Notes for: Jacob Bodine
Jacob Bodine, was born about 1745-50, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He may have died in late 1781. One source lists Jacob's death date as December of 1782 in Loudoun County, Virginia, but no proof for this was given. He possibly married Sarah _____. (His heirs consented to a small settlement of 15 pounds to Sarah Evans, but she has not been identified as his wife. See the inventory mentioned below.)
He paid 160 pounds for land on Slate Creek in Kentucky in 1780. He may have planned to move there, but he died before making the move. His will was apparently lost, but his inventory is on record in Loudoun County, Will Book E, page 138.
I believe Jacob's inventory was returned January 13, 1783. It included:
1 Negroe lad Slave called Peter, livestock, a field of wheat 14 acres, horses, cattle, feather bed bedstead and furniture, another bed, tables, chests, pewter, potts, other furnishings and household objects, 1 parcel of Wooten ware, looking glass, 3 old books, Indian corn, corn tops, wheat stock, 12 sheep
The estate was not administered until 1795. Besides John below, he had Catherine Bodine, who lived in Fairfield, Kentucky and never married, and another daughter, probably named Elizabeth (or Sarah). She married Asher Pullen, probably the brother of Elizabeth Pullen who married Isaac Bodine. Their daughter Elizabeth Pullen married Richard Johns(t)on in Nelson County, Kentucky, and they had, among others, a son Richard Bodine Johns(t)on. Several of this family were buried in the Poplar Flat Methodist cemetery in Nelson County, and descendants in the Green C. Jones family (see the Pullen-Skinner excursus) were in Washington County as late as the time of the 1880 Census.
It could be that this supposed Sarah married (2) William Evans and would have been the stepmother of Samuel Evans, who was called "my brother" by Jacob Bodine's son John. Mary Evans, the mother of William was the one who left 5 pounds to John Bodine, the "son of Mrs. Benjamin Rightmire," in her will written in Loudoun County on December 20, 1787 and proved September 19, 1789 (Will Book D, p. 10). Among her witnesses were Adrian Swart, Mary Ritacer, and Elizabeth E. Pullen, whose names are of interest, considering the will of Charles Pullen of Loudoun County. Samuel Evans, about the same age as John Bodine, had a tract of land in Nelson County on Simpson Creek and was administrator of John Bodine's estate. He also went on the bond of John's widow, Catherine Parker Bodine. Samuel had a daughter Catherine Sanders and a son William Evans, both of whom were named as "connections" by Catherine Bodine, the sister of John Bodine. Jacob Bodine was not on the tithable list for Loudoun County in 1772-73; so it is assumed that he returned to New Jersey then for the birth of his son.