Robert Bowman, II

Robert Jr and Sr were both probably born in Scotland and migrated from England in 1666 and/or 1670. There are passenger lists for both years, which might indicate that father and son came within four years of each other. Anecdotal evidence states that they arrived in Jamestown before settling 950 acres along the James River in Virginia. Their plantation was known as Roxdale Plantation, which was later passed to the Hudson family through marriage.

"It is a family tradition that the earliest ancestor was a ship carpenter who came with the first colonists to Jamestown from London," according to Charles W. Bowman on p. 3 of his 1912 publication, BOWMAN GENEALOGY: Fragmentary Annals of a Branch of the Bowman Family, Law Reporter Printing Company, Washington, D.C.

Robt Bowman Year: 1666 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 6220 Primary Immigrant: Bowman, Robt Annotation: Record of 20,000 very early immigrants, with much relevant information. Taken from Patent Books 1 through 5. Title page states, "In 5 volumes," but up to 1979 only three had appeared. See nos. 6221 and 6223 for second and third volumes, published in 1977 Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. 1. Richmond [VA]: Dietz Printing Co., 1934. 767p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983. Page: 555