachariah     1         AR
    GREG0RY       J.           22               AL

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1850 Census of Arkansas continued

Union County

227 CAPERS J. H. 34 tavern keeper SC El Dorado twp
Susan 28 NC

and others

    BOYETT Jno.    20 plasterer    ?VA?

    274 BOYETT Jackson    32 farmer    GA Wilmington twp 16 Dec
                                           Margaret J. 24    SC
                                           Ann E.    5    AR
                                           Mary E.    3    AR
    CAPERS Susan    10    AR
    (Jackson moved to Ashley Co., AR before 1880.)

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Missouri Census of 1860

Dunklin County

    041    BOYTT    Barney    26    farmer    IL Freeborn district 9 July
            Elizabeth    21        TN Beach P.O.
            Letty A.    2        MO
            James T.    1        MO
        COWHAM    John    5        IL

    041    BOYT    Joseph    30    TN
            Manervy    27    TN
            William H.    7    TN
            Emily J.    5    MO
            Lucinda    4    MO

    027    TUCKER      J. P.    42    TN
    Marth    29    TN
    Thomas    17    TN
    William    14    TN
    John    10    TN
    Elizabeth    7    TN
    Melissy    5    TN
    James    2    TN

NOTES FROM SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

William James H. BOYETT, who had served as a private during the Civil War in Company D, of the fourteenth Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, died 9 March 1923 in San Diego, California. He was born in 1845 probably in Tennessee. He enlisted in 1861 in Tennessee and was discharged in 1865.

William James H. BOYETT married Lucinda A. ------ who died probably in San Diego, California on 10 February 1933. They had a daughter Mrs. Jesse D. or B. CRIPPEN who lived in East San Diego.

The Civil War veteran and his wife are buried in the Stonewall Jackson Plot of the Mt. Hope Cemetery in San Diego, CA. A government headstone was placed on the veteran’s grave by the Stonewall Jackson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1936. A headstone for the wife was placed by the same group on 11 Mar 1936.

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5 June 1985

On page 12 of Volume I, Number 2 of this Newsletter the extracted will of William BOYET of Barnwell District, SC was printed. This was followed by the editor’s opinion "From a deed between John DYAS of Mobile Co., AL dated 19 Apr 1831 (recorded in Book S, page 159) to Josiah BOYT of Barnwell District, SC, and the will as found above, one may guess that Winniferd (BOYIT) DYES/DYAS and husband had moved from Barnwell Co., SC to Mobile Co., AL, and that John DYAS of Mobile, AL was the son-in-law of the William BOYIT whose will is given above."

A reader, Marion W. Hester, M.D., P.A. of Lakeland, FL, has written to correct the editor's wrong assumption.

He explained that Winnifred (BOYET) DYESS was the daughter of William BOYET of Barnwell District, SC, but she married Henry BYESS who was born in 1755. They raised a family in Ware Co., GA. Dr. Hester reports that this family history was published in Husford's Pioneers of Wiregrass, Georgia, Volume 2, on page 100. Dr. Hester adds that the John DYESS of Mobile Co., AL in 1831 was a different person, but probably was from the same family.

CAPTAIN L. MEDLIN'S MILITIA COMPANY

1812

BEDFORD COUNTY, TENNESSEE

Taken from a photocopy in the Tennessee State Archives. Copied by
Pearl Foster O'Donnell, Fort Worth, Texas and sent to the editor by
Mrs. Jess Robinson, Hereford, Texas.

"Returning magistrate: Allen Leeper
Captains Company: L. Medlin (Lewis Medlin)

Number 20, 21, and 22 respectively on this list of 98 men were:
Ethrildred Boyett (with a question mark following his name)
Jehu Boyett
James Boyett

"Notes by Pearl Foster O'Donnell:
Captain Lewis Medlin's Company, 28th Regiment, Tennessee Militia, Bedford County. List was made by county judge Allen Leeper. Medlin's District was in the Sinking Creek and Rock Creek area south of Duck River and above the Lincoln County, Tennessee, line. This was later districts 19 and 20 of Bedford County, Tennessee. Some of the people on the militia list lived in an area which is presently the panhandle of Lincoln County, Tennessee, in 1814."

