Henry Chronology
Henry Bolen was born about 1751 the son of James Thomas Bowling and Mary Overland.
Prior to July 8, 1773 Bought land in Westmoreland County, PA. (part that in 1781 became Washington County, PA. Bought of Sampson Beaver.
July 8, 1773 Sold above land to John Tennell. Henry did not have a wife at the time he sold land in 1773 else she would have had to sign too if that was the custom of the area. (7)
1774 In Dunmore's War. In Capt. Henry Hogehland's Company.
1774 Settled on the waters of Cross Creek, Yohogania County, VA. 400 acres. His brother Gerard settled here a year later. Now Jefferson Twp. since 1853, Washington County, PA. Prior Cross Creek Twp. formed in 1789, and Hopewell Twp. as original.
1777-1778 Davis Wilson sued Henry over debts.
1779 Fined according to law. Where? It is unclear exactly where.
June 24, 1780 Got 1,000 acres on Yellow Creek of Green River in VA (now KY). Locate. Garrett also got land that day. Same place.
1781-1783 Washington County, PA. Militia.
June 9, 1782 Sarah Bonham's possible husband Jacob Bonham, was killed with William Crawford at Sandusky (OH) massacre. 450 men recruited out of PA area. Was Henry one of those there?
July 1782 PA. Lawsuit brother Alexander Bowling, Edward Cook and James Fulton mentioned. James Fulton see #2084, page 411. Canoed on the Ohio River that month (July 1782) near Wheeling.
Feb 15, 1783 PA Sold land (fully describe) to Absolam Wells. Recorded May 30, 1783.
Sept 1783 Henry Bowling vs. Thomas Robertson, September 1783, Case #16, page 111 in Washington County, Pennsylvania as "capias Case C.C.B.B. Robert Grunlee tent L40 Cogn 30" Sept 1783 Con T. Scott 3L paid. Cont. Dec rule to declare. March term 1784 Plea Payment. Sept. non-solvit and issue. Rule for Trial. Cont July Cont same rule Sept Cont. S.R. Dec 1784. Judgement nisi Cafil 3 months Ext fi fa to Sept 1785". (643)
Apr 10, 1784 Jefferson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), 10 April 1784, West vs. Bolling, Jury trial. Jury is named and included Jonathan Clark, Daniel Brodhead, Robert George, Joseph Phelps, William Orr, Michael Hogg, John Jackson, James Ellio, Ralph Matson, James Stuart, James Harrod and Nathanel Braiden. Verdict for the Plaintiff and Judgment. (1197b)(1820)
May 7, 1784 Jefferson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), 7 May 1784, West vs. Bolling, Jury trial. Jury is Peter Muhenburg, George Rogers Clark, Richard Anderson, Charles Dabney, James Knox, John Lewis, George Walls, John North, Elias Savyham, Nathanel Welch, Jacob Vanmatre and Thomas Whitledge. Verdict for the Plaintiff and Judgment. (1197b)(1820)
June 1784 Washington County, PA. Henry sued William Price.
July 6, 1784 Henry Bowling, William Rowan, Samuel Wells and James Stephenson were appointed to do an appraisal of personal property of Thomas Talbot deceased, minute book of Jefferson County, Virginia, now Kentucky, July 6, 1784. (473)(666)(1197b)
July 7, 1784 KY Henry married Widow Sarah Bonham. Her possible husband Jacob Bonham was (bond) killed June 9, 1782 with William Crawford at Sandusky (OH) massacre.
Dec 25, 1784 KY Henry (Fh250) was born. His mother probably wasn't Sarah (-------)(Bonham) Bolen.
March 1785 Henry Bowling had a Yohogania County, Virginia land grant on 8 March 1785, 287 acres on McMahans Run. William West had 113 acres on the same day and same watercourse. (note that sum of two parcels equals 400 acres and it was said that Henry Bolling purchased his land from William West) Only two other grants were on McMahans Run and they were also on 8 March 1785. Jacobs Walker 300 acres and Thomas West 370 acres. All these McMahans Run grants were not in present day Washington County, Pennsylvania but in present day Brooke County, Cross Creek Township, West Virginia,-- Ohio County, Virginia, prior. Author Raymond M. Bell located the lands as not being in Washington County, Pennsylvania, as proven by land records at the State Library in Richmond, Virginia. (460)(642)( http://198.17.62.51/cgi- bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0357/B0166?74)
1785 Henry Bowling vs. Alex Nailor Mar term 1785, Case #17, page 199 in Washington County, Pennsylvania as "Fees L2-15-8 Stops those fees out of bonds sued for at the suit of WR. See App. Docket of June 1785". (643)
1785 Henry Bowling was on the 1785 tax list of Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was listed as married. (648)
1786 Henry Bowling is not on the 1786 tax list of Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. (1905)
Before Aug 3, 1786 Henry Bolen was killed by the Indians on his farm in Virginia (now KY)
July 14, 1791 Mrs. Sarah Bolin, widow of Henry Bolin, married July 14, 1791, James Dunbar in Nelson County, Kentucky. Bond July 8, 1791 signed by John Muir. Marriage was by Benjamin Lynn from Minister Return. James Dunbar was probably a teacher because prior to 1791 an estate paid him for schooling children. (523) There is a Lynnview (named after the Lynn/Linn family), Kentucky, just east of the airport in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. (7)
Henry Bolen was born about 1751 the son of James Thomas Bowling and Mary Overland.
Prior to July 8, 1773 Bought land in Westmoreland County, PA. (part that in 1781 became Washington County, PA. Bought of Sampson Beaver.
July 8, 1773 Sold above land to John Tennell. Henry did not have a wife at the time he sold land in 1773 else she would have had to sign too if that was the custom of the area. (7)
1774 In Dunmore's War. In Capt. Henry Hogehland's Company.
1774 Settled on the waters of Cross Creek, Yohogania County, VA. 400 acres. His brother Gerard settled here a year later. Now Jefferson Twp. since 1853, Washington County, PA. Prior Cross Creek Twp. formed in 1789, and Hopewell Twp. as original.
1777-1778 Davis Wilson sued Henry over debts.
1779 Fined according to law. Where? It is unclear exactly where.
June 24, 1780 Got 1,000 acres on Yellow Creek of Green River in VA (now KY). Locate. Garrett also got land that day. Same place.
1781-1783 Washington County, PA. Militia.
June 9, 1782 Sarah Bonham's possible husband Jacob Bonham, was killed with William Crawford at Sandusky (OH) massacre. 450 men recruited out of PA area. Was Henry one of those there?
July 1782 PA. Lawsuit brother Alexander Bowling, Edward Cook and James Fulton mentioned. James Fulton see #2084, page 411. Canoed on the Ohio River that month (July 1782) near Wheeling.
Feb 15, 1783 PA Sold land (fully describe) to Absolam Wells. Recorded May 30, 1783.
Sept 1783 Henry Bowling vs. Thomas Robertson, September 1783, Case #16, page 111 in Washington County, Pennsylvania as "capias Case C.C.B.B. Robert Grunlee tent L40 Cogn 30" Sept 1783 Con T. Scott 3L paid. Cont. Dec rule to declare. March term 1784 Plea Payment. Sept. non-solvit and issue. Rule for Trial. Cont July Cont same rule Sept Cont. S.R. Dec 1784. Judgement nisi Cafil 3 months Ext fi fa to Sept 1785". (643)
Apr 10, 1784 Jefferson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), 10 April 1784, West vs. Bolling, Jury trial. Jury is named and included Jonathan Clark, Daniel Brodhead, Robert George, Joseph Phelps, William Orr, Michael Hogg, John Jackson, James Ellio, Ralph Matson, James Stuart, James Harrod and Nathanel Braiden. Verdict for the Plaintiff and Judgment. (1197b)(1820)
May 7, 1784 Jefferson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), 7 May 1784, West vs. Bolling, Jury trial. Jury is Peter Muhenburg, George Rogers Clark, Richard Anderson, Charles Dabney, James Knox, John Lewis, George Walls, John North, Elias Savyham, Nathanel Welch, Jacob Vanmatre and Thomas Whitledge. Verdict for the Plaintiff and Judgment. (1197b)(1820)
June 1784 Washington County, PA. Henry sued William Price.
