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Revolutionary War - (1775-1783) The "American Revolution" fought between Great Britain and her colonies in North America by which the colonies won independence.
 

Attack on the Boilston's House - Abt. 1779

The British were allied with the Cherokees in the frontier.  Savannah fell to the British on the 29th of Dec. 1778, and later Gen. Ashe and his dispatched North-Carolina militia was defeated by General Provost in northern Georgia.

"By this victory of the British, their communications with their friends, the tories, in the back country, and with their allies the Cherokees, across the mountains, was restored.  The effect of this was soon felt upon the frontier."

"Frequent conferences were held with the Cherokees to induce them to further outbreaks upon the western settlements.  The Indians invaded the country soon after and attacked the Boilston's house, on the frontier, with the loss on the part of the assailants of four warriors killed and a number wounded.  During the attack, Williams and Hardin were killed.  The enemy was driven off.  They were pursued by George Doherty, Joseph Boyd and others, but escaped."

Charles R. Boydsrtun, Jr.
From:  "The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century"  by J. G. M. Ramsey, A.M., M.D.


 

Boydston (Boydstan), William  (b 3-24-1753 Fredrick Co. , MD/d 3- -1835 Cooke Co.)  Served in June 1777 in VA Militia under Capt Patton.  1780 he moved to Washington Co., NC(TN) on Nolichucky River.  Drafted 1780 and served under Capt Dougherty, under Gen Marion in NC; 1781 under Capt Allison and Col Sevier for 14 mos.  Pen 5-27-1833 Cocke Co., TN. m Elizabeth Christian.  He was one of the earliest settlers in Cocke Co., TN.  Ref: A 1; A '70. p 59; 1834 P. L. W.

Charles R. Boydstun, Jr.
From:  "Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Burried in Tennessee" 1974 compiled by Lucy Womack Bates, Chairman


 

David Boylston had five sons who fought in the Revolutionary War.  They were James, Jesse, and William who fought in Southwest Virginia and David Jr., who fought in Pennsylvania.

Q. B. Boydstun


 

There was a land grant of 640 acres granted to Jesse Boydston in 1783 in Davidson County, Tennessee. This Jesse was a revolutionary soldier of Virginia, serving in the 1st Virginia State Regiment.

Jesse, said to be a Revolutionary Patriot of Montgomery Co, VA. was a child attributed to Sarah Pruitt.

Margaret R. Bates - Margaret R. Bates Family Tree Maker Page


 

James Boylstone-Boylston-Boydstun was the son of David and Mahala (Snow) Boylston.... After the Battle Almanac, May 16, 1771, near Hillsborough, North Carolina and the defeat of the regulators, he with a great many other settlers, went to East Tennessee where he settled on the Nollichucky River.  Later he moved from what became Cocke County to Rutherford County, North Carolina where he had grants of land in 1790.

He served in defense of the frontiers under Captain Daniel Smith.  He is shown in the 1790 census of Rutherford County, North Carolina.  He had four sons who fought in the Revolutionary War.  They were James Jr., Samuel, William, and John.

Q. B. Boydstun


 

James Boydston, Sr.  Revolutionary Service

Place of residence during the Revolution was Rutherford County, North Carolina. Revolutionary Army Records Accounts for North Carolina: Vol. 1, p. 17, folios 2 & 3; Army Book, Vol. 1, p. 14, folio 2.  Washington & Sullivan Counties, Tennessee:  Army Accounts of Tennessee soldiers in Revolution in North Carolina gives William, James Boilstone, James Boyldson, William Boylstone, this list made by Bledsoe, Carter and Williams, indicating they were living in Washington and Sullivan Counties during service payments 1782 - 1783.

Roster of Texas Daughters of the American Revolution Ancestors, 1982:

BOYDSTUN, James, born September 23, 1747, in Greene or Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Died February 6, 1814 in Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky. Married Mary Prewett in 1761. She was born January 21, 1745 in Fredericksburg, Maryland, and died in Logan County, Kentucky on May 22, 1809.

Service: Soldier, Rutherford County, North Carolina.
Children:
       1. Samuel born March 15, 1782, married Sarah Reed.
       2. John, born 1766, married Nancy Ann Gardner
       3. Mehitable Nancy, married Seth Arnold
       4. Benjamin, born September 18, 1776, married Mary Gardner
       5. Thomas
       6. Bartlett
       7. Tabitha, married Harmon Reed
       8. James
       9. William
       10. Reuben
       11. Jacob

Members: Dorothy Elizabeth Harper #484286; Beulah Graves Brown, #327251

 Margaret R. Bates - Margaret R. Bates Family Tree Maker Page


 

William Boydston (sometimes written Boilston or Boydstone), was one of the earliest settlers in the County. James Boydston, a Tennessee Revolutionary soldier (McAllister's "Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War, p. 264), was an older brother of William, and seemingly one of the two Boydstons who were in the battle of Point Pleasant, on the Ohio, October 18, 1774. James later moved from what became Cocke County to Rutherford County, North Carolina, where he had a grant of land in 1790. They served in devense of the frontier under Captain Daniel Smith, who was later Secretary of the Southwest Territory (William Blount, Governor). and twice elected to the United States Senate from Tennessee.

