Subj: PML Search Result matching Dole Date: 4/4/00 10:51:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: dmaddox@swbell.net (Denise Maddox) To: jdole5633@aol.com ============================================================ A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ ============================================================ Source: GC-Boren Biographies URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/bor/BorenBios?read=5 Subject: The Boren Family of Southwest VA by Kerry Ross Boren -- Part 2 Surname: Boren ------------------------- In November 1775, Mansker detected signs of Indians and left his companions to investigate. As he watched the camp of two Indians, one of the braves arose and walked towards him and Man­sker was forced to shoot. The Indian turned and ran about fifty yards past his own camp and fell dead over a bluff into the river. The other Indian fled the camp hurriedly. Mansker returned to his companions and they gathered up their camp and went back to the Indian camp only to discover that the second Indian had gathered up his belongings and left. They knew that if the Indian reached his tribe and gave warning, their lives would be forfeit, and so the men tracked him throughout the night and following day but, unable to come up to him, they left the country, returning to Boonesborough. 27 In 1776, due to Indian hostilities in Kentucky, many of the families returned to their homes in North Carolina and on the Clinch River, Virginia. The reminiscences of George Bryan (Bazel Boren’s brother-in-law), to be found in the Draper collection, informs us that his brother Morgan Bryan III and “several others of my kinsmen” went to explore the Cumberland in Tennessee and “the country westward” with Daniel Boone in 1776. Although space does not permit a full recounting of the information, there is evidence, which shows that an incredible event may have taken place during this period. Apparently, Daniel Boone and others of his companions including possibly Bazel Boren (inasmuch as they were together in the westward party) explored to the headwaters of the Missouri River in what is now the state of Idaho! A tree exists to this date, recently preserved from that location, bearing the inscription: “D. Boon 1776”. George Bryan’s reminiscences give us further information about this period of time: “My father (Morgan Bryan II), my brother James and others had been out in 1775 through the Green River country, in the barrens and in Tennessee exploring. My brother James had been out nine months and had remained on Clinch, when the others went in…Boone was here three months alone without horse, dog, or friend. He was in the wild country of the west…” 28 In February, 1777, an old French trapper of New Orleans recited how with surprise he encountered at “Deacon’s Pond” on the Cumberland River, near the present town of Palmyra, in Montgomery County, Tennessee, 29 an “encampment of six white men and one white woman who made their way through to the upper waters of the Cumberland at the end of the preceding year, and there built them a boat and floated down some four hundred miles to Palmyra and landed. What became of them afterward tradition says not…” 30 History has never been kind enough to reveal the name of the mysterious white woman – the first in west Tennessee – but one wonders seriously if it was not Susannah Bryan who married Bazel Boren sometime in 1777 and may have accompanied him on this journey. There can be little doubt that this party was that mentioned by George Bryan in the Draper Manuscript as his kin who went out to “explore the Green River country and the barrens in Tennes­see” that season. From George Bryan we learn the identity of some, while speculation and circumstantial evidence tells us the others: Gasper Mansker, Bazel Boren. Morgan Bryan, Sr. and Jr., Thomas Kilgore and Wilson Hunt, who comprise the “six white men”, while James Bryan, as George Bryan attested, returned af­ter nine months in Tennessee and was not sighted by the old French trapper. In February 1777, the Indians attacked Boonesborough and began a series of depredations, which lasted several years. In the spring of 1778, Daniel Boone was captured and carried away, during which time Rebecca Bryan Boone returned to North Car­olina with her relatives and Bazel Boren returned apparently to the Clinch River settlements. In 1777, Bazel Boren and Susannah Bryan were married, probably in Washington County, Virginia (the marriage records were destroyed) and in the same year, Babel Boren is listed as one of those commissioned as a lieutenant of the militia. 31 The first child born to Bazel and Susannah Boren was Mary Boren, born September 1778. Sometime during this period, Baz­el was also joined in Washington County, Virginia, by his brother, John Boren, who married Sarah Alley, daughter of Peter Alley of Washington County. In March 1779, Bazel Boren accompanied his brother‑in‑law George Bryan and others to the Elkhorn in Kentucky where they planted corn and cleared land until May. In July they returned for their families and brought them to Kentucky and in September of that year, Susannah’s parents, Morgan and Mary Bryan came out. By late fall, seventy families were on the Elkhorn, over four hundred in member, the nucleus of the settlement which became famous as “Bryan’s Station”. Susannah remained on the Clinch until July, for George Bryan relates: “William Bryan brought one daughter, single, and William Grant brought his wife and also a single daughter...these were all the women that came out in the Spring...” 