Lilly MCILHANEY b. 1705 , Chester, Pennsylvania, USA d. Between 4 Apr 1780 and 20 Jun 1780 , Augusta, Virginia, USA: An Armstrong & A Heffernan

1705 - 1780 (75 years)

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Name	Lilly MCILHANEY
Born	1705	, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender	Female
Will	4 Apr 1780	, Washington, Virginia, USA
Lillie Bowen
Will Book 1, p. 73 "I, Lilly Bowen of Washington County and Commonwealth of Virginia, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament and therefore first of all do recommend my soul to Got who gave it, and my body to the earth to be decently interred, no doubting but I shall receive it again at the general resurrection by the Almighty power of God. - - - As to my worldly goods I will and desire that they be disposed of in the following manner. - - - I give and bequeath to my son Henry Bowen at my death my negro wench Jean, also my young black mare. To my sons Reese, William and Robert Bowen the sum of five shillings each, they having had their full share of their fathers Estate already. - - - To my daughter Agnes Buchanan, my young white mare, my bed and bed cloaths, also one third part of my pewter, in which is to be included, two large basons, also a third part of the principal and interest of my Loan Office Certificate of one hundred pounds.- - - To my daughter Jean Looney, another third part, and the remaining third part of sd certificate to my son Charles. - - - To my son Arthur Bowen a moiety or that part of the Crab Orchard Tract of Land whereon he now lives, the dividing line between him , and his brother Charles, to be run as they have already agreed on. - - - To my son Charles Bowen the remaining, or that part of the said tract of land whereon he now lives, and my negro man called Wyatt, and a negro fellow called Jack, left him by his father, and of which he is now wrongfully dispossessed of. Also together with all the remainder of my personal estate, not herein bequeathed, of which I may be in possession of at my death, who is to depay my funeral expenses and pay all my just debts. And I do hereby constitute and appoint my sons, Henry Bowen and Charles Bowen, Executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and disannulling all former wills and testaments by me made. - - - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty. Lilly XX Bowen (Seal) her mark Signed and sealed in presence of Arthur Campbell David Campbell Eleanor Maxwell At a court held for Washington County the 20th of June 1780 this last will and testament of Lilly Bowen decd was exhibited in Court and proved by the oaths of Arthur Campbell, David Campbell, and Eleaner Maxfield and ordered to be recorded - - Teste - - Jno. Campbell C.W.C. >From the Augusta County Court Records, Order Book VII, p. 90 "Lilly Bowen qualifies admx. of Moses Bowen. Maundling and Philipina Kinsley to be bound out. Rebecca Roberts, a mulatto, given her freedom."
Died	Between 4 Apr 1780 and 20 Jun 1780	, Augusta, Virginia, USA
Probate	20 Jun 1780	, Washington, Virginia, USA
will of Lillie Bowen
Buried	Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, USA
Person ID	I3138	An Armstrong & A Heffernan
Last Modified	16 Mar 2016

Father	Henry MCILHANEY, b. Abt 1673, Ballylanders, Limerick, Munster, Ireland , d. Abt 1718 (Age ~ 45 years)
Mother	Jane MCGEEHAN, b. Abt 1678, Ballylanders, Limerick, Munster, Ireland , d. Deceased
Family ID	F6193	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family John BOWEN, b. 1705, , Chester, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 19 May 1761, , Augusta, Virginia, USA (Age 56 years)

Married Abt 1731 [1]

Children

	1. Nancy BOWEN, b. 1732, , Orange, Virginia, USA , d. 1757, , Augusta, Virginia, USA (Age 25 years)
	2. Agnes BOWEN, b. 1734, , , Virginia, USA , d. 1803, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA (Age 69 years)
	3. Capt John BOWEN, Jr., b. 21 May 1735, d. Bef Aug 1768, , Augusta, Virginia, USA (Age 33 years)
	4. Reese BOWEN, b. 1737, , Rockingham, Virginia, USA , d. 7 Oct 1780 (Age 43 years)
	5. Henry BOWEN, b. 1738, , Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. 1808, , Grainger, Tennessee, USA (Age 70 years)
	6. Rebecca BOWEN, b. 1740, , Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. Deceased
	7. Robert P BOWEN, b. 1740, d. 1817 (Age 77 years)
	8. Capt William R BOWEN, b. 1742, , Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. 15 Dec 1804, , Sumner, Tennessee, USA (Age 62 years)
	9. Arthur BOWEN, b. 17 Jan 1744, , Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. 1816, , Washington, Virginia, USA (Age 71 years)
	10. Jean BOWEN, b. Abt 1746, , Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. Deceased
	11. Jane BOWEN, b. Abt 1746, , Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. Aft 1768 (Age ~ 23 years)
	12. Mary BOWEN, b. 8 Apr 1748, , Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. 1820, , Lincoln, Tennessee, USA (Age 71 years)
	13. Charles BOWEN, b. 1749, , Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. 1833 (Age 84 years)
	14. Moses BOWEN, b. 1754, , Augusta, Virginia, USA , d. 1774, , , Virginia, USA (Age 20 years)

Last Modified 16 Mar 2016

Family ID F1539 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

or born in Ireland.
Although John Bowen, Sr., was dead when the Revolutionary War was fought, Lily continued the operation of her plantation, furnishing the military with food and supplies.
Lily McIlhaney Bowen is a Patriot of both the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution."The Scotch- Irish in America" First Congress 1889 Held at Columbia, TN, May 8 - 11, 1889 Robert Clarke & Co. Publishers
>From an address by Rev. D. C. Kelley, D.D. "Scotch-Irish of Tennessee"
From Kegley's "Virginia Frontier", p. 366-- "From different accounts of the family we learn that Moses Bowen and Rebecca Reese, the parents of John Bowen, came from Wales, and that John married Lily McIlhaney and lived for a while in Maryland before coming to Virginia. The earliest record of John Bowen in Augusta Co. is a Bond to Col. Patton dated 15th April 1748. This was for land in the upper James River surveyed in 1747--the family first settled in a tract known as the "Buckeye Bottom"---below present "Clifton Forge." As the Farther Southwest was opened for settlement in 1779, the Bowens generally migrated to the Holston and Clinch river valleys. Lily Bowen purchased from Patton's Executors 800 acres lying along the Great Road on the middle Fork of Holston, and Rees Bowen, after living on Roanoke a while settled at the Maiden Spring on the Clinch. It is said the first missionaries to the Holston settlement held services in Mrs. Lily Bowen's ball room."
Harman in his "Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia" p. 341, says: "The Bowens of Tazewell County trace their ancestry to Moses and Rebecca (Reese) Bowen, hiw wife, who immigrated to this country with a large company from Wales about 1698, and settled in Massachusetts, from whence they later removed to Montgomery County, PA, where they spent the remainder of their days. A branch of this family came south at an early day, settling first in Deleware, then in Western Maryland and Northern Virginia."

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia
Volume III, page 63
WILL BOOKS
Page 37.--20th May, