Col. Johannes "John" Bowman (17 December 1738 – May 4, 1784) was an 18th-century American pioneer, colonial militia officer and sheriff, the first appointed in Lincoln County, Kentucky. In 1781 he also presided as a justice of the peace over the first county court held in Kentucky. The first county-lieutenant and military governor of Kentucky County during the American Revolutionary War, Col. Bowman also, served in the American Revolution, many times, second in command to General George Rogers Clark, during the Illinois Campaign, which, at the time, doubled the size of the United States.
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17 December 1738 Cedar Creek, Shenandoah Valley, Orange/Federick County, Virginia Colony
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Died |
1784 (aged 45) Bowman Station, Burgin, Lincoln/Mercer County, Kentucky, USA
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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