12. Robert Chinn Bowman, the son of Isaac and Mary Jane Chinn Bowman, was
Born 1809 at the old Fort Bowman stone home of Shenandoah County, VA. It is
believed that Robert took possession of some of his father’s inheritance about the time of his fathers’ death in 1826 and before the estate distribution was completed. It is known he had a home on the road from the main highway to Mount Pleasant that he owned unto his death.
Sometime before the 1840’s Robert relocated to Loudoun County, Virginia and acquired a farm of several hundred acres. It was located near Mountville, which is in the center of the county and a rural area. This location is believed to have come about because of his mother’s Chinn family. Mary Jane Chinn Bowman, his mother, was a small child at the death of her father and her uncle’s (Thomas Chinn) family of Loudoun County cherished her.
In Sept 22 1841 Robert married Phillipa Glascock {aka Hannah P.L.}, in Loudoun County, VA. She was born about 1820 to Uriel and Nancy Glascock who were established farmers of the same county and were next door neighbors of Robert. Robert was to remain in this county location through his life.
{An extensive court case involves Robert vs Uriel Glascock}
In Isaac Bowman’s will he left to Robert, his son, a certain parcel of land in Shenandoah County VA containing 118 acres, which was the division of a 231 acre tract he shared with his brother, Isaac S Bowman. Its location was the northern portion tract of the original Fort Bowman plantation. His brother’s portion was the old family homestead, Mount Pleasant, while Roberts was on the north side of the entrance road to Mount Pleasant. Both these divisions of the Bowman family plantation were recorded in 1843.
Robert and his wife Phillipa are noted without children in the 1850 census of Loudoun County, VA, (located near her parents). Robert was a farmer of some affluence as there were 18 slaves working his farm. He is again enumerated in 1860 at the same county location with $29,300 of real estate, $30,700 of personal property including 23 slaves. At this enumerating his wife is no longer with him and believed to have deceased - her parents are still near by farming. From the wealth Robert had accumulated it is apparent that he received substantial financial assets from his fathers estate.
During the Civil War Loudoun county voted secession and was the scene of numerous skirmishes. The Union Army of the Potomac moved through the county in 1863. In 1864 the burning of fields, barns along with seizure of animals, crops and slaves devastated this area.
In the 1870 census of Loudoun Co., VA, Robert was still working his farm and was enumerated with a Walter Craven, age 22, as Farm labor. His real estate is now valued at $24,030 with $7,225 in personal property. The freeing of slavery with the civil war is quite apparent in the diminished value of his personal property.
At the age of 65 Robert died, September 1874, in Loudoun County, VA, and is buried in the Charon Cemetery, at Middlebuug, VA, where others of the Chinn family are also buried.
Robert Bowman’s will was filed 1874, in Loudoun County, VA. With no
living descendants he left his Shenandoah County VA property to his sister,
Rebecca Hite the wife of Charles Hite, for life and then to her children. This
Property adjoined that of old Mount Pleasant and now the Isaac S. Bowman family homestead. It is the same property noted as occupied by C. B. Boyer (Rebecca’s son-in-law) in the 1885 map of Shenandoah County and is located on the north side of the entrance road to Mount Pleasant. Rebecca was living with the Boyer’s at this time. Robert also bequeathed a lot, of about 40 acres of land, to his former slave Mary Beny and an additional $2000 in money. The land Robert occupied (containing 200 acres plus another tract of 200 acres) he left to the children of his brother John H. Bowman and the children of his deceased sister Elizabeth Fauntleroy. The balance of his real and personal property he left to the children of his "respected" sisters and brother namely Rebecca Hite, Elizabeth Fauntleroy and John H. Bowman.
The lack of acknowledgment in Robert's will for other siblings and from
comments in other family correspondence might lead one to believe that Robert
Bowman may not have been on the best of terms with some siblings; it is most evident that he had concern for his sister’s (Rebecca Hite) livelihood as she had been left as a single mother to care for her children. An extant letter dated April 6, 1891 from Roberts’s estate administrator notes forwarding money to his heirs.
