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219. James BOWLBY Sr. ⁽³⁾⁽¹⁴¹⁵⁾⁽¹⁴¹⁶⁾⁽⁵⁾⁽⁶⁾⁽⁷⁾⁽⁸⁾ was born on 27 Sep 1765 in near Mansfield, Sussex County, New Jersey.⁽¹⁴¹⁷⁾⁽¹⁴¹⁸⁾ Year of birth in DAR records is noted as 1765. He signed a will on 28 Mar 1842. This will was transcribed by one of James Bowlby's descendants, Susan (Ulfers) Campbell 11/1/01

A will of personal property, I James Bowlby of Monongalia County State of Virginia do hereby make my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say, 1st I give to my daughter Williampee Smith in Ohio one hundred and fifty dollars, 2dly I give unto my daughter in law Elizabeth Bowlby in Ohio one hundred and fifty dollars and unto the children of Samuel C. Bowlby deceased ten dollars, 3dly I give unto my son Robert L. Bowlby ten dollars, 4thly I give unto Rebecca Garrison and Lydia Bowlby daughters of Robert L. Bowlby Seventy five dollars each. 5thly I give unto my daughter Caty Smyth ten dollars, 6thly I give unto Lydia and Maria Smyth daughters of Caty Smyth Seventy five dollars each. 7th I give unto the children of my daughter Rebecca Lazzell ten dollars to be divided equally among them and paid as they come of age. 8thly I give and desire that Williampee Smyth and Elizabeth Bowlby in Ohio may have what clothes I may leave and what their mother Lydia Bowlby left, 9th I give unto my son John H. Bowlby all the money and property that may remain of my estate after the money is (colected?) and the above named heirs paid their portion, and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my son John H. Bowlby Executor of this my last will and testament here by revoking all other or former wills or testement by me hereto fore made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 28th day of March in the year 1842.
James Bowlby (Seal)
Signed sealed published and declared as and for the last will and testament of the above named Jas. Bowlby in presence of us.
John Stephens
Attest
George Alexander
At a court held for Monongalia County June term 1842 a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of James Bowlby dec'd was this day produced in court proven by the oath of George Alexander one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and by proof of said George Alexander who swears to the hand writing of John Stephens the other subscribing witness who is out of the county in parts unknown the said Alexander having also seen the said Stephens subscribe his name to said will.
A copy Teste: W. T. Willey, Clerk He died on 28 May 1842 in Monogalia County, Virginia, now West Virginia.⁽¹⁴¹⁹⁾ Wiley's HISTORY OF MONONGALIA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA states that James
was educated as a lawyer in New Jersey. He inherited a sixth part of
his grandfather's lands in 1782. Probably because of his
grandfather's bequest, and the fact that James was established in
Virginia by 1815, his father's will left James a minimal bequest of ]
'twenty dollare."...in full of his Claim."

He was married to Lydia CARHART about 1787 in Mansfield, Sussex County, New Jersey.⁽¹⁴²⁰⁾⁽¹⁴²¹⁾⁽¹⁴²²⁾⁽¹⁴²³⁾⁽¹⁴²⁴⁾⁽¹⁴²⁵⁾ The following is a quotation from Wiley's history concerning James
Bowlby: "In 1797, he came with his family to the Forks of Cheat, and
remained there until 1798, when he crossed Bald Hill in the first
wagon ever driven across that country, and settled on the land which
he previously bought from James Polloc, on the headwaters of
Robinson's Run." The north line ofJames' property is said to have
lain along the Mason Dixon Line. It was here that James and Lydia
reared seven children. The spring of 1842 was a fateful season for
James' family; on 12 March, his wife died; on 25 March, his oldest
daughter died; on 28 March, James wrote his will, and died two months
later.

It has also been said that most of his children settled in Richland
County, Ohio. Lydia CARHART⁽³⁾⁽¹⁴²⁶⁾⁽⁵⁾⁽⁶⁾⁽⁷⁾⁽⁸⁾ was born on 28 Oct 1769 in Sussex County, New Jersey.⁽¹⁴²⁷⁾ She died on 12 Mar 1842 in Monongalia County, West Virginia.⁽¹⁴²⁸⁾ Lydia Carhart's genealogy is well documented in GENEALOGICAL RECORD OF
THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS CARHART OF CORNWALL ENGLAND by Mary E.
Dusenberg. Her family is delineated also in Virkus' ABRIDGED
COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY, Volume III. She was a daughter of
Cornelius and Williampe (Coleman) Carhart. James BOWLBY Sr. and Lydia CARHART had the following children:

+478 i. Samuel Coleman BOWLBY.
+479 ii. Rebecca BOWLBY.
+480 iii. Williampe Carhart BOWLBY.
+481 iv. Robert Lanning BOWLBY.
+482 v. John Herod BOWLBY.
+483 vi. Catherine BOWLBY.
484 vii. James R. BOWLBY Jr.⁽³⁾⁽⁵⁾⁽⁶⁾⁽⁷⁾⁽⁸⁾ was born on 6 Nov 1803 in Monongalia County, Virginia.⁽¹⁴²⁹⁾ He died on 29 Apr 1823.⁽¹⁴³⁰⁾ He was not married.