Nancy Crotchett was another Crotchett sibling and she married Elijah Dyer, son of William and Nancy Hurst Dyer. Dee -----Original Message----- From: Donald Chesnut <drches01@pop.uky.edu> To: BOWLING-L@rootsweb.com <BOWLING-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, February 13, 1999 4:54 PM Subject: [BOWLING-L] William Bolin >At 07:27 PM 2/13/99 +0100, you wrote: >... >>Here is what I found that was so intriguing. Your site listed William >>"Blackwater Bill" Bolin who married Sarah "Sally" Fugate.... > >Bob, > Here is some of what I have gathered about William... > >William Bolin is executor of will of John English in Russell Co., VA on >Aug. 1797. William owned land next to John the son of Castlewood John in >1798 in Russell Co., VA. [name spelled Bolin and Bolen in Russell Co. >records] Map of William Bolin's land shown on page 73 of Fugate Family >Newsletter (v.3, no. 1); it was on the eastern corner of the confluence of >Castles Run and the Clinch River and adjoined land owned by John Fugit and >Benjamin Fugit. > >William and Sarah were early setters in the Clay Co., KY area (Red Bird >Fork). Madison Co., KY tax lists (Clay Co.) [in H.T. Bowling, no date] >show the following: >1795 William Bolling with 3 horses >1803 William Bowling with horse >1804 William Bowlin, over 21 years of age and wife >1810 Clay Co. census [same source]: William Boling older than 45 years >[1765 or earlier], one son 10-16 [1794-1800], 2 sons less than 10 >[1800-1810], wife 26-45 [1765-1784], 1 daughter 10-16 [1794-1800], 2 >daughters under 10 [1800-1810]. In the same census, his son John is listed >as 10-26 years, 2 sons less than 10, wife 26-45, 1 daughter 10-16, 3 >daughters less than 10. >William Bolin [sic] was listed in the Cape Girardeau Co., MO 1830 census >[in Fugate Family Newsletter, v. 3, n. 1. p. 74] with the following: one >male 5-10 years [1820-1825], one male 10-15 years [1815-1820], one male >60-70 years [1760-1770][Wm], one female 15-20 years [1810-1815], one female >20-30 years [1800-1810], one female 60-70 years [1760-1770][Sarah]. > >William was a constable in Wilkes Co., NC in 1787 [as was his brother, >Jesse at another time?]. > >1810 Clay County Census: >William BOLING: 2 males <10; 2 males 16-26; 1 male >45; 2 females <10; 1 >female 10-16; 1 female 26-45; no free persons or slaves. >Other BOLINGs listed in the Clay-Knox Co. census were: >Christopher, Ely, Isham, James, Jessee, John, Joseph, and Justus [see my >notebook for details]. > >Todd Bolen (data base report, 1995): >"William Bowlin 1782 listed in militia, Montgomery County, Virginia. (22) >William Bowlin was one of the earliest settlers of the New River Valley of >Virginia. One of the men in the hunting party that came to Castle Woods >with William Bolling was known to have been William Robertson of the >Pocahontas Line and Richard Randolph also bought land on the New River. >William Bolling settled deep inside a dense forest of great virgin timber >to be known as "Castle Woods." News of the hunting and fishing territory >began a migration of William Bowling's kinfolks and their allied families. >The 1782 tax list of Montgomery County, Virginia lists the following >Bowlings: James, John, John Jr., Joseph, William and Christopher. Allied >families were : Blevins, Baker, Pennington, and Ozburn [sic]. It appears >that William is a close kinsman of Benjamin Bowling. William probably had >a wife named Elizabeth. It has been said that William Bowling raised a >sizeable family in "Castle Woods." William Bowling appears to have left >Montgomery County, Virginia in the early 1790s. ...He was in Clay County, >Kentucky and Hawkins County, Tennessee..." > > >Lewis Preston Summers, "History of Southwest Virginia 1746-1786, Washington >County, 1777-1870," (1903): >p. 367; "Early in the year 1783, about twelve years after the first >settlement at Castle's Woods, a part of northward Indians invaded the >settlement and attacked the fort at Hamblin's Mill. >"This fort was erected by Henry Hamblin, one of the first settlers in that >section, in the year 1776, with the asistance of ..., ..., William >Robertson, ...,........., and William Bowlin, the first settlers in that >section. > >Clay County Tax List 1842: >A Bowlin, William was listed [could be nephew of our William; Jesse and >James had a William]. > > >1810 LEE COUNTY VIRGINIA TAX LISTS > >head of household/date taken/tithables/slaves over 12 years/horses/notes >Bowlin William 15 Mar 2 0 3 >Bowlin Michael 18 May 1 0 0 > >LEE COUNTY VIRGINIA >1830 Census > >Set 1 >Free White Males 0-5, 5-10, 10-15, 15-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50, 50-60, >60-70, 70-80, 80-90, 90-100, 100 and over >Free White Females 0-5, 5-10, 10-15, 15-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50, 50-60, >60-70, 70-80, 80-90, 90-100, 100 and over > >Set 2 >Male Slaves 0-10, 10-24, 24-36, 36-55, 55-100, 100 and over >Female Slaves 0-10, 10-24, 24-36, 36-55, 55-100, 100 and over > >Set 3 >Male Free Blacks 0-10, 10-24, 24-36, 36-55, 55-100, 100 and over >Female Free Blacks 0-10, 10-24, 24-36, 36-55, 55-100, 100 and over > >Set 4 >Free Deaf and Dumb under 14, 14-25, 25 and over >Free Blind >Foreigners Not Naturalized > >Set 5 >Slaves Deaf and Dumb under 14, 14-25, 25 and over >Slaves Blind > >Boling, Ann 1100000000000-0000110001000 000000-000000 >000000-000000 00000 0000 292 8 >Boling, William 0001100100000-0200001000000 000000-000000 >000000-000000 00000 0000 293 16 >