Excerpt from The History of the Bowles Family: Containing an Accurate Historical Lineage of the Bowles Family From the Norman Conquest to the Twentieth Century, With Historical and Genealogical Notes and Some Pedigrees of Bowles Families in Various Sections of the United States and Britain In tracing the Bowles Family the compiler has been content to follow carefully through the pages of history from the field of Hastings and the fens of Lincoln as they advance generation upon generation, in the peaceful homestead or far out on the faint frontier in the company of Wolfe or Washington, Crockett or Grant. The English Bowles pedigree is authentic and unbroken and is here printed for the first time. The destruction of records in the Peninsular counties of Virginia by the ravages of war made it impossible to construct an unbroken lineage of the Virginia branch. In all the generations from the Norman Conquest to the Twentieth Century the Bowles name has been represented in those crises which appeal to the honor and the patriotism of the best types of the English-speaking races. The lineage has been carefully traced, for though tradition has not been ignored, the authority is given for important facts, and these facts are sufficient to tinge the story with all the charm of romance. The reader will see the emergence of the Bowles name into history and how the bearers served the British empire in the centuries of the Middle Ages, and how in America their deeds of patriotism and the simple earnestness of their lives justify the most fervent pride in one of the "fine old American names." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.