Boyett / Barrs Family Tree

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Extract and partially modified from Boyette / Bryant Tree on Ancestry.com

Contact: Ralph G. Bryant E-mail: boozo@bellsouth.net

Boyett / Barrs Family Tree

Contact: Al Barrs E-mail: albarrs@wfeca.net

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May have been our first BOYETT to emigrate from Ireland to America…Al Barrs

NOTE: “The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations
1654-1686" by Peter Wilson Coldham: Page 8 reads, 1655 27 April, Thomas Boy of Belanamore, Co. Mayo, (Ireland), laborer, to Robert Yeamans, Merchant 4 years Barbados Timothy Boy of Belanamore to same, 4 yrs Barbados

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Ancestry.com: (Ancestry World Tree Extract)

ID: I043

Name: Thomas Boyet

Sex: Male

Birth: 1665 in Ireland

Death: Before 1778

Note: Thomas Boyt received a land grant of 129 acres on the Somerton River in Nansemond, County, VA from the Colonial government. Adjacent land owners included Samual Watson and Henry Jernigan

Marriage 1: Rebecca __________ born about 1663 Ireland

Marriage: About 1685 Ireland or Virginia

Children:

1.      Thomas Boyet Sr born about 1695 in Nansemond Co., VA

2.    William Boyet born about 1700 in Nansemond Co., VA

3.    Edward Boyet Sr born about 1715 in Nansemond Co., VA

4.    George Boyet born about 1715 in Nansemond Co., VA

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ID: I195

Name: Thomas Boyet, Sr.

Sex: Male

Birth: About 1695 in Nansemond Co., VA

Death: About 1779 in Dobbs, County, NC

Note: This Thomas was known as Thomas Boyt, Sr. and on JAN 24, 1717 applied
for a land patent in Nansemond County, VA for 244 acres. His brother Edward Boyt also applied for a patent on 150 acres in Nansemond County VA on the same day. Thomas Boyet, Sr. is believed to have moved to Johnston County, NC prior to 1752.  

Father: Thomas Boyet
Mother: Rebecca _________

Marriage 1: Elizabeth _________

Children:

1.      Thomas Boyte Jr b: abt. 1725 in Nansemond, County, Virginia

2.    Sarah Boyt born about 1730 in Nansemond, County, Virginia

3.    John Boyte born about 1740 in Nansemond, County, Virginia

4.    James Boyte born about 1745 in Nansemond County, Virginia

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ID: I199

Name: Thomas Boyte, Jr.

Sex: Male

Birth: ABT. 1725 in Nansemond, County, Virginia

Death: 11 NOV 1786 in Wayne County, NC

Note: See Boyt-Boyett(e) Surname DNA Project at: http://bellsouthpwp.net/B/o/Boyt-Boyett/Page.htm

Will of Thomas Boyte
September 3, 1786: In the name of God, Amen. I Thomas Boyte of the Province of North Carolina and County of Wayne, being of perfect mind and memory make this my Last Will and Testament. First I desire to be buried in a descent manner at the Derevation of my Exectors. My Temporal Estate first I give and bequesth of my beloved son Shadarack Boyte a piece of land begining at the nut orchard and down to branch to the Prickhosen to the line and to its beginning. I give and bequeath to my beloved son Amos Boyte a piece of land which was Caleb Mitchel's land, the land which is on the East side of south Branch in that tract to him, I give and bequeath forever. I give to my wife her lifetime my Estate to maintain her on and after her decease whole and sole Estate to my beloved son Thomas Boyte. I constitute and appoint my son Thomas Boyte and Amos Boyte to be my whole and sole Executors of this my Last Will and Testament and I do hereby uterly revoke, disalow and disannul all former wills and legacies by one heretofore may otherwise left or made declaring and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament as witnessed wherof. I here unto set my hand and seal this 3 day of September 1786.
Father: Thomas Boyet Sr born abt. 1695 in Nansemond Co., VA
Mother: Elizabeth

Marriage 1: Ann ____________

Children:

1.      Moses Boyte born abt. 1757 in Wayne County, NC

2.    Thomas Boyte III born abt. 1761 in Nansemond, County, Virginia

3.    Mary Boyte born abt. 1763 in Wayne County, NC

4.    Shadrack Boyte born abt. 1765 in Wayne County, NC

5.    Amos Boyte born abt. 1767 in Dobbs County, NC

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ID: I217

Name: Amos Boyte

Sex: Male

Birth: About 1767 in Dobbs County, NC

Death: About 1826 in Wayne County, NC
Father: Thomas Boyte Jr born about 1725 in Nansemond, County, Virginia
Mother: Ann ____________

Marriage 1: Mary Worrell

• Married: Abt. 1780 in Wayne County, NC

Marriage 2: Elizabeth ____________

    •   Married: _____________

Children:

1.      Moses Boyte born about 1780

2.    Demsey Boyte born about 1781

3.    Mariah Boyte born about 1782

4.    Amos Boyte Jr born about 1784

5.    Charity Boyte born about 1786

6.    Micajah Boyte born about 1788

7.    Stephen Boyte born about 1792

8.    John Boyte born about 1795

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ID: I312

Name: Moses Boyte

Sex: Male

Birth: About 1780
Father: Amos Boyte born about 1767 in Dobbs County, NC
Mother: Mary Worrell

Marriage 1: Mary (Polly) Stevens

• Married: FEB 28, 1810 Johnson County, NC:

Ref. “Boyt to Boyette: the descendants of Thomas Boyet” in BYU Family History Archive: http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH9&CISOPTR=57924&REC=1&CISOSHOW=46406 )

Note: Alternate marriage date and location: First child was born 1810 in Wayne County, NC. Believed to have been married about 1806 Wayne County, NC.

