Bolt Family Genealogy

 

 

Welcome to my Bolt Family Genealogy Page.  I hope that you take the time to look around for a few minutes and get to know my ancestors.  If, while reviewing some of my ancestral information you come across some similar history, feel free to drop me a line so we can compare more detailed notes.  My research has been a long and sometimes tiresome journey through heaps of information and misinformation; however, I have managed to weed out a historical as well as an undeniable conclusion that this particular Bolt family established themselves in the United States around 1780.

 

 

John Bolt Sr. was born March 24, 1749 in England.  He married his first wife around 1770 and to this day, neither myself nor any other of my fellow Bolt researchers have been able to identify her.  This courtship lasted approximately 33 years and produced the six offspring listed below:

 John's name first showed up on official documents in the years of 1781 and 1782 in the Royal Colony of Virginia.  He was taxed in the counties of Henry and Montgomery for land.  He then moved just east of Gladsboro on the headwaters of Big Reed Island.  This is close to the present-day border of Parkway County and Patrick County.  In 1794 he served as a captain in the Grayson County Militia and command the eastern company.  Two years later he settled down with who was believed to be his son-in-law, William Garrett, on a four-hundred acre farm which he did not leave until 1812.  In early 1803 his first wife died and shortly thereafter he married his second spouse--Celia Amos.  It is John's second marriage to Celia Amos that connects me to the Bolt Family.  This marriage produced four children that made it to adulthood:

In 1812 he moved to Patrick County, Virginia, where he purchased 210 acres of land located on the fork of Johnson Creek.  In 1825 he lost the land due to foreclosure and moved back to a homestead that his son Charles owned in Montgomery County.  John lived out the rest of his life at this homestead.  In 1830 his surname was misinterpreted to be John Bott and he was recorded as being of the ages between 80-90.  The census also states that there was a woman born around 1773, three grown men, one grown woman, and one child.  After great deliberation I have come to the conclusion that these are John's children living with him from his first marriage along with Celia Amos Bolt.  On March 18, 1832, John died of natural causes.  He is buried on the old Floyd-Bolt farm in Floyd County, Virginia.  The marker claims he was 82.

 

Click Here to see the descendants of John Bolt, Sr. 

 

That’s about all of the information I have on John Bolt, Sr.  If anyone thinks they have a connection, please feel free to contact me.  I’d love to share any information with you and hopefully get some from you as well.

 

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Thursday, June 29, 2000 12:45:49 AM

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