some answers to Jennifer concerning the Boons
If it’s not too much to ask, I would like to know if I am interpreting some of the provided info correctly.
1) Mathew STRICKLAND (of the 1803-acre land grant) wife is Elizabeth. And he appears to have settled in IOW about 1678.
Yes, her maiden name unknown… his death date is about 1697 or so…
Matthew STRICKLAND, of will date 14 July 1730, probated 25 Oct 1730, IOW.
His wife, Anne Brasswell.
Yes, there was a Braswell property within easy walking distance of where Thomas Boon lived on the Strickland property in IOW. (see map below)
1714, Mathew Strickland and wife Anne (Brasswell), sell part of his father’s, Mathew Strickland, land grant of 1803-acres.
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2) Theory
4-5 Boon Brother’s and, Nich Boon from 1667 IOW is a possible father.
“Is it possible Thomas is a son of Nicholas Boon of IOW.” {IS Nich and Nicholas interchangeable?}
This is interesting because I had not entertained the idea of the 1667 Nich and Nicholas being different men. I cannot even hazard a guess. Forrest King in his research found a reference to Nich Boon signing a petition after Bacon’s Rebellion if I recall correctly. So from 1667 to 1676 is a decade which seemingly has this Nich Boon in IOW… these scanty records cannot even support a credible theory that I can detect… other than offer a possibility that he could have sired a family of sons. So in my mind it is clearly possible that Thomas Boon could be a son and have numerous brothers by Nich Boon the elder.
The other plausible theory, again in my opinion, is that Thomas Boon (son in law of Strickland) may have sired a family of sons who all wind up in North Carolina (excepting what appears to be his youngest son who remained on the IOW property left to him by his father Thomas).
… a link to the research of Forrest King…
Thomas BOON is the son-in-law of Mathew Strickland.
William Boon is the son of Thomas Boon.
Earliest record for William Boon is 1712 and he was the first of the Boons to show up in NC.
The wife of William Boon is Elizabeth.
Yes, I have found only one direct reference to William Boon in Isle of Wight… he is a witness to a 1731 deed of Phillip Pearce (of Bartee Precinct in North Carolina). This is interesting because the Phillip Pearce hails from property very close to The Thomas Boon property in IOW. If William Boon and this Phillip Pearce are second generation sons who knew each other growing up then that could explain why Boon is acting as a witness in this land transaction. It may be that this document was accomplished in NC and Boon did not even travel to IOW… this could merely have been re-copied to the Virginia court?
Joseph Boon, d. 1728, is the father of James Boon.
Joseph Boon, appears to be the brother of Thomas Boon of IOW, who married daughter of Matthew Strickland.
Thomas Boon and FNU Strickland, had a son Ratliff Boon.
Yes, I show elsewhere on my sight an image of Thomas Boon’s signature “mark” and it is the capital T with a smaller “B” scribbled onto the capital T. I think this is the older “Virginia” Thomas. He witnessed Joseph Boon’s will in 1728. But therein causes me to pause… is this father of such superior genetic substance that he is outliving his sons? Possible but not probable. He could however, easily be a brother.
Thomas Boon, who married the daughter of Matthew Strickland, starts buying property, about 1705, and moving towards NC with son’s (in tow) William, Nicholas, Joseph and Thomas, Jr.
Such is my theory… i am not “sold” on the idea… but I have found that theories keep the discussion flowing.
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3) Carolus ANDERSON
His mothers will of 1732, was witnessed by Elias Fort.
His wife is named Mary and “thinks” she is a Boon.
Theory: Thomas Boon of VA, that married daughter of FNU Strickland, settled next to Carolus Anderson in 1724 on Meherrin River.
Yes. Note the name ANDERSON in the map above… my theory is that Carolus was the son of that George Anderson and Carolus may have grown up next to William Boon.
