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James Bowser of Nansemond Co. Virginia

By genealogy.com user July 29, 2001 at 05:12:04

Looking for information on James Bowser of Nansemond County Virginia who fought with the 1st Virginia Regiment during the Revolutionary War.Bowser was the only African-American from Nansemond County to fight in the war.Bowser returned to Nansemond Co in 1783.Originally,I thought he was given several hundred acres of land by a former slave master,but I now know that in 1834 he and his family was given a land bounty warrant from the Commonwealth of Virginia.Bowser lived around the Driver/Sleepy Hole District of Nansemond County.All of his descendants were free AFrican-Americans.Anyone withinformation on James Bowser or his descendants,please email Geneen at
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