Henry Bowen of Frederick Co., VA

On the first day of February 1700/1 [1 Feb 1701] Thomas Curtis of Philadelphia barber cherurgion[surgeon?]--who was the widower of Margaret Carter Curtis--sold to Stephen Nowell, for 18 pounds, 100 acres which were part of Robert Carter's 500-acre tract. "[A]nd which said 100 acres of land was allotted and set out after the decease of the said Robert Cartor by order of an Orphans Court held for the said County of Bucks the first day of the eighth Month 1689 as part and share as part and share of his daughter Margaretts portion of her deceased fathers estate which of right did belong to her the said Margaret late wife of said Thomas Curtis and her heirs which dividend was made the 5th day of said Eighth Month in the said year and at the same time allowed and approved under the hand and seals of the children of the said Robert Cartor as also by an Orphans Court held for the said County the 14th day of the 1st month 1692 as by the records of the said Court may and will appear”. This tract adjoined the land laid out to Margaret’s sister Joan, the wife of John White. (Bucks County Deeds, v.3 (C Vol 1), p.65-67)

On 16 May 1702 Henry Boyen [sic-Bowen] of Bucks County Yeoman and Jane his wife (daughter of Robert Carter) sold to John White of Bucks County, for 62 pounds and ten shillings, 100 acres. This 100-acre tract represented Jane’s allotment of her deceased father’s 500-acre tract. "And Whereas one hundred acres (part of the aforesaid five hundred acres) according to an order of the Orphans Court held for the aforesaid County of Bucks was allotted and ordered to be the second hundred acres of the same five hundred acres and to belong and appertaine unto the aforesaid Jane (the said daughter of the aforesaid Robert Carter and now wife of the said Henry Boyen[sic]) as part and share of her portion of her deceased fathers estate which of right belonged to her heirs and which said one hundred acres so ordered to and for the said Jane is lying and being next to the west side towards Neshaminy Creek of that one hundred acres of land allotted and laid out of the said five hundred acres unto Joan late the wife of John White and one other of the daughters of the said Robert Carter which said division so allotted by the Court aforesaid were also allowed and approved of by the rest of the children of the said Robert Carter as by records of the said Orphans Court whereunto relation being had doth and may appear” (Bucks County Deeds, v.3, p.84-85)

The description in this deed of Jane's sister Joan as “Joan late the wife of John White" signifies that Joan was deceased by this date.

John White evidently had remarried after Joan's death. In his will dated 16 Dec 1703 and proved 4 Jan 1703/4, John White of New Bristol (Twp), Bucks County mentioned a wife named Mary. He also mentioned two children, George and Elizabeth, who may have been Joan's children.

On 4 Feb 1703, John Carter (son of Robert Carter) and Grace White declared their intention to marry:

Edward Carter (the eldest son of Robert Carter) apparently died in 1702.

Letters of Administration were granted at Philadelphia to William Byles [Biles], on the estate of Edward Carter, late of Bucks county, 5 December, 1702. (Bi-centenary memorial of Jeremiah Carter, Thomas Maxwell Potts, Canonsburg, Pa., The author, 1883, p.18)

Four separate land transactions involving Robert Carter's 500-acre tract were conducted on "the tenth day of the twelfth Month 1703"[presumably 10 Feb 1703]:

William Biles Yeoman Administrator of the estate of Edward Carter late of Bucks County deceased, John Rowland Yeoman Executor of John White late of the same County Brewer deceased, John Carter Yeoman, and Henry Bowen of Bucks County husbandman and Jane his wife sold to Francis White (who was the brother of John White), for 5 pounds, 100 acres which were part of Robert Carter's 500-acre tract. (Bucks County Deeds, v.3, p.203-205)

William Biles Yeoman Administrator of the estate of Edward Carter late of Bucks County deceased, John Rowland Yeoman Executor of John White late of the same County Brewer deceased, and Henry Bowen of Bucks County husbandman and Jane his wife sold to John Carter, for 5 pounds, 200 acres which were part of Robert Carter's 500-acre tract. (Bucks County Deeds, v.3, p.205-207).

John Rowland of Bucks County Yeoman (Executor of John White late of the same County deceased) and John Carter of the same County Yeoman, and Henry Bowen of the same County husbandman and Jane his wife sold to William Biles (administrator of Edward Carter), for 5 pounds, 100 acres which were part of Robert Carter's 500-acre tract. (Bucks County Deeds, v.3, p.161-162)

Then William Biles sold to Henry Paxson of the County of Bucks Yeoman, for four score (80) pounds, 100 acres which were part of Robert Carter's 500-acre tract. (Bucks County Deeds, v.3, p.156-157) These were the same 100 acres which he had just purchased that same day.

On the tenth day of November[sic?-not the twelfth month as the above deeds show?] 1703, William Biles of the County of Bucks and Province of Pennsylvania Yeoman (Administrator of the Estate of Edward Carter of the County aforesaid) and John Carter of the same County Yeoman and Henry Bowen of the same county husbandman and Jane his wife sold to John White, for 5 pounds, 100 acres which were part of Robert Carter's 500-acre tract. (Bucks County Deeds, v.3, p.162-164)

In June 1709, Henry Bowen of Bristoll township in ye County of Bucks in ye province of Pensilvania Husbandman sold to Anne Mayos, for 150 pounds, the 209 acres in Bristoll township which he had purchased in 1699 from Anna Clark and Martha Dawson wife of John Dawson. One of the witnesses was Francis White. (Bucks County Deeds v.4, p.74-75)

Henry's wife Jane was not mentioned in this transaction.

Jane Carter Bowen's brother John Carter of Bucks County died in 1710. His will was dated 20 March 1709/10 and proved 17 May 1710. He named his wife Grace and children Robert (the eldest son), William, Mary, and Martha. He appointed “my Deare Wife Grace Carter Jeremiah Langhorn & Francis White” to be his executors. “And I Likewise desire & request my Kinsman William Carter of Philada: to Assist and advise my Wife” (Philadelphia County Will Book C, p.204-205)

DISCUSSION

Carter

Besides having the same surname, two records suggest some sort of familial relationship between William Carter of Philadelphia and Robert Carter of Bucks County. The 1710 will of Robert's son John Carter mentioned his kinsman William Carter of Philadelphia. And when William himself died in late 1738 or early 1739, he mentioned in his will (Philadelphia Co. Will Book F, p. 101) his kinsman Robert Carter of Bucks County, who may have been John's son Robert.

Biographies of William Carter, Edward Carter, and John Carter can be found on pages 15 to 20 of Bi-centenary memorial of Jeremiah Carter by Thomas Maxwell Potts (1883). (See

https://archive.org/stream/bicentenarymemor00pott#page/14/mode/2up .) The author, however, did incorrectly suggest that Edward Carter was possibly the brother of William Carter and that John Carter may have been Edward's son.

A brief biography of William Carter is given on page 384 of The Papers of William Penn, Volume 3: 1685-1700: "William Carter (1651-1738), a Quaker turner of Wapping, Middx., was a First Purchaser who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1682 and became a provincial councilor in 1683, sheriff of Philadelphia in 1686, and later mayor."

Since William Carter came from Wapping in the county of Middlesex, England, it might be conjectured that Robert Carter, being his kinsman of some sort, also might have come from Wapping.

Bowen

Both the Henry Bowen whose wife was Jane Carter and the Henry Bowen who purchased and later sold the 209 acres belonging to Anna Clark and Martha Dawson were identified as having the occupation of "husbandman". This lends credence to the idea that they were indeed the same individual. The 209-acre tract was just across Neshaminy Creek from John Bowen's 250-acre tract. This might suggest that the Henry Bowen associated with John Bowen was likewise the same individual as the other Henry Bowen--although John had sold his tract and was deceased by the time Henry had purchased his 209 acres. In his will, John Bowen called Henry Bowen his "cozen" and made him a principal heir. In the context that John used the term, did "cozen" mean an actual kinsman or did it mean only a very close friend but not a blood relative? (John had also called Martha Mathews his cozen.) The fact that they had the same surname would suggest they were some sort of blood relative. So if the ancestry of John Bowen could be traced, it might also reveal the ancestry of Henry Bowen. (Perhaps tracing Martha Mathews ancestry would also help.) The other thing known about John Bowen from his will is that he had, or formerly had, property in England and Wales.

Note:

There was an individual named North Bowen who died in Philadelphia at the end of 1706 or beginning of 1707. In his will he named several Bowen relatives, including a brother Henry:

http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/wills/willabstrbkc.txt

Wills: Abstracts, Book C : 1705 - 1714: Philadelphia Co, PA

BOWEN, NORTH. Philadelphia. Practitioner of Physick.

December 16, 1706. February 25[sic-28], 1706/7. C. 49-51.

Daughter Elizabeth. Brothers Henry and Thomas Bowen. Sister

Elizabeth. Father Thomas Bowen. Uncle Lewis Bowen. Cousin Theodorus

Lord. Friends Peter Evans, George Paynter and James Wogan.

Estate at Haverford-West, Pembrokeshire.

Executor: Son North Bowen.

Witnesses: Peter Stretch, Hannah England, Sarah Blake.

Excerpts from the will:

“I North Bowen of the City of Philadelphia in the province of pensilvania Practitioner in Physick”

“ my reall Estate lying in Haverford West or elsewhere in the County of Pembrooke in South Wales”

“Item to my Brother Henry my Stone Ring as also my Silver Seal.”

