In 1843, orators & oratrix James H. Boughan, Richard P. Banks and Martha A. Banks his wife who before her intermarriage was Martha A. Boughan, Edward R. Boughan, Theodore P. Boughan, the two last infants under twenty one years of age by Richard A. Boughan their next friend, complained that Henry H. Boughan departed this life about the      day of     1843 intestate leaving your complainants James H. Martha Edward R. Theodore and Richard A. Boughan his only offspring and heirs at Law, and a widow Eliza Boughan. That the said Henry H. Boughan being much embarassed in his circumstances and being anxious to secure & save harmless all who were securities for him and to provide for the payment of all his debts did on or about the 21st of April 1843 (together with his wife Eliza Boughan) execute a deed of trust conveying all his estate both real and personal to Muscoe Garett and Richard A. Boughan to secure all his securities and the payment of certain debts (listed in the bill). That Henry H. Boughan & wife were to remain in quiet and peaceable possession of the property conveyed by said deed until the 20th day of April 1844 at which time if the debts were not paid the trustees could procede either at their own discretion or at the request of any security or creditor to sell for cash the said property and discharge the debts. That it will take the greater part if not the whole of the property to pay off the debts and that to attempt to keep the property together will create great waste and loss and that to postpone the sale of the Land until next April (1844), a time at which farmers have all planted their crops and made their arrangements for the year, will cause a very great loss to creditors and the complainants. They request that the land be sold partly for cash & partly on a credit until the 1st day of April 1844. The trustees Muscoe Garnett and Richard A. Boughan have declined doing so alledging that they have no authority. [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 40, item 40-E-1-21.]

1850 U.S. Census, Town of Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia
Dwelling 18, Family 18
Croxton, Frances G., 43, female, $1,500 real estate, born in Virginia
Croxton, Susan, 18, female, born in Virginia
Croxton, Margaret, 15, female, born in Virginia, attended school
Croxton, Richard, 7, male, born in Virginia, attended school
Farland, Zebulon, 25, male, merchant, $2,500 real estate, born in D. Columbia
Farland, Mary, 22, female, born in Virginia
Farland, Joseph, 1, male, born in Virginia
Boughan, Theodore, 21, male, clerk in store, born in Virginia

On 4 March 1857, Theodore P Boughan and Margaret A Boughan his wife sold to Thomas A Boughton. For $3,000, a tract of land and all its appurtenances on which the said T P Boughan at present resides containing by recent survey fifty four acres and bounded on the south by the main road from Tappahannock to Montagues, on the east by the main road from Centre Cross to Bowlers, on the north by the lands of Robert Broockes Jr. and John E Spindle on the west by Wm B B Seward. Signed The P Boughan, M A Boughan. No witnesses but acknowledged in court. On 7 March 1857 ordered to be recorded. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 51, pages 57–58.]

On 1 June 1860, Eiza M. Muse of the Town of Tappahannock and Essex County sold to Theodore P. Boughan of the same. For $100, that portion of the garden of the said Muse attached to the lot now owned and occupied by the said Muse which lies in the northern part of the said Garden and which is embraced in the area between the workshop now occupied by John J Underwood, situated on the north eastern corner of the said garden, running from the said shop, in a straight line a westerly course eighty feet and terminating at the east end of the old stable which is now sitauted on the north western corner of the said garden the width of the said piece of ground to be thirty feet within the distance of eighty feet herein before mentioned. Signed Eliza M Micou. Witnesses: J. H. Muse, Thos C Walker. On 1 June 1860 ordered to be recorded. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 51, pages 429–430.]

On 17 March 1863, William G Jeffries and Ella A L his wife sold to Theodore P Boughan. For $3,000, one third of a certain Water Grist Mill lying and being in the County of Essex called and known by the name of “Essex Mills” with twenty five acres of land attached thereto, and all the fixtures belonging to and used with the said Mill, embracing one third of all the land convered by the pond and race of the said Mill it being the same mill which was held jointly by the said Jeffries and Dr John S Trible. Signed W G Jeffries, E A L Jeffries. No witnesses. On 16 April 1863, acknowledged in the clerk’s offce and admitted to record. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 51, pages 569–560.]

On 15 April 1867, Edgar Roy Micou and Theodore P. Boughan were bound $300 for Edgar Roy Micou’s administration of the estate of Martha E. Boughan. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 28, page 682.]

1870 U.S. Census, Essex County, Virginia
Millers Tavern Post Office
Page 109
Dwelling 2, Family 2
Boughan, Theodore P., 41, male, white, dry goods and grocer merchant, value of personal estate $1,000, born in Virginia
Boughan, Luther, 15, male, white, attending school, born in Virginia
Boughan, Silas W., 13, male, white, attending school, born in Virginia
Boughan, Ossie, 11, male, white, attending school, born in Virginia
Boughan, Mary S., 7, female, white, at home, born in Virginia
Boughan, Henry W., 5, male, white, at home, born in Virginia
Boughan, Margarette L., 2, female, white, at home, born in Virginia
Boughan, Margarette A., 35, female, white, keeping house, born in Virginia
Croxton, Francis G., 65, female, white, without occupation, value of real estate $1,000, value of personal estate $500, born in Virginia
Shearwood, Thereza, 25, female, white, domestic servant, born in Virginia
Harris, Emily, 35., female, black, domestic servant, born in Virginia, cannot read or write
Carter, Jane, 20, female, black, domestic servant, born in Virginia, cannot read or write

On 25 August 1872, Theodore Boughn was baptised by immersion. [South Farnham Parish Register, 1870–1901, page 22.]

