Tennessee was admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796. It was initially part of North Carolina.
Jacob Bowman was born about 1745 in Pennsylvania. He married Susannah Millhouse. They moved to Rockingham County, Virginia.
Jacob and Susannah's children included:
Jacob Bowman (1769),
Catherine Bowman Miller (1770, married John Miller),
John Jacob Bowman (1773),
Mary Elizabeth Bowman (1775)
David Bowman (1777),
Daniel Bowman (1781), and
Joseph Bowman (1784, married Mary Hoss and Christiana Beahm).
Jacob bought a tract of land in Eastern Tennessee about 1783. This land was on Boones Creek, Washington County, near Floursville.
Jacob was died in 1789 when he was returning to Virginia from a trip to Tennessee.
In 1795, Susannah married Isaac Hammer. Isaac was a minister in the Church of the Brethren.
Some of Jacob's children moved to Washington County, Tennessee.
Rockingham County, Virginia was established in 1778 from Augusta County. European settlement began in the 1740s.
Boones Creek is a tributary of the Watauga River.
John Jacob Bowman (1773) married Eve Elizabeth Steele. Elizabeth was the daughter of Catherine Wine and Christopher Steele.
Jacob and Catherine's children included:
Catherine Bowman (1796, married Jacob Klepper),
Joseph Bowman (1805, married Mahala Carr daughter of Richard Carr),
Jacob Bowman (1806),
Isaac Bowman (1806, married Agnes Young),
Rebecca Bowman (1808, married William Meed or Nead),
Daniel Bowman (1810, married Elizabeth Miller),
John Bowman (1812, Eliza Miller),
Jacob Bowman (1814, married Sallie Campbell),
Benjamin Bowman (1815, married Eliza Gates),
Samuel Bowman (1818, married Margaret Hale)
Madison M.Bowman (1820, married Isabell Campbell)
Susan Bowman (married John Klepper)
MaryBowman (married Jacob Hysinger)
American pioneers migrated west to settle areas not previously inhabited by European Americans.