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In the book THE GEORGIANS: GENEALOGIES OF PIONEER SETTLERS, by Jeannette Holland Austin, Genealogical publishing Co., Inc, Baltimore, MD, 1984, pages 41 and 42 is the following BOYETT information:

"The LWT of James Boyett, Screven Co., Ga., undated. Screven Co. Mts., V. A, 1811-1829, P. 1, 3/5/1811: ‘Ordered that the above account is allowed and ordered filed with the papers belonging to the estate of James Boyet, deceased.' On P. 20, Sabrey Boyet was given the guardianship of her son, Seth. 'Sabrey Boyet, admx, James Boyet Account. July Court of 1812, Sabra Boyet appeared in Court, producing her accts. as admx. of est. of James Boyet, Sr., which, being examined and approved by the court, were ordered to be filed and recorded, and also a confirm made by order of the Court of real estate of James Boyet by John Brock, Hardy Scarborough and Samuel J. Beckton, be recorded. On the petition of Philip Boyet, ordered that the sd est. of James Boyet be divided amongst the heirs: Sabrey Boyet; James Jeffers; Philip Boyet; Stephen Boyet; James Boyet; Abigail Craddock; Edward Boyet; Joseph Dickey; Allen Boyet; Seth Boyet; and Irwin Boyet.

JarnesBoyett was listed on 1805 Ga. Land Lottery, in Screven Co. He recd a land grant of 400 acres in Burke Co., Ga. in 1796. Issue follows:

I. Seth Boyett, minor in 1811, mother apptd gdn at his father's death. He m. 1st Hannah Fraser 10119/1817 Screven Co., and 2d Patience Moore, 6/18/1829 Screven Co., Ga.

II. Irvin Boyett. d. 1824 Screven Co., Edward Boyet, his bro., was adm. of his est. Screven Co., Wills & Appraisals, p. 156, 132, 98, 107, 143, 9, 199, 227. Appraisal given 5/1/1824.

III. Isaac Boyet. Listed on 1830 Decautur Co., Ga. Census. Issue:

1. George Boyett m. Matilda Waldon 4/29/1841 Decatur Co.

2. John H. Boyett m. Elizabeth Trawick 10/9/1853 Decatur Co.
Memoirs of Georgia, V. I, P. 584-5: 'John H. Boyett, Jr., son of John H. and Elizabeth (Traywick) Boyett, was born 6/7/1864, in the western part of Decatur County, Georgia. John's parents bad four children:
Isaac L., a planter; Elizabeth, single, with brother; Julia Ann (Mrs. Samuel Brunson, Decatur County) and John.. The Boyetts are of Irish origin and members of the family came to this country among its earliest settlers. Isaac Boyett, John's grandfather, was a soldier in the Indian wars. He came to Georgia and settled in the western part of Decatur county, being one of the three families there in 1836. He lived and died on a plantation then settled. . . . John H. Boyett, his father, was born in North Carolina, and came to Georgia with the family. In 1853 he and Elizabeth Trawick were married and to them were born four children. Mr. Boyett's father enlisted as a member of Co. A, 51st Ga. Regt. in May 1861, and served in Virginia.
. . . . . . . . . .while doing picket duty in Shenandoah Valley, just before day, Oct. 19, 1864, he was shot dead by a Federal picket and was buried where he fell. . .

IV. James Boyet, Jr., b. 1772 Lexington Co., S. C., drew in 1805 Ga.
Land Lottery, from Screven Co. Listed 1820-1830 Burke Co. Census and
(Continued on page 7)

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(Continued from page 6)
1850 Lowndes Co., Ga. Census.

V. Stephen Boyett drew in 1805 Ga. Land Lottery, Screven Co., and drew 400 acres of lanndd 1821 in Screven Co.

VI. Allen Boyett.

VII.Edward Boyett, b. 1770-1780 Lexington Co., S. C., w., Rebecca. Listed on 1820-1830 Screven Co. Census. Screven DB J, P. 289, 7/12/1815, Edward Boyett and his w., Rebecca, deed to Moses Twiggs for $38, 200 acres of pine land on Little Horse Creek. Edward Boyett was made admn of est. of Irvin Boyett, decd, Screven Co. Mts., V. A, P. 116. Issue:
I. James T. Boyett, b. 1812 Screven Co., Ga., d. after 1880 in Bradley Co., Ark. Wife, Mary, b. 1818 Ga. Listed on 1840 Union Parish, La., Census, was in Tx. it 1857 and Ark. in 1865.