Thank you,
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There are some researchers who have stated that a Nich or Nickolas/Nicholus Boon 1660s from Isle of Wight was some sort of mariner or sea captain that hailed from Dutch waters. He was evidently so busy sailing to and fro’ he did not have time to leave any records in IOW. They state they have found Dutch records to substantiate the claims but can’t find the time to share their sources. I would like to see some proof…otherwise I call it bullsh*t.
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footnote to comment by Jennifer
Note on part of Byrd’s survey at Meherrin River
On the humorous side… folks trip and stumble all over themselves when they see the term “Country Line” on the deed references to the VA and NC boundary line. Rest assured that that is exactly what they meant. Thomas Jefferson referred to Virginia as “his Country”… likewise with Robert E. (Bobby) Lee. So I just snicker when I correct people when they change the wording to County instead of Country. Silly people.
An aside…
… a note to Jennifer… you might be interested in the Thornton reference contained herein. It seems Katherine Bathe of Isle of Wight was widow to a Thornton. (all messy and complicated stuff). She also widowed a Whitehead and raised one of the multitudinous Arthur Whiteheads. It seems the Whiteheads et al, were friends neighbors and more than likely intermarried with the Boons. (It seems they go way back to the William Strickland property near Horse Swamp in Isle of Wight).
I’m thinkin’ one of the Whitheads wound up near the Boons fairly close to the Meherrin River… I will try to map it out when I get a chance… we have also discovered the Thornton property just south of the Meherrin River near the Virginia line.
see this reference… still working notes…gathering my thoughts…
see here also:
a Southern moment… when hunger calls
I get nostalgic for Mom’s cookin’ now and then.. but this is certainly NOT Mom. This is a goto spot for any Yankees who in their wildest dreams wish that they were fortunate enough to be born in God’s Country but Fate did not allow…
I grew up on this stuff… it is the real thing. Nuff said.
a caution… these gastronomic delights are not for the faint of heart… tread lightly my friends…
William Boon’s magic patent
The thing either GROWS… or sheds like a dog… I’m not sure. I’m pretty sure acres don’t just disappear.
1720… I’m thinking Mr. Boon may have an earlier patent around the Morattock River (Roanoke for you newbies). He dabbled in real estate between the Meherrin River where it crosses between North Carolina and Virginia. And he dabbled quite a bit. I’ve been extremely frustrated with trying to unravel the many and sundry deals that he made… not only around his home base (which seems to be the Meherrin River properties) and his several holdings over at Occoneechee Neck on the Morattock River. This Mr. Boon in my opinion will turn out to be the brick wall of my many brick walls in trying to fit the puzzle pieces together to figure out the Boon Family. My overly under managed website here is littered with my frustrated attempts to figure the Boons out.
I think this guy grew up in Virginia… can’t prove it yet but I be workin’ on it. William Boon was best buds with a couple other Williams… 3 of them … always seemed to be bumping into each other. William Braswell, William Browne and this William Boon from Meherrin River.
My gut tells me these characters were a bit on the “dandies” side of the equation… they preferred to sell real estate more than till the soil if you catch my drift. Nuthin’ wrong with that I suppose… but my modus operandi is to track Indian Traders who tended to get their hands dirty… gnome sane? Traders had a tendency to sample the rum they traded… see Richard Cureton as an example… just to pick on one of many I could pick on.
I fell in to the same trap most newbies fall in to now a days… search like crazy all over the web and get a sense of what most people think… get a consensus as the climate kooks say. This William Boon was the first of the Boons to show up in North Carolina. All that nonsense about a Thomas Boon being there since 1668 is bullsh*t. Sorry for the French. I’ve proved it in my other posts… do a search on this site if you are incredulous and think you can debate me. I like a good argument. Read some comments where I get my feathers all ruffled and panties get all tied into knots… you people do not like it when I challenge your sacred cows. But hey… let’s keep it civil.
December 8, 1702, Mathew (M) STRICKLAND sold Thomas BOON for 12,000 pounds of tobacco in cask 300 acres in the Lower Parish on Horse Swamp, Blackwater, First Branch, Gum Branch, and the Arthur WHITEHEAD line, witnessed by William JOLLY, James JOLLY, and Adam MURRAY.