Without further information, it will be assumed here that this Henry Bowen was just a contemporary of Henry Bowen of Bucks County.

If, however, it can be reasonably decided that they were indeed the same individual, then Henry Bowen's immediate ancestry is known.

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It is supposed that the Henry Bowen of Bucks County, Pennsylvania moved to Cecil County, Maryland.

Henry Bowen "of Cecil County", Maryland

Jane Bowen, the daughter of Henry Bowen's of Cecil County, married Roger Kirk.

At the first declaration of her intention to marry Roger Kirk, which was made on 31 Dec 1726, Jane Bowen was described as being "of Notingham".

At their marriage, which occurred on 9 Feb 1727, Jane Bowen was described as "Daughter of Henry Bowen of Cecill County In ye Province of Maryland".

U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935

Pennsylvania Chester New Garden Monthly Meeting Women´s Minutes, 1718-1763

p.40

Att a Monthly Meeting of Newgarden

Held at Newgarden ye 31st of ye 10th moth. 1726

…

Roger Kirk son of Alfancis Kirk of

Senter[Center] & Jane Bowen of Notingham Meet

=ing appeared at this meeting & signified their

Intentions of taking Each other in marriage

it being ye first time therefore this Meeting

appoints Eleanor Brown & Dinah Churchman

to make Inquiry into her Conversation &

Clearness from all other men on ye accot.

of Marriage & to give an acct. to ye Next

monthly Meeting:

…

Pennsylvania Chester New Garden Monthly Meeting Marriage Records, 1704-1765

p.39

Note: Some areas at the right margin of the page were too dark to read, but in most cases the text could be inferred.

The first name of Jane's father could not be discerned by me in the original text; it is assumed to be Henry based

on what others have stated and the fact that a Henry Bowen signed as a witness of the marriage.

Whereas Roger Kirk Son of Alphonsus Kirk of the county of New

Casile In ye province of pensilvania & Jane Bowen Daughter of Henry

Bowen of Cecill County In ye Province of Maryland having made

their Intention of Marriage wt Each other before Several Monthly

Meetings of ye people Called quakers which were held In ye county

of Chester In ye province of pensilvania according to ye good order Used Amo=

ng them & having consent of parents {they appearing clear of all others}

Their Sd. Proposals of Marriage was allowed by ye Sd: Meeting

Now these are to certifie whom it May Concern yt for ye full Accom=

plishing their Sd: Intentions this 9th day of ye 12th mo. In ye year of our Lord

1726/7 they ye Sd: Roger Kirk & Jane Bowen appeared In A publick assem=

bly of ye Sd: people & others Mett together Att their publick Meeting house

In notingham in ye County of chester afsd: & ye Sd: Roger Kirk takeing ye

Sd: Jane Bowen by ye hand did In a Solem Maner openly declare yt he

Took ye Sd: Jane Bowen to be his wife promising to be Unto her A Loving

& faithfull husband Untill it please God by death to Separate them

And then & there In ye Sd: Assembly ye Said Jane Bowen did In

Like Manner take ye Sd: Roger Kirk to be her husband promising to be

Unto him a Loving & faithfull wife until it please God to Sepa=

rate them or words to yt Effect,

Moreover they ye Sd: Roger Kirk & Jane Bowen according

to ye Custom of Marriage Assuming ye Name of her husband as a

further confirmation thereof did Unto these presents

And Wee whose Names are hereunder Subscribed

ye Solemnizing of ye sd. Marriage & Subscription In Manner aforesaid

as witnesses thereunto Subscribed our Names ye day & year above written

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{ K. Roger Kirk

Messer Browne James King Jeremiah Browne { Jane Kirk

Jacob Baels Samuell Littler Thoms: Browne {_________________________

Samuel Brice John Chenowith Jno Chenowith Junr. Henry Bowen

John Baels Jeremiah Browne Samuell Bery Abigal Kirk [presumably the wife of Alphonsus Kirk, who did not sign]

Rachel Gatchell Elizabeth Kinsey Jno Bowen

Leah Kelly Rachell Kelly reess Bowen

Elizabeth Browne Kathrine Ross Adam Kirk [presumably a brother of Roger Kirk]

Mary Dawson William Kirk [presumably a brother of Roger Kirk]

Elisha Gatchell

Joseph Jones

Important Discussion

Three Bowens signed as witnesses to the marriage of Roger Kirk and Jane Bowen. They were Henry Bowen, John Bowen, and Rees Bowen.

Presumably Henry Bowen was Jane's father. But who, then, were John and Rees Bowen? Could they have been her brothers???

Also, could the Henry who signed have been Jane's brother rather than her father? It is known that the second Henry Bowen of Frederick County, Virginia (who married Anna Moon) did have sons named John and Rees. Could they have been named for Henry Jr.'s brothers?

Nothing more is known of the John Bowen and Rees Bowen who were witnesses to the marriage of Jane Bowen and Roger Kirk.

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note: For additional info on Roger Kirk, see the following:

https://books.google.com/books?id=UipWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=%22Roger+Kirk%22+%22Henry+Bowen%22+%22Cecil+County%22

Historic-genealogy of the Kirk Family

Charles H. Stubbs, Rachel Price

Wylie & Griest, 1872 - 252 pages

p.15

...

It will be perceived that Roger, the eldest son of Alphonsus,

was cotemporaneous with him [another Roger Kirk] who was the founder of our

family.

This Roger was born in Delaware, on the 21st of 1 mo.,

1694; was married at Nottingham [Monthly Meeting], 9th of 12th mo., 1726, to

Jean, daughter of Henry Bowen, of Cecil county, Maryland,

and died 19th of 12 mo., 1762. ...

...

p.235

...

THIRD GENERATION.

CHILDREN OF ALPHONSUS KIRK (2) AND ABIGAIL SHARP-

LEY.

3. Roger, born 1694, 1, 21; died 1762, 1, 19. Married

1726, 12, 9, at Nottingham [Monthly Meeting], Md., to Jean Bowen, daughter of

Henry Bowen, of Cecil county, Md. Jean died 1752, 7, 28.

[Roger resided somewhere near Brick Meeting House, Md.

One account says that he was named "long Roger," to desig-

nate him from Roger Kirk, who resided on North-east Creek,

the ancester of those contained in the former part of this

work. It will be perceived that they were about the same

age and died within a few years of each other.]

...

Unfortunately, as yet no Cecil County records have been found which mention a Henry Bowen.

Interestingly, a Henry Bowen is mentioned in passing in a land transaction for land in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The land originally had been in Chester County, but in 1729 Lancaster County was created from the western part of Chester County. As shown in the deed abstract below, during his lifetime a Philip Howell had become indebted to a Henry Bowen and a Daniel Collett. Philip died in 1717-8. In June 1726--the same year as the marriage between Roger Kirk and Jean Bowen--Henry Bowen and Ruth Collett (widow of Daniel) received a judgement (presumably in Chester County) against the estate of Philip Howell.

Title: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, deed abstracts & Revolutionary War oaths of allegiance : deed books "A" through "M", 1729 through c1770, with adjoining landowners & witnesses

Author: R Thomas Mayhill

Publisher: Knightstown, Ind. : Bookmark, 1981, ©1973.

page 45

D 158 Caleb Pierce &w[ife] Mary late of Sadsbury tp., now of

Thornbury tp., Chester co. & Thomas Downing, (mill-

wright) late of Concord, now of Caln tp., Chester co.

& w Thomasin , rel. to Andrew Moore of Sadbury tp.,

Chester co. £20

25a - Sadsbury tp : James Swaffer, Thomas Tidball

3 warrants 9 Nov 1702, 20 Nov 1703 surv. 27 Oct 1709 for

800a , to Philip Howell , who being indebted to Henry Bow-

en & Daniel Collet , made will 31 Oct 1717, devising land

to his wife Ann as sole execx. & soon after died. Ann

later married George Freeland , but did not have suffi-

cient estate to satisfy debts of Philip Howell. Ruth Collett,

execx. of Daniel Collet, decd., & Henry Bowen received

judgment 1 Jun 1726 & recovered debts plus dams. &

sheriff of Chester Co., John Taylor, was ordered to sell

lands. On 17 Sep 1726 he sold the 800a to John Moore of

Chester co. who made will 12 Jan 1726, devising it

to his brother Thomas , & soon after died. Thomas Moore

1.-rel. 6-7 April 1732 to Caleb Pierce & Thomas Downing

16 Nov 1740 Gra. Lloyd , James Hoskins

Joseph Wilinson, Alexr. McClellan J52 30 Aug 1754

Deed delvd. to James Moore 29 Mar 1755.

Caleb Pierce &w Mary and Thomas Downing &w Thomazin

Ack 22 3 mo 1741

See the entire original deed (typed copy) at

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHW-43T1-4?i=83&cat=224489

Film # 007907086

Lancaster County Deed Book D

p.158-160 [Images 84-85 of 711]

p.158

... (and being indebted to Henry Bowen and Daniel Collet in certain sums of money) ...

... therefore Ruth Collett the executrix of the sd Daniel Collett (who was then dead) and the said Henry Bowen for the recovery of their debts ...

Details regarding the relationships between Henry Bowen, Daniel Collett, and Philip Howell are still lacking.

