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Author: pettyfan67
Surnames: Bowman
Classification: queries
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John Bowman had land(200 acres)near Scioto Trail State Forest which was Virginia Military
lands.
His land is 4011 which sits on Ross and Pike County borders.
There is questions running thru OUR minds like are there more than one John Bowman. Is
Benjamin Bowman who died in Ross Co about 1832 John Bowman's son. And his descendants
move to Nevada?
Is Daniel in Boone County, Indiana; Benjamin's brother?
Was there two John Bowman's and they named their children the same male names?
The Will and the biography there are Benjamin, Eli, Thomas, Daniel.
But the Will also states children: Betsey(who married Allen Nixon), John Jr, William,
Edward and Polley;wife Ruth.
But the Biography also states children: Mary and Margaret;wife Sarah Dawson.
We need a Bowman from Nevada descendant to do DNA testing and a Bowman from Boone Co,
Indiana to do DNA testing.
to see if they are even related.
As states in another post, my ggg-grandfather Thomas R Bowman who was born in Ross Co,
Ohio and settled in Wabash co, Indiana. There are two descendants who have DNA tested and
doesn't match any Bowman's.
I am just wondering can you really trust a biography of someone who was only a small child
when his father and grandfather died. Where is the proof that John Bowman was native
german. Could he have be born here in America? maybe his ancestors were german?
There is also question as to what John Bowman was tried and convicted of
'manslaughter' in 1801. He was married and had children. Was that John Bowman who
we are talking or his son. Or is it all together a different John Bowman.
I found a 1783 Tax List of Old Town, Allegany Co, Maryland.
It had a John Bowman, John Nixon(father of Allen Nixon),Foster's,and Dawson's;
James Dawson,Edward Dawson Sr,Edward Dawson Jr and Moore's. In the 27 pages of John
Bowman's Probate papers John's sons are listed as buyers of farm utenils, so are
the Foster's. So I am wondering if this means John Bowman settled in Allegany Co,
Maryland first before coming to Ross/Pike county area.
But I am stumped as to there are NO marriage for John Bowman and Sarah Dawson, I have
looked everywhere. Was her name really Sarah Dawson? Could it have been Dorson or
something else similar? Is Sarah and Ruth the same person?
Could Sarah and Ruth be sister's? Could Ruth be John Nixon's widow?
We may never know the answers to these questions?
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