Senator
Nathaniel
(Nathan)
Boddie
Born in Isle of Wight, Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of William Boddie
and Mary (Bennett) Boddie
Husband of
Chloe (Crudup) Boddie
— married
1762 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Bennett Boddie Sr., Elijah Boddie, Temperance (Boddie) Perry, George Boddie, Mary (Boddie) Perry, Basheba Boddie, Elizabeth (Boddie) Perry and Mourning (Boddie) Hilliard
Died
at age 65
in Rose Hill Plantation, Nash County, North Carolina
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Biography
Nathaniel ("Nathan") Boddie was born the same day and year as George Washington, the first president of the United States of America, 22 February 1732, at Etherton Crossroads in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. [1] He died 7 December 1797 at Rose Hill Plantation, his home in Nash County, North Carolina. [1]
Nathan Boddie was a member of Committee of Safety for Edgecombe County in 1774. [2]
He was a member of the Provincial Congress at Halifax, NC (see images), in April 1776, at which the famous Halifax Resolves were written and adopted, instructing North Carolina's representatives in Philadelphia to vote "yes" on the Declaration of Independence, the first province in British America to do so. [3]
He was also one of the framers of the first State Constitution of North Carolina (1777). [4]
In 1777, he was a member for Edgecombe County in the House of Commons of the First General Assembly of the independent State of North Carolina. [5]
He was elected to the North Carolina Senate and took his seat in 1778. While a senator, he introduced the bill to erect Nash County out of the western reaches of Edgecombe County, for which he is known today as the Father of Nash County. [6]
When American independence had been won and ratified in the Treaty of Paris, Nathan Boddie retired from public life and returned to his farm at Rose Hill in Nash County. He died there in 1794 and is buried in the Boddie Family burial ground on Rose Hill. [7]
Various branches of the Boddie family have been very active in politics, agriculture, academia, and commerce in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Kentucky for more than 300 years as of this writing in November 2021.
Children of Nathan Boddie and Chloe Crudup Boddie:
- Bennett Boddie (m. Sarah Lousa Smith)
- Elijah Boddie (m. Elzabeth Taylor)
- Temperance Boddie (m. Jeremiah Perry)
- George Boddie (m. 1st., Susannah Parham Hill and 2nd., Lucy Williams)
- Mary Boddie (m. Joshua Perry)
- Basheba Boddie
- Elizabeth Boddie (m. John Perry)
- Mourning Boddie (m. James Hilliard)
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Note: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970.
- ↑ Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia. John B Boddie, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2018, 778 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-498-0.
- ↑ Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia. John B Boddie, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2018, 778 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-498-0.
- ↑ Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia. John B Boddie, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2018, 778 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-498-0.
- ↑ Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia. John B Boddie, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2018, 778 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-498-0.
- ↑ Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia. John B Boddie, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2018, 778 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-498-0.
- ↑ Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia. John B Boddie, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2018, 778 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-498-0.
- "United States Census, 1790", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:XHKB-JLS : Wed Mar 15 09:23:43 UTC 2023), Entry for Nathan Boddy, 1790.
See also:
- Nash County, North Carolina NCGenweb
- Find A Grave: Memorial #38885651
- https://www.geni.com/people/Nathaniel-Boddie/6000000009025998430
- Boddie Family Bible, The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Translated out of the Original Greek; And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised (Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, No. 57 South Third Street, 1848; facsimile), images of family pages, North Carolina Digital Collections (https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p15012coll1/id/4953 : accessed 13 Jun 2020); citing call no. 400.1.1.47.
- https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/5754719:60525
- Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia" by John Bennett Boddie. Orig. publ, Chicago 1938. Reprinted many times.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Nathan by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Nathan:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Nathan by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Nathan:
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~0.78%
Jenny (Perry) Brengelman
:
23andMe
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~0.78%
Richard Noegel :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Bobby Cheatham :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch KK1594039 [compare], yourDNAportal ROB6d12b84e, FTDNA kit #887344
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~0.39%
Darryl Perry :
23andMe, GEDmatch PL3513836 [compare]
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Jenny Braswell :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A434964 [compare]
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