Philip Howell was a resident of Philadelphia. His will was recorded in Philadelphia County Will Book D, page 93.

In 1723 Daniel Collett was living in Baltimore County, Maryland (perhaps in the part which later became Harford County as suggested by the post below):

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/COLLETT/1998-01/0885848400

...

On 13 August 1723 Benjamin Tasker rented 150 acres to Daniel Collett for 1

pound, 5 shillings per year as long as Daniel, Ruth, and Moses Collett live.

This land was in Baltimore Co MD on the west side of the Susquehanna River

(the east side was Cecil Co MD). Immediately north was Chester Co PA which

was everything west of Philadelphia until Lancaster was created from Chester

in 1729. ...

[note: In 1749, all of Lancaster County west of the Susquehanna River became York County.]

The Henry Bowen associated with the 1726 judgment was probably the Henry Bowen who, in 1736, became involved in the boundary dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania. Henry was among a list of subscribers who on 11 August 1736 wrote to the Governor of Maryland declaring that they lived in Pennsylvania and not Maryland. Their letter originated from "Lancaster County in Pennsylvania".

In response, the Maryland government issued a proclamation for the apprehending the named subscribers "for contriving signing and publishing a seditious Paper and Writing against his Lordship and this Government [Maryland] ..."

[source:

https://books.google.com/books?id=Wo9CAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA103&dq="Henry+Bowen"

Archives of Maryland, Volume 28 (Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1732-1753)

Maryland Historical Society, 1908

p.100-107 (Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1736; Liber M.) ]

Fortunately, in the following year the King and his council ordered a halt to the boundary dispute:

https://books.google.com/books?id=X0SapjJiagwC&pg=PA137&dq="Henry+Bowen"

The Pennsylvania-German in the Settlement of Maryland

Daniel Wunderlich Nead

Press of the New era Print. Company, 1913 - Germans - 300 pages

p.137

...

In spite of these actions the disorder along the border

continued, and finally the matter was brought to the atten-

tion of the King, and by an order in council, dated August

18, 1737, the Governors of Maryland and Pennsylvania

were commanded to put a stop to the disorders and grant

no more warrants for land in the disputed territory until

the boundary question was settled. In 1738 an agreement

was made for the running of a provisional line between the

provinces which was not to interfere with the actual pos-

p.138

sessions of the settlers, but was merely to suspend all grants

in the disputed territory until the final settlement of the

boundary question.

This settled the border warfare, [for the time being]. ...

See also "Cresap's War" at, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresap%27s_War .

Thus in 1736 this Henry Bowen was associated with those mostly German settlers who were living west of the Susquehanna River in that disputed area of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which became York County in 1749.

A Final Note:

There was a Henry Bowen who was listed as a witness to three Quaker marriages in Talbot County, Maryland, one in 1680, one in 1683, and one in 1691. Surely he could not have been the Henry Bowen of Bucks County, but might he have been the Henry Bowen associated with Philip Howell and Daniel Collett?? Furthermore, if he were still around in 1726, might he have been the Henry Bowen whose daughter married Roger Kirk??

More research is needed.

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It is supposed that the Henry Bowen of Cecil County, Maryland moved to Frederick County, Virginia.

Henry Bowen of Frederick County, Virginia

Children of Henry Bowen of Frederick County, Virginia

Margaret Bowen m. Thomas Rees

Henry Bowen m. Anna Moon

Priscilla Bowen m. William Gaddis

other possible children:

Jane/Jean Bowen (who married Roger Kirk)

John and Rees Bowen (who were witnesses to the marriage of Jane Bowen to Roger Kirk)

Catherine (wife of James Crumley of Frederick County, VA)

On 30 January 1744 Henry Bowen purchased an undivided half of a tract of 448 acres in Frederick County, Virginia. The other undivided half was purchased at the same time by Thomas Rees. An 1807 case in Augusta County Chancery Court provides evidence that Thomas' wife Margaret was the daughter of Henry Bowen, thus making Thomas Rees Henry Sr.'s son-in-law. Subsequent land transactions verify that Henry Sr. had a daughter named Priscilla (who was the wife of William Gaddis) and a son named Henry Bowen Jr.

These lands transactions have been summarized in O'Dell's Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia:

https://books.google.com/books?id=WCkTAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Henry+Bowen%22

Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia

Cecil O'Dell

Walsworth Publishing Company, 1995 - Frederick County (Va.) - 623 pages

page 177

REES

Thomas Rees purchased 224 acres (an undivided half of John

Littler's 448-acre 12 November 173555 crown patent land) for 22

pounds, 10 shillings on 30 January 1743/44.56 (Tract 37B) On 25

January 1743/44, Henry Bowen purchased the other 224-acre undivided

half for 45 pounds.57 (Tract 37B) The 448-acre tract was surveyed

on 13 November 1734 for John Littler by Robert Brooke.58 (Tract

37, Map 5) On 12 June 1750, Henry Bowen released, by deed, 10

acres of the patent land as a gift to his son-in-law William Gaddis

and his wife Priscilla. "John Gaddis Son and Heir at Law and

Executor of William Gaddis dec'd. and Priscilla widow and relict

and executrix of said William Gaddis dec'd. of Yohogania County,

Virginia (Fayette, Greene and Washington counties, Pennsylvania)

(on 3 October 1780, sold to William Hunshaw of Berkeley County,

Virginia for 200 pounds Tract of Land (139 acres) situate lying and

being in County of Frederick. Granted to the said William Gaddis

dec'd. by Lord Fairfax the 9th March 1752 (H-123) . . . also one other

tract of Land adjoining the former Granted to the said William Gaddis

Dec'd. by deed of Gift from Henry Bowen on the 12th June 1750.59 On

1 February 1745, Henry Bowen Sr., by deed of gift, transferred the

remaining 214 acres to his son Henry Bowen Jr.60 Henry Sr. was

probably the son-in-law of Simon Moon. [Actually it was Henry Jr.

who was the son-in-law of Simon Moon.]

This tract of land is located in present-day Frederick County,

Virginia on Sylvan Run, a branch of Mill Creek, about one mile

north of Whitehall on Frederick County, Virginia Highway 739.

...

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55 Virginia Land Patent Book 16, p. 346.

56 Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 1, p. 31.

57 Ibid., Book 1, p. 34.

58 Brooke, Robert, Book of Surveys, Virginia Historical Soci-

ety, Richmond, Virginia.

59 Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 2, p. 155; Book 19, p.

146.

60 Ibid., Book 3, p. 149.

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This case below indicates that the wife of Thomas Rees (whose name was Margaret) was the aunt of John Bowen (who was the son of Henry Bowen Jr. and Anna Moon). Thus Margaret and Henry Jr. were siblings and children of Henry Bowen Sr. and Jane Carter.

Robert Rees vs John Bowen - 1807 lawsuit in Augusta County Chancery Court

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/full_case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1807-069#img

Locality AUGUSTA CO

Index Number: 1807-069

Original Case Number: 90

Plaintiff(s) ROBERT REES [the son of Thomas Rees and Margaret Bowen]

Defendant(s) JOHN BOWEN [the sole surviving male heir of Henry Bowen Jr. and Anna Moon]

page 4 of 16

...The respondent [John Bowen] has been informed

and believes it to be true that his grand father [Henry Bowen Sr.]

once owned the Land belonging to the plt [Robert Rees] & this

respondent, that his said grandfather gave the

said Land to the Defts father [Henry Bowen Jr.] & his Aunt [Margaret] who

intermarried with the plts father [Thomas Rees], that the fathers of

the plt and Deft probably between fifty and Sixty

years ago (at least before the Dft was born & he is

forty Odd years Old) divided the Land by Agree

ment & marked two lines of Division, ...

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Henry Bowen (Sr.)'s grant for 103 acres:

http://image.lva.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=281&last=&g_p=GH&collection=NN

Grant

Bowen, Henry. grantee.

Land grant 6 April 1753.

Location: Frederick County.

Description: 103 acres on the draughts of Back Creek.

Source: Northern Neck Grants H, p. 281

Original survey exists.

[Adjoining landowners mentioned were Bowen (himself), Nicholas Hanshaw, James Crumley, and Woolery Rubil [aka Ulrick Ruble].]

On 1 April 1755, Henry Bowen sold 53 of these 103 acres to James Crumley:

Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 3, p.447

31 March 1755

[Lease] Between Henry Bowen of County of Frederick [to] James Crumley

of County aforesaid . . . consideration of Five Shillings . . . all that

parcel of Land containing 53 Acres Part of one Hundred & three Acres

granted unto said Henry Bowen in a certain Deed date April 5th 1753 . . .

Yielding and paying one Pepper corn at the feast of St. Michael the Arch

Angel . . .

Wit: Charles Parkins Henry Bowen

Evan Thomas

Recorded: 1 April 1755

Frederick County, Virginia Deed Book 3, p.448

1 April 1755

[Release] Between Henry Bowen of County of Frederick [to] James Crumley

of County aforesaid . . . consideration of Ten Pounds . . . 53 Acres (same as

above) . . .

Wit: same as above Henry Bowen

Recorded: 1 April 1755

[source: Frederick County Deed Book 1, p.331-332 in Gilreath, Amelia C., Frederick

County, Virginia, Deed Book Series,: Volume 1, Deed Books 1, 2, 3, 4: 1743-1758,

2001, page 132.]

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Henry Bowen Jr.

