Person:William Bowles (16)

Land Records

Commonwealth of Virginia to William Bowles, 100 acres in Montgomery County, on Crab Creek, a branch of the New River, in consideration of the ancient composition of ten shillings, and a certificate given by the Commissioners for adjusting the titles to unpatented lands in Washington and Montgomery. Grant dated April 13, 1787, and signed by Edmund Randolph, Governor. [Source: Farquhar, Thomas M. History of the Bowles Family: Containing an Accurate Historical Lineage of the Bowles Family from the Norman Conquest", Pg. 115]

Commonwealth of Virginia to William Bowles, 109 acres in Montgomery County, on both sides of Strouble's Creek, a branch of New River, in consideration of a Land Office Treasury Warrant. Grant dated May 1, 1788, and signed by Beverley Randolph, Governor of Virginia. [Source: Farquhar, Thomas M. History of the Bowles Family: Containing an Accurate Historical Lineage of the Bowles Family from the Norman Conquest", Pg. 115-116]

Will Abstract

Bowles, William. Will probated Dec., 1798.

Names wife, _____; and children, Abigail Charlton and Molly Lynch. Grandchildren, Iannah and William Lynch, William Charlton and Izalia Davis.

["A Brief of Wills and Marriages in Montgomery and Fincastle Counties, Virginia, 1733-1831”, compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell, pg. 46]

Montgomery County, Briefs of Wills, 1776-1800. Wiliam Bowles. His estate to his wife, at her death to go to his grandchildren: William Lynch, Hannah Lynch, Izalinin Davis. Witnesses: Peter Hornbarger, Henry Fulkner, Wilbur I. Jamison, Probated December. Court, 1798. [Source: Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800, pg. 947].

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   http://person.ancestry.com/tree/20282673/person/1128826267/facts

2.   Gladden, Sanford Charles. The Durst and Darst families of America with discussions of some forty related families. (Boulder, Colorado: Gladden, c1969)
   Vol. II, Pg. 935.

   The parents of Abigail Bowles, William and Hannah (Moore) Bowles, came to America from England. Hannah (Moore) Bowles was the first cousin of the English authoress, Hannah Moore (b. near Bristol, England, 1745; d. 1833).

3.   Farquhar, Thomas M. The history of the Bowles family: containing an accurate historical lineage of the Bowles family from the Norman Conquest to the twentieth century, with historical and genealogical notes of some pedigrees of Bowles families in various sections of the United States and Britain. (Philadelphia: T.M. Farquhar, 1907).