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.

William Henry had another son named John Thomas Bozeman who married Nancy Kizar Hill and of course she named a son John Thomas in 1868 but Nancy had another son named William Thomas who named a son Charles Eugene Bozeman - The grandson of Charles has done the DNA test and also worked at getting the DAR to recognize our lineage.
That DNA indicates that a European married a native american at some point.

William Henry Bozeman also named a son Meedy G Bozeman - Meedy married a widowed Rebecca Brewer and had a son named John Thomas Bozeman in 1866 who owned the store in Hope Hull called McGeHee Switch. John married Sarah Edwards and they have several decendants researching this line.

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, and Will Rogers, etc.; many living along the Pee Dee River,
named after another Indian Tribe.

Ironically the Cherokee Tribe had a Chief Will Rogers, later in Oklahoma and the Creek Tribe in Alabama had a Chief Red Eagle who was legally named William Weatherford; and a McIntosh married Sehoy. There was also a Harriet Bozeman who married a Jordan in the Pocahontas line. Then I read about Philemon of Edgefield S.C., who lived near many Guist families, and I think Sequoyah 's name was George Guist or Guess but Philemon moved his family to Burnt Corn Springs in Creek Nation, Alabama.