Henry Bowen Jr., the son of Henry Bowen and Jane Carter, married Anna Moon, daughter of Simon Moon.

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References to Henry Bowen in Frederick County road orders:

http://www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/online_reports/pdf/05-r32.pdf

FREDERICK COUNTY ROAD ORDERS 1743-1772 (pub. June 2005)

p.28

1 March 1747 O. S., FOB 2, p. 366

Henry Bowen Junr is hereby Appointed Overseer of the Road from Mill Creek to Opecken in the

Room of Nicholas Hancher and it is Ordered that the said Henry Bowen Junr cause the said Road

to be kept in good repair according to Law --

...

p.36

7 March 1748 O. S., FOB 3, p. 47

Henry Mills is hereby Appointed Overseer of the Road from Mills Creek to Littlers Old Place in

the Room of Henry Bowen & it is Ordered that the Tithables which worked under the said

Bowen work under the said Mills & that the said Mills cause the said Road to be Kept in good

repair according to Law --

7 March 1748 O. S., FOB 3, p. 47

George Ross is hereby appointed Overseer of the Road from Littlers Old Place to Opecken in the

Room Henry Bowen & it is Ordered that the Tithables which worked under the said Bowen work

under the said Ross & that the said Ross cause the said Road to be Kept in good repair according

to Law --

...

p.131

6 May 1767, FOB 13, p. 391

William Hancher is Appointed Overseer of the Road from Cunninghams Mill to Henry Bowens.

Ordered that the Tithables Two miles on Each Side work thereon under him

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Henry Bowen Jr.'s grant for 307 acres:

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Grant

Bowen, Henry. grantee.

Land grant 22 July 1766.

Location: Frederick County.

Description: 307 acres on the drains of Isaac's Creek, a branch of Back

Creek.

Source: Northern Neck Grants N, 1766, p. 59

Original survey exists.

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Children of Henry Bowen and Anna Moon:

sons:

Note: None of the sons ever married and had descendants.

Rees Bowen - a Revolutionary War soldier - His regiment marched to Georgia in 1776 where he took sick and died.

Henry Bowen - a Revolutionary War soldier - Henry was present at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778; he died in Kentucky in the mid 1780's.

John Bowen - surviving heir to the bounty land earned by brothers Rees and Henry; deceased by November 1823

Jacob Bowen - died before 8 April 1819; he was deceased before his brother John

daughters:

Mary Bowen m. Peter Babb

Hannah Bowen m. Isaac Heaton

Margaret Bowen m. Bazil Bowell

Jean/Jane Bowen m. James Fitzpatrick

Nancy/Ann Bowen m. James Carter

Priscilla Bowen m. Robert Hill

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The best published sources of information about the family Henry Bowen Jr are found in these two books:

Hennen's Choice: a compilation of the descendants of Matthew Hennen (1752-1839)

Dorothy T. Hennen

McClain Print. Co., 1972

and

http://books.google.com/books?id=UM7gBFLDzvkC&pg=PA282#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families: A Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley (With Complete Index)

Howard L. Leckey - 2009 - 775 pages [original copyright 1977]

Hennen's Choice provides a transcript of Henry Bowen's will which was filed in Frederick County, Virginia and also a nuncupative will filed in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

[You can view the original nuncupative will online at

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-28770-18255-91?cc=1999196&wc=9PMX-4WL:268493301,282444001

Pennsylvania, Probate Records, 1683-1994 > Washington County > Wills 1781-1814 vol 1-2 > Image 28 of 578 ]

Washington County, Pennsylvania Will Book 1, page 43:

Henry Bowan

deceased.

Washington County Ss (Ss) (Ss) Personally apered Rees Gaddis Neomy Crven before

hus two of the Justices of the Comon pleas for sd. county & being duly sworn

on the holy evenglist of Almighty God, deposeth and saith than when in converson [conversation] with

Henry Bowan, now decesed that he intended to take a journey & told sd. deponent in

what manner he the sd. Henry Intended to dispose his Goods & Chattles whitch

he left in the hands of James Carter, Basil Bowers & Robert Hill. Vdlescd[?-Videlicet?] In the hands

of James Carter, one mere[mare] one wach[watch] and sum waring appertial[some wearing apparel] & in the hands of Bazel

Bowers, one sute of Close Coat Jacket and Briches, silver buckl one one pear of shues & to Robert

Hill one hors sadle and bridle one cotten Coat two Chevises[?] one sadle Bag lock. Sworn

and Subscribed this sixth day of desember 1784, Rees Gaddis

Thos. Crooks } N. B. Before signing the above property was to be the } Neomy (har mark) Craven

Samuel Mason } sole property of the sevral parsons above }

} named during Life }

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The Tenmile Country contains a letter written by a descendant in 1861. The letter has valuable information about the many of the children Henry Bowen and Anna Moon.

The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families: A Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley

by Howard L. Leckey

Page 282

RACHEL HEATON'S LETTER

Before taking up the Heaton Family, who settled on Tenmile,

in and about the present town of Jefferson, I believe it would be

of interest to quote a letter written by Rachel (Heaton) Colver

on January 25, 1861. Rachel Heaton was a daughter of Isaac and

Hannah (Bowen) Heaton. She married Thomas Colver, an early

attorney of Greene County. Their son, Samuel Colver, built the

old stone house, that in late years, has been the home of Norval

Rogers and his widow, Hattie Rogers. Rachel (Heaton) Colver

died January 21, 1864, three years after this letter was written.

She was in her eightieth year when she died. The letter reads:

"My Grandfather, Samuel Heaton, emigrated from Ireland

early in the Seventeenth (she means early 1700s) Century. His

name was Samuel H. Eaton. ...

My father [Isaac Heaton] married Mary Booth and moved, with his father-

in-law, to new Virginia, Berley [sic-Berkeley] County, Mill Creek, on which he

built a saw mill which did a good business.

"But in the midst of prosperity there was adversity. His wife

and child died and he remained a widower for some years, in which

time he married my mother, Hannah Bowen. She was the daughter

of Henry and Anna Bowen. Their ancestors were from Wales and

Scotland. My grandmother Bowen's father's name was Simeon [sic-Simon]

Moon. He was from Wales, and his wife from Scotland. Grand-

father Bowen's father was from Scotland and his wife from Wales.

My mother's ancestors were mostly Quakers. My grandfather

Bowen and his wife had ten children, four sons and six daughters.

Their names were: Rees, Henry, John, Jacob, and the daughters,

Mary, Hannah, Margaret, Jane, Nancy and Priscilla. The daugh-

ters all married and had twelve children apiece, except one, who

had thirteen. The sons all died single men, three in the bloom of

youth—Rees, Henry, and Jacob—and John died an old batchelor. Not

one married to keep their father's name. My mother [Hannah], the eldest [sic?],

was born May 3, 1742, and was married to my father March 3, 1760.

...

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...

(Signed)

Dated January 25, 1861. "RACHEL COLVER."

This letter has been checked by the author through the various

courts of Greene and Washington Counties, Pennsylvania; Fred-

erick County, Virginia, and in other sources, and is found to be

fairly correct. A similar letter was sent the author from Raymond

Luse of Angola, Indiana, and had been written by Rachel Colver

to his ancestor. Inspection of some thirty quit claim deeds in

Frederick County, Virginia, disclosed much of the correct Bowen

records of this letter. There the wills of Henry Bowen and Simeon

Moon were found, along with the settlement of Rees Bowen and

Henry Bowen's estates. ...

...

...

Page 301

ROBERT HILL

Robert Hill, son of Johnson Hill and his wife, Naomi _______,

was born in Augusta County, Virginia. He was 16 years old when

his father died about 1761, and Robert had Daniel Smith appointed

as his guardian. His mother, Naomi, remarried, this time to Adam

Thompson, who died in 1769. Robert Hill was the only child by

the first marriage. He married Priscilla Bowen, daughter of Henry

and Anna (Moon) Bowen of Frederick County, Virginia. During

the War of the Revolution, Robert Hill with his wife and several

children, removed to Amwell Township, Washington County,

Pennsylvania, where he served in Captain Abner Howell's Militia

Company. When his son Rees settled at Waynesburg ...

...

...

p.290

FAMILY OF REES HILL

8. Nancy Heaton, daughter of Isaac and Hannah (Bowen) Heaton,

was born in Virginia on June 1, 1775, died in Greene County

June 16, 1828. She married Colonel Rees Hill, son of Robert

and Priscilla (Bowen) Hill, and grandson of Johnson and

Naomi Hill of Augusta County, Virginia. Robert Hill, father

of Rees Hill, served in Captain Abner Howell's Washington

County Militia Company in the War of the Revolution, and

Rees Hill served as a Colonel in the war of 1812. Rees Hill

was one of twelve children and was born April 1776, in

Virginia. He was a promonent merchant of Waynesburg, and

served the county for twenty years in the Pennsylvania Legis-

p.291

lature, seven of which were served as Speaker of the House.

After the War of 1812, he was active in securing pensions for

widows of men who lost their lives in that war, as well as

getting pensions for soldiers of the Revolution, who had be-

come indigent. The old ledgers of his store, conducted in

Waynesburg in partnership with John Depui, are in the hands

of this writer and show many interesting transactions, as well

as the people who lived here at the time. After leaving the

Legislature. Rees Hill went to Frederick County, Virginia,

where over a period of years, he attempted to collect together

the estate of his grandfather, Henry Bowen, and also the

estates of his two uncles who had died in the Revolution. His

efforts for a time were successful, but eventually he over-

extended himself and got into financial straits. The litigation

was still in the courts when he died near Winchester, but the

transactions in the case are excellent for discovering the re-

lationship and heirs of Henry Bowen. ...