That Thomas Boon married the daughter of Mathew Strickland. About 1705 this Thomas Boon starts buying property and moving towards North Carolina…. recall that prior to 1700 it was verboten! for mere mortals from Virginia to cross the Blackwater River. I think this may have been the progenitor of the North Carolina Boons. When he started his trek to NC he had in tow numerous sons… those being William, Nicholus, Joseph and a Thomas Junior.
This is a theory folks… just trying to connect dots. There was a mystery Nich Boon in isle of Wight in 1667 but he did not not leave any tracks to follow. So much for the background info… on to the magic patent…
Oh wait… check out the movement of Thomas Boon to North Carolina…
Recall that people were restricted “by Law” from settling past the Blackwater River before 1700.
Note… I do not want this Post to be overshadowed by the mystery surrounding Thomas Boon. I have stated my case concerning my theory about him in this link:
Back to William Boon. I think he was a son of Thomas Boon, son in law of Mathew Strickland just to clarify where I stand. From my research, I am of the opinion that the “Three Williams” became friends and intermarriages occurred. Then it became a more serious matter when women , money/property and family relations entered the equation. Referencing the map above, it was around this 1704 time period that things began to get “heated up” in North Carolina. And then and there is when Braswell, Browne and Boon hooked up and were some of the frontrunners in the race to settle NC. They went West before it was cool. Yehaw! as they say.
Virginia was about to burst at the seams. All the easy land grabs had been farmed out and there were too many sons to bestow property on when the old men died out. Something had to give! The Indians had to go and new land had to open up to satisfy the demand. This was the genesis of what would later become “Manifest Destiny”. So much for the “why” about the boys in North Carolina… now for the “how” of the Boons.
I call this the “magic patent” in jest. But it does serve to show the wild and excited atmosphere surrounding the settlement of NC. Here is the actual patent:
To make my point about the “excitement” of the times (Germans coined the term Zeitgeist which may offer some insight although I find Germans a bit weird…mumbling to myself…I married and divorced one) I offer this breakdown of the above patent. It was like a foodfest of ravaged and starving men carving up a deer carcass to cart off and feed upon. I have damn near lost my mind just figuring out the details…and I am STILL not satisfied I understand it…Behold the madness!
To expand on my point above, here is a bit of a breakdown of just one of the chunks of the “magic patent” this one involving Elias Fort. The Forts hailed from an area just across the Blackwater River from old man Thomas Boon when he still lived on the Mathew Strickland spread in Isle of Wight. So the Boons and Forts go “way back” as the expression goes…
Intermission… I’ll leave this as a cliffhanger while I recharge and gather more ammo to attack this vicious dilemma.
Hmmm… here are a few deed references that vibrate my radar (Spidey sense?)… they “seem””perhaps” to connect William Boon directly (or indirectly) to the Stricklands of Isle of Wight. These are later Northampton County deeds:
https://sites.google.com/site/mathewstricklandgenealogy/1741—1773-northampton-co-nc-deeds
1741/1742 – February 4,Nicholas Boon of Northampton Co to Joseph Strickland of Northampton Co 5 shillings Va money 150 acres on the south side of Meherrin River, joining Corduroy Swamp and the mouth of Miry branch, all houses, orchards, gardens, etc. part of a patent to Thomas Boon in 1723. Wit: James Washington, John Deberry, John Phillips Reg. Northampton Co Feb Ct 1741 J. Edwards C. Ct. Deed Book 1, p. 16 (See 1744 Deed)
1743 – October 25, Matthew Strickland of Edgecombe Co. to Joseph Strickland of Northampton Co. 5 pounds currency of Va. 100 acres on the south side of the Maherin river part of a tract granted to William Boon 11 Nov. 1723 and part of the land William Strickland left by will to Matthew Strickland Wit: John Deberry, Benjamin Deberry Reg. Northampton Co., NC May Ct. 1744 Robert Forster C. Ct. (Pg 115) (See 1773 deed)
1743 – November 21, Rowland Williams and Phillis, his wife of Northampton Co to Anthony Robinson of York Co, Va, gentleman 25 pounds Va money 100 acres more or less on the north side of Morratoke river in ye Oconeeche Neck, joining the Miry branch, William Strickland, Sr., the Gum pond, Robert Sims, a cypress swamp and Oconeeche swamp, part of a patent of William Boon decd for 346 acres Wit: Knowles Giles, William Moore Reg. Northampton Co Nov Ct 1743 J. Edwards C. Ct. Deed Book 1, p 94
I have not researched these Stricklands after they ventured out of IOW and moved into North Carolina… is this mere coincidence or are they following along with the Boons?
