I found 151 Bowles surname listings at this site, which I hadn't seen before. It was giving me great clues about where Benjamin Bowles may have lived or owned property before he came to Kentucky. If you have ancestors who had anything to do with Virginia, this might be a fruitful site for you to investigate. Go to Binns Genealogy 1790/1800 Virginia Tax List Censuses (a Reconstructed Census for Virginia). http://www.binnsgenealogy.com/VirginiaTaxListCensuses/ These are microfilm, every name indexes, free and online. Let us all know what you find! Linne