Col. Johannes "John" Bowman (son of George Bowman and Mary Hite) born December 17, 1738 in Opequon Creek, Orange, Virginia; died May 4, 1784 Bowman Station, Burgin, Lincoln/Mercer County, Kentucky; married Elizabeth McClung born 1731, died 1784.[1]
Marrying Elizabeth McClung who was the widow of David Bryan and eight years his senior, he was involved in a minor legal dispute during the early 1770s over land which Bryan had directed in his will be sold to William Cox upon his death. He successfully acquired the 166 acres (0.67 km2) along Glade Creek and kept it as part of the Bryan estate.
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