Ann Boswell

GEDCOM Note

Ann Ransom was the daughter of Peter Ra

Ann Ransom was the daughter of Peter Ransom and Dorothy Horth, all families who were early settlers on Ware Point in Gloucester County, Virginia. She was born about 1710 and married John Boswell about 1728. After John died, she remained in Spotsylvania County with her six small children. However the widow Bowell was just over thirty years old and possessed a reasonable attractive estate. About 1721, she married William Gatewood at Spotsylvania. To tha union were born three children; Austin, Ambrose and William J. By colonial law, Gatewood had control of Ann's finances but not of her Boswell children's. Gatewood remained in Spotsylvania County after 1763. Sometime after the Boswell children had grown, the Boswell estate had been divided, and John's sons gad sold their shares, Ann and William Gatwell and the children moved to Amerherst County, Virginia.

Life Sketch

Maiden name: Ransom Marriage #1: John Winfrey Boswell II , 1728 until his death in 1741. Marriage #2: William Gatewood , 1742 until her death in 1778.

Other notes, from merge: birth, Abt 1722, Gloucester,Va ??

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M94L-XW7 Legacy NFS Source: Ann Ransom - Ancestry Family Trees, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members., Page number: Ancestry Family Trees This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2508280802