/R. Jobes
Born 1809 at the old Fort Bowman stone home of Shenandoah County, VA. It is
believed that Robert took possession of some of his father’s inheritance about the time of his fathers’ death in 1826 and before the estate distribution was completed. It is known he had a home on the road from the main highway to Mount Pleasant that he owned unto his death.
Sometime before the 1840’s Robert relocated to Loudoun County, Virginia and acquired a farm of several hundred acres. It was located near Mountville, which is in the center of the county and a rural area. This location is believed to have come about because of his mother’s Chinn family. Mary Jane Chinn Bowman, his mother, was a small child at the death of her father and her uncle’s (Thomas Chinn) family of Loudoun County cherished her.
In Sept 22 1841 Robert married Phillipa Glascock {aka Hannah P.L.}, in Loudoun County, VA. She was born about 1820 to Uriel and Nancy Glascock who were established farmers of the same county and were next door neighbors of Robert. Robert was to remain in this county location through his life.
{An extensive court case involves Robert vs Uriel Glascock}
In Isaac Bowman’s will he left to Robert, his son, a certain parcel of land in Shenandoah County VA containing 118 acres, which was the division of a 231 acre tract he shared with his brother, Isaac S Bowman. Its location was the northern portion tract of the original Fort Bowman plantation. His brother’s portion was the old family homestead, Mount Pleasant, while Roberts was on the north side of the entrance road to Mount Pleasant. Both these divisions of the Bowman family plantation were recorded in 1843.
Robert and his wife Phillipa are noted without children in the 1850 census of Loudoun County, VA, (located near her parents). Robert was a farmer of some affluence as there were 18 slaves working his farm. He is again enumerated in 1860 at the same county location with $29,300 of real estate, $30,700 of personal property including 23 slaves. At this enumerating his wife is no longer with him and believed to have deceased - her parents are still near by farming. From the wealth Robert had accumulated it is apparent that he received substantial financial assets from his fathers estate.
During the Civil War Loudoun county voted secession and was the scene of numerous skirmishes. The Union Army of the Potomac moved through the county in 1863. In 1864 the burning of fields, barns along with seizure of animals, crops and slaves devastated this area.
In the 1870 census of Loudoun Co., VA, Robert was still working his farm and was enumerated with a Walter Craven, age 22, as Farm labor. His real estate is now valued at $24,030 with $7,225 in personal property. The freeing of slavery with the civil war is quite apparent in the diminished value of his personal property.
At the age of 65 Robert died, September 1874, in Loudoun County, VA, and is buried in the Charon Cemetery, at Middlebuug, VA, where others of the Chinn family are also buried.
Robert Bowman’s will was filed 1874, in Loudoun County, VA. With no
living descendants he left his Shenandoah County VA property to his sister,
Rebecca Hite the wife of Charles Hite, for life and then to her children. This
Property adjoined that of old Mount Pleasant and now the Isaac S. Bowman family homestead. It is the same property noted as occupied by C. B. Boyer (Rebecca’s son-in-law) in the 1885 map of Shenandoah County and is located on the north side of the entrance road to Mount Pleasant. Rebecca was living with the Boyer’s at this time. Robert also bequeathed a lot, of about 40 acres of land, to his former slave Mary Beny and an additional $2000 in money. The land Robert occupied (containing 200 acres plus another tract of 200 acres) he left to the children of his brother John H. Bowman and the children of his deceased sister Elizabeth Fauntleroy. The balance of his real and personal property he left to the children of his "respected" sisters and brother namely Rebecca Hite, Elizabeth Fauntleroy and John H. Bowman.
The lack of acknowledgment in Robert's will for other siblings and from
comments in other family correspondence might lead one to believe that Robert
Bowman may not have been on the best of terms with some siblings; it is most evident that he had concern for his sister’s (Rebecca Hite) livelihood as she had been left as a single mother to care for her children. An extant letter dated April 6, 1891 from Roberts’s estate administrator notes forwarding money to his heirs.
