PRISCILLA BOZZLE
Priscilla Boswell was born about 1768. A memoir written about 1920 by Ernest Greenwood Maddox about the Maddox family stated that Priscilla Bozzle (Boswell) was Dutch and her husband William Moreland was Irish. It also said that they settled in Virginia, moved to Indiana and about 1820 to Kentucky.
Additional information was received from mortenson@mindspring.com "Moreland/Boswell information. They did settle in Virginia, but their beginning was in Maryland. The Moreland family had been in Charles County Maryland since the late 1600s at least. According to Mortenson, there were many Boswells in Prince George's County at the time of Priscilla's birth. Prince George's County is just north of Charles County and next to the District of Columbia. This area has not been researched yet.
Priscilla married William Moreland about 1787 in Maryland. They had three children born in maryland and then they moved to Shenandoah County, VA. This is halfway between Winchester and Harrisonburg VA. There three more children were born.
Their known children according to the Ernest G. Maddox memoir were;
1 . Anna Moreland born September 1, 1788 married Daniel Trout. She died February 19 1847 and is buried with her husband in the Moffett Cemetery in Milton, Trimble County, Kentucky
2. Martha Moreland , born Sept 3, 1790 who married a Trout, though another source said Floyd died 1871 in Trimble Ct. KY.
3. William Moreland born August 12, 1793 married Margaret Ott. He died April 4, 1863 in Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Virginia.
4. Elizabeth "Betsey" Moreland born 1798 in Virginia married William Maddox. By 1840 they were in Trimble County.
5. John D. "Jackey" Moreland born March 6, 1796 in Virginia. He married Mary "Polly" McGannon in 1817 in Gallatin County, Kentucky. He died May 1, 1876 in Trimble County Kentucky and is buried on the Hampton Farm, Luckett Lane.
6. Walter A. Moreland born June 1800 in Virginia married 1st Kitty Floyd by whom he had 5 children and 2nd Jane Cox Suddith on November 20, 1841 in Trimble County. He died there February 3, 1855 and is also buried on the Hampton Farm.
The 1810 Kentucky Census lists William Moreland of Shelby County, Kentucky on page 215.
The household consisted of :
1 male 10-16 (Jack)
1 male 45 and older (William)
1 female 10-16 (Elizabeth)
1 female 26 – 45 (Perscilla)
1 female not of the family (Maybe Tabitha, William's mother?)
1 slave
The 1820 Kentucky Census lists William Moreland head of household, but it is the son of our William. The Henry County 1820 Census needs to be reviewed to find our family.
Boswells listed on the 1820 Shelby county Census were 2 different Georges and a John Boswell.
There is a Priscilla Boswell who had a large family in Shelby County, Kentucky in early 1800's. The coincidence is strong that there is a connection to this family, but I have been unable to establish it.
The Moreland family can be found in four different counties of Kentucky. However, they could have stayed in the same spot and changed counties as the new ones were formed. Shelby County was formed in 1792. From Shelby Henry county was formed in 1798. Oldham County was formed from Henry, Shelby, and Jefferson Counties. Finally, Trimble County was formed in 1836 from Henry, and Oldham and Gallatin..
The Moreland family was early members of the Corn Creek Church. It can southwest of Mt. Pleasant in Trimble County. The church cemetery is the final resting-place of many Moreland descendants.
Oldham County Kentucky Will Book, probated 10/16/1826 was written by William on 9/11/1820. He lists his children Walter A., John D. William, Anna B. Trout, Martha Floyd, Elizabeth B. Maddox and Granddaughter Lucinda, daughter of John D. but not Priscilla, his wife. She must have died prior to Sept 1820 and after the 1810 census.
It is not known when or where Priscilla died.
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