footnote to a comment concerning Hubbard Gibson…
footnote to comment concerning Browne’s will of 1718. This mistranslation of the will has been used as evidence that William Boon and William Browne were brothers in law. It is an error… it is a falsehood. I too was taken in by this mistranslation and would like to set the record straight. This document can be easily downloaded and shared with anyone still suffering from delusions of the nearsighted transcriber. (I’m pretty sure I am referring to an overzealous Braswell researcher… but other that this irritating error they have done a respectable job breaking down that particular cobweb of history… Carey Bracewell has a book on Amazon that I wholeheartedly recommend).
so l’ll just figure out this here patent… can’t be that difficult…
This is why I am bald… pulled all the hairs out by the roots…
I call this a data sheet… use it for each patent I use to make the maps…
This is a case filled with errors… it therefore makes no sense and is useless.
Unless! I can find a couple of adjoining patents to use to figure out where the errors might be.
Any idea who this “Mencham” guy might be? This “John Bryant” might be a patent nightmare from 1708 which does not help.
lost James Bryant info…
A lost patent for Richard Braswell to be precise. I did a prior post for this Bryant fella and tracked some of his Isle of Wight/Southampton, VA land holdings. I’ve ventured into his history a bit now and see it is likely he was the father in law of Richard Braswell as well as John Dew and Mathew Selar. (per his will of 1731)
This stellar bit of detective work on my part came about not thru my Holmesian insights but merely sheer dumb luck… I was looking for a missing patent for Mr. Braswell and ran across a deed from 1740 that lays out the sordid details…
I have still not found the missing Braswell deed from 1706 but feel compelled to share the James Bryant info… which I shall do...Viszt… as they used to say… (a little colonial history there as Rush used to say…)
The pertinent details start out thusly: William Bryant and wife of Edgecombe County to Thomas Uzzell of Nansemond County, Va. May 20, 1740. 1000 pds. for “a certain plantation” plus 100 A. Land on NS Meherrin River “being plantation whereon James Bryant formerly Lived and part of the patent Granted to Richard Braswell... so you see I am not pulling your leg…
Like I say… I am still looking for that damn missing patent… you folks may poke and prod thru the sordid details as you see fit… my footnoting and source details are horrendous at best and I offer no excuses other than to advise you to simply deal with it…
This is the general area where I think James Bryan[t] was living ca. 1708…
A John Britt is mentioned in one of the references as well as a “Duke” guy which I also cannot find… that is primarily why I suspect the land is in this specific area (but then, this Britt placement can be changed if necessary) it is a guess right now…
Putting on my “historian’s cap”… isn’t it interesting that in 1706 and 1708 when Braswell assigned this land to Bryan[t] that the 1710 Tuscarora “war” had not yet taken place. It was only after the Indians were no longer a threat that the floodgates for settlement were opened. Note in one of the patents shown below for John Dew (near Kerby’s Creek) that mention is made of the “Roanoke path”. I suspect that was the original “Indian Trail” leading to the Occoneechee Neck and perhaps Foltera Fort. It just seems like a lonely place in 1706… except for Indian Traders… and their cohorts.
