Can anyone tell me any more about this man and his ancestors and descendants??? I found this article in a folder at the Monroe County, Georgia Historicl Society. Does anyone have access to a copy of this book???? If so, I would dearly love a copy of the index listing all the people the book covers. Ruth Here is the article: Book: Memoirs of Georgia, Volume 1 Published in Atlanta, Georgia, The Southern Historical Association, 1895. The cover says it contains: 'Historical Accounts of the State's Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of It's People' Page 288 JOSHUA W. Bowdoin, farmer, Adairsville, Bartow Co., Ga., son of Joshua and Beersheba Bowdoin, was born in Monroe County, Ga., Nov 2, 1832. Some years preceding the revolutionary war two brothers James and John Bowdoin, emigrated from England to America. James settled in Massachusetts where he acquired large wealth and founded the now celebrated seat of *********** at Brunswick; (then in Massachusetts, now in Maine), known as ************. John Bowdoin, the other brother and the great grandfather, subject of this sketch, was a Presbyterian minister, and settled in Virginia. James, ****** ****** born in Virginia, and when only nine years old entered the patriot army and served under Gen. Washington and Greene until peace was proclaimed and independence acknowledged. After the war he went to North Carolina, and subsequently emigrated to Hamburg, S. C. In 1806 he moved into Georgia, purchased considerable land in what is now Monroe county, on which he settled and lived the remainder of his days. He married Miss Equilla Williams, and to them nine children--seven sons and two daughters--were born. Joshua, the father of the subject of this sketch, was the youngest child of James and Equilla Bowdoin, and was born in South Carolina in 1802, but was raised in what is now Monroe county. He was really a pioneer of Cass county, having settled on land now lying in Gordon county in 1833. He purchased 160 acres situated near Adairsville, now the home of his son, Joshua W. To this original purchase he afterward added until he owned 1,040 acres in one body, and a number of smaller tracts. Of the main body he cleared about 500 acres and was one of the largest and most prominent planters in the county. He was an active partisan and an unswerving democrat, and served many years as a justiace of the inferior court. He was an ordained preacher of the Baptist church and preached in middle Georgia and east Tennessee. He was instrumental in establishing many churches within the extensive boundaries of his work, among them Mt. Gilead, of which he was the faithful pastor forty years. He was married in Hancock county to Miss Beersheba Fails, by who he had eight children: Frances M., deceased: Emily F. deceased, wife of Elisha Crisman; John W. physician, deceased; Elisha F. a member of the Sixty-fifth Georgia regiment, died of wounds received in the battle of Atlanta; Josephus D., Deceased was also a member of the Sixty-fifth Georgia regiment; Joshua W., the subject of this sketch, and two daughters who died in infancy. The mother of these children died in 1852, and he afterward married Mrs. Martha Lane. Joshua W. Bowdoin, though born in Monroe county was raised in what is now Gordon county, on the homestead where he now lives. He was educated in the common schools of the county and learned the blacksmith's trade. In 1801 he enlisted in Company B, First Georgia regiment, and soon afterward was detailed to manufacture firearms, and was located at Adairsville and Dawsonville. After the surrender he returned to the homestead which he inherited and engaged in farming. He owns about 300 acres of excellent land, and is a progressive, successful and prominent farmer, respected and highly esteemed. Mr. Bowdoin married Miss Annie, daughter of John J. Dodds of Gordon county, who has born him three children: Miss Annie, daughter of John J. Dodds of Gordon county, who has born him three children: Annie, deceased wife of Henry Johnson; Emma and Montague. Mr. Bowdoin is an enthusiastic democrat and takes an active interest in the success of his party.