Person:James Bowles (7)

Will of James Bowles

Bowles, James, merchant,St. Mary's Co.,13th June, 1727; 3rd Jan., 1727/8.

To dau. Elinor and hrs., “Half Pone” and all land in Scotch Neck where Robert Phillip, Daniel Gur, John Gibbins and Henry Tucker dwell.

To dau. Mary and hrs., land where Hector Macleane lived, adj. to John Reads; “Hogg Neck” up along the branch called Break Neck Hill to main road going to church; and land s. side of branch from where Owen Read lived, to hd. line bet. John Hall and Wm. Wilkinson.

To dau. Jane and hrs., residue of real estate in St. Mary's Co., viz. dwell. plan. —— and “Mason's,” over St. Thomas' Ck., where Doctr. Magill lives.

To wife Rebecca, extx., interest in ¼ of afsd. land during life; to share personal estate with 3 daus. afsd.; shd. another child be born, to have an equal pt. of estate; shd. a son be born, to inherit all real estate.

To uncle George, his debt and £20.

To poor relations in England or elsewhere, £50 to be divided by extx.

Test: Wm. Brogden, John Mitchell, Josias Jeffery, Daniel (David) Makgill (Makgilt), Edmund Plowden. 19, 300.

Source: http://www.gurganus.org/ourfamily/docs.cfm?name=John%20Thomas

Information on James Bowles

In 1699, James Bowles, the only son and heir of Tobias Bowles, a prominent sugar and tobacco merchant of London and Kent, came to the Maryland colony to serve as his father's factor and agent. Well educated, well connected and wealthy, Bowles began accumulating large parcels of land in St. Mary's County, including a parcel called "Bowles Preservation" that would one day be Sotterley Plantation. He served as Collector of Customs for the Potomac District, for which he received 60 pounds a year. Bowles was also a member of both the Upper and Lower House of the Maryland Council during his public career.

Around 1717, Bowles began construction of a simple single story cypress-post-in-ground clapboard frame house. In 1718, he married Jane Lowe who died shortly after delivering a child, Jane Lowe Bowles in 1720. In the early 1720s, Bowles married Rebecca Addison, daughter of the politically prominent Thomas Addison, and the very wealthy Elizabeth Tasker Addison. The small frame house underwent considerable construction with the addition of a new room, and ambitious remodeling of the existing structure. James and Rebecca had two daughters, Mary and Eleanor.

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d0011/g0000009.html#I60202

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