Update on the Box family

[Wayne N. Parker]

I was contacted by Linda Grimes about the Box family. She is descended from Mary Keys first marriage to William Bolton.

Mary Keys second marriage was to Michael Box.

Linda has send me some information that I will be adding to my file. Linda has giving me permission to share her research with other researchers. I will be glad to forward the information on.

Wayne

 

 

Linda Grimes 

From:[e-mail]

To:Wayne Parker

Thu, Jan 4 at 12:35 PM

 

 

“Wow! Lots of information on the Box family. 

 

The timeline for the Michael Box/Mary Keys Bolton marriage does agree with my family books/dates. Of course, all still speculation until confirmation is found.

 

A rough timeline of the info you sent plus my family books and research:

-18 Oct 1775, Sarah Bolton born.

-1782, William Bolton (Sarah’s father?) probate in Orange County NC.

-1784, Mary Keys Bolton marries Michael Box Sr.

- 1785, son Josiah Box born.

-Early 1800s, Box/Keys Bolton Family moves to Franklin County (later Banks County) GA.

-1799-1804 John Little living Franklin County, GA part of Wofford Settlement.

-1800-1804 Presumably Sarah Bolton and John Little meet in Franklin County. John is a widower whose youngest child was born 18 Mar 1800 in Wofford Settlement. 

-1804, Wofford Settlement report that John Little has a passport to move west through Cherokee lands.

-1805, John Little and a few other Wofford settlers appear on Missouri Territory petition in (what would become) Washington County, MO.

-3 May 1805, John Little and Sarah Bolton Little’s first child born in (what would become) Washington County, MO.

 

I know these families are not your primary research interest but you appear to have had contact with others who might be interested.

 

Please feel free to share my contact info and my family books with anyone who might be interested.

 

Thank you again for sharing your info.”

 

Linda 

 

Linda Grimes

Seattle, WA

 

[Steven Charles Kratz]

Nansemond County, Virginia across the border from Gates County, North Carolina Box and Parker, Orange County, North Carolina, Parker, Robert Parker Franklin County, Georgia deed with Box, Ding, Ding, Ding, we have a winner once again. Josiah Box born 1785, Jesse Parker born 1775, 1776, I think the Box, Parker also from South Carolina. A Jesse Parker who I think is Jesse Parker YDNA group 7 had a Georgia passport which states a native of South Carolina. Not all the Georgia passports write a native of South Carolina. There is also another Parker family in Franklin County, Georgia. Jesse Parker moved to Texas, wonder if John Little, Robert Parker and Jesse Parker ever met. Wonder where is the Wofford settlement in Franklin County, Georgia.

[Linda Grimes]

Stephen, I re-checked the list of settlers in the Wofford Settlement and there is a Jack Parker listed in the Nathan Smith Settlement (connected to the Wofford Settlement). There is a petition to the Governor of Georgia dated 1798 that was signed by many of the settlement members including John Parker and my ancestor John Little. https://histortree.com/2019/06/24/nathan-smith-earliest-smith-ances...
Linda

[Linda Grimes]

The Wofford Settlement was a controversial Settlement in Franklin County (some now Banks County) on the Georgia-Cherokee border. There are several websites documenting it and a few long research papers. I have a list of settlers drawn up in about 1800 but I don't recall any Parkers on it. I will have to check it again. Basically, there was a boundary dispute with the Cherokee who claimed the settlement crossed the border into Cherokee land. The dispute lasted a couple decades and eventually the U.S. government conducted a (flawed) survey of the dividing line. The settlers were told to vacate the land. Several had already moved out of the settlement by that time, anticipating the eventual eviction. The government survey was later shown to be inaccurate but by that time the settlement had disbanded.