In a message dated 5/5/2007 5:06:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
spfriz@comcast.net writes:

> The Bozeman DNA Project has already yielded a few surprises.  I am sure
> that there will be a few more surprises as we continue to test
> additional Bozeman lines.  The results from the twenty Bozeman men who
> have participated to date are posted at:
>
> http://www.BozemanFamilies.com
>
> Best regards to all,
> Steve Frizzell
>

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The biggest surprise to me from DNA testing is that James Bozeman of
Edgecombe and Samuel Bozeman of Bladen did not have the same father,
but I still believe that they were likely raised in the same home. James had
a son named Samuel, Samuel had a son named James, they both had a
son with the not very common name of Etheldred. Samuel had a son named
Luke, and the son Meady of James has a son named Luke. In addition a
daughter of Media marries a son of Samuel's son Luke, and the Rev.
Bozeman in his Sketches of the Bozeman Family said that his grandfather
Joseph (son of Samuel) was the first cousin of Meady Bozeman (son of
James). So much commonality in given names and connections by marriage
between two unrelated families would be highly improbable. Nevertheless,
we are stuck with the fact that the fathers of James and Samuel were
unrelated. There could be any number of explanations of how this could
be true, at the same time that they lived in the same household as brothers.
We are never likely to know for sure and this will probably remain as
mysterious as the early origins of the various Bozeman families in America.

My kinship to the Bozeman family goes back to Isle of Wight Co, VA, in
1695 when my earliest known Bullock ancestor, Thomas Bullock, married
the daughter Mary of Ralph Bozeman. There were three Bozeman men in
Isle of Wight by 1664 or before who are assumed to be brothers: Ralph
Bozeman, Ambrose Bozeman, and Henry Bozeman. Back at that time
persons in the Virginia colonies who paid for the transportation of others
into
a different colony or into America, including themselves, were allowed 50
acres for each person transported, who were referred to as headrights.

By shifting around from one colony to another in Virginia it is not unusual
to find the same person counted as a headright a half dozen times or more.
Nevertheless, the only one of the Bozemans in Isle of Wight (IOW) to ever
show up as an early headright was Ambrose Bozeman who in 1664 was
included in a group transported into IOW that included a William Bullock.
I am assuming that Thomas Bullock was at least 25 when he married Mary
Bozeman in 1695, which would place his birth back to 1670 or before and
the only Bullock that I have been able to find in IOW at such an early date
was this William Bullock found with Ambrose Boseman in 1664. Therefore,
I am assuming that William was the father of Thomas. The only flimsy
evidence that I have for that is that in his will of 1710 Thomas Bullock
named brothers as William and John and he also had a son named
William.

If the Bozeman DNA from IOW is currently found on the website
listed above by Steve it would be my guess that it is that of Samuel
Bozeman of Bladen as verified by 12 out of 12 matches of three of
his sons. My DNA is also of Haplogrouph I, which indicates a Nordic
origin thousands of years ago in a Scandinavian country. My DNA
differs from that of Samuel Bozeman by one unit in four sites: 19,
385a, 385b, and 439, with the last three of these said to be the
three most rapidly mutating sites among the 12 tested. There is
too much difference between my DNA and that of the sons of
Samuel for us to have had a common ancestor, but there is
enough similarity to think that our very early ancestors might
have come from the same Scandinavia country, so perhaps the
early ancestors of William Bullock and Ambrose Bozeman in 1664
Isle of Wight had followed similar migration paths out of a Nordic
country into the same area of England and finally on into Virginia.
If so, from where did all of those other Bozemans come? Isn't
Bozeman supposed to be a Nordic name? Also, why did Ralph
Bozeman and Henry Bozeman never show up as headrights 
in Virginia? Even if they paid their own way they could have
claimed 50 acres for their own tranmsportation? More questions
than answers, Ron Bullock




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