...

...

Page 119

FAMILY OF JAMES CARTER

James Carter, son of James and Hannah (Chenowith) Carter, was

born on October 14, 1750. He received a warrant for a tract of land

in Amwell Township, Washington County, called "Potato Patch" on

January 28, 1785. This was at the site of the familarly known "Hart's

Mills" of a later date. He died here August 15, 1817, and is buried in

the cemetery at Amity. His will was made August 9, 1817, and filed

at Washington, September 20, 1817. (Will Book 3. pp. 169.) His

wife, Anna (Bowen) Carter, was born in Virginia, February 1, 1752,

and both graves are marked, but of later years have become illegible.

She also left a will. (Will Book 4. pp. 234.) Numerous transactions

in Winchester indicate she received considerable wealth from her

father's and brother's estates in Frederick County, Virginia. Her heirs

shared also after her death.

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Note: Rees and Henry Bowen, sons of Henry Bowen and Anna Moon, are frequently confused with the Reece and Henry Bowen who were the sons of John Bowen and Lily McIlhaney of Augusta County, Virginia. Lieut. Reece Bowen was mortally wounded at the Battle of King's Mountain, N. C. on 7 October 1780.

The Revolutionary War Military Service of Rees Bowen and Henry Bowen

(sons of Henry Bowen and Anna Moon)

Rees Bowen

Rees Bowen was appointed a sergeant in Capt. Thomas Berry's company of the 8th Virginia Regiment on 16 February 1776. In the spring of 1776, the 8th Regiment marched south to Charleston, South Carolina and was present at the Battle of Sullivan's Island on 28 June 1776. The 8th Virginia Regiment then march to Sunbury, Georgia, where it remained for about three months. As Private Isaac Dunn later wrote, during this time "the soldiers were very sickly and were stationed round in the neighbourhood for or five at each house in the country." It is known that many soldiers contracted malaria, and Rees Bowen was probably one of them. He was taken sick and died there on 6 September 1776.

Henry Bowen

On the 1st of May 1777 Henry Bowen enlisted in the 13th Virginia Regiment as a sergeant in the company of Capt. George McCormack [aka McCarmack, McCormick]. Either the 13th had been recruiting in Frederick County, or Henry had enlisted at Fort Pitt. If the latter was true, then probably he had accompanied his brother-in-law Peter Babb, who was captain of a Frederick County militia company sent to Fort Pitt to relieve the soldiers of the 12th Virginia Regiment garrisoned there. (On 28 Nov 1777 the Continental Congress authorized payment of his company for their period of service from April 3rd to June 3rd.) In either case, Peter Babb later stated that Henry had enlisted without his knowledge and that he [Peter] had "made his endevour with Captain McCormack and other officers to obtain Henry Bowens relese from his Enlistment but could not effect it."

Sergt. Henry Bowen appeared on all the muster and pay rolls of Capt. McCormack's company from August 1777 to April 1778. In his own 1818 pension application, George McCormick stated that he was "formerly a captain in the 13th Virginia Regt. . . . In the revolutionary war I was in the battle of Brandywine [Sept. 11, 1777] and there fought as a Captain in Col. William Crawfords Regt. [i.e., the 13th] and afterwards I fought in the same Regt. in the Battle of Germantown [Oct. 4, 1777], which Regt. was then under the Command of Col. William Russel ..." From this we may infer that Henry also participated in these battles. Henry and his company were present at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778 (although Capt. McCormick himself was on furlough). For the month of January 1778, Henry was listed as "Sick Present".

In May 1778, the 13th Virginia regiment was ordered (back) to Fort Pitt. Apparently, however, the 13th remained with Washington's army until after the Battle of Monmouth, which was fought on 28 June 1778. In his pension applications, Hugh Davis, who had been another sergeant in McCormick's company, stated that "during his service he was in the following battles, to wit – Brandywine – Germantown and Monmouth –..." And in his rejected Revolutionary War claim, John Emerson, who served as the lieutenant in McCormick's company, stated that he "was in the Battle of Brandywine and the Battle of Germantown of Monmouth & the skirmishing at the Iron Hills ..." (The Iron Hills skirmish he mentioned is known as The Battle of Iron Hill or the Battle of Cooch's Bridge. It was fought on September 3rd, 1777, eight days before the major Battle of Brandywine.)

Sometime in the summer of 1778, the 13th Virginia Regiment finally arrived at Fort Pitt. That fall George McCormick was obliged to resign his commission, and Lt. Col. Richard Campbell became the new company commander. Sergt. Henry Bowen appeared on a muster roll of "Colonel Campble [Lt. Col. Richard Campbell] Company In the 13 Virga. Regt. Command By Colonel John Gibson" for the months from October 1778 through March 1779.

Also in the fall of 1778, Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, the new commander of Fort Pitt, led an abortive expedition into the Ohio country to destroy the towns of Indians hostile to the United States. His army was composed of Pennsylvania and Virginia militia, the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment, and the 13th Virginia Regiment. Before turning back near the end of the year, he did have two forts built and manned. On 3 November 1778, Richard Campbell took command of the recently constructed Fort McIntosh which was situated at the mouth of Beaver Creek. It does not appear that many, if any, of his 150 soldiers belonged to the 13th Virginia Regiment. In December Fort Laurens was built near present-day Bolivar, Ohio. Here Col. John Gibson was left in command with three companies of his 13th Virginia Regiment--namely the companies of Capts. Thomas Moore, Simon Morgan, and Uriah Springer, totaling about 150 men. Except for a few men "on command" at other posts, the remainder of the 13th seems to have been stationed at Fort Pitt. Henry probably was one of those at Fort Pitt. For several weeks in February and March 1779, Fort Laurens was besieged by British soldiers and Indians. The fort was relieved in March and Col. Gibson returned to Fort Pitt. In mid June Lt. Col. Campbell and 75 men left Fort McIntosh and relieved the soldiers at Fort Laurens. The fort, however, was soon ordered abandoned, and Campbell and his men left at the beginning of August.

On 12 May 1779, the 13th regiment was reorganized and redesignated the 9th Virginia Regiment. Sergt. Henry Bowen then appeared on a muster roll of "Colo. Campbells Company in the 9th Virga Regt. Commd. by Col. Jno. Gibson. For the Months of April & May 1779". Sergt. Henry Bowen next appeared on "A Muster Roll of Lt. Colo. Campbells Company in the 9th Virga Regt. Commanded By Col. Jno. Gibson. For the Month of June, July, Augst. and Septr. 1779". Sergt. Henry last appeared on "A Muster Roll of Lt. Colo. Campbells Company in the 9th. Virginia Regiment, Commanded By Col. John Gibson. For the Months of October, November, & December 1779". This muster roll was sworn by Lt. John Harrison before Col. Gibson at "Pitburgh" on the 17th of February 1780. In the "Remarks" column of this muster roll, it stated that Henry was "Discharged January 1st. 1780". (His three-year term of enlistment would not have been up until the following May; so why he was discharged at the beginning of the year is a bit of a mystery.)

Thus concluded Henry's military career. He returned to his father's home for a time before going to Kentucky, where he died apparently not long after (i.e., probably in the mid 1780's).

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The bounty lands which Rees and Henry earned for their military service were eventually granted to their brother John. (The other brother Jacob had already died.) When John died, the heirs of the sisters became entitled to the estates of the brothers.

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Bowen, Henry.

Gen. note Rank: Sergeant.

Service: Army.

Date: 1821.

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[Uriah Springer's affidavit regarding Henry Bowen's military service]

New Haven Fayette County, Penna.

28th Nov. 1820

I do Certify that Henry Bowen enlisted as a Serjeant

in Capt. George McCormicks Company in the 13th.

Virginia Regiment and served three years (the

full term of his enlistment) in the above said

Regiment on Continental establishment, and

that he was honorably discharged at Fort

Pitt in an early part of the year 1780 --

Uriah Springer

late Capt. in the 13th

Virgia. regt on Continen-

tal establishment.

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Bowen, Henry.

Gen. note Rank: Sergeant.

Service: Army.

See papers, 1784.

[I] do Hereby Certify that Henry Bowen a Serjeant

in the 13th Virginia Regt was Enlisted on the

2d day of may 1777 and Served three years

as a Sergant in Said Regt Serving the full

time of his Enlistment.

Geo. Rice

Richmond June 20 1783 Late Capt in the

11th Virga. Regt

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Bowen, Rees.

Rank: Sergeant.

Service: Army.

Date: 1820.

...

Affidavit: Uriah Springer, late Captain.

Affidavit: Isaac Dunn.

Affidavit: Peter Babb.

Affidavit: Jas. B. Crumly.

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Bowen, Rees.

[Note: The affidavits mention Henry Bowen as well.]

Rank: Sergeant.

Service: Army.

Date: 1820.

affidavit of Peter Babb

[Note: Peter Babb was married to Mary Bowen, sister of Rees and Henry Bowen.]