July 6, 1784 Henry Bowling, William Rowan, Samuel Wells and James Stephenson were appointed to do an appraisal of personal property of Thomas Talbot deceased, minute book of Jefferson County, Virginia, now Kentucky, July 6, 1784. (473)(666)(1197b)
July 7, 1784 KY Henry married Widow Sarah Bonham. Her possible husband Jacob Bonham was (bond) killed June 9, 1782 with William Crawford at Sandusky (OH) massacre.
Dec 25, 1784 KY Henry (Fh250) was born. His mother probably wasn't Sarah (-------)(Bonham) Bolen.
March 1785 Henry Bowling had a Yohogania County, Virginia land grant on 8 March 1785, 287 acres on McMahans Run. William West had 113 acres on the same day and same watercourse. (note that sum of two parcels equals 400 acres and it was said that Henry Bolling purchased his land from William West) Only two other grants were on McMahans Run and they were also on 8 March 1785. Jacobs Walker 300 acres and Thomas West 370 acres. All these McMahans Run grants were not in present day Washington County, Pennsylvania but in present day Brooke County, Cross Creek Township, West Virginia,-- Ohio County, Virginia, prior. Author Raymond M. Bell located the lands as not being in Washington County, Pennsylvania, as proven by land records at the State Library in Richmond, Virginia. (460)(642)( http://198.17.62.51/cgi- bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0357/B0166?74)
1785 Henry Bowling vs. Alex Nailor Mar term 1785, Case #17, page 199 in Washington County, Pennsylvania as "Fees L2-15-8 Stops those fees out of bonds sued for at the suit of WR. See App. Docket of June 1785". (643)
1785 Henry Bowling was on the 1785 tax list of Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was listed as married. (648)
1786 Henry Bowling is not on the 1786 tax list of Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. (1905)
Before Aug 3, 1786 Henry Bolen was killed by the Indians on his farm in Virginia (now KY)
July 14, 1791 Mrs. Sarah Bolin, widow of Henry Bolin, married July 14, 1791, James Dunbar in Nelson County, Kentucky. Bond July 8, 1791 signed by John Muir. Marriage was by Benjamin Lynn from Minister Return. James Dunbar was probably a teacher because prior to 1791 an estate paid him for schooling children. (523) There is a Lynnview (named after the Lynn/Linn family), Kentucky, just east of the airport in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. (7)
Henry Chronology
Henry Bolen was born about 1751 the son of James Thomas Bowling and Mary Overland.
Prior to July 8, 1773 Bought land in Westmoreland County, PA. (part that in 1781 became Washington County, PA. Bought of Sampson Beaver.
July 8, 1773 Sold above land to John Tennell. Henry did not have a wife at the time he sold land in 1773 else she would have had to sign too if that was the custom of the area. (7)
1774 In Dunmore's War. In Capt. Henry Hogehland's Company.
1774 Settled on the waters of Cross Creek, Yohogania County, VA. 400 acres. His brother Gerard settled here a year later. Now Jefferson Twp. since 1853, Washington County, PA. Prior Cross Creek Twp. formed in 1789, and Hopewell Twp. as original.
1777-1778 Davis Wilson sued Henry over debts.
1779 Fined according to law. Where? It is unclear exactly where.
June 24, 1780 Got 1,000 acres on Yellow Creek of Green River in VA (now KY). Locate. Garrett also got land that day. Same place.
1781-1783 Washington County, PA. Militia.
June 9, 1782 Sarah Bonham's possible husband Jacob Bonham, was killed with William Crawford at Sandusky (OH) massacre. 450 men recruited out of PA area. Was Henry one of those there?
July 1782 PA. Lawsuit brother Alexander Bowling, Edward Cook and James Fulton mentioned. James Fulton see #2084, page 411. Canoed on the Ohio River that month (July 1782) near Wheeling.
Feb 15, 1783 PA Sold land (fully describe) to Absolam Wells. Recorded May 30, 1783.
