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Indian connections in various branches of this family. BUT, I have NOT succeeded in proving the exact individual and generation where the Indian blood line enters this family.
Spouses/Children:
We do know that the Sizemore name is of English origin and that William and Martha Sizemore were in Charles City, VA (near
William Powhatan “Blackwater Bill” Bolling
Jamestown) as early as 1619. Sizemore records in Virginia have not been located by this compiler from the time of William and Martha until more than 80 years later when a Margery Sizemore witnessed a will in 1712 in Henrico County, VA. No further
• Born: 1757, Russell Co VA
information on Virginia Sizemores has been located until William Sizemore pays for a survey in Henrico County in 1736. This
• Marriage: Sarah “Sally” Fugate about 1780 in Russell Co., VA
1712 Margery and 1736 William appear to be of the same Sizemore group that is then found in 1741 Lunenburg Co, VA and leaves
• Died: 1845, Russell Co VA at age 88
plentiful records thereafter.
Another name for William was Boling, Bolin.
There is a record of a Jacob Sisemore or Visemore in Craven Co, NC in 1707; then in 1716, a Samuel Sizemore appears in Matoaka Pocahontas Powhatan (1595 – 1617)
Chowan County, NC records. Samuel is found in several land transactions in 1719-1720, but was deceased by 1723 when his is your 11th great grandmother
widow remarried. He did leave one or more sons who carried on the Chowan County Sizemore name. I have found no evidence to Thomas Rolfe (1615 – 1675)
link these early VA and NC Sizemore groups, and further have found no evidence that William and Martha of 1619-1626 Charles Son of Matoaka Pocahontas
City, VA left any children. Most of this document will deal with descendants of the Sizemores who are found in Lunenburg Co, Jane Rolfe (1650 – 1676)
VA by 1741.
… Daughter of Thomas
Some researchers have theorized (and unfortunately published information on the Internet) that a William Sismore, the son of John Bolling (1676 – 1729)
Michael and Martha Sismore, who was christened in London in 1670 and apprenticed to Francis and Elizabeth Weeks in 1685, Son of Jane
came to Virginia and is the progenitor of the Virginia Sizemores. That is a theory which I certainly cannot disprove, but neither John Bolling (1700 – 1757)
can I find any documentation to prove it. That theory is apparently based on the following: William Sizemore was apprenticed to Son of John
Francis and Elizabeth Weeks of London in 1685 Francis Weeks’, unmarried, will probated in London in 1714 mentions land on Benjamin Bolling (1734 – 1832)
the Rappahannock River in VA The 1704/1705 Virginia Rent Roll includes Francis Weeks in Middlesex Co, VA which is on the Son of John
Rappahannock River. The 1704/1705 Virginia Rent Roll also includes a William Seamour with 236 acres in King & Queen Co, William Powhattan Blackwater Bill Bolin (1753 – 1830)
VA which borders Middlesex County. In 1708 in Middlesex Co, VA, Thomas Seamour, son of William and Joannah Seamour was Son of Benjamin)
baptized.
Sarah “Sally” Fugate
To base such theory on this limited information is a “stretch”, but it is currently the best theory that we have. However, the fact (1760-1840)
that the given name Michael was non existent in the early Virginia Sizemore families has to raise a “red flag” that seriously
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questions the theory of William, son of Michael, as the progenitor of the Virginia Sizemore families.
…“Mr. Miller, the Sizemores of old man Ned was the people that was actually entitled to that money tho we all got our blanks Spouses/Children:
wrong. We claimed through his descent and we ought to a claimed through her descent. We all failed to give her Indian name and m. Sarah “Sally” Fugate
it was Aruna Hart. I suppose I had heard my grandfather G.J. Sizemore claimed the Indian Blood by his mother. He claimed her to be the Cherokee Indian. We are the people no doubts, but our applications was wrong I suppose. Yours Truly, Frank Sizemore”
• Born: 1760, Missouri
In another letter Frank writes “Mr. Guion Miller: My kind friend, will inform you that my great grandfather sometime in the
• Marriage: William “Blackwater Bill” Bolling about 1780 in Russell Co., VA
19th century, he married this Cherokee squaw woman. Ed Sizemore was his name and Elizabeth Hart, if mistaken not, was her
• Died: 1840, Missouri at age 80
name….”
Louannah Bolling (RED BOLLING)
From: I N T R O D U C T I O N
Louannah was born in 1780. Louannah’s father was and her mother was . Her paternal grandparents were and paternal great A Discussion Paper Excerpted From
grandparents were Martha Patsy Phelps. She was an only child. She died at the age of 40 in 1820 in .
m.
INDIAN NED SIZEMORE THE LEGEND AND THE LEGACY,
Edward Ned was born in 1778 in . He died at the age of 78 on November 27th, 1856 in .
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~craingen/SIZEMORE1.html
Nicknames:
“Ned ; “Sixkillers”, “Tory; Ned”, “Ned Sizemore”
Edward Edward “Ned” Sizemore, Sr. (c.1730 - 1810)
Birthdate:
circa 1730
Birthplace:
Mecklenburg, VA, USA
Death:
Died 1810 in Mecklenburg, VA, USA
Few researchers encounter as much challenge in separating fact from legend as does the Sizemore family researcher. For over two ID: I047862
hundred years there has been a widespread tradition of Cherokee Indian ancestry in multiple branches of the Sizemore family.
Name: Edward B. “Ned” SIZEMORE , Sr.
This writer works on the premise of “Where there’s smoke, There’s fire”. As such I strongly believe that there are one or more Sex: M
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