/R. Jobes
12. Robert Chinn Bowman, the son of Isaac and Mary Jane Chinn Bowman, was
Born 1809 at the old Fort Bowman stone home of Shenandoah County, VA. It is
believed that Robert took possession of some of his father’s inheritance about the time of his fathers’ death in 1826 and before the estate distribution was completed. It is known he had a home on the road from the main highway to Mount Pleasant that he owned unto his death.
Sometime before the 1840’s Robert relocated to Loudoun County, Virginia and acquired a farm of several hundred acres. It was located near Mountville, which is in the center of the county and a rural area. This location is believed to have come about because of his mother’s Chinn family. Mary Jane Chinn Bowman, his mother, was a small child at the death of her father and her uncle’s (Thomas Chinn) family of Loudoun County cherished her.
In Sept 22 1841 Robert married Phillipa Glascock {aka Hannah P.L.}, in Loudoun County, VA. She was born about 1820 to Uriel and Nancy Glascock who were established farmers of the same county and were next door neighbors of Robert. Robert was to remain in this county location through his life.
{An extensive court case involves Robert vs Uriel Glascock}
In Isaac Bowman’s will he left to Robert, his son, a certain parcel of land in Shenandoah County VA containing 118 acres, which was the division of a 231 acre tract he shared with his brother, Isaac S Bowman. Its location was the northern portion tract of the original Fort Bowman plantation. His brother’s portion was the old family homestead, Mount Pleasant, while Roberts was on the north side of the entrance road to Mount Pleasant. Both these divisions of the Bowman family plantation were recorded in 1843.
Robert and his wife Phillipa are noted without children in the 1850 census of Loudoun County, VA, (located near her parents). Robert was a farmer of some affluence as there were 18 slaves working his farm. He is again enumerated in 1860 at the same county location with $29,300 of real estate, $30,700 of personal property including 23 slaves. At this enumerating his wife is no longer with him and believed to have deceased - her parents are still near by farming. From the wealth Robert had accumulated it is apparent that he received substantial financial assets from his fathers estate.
During the Civil War Loudoun county voted secession and was the scene of numerous skirmishes. The Union Army of the Potomac moved through the county in 1863. In 1864 the burning of fields, barns along with seizure of animals, crops and slaves devastated this area.
In the 1870 census of Loudoun Co., VA, Robert was still working his farm and was enumerated with a Walter Craven, age 22, as Farm labor. His real estate is now valued at $24,030 with $7,225 in personal property. The freeing of slavery with the civil war is quite apparent in the diminished value of his personal property.
At the age of 65 Robert died, September 1874, in Loudoun County, VA, and is buried in the Charon Cemetery, at Middlebuug, VA, where others of the Chinn family are also buried.
Robert Bowman’s will was filed 1874, in Loudoun County, VA. With no
living descendants he left his Shenandoah County VA property to his sister,
Rebecca Hite the wife of Charles Hite, for life and then to her children. This
Property adjoined that of old Mount Pleasant and now the Isaac S. Bowman family homestead. It is the same property noted as occupied by C. B. Boyer (Rebecca’s son-in-law) in the 1885 map of Shenandoah County and is located on the north side of the entrance road to Mount Pleasant. Rebecca was living with the Boyer’s at this time. Robert also bequeathed a lot, of about 40 acres of land, to his former slave Mary Beny and an additional $2000 in money. The land Robert occupied (containing 200 acres plus another tract of 200 acres) he left to the children of his brother John H. Bowman and the children of his deceased sister Elizabeth Fauntleroy. The balance of his real and personal property he left to the children of his "respected" sisters and brother namely Rebecca Hite, Elizabeth Fauntleroy and John H. Bowman.
The lack of acknowledgment in Robert's will for other siblings and from
comments in other family correspondence might lead one to believe that Robert
Bowman may not have been on the best of terms with some siblings; it is most evident that he had concern for his sister’s (Rebecca Hite) livelihood as she had been left as a single mother to care for her children. An extant letter dated April 6, 1891 from Roberts’s estate administrator notes forwarding money to his heirs.
