thanks Janet Yes I am a descendent of the unplaced Salathiel Bowen. His son James married Sally Nock in Wo Cty in 1824. Various land records show James of Salathiel and wife Sally. Salathiel was next of kin to Levin Bowen (along with a David Bowen). Levin Bowen died 1788. Leslie Dryden made a note in the 1850 census that Salathiel was son of "L". That's as far as I have gotten on him. (In 1802 Salathiel Bowen sells all his household goods and cows etc to Eli Bowen - the one I've been talking about who lived on Huntington.) Also re JudyStel she is being helpful on this but this is uncharted territory. I am also descended from the Bowens in an entirely different line which isn't as confusing as this one. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:02:59 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [LDR] land tract Huntington DELIAH Bowen Hello Everyone, I don't have anything particularly helpful to add to this discussion, but Whittington Bowen Sr (wife Lavinia Fleming)., and his daughter-in-law Rachel, who was married first to Pattey Truit are my direct ancestors via Whittington Bowen Sr.'s son James, who married Rachel Jenkins' daughter Mary via marriage to Pattey Truit. It is not surprising at all to me that there is a third Whittington Bowen. There could be more who opted to go by middle names or nicknames. Whittington Bowen Sr. was the son of William Bowen and Elizabeth Whittington (hence the given name). He had (is believed to have had) two brothers, John and William. There are many missing holes in the descendants of these three brothers, so it is very likely John and William (or both) had sons/grandsons, etc. named Whittington. In my own line, James Bowen and Mary Truitt's daughter Elizabeth Richards Bowen, who married Seth Whaley (son of Thomas & Margaret Bratton), named a son William Whittenton Bowen. On this list, in the late fall of 1999 there was an effort to try to track and sort as many of the Bowens as we could, but the effort probably covered perhaps 20 percent of them at best. I think it was Judy (then [email protected]) who consolidated the information which is at the ghotes webside, just FYI for any more recent list members: http://www.esva.net/ghotes/bowen/d0/i0020271.htm#i20271 The archives for the month of November 1999 can be found here: http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/index/LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS/1999-11 I can't figure out from the prior emails if any of you participating are actually Bowen descendants? My best, Janet (Baugh) Hunter -----Original Message----- From: lizdfamily To: lower-delmarva-roots Sent: Fri, Jul 16, 2010 8:20 am Subject: Re: [LDR] land tract Huntington DELIAH Bowen Thanks for all your help. I have all the wills from Keddie and Dryden and orphans records from Oc museum. The only books i am lacking is Dryden Wo Cty land records and those pesky marriage licenses in your book. I also have ancestry.com for the census and I am reading all the deeds online at that archives site. This will sort itself out! thanks again Liz ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:02:20 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [LDR] land tract Huntington DELIAH Bowen Since one of the Whittington Bowen's married Delilah Selby, possibly she was the daughter of this Jesse and Ellenor? He is shown as Witty in the marriage records, and I cannot tell if he was a third Whittington or not. In the Orphans Court records there is shown a Whittington Senior, and the Whittington who married Rachel is shown as Whittington Junior at first, and then as just plain old Whittington, suggesting that perhaps the Senior one may have died (he was adult in the 1780s). So, possibly this Witty is a third one? It is easier when they said "John Doe of James". Elizabeth In a message dated 7/16/2010 4:36:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: it in 1783> In 1785 John Burbage sold to Ellenor Selby wife of Jesse Selby for £400 farm called Huntingdon of 130 acres according to the courses of a deed from Robert Cornwell, John Cornwell and Mary their mother to John Burbage of Somerset County dated 11 November 1718; this in Worcester County about three miles back from the Assateague Bay (Worc L:258). One of the two Whittington Bowens married Rachel Jenkins, daughter of John (d. 1757) and they were living in 1811. Rachel was the widow of Patey Truitt (d. 1781). One of the Whittington Bowens was the son of William Bowen and Rhoda Fassitt and he had a son Whittington Bowen which is the one I have marrying Rachel Jenkins. However, until your post, I didn't know there were two Whittington Bowens alive in 1810, so I am not sure of anything. Sometimes land commissions were held when some of the heirs claimed the land could not be divided equally or some heirs didn't want the land to be sold, so I guess that's a dispute. Sometimes it was "heired" property and there were so many heirs that if it were divided equally, each one would have so little as to be almost useless, at least for farming. Other times, a land commission was to determine boundaries which were uncertain. If you picked up a mention of a land commission from a deed, maybe there's a mention of who sued whom on the MSA site which might help enough without ordering the record and of course you will need that info to order the record if the list of who sued whom is not sufficient. I empathize with your mention of the unattached Bowens. I have a bunch of unattached ones as well. Although I descend from William Bowen (d. 1728), it is via two of his daughters, so I have not worked on the Bowen family to any great extent. Becky ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, July 15, 2010 8:08:31 PM Subject: [LDR] land tract Huntington DELIAH Bowen I just read a deed February 7, 1810 (Worcester Liber AB folio 99) whereby one Whittington Bowen with wife Delilah sells Huntington formerly possessed by Eli Bowen to Stuart Williamson. And on Plats.net they show a land commission for Huntington "estate of Nelly Bowen" 1811. Has anybody heard of this Delilah Bowen? The only thing I know about Huntington is that John Burbage owned most of it in 1783 and Jesse Jones d. 1800 (whose widow is Polly, probably wife of Eli Bowen below) owned 7 or so acres of it. The more I look at these unattached Bowens the more surprises. Who knew there was a Delilah, wife of Whittington Bowen in 1810! (note there are TWO Whittington Bowen's in the 1810 census. - one probably who has wife Rachel and the other one unknown). Doesn't a land commission mean that there is a dispute? If I have to pay another $35 to find out what this is I will be very unhappy! Thanks all for your patience. Liz I have a will for this Eli Bowen: 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 *************************************** 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 *************************************** 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