NameRichard Rowzee Boughan 
Birthbef 1780
ResidenceEssex County, Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland
Documentation
On 15 May 1797, Rd. R: Baughan witnessed a deed from Sally Baughan, Ann A. Boughan and Molly Baughan of the County of Essex and parish of Saint Anne of the one part to Augustine Baughan of the Town of Fredericksburg of the other part. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 34, pages 415–416.]
A case was in chancery court beginning by 21 August 1797, with Rowzee, Catharine, Milley, Henry and Elizabeth Boughan, infants under the age of 21 years by John Boughan their next friend, plaintiffs, against Augustine Boughan, defendant. This case was continued through 1798. [Essex County, Virginia, Order Book 34, pages 77 and 231.]
On 29 June 1801, Richard Rowzee Boughan of the County of Essex sold to William Waring junior of the said County. Whereas Richard Rowzee Boughan has become entitled to the fee simple estate of a certain parcel or lot of land lying in the Parish of Saint Anne and County of Essex being part of a Tract of Land which belonged to the late Griffing Boughan of the said county who having died Intestate the same descended to all the Sons and Daughters of the said Griffing, and the Lot intended to be conveyed to the said Waring contains about Twenty Six Acres, Boughan sells to Waring for £130 current money of Virginia. Signed R. R. Boughan. Witnesses: James Hunter, Muscoe G Hunter, William Coghill, Samuel Kendall, Wm Waring, Presley Thornton, James M Garnett, John Matthews, Tho Pitts junior. Ordered recorded on 21 September 1801. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 35, pages 483–485.]
In 1808, the Firm of Pitts and Hunter brought suit against Augustine and Richard Baughan and Laurence Muse. The Baughans were in Baltimore; Pitts and Hunter had sent them large shipments of wheat. [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 18, Folder N (various materials).] Augustine and his brother Richard were doing business in Baltimore by 1808, at which time they went out of business, trading as Augustine and Richard Baughan.