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.

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 Mordecai came from a large family, mostly with Biblical names. I wonder where Ralph fits in - he served with General Marions' brigade along with Mordecai, John and Peter, but then went to Georgia and Florida.

John went to Mississippi with his Cherokee bride. Peter went to Alabama. Mordecai's younger son James remained in Darlington.

There is a possibility that Samuel's son Samuel Edward Bozeman was a brother to Mordecai. I hope to learn more about the Samuel and Ann Richardson lineage that migrated into Georgia from Bladen County North Carolina.

Then we have Philemon, another Biblical name, who migrated into South Alabama from the Edgefield District of South Carolina. Philemon married Susan Holloway and their sons were named Daniel, David, Lewis, and Jams Richard Bozeman. Lewis and his wife Dempsey Rogers are buried in a Bozeman Cemetery in Covington County, along with their son John Lewis born 1819 and his wife Matilda Sims. Matilda's son William E. married Martha Ann Wheeler.

Another group found in Alabama was Joseph Bozeman, another son of Samuel and Ann Richardson Bozeman of North Carolina. Joseph and Josephine Wood Bozeman moved in 1818 with son Nathan D. Bozeman, to Covington County. Nathan married Harriet Knotts and there many children were scattered all over the place.

Now I wonder what was the connection with Covington County Bozemans? Were Joseph and Philemon related? .