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Descendants of Daniel Boatright

Generation No. 1

1. LAND CUT OUT OF BULLOCH I DANIEL¹ BOATRIGHT was born 1740 in South Carolina ¹, and died 1812 in Emanuel County, Georgia¹. He married MARGARET BRASWELL¹ 1789 in Emanuel County, Georgia¹, daughter of KINDRED BRASWELL and RHODA ?. She died 1840 in Emanuel County, Georgia.

Notes for LAND CUT OUT OF BULLOCH I DANIEL BOATRIGHT:
(info from Pioneers of the Wiregrass trail)

Daniel served in the South Carolina milita in the Revolutionary War, and was paid for his services by the state on Oct 27, 1785 (see Book N, pg 95, Stub entries for Indents, SC Revolutionary War records, edited by Salley). By 1788 he had moved to Georgia and settled in Burke County and was granted 200 acres of land there by the state of Georgia that year. He was living in Effingham County in 1794 when he bought a tract of 500 acres and another tract of 200 acres on 12/31/1794, from Joel Ruis of Burke County. The lands laid on the Great Ogeechee River. In 1795 he was cut into the new county of Bulloch. He was sheriff of Bulloch County in 1807. In 1812 he was cut out of Bulloch into Emauel county on its creation, but died the same year.
Emanuel estate records show his widow, Margaret, was appointed guardian of their two minor children, Charles and Nancy on 9/3/1812.
buried by Margaret in a now abandoned burial ground in Emanuel County on the old Savannah road near Herndon and east of McKinney's pond...graves unmarked

(Info from Nancy Gay Crawford)
--according to a headstone for Daniel Boatright, he is listed as a Private in the Georgia Militia Revolutionary War...with a birthdate of 1762, and death of 1818. Not sure where the stone is laid.
--Also, Nancy has Daniel's deathdate as 12/10/1824.

More About LAND CUT OUT OF BULLOCH I DANIEL BOATRIGHT:
Elected: 1807, Sheriff of Bulloch County
Military service: October 27, 1785, Paid for services in the Revolutionary War in SC
Property: 1788, granted 200 acres by state of Georgia
Residence: 1788, moved to Georgia

Notes for MARGARET BRASWELL:
Granted guardianship on 9/3/1812 of minor children, Nancy and Charles, when Daniel died in 1812. Margaret was the head of her home in the 1820 census. In the 1827 state land lottery she drew land as the widow of a Revolutionary soldier, resident at that time of Emanuel County.
She died about 1840 and was buried by her husband in a now abandoned burialground in Emanuel County on the old Savannah road near Herndon and wast of McKinney's pond...graves unmarked
(info from Pioneers fo the Wiregrass trail)

More About MARGARET BRASWELL:
Fact 1: September 03, 1812, granted guardianship
Fact 2: 1827, granted land by state land lottery

Children of DANIEL BOATRIGHT and MARGARET BRASWELL are:

	i.	BETSEY² BOATRIGHT¹, b. 1790¹; d. Unknown.
	ii.	MARY BOATRIGHT¹, b. 1791¹; d. Unknown; m. GEORGE LOWREY¹; b. June 09, 1814¹; d. Unknown.
2.	iii.	REUBEN BOATRIGHT, b. February 14, 1794, Burke County, Georgia; d. December 13, 1878, Hawhammock Church, Emanuel County, Georgia.
	iv.	PERMELIA BOATRIGHT, b. 1797; d. Unknown; m. DANIEL HALL²; b. WFT Est. 1780-1800²; d. WFT Est. 1812-1871².

More About PERMELIA BOATRIGHT:
Divorced: 1825

	v.		CHARLES BOATRIGHT, b. 1798; d. Unknown.
	vi.		NANCY BOATRIGHT, b. 1800; d. Unknown.
	vii.		JOHN BOATRIGHT³, b. 1806, Emanuel County, Georgia³; d. April 04, 1867, Early County, Georgia³.

More About JOHN BOATRIGHT:
Residence: 1845, Moved to Thomas Co, Ga with his Uncle Robert Braswell³

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