Main Papers HL/PO/JO/10/1/139 Brooke. 3 Thomas Killigrew. 4 Sir George Devereux and William Martin. 5 Robert Masters. 6 Captain Henry Fotherby, Captain Robert Bowles, and Robert Rookes. 7 Abygall Dexter. 8 Abygall Dexter. 9 Captain Sydney Atkins. 10 Sir William Flemyng. 11 Thomas Gascoyne,Date: 1642.Source: Access to Archives (A2A): not kept at The National Archives Navy Board: Records ADM 106/482/68 Captain Phineas Bowles, the hired ship Loyal Merchant at Spithead. Requests surgeon's necessaries as he is ordered to Virginia under the command of Captain Wager. . Captain Phineas Bowles, the hired ship Loyal Merchant at Spithead. Requests surgeon'sDate: 1696.Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives Navy Board: Records ADM 106/496/158 Victualling Office. Receipt of letter about the two ships left behind. The Mary, Thomas Gentle, sailed with the Dutch convoy, as John Watson, clerk to Philip Rogers, who was ordered on board the William and Elizabeth wrote that Captain Bowles of the LymeDate: 1696.Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives There are 309 wills for the name "Bowles". This can be a clue to Ancestors in Virginia. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/search-results-summary.asp?searchType=quicksearch&pagenumber=1&queryType=1&catid=*&query=Bowles Wills (309) Death Duty Registers (19) Registers of Seamen's Services (124) Another interesting site: http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/ research for a rainy day: Bowles - 833 catalogues were found to match Bowles Shown below are catalogues 1 to 25 (of 833) http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/doclist.asp?nb=0&nbKey=1&com=1&keyword=Bowles&properties=0601