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Series: 17 J (Volume 17)
: Mainly original papers, 1777-1786, of John Bowman (1738-1784) and a few papers of his brother Joseph (1752-1779). Commissioned in 1776 as colonel of Kentucky militia, John Bowman conducted an unsuccessful expedition into Indian territory in Ohio in 1779 and in the following year was appointed sheriff of Lincoln County, Kentucky. Joseph Bowman served as major of Clark's Illinois Regiment until his death in Vincennes. For the period 1778-1780 this volume contains muster rolls, payrolls, and provision rolls relating to companies commanded by Joseph Bowman, John Boyle, Hugh Gary [Garry], William Harrod, John Holden, Benjamin Logan, John Logan, Richard May, and Isaac Ruddell. Lists of tithables compiled for Lincoln County in 1783 itemize white and black residents. Business papers, 1777-1783, of Hite & Bowman & Company, a land and stock firm in which the Bowman were in partnership with Isaac Hite, contain lists of subscribers and claimants to Kentucky lands. John Bowman's commission as sheriff signed by Thomas Jefferson, numerous miscellaneous accounts and undated military documents, correspondence by Draper concerning his purchase of the Bowman manuscripts in 1864, and a few letters about the Bowman family and about Ebenezer Chorn (1752-1828) are also filed in this volume.
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