John Bowman, of Roxdale

John Bowman

Birth:

• Date: 1630 / 1640
• Place: England, or Bermuda, Henrico, Virginia

Death:

• Date: 1718
• Place: Henrico, Virginia

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Further info found at genealogy.com says

John Bowman of Roxdale, he and his wife Elizabeth Nunnelly Bowman, the widow of Daniel Nunnelly of Charles City County, sold the plantation Bull Hill in Charles City County, devised to her by the will of Daniel Nunnelly, to Daniel Nunnelly's son, Walter Nunnelly, on April 20, 1693, for 1200 pounds of tobacco. The deed was not recorded until March 1, 1707. John Bowman's will no longer survives, but he devised the 130 acres purchased from Martin Elam to Elizabeth, and on December 9, 1718 she sold that parcel to Major John Bolling. [1] Henrico County VA - 1706 Deeds File submitted for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Patty B. White

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The Bowman's lived on Swift Creek near the old trading path heading north out of what is now Petersburg, VA. John Bowmans and the Elams had adjoining property in the Bermuda Hundred. Abstracts from Nugent's CAVALIERS & PIONEERS, Vol. III

p. 97 2 May 1705 Capt. John Bolling, Edward Bowman & John Bowman 1146 Scres Henrico County 3rd branch of Swift Creek, Begin at Henry Poland North side of said Creek. p. 102 2 Nov 1705 John Tullit, 17,653 Acres Henrico County, South of James on Bowman's line.

p. 191 15 July 1717 John Bolling, Edward Bowman & John Bowman 497 Acres Henrico East side of Falling Creek.

p. 211 9 Feb 1718 Elizabeth Bowman 50 Acres Henrico South side James on Fox Slash, adjoining William Clarke & William Soane. p. 230 5 Sept 1723 John Bowman, Jnr 450 Acres Henrico County Northside Swift Creek, adjoining his own survey in Henry Powland's line, crossing the main road to Major John Bolling.

p. 293 17 Aug 1725 John Lavillian, 400 Acres Henrico North of Appomattox River, adjoining John James Florenoy on South side of a branch of Nutt Tree Branch; Francis Florenoy on North side of the Dumplin Branch, and John Bowman's line.

p. 300 24 Mar 1725 John Newby 100 Acres Henrico South of Swift Creek adjoining John Bowman and Richard Grill's line Edward Bowman's will of 1722 made gifts of land on Swift Creek. Note

John Bowman's will of 1725 made gifts of land on Nut Tree Run and Swift Creek. The abstract of Elizabeth Bowman's deed of Feb. 9, 1718 ties these land acquisitions to the earlier holdings of Robert, Jr., when read in combination with the following abstract from Crozier's Virginia County Records, Vol. II, Taken from Henrico County Deeds & Wills 1725-1737

p. 134 25 Aug 1727 John Soan of Burtee Precinct in Albemarle County in North Carolina, but now in Virginia of one part and Tarlton Woodson of Henrico County of Virginia . . . for £10 sells said Woodson tract of land in Henrico on south side of James, bounded on lands of Robert Elam, Dr. John Bowman dec'd, and others containing 200 acres being that land bought by William Soane, father of the aforesaid John Soane . . . Note

The Soane sale puts Elizabeth's land now in the estate of John Bowman, deceased, and the description of the land as adjoining Robert Elam's property links these tracts to the 1662-1672 deeds describing the properties of Robert Bowman, Jr. It also tells us that John Bowman was a Doctor and that he was deceased before August 25, 1727.

Comments

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In this profile the surviving documents for both John Sr and John Jr (1661-1725) have not been differentiated and have been compressed into one figure. John Sr.'s birth date, birth place, and birth mother are unknown. He was presumably a son of Robert Bowman, but no document clarifies if that was Robert Bowman Sr or Robert Bowman Jr. Surviving deeds clarify that John Jr was a brother to Edward Bowman SR (1656-1722) and that both Edward and John Jr. were sons of Robert Bowman Jr. John Sr served in 1678 as guardian for John Jr after Robert Jr and his wife Sarah sailed for England. The court relieved John Sr of that responsibility the following year when John Jr turned 18, but the record does not state the kinship between the two men. Subsequently most surviving Henrico land and court records distinguished between the two contemporaneous John Bowmans by calling them Sr and Jr in their respective legal dealings.

John Sr married about 1685 to the widow Elizabeth (Elam?) Nunnally, relict of Daniel Nunnally. By said marriage Daniel Nunnally's estate Bull Hill came under the control of John Bowman Sr. Bull Hill was on the south side of the Appomatox River near City Point and its site now lays within Prince George County. The John Bowman Sr - Elizabeth Nunnally marriage produced a daughter, Elizabeth Bowman born about 1690, who married Jeffrey Robertson about 1705 in Henrico. John Sr's death date is inferred by Elizabeth Nunnally Bowman entering land transactions in 1718 in her own name, indicating she was then a widow.

John Jr, contemporaneously is married to a Sarah, but no marriage record has survived which clearly identifies her maiden name. Because Joseph Royall and Joseph Royall, Jr. both witnessed the will of John Bowman Jr., and because both Joseph and Royall passed down several generations of Sarah's descendants as given names, I have tentatively identified her as Sarah Royall, daughter of Joseph Royall (1646-1727?), and the granddaughter, Sarah Royall, named in the 1686 will of Katherine Banks Royall Isham.

References

• Data: Text: John Bowman Gender: Male Birth: 1630 - Bermuda, Henrico, Virginia Death: 1718 - Henrico, Virginia Father: Robert Bowman Wife: Elizabeth Elam Child: Elizabeth Bowman Quality or Certainty of Data: 4
• http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/henrico/deeds/deeds001.txt
• Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 12 2021, 0:34:27 UTC
• https://liveasfreepeople.com/2017/01/17/bowmans-of-early-virginia/
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Elam-89
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Elam-88
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bowman-852