I recently made a trip to Southern Maryland where my first documented Dowell ancester, Philip, appeared about 300 years ago. My ancestors left that area for North Carolina shortly after the Revolution and then moved on to Missouri in the 1830s. However, some Dowells stayed on in Calvert County. I met one such distant cousin in January, Carolyn (Dowell) Mohler. If the information we have about Henry Dowell (1770-1829) being the son of Philip Dowell, Jr. is correct Carolyn and I are sixth cousins, once removed. Carolyn is a Dowell descendant who never left the Calvert County, MD area. In 1999 she finished editing a book of the reminiscences of her father, Arthur Wilson Dowell. The book is entitled Growing Up in Prince Frederick during the 1920's & 30's. It includes both family and local history. Dave Dowell in Morro Bay, CA Researching: Adams, Armfield, Barnard, Bottum, Breske, Brown, Burritt, Carlton, Cashatt, Christie, Clough, Currier, Dow, Dowell, Dungan, Foot(e), Grove, Hoar, Kernodle, Lakey, Lawrence, Mclaren, Martin, Maynard, Messenger, Moon, Moore, Paepke, Pattee, Perry, Pierce, Pyle, Ratliff, Shover, Smithey, Tydings, Weaver & Wing. http://academic.cuesta.edu/ddowell/resume2002b.htm http://www.DDowell.com