FOR RENT.
A large and convenient Store House, granary, near Sumac Mill. Price $12.50 per month.
T. P. Boughan.
[Tidewater Index, 28 March 1874, page 2.]

On 20 May 1876, a deed of trust was arranged between Thomas Boughan of the first part and George Croxton of the second part. Thomas Boughan conveyed two yoke of oxen, four cows and their future increase, one wagon, and all his household and kitchen furniture in trust for payment of $182 plus interest thereon, due by bond on that date to Theodore P. Boughan. Thomas Boughan was to keep possession of the property for the duration of the bond, which was five years with interest payments annually. Signed Thomas Boughan. Ordered recorded 20 May 1876. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 52, page 957.]

1880 U.S. Census, Essex County, Virginia
Tappahannock Village, Enumeration District 17, page 135D
Water Lane
Dwelling 35, Household 35
Boughan, Theodore, white, male, 50, married, farmer, born in Virginia, both parents born in Virginia
Boughan, Margaret, white, female, 44, wife, married, keeping house, born in Virginia, both parents born in Virginia
Boughan, Luther, white, male, 24, son, single, clerk in store, born in Virginia, both parents born in Virginia
Boughan, Silas, white, male, 22, son, single, “Engineer in B. Mill”, born in Virginia, both parents born in Virginia
Boughan, Mary, white, female, 15, daughter, single, at school, attended school within the year, born in Virginia, both parents born in Virginia
Boughan, Henry, white, male, 13, son, at school, attended school within the year, born in Virginia, both parents born in Virginia
Boughan, Maggie, white, female, 11, daughter, at school, attended school within the year, born in Virginia, both parents born in Virginia
Boughan, Susan, white, female, 4, daughter, at home, born in Virginia, both parents born in Virginia
Croxton, Francis, white, female, 73, mother in law, at home, born in Virginia, both parents born in Virginia
Fauntleroy, William, black, male, 26, laborer, single, works in saw mill, born in Virginia, both parents born in Virginia

“On last Saturday night, the stable and barn of Mr. T. P. Boughan, near Tappahannock, were entirely destroyed by fire, including a large lot of long forage, two reaping machines and several plows. It was with great difficulty that he saved his horses, as the fire spread very rapidly, and but for prompt assistance, all of Mr. Boughan’s houses, including his dwelling, would have been consumed. Mr. Boughan is insured, but the amount is not known.” [Northern Neck News, 15 February 1884, page 3 column 1.]

DEATH OF THEODORE P. BOUGHAN. The well-known gentleman died at his house, in Middlesex County, on the 1st inst., in the 57th year of his age. While his health had been impaired for some months, yet his death came as a sudden blow upon his family and friends, for the very day of the night he died he rode out on horseback for recreation, and the fatal attack came while in his saddle and falling was caught in the arms of a friend at his side. He was carried home in an unconsious condition from which he never recovered. His remains were brought to this place on Monday, and buried in the Croxton Cemetery by the side of his three little boys. Rev. E. Meade, of the Episcopal Church (of which communion Mrs. Boughan had been a member for many years) officiating. [Tidewater Index, 8 January 1886, page 3.]

THE LATE THEO. P. BOUGHAN.
When friends die, it matters not how dear to us, no eulogistic comment upon their lives can do them any good; yet truthful and candid commendation of their real virtues and good examples while they lived not only tends to afford friends pleasant recollections of the dead, but ought to stimlate those who survive to emulate their noble deeds and praiseworthy course—not only that men may speak well of us while we live, but love our memory when we die.
And with this view permit one who knew Theodore Boughan from early boyhood, intimately, up to his death, to bear testimony that he was an independent yet loveable boy, and a true man, possessing, more than most of men, energy, enterprise, and public spirit. Honest and earnest in all his convictions, faithful and true to every cause he espoused, he was zealus and devoted to whatever he put his hands and head to. Consequently he filled up the measure of a good citizen, and, more than all, he was a Christian gentleman.
His native county (Essex) had given him several offices of public trust, all of which he filled with such fidelity and promptness that he grew in popular favor as the duties of the same increased and were performed. His private, domestic life the writer well knew, and his example in that as husband tender and loving, father indulgent and anxious, neighbor generous and kind, is worthy of imitation.
In Essex county, where he and his dear ones are best known, many hearts tender to the bereaved family their cordial sympathy, and join us in the prayer of the many friends in saying, “May God bless them”
J.
[Tidewater Index, 15 January 1886, page 3.]