Andersons of Colonial N. Carolina

A hat tip to Forrest King for highlighting this record that he found in the Isle of Wight Deed Book 1, p 182: I am having trouble interpreting the specifics of the translation if you care to help…

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The gist of the note in the records according to Mr. King goes thusly: [Thomas Boon’s] house is mentioned as the location for a payment between William Jolly and Robert Coleman about 7 Oct 1695.

Now for my theory… note where Robert Coleman had property in 1697. (It was surveyed and recorded in 1697 and likely he was living there earlier in 1695). I suspect the Elizabeth Browne also mentioned in the deposition was possibly related to John Browne of Kingsale… however, if she was 56 in 1695 that would have her born in 1639. (That is quite early). I got overly excited when I first thought this may have been the wife of John Browne, however her name was Bridgett. John Browne Junior’s wife’s name is unknown to me.

Connect the dots… I find it very compelling that Thomas Boon’s “house” was in Nansemond somewhere near Robert Coleman. Remember that there are no “County” records for the burned county. My map is a reconstruction from the “colony” records found elsewhere in the Library of Virginia “patent” books and some scattered Chowan “precinct” deed books.

Further, to extrapolate on the theory, I find it equally plausible that the mystery “Nich” or Nicholas Boon mentioned in the Isle of Wight records as early as 1676 was quite possibly fully documented in the Nansemond records and today burned to a crisp in the multiple courthouse fires.

All I need for proof is to find an undiscovered patent with a “BOON” mentioned as an adjoining neighbor on one of the patents from the Library of Virginia.

And as is well known and proven, Thomas Boon married the daughter of Mathew Strickland.

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an Update…

Troublemakers and rabblerowsers… such as myself, who “theorize” about long dead folks run the risk of starting rumors. (GASP!). So I wish to sternly! advise absolutely no one to take me seriously other than to listen to my hunch/guess/speculation!… and decide for yourself.

Be it known that I do NOT take headrights as gospel. I am highly suspicious of them. Furthermore, it may have been years before a headright was even used…. they are utterly unreliable… almost, but not always most of the time. Except when they are reliable… maybe.

Is Thomas Bones a reasonable bastardization of Thomas Boon? This is merely a ‘stab’ at identifying an early Boon in the area of Nansemond.

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a bit more updating…

Note that this is the first of my attempts to chronicle just 1 (one) of the BOONs. I have begun this with somewhat of an open mind… I think.

This is the Thomas Boon who had the signature mark “T” with the added “B” on the shank of the T. I think he is the one designated as “the Virginian” in a NC document. Within two years after acquiring over 300 acres from his brother in law Mathew Strickland in Isle of Wight from Strickland’s patent of 1803 acres in 1702 on the Blackwater, he then acquires land from William Williams near modern Franklin, VA in 1704. He was the first to move and shake his way towards NC on the Meherrin River he was active with land deals. He was alive in 1728 when he signed the will of Joseph Boon in 1728.

This graphic is not ready for prime time. I will probably use it for a template… meaning I hope to come back and fill in the gaps between the dates with “my” notes and remarks in blue type. (I credit that style to Bob Baird, where I first saw it used. )

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I hasten to mention that I think it was pretty much impossible to do what I am attempting to do with my maps until the last few years. The ‘means’ to do so has only become available with the advent of the digitized records such as Familysearch.org and the NC Land Grants Online.