Person:John Bowles (25)

Records of John Bowles

• St. Paul's Parish Vestry Book. 15 May 1731 - John Bowles be sworn to the vestry in room of Capt. John Anderson deceased.

Information on John Bowles

From "The History of the Bowles Family", 1907:

About 1719 John Bowles 3d moved to New Kent County, acquiring a large tract of forest and meadow land. A copy of the original patent is in the Virginia Land Office. An abstract of this patent follows:

George the First to John Bowles, 1030 acres in New Kent County, on the north side of Chickahominy Swamp, for the consideration mentioned in an order of the Lieutenant-Governor dated May 4, 1717, patent dated July 11, 1719.

Signed,

Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, in the fifth year of the reign.

I, John Bowles, have this day sold to Rainey Sprague, cf this county, two negro man slaves, by name Nick an J Ratchie, and have received for the said slaves 94 shillings and one harrow, i warrant Nick to be not more than forty years old, to be sound and sensible, and a right laborer in all field work. Ratchie I warrant to be sound and sensible, about twenty-five years old, and to be well-skilled in the trapping of wild critters. The right and title to said slaves I warrant and defend against all claims, and to have and to hold, for life, his executors, heirs or assigns I now by these presents deliver said slaves to Rainey Sprague.

As witness my hand and seal this twelfth day of March, 1739, in the thirteenth year of the reign.

John Bowles.

Attest: George Mason,

Oliver Smith,

Will Carey.

Lunny Lightfoot