Sept 1783 Henry Bowling vs. Thomas Robertson, September 1783, Case #16, page 111 in Washington County, Pennsylvania as "capias Case C.C.B.B. Robert Grunlee tent L40 Cogn 30" Sept 1783 Con T. Scott 3L paid. Cont. Dec rule to declare. March term 1784 Plea Payment. Sept. non-solvit and issue. Rule for Trial. Cont July Cont same rule Sept Cont. S.R. Dec 1784. Judgement nisi Cafil 3 months Ext fi fa to Sept 1785". (643)
Apr 10, 1784 Jefferson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), 10 April 1784, West vs. Bolling, Jury trial. Jury is named and included Jonathan Clark, Daniel Brodhead, Robert George, Joseph Phelps, William Orr, Michael Hogg, John Jackson, James Ellio, Ralph Matson, James Stuart, James Harrod and Nathanel Braiden. Verdict for the Plaintiff and Judgment. (1197b)(1820)
May 7, 1784 Jefferson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), 7 May 1784, West vs. Bolling, Jury trial. Jury is Peter Muhenburg, George Rogers Clark, Richard Anderson, Charles Dabney, James Knox, John Lewis, George Walls, John North, Elias Savyham, Nathanel Welch, Jacob Vanmatre and Thomas Whitledge. Verdict for the Plaintiff and Judgment. (1197b)(1820)
June 1784 Washington County, PA. Henry sued William Price.
July 6, 1784 Henry Bowling, William Rowan, Samuel Wells and James Stephenson were appointed to do an appraisal of personal property of Thomas Talbot deceased, minute book of Jefferson County, Virginia, now Kentucky, July 6, 1784. (473)(666)(1197b)
July 7, 1784 KY Henry married Widow Sarah Bonham. Her possible husband Jacob Bonham was (bond) killed June 9, 1782 with William Crawford at Sandusky (OH) massacre.
Dec 25, 1784 KY Henry (Fh250) was born. His mother probably wasn't Sarah (-------)(Bonham) Bolen.
March 1785 Henry Bowling had a Yohogania County, Virginia land grant on 8 March 1785, 287 acres on McMahans Run. William West had 113 acres on the same day and same watercourse. (note that sum of two parcels equals 400 acres and it was said that Henry Bolling purchased his land from William West) Only two other grants were on McMahans Run and they were also on 8 March 1785. Jacobs Walker 300 acres and Thomas West 370 acres. All these McMahans Run grants were not in present day Washington County, Pennsylvania but in present day Brooke County, Cross Creek Township, West Virginia,-- Ohio County, Virginia, prior. Author Raymond M. Bell located the lands as not being in Washington County, Pennsylvania, as proven by land records at the State Library in Richmond, Virginia. (460)(642)( http://198.17.62.51/cgi- bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0357/B0166?74)
1785 Henry Bowling vs. Alex Nailor Mar term 1785, Case #17, page 199 in Washington County, Pennsylvania as "Fees L2-15-8 Stops those fees out of bonds sued for at the suit of WR. See App. Docket of June 1785". (643)
1785 Henry Bowling was on the 1785 tax list of Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was listed as married. (648)
1786 Henry Bowling is not on the 1786 tax list of Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. (1905)
Before Aug 3, 1786 Henry Bolen was killed by the Indians on his farm in Virginia (now KY)
July 14, 1791 Mrs. Sarah Bolin, widow of Henry Bolin, married July 14, 1791, James Dunbar in Nelson County, Kentucky. Bond July 8, 1791 signed by John Muir. Marriage was by Benjamin Lynn from Minister Return. James Dunbar was probably a teacher because prior to 1791 an estate paid him for schooling children. (523) There is a Lynnview (named after the Lynn/Linn family), Kentucky, just east of the airport in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. (7)
Henry Bolen was born about 1751 the son of James Thomas Bowling and Mary Overland.
Prior to July 8, 1773 Bought land in Westmoreland County, PA. (part that in 1781 became Washington County, PA. Bought of Sampson Beaver.
July 8, 1773 Sold above land to John Tennell. Henry did not have a wife at the time he sold land in 1773 else she would have had to sign too if that was the custom of the area. (7)
1774 In Dunmore's War. In Capt. Henry Hogehland's Company.
1774 Settled on the waters of Cross Creek, Yohogania County, VA. 400 acres. His brother Gerard settled here a year later. Now Jefferson Twp. since 1853, Washington County, PA. Prior Cross Creek Twp. formed in 1789, and Hopewell Twp. as original.
1777-1778 Davis Wilson sued Henry over debts.
1779 Fined according to law. Where? It is unclear exactly where.
June 24, 1780 Got 1,000 acres on Yellow Creek of Green River in VA (now KY). Locate. Garrett also got land that day. Same place.
1781-1783 Washington County, PA. Militia.