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Virginia

Frederick County to wit

Personally appeared before me the Subscribed

a Justice of the peace in and for the Said County

Peter Babb Senior, yeoman of Said County

and being affirmed according to law did declare

and Say. that he was well acquainted with

Rees Bowen and Henry Bowen formerly

of Frederick County aforesaid. both of

whome Served in the Revolutionary war

this affirmant was not present at the

enlistment of either of these men, but

was informed by each of them that they had

enlisted. and this affirmant made his endevour

with Captain McCormack and other officers

to obtain Henry Bowens relese from his Enlist

=ment but could not effect it. they both

went into the Service Rees Bowen in the

Company Commanded by Captain Berry

and Henry in that Commanded by Captain

George McCormick. that some time after Rees

Bowen went into the service, this affirmant

received information that he (Rees Bowen)

Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants Page # 3

was ded which information has been confirmed

by his never having returned to his connections

Henry Bowen enlisted in the year Seventeen

hundred and seventy seven, and as this affirm=

=ant believes, continued in the Service until

the end of the war. about which time he

returned to his Father's House in Frederick Coun

=ty afforesaid where he remained for some

time then went to Kentucky. Shortly

after which information was received by

the affirmant and the other connections

of the Said Henry Bowen in Frederick Coun

=ty aforesaid that he was also ded he has

not Since returned to his connections. this

affirmant was intermarried with the

Sister of Rees and Henry Bowen. [1 or 2 illeg.words]

either[?] of them went into the military

Service of the Country. this deponant

further Sayeth that John Bowen now of

Frederick County Virginia afforesaid is the only Sur=

viving Heir at Law and legal represent=

=ative of the said Rees and Henry Bowen

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affirmed and Subscribed before me William

Lynn this 8th day of April 1819

William Lynn Peter Babb

I do here by certify that above affirmant

is a respectable man and much Esteemed

by all that is acquainted with him Given

under my hand this 8 th day of April

1819

William Lynn

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Affidavit of James B. Crumly

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Virginia

Frederick County to wit

Personally appeard James B. Crumly

of Said County and being duly Sworn

did depose and Say that he was well acqu=

=ainted with Rees Bowen and Henry Bow=

=en formerly of Said County and Brothers

of John Bowen of the Same County

that he well recollects that they boath

enlisted in the Revolutionary war. Rees

Served as a Sergent part of the time of

his being in the Service and this deponant

has been informed that he was promoted

to -- Ensign before his death which was

in the Service of the States in the Revolution

=ary war. that Henry Bowen returned to

his Fathers house in Frederick County affor

=esaid about the close of the war and

remained there Some time he then

went to Kentucky where he also died

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and that John Bowen of the County

afforesaid is the only Surviving heir

at law and legal Representative of Rees

and Henry Bowen afforesaid. Sworn

and Subscribed before me the 8th day

of April 1819 -- James B Crumly

William Lynn

---- ---- C

I do hereby Certify that the above

Deponant is a respectable man and

a man of truth Given under my hand

this 8 day of April 1819

William Lynn

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affidavit of Isaac Dunn

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Greene County [Pennsylvania]

Before me the subscriber a

Justice of the Peace, in and for said County

personally appeared Isaac Dunn who being

Sworn according to law did depose and Say

that he was well acquainted with Rees

Bowen, while in the service of the United

States in the Revolutionary war, that this

deponent belonged to the same Company to

which Rees Bowen belonged, that the

Company was assembled at Ashbeys

Ashbeys gap in the State of Virginia

early in the Spring of the year 1776

placed under the command of Cap-

-tain Thomas Berry and attached

to the eighth Virginia Regiment, and

immediately marched to the South.

That Shortly after the Regiment to

which the said Rees Bowen and this

deponant belonged arrived at Sun-

berry in the state of Georgia the

Said Rees Bowen was taken sick

and died. that during the sickness

of the said Rees Bowen This depon-

ant frequently visited him

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and after his death assisted in burying

him, this deponant further Sayeth

that the said Rees Bowen acted as Sar-

gent to the Company a part of the

time, and that the said Rees Bowen

was the reputed brother of John Bowen

(no or late) of the County of Frederick

State of Virginia.

His

Isaac (X) Dunn

Mark.

Sworn and subscribe

before me the 18th day

of November 1818

James Clark

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See also this excerpt from Isaac Dunn's pension declaration:

http://www.revwarapps.org/s43520.pdf

Pension Application of Isaac Dunn S43520

Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

Greene County in the } Personally came before me one of the associate judges of the court

State of Pennsylvania } of Common Pleas in and for said county, Isaac Dunn, and after

being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that in

Feby [19 Feb 1776] in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, he enlisted under captain [Thomas] Berry,

of the eighth Regiment of Virginia (Cap’n Berry’s company was a rifle company) in Frederick

county in Virginia. Peter Mullenburgh [sic: Peter Muhlenberg] was Colonel of the regiment. The

Lieutenant of Cap’n. Berry was John Joliff, and the ensign Richard Easton. The regiment was

organized at Winchester Virginia, marched from Winchester to James river near Norfolk, then

marched to a place called Halifax [NC] thence marched to Charleston South Carolina, and was

there at the attack made on the fort on Sullivans Island [Fort Sullivan, afterwards named Fort

Moultrie; Battle of Sullivans Island, 28 June 1776]. Then marched to Savannah in Georgia left

that place in two or three days and marched to a town called Sunbury. lay there about three

months, during which the soldiers were very sickly and were stationed round in the

neighbourhood for or five at each house in the country. and at length they were commanded

when they had a little recovered, to rendevouz at Savannah, whence we marched to virginia.

eighteen days before Christmas. were allowed to go home on furlough. when the regiment

arrived near Winchester Virginia. ...

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Records of the revolutionary war: containing the military and financial

correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates

of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and

enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown

and Valley Forge; with a list of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of

their capture, exchange, etc. To which is added the half-pay acts of the

Continental Congress; the revolutionary pension laws; and a list of the

officers of the Continental Army who acquired the right to half-pay,

commutation, and lands

William Thomas Roberts Saffell, George Washington, Charles Lee, Nathanael

Greene, United States. Continental Congress

G. G. Evans, 1860 - Military pensions - 554 pages

p.280

Names And Rank Of The Field, Staff, And Other Commissioned Officers Of Col.

John Gibson's Detachment, Who Served In The Western Department, From January

1, 1780, To December 6, 1781, The Time He Surrendered The Command Of That

Department To Brig. Gen. William Irvine, With A List Of The Resigned,

Discharged, And Dead For The Whole Time.

John Gibson, Colonel.

Bichard Taylor, Major.

...

Uriah Springer, Captain.

...

Henry Bowen, Sergeant. Discharged January 1, 1780.

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All Titles>Revolutionary War Service Records>Virginia>Ninth Regiment>Individual>B>Bowen, Henry>Page 25

Henry Bowen

Sgt. Inf.

Appears in a

Book *

under the following heading:

"A List of Officers of the Virginia Line on Con-

tinental Establishment who have received Cer-

tificates for the balance of their full pay agree-

able to an Act of Assembly passed November

Session 1781."

(Revolutionary War.)

By whom received Maj Waggoner

[Maj Andrew Waggoner of the 10th Virginia Regiment, formerly a captain in the 12th & 8th Virginia Regiment]

Day when , 17 . [i.e. date left blank]

Sum £ 83 - 10 - 7 .

Remarks: [none]

* This book beard the following certificate: "This Register

contains a true abstract of all the certificates issued at the

Auditor's Office to Officers & Soldiers of the Virginia line on

Continental establishment. J. Pendleton, Auditor.

Audrs Office, 1 Augt 1792.

Teste: J. Carter."

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Vol. 176 ; page 97

R W Pearson

(547) Copyist.

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Representation of Henry Bowen's Bounty Land:

http://www.sos.ky.gov/land/military/revwar/

http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/military/revwar/Revdetail.asp?Type=v&warrant=1031.0

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347

Land-Office Military Warrant, No. 1031

To the principal SURVEYOR of the Land, set apart for the Officers and Soldiers of the

Commonwealth of Virginia.

This shall be your WARRANT to survey and lay off in one or more

surveys, for

Henry Bowen

his Heirs or Assigns; the Quantity of two hundred

Acres of Land, due unto said Henry Bowen

in consideration of his Services for three Years as a Sergeant

in the Virginia Continental line

agreeably to a Certificate from the Govenor and Council, which is received into the Land-Office.

GIVEN under my Hand, and Seal of the said Office, this 23d Day of

June in the Year One thousand Seven Hundred and 83

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References to legal actions by the heirs of the Bowen sisters to inherit the estates of of the deceased Bowen brothers:

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/default.asp#res

Index Number: 1841-034 CSC

Locality: FREDERICK CO

Plaintiff(s) Defendant(s)

SARAH COWAN HEIR(S) OF MARY BABB ETC

MARY MCCORMICK REES HILL

EDWARD RICE ETC

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Title Virginia soldiers of 1776, Volume 2

Virginia Soldiers of 1776, Louis Alexander Burgess

Editor Louis Alexander Burgess

Compiled by Louis Alexander Burgess

Publisher Reprint Co., 1973

ISBN 0806305290, 9780806305295

Length 1514 pages

p.577

...

Ensign Rees Bowen

In Council, Feb. 21st, 1820. The Reps. of Rees Bowen al-

lowed land bounty for service during the Rev. War as an

Ensign in the Contl. line. Th. M. Randolph, Gov.

