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I've seen that some have speculated that the Bowmans of Tucker County WVA were descendants of George Bowman and Mary Hite of Strasburg VA specifically from their son George. It is however my understanding that they had two sons named George and that both died before producing any offspring.
The book Men Of West Virgina available online from Google indicates that Capt. Adam Coleman Bowman was born 5/1/1839 Cheat River near Elkins and that his father was Henry Bowman (b abt 1819?) s/o Adam Bowman and Rachel Van Meter and that the Adam Bowman who married Rachel Van Meter was the son of a George Bowman who settled on South Branch of Potomac near what is now Hampshire and Hardy Counties West VA. Adam s/o George migrated to Cheat River Tucker County West VA with James Parsons.
The book indicates that George Bowman and the Van Meters settled near what is now Hampshire and Hardy Counties West VA and that they both came from New York and were of Holland ancestry. I am curious as to what Van Meters settled near this George Bowman in Tucker County WVA.
It seems likely that the Bowmans of Tucker County could more likely have been related to the Joris Jacobszen Bowman who owned land near the Brooklyn Ferry in 1660. He had descendants who migrated to near Somerville and Readington NJ. One was his grandson Thomas who built the home now known as the Bowman/Stickney homestead. He died by 1755 and his will names as his children Cornelius, Thomas, Elizabeth, Neeltje, and Jannetje.
Another Bowman of the Readington NJ area was his great grandson Peter Bowman who married Margaret Scholl the daughter of the Capt. Peter Scholl who migrated from NJ to New Market VA and was one of the first justices of Augusta County Va. By about 1760 Peter Bowman was living near Linville Creek near where the Bryans and Lincolns lived and his brother George Bowman lived near Brocks Gap. The George Bowman of Brocks Gap may have had children named Elsje, Thomas, John, George and Peter.
Capt. Peter Scholl's daughter Alice married Isaac Van Meter son of John Van Meter and Margaret Mollenauer. It is believed by some that after Isaac Van Meter died Alice married Capt. Richard Morgan. Some apparently believe that Capt. Peter Scholl's son William was married to an Annette Loray Van Meter Van Meter and later married Leah Morgan.
John Van Meter's daughter Rebecca Van Meter married Solomon Hedges and had a son named Joseph born about 1740 who married Margaret Van Meter a daughter of Isaac Van Meter and Alice Scholl Van Meter.
John Van Meter's daughter Sarah married a James Davis. In April of 1738 James Davis sold Solomon Hedges 275 acres on Tully Branch adjacent the land of Morgan Bryan.
I've seen it reported that Morgan Bryan's wife Martha Strode was the sister of the Edward Strode who married Eleanor Shepard and there was a Capt. James Strode who married Ann Hamilton Foreman Bowman, the widow of an Andrew Bowman, Jr, another Bowman whose ancestry I don't know but who could have easily been a descendant of Joris Jacobszen Bowman of Long Island.
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