Peter Bozeman born about 1755, a son of Mordecai, served in the American Revolution,

received on Sept 9 1785, 4 pounds 18 shillings 7 pence for his 69 days

served in the Militia.

There were other payments such as

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~brooksgenealogy/1793Peter.jpg/1793Peter.jpg

Peter married a Sarah Brown in December 1786 and had three daughters

on the 1790 censusn, who might have married and migrated to Alabama

with the entire family, about 1826.

In 1826 their property in Darlington SC

was surveyed, likely to sell so they could move.

Records indicate that he had been captured at the fall of Charleston,

but managed to escape. The SC Archives on the internet lists Peter, Mordecai, John,

Paul, Phillip, Philemon, Ralph, in their Colonial Soldiers of the South.

It lists Peter receiving 100 acres of land.

http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/Archives/default.asp

The NC archives lists many more Bozemans in the War.

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~brooksgenealogy/NCArchives.htm/NCArchives.htm

In 1828 Peter "wrote" letters to the American Revolutionary Claims office from

Alabama about having a certificate, probably for land, but the Land Records

show that Jesse Bozeman bought the land. Revolutionary records mention a deadline

and perhaps Peter did not meet that deadline for his property in Alabama.

He died in 1829 and all of his children and his wife attended the estate sale.

His son Peter E Bozeman bought the three slaves.

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~brooksgenealogy/EstateSale1PeterBozeman1829

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~brooksgenealogy/EstateSalePeterBozeman

The mystery to this author is "did his two stepdaughters attend".

<>In 1800 Darlington census there is a Jesse living two farms away from Peter, but that is not his son. Perhaps a brother. However, Peter did name a son Jesse M Bozeman in 1793 and a son Meade was born in 1790. One can only guess why the first born son of Sarah and Peter would be named Meade - -perhaps it was her maiden name and perhaps it was his mother's surname. About 1802 he named a son William Henry Bozeman who married Martha Hill. Peter also named a son Peter E Bozeman in 1807 who married Gilly Goodson and I have a document where Gilly wrote to her brother in law Jesse Bozeman in 1851 asking him to be her attorney and handle the estate of her late husband.

Peter had a daughter named Lucy who married Sterling Campbell. The 1830 census of Alabama shows all of the children, born to Peter and Sarah. It also shows us many of the other families who followed them from Darlington to Montgomery.

It is an honor to follow up the Bozeman genealogy, from those who have gone

before us, and much gratitude is owed for the many clues they have left behind.

Thanks to cousin Wayne Bozeman, who began this research many years ago,

and shared his father's copy of Sketches with me, and thanks to cousin

Jimmy Bozeman getting Peter acknowledged by the DAR

in January 2008 through his own daughter and now Jimmy is joining the Sons of the Revolution.

This should open doors for many more Alabama Bozemans to locate their ancestors.

I am very greatful for these two leading me to find a portion of the old plantation in Hope Hull, in Montgomery Alabama where the Bozemans had settled near McGeHee, Flinn, Campbell, Hill,Calloway, Shackelford,

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~brooksgenealogy/Flinn-Bozeman

and to find the cemetery

where Jesse is buried along with his family.

Someday perhaps, in those same woods,

we will find the grave of his father,

Peter.