Hard to tell from abstracts. Elizabeth In a message dated 7/18/2010 10:30:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: here is another version of Nathaniel Bowen's will from Keddie: Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} F:95 Nathaniel Bowen (Bowin) 19 February 1815 That house and lot in Basket Town and the 7 acres bought from Josiah Collins to be sold for debts That Negro woman Leah be manumitted To wife Nancy - estate for widowhood To son Isaac Bowen - to sell estate after wife's widowhood and divide among my children To children Barnabas, Isaac, Joshua, William, Richard - land or monies from land when Barnabas is of age That Isaac and Joshua take care of the other children Executor: son Isaac Witness: Zipporah Williamson, Josiah Collins, Elisha Bowin, Rhoday Bowin 20 April 1815 Then cameIt sounds from the Chancery Record that Isaac the executor is deceased and his son Lambert is now the heir of Nathaniel. Isaac was supposed to sell and divide the estate after the death of the widow who has perhaps died by 1822. Maybe that's what this chancery record is about? ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:11:36 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [LDR] Nathaniel Bowen Testate or Intestate? Possible that the will was challenged successfully, but one would then expect to find a notation of that somewhere. Very interesting. Elizabeth In a message dated 7/18/2010 9:35:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: In the interest of tying up loose ends in the Bowens, what do people think? Conflict in the records - or was the will declared invalid? Ocean City Museum Chancery Record: 27 November 1822. That Nathaniel Bowen died intestate and left the following children his heirs: Joshua Bowen, William, Richard, Barnaby and Lambert Bowen a son of Isaac Bowen who was also a son of Nathaniel Bowen. Letters of administration granted to Isaac Marshall. Land near Newark. Nathaniel Bowen. Will dated February 19, 1815, probate April 20, 1815. He named wife, Nancy and children: Isaac, Joshua, Richard, Barnaby and William. Witnesses: Rhody Bowen, Elisha Bowen, Zipporah Williamson and Josiah Collins. He mentioned that property he bought in Basket Town from Josiah Collins be sold. (Ruth T. Dryden, Worcester Co., MD Will Book MH, f.95 *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- 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 *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- 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 *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- 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

<It sounds from the Chancery Record that Isaac the executor is deceased and his son Lambert is now the heir of Nathaniel.  Isaac was supposed to sell and divide the estate after the death of the widow who has perhaps died by 1822.  Maybe that's what this chancery record is about?> Could be.  I've seen cases where the deceased is declared intestate with regard to a specific property.  It explained that at the time the deceased made the will, he did not yet own the property.  I also recall another one where the fellow devised everything but x amount of acres, so he was declared intestate for that portion of the estate. Isaac Bowen, the executor, was deceased by 21 June 1816 when Isaac Marshall was the administrator of his estate.  That same day, Marshall was administrator de bonis non of Nathaniel Bowen's estate.  These from V.L. Skinner, Jr.'s Worcester County Estate Docket abstracts. So either Nancy the widow was deceased by 1822 and/or the son Barnaby/Barnabas had come of age.  The actual record likely would reveal this. As Elizabeth noted, it is hard to tell when using abstracts.  Abstracts are wonderful tools but, as we all know, they should be used as pointers to the fact that a record exists so we can then look at the full record.  Without abstracts we would be doing as I did many years ago--paging through either original libers or microfilm (unindexed of course) in a loosely calculated time period just hoping to stumble upon the information for which I was looking. Becky