Lancaster, Robert Alexander, 1862- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 526
ight to many generations. THE EASTERN SHORE 4<)<) BOWMANS FOLLY * Edmund Bowman, who was a justice of Accomac in1663, a sheriff, burgess, and successively held the militarytitles of Captain and Major, built the old mansion houseknown as Bowmans Folly on Folly Creek. His daugh-ter Gertrude… … BOWMANS FOLLY, ACCOMAC COUNTY guished officer of the Virginia Continental Line, servingwith the rank of Colonel, afterwards a General of StateMilitia. The original house built by Edmund Bowman waspulled down and the present one built by General Cropperin 1815. Before the dwelling was built the…
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