I vote that the two of you keep the exchange going out in the open. I'm sure that there are more than one or two who want to know more about this. Very best, Linne >Leathel- I wasn't able to find anything at the Kentucky website indicating >the warrants were issued to Benjamin Bowles in 1779. Do you have other >sources for this? > > I think in the survey of 1797 the statements that read for example >"assignee of G. Hicks" mean that Benjamin Bowles and now his heirs were the >assignees of the original warrant owner (in this case G. Hicks). My >understanding is an assignee is the person receiving the warrant from the >original owner (assignor). There is a very good description for "assignee" >in the FAQ at the website. It says to think of the warrant as a check that >is given to an endorsee (assignee) once the endorser (assignor) signs it >over to a new person. > >When you wrote "It looks like the owners of the warrants got their warrants >back", are you referring to the survey or some other source? > > Should we continue our exchange on this subject off the list? I'm not >sure if this discussion is of interest to others. Even though I'm not sure >of this Benjamin Bowls connection to my ancestor, I think it is interesting >to study the documents and try to understand what happened. > >Susan Beeler Anderson > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Leathel" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 8:22 AM >Subject: [BOWLES] Heirs of Benjamin Bowles > > >> Sue wrote: To see the original "Survey for the Heirs of Benjamin Bowles" >> which includes >> owners (Wood, Hicks, Walker, Winn, Anderson, Watkins, and Hughes) of the >> warrants for Bowls' 2000 acres in Kentucky : >> >> Benjamin Bowles Will was written in Surry County, NC. on April 30, 1780. >> The warrants were issued to Benjamin Bowles in 1779 by the heirs of >> Benjamin >> Bowles. It looks like the owners of the warrants got their warrants back. >> At >> least part of them. >> Leathel, >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Im listening in on this, keep it going !!! I vote yes Linne Gravestock <[email protected]> wrote: I vote that the two of you keep the exchange going out in the open. I'm sure that there are more than one or two who want to know more about this. Very best, Linne >Leathel- I wasn't able to find anything at the Kentucky website indicating >the warrants were issued to Benjamin Bowles in 1779. Do you have other >sources for this? > > I think in the survey of 1797 the statements that read for example >"assignee of G. Hicks" mean that Benjamin Bowles and now his heirs were the >assignees of the original warrant owner (in this case G. Hicks). My >understanding is an assignee is the person receiving the warrant from the >original owner (assignor). There is a very good description for "assignee" >in the FAQ at the website. It says to think of the warrant as a check that >is given to an endorsee (assignee) once the endorser (assignor) signs it >over to a new person. > >When you wrote "It looks like the owners of the warrants got their warrants >back", are you referring to the survey or some other source? > > Should we continue our exchange on this subject off the list? I'm not >sure if this discussion is of interest to others. Even though I'm not sure >of this Benjamin Bowls connection to my ancestor, I think it is interesting >to study the documents and try to understand what happened. > >Susan Beeler Anderson > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Leathel" >To: >Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 8:22 AM >Subject: [BOWLES] Heirs of Benjamin Bowles > > >> Sue wrote: To see the original "Survey for the Heirs of Benjamin Bowles" >> which includes >> owners (Wood, Hicks, Walker, Winn, Anderson, Watkins, and Hughes) of the >> warrants for Bowls' 2000 acres in Kentucky : >> >> Benjamin Bowles Will was written in Surry County, NC. on April 30, 1780. >> The warrants were issued to Benjamin Bowles in 1779 by the heirs of >> Benjamin >> Bowles. It looks like the owners of the warrants got their warrants back. >> At >> least part of them. >> Leathel, >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is not "my Benjamin" but I read it with interest..Mary Ann Linne Gravestock <[email protected]> wrote: I vote that the two of you keep the exchange going out in the open. I'm sure that there are more than one or two who want to know more about this. Very best, Linne >Leathel- I wasn't able to find anything at the Kentucky website indicating >the warrants were issued to Benjamin Bowles in 1779. Do you have other >sources for this? > > I think in the survey of 1797 the statements that read for example >"assignee of G. Hicks" mean that Benjamin Bowles and now his heirs were the >assignees of the original warrant owner (in this case G. Hicks). My >understanding is an assignee is the person receiving the warrant from the >original owner (assignor). There is a very good description for "assignee" >in the FAQ at the website. It says to think of the warrant as a check that >is given to an endorsee (assignee) once the endorser (assignor) signs it >over to a new person. > >When you wrote "It looks like the owners of the warrants got their warrants >back", are you referring to the survey or some other source? > > Should we continue our exchange on this subject off the list? I'm not >sure if this discussion is of interest to others. Even though I'm not sure >of this Benjamin Bowls connection to my ancestor, I think it is interesting >to study the documents and try to understand what happened. > >Susan Beeler Anderson > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Leathel" >To: >Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 8:22 AM >Subject: [BOWLES] Heirs of Benjamin Bowles > > >> Sue wrote: To see the original "Survey for the Heirs of Benjamin Bowles" >> which includes >> owners (Wood, Hicks, Walker, Winn, Anderson, Watkins, and Hughes) of the >> warrants for Bowls' 2000 acres in Kentucky : >> >> Benjamin Bowles Will was written in Surry County, NC. on April 30, 1780. >> The warrants were issued to Benjamin Bowles in 1779 by the heirs of >> Benjamin >> Bowles. It looks like the owners of the warrants got their warrants back. >> At >> least part of them. >> Leathel, >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message