To add a bit more complexity to this mystery… note the “William” Braswell in the map lower right above… in the references to Bryant in 1714 he is dealing with this William Braswell/wife Mary… is he selling him property? Any one have any insights to what was going on? just curious…
a prior post:
Kinchen Boon…
One of my intrepid and curious commenters posted a comment asking… “Hey old man… on your map you have a Kinchen guy right next to a Boon guy… what’s up with that? Think there is any chance thats where Kinchen Boon came from?” or something like that, I’m paraphrasing (smiling).
So I did a random Google search for “kinchen boon” chowan…
https://archive.org/details/musterrollsofsolw00nort/page/38/mode/2up?q=kinchen
Kinchen got around… gnome sane? This map is unfinished but already starting rumors…
The pervy William Byrd II even mentioned Mr. Kinchen in his “secret” diary of the Dividing Line Twixt Virginia and North Carolina… well, the pervert mentioned Kinchen’s wife more specifically. She evidently caught Byrd’s eye in 1728. I’m certainly no saint myself and probably should not throw stones… but hell, I just find the byrdman a little too creepy… even by my wine-swizzled glare.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/05/13/roger-that/
I get a kick out of theories…
Phillip Brantley notes… 1720ish to 1760s.. ish…
His son John seems to have stayed around the area after Phillip died…
This is pretty much a note to myself to pick up at a later date…
This particular Brantley line is interesting to me because of this area of modern Southampton County, VA. It was Isle of Wight in early colonial times. (IOW extended all the way to the NC state line, which did not even exist until 1728). Also many of this area’s inhabitants were associated with folks I am researching…. my Andersons of course, but also Brownes, Boons, Forts, Sims… and others.
I could easily write for an hour just expounding on the clues… but my interest right now is the Boons around Meherrin River.
I am still searching and mapping the early, first patents of this area… all these clues listed are mostly the sons and later folks acquiring the land from dying parents or folks selling out and moving. In order to help satisfy my curiosity I will need to map these later folks. (The Brantley Association Southampton Project will be instrumental for that little project).
Feel free to comment… I will revisit this when the urge allows…
The deed references are the work of Forrest King whose research I constantly run across in my Google searches. (Thank you Mr. King for sharing)
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/deeds/deedbk3.txt
Sims… perhaps some fire…
I’ve seen smoke with these guys for years now… but never been able to detect any fire. A father and sons or maybe several Sims brothers were around James Anderson of Occoneechee Neck. That era is about 1716 to 1727 or so… then around 1754 a couple of Andersons show up in Granville County and sure enough, there are also some Sims. Like flies on uh… uh… well Sims were buzzing all around I tell ya.
There seems to be a Pattern here!
But wait! as the irritating tv advertisements say… there is More!
Some Sims were skulking around the Anderson folk around Meherrin River. Elias Fort and his wife witnessed the will of Elizabeth Anderson in 1733. This was the mother of James Anderson and his brother Carolus. My theory also states that William Anderson of Edgecombe, d 1789 was mixed in this crowd, perhaps born there about 1725.
Pondering these clues a bit more… it seems Joseph Sims (I think of Nansemond- he had property there in 1694) married the sister of the Elias Fort mentioned above. And then in 1719 a William Sims show up with property within spitting distance of the Andersons and Boons in the Maherrin River area. Many folks think that William Boon married another sister of Elias Fort. So these Andersons, Boons, Forts and now Sims had something all in common. I figure the boys and girls were cozying up under the bed sheets.
I’m thinking James Anderson may have married a Sims gal. My epiphany for that little theory is that her “mark” was an “S”. You know… for Sims. Her name was Elisabeth… why an S?
Some clues to ponder…
A bit of meat to chew on… my current thought is that these Andersons and Sims may be “kinfolk” perhaps moving around in a “pack” (for lack of a better term). Dare I suggest that this William and George Anderson may be sons of James Anderson of Occoneechee Neck?
Some background… hot off the press…
another tidbit… where Robert Sims came from in IOW … 1690s
DNA animation
I just became aware of this. This is the most amazing marriage of science and art that I have ever seen.
