Many Generations of Bozeman

1. Samuel Bozeman and wife Mary White settled in Bladen County North Carolina about 1700 with several children. She had a brother named Mordecai White so it is quite possible that she is the mother of Mordecai Bozeman who was born about 1735.

It is not known where Samuel was born nor how many brothers settled around him. However the Virginia and Maryland records of the 1600s list some familiar Bozeman names.

Thus far there is no record of Mordecai's marriage and assumptions are that his wife was named Elizabeth. Documents were lost when the court houses were burned during the war. This mystery of the bride leaves this author wondering if perhaps she was a native american; as was the custom of that era when a white married an indian, she would be baptised and given a Biblical name.

Of course the DNA study indicates this line possibly came from India or Pakistan so they would not been have white men.

Actually the DNA now needs a great grandson of William Henry Bozeman to be tested to verify Peter Edward's lineage.

Several Bozemans enlisted in the American Revolution: Mordecai and his sons Peter and John; Samuel, Meedy, William, Henry, Thomas, Gabriel, Etheldred, Jesse, Paul, Phillip, Ralph, Philemon, and many more are listed in the North Carolina Archives and the South Carolina Archives, which show land grants and payment for services.

This research finds Peter two farms away from a Jesse Bozeman who might have been his brother unless Jesse was actually Mordecai's middle name. many of these names are used with the sons and grandsons of Peter so there must be a connection.

In 1826 Peter's land was surveyed and his large family began a wagon train journey to Alabama. Apparently many of his friends and neighbors, inlaws too, accompanied this group of pioneers through indian country.

The census records of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820 Cheraws District ( named after indian tribe ) in Chesterfield, Darlington County, South Carolina show us the many names in this research: Bozeman, Brown, John Hill, Flowers, Flinn, McIntosh, Stephens, Holloway, Magee, Rives, Weatherford, Lide, Anderson, Carter, etc.; many living along the Pee Dee River, named after another Indian Tribe.