Both of these messages intrigue me. While I can only prove part of what I wish to put forward, I would also like to add some conjecture for you to ponder. I can prove that Elizabeth Dyer married.............Bowling. She was the daughter of William and Nancy Hurst Dyer. The Dyers were in Greenbrier and Montgomery Counties Virginia prior to going into Kentucky in the 1790s. That the Dyers knew the Fugates is easy to prove because the Fugates often acted as witnesses to various legal instruments. Also Mary or "Polly" Dyer married a Crotchett. It CONJECTURED that the Crotchett mother was Patience Fugate bd ca 1770. Provable.The Dyer, Bowling, Crotchett, Rowe, Salisbury, Wood, Kelly (all siblings) resided in Livingston County Kentucky ca 1810-1815. The Bowling family stayed, as did the Kelly, Rowe, Wood, and some Crotchetts. Patience Crotchett remarried William Redkins who had land on the Cumberland River in Smith County Tennessee ca 1806, prior to removing to Illinois where he is listed on the 1818 state census, the 1820 census. Patience Redkins is listed on the 1830 census and is in the household of her son, John Crotchett, in the 1840 census. Her will is recorded in Pope County Illinois. Crotchett siblings are James, Harriett, John, William, and I think a couple more girls. Patience Fugate was administratrix for her father and she was unmarried at the time. She had a sister, but I do not remember her name. Patience Fugate would be about the right age to be the Patience who married the Crotchett. They would have resided in Tennessee during which time the children were born. James and John claim they were born in North Carolina, the rest state Tennessee. I CONJECTURE that no one moved. But the state line moved. I would like to hear from you after you have had an opportunity to think about all these things. Dee Doyle DMD@access-one.com -----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 >