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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:34:00 EST
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Subject:      Masters, Bowman, etc. - MSG #2
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SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION ON:  MASTERS and BOWMAN.  Geographic area of
interest Burke/Yancey/Mitchell County, North Carolina, from late 1700's to
present time.


This is message number 2 of the saga of the Brethren Masters and Bowman I'm
related to.

Item #2 - from a photocopy of an unpublished typed text that Joyce Masters
mailed to me in July 1991.  I think the author of the typed text is Susan
Masters Harp.  I don't know when or how she conducted this search for the
information stated in the typed text.  I suspect that the text was written
10-15 years ago.

"The Masters Family of Burke County, North Carolina"

     "One of the very early settlers who moved into the old Southwest
Territory from Northern Maryland via the Valley of Virginia was a German
Baptist Brethren (Tunker, Dunker, Dunkard) clergyman by the name of Henry
Masters.  Masters settled in the remote wilderness section of Northwest Burke
County that became a part of Yancey County in 1833, and fianlly Mitchell
County, North Carolina in 1861.  The Masters family were immediate
descendants of the wave of immigrants that fled Germany in search of
religious and plictical freedom and better lands in the New World.  This was
in the 1719-1729 era."  ****  As you can read from my first message sent
earlier today, Laura Deyton got her newspaper article text from Susan Masters
Harp's unpublished text.

Basically, the rest of the pages of unpublished typed text from Susan Harp is
what Laura Deyton used for her newspaper article that was published in 1990.
I have sent this information to you in e-mail message #1 on the Masters and
Bowman.  There is a credit at the bottom of the unpublished typed text which
reads:  "This information was sent to me by Charles Henry Edwards of
Maryville, Tennessee, in 1981."

I don't know who Charles Henry Edwards is or even if he is still alive today.
I guess I should try to track him down at least through the telephone
directory system.  I don't know who the "me" is that Mr. Edwards gave the
information to.  A good guess would be Susan Masters Harp.

If anyone has access to a recent telephone directory that contains listings
for Marysville, TN, I'd appreciate it if you'd drop me a line and let me know
if you find anyone named Charles Henry Edwards.

Item #3 - More unpublished typed text generated by Susan Masters Harp.  I
received a photocopy of this info in the same July 1991 letter from Joyce
Masters.


"The Bowman Family of Mitchell County, North Carolina"

     "Jacob Bowman and Daniel Bowman arrived in Philadelphia from Rotterdam
October 2, 1727, on the English ship Adventurer, John Davies, Ship Master.
The passenger list included 55 heads of families and 140 souls."

     "The journey began in German Palatinate on the Rhine in 1719; when due
to economic and political pressures, a large number of German Baptist
Brethren sect moved down the Rhine to Holland where eventually they obtained
passage to America in 1727 in the month of June."

     "The new immigrants settled in the Lancaster County area near the
Maryland-Pennsylvania state line.  Then some of them, including Jacob and
Daniel Bowman, moved with their families across the line into the Monacacy
River Valley of Northern Maryland, and later across the Potomac into the
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and settled in Franklin County.  Thomas Bowman,
a son of Jacob, pushed on with his family and settled near Knob Creek in East
Tennessee about 1790.  In 1797, Thomas Bowman and his son Jacob (grandson of
the German immigrant, Jacob) moved with their families over the Unaka Range
and settled in the mountain wilderness of Burke County, North Carolina."

     "According to the 1800 Burke County census, Jacob Bowman's family
consisted of himself, his wife and three children when he moved to Burke
County, two of whom were Charles and Hannah.  Another son, Joseph, was born
in Burke County in 1804.  There were probably other children."

     "Joseph married Sarah Street (?).  Their children were Elisha K., Jacob
W., William C., John W., David A., and Pearson.  Jacob W. Bowman became a
prominant attorney and politician.  He was elected to the North Carolina
lesgislature in 1860, and secured legislation creating Mitchell County in
1861."

     "Hannah Bowman married Henry Masters, Jr., also a Dunkard Brethren of
German parentage.  He was the son of Henry Masters who preceded the Bowmans
to Burke County in the 1780's."

     "Information obtained from:
'Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants in Pennsylvania' by Daniel Rupp.
'Pennsylvania German Pioneers' by Straslinger and Hinkle.
'The Brethren Family Almanac of 1890' in an article by Mathias Nead 'An East
Tennessee Brethren Preacher'.
'The Brethren in the Carolinas' by Roger Sappington."


-----  End of quoted material -------

Does this material give anyone a clue as to where I should search next?  Are
you familiar with any of the references that Susan Harp mentioned as part of
her search info?  This is too tantalizing a lead for me to just let it drop -
I'm just too new a genealogist to know how best to follow up in documenting
this information and hopefully adding to it.  Any help deeply appreciated.

Sincerely,

Susan Arday
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