Children:

1.      Elisha Boyet born 1808 in Wayne County NC

2.    Louisa Boyet born 1810 in Wayne County NC

3.    Allen M. Boyet born 1812 in Wayne County NC

4.    Alice E. Boyet born 1814 in Wayne County NC

5.    John Ashley Boyet born 1816 in Wayne County NC

Note: Noah Boyet, found in the 1850 Census Report for Lowndes County GA, born in 1803 may have been the first child of Moses Boyte and Mary (Polly) Stevens. By Al Barrs, Jr.

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Name: John Ashley Boyet

Sex: Male

Birth: 1816 in Wayne County North Carolina

Death: MAR 7, 1865 in Richmond County VA during latter campaign of Civil War and believed buried in Richmond County VA.
Father: Moses Boyte

Mother: Mary (Polly) Stevens

Marriage 1: Nancy Holwell

• Married: JAN 1837 in Lowndes County Georgia

Children:

1.      Sophronia Boyet born about 1838 in Lowndes County GA

2.    Francis M. Boyet born 1842 in Lowndes County GA

3.    William N. Boyet born 1844 in Lowndes County GA

4.    Edward J. Boyet born 1847 in Lowndes County GA

5.    Jane Boyet born 1851 in Lowndes County GA

6.    John Boyet born 1854 in Lowndes County GA

7.    Anna Lisa Boyet-Rogers born 1863 Lowndes CO, GA; buried next to her mother Nancy Holwell-Boyett in Day FL Cemetery

8.    Mary Elizabeth Boyet born March 11, 1857 in Lowndes County GA; buried next to her husband Isaac Newton Barrs in Day FL Cemetery

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Name: Mary Elizabeth Boyet

Sex: Female

Birth: March 11, 1857 in Lowndes County GA

Death: September 11, 1925 in Day, Lafayette County, FL

Note: Mary Elizabeth Boyet died in the home of her oldest child, Mollie Campbell Barrs-Fielding of blood poisoning contracted from having been “spurred” by a chicken she was dispatching to cook for dinner…Al Barrs, Jr.
Father: John Ashley Boyet

Mother: Nancy Holwell

Marriage 1: Isaac Newton Barrs

Married: January 29, 1873 in Brooks County GA

Children:

1. Mollie Campbell Barrs on February 13, 1875 in Day, Lafayette County, FL
2. William Barrs (Bud) on January 12, 1877 in Day, Lafayette County, FL
3. Oscar Marion Barrs (Oscar) on January 5, 1879 in Day, Lafayette Co., FL
4. Eddie James Barrs (Eddie) on November 26, 1881 in Day, Lafayette Co., FL
5. Illa Effie Barrs on February 29, 1884 in Day, Lafayette County, FL
6. Gilley Orel Barrs on January 3, 1887 in Day, Lafayette County, FL

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Name: Oscar Marion Barrs

Sex: Male

Birth: January 5, 1879 in Day, Lafayette County, FL

Death: July 18, 1940 on farm in Lafayette County, FL

Father: Isaac Newton Barrs

Mother: Mary Elizabeth Boyet

Marriage 1: Bertha Lee Newman

Married December 16, 1900 in Day, Lafayette County FL

Children:

1.      Virigia Mae Barrs on December 26, 1902 in Day, Lafayette County FL

2.    Ethel Phylessia Barrs on December 20,1904 in Day, Lafayette County FL

3.    Bessie Mae (Mabel) Barrs on November 13, 1907 in Day, Lafayette County FL

4.    Oscar Denard Barrs on November 6, 1911 in Day, Lafayette County FL

5.    Alfonso Barrs, Sr. on January 24, 1917 in Day, Lafayette County FL

6.    Homer Tasso Barrs on March 15, 1921 in Day, Lafayette County FL

7.    Hazel Vivian Barrs on March 16, 1924 in Day, Lafayette County FL

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Name: Alfonso Barrs, Sr.

Sex: Male

Birth: January 24, 1917 in Day, Lafayette County, FL

Death: January 26, 1960 in Volusia County, FL

Father: Oscar Marion Barrs

Mother: Bertha Lee Newman

Marriage 1: Evia Adetha Bell

Married: August 16, 1936 in Day, Lafayette County, FL

Children:

1.      Evia Loye Barrs

2.  Alfonso Barrs, Jr.

3.    Marion Lavern Barrs

4.    Wayman Franklin Barrs

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© By Al Barrs, Jr.

E-mail: albarrs@wfeca.net

March 4, 2007

Revised March 5, 2007