FORWARDED TO OUR HALIFAX LIST FOR GARY Original Message From "Gary Hills" <gbhills@home.com> If you think you might be related to the Bowen family of Mecklenburg, VA, we'd like to invite you to examine and hopefully even contribute to the records we have collected at http://members.nbci.com/fcharper/bowens.html Included are scanned and abstracted patents, deeds, wills, tax records, land taxes and notations, order books, early tithe records, Bible records, and Bristol Parish birth records. (Elisha Bowen, from whom I am descended moved to Halifax, VA from Mecklenburg, VA about 1810.) Other families that are included in these records are Andrews, Drumright, Gee, Kirks, Sparks, Glasscock, Drummond, Cammell, Vaughan, Thomason/Thomerson, Finn, Ladd, Harper, Evans, Merrimoon, Johnson, Meldrum. A Hicks connection also appears likely and we'd love to prove it if possible. We'd love to make contact with more of our Bowen kin - and hopefully prove some of the wives. Martha Hills gbhills@home.com