I still have about 5 of the original 100 copies my book on Cornelius Bowman and his ancestors and descendants. If you would like a copy please send a check in the amount of $25 to me at: Edward L. Bowman, Attorney at Law 4800 Clearview Drive Bartlesville, OK 74006 Please include your mailing address and your email address. If you are not satisfied with the book I will refund your money if you return it undamaged within three days after you receive it. The book still needs some editing but my plan is to get the first version out in circulation so that I can receive comments and edit it for commercial publication. The work is 8/12 by 11 spiral bound printed by a print shop. It includes over 311 pages of text, 48 photos, and 31 copies of documents. The work provides evidence for the proposition that about 1763 Cornelius lived near Harrisonburg VA and that he was a descendant of Joris Jacobsen Bowman who was living in the New Netherlands by about 1651. There is also a hint that Joris Jacobsen was the son of a Jacob Pieterszen who was in the New Netherlands by 1652. I have not established just when Joris came to America. It is possible that Joris was not an immigrant but that instead that his father was the immigrant who was among the earliest settlers in the New Netherlands and on Long Island. It appears that my branch of the family of Joris Jacobsen migrated from Long Island to Staten Island to New Brunswick NJ to Readington NJ to Harrisonburg VA. It is believed that Cornelius Bowman (b abt 1740) married Susannah Pointer (Poynter?) or Painter about 1764 at the Cooks Creek Presbyterian Church near Harrisonburg VA. The book discusses a number of other Bowman families who lived in the Shenadoah Valley and other places in VA in the 1700's and it follows Cornelius from Abbotts Creek in NC to near Lenoir NC in the 1770's to Watauga(now TN) about 1782, then to KY by about 1795. It discusses his children and their children. It then takes off on my branch of the family which comes from Cornelius's son Rev. Thomas Bowman. Rev. Thomas's Bowman's son Absalom, my gg grandfather, moved from KY to AR or MO about the time of the Civil War. My great grandfather James Levi (or Lee) married in Denton County TX and then later moved to near Stillwater OK. The book mentions other Bowman's, some related and some not related, who lived in AR, TX and OK about the same time as my ancestors were in those areas. Some other names mentioned include: Boone/Van Meter/ Scholl/ Linkhorn (Lincoln)/Van Pelt/ Denton/ Staats/ Bodine/Sevier/Bird/McDowell/Ruddell/Hite/Stover/Potter/Painter/Pointer/ Poynter/Denton/Keller/Hottel/Hunt/Harrison/McBride/Brock/Huffman/Moore/ Gabbard/Smith/Lynch/Beeler/Gay/Hamilton/Walkup/Isaacs/Lenoir/Dyer/Combs/Love/ Sebourn/Anderson/Norris/Lawson/Linville/Hanks/Tipton/George Rogers Clark/Gabriel Jones Edbow@aol.com