Information on this family comes from the Boydston Family by Gladys Domonoske, p. 99 - 126;
DAR Patriot Index
Cemetery Records - Faubion Cemetery, Gladstone, Clay County, MO
Family records of Anna O'Heron, & Ruth Walton, of Salem, OR, descendants

Margaret R. Bates - Margaret R. Bates Family Tree Maker Page
 



War of 1812 - (1812-1815) A war between the United States and Great Britain, fought over the rights of neutrals on the high seas and issues related to American westward expansion.
 
 

John Boydston - Pvt. - In Capt. Joseph Bacon's Tenn. Volunteers.  Also in Col. Bayless and Hill's Tenn. Militia - enlisted Nov. 13, 1814 - discharged - May 26, 1815.

In War with Creek Indians - mustered in at Knoxville Tenn. - d. Oct. 1882.  In 1886 the family was living in Hamilton Co. Tenn.

Warrant for 80 acres issued Oct. 1, 1851, Chattanooga, Tenn. - Wife, Sarah Condry - m. in Claiburne Co. Tenn. Oct. 1824, John Boydston, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Newport) Boydstun.

From Gladys Domonoske's book on the Boydstun Family - Linda Shay

Boydstun Rough Riders -  From: andrea <yankee@wt.net>
For your information, Muster Out Roll of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders

Bill Boydstun
 
 

Civil War - (1861-1865) In the United States, the war between the Union (the North) and the Confederacy (the South).  Also called the "War Between the States".
 

 William Boydston(un) (1816- ? )

A State's rights Democrat, and used his influence to aid the Confederacy.  He enlisted in H. C. King's battalion (infantry), afterward in the First Regiment of Cavalry, as first lieutenant, and was in the battle of Paris, Tenn., and after a service of one year, resigned on account of ill health.

Charles R. Boydstun, Jr.
From:  "History of Tennessee Illustrated 1887"


 

Benjamin Franklin Boydston(un) (1820- ? )

Our subject was in the Confederate Army in the First Regiment of Cavalry, under Col. H. C. King, and was in the battle of Perryville, Ky., and Murfreesboro, and served seventeen months.  He had three sons in active service; one served through the entire war, one a less period, and one was wounded near Pulaski, Tenn. from the effects of which he died October 15, 1864.

Charles R. Boydstun, Jr.
From:  "History of Tennessee Illustrated 1887"


 

Mark Backus Home Page - Mark is the great great grandson of Benjamin Franklin Boydston Condray, who was named for one of his maternal uncles who was also a Confederate officer.  He has an interesting story about his ancestors at " Fort Pillow, As It Might Have Been...".  Note:  Pan down his page to this story.


 

BOYDSTEN, J. K. P. - 1st Conf. Cav. [This is James Knox Polk Boydstun(on)]
BOYDSON, T. - 1 Sgt. I Co. 19th Inf.
BOYDSTON, A. C. - 2 Lt. H Co. 36th Inf.
BOYDSTON, T. J.  - Pvt. I Co. 14th Cav.
BOYDSTUN, James G. - Pvt. H Co. 7th Inf.
BOYDSTUN, Thomas - 1 Lt. I Co. 19th Inf.
BOYDSTUN, William - 3 Lt. F Co. 35th Inf.

Charles R. Boydstun, Jr.
From:  "Tennesseans in the Civil War" Part 2 - Confederate (Civil War Centennial Com. - 1965)


 

BOYDSTUN, REV. J. G. - Company H, 7th Tennessee
    Member:  Susie Boydstun Cody (daughter), b. 6 Dec. 1870 in Neshoba Co., Miss.  (43/481)

Charles R. Boydstun, Jr.
From:  "Confederate Patriot Index of Tennessee - 1978 (United Daughters of the Confederacy Vol. II)


 

Boydsten, J. K. P., 12472, Shelby, 1st Con. Cav. [This is James Knox Polk Boydstun(on)]
Boydston, J. M., 5363, Hamilton, 4th Ga. Cav.

Charles R. Boydstun, Jr.
From:  "Index of Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications"
 

World War I - (1914-1918) A war in which Great Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, the United States, and other allies defeated Germany,  Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria.
 
 

Medal of Honor - There is a Boydston Medal of Honor winner!
 



 
 

World War II - (1939-1945) A war in which Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and other allies defeated Germany, Italy, and Japan.
 

Pearl Harbor Casualty List - United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, USS Arizona Memorial. (Honolulu, HI 96818).  Two Boydstuns and one Boynton listed here!

Note:  "The two Boydstuns killed at pearl harbor were my dad's youngest brother and cousin."  BETTIE ANN  BOYDSTUN THORNSBURG - thrnsbrg@flash.net