June 9, 1782 Sarah Bonham's possible husband Jacob Bonham, was killed with William Crawford at Sandusky (OH) massacre. 450 men recruited out of PA area. Was Henry one of those there?
July 1782 PA. Lawsuit brother Alexander Bowling, Edward Cook and James Fulton mentioned. James Fulton see #2084, page 411. Canoed on the Ohio River that month (July 1782) near Wheeling.
Feb 15, 1783 PA Sold land (fully describe) to Absolam Wells. Recorded May 30, 1783.
Sept 1783 Henry Bowling vs. Thomas Robertson, September 1783, Case #16, page 111 in Washington County, Pennsylvania as "capias Case C.C.B.B. Robert Grunlee tent L40 Cogn 30" Sept 1783 Con T. Scott 3L paid. Cont. Dec rule to declare. March term 1784 Plea Payment. Sept. non-solvit and issue. Rule for Trial. Cont July Cont same rule Sept Cont. S.R. Dec 1784. Judgement nisi Cafil 3 months Ext fi fa to Sept 1785". (643)
Apr 10, 1784 Jefferson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), 10 April 1784, West vs. Bolling, Jury trial. Jury is named and included Jonathan Clark, Daniel Brodhead, Robert George, Joseph Phelps, William Orr, Michael Hogg, John Jackson, James Ellio, Ralph Matson, James Stuart, James Harrod and Nathanel Braiden. Verdict for the Plaintiff and Judgment. (1197b)(1820)
May 7, 1784 Jefferson County, Kentucky (then Virginia), 7 May 1784, West vs. Bolling, Jury trial. Jury is Peter Muhenburg, George Rogers Clark, Richard Anderson, Charles Dabney, James Knox, John Lewis, George Walls, John North, Elias Savyham, Nathanel Welch, Jacob Vanmatre and Thomas Whitledge. Verdict for the Plaintiff and Judgment. (1197b)(1820)
June 1784 Washington County, PA. Henry sued William Price.
July 6, 1784 Henry Bowling, William Rowan, Samuel Wells and James Stephenson were appointed to do an appraisal of personal property of Thomas Talbot deceased, minute book of Jefferson County, Virginia, now Kentucky, July 6, 1784. (473)(666)(1197b)
July 7, 1784 KY Henry married Widow Sarah Bonham. Her possible husband Jacob Bonham was (bond) killed June 9, 1782 with William Crawford at Sandusky (OH) massacre.
Dec 25, 1784 KY Henry (Fh250) was born. His mother probably wasn't Sarah (-------)(Bonham) Bolen.
March 1785 Henry Bowling had a Yohogania County, Virginia land grant on 8 March 1785, 287 acres on McMahans Run. William West had 113 acres on the same day and same watercourse. (note that sum of two parcels equals 400 acres and it was said that Henry Bolling purchased his land from William West) Only two other grants were on McMahans Run and they were also on 8 March 1785. Jacobs Walker 300 acres and Thomas West 370 acres. All these McMahans Run grants were not in present day Washington County, Pennsylvania but in present day Brooke County, Cross Creek Township, West Virginia,-- Ohio County, Virginia, prior. Author Raymond M. Bell located the lands as not being in Washington County, Pennsylvania, as proven by land records at the State Library in Richmond, Virginia. (460)(642)( http://198.17.62.51/cgi- bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0357/B0166?74)
1785 Henry Bowling vs. Alex Nailor Mar term 1785, Case #17, page 199 in Washington County, Pennsylvania as "Fees L2-15-8 Stops those fees out of bonds sued for at the suit of WR. See App. Docket of June 1785". (643)
1785 Henry Bowling was on the 1785 tax list of Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was listed as married. (648)
1786 Henry Bowling is not on the 1786 tax list of Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. (1905)
Before Aug 3, 1786 Henry Bolen was killed by the Indians on his farm in Virginia (now KY)
July 14, 1791 Mrs. Sarah Bolin, widow of Henry Bolin, married July 14, 1791, James Dunbar in Nelson County, Kentucky. Bond July 8, 1791 signed by John Muir. Marriage was by Benjamin Lynn from Minister Return. James Dunbar was probably a teacher because prior to 1791 an estate paid him for schooling children. (523) There is a Lynnview (named after the Lynn/Linn family), Kentucky, just east of the airport in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. (7)
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