32 Bazel Boren remained at Bryan’s Station through the winter of 1779 - 1780 and took tip land in what became Bourbon County. The Indians attacked Martin’s and Russell’s Stations in the late summer of 1780 and the families once again returned to the Clinch and to North Carolina for protection. Bazel Boren, together with his father-in-law, Morgan Bryan II and Morgan’s brothers James Bryan, fought at the bloody Battle of King’s Mountain, October 7, 1780. Bazel Boren was a lieuten­ant under Captain William Edmondson (killed) and Captain James Dysart of Col. William Campbell’s Virginia Regiment. Captain Dysart was a Long Hunter and close associate of both Bazel Karen and the Kilgore’s. Thomas Kilgore, who had remained in Tennessee, living in a cave, traveled all the way to Virginia to participate in the battle with his five sons: Charles, Hiram, Robert, William, and James. Hiram Kilgore was killed, Charles and Robert both wounded. Even more ironic was the fact that Samuel Bryan, brother of Morgan William, James and John Bryan and an uncle of Susannah Bryan Boren, was a Tory Colonel, in command of the North Car­olina Tory Regiment, which fought against Samuel’s own brothers at King’s Mountain. John Bryan was killed by Col. Edward Fan­ning upon information provided by his brother, Samuel Bryan, and a desperate feud persisted between the brothers. Space does not permit a full recounting of the battle which has been covered in many other accounts, but suffice it to say that Bazel Boren so displaced his courage in this combat with Fergus­on’s British troops that “Boren’s River” near the battleground was named for him (now called Broad River). Following the Battle of King’s Mountain, Morgan and James Bryan returned to their families at Bryan’s Station, Kentucky, while Bazel Boren apparently returned to the Clinch River where file appears upon many records between 1780 - 1782. Sometime during this period, as we have noted, Bazel Boren was joined in Washington County, Virginia by his father, Charles Bor­en, and brothers William and John Boren and probably others. The following records of Washington County are of particular interest: “6 May 1782 - William Boren enters 100 acres on Grassy Creek, waters of Copper Creek, being the place where said Boren lives.” 33 “29 May 1782 - James Dysart enters 100 acres on waters of Copper Creek taking in a large spring on the road going from Charles Boren’s to the Clinch.” 34 “18 June 1782 - Alexander Ritchie 300 acres on north side of Copper Creek including the Big Spring and on both sides of the road leading from (Patrick) Porter’s Mill to Boren’s Fort to include Kilgore’s Camp.” 35 “30 August 1782 – Thomas Alley, assignee of Peter Alley, 150 acres of land on waters of Copper Creek, joining the lines of Basil Boren’s lines to include the mouth of Big Branch, the mouth of Grassy Creek and up the creek for improvement.” 36 On November 20, 1782, Thomas Faires and Bazel Boren were again recommended for lieutenants of militia. 37 Tax lists and other records show John and William Boren who apparently arrived from Caswell County, North Carolina, between 1780-1782.” 38 Space does not permit a recounting of the court and other records concerning these persons in Washington County, Virginia. In 1782, Thomas Kilgore organized a company of men to accompany him back to Tennessee for settlement in the Red River country where they had explored some years before on several occasions. We know the names of some of these persons, most of whom were from the Clinch River: Bazel Boren, William Boren, John Boren, Charles Boren (others of the family). Martin Duncan, Morgan Bryan III, Charles Kilgore, Moses Maulden, Ambrose Maulson, Samuel Mason, Josiah Hankins, William Crabtree, “and sever other families”. They arrived in the latter part of the year 1783 and erected a fort called “Kilgore’s Station” near Sulphur Fork of the Red River. Thomas Kilgore remained ever afterward and died on his farm where he had first lived in a cave. He is buried in Villines Cemetery, Robertson County, Tennessee and his tombstone reads: “Thomas Kilgore – Major N.C. Mil. Rev. War 1715-1823, having died at the age of 108 years.” In 1784 Col. John Montgomery and Col. Martin Armstrong founded the town of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, and shortly afterward the town of Palmyra was founded. Bazel and Stephen Boren becoming among the first lot purchasers. In nearby Sumner County, Gasper Mansker founded Mansker’s Station and Morgan Bryan III (brother of Susannah Bryan Boren) took up land adjoining Bazel Boren and soon after there was Renfro’s Station and Prince’s Station and several other settlements. The new settlers formed a militia and government and called it Mero District, the first justices of which were Col. John Montgomery, Bazel Boren, Andrew Jackson (later president of the United States). Archibald Roane, Samuel Donelson (a brother of Rachel Donelson, wife of Andrew Jackson) and others. The first cases brought before this court concerned Andrew Jackson and a horse and the widow Stewart in which William Boren was a witness. 39 Continued Part 2