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John and Lily McLIHaney Bowen married in 1730. For a time they lived in Frederickson, Maryland, where they purchased slaves, as soon as slaves were introduced into the colonies, but the Quakers were opposed to slavery. Lily persuaded John to move to Augusta County, Virginia, a frontier settlement.

John and Lily were both intelligent and industrious and they were people of good character, who became leaders in heir community.

There are many references to the Bowens in the early histories of Virginia. As the state grew, the boundaries of the counties changed, so that Augusta County, came from Orange County in 1738 --- Botetourt County came from Augusta county in 1769 Botetourt County was discontinued, becoming Fincastle Co and Washington Co in 1776.

Lily (MclIhaney) Bowen must have been born about 1713 in Ireland, as she is noted as being 17 years old when she married in 1730.

Lily had 13 children (from about 1732 to 1748) 8 sons and 5 daughters.

When her husband John Bowen died in 1761, their rigors of pioneering in a wildness, Indians were an ever present danger. In those early days John and Lily lost two son in laws, Issac Cunningham, husband of their daughter Jane and James McFerran, husband of their daughter Agnes and
their son John Bowen was also killed by Indians.

Their first child Nancy Buchanan died in 1759 and her widowed husband, Archibald Buchanan married Agnes McFerran, whose husband had been killed by Indians, another son, Moses Bowen died in 1761, from wounds received in the French and Indian War.