May 8, 1821, Rec'd. of Register, thirteen warrants for the

total amount of 2666-2/3 acres. Issued to John Bowen as heir

at law of Rees Bowen. Signed, Rees Hill, Atty.

Winchester, May 2, 1821. "Herewith you will receive a cer-

tificate from the clerk of Frederick Co. Court that John Bowen

having proved that he is heir at law of Rees and Henry Bowen,

a power of Atty. to me to receive the warrants". Signed,

Rees Hill.

Note. The above letter to Mr. Thomas Miller. John Bowen

of Frederick Co. was the only surviving brother of Rees and

Henry Bowen. He appointed Rees Hill of Greene Co. Penna.

his Atty. who appointed Thos. Miller. 9 Apl., 1819. The

power of Atty. was acknowledged before Lemuel Bent, J. of

P., Frederick Co.

At a court held for Frederick Co. 30 Apl., 1821, it was proven

that John Bowen was the elder brother of Ensign Rees Bowen and

Sergeant Henry Bowen, both deceased. Rees Bowen died during the

Rev. War. This is from true copy, certified by James Keith, Clerk.

Warrants 6442-6454, inclusive, were issued May 8, 1821.

Sergeant Henry Bowen.

In Council, Apl. 16, 1821. Advised that the Reps. of Henry

Bowen be allowed land bounty for three years service as a

Sergeant in the Contl. line. Th. M. Randolph, Gov. May 8,

1821, received of the Register of the land office, warrant 6455

for 200 acres to John Bowen, heir at law of Henry Bowen,

dec'd. Recorded, Book 3, page 68. Va. L. Off. The warrant

was forwarded to Waynesborough, Greene Co., Penna.

...

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Title Virginia ancestors and adventurers, Volumes 1-3

Author Charles Hughes Hamlin

Compiled by Charles Hughes Hamlin

Publisher Genealogical Publishing Com, 1975

ISBN 0806306424, 9780806306421

Length 412 pages

p.42

FREDERICK COUNTY, VA. - DEED BOOK 49 - (1824-1825) - PAGE 232.

(- - -) November 1823 - Power of Attorney from Hannah Heaton of

the County of Greene, Pennsylvania, appointing her two sons-in-law,

Thomas Colver of the County of Greene, Pennsylvania and Isaac

Buckingham of the County of Washington, Pennsylvania - whereas, my

brother, John Bowen, deceased, later of Frederick County, Virginia,

died intestate, possessed of considerable real and personal pro-

perty, etc. (Rees Hill, Esq., his administrator) - etc. Witnesses:

Samuel Black - Hiram Heaton _ H. B. Heaton. Recorded 4 January

1825.

...

p.43

...

FREDERICK COUNTY, VA. - DEED BOOK 62 - (1833-1834) - PAGE 27.

5 September 1833 - Indenture in which John B. Heaton and

Rachel, his wife, of the County of Fayette, State of Pennsylvania,

sell to John Buckingham of the County of Washington, Pennsylvania,

whereas, Jacob Bowen and John Bowen, brothers, deceased, died poss-

essed of property in the County of Frederick, Virginia - on Apple

Pye Ridge, whereon Rees Hill resides, and Jacob Bowen died inte-

state, without children, leaving the said John Bowen, Priscilla

Hill, Hannah Heaton, Ann Carter, Margaret Bowl (?) and Jane Fitz-

patrick, his brother and sisters, his heirs at law and personal

representatives and distributees of his estate, etc., do sell their

right, title and interest to the said John Buckingham, for the sum

of $200.00, etc. Recorded 2 October 1833. Witnesses: Robert

Rogers and Francis Worester.

...

[Note that another sister, Mary Babb, was not mentioned.]

[Note also that a man named Jacob Bowen apparently wrote his will in 1799

in Frederick County, VA. But the above Jacob Bowen died intestate.]

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Ruannah Thomas Frame was the daughter of Isaac Thomas and Rachel Babb.

Rachel was the daughter of Peter Babb and Mary Bowen.

As quoted below, Ruannah did make mention of a legacy from "Uncle John Bowen's" estate:

http://books.google.com/books?id=iy5WAAAAMAAJ&q=Bowen#search_anchor

Title Peter and Mary Thomas: their ancestors and descendants

Genealogy & local history

Author Mary T. Hall

Compiled by George Mower Hargrave

Publisher Geo. M. Hargrave, 1950

Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison

Digitized Jan 18, 2008

Length 115 pages

p.?

...

"Thomas Babb, Jr., a son of the above Thomas, married Sarah Folck about the

year 1729, and removed to Virginia." (Comment by A.F.: No doubt near Hopewell Meeting

of Friends and Fairfax Quarter, as there was a new settlement of Friends there at

that time and in after years was the home of the Babbs and their descendants; also

the Bowens hereinafter named.)

"Peter Babb, another son of said Thomas, settled in West Caln, Pa., about the

year 1725, and married Mary Lewis." (Comment by A.F.: Hence, Perhaps,

the relationship which the Babb family claimed with a Henry Lewis, who, about one

hundred years after the date of the above marriage, lived near Pleasantgrove, not

far from the Wheeling Road. I well remember going with my mother when a little boy

to visit him and his wife, then both aged and feeble. I was acquainted with their

son, Samuel, who, many years after this, lived in Harrisville; and since that, with

with their grandson, Henry, who lived and died there at Ridge Meeting) and his widow and

some of her family still reside there.)

"Peter Babb had several children, of whom Bathsheba married Jeremiah Pearsal;

afterwards, Benjamin Trego. The other children's names were: Elizabeth, Sampson,

John, Thomas, Content, Peter and Susannah. Sampson was disowned by Friends for

keeping and using a fiddle, etc."

Thus ends the extracts relative to the Babb family and the balance concerning

them; and the Thomas connection with them are recollections of statements made from

time to time by my mother, Ruannah Thomas Frame, principally during the days of my

childhood,

She said that her grandfather, Peter Babb, married Mary Bowen. The strongest

probability is that this Peter Babb was a son of the Thomas Babb who was married in

1729 and removed to Virginia; and that he and Mary Bowen lived near Winchester and

Hopewell Meeting and were married there, as I well recollect that thy father and his

sisters claimed a legacy from "Uncle John Bowen's" estate which was located in that

vicinity; and of thy father, more than once, riding across the mountains on horseback

in search of it. This "Uncle John Bowen" was no doubt a brother of the said Mary

Bowen who married Peter Babb, and an own uncle to their daughter Rachel, who in due

time married Isaac Thomas and thereby became our grandmother Thomas.

...

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A connection between Henry Babb and Col. Thomas Gaddis:

Henry Bowen + Jane Carter

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Priscilla Bowen + William Gaddis Henry Bowen + Anna Moon

| |

Col. Thomas Gaddis + Hannah Rice Mary Bowen + Peter Babb

| |

Rice Gaddis Henry Babb + Elizabeth Walker

https://books.google.com/books?id=6dYyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA308&dq="Babb"+"Gaddis

History of Clinton County, Ohio: Its People, Industries, and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

B.F. Bowen, 1915 - Clinton County (Ohio) - 967 pages

p.302

...

CHAPTER XXV.

Union Township.

p.303

...

PIONEERS.

...

p.307

...

Azel Walker was born in Virginia in 1774, the son of Mordecai Walker. He was

married in Virginia to Hannah Jackson and to them were born ten children, William,

Josiah J., Lewis M., Joseph S., Rachel, Ruth, Elijah, Abel, Betsey Ann and Samuel.

The family came to Warren county in 1804 and, leaving his wife and children at Waynes-

ville, Mr. Walker came to Clinton county and erected a cabin, moving the family here

in 1805.

Henry Babb came from Frederick county, Virginia, to Ohio in 1806 and settled on

two hundred and fifty acres of land which his wife had inherited from her father. He

and his wife were the parents of five sons and five daughters, Peter, Thomas, Henry,

Azel, Sampson, Mary, Rebecca, Rachel, Hannah and Lydia. Henry Babb was one of the

first county commissioners of Clinton county and served in this office two years.

...

p.308

...

Mordecai Walker, a minister of the Friends church and the father of Azel Walker,

heretofore mentioned, bought a tract of one thousand acres north of Wilmington, which

he divided among his four children, Lydia, Elizabeth, Azel and William. Mordecai Walker

came to Clinton county about 1811 or 1812. although some of his children came in 1805

or 1806. He died in this county about 1833.

Col. Thomas Gaddis was born on December 28, 1744, and came to Clinton county in

September, 1814, after having received a deed for three hundred and twenty-five acres of

land on April 21, 1810. He came to Ohio with a party, coming down the Ohio river in

boats. The first winter the party lived in a cabin belonging to Henry Babb, a relative of

Colonel Gaddis. Col. Thomas Gaddis served in the Revolutionary War under General Wash-

ington and took great pride in his commission and discharge, which were signed by “the

father of his country." Colonel Gaddis was married to Hannah Rice, who died on

February 4, 1835, in her eighty-eighth year. He died on June 10, 1834.

In 1802 James Moon and his wife emigrated from North Carolina to Ohio, she

stopping temporarily in Waynesville. while he went into the wilderness to select a loca-

tion. He selected land on Todd's fork, four miles north of the present site of Wilming-

ton. Here be erected a cabin and his wife joined him in 1804. They had no children and

both lived to a ripe old age, dying on the old farm.

