Benjamin Bowles (1710 - 1762)

Born 1710 in Goochland, Goochland, Virginia

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Biography

In 1745 Benjamin Bowles and Nancy, his wife, moved a few miles west over the New Kent line into Hanover County. ^[1]

Benjamin is supposed to be the father of David Bowles, but this cannot be positively determined as yet.^[2]

Benjamin was the grandson of John 3rd.^[3] Tradition says that Benjamin was a man of great wealth, that he was a large slaveholder and that he built mills on the Chickahominy river.^[4]It is certain that he was a large landowner in the middle of the eighteenth century; but it was probably his son who was contractor for the army during the French and Indian War, and who was mentioned in the account books of Colonel Byrd as having supplied the Virginia troops with white tenting cloth. ^[5]

Among the sons of Benjamin were; ^[6]

David

Zachariah

Benjamin

Joshua

Nathan

There was an order of the Hanover Court, Virginia directing the Sheriff to pay to "Knight Bowles and Thomas P. Bowles, co-guardians of the Orphans of Russell Bowles who died in the Continental Service, viz. John, Caroline, Bolman, and Richard an allowance of 12 pounds per annum."

Knight Bowles LLH3-QGK Thomas P. Bowles LZK2-FL1 uncle to John, brother to Russell Benjamin Bowles 29H3-FJ6 grandfather to John, Caroline, Bolman, and Richard. John Ludwell Bowles cousin to John through Benjamin Bowles 9SZ8-RM1, brother to Russell.

John Bowles and family in Thomas M. (Thomas Mulford) Farquhar. The history of the Bowles family, p. 238-241.

Name

Name: Benjamin /Bowles/^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ The History of The Bowles Family
2. ↑ The History of The Bowles Family
3. ↑ The History of The Bowles Family
4. ↑ The History of The Bowles Family
5. ↑ The History of The Bowles Family
6. ↑ The History of The Bowles Family
7. ↑ Source: #S-2050775427 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=13232476&pid=-81833

• "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRRW-6P5 : 28 January 2020), John Bowles in entry for Mary Bowles, 1748.
• "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRZ8-L2C : 29 January 2020), Benjamin Bowles in entry for John Bowles, 1768.
• "West Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1776-1971", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZJ-DHZ9 : 29 September 2021), Benj Bowles in entry for John Bowles and Mary Redford, 1768.
• Farquhar, Thomas M. The History of The Bowles Family. Philadelphia, 1907. Page 109-110.
• Source: S-2050775427 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Name: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;;;; Note: Ancestry Family Trees (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;;), Ancestry Family Trees (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), _APID: 1030::0 CONT This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. CONT .

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