If you have an actual photocopy of the original page the abstract below is
on, would you please tell me if the Bowles in John Bowles is Bowles or
Bowler? Is anyone on the list researching this John Bowles or Bowler?

"Page 40 - Joseph Cole, Jr...400 ac...Commissioners Certificate...on the
south fork of Holstein river and both sides of said river...Beginning corner
with John Bowles land...June 17, 1782 - Joseph Cole, assignee of W. M.
Pruitt...400 ac on the south fork bounded by Mathew Bishop & John Bowles,
includes improvements, actual settlement made in 1771...August 18, 1780"

This abstract was copyrighted by Rhonda Robertson 1998 and was found on this
URL:

http://www.ls.net/~newriver/va/washsurv.htm

The name of the abstracts is The Washington County Surveyors Record
1781-1797.

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