Peter Boucher Sr. (abt. 1743 - 1809)

Born about 1743 in Loudoun County, Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Husband of Jane (Waddell) Boucher — married 1763 in Loudoun, Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died 1 Sep 1809 at about age 66 in Warren County, Kentucky, United States of America

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Biography

Peter Bowshelder was born about the year 1743, a child of Mathew Bowshelder who was born in France in 1700, and who settled in Loudoun County, Colony of Virginia. Peter bound to a millwright at age 5, and at age 20 married Jane Waddell from Maryland.^[1]

Peter obtained land warrants signed by Isaac Shelby, governor of Kentucky. “In making out these papers Peter Bowshelder’s name was written Peter Boucher, the new name was accepted and adopted, inasmuch as this being the only family of the original family living, and the name being much shorter and more convenient. Peter Boucher, Sr. moved to this land, that part in Warren County north of Barren River, about the year 1795. He lived in the community until his death, which occurred September 1st, 1809.”^[1]

Research Notes

Birth date obtained from information posted at genforum.genealogy.com/boucher/messages/1820.html reportedly derived from a book entitled "History of the Spilman Family" published by the Fountain & Journal Mount Vernon, Mo (1909) from Euphrates Boucher. I have not read the material in question, but reportedly the book recounted that Peter Boucher, Sr. was born in Loudon County, Virginia and that his surname Boucher was sometimes listed as Bowshelder. He was reportedly apprenticed to a mill wright (wagon wheel maker?) at the age of 5 in Virginia after his parents and other family members perished.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Peter Bowshelder also known as Peter Boucher, Sr., pages 46–48, History of the Spilman Family, by John Jasper Spilman, published by The Fountain & Journal, Mount Vernon, Missouri, 1909. Catalogy entry and digital version at FamilySearch.org.

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZGH-9JL
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 31 August 2019), memorial page for Peter Boucher, Sr (1743–1 Sep 1809), Find A Grave Memorial no. 11054454, citing Landers Cemetery, Warren County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by Sandy (contributor 46780931) .

Acknowledgments

This person was created through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged on 14 September 2010.