Boaz Puckett - rough notes

Boaz Puckett appears to have been a son of Womack Puckett Sr and Mabel Walthall.  His first name spelled variously in records as Bows, Bose, Booz, etc.

Bows Puckett listed as a tithe (white male over 16) in household of father Womack Puckett Sr in the 1752 partial tax list of Chesterfield Co, VA:  https://sites.google.com/site/womackgen/puckett-family/colonial-tax-lists

The death of Womack Puckett Sr set off litigation until Ephraim Puckett, who was evidently the eldest son and had inherited his father's land by primogeniture, gifted that land to Womack Puckett Jr by deed.

• Chesterfield OB 2:317 img 477 - June 1757 Womack Puckett deceased more than 3 months, sheriff to administer
• Chesterfield OB 2:378 img 508 - Jan 1758 - Bows Puckett vs Womack Puckett
• Chesterfield OB 2:385 img 511 - Mar 1758 - Deed Ephraim Puckett to Womack Puckett
• Chesterfield OB 2:387 img 512 - Mar 1758 - Suit brought by Womack Puckett against Ephraim Bose & Mabil Puckett dismissed being agreed

The records don't say what the litigation was about.  Note that these records also show that Mable Walthall Puckett was alive in March 1758.  Notably, Isham Puckett, son of Womack Puckett Sr & Mable Walthall, is not mentioned; he had probably already moved away, and shows up in Lunenburg Co, VA by 1762.

Boaz had to be 16 or older in 1752 to be a tithe, and he had to be 21 or older in 1758 to sue in court.

Boaz next appears buying land in Mecklenburg Co, VA in 1777:

Mecklenburg Co, VA DB 5:112 (007895939:82) - 9 Sep 1777, John Brown Jr of MC to Booz [?] Puckett of MC, S side Avens Creek, Floyd’s line, 25 acres.  Wit:  Henry Pennington, Thomas Fowler, Philip Pennington.  Court 10 Nov 1777 ack by John Brown Jr. [OB 4:377/212]

From Deed Mapper, John Brown had a VA land patent near Pennington land patents, and within a couple miles of Isham Puckett's 1762 grant (VPB 35:55).  

Avens Creek is now called Evans Creek, a tributary of Meherrin River in Mecklenburg Co, VA:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/W6HSc6fjgSpAroV87 

Note it is near Taylors Creek, where Isham Puckett's land patent was, and near Interstate 85, Exit 12 interchange with US Route 58,   On the west side of I-85, and south of the town of South Hill is Flat Creek, where Thomas Taylor had a patent; Thomas Taylor's patent just west of Isham Puckett's patent.

Next records for Boaz Puckett are from Mecklenburg Co, VA order books:

OB 6:57 img 48 - June 1784 - Boaz Puckett exempt from levies, being old and infirm

OB 6:553 img 286 - July 1786 - Bannister Puckett orphan of Boaz Puckett deceased to be bound out.  Boaz Puckett died intestate with small estate which no person will administer, sheriff ordered to dispose of estate.

There are a couple other Mecklenburg records that might be related to Boaz Puckett.  

OB 6:4 img 22 - May 1784 - Grief Puckett apprentice to Stephen Mabry bound out

OB 7:72 img 432 - Aug 1787 - Susannah Puckett vs Senior Douglass

Note that Grief Puckett was bound out before Boaz Puckett died, but sometimes children were taken from homes where parents could not provide.  Grief Puckett may be the son of Boaz.  More on Grief Puckett:  https://sites.google.com/site/womackgen/puckett-family/chester-county-south-carolina

Susannah Puckett was possibly the widow of Boaz Puckett.  This was a "quiet period" for Puckett activity in Mecklenburg Co, VA.  Ephraim Puckett and Isham Puckett had left.  Shippy Allen Puckett had moved away as well, but just across the state line in what is now Warren Co, NC, though some of his daughters married in Mecklenburg.  It is possible Susannah Puckett was somehow related to Shippy Allen Puckett.  Later, around 1800, Abraham Puckett would move from Chesterfield Co, VA and buy land in Mecklenburg Co; Bannister Puckett has been mistakenly attributed as Abraham's son.

Note that William Smith Puckett's mother was supposedly Susannah Smith, married to an unknown Puckett.  William Smith Puckett seems somehow related to Grief Puckett, see link above.

If this Susannah Puckett was the widow of Boaz Puckett and the mother of William Smith Puckett, then she had William Smith Puckett out of wedlock, since he was born circa 1795 in SC.

I will do a future post on Bannister Puckett, son of Boaz Puckett.