Carrier v. Bowman
The file of documents below holds transcriptions of original chancery court papers relating to a suit against the first John Bowman's sons George and John brought by three of his sons-in-laws and daughters over his 1816 will.
The original case documents are in the Augusta County Court House in Staunton, Virginia, and hold much of interest about the early Bowman family, their neighborhood, and their times. They are transcribed as closely to the original documents as possible. No attempt was made to correct the spelling or grammar of the originals and every attempt has been made to show the corrections made on the original documents. The philosophy behind this treatment is that the original spelling and grammar tells us something of how the people involved in the creation of these documents thought and spoke.