VIII. Philip Boyett. Listed on 1830 Decatur Co., Ga. Census.

James Boyett, Jr., made his LWT in Emanuel Co., Ga., WB A, P. 86-7, dtd 10/29/1837, naming wife, Rebecca, to whom he left the homeland in Emanuel Co., consisting of 702 acres. His son, Arthur Boyet and wife, Rebecca, were exrs. The est. of Arthur Boyet was administered on 12/10/1866, Emanuel Co., with bond given by L. Williamson and Solomon Williamson.

Benjamin, James, Sr. and Jr. Philip and Steven Boyet drew in 1805 Ga. Land Lottery, residents from Screven Co., Ga.

Editor's note: LWT is the author's abbreviation for Last Will and Testament. Other abbreviations are DB - deed book, WB - will book, V. - volume.

From THE GENIE, a publication of the Ark-La-Tex Genealogical Association: (submitted by Pat Lape Bennett, No. Little Rock, AR)

- Volume 18, Number 2, April 1984, page 77:

Sabine Parish, LA Marriage Records -Dr. W. D. ARMSTRONG married Mrs. Fran. BOYETT on 29 March 1894,
Volume I, page 587.

- Volume 18, Number 4, October 1984, page 278:

Book review
OF ONE DOZEN SASSERS, order from Claudia C. Weller, 3615 Shamrock Ct., Orlando, FL 32806, cost $36.00 plus $1.50 postage.
This book includes the SASSER family of North Carolina and Georgia.
Particular mention is given in the citation as follows:
"Bryant Sasser & Sabra Sasser Boyett moved to Lowndes Co.,Georgia."

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1892 LETTER

Submitted by Preston Paschal, Amarillo, TX

Clifford, TX

Jan 23, 1892

Mr. B. S. Boyett. Dear farth-I owee moore Take the time two write you a few lines to let you know how we are getting along I have said never to write our little Darling Venia is dead she died Jan the 17. She taken sick fryday night and died sunday morning about 5 oclock she talked about granpa and uncle Brid all day Saturday called for pas pictries And the fan Brichy give and she bad the same kind of -----

that Mrs. Bradshaw little Baby died with you all dont have any idear how we (page two) hated too give her up she was so smart and so much company------ and was fat and hriety up two the last day it was god's will to take her ---done every thing we could for her but all in vaine the wealth was so cold we couldnt go to the berring the snow was on the ground and freesing cold I want you all to write to us we written to you all and Toms foaltis a month ago and have never herd from either of you all scince Iam a fraid some of you are sick write to tom and tell him of our truble and tell them to write to us (page three) we bad the Doc with Venia and he couldent save her the rest of us are tolerable veil we have all had bad colds we have had the colest weather that we have had this winter and from severl winters I wish you all could come to see us sometimes as I dont know when we will get to come to see you all we are so lonely without our baby I ahve had a heap of terrible in my life but I never had any thing to hurt me like that it seemes like I never can get over it we had her berried at Wellington 3 miles from us she was in her right mind untill the last breath our neigbors was awfull good and kind to us all the (page four) time well I will close with love to all write soon Good Bye

Lettie McIntush?

a precious one from us has gone a voice we loved is still a place is vacant in our home that never can be filled god in his wisdom has recalled the doom of love he given but this we know that her sould is safe in heaven"

Editor's note: This letter was written to Barney S. Boyett, from his daughter Lettie.

Alabama Census of 1860
Morgan County
007   McCRASKEY John    54 framer    NC    NW Division Somerville 7.8.
    Rachel    56        SC        4   5 July
    Elizabeth    25        AL
   BOYETT    Nancy    85        SC
   ?SALE    Sarah E.    4        AL

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