> Folks -- > Could this be Bolling instead of Bowen?? Drury Bolling's land transactions > are all over the place and of course Drury and Robert were related. Do you > mind sighting your sources here?? Thanks. > Ernie Definitely Bowen. Sometimes in the old records it was spelled Bowing, Boing, Boring, etc and even once transcribed incorrectly into the patent books as Brown. 5 birth records in Bristol Parish spelled Bowen 4 times and Bowyon 1 time. Brunswick Co order books spelled Bowen most often but also Boren and Boreing. Similar Lunenburg Co order books, most often spelled Bowen 1747 grant to William Bowen Patents 28:225 http://199.111.106.8/cgi-bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0357/B0165?95 1768 patent to Robert Bowen and Drury Bowen Patents 37:350 1761 patent to William Bowen recorded incorrectly as William Brown Patents 33:998 http://199.111.106.8/cgi-bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0360/B0198?46 Deeds from William Bowen to sons Jesse Bowen and David Bowen and to Samuel Kirks dividing the land in the "Brown" patent above Lunenburg DB 7, p 262, 266, 270 http://199.111.106.8/cgi-bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0357/B0165?23 1755 patent to William Dobyns Patents 31:555 http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0383/D0467?31 Lunenburg tithes lists with similar variant spellings Numerous scans of deeds, wills, etc as the clerks copied the originals into the will books, deed books, etc at http://members.nbci.com/fcharper/bowens.html I tried to give you some links to scans of original documents so you can verify the name yourself. Definitely not Bolling although it did get spelled all kinds of strange ways. I've never once seen it spelled Bolling though. Because of the clerks' handwriting, it is often difficult to tell the Bowen records from the Bowers records unless you know the families. I guess my best source was my own mother who always told me her name was Rebecca Fletcher Bowen (Cullom).