The animator/scientist:
In 1973 or so I was a two-striper in The Air Force… I was fortunate enough to get a direct duty assignment out of Basic Training as a “illustrator”. I managed that feat with pure dumb luck because I took what was called a “by-pass specialist” test. I scored high on a “draftsman” test. (I had taken all the drafting classes available in Jr. and Sr High schools). I spent one of those years in the base hospital of Keeler, AFB in Biloxi, Miss with the illustrious title of “medical Illustrator”. I was far from a highly-trained medical illustrator… but hell, I went along with the gig. I even briefly considered going to college to become the real thing but fate being what it is, I did not. But therein said hospital I ran across the work of this guy… Dr. Frank Netter. He was pre-computers and would whip out colored pencils. I think Mr. Berry above, is of the same blueprint material. It is rare when a scientist can draw.
an aside…
I gave up cable tv a couple years ago… can’t even watch Fox anymore. I spend some time on Youtube and find that real, everyday people seem to satisfy my craving for the old addiction.
Donnie Laws … this guy enjoys sharing some of his insights… interesting, I like that he is not freakishly “polished” like tv clowns usually are and is down to earth… check out his other stuff. I liked the video on Cumberland Gap since I am sure my ancestors passed thru it when they headed off to Tennessee in 1830.
I think it was 1966… Mr. Vincent was teaching “earth science” to my 9th grade “head full of mush” as Rush Limbaugh used to refer to it. Mr. Vincent pointed a finger at me ( I think he realized I was actually, really interested) and declared that the whole surface of the earth was just floating around and pieces were bumping in to each other… it was my first introduction to “plate tectonics”. I was and am still mesmerized by the concept. But just as I was getting all settled in with the idea, here comes along another old curmudgeon who has knocked my socks off again. Randall Carlson. He became fascinated with the “scablands” of the American western states as a teenager. He says matter of factly that about 10,000 years ago, give or take a bit, a big freaking comet smacked into about a two mile thick chunk of ice that covered all of Canada and most of the northern United States. This caused the ice to melt and that resulting series of huge honking, mind blowing floods completely altered the bulk of the complete continent of North America and Europe. This flood was, shall we say, of “biblical” proportions (smiling)…he has convinced me.
another Rogers tidbit… the hits just keep on comin’…
I noted this several years ago.. but in my naivete… failed to recognize how important it is to ROGERS folks. I mention this because I often say “I am neutral” or “I don’t have a dog in this fight”… my gist is that my REAL object of my research is to find out MY ancestors… not YOURS. If I have to read about your folks I will either fall asleep from boredom or commit suicide. C’mon… do you really care about my grandmother?
So… now that we understand each other… Now that I have become an “industrial” mapper of deeds for long dead people. (how’s that for a job resume?)
I have found that there is an extraordinary amount of “undiscovered info” in deeds. Everybody playing this game looks to map the “Where” the hell did they live? I, on the other hand, have reached a threshold of newfound knowledge whereupon I felt myself compelled to write this Post. Most folks find themselves empowered with knowledge when they find the next door neighbors of their ancestor… Wow! I’ll just study these folks for some dirt…er…facts about their relationship with MY guys.
My maps show the folks down the road… you get the “big” picture.
You may find yourself thinking that “I am looking for that low down SOB what knocked up my Granny.” Hey, its what I do for a pastime… you do your thing. That is how deep in the woods, surrounded by weeds, impressed with “industrial mapping” I really am. I think I can actually find that snake in the grass… (unless he tragically died young from a heart attack before he could marry my poor beleaguered Granny) in which case, he may have been OK. Which, realistically, is my way of doing crossword puzzles. If you catch my drift…
This is an example of whereof I speak…
Google “rogers nansemond”
No one has a clue about this little factoid…
an aside…
This is an example of what I call a “data sheet”… it is the Who, What, Where, When… school of reading chrystal balls…
This is also a “Jesus Christ!… that dude was stoned out of his mind” post. I only use it in moderation as Aristotle was fond of reminding us… another drift to be caught.