I HATE this computer! Skinner and Wright show Eli as having married Eleanor (Nellie) Jones. Elizabeth In a message dated 7/16/2010 9:07:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Becky and others. I think we can safely say that Whittington Bowen with wife Delilah is the brother of Eli Bowen as named in his 1810 will. However, this is the strangest land transfer I have ever seen. 1. Eleanor Selby buys Huntington (wife of Jesse) 2. 5/17/1806 Huntington: Zadock Purnell, wife Catey Purnell, sold to Eli Bowen rights to Catey from mother Eleanor Bowen deceased (where Eli Bowin now lives) (Eleanor Bowen does not leave a will that I can find) 3. Feb 7 1810 Whittington Bowen and Delilah his wife sell Huntington late in the possession of Eli Bowen deceased to Stuart Williamson 1811 Land Commission estate of Elinor Bowen Nowhere in Eli's will (pasted below) is Huntington or any land mentioned. (It should be noted that Polly wife of Eli's deceased husband Jesse owned 7 plus acres of Huntington but not nearly as much as Eli bought from Zadock and Catey Purnell.) How does land go out of the children's line and over to the brother? If this is intestate land (unmentioned in the will), then it should go to the children of Eli. Of course there is a land commission "incident" on this: Huntington "estate of Nelly Bowin" 1811. Anyone have any thoughts? Eli Bowen's will for a reminder: (checked Dryden and Keddie - both similar) Eli Bowen 12 January 1810 To wife Polly Bowen - livestock, wheat, flax spinning wheel, cradle To daughter Polly Bowen - two beds, livestock, Negro girl, looking glass, note on Schoolfield Bradford To son Selby - bed, desk, two chests, Negro boy Isaac, all the chairs, plow To brothers George and Whittington Bowen - heifer, ox cart, cross cut saw, hand saw, ax, wedge Executor: William Jones "to keep the property belonging to my son Selby in his hands until he arrives to age and that he bind him out to a trade when he is nine years old and to be bound untill he is eighteen years old, a shoe maker trade." Witness: Stuart Williamson, Josiah Collins, Bowdoin Hammond 19 January 1810 Then came *************************************** 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