/R. Jobes
Born 1809 at the old Fort Bowman stone home of Shenandoah County, VA. It is
believed that Robert took possession of some of his father’s inheritance about the time of his fathers’ death in 1826 and before the estate distribution was completed. It is known he had a home on the road from the main highway to Mount Pleasant that he owned unto his death.
Sometime before the 1840’s Robert relocated to Loudoun County, Virginia and acquired a farm of several hundred acres. It was located near Mountville, which is in the center of the county and a rural area. This location is believed to have come about because of his mother’s Chinn family. Mary Jane Chinn Bowman, his mother, was a small child at the death of her father and her uncle’s (Thomas Chinn) family of Loudoun County cherished her.
In Sept 22 1841 Robert married Phillipa Glascock {aka Hannah P.L.}, in Loudoun County, VA. She was born about 1820 to Uriel and Nancy Glascock who were established farmers of the same county and were next door neighbors of Robert. Robert was to remain in this county location through his life.
{An extensive court case involves Robert vs Uriel Glascock}
In Isaac Bowman’s will he left to Robert, his son, a certain parcel of land in Shenandoah County VA containing 118 acres, which was the division of a 231 acre tract he shared with his brother, Isaac S Bowman. Its location was the northern portion tract of the original Fort Bowman plantation. His brother’s portion was the old family homestead, Mount Pleasant, while Roberts was on the north side of the entrance road to Mount Pleasant. Both these divisions of the Bowman family plantation were recorded in 1843.
Robert and his wife Phillipa are noted without children in the 1850 census of Loudoun County, VA, (located near her parents). Robert was a farmer of some affluence as there were 18 slaves working his farm. He is again enumerated in 1860 at the same county location with $29,300 of real estate, $30,700 of personal property including 23 slaves. At this enumerating his wife is no longer with him and believed to have deceased - her parents are still near by farming. From the wealth Robert had accumulated it is apparent that he received substantial financial assets from his fathers estate.
During the Civil War Loudoun county voted secession and was the scene of numerous skirmishes. The Union Army of the Potomac moved through the county in 1863. In 1864 the burning of fields, barns along with seizure of animals, crops and slaves devastated this area.
In the 1870 census of Loudoun Co., VA, Robert was still working his farm and was enumerated with a Walter Craven, age 22, as Farm labor. His real estate is now valued at $24,030 with $7,225 in personal property. The freeing of slavery with the civil war is quite apparent in the diminished value of his personal property.
At the age of 65 Robert died, September 1874, in Loudoun County, VA, and is buried in the Charon Cemetery, at Middlebuug, VA, where others of the Chinn family are also buried.
Robert Bowman’s will was filed 1874, in Loudoun County, VA. With no
living descendants he left his Shenandoah County VA property to his sister,
Rebecca Hite the wife of Charles Hite, for life and then to her children. This
Property adjoined that of old Mount Pleasant and now the Isaac S. Bowman family homestead. It is the same property noted as occupied by C. B. Boyer (Rebecca’s son-in-law) in the 1885 map of Shenandoah County and is located on the north side of the entrance road to Mount Pleasant. Rebecca was living with the Boyer’s at this time. Robert also bequeathed a lot, of about 40 acres of land, to his former slave Mary Beny and an additional $2000 in money. The land Robert occupied (containing 200 acres plus another tract of 200 acres) he left to the children of his brother John H. Bowman and the children of his deceased sister Elizabeth Fauntleroy. The balance of his real and personal property he left to the children of his "respected" sisters and brother namely Rebecca Hite, Elizabeth Fauntleroy and John H. Bowman.
The lack of acknowledgment in Robert's will for other siblings and from
comments in other family correspondence might lead one to believe that Robert
Bowman may not have been on the best of terms with some siblings; it is most evident that he had concern for his sister’s (Rebecca Hite) livelihood as she had been left as a single mother to care for her children. An extant letter dated April 6, 1891 from Roberts’s estate administrator notes forwarding money to his heirs.
/R. Jobes
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