...

...

...

p.365

...

BIOGRAPHICAL

...

p.430

...

Catherine Babb was the daughter of Azel and Hannah (Holllngsworth) Babb. the

former of whom was the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Walker) Babb. Henry Babb

came to Ohio in 1806 from Frederick county, Virginia. and settled about a mile and one-

half north of the court house in Wilmington. His wife's father, Mordecai Walker, in

1805, purchased a thousand acres of land from Thomas Posey, the owner of the survey

on which Wilmington was laid out, and divided the same into four equal parts, giving

each of his four children, two sons and two daughters, one of these parts. Elizabeth

Walker received her portion in the northeast corner of the one thousand-acre purchase,

including the land on which Mr. Babb had settled. At the first election of county

officers, Henry Babb was elected county commissioner and served two years. He was

the father of five sons and six daughters. His sons were Peter, Thomas, Henry, Azel

and Samson. His daughters were Mary, who married Thomas Babb; Rebecca, who

married William Crumley; Rachel, who married John Walters; Hannah. who married

Joseph Smith; Lydia. who married a Mr. Smith: and Betsy, who married a Mr. Wall.

...

...

p.537

...

Andrew R. Gaddis was the son of Rice Gaddis, who was the son of Col. Thomas

Gaddis, the latter of whom was born on December 28, 1744, and died on June 10, 1834.

He married Hannah Rice, who was born[sic?-died?] on February 4, 1835, and who died in her

eighty-eighth year. They came to Clinton county to reside in September of 1814. Starting

p.538

from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where they formerly lived, they descended the Ohio

river on boats, on which they transported their teams and wagons and household goods,

and landed at Manchester, Ohio, proceeding thence to Wilmington, where they remained

over night in Warren Satur's tavern. The next day Henry Batt[sic-Babb], between whom and

Colonel Gaddis some acquaintance and relationship existed, invited Colonel Gaddis to

take possession of a house belonging to him, where the newcomers remained for that

winter. On April 21, 1810. Colonel Gaddis purchased three hundred and twenty-five

acres of land in Union township, this county, on which he located in 1815, and there

made his permanent home, subsequently increasing his holdings to about eight hundred

acres, all of which he purchased at the price of one dollar and twenty-tive cents the acre.

He built a log cabin, cleared a portion of the land and spent the rest of his life there.

He was a small man in stature but a big man in affairs. He was the father of a large

family, most of whom died when quite small. Colonel Gaddis commanded a regiment

under Washington throughout the Revolutionary War and in later years took great pride

in showing his commission and discharge, both of which bore the signature of his great

commander, the "father of his country."

Rice Gaddis, the son of Col. Thomas Gaddis, was born in 1784 and died on February

11, 1853. He grew up on his father's farm in Pennsylvania and had a fair education for

one of that day. He was a private in his father's regiment in the War of 1812, and

came to Clinton county with his parents when they came from Pennsylvania. He had

learned the printer's trade in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and when he came to Clinton

county located in Wilmington, where he opened the first printing establishment in Clinton

county and got out the first newspaper ever published here. This paper was published.

in partnership with Israel Abrams and was called the True American. The paper was

issued weekly and in 1816 Rice Gaddis became sole publisher and editor. The paper

was issued every Thursday at an annual advance price of two dollars. in 1821 Rice

Gaddis discontinued the publication of his paper and removed the press to his father's

home, where he continued to do job work and to print original essays, while caring for

his parents. His father willed him two hundred acres of the old home place and in 1839

he built on that tract a brick house which is still standing. He was not married until

the age of fifty-four and his only child was Andrew R. Gaddis, the father of the subject

of this sketch. His wife was Sarah (Andrews) Pendry, who was born in Virginia, near

Sweet Briar, in September of 1804, and who died on November 22, 1901. Her first marriage

was to William Pendry and there were born to that marriage six children. four sons

and two daughters, only one of whom is now living, Mrs. Mary Ellen Gullet. of Lima,

Ohio.

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Leftover data about the Carters and Henry Bowen.

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Other online discussions of Robert Carter and his daughter Jane who married Henry Bowen:

http://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?19,153400

File # 14, March 6, 1687: Robert Carter left five children: Edward, Joan, Margaret, John and Jane, under age.

Oct. 6, 1691: Jane place with Thomas Janney.

(Source: Orphans Court Records, Bucks Co., Pa., Book 1.)

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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2975010&id=I579786883

D: I579786883

Name: Edward CARTER

Given Name: Edward

Surname: Carter

Sex: M

Birth: Bet 1668 and 1669 in England

Death: Bet 1702 and 1703 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Event: Legal Action Unknown Bet 1686 and 1687 Pennsylvania, Bucks County, Orphan Court Records, Book A-1, Pages 16 thru 21

Note:

Legal Action: Edward Carter, as the eldest son, reported to the Court

that his father, Robert Carter, died intestate and leaving five orphans

"...not in capacity to take administration (of the estate) being

underage...". The record on page 21, shows that Edward Carter apparently

had arrived at his majority in 1690, as the two youngest children, John

and Jane Carter, were placed with their brother, Edward, "...until they

become 21 years of age."

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Robert Carter's 250 acres:

http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-78OldRightsIndexBucksChester/r17-78BucksInterface.htm

The index of the Old Rights for Bucks County is grouped alphabetically by

the surname that appears on each document and then arranged consecutively

by entry number under each letter.

...

Surnames beginning with "C" page 7

http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-78OldRightsIndexBucksChester/r17-78OldRightsIndxBucks%2012.pdf

Old Rights Bucks County, Pennsylvania

28 Carter Robert warrant 250 acres February 12, 1683 [actually 12th da 2nd mo = April 12]

survey record: Book 20, Vol. 72, page 284

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http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-83OriginalPurchases/r17-83OriginalPurchMainInterface.htm

RG-17

Records of the Land Office

ORIGINAL PURCHASES REGISTER, 1682-1762. {series #17.83}

Surnames beginning with "C": page 29

http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-83OriginalPurchases/r17-83OriginalPurchReg%2034.pdf

Robert Carter 500 acres granted to himself

where taken up: in Bucks County 250 ac

date of warrant: 12 2 mo 1683

date of survey: 19 2 mo ----

date of return: 23 6 mo 1684

Book: B

page: 80

note: So what subsequently happened to these 250 acres?

They appear to be the 250 acres which John Carter (son of Robert Carter) sold to John Smith on the 12th day of the first month 1696.

In this conveyance, the date of the patent was given as the 28th day of the tenth month 1684. (Bucks County Deed Book vol. 2, p.126-127)

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Sales by Henry Bowen and Wife Jane of Land in Bucks Co., PA Which Jane Had Inherited from Her Father Robert Carter

http://www.speakingoffamily.com/p408.htm#i12214

BUCKS CO., LAND RECORDS. BOOK A, VOL. 2, PAGE 161/2. DEED. JOHN ROWL AND YEOMAN, EX. OF JOHN WHITE; JOHN CARTER, YEOMAN [brother of Jane]; HENRY BOWEN, HUSBANDMAN, AND JANE HIS WIFE TO WILLIAM BILES, A TRACT BEGINNING AT THE CORNER OF JOHN WHITE'S LAND...100 ACRES, PART OF 500 ACRES AND THAT WAS GRANTED TO WILLIAM CARTER OF PHILADELPHIA BY PATENT 9/5/1686 AND LATER CONVEYED TO ROBERT CARTER OF BUCKS CO., YEOMAN, DEC'D, FATHER OF JOHN CARTER AND JANE BOWEN, AFORESAID ON 23RD DAY OF MONTH AND Y EAR AFORESAID RECORDED IN THE ROLLS OFFICE IN BOOK A VOL. 1 PAGE 56 . FOR 5 POUNDS BY WILLIAM BILES, ADMR OF EDWARD CARTER DEC'D AN OTHER SON OF ROBERT CARTER AFORESAID. DEL. 9/1/1703/4.

See actual deed entry at

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSFB-T962-1?i=55&cat=244488

Film # 008067820

Bucks County, PA Deed Book 3 (C VOL 1)

p.161-162 [Image 96 of 444]

Deed - John Rowland Exr of John White, John Carter, Henry Bowen and Jane his wife to Wm Biles

deed dated the 10th day of the 12th month 1703

deed delivered the 9th day of the first month 1703/4

BUCKS COUNTY DEEDS, VII, PAGE 83. DEED. HENRY BOYEN [sic-Bowen], BUCKS CO., YEOMAN AND JANE BOYEN (BOWEN) HIS WIFE, DAUGHTER OF ROBERT CARTER, LATE OF AFORESAID COUNTY, YEOMAN, DEC;D 400 ACRES GRANTED BY PATENT ON 9/5/ 1686 TO WILLIAM CARTER WHICH WILLIAM CARTER GRANTED TO ROBERT CARTER ON 23/4/1686. 100 ACRES OF SAID PARCEL GRANTED TO JANE BOYER TO JOHN WHITE FOR 62 POUNTS. ACKNOWLEDGED 10/11/1702.

See actual deed entry at

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSFB-T962-1?i=55&cat=244488

Film # 008067820

Bucks County, PA Deed Book 3 (C VOL 1)

p.84-85 [Images 55-56 of 444]

Deed - Jane Bowen to John White

deed dated the 16th day of the third month 1702

deed delivered the 10th day of the 11th month 1702