THOMAS BOAZ
(1721-1791)

by Elsie Irene David (Mrs. Louis) Weaks

Thomas Boaz was born in Scotland in 1721, and died at Pittsylvania 
County, Virginia, in 1791.

According to records in the book, "Thomas Boaz Family in America", by 
Bishop Hiram A. Boaz.  Thomas Boaz received a favorable reply to his 
request to Governor Booch in 1737 to settle in the Valley of Virginia.

He was to old to flight in the Revolutionary War, but was appointed 
Surveyors of Roads and took the Oath of Allegiance. The DAR magazine 
of March 1930, lists Thomas Boaz as a Pittsylvania County Patriot.

(Mrs. Louis Weaks and Mary David Weaks (Mrs. John) Dicken of the 
Jacob Flournoy Chapter, DAR are descendants of Thomas Boaz)

Taken from "The Fulton Daily Leader, Fulton, Kentucky, November 21, 1975.