Major Edmond Bowman

Abt 1620 - 1691  (71 years)

• Name	Edmond Bowman  [1]
  Title	Major
  Birth	Abt 1620  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Memo	Edmund Bowman [was] an English gentleman of wealth and position. He also was a Justice of Accomac in 1663, after the peninsula had been divided into two counties. Captain, afterwards Major Bowman, settled upon Folly Creek, which flows into Metomkin Inlet on the seaside, and built the first of the famous old mansions known as "Bowman's Folly." He was sheriff and a Burgess of Accomac.
  Occupation	1663	Accomac, VA   [2]
  	Justice of Accomac
  Reference Number	1909
  Death	15 Mar 1691  [1]
  Person ID	I1909	ESVA Connections
  Last Modified	4 Oct 2012

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1613
  Marriage	Abt 1644	Accomac, VA   [1]
  Children	1. Sarah Bowman,   b. Abt 1645   d. Bef 1679 (Age < 33 years)   2. Gerturde Bowman,   b. Abt 1650, Accomac, VA
  Last Modified	11 May 2022
  Family ID	F653	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S41] Barry W. Miles and Moody K. Miles III, Miles Files, (M.K. Miles, 42 Meadowood Drive, Stafford, VA 22554, March 2011), http://espl-genealogy.org/MilesFiles/p246.htm#i24522. [S145] Jennings Cropper Wise, Ye Kingdom of Accawmacke, (The Bell Book and Stationery Co, Richmond, VA, 1911), Page 88. Edmund Bowman, an English gentleman of wealth and position. He also, like John Wise, was a Jus'tice of Accomac in 1663, after the peninsula had been divided into two counties. Captain, afterwards Major Bowman, settled upon Folly Creek, which flows into Metomkin Inlet on the seaside, and built the first of the famous old mansions known as "Bowman's Folly." He was sheriff and a Burgess of Accomac.