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Would like to hear from anyone who has information on my great grandmother Martha “Mattie” BAUSELL. full-blooded Blackfoot Indian b. Feb 1854 Southwest VA. Martha was either adopted or taken in by Joseph and Elizabeth BAUSELL (BOSWELL) and lived in Russell Co. VA. She had several children, one being Monnie BAUSELL (my grandmother.)
Well, I see her on a couple of census records. Joseph Boswell is listed on two censuses as born in NC. You’re saying she is not Joseph Boswell’s daughter? Will you tell us the story?
I think it’s interesting that a Joseph Boswell (obviously not the same one 🙂 ) had land grants of 345 and 521 acres in 1728 Brunswick Co., Va., and that the largest concentration of Boswell’s in 1800s Virginia was in Mecklenburg Co., which is the modern location of the juncture of the Dan and Roanoke Rivers, one of the Saponi homelands in the early 1700s.
It’s also interesting how much Rassel looks like Crystal. For those of you who haven’t met Crystal, she’s been researching the Northampton Co., NC community she’s from. Genealogists have been sniffing around there, trying to link to them, since they are ground zero for Saponi descendants.
Linda,
Have you heard from Crystal. I still have not been able to reach her. :confused:
As per Russell County Virginia: This appears to be an area that could use a lot of research. It appears to be one of the main gathering points on the migeration west for many of our names here on the forum. Searching for births, deeds, or just to establish
the proper district that a person lived in is very difficult.When I first began my search I was told that most of Russell Co. documents and records were destroyed in the civil war with the burning of the courthouse. At one point Russell Co. took up land that went all the way to the Tennessee border so those Collins living in Tennessee and those living on the Virginia side were at the most just miles apart. Some folks believe that there is a difference between the Tennessee Collins and the Virginia Collins but I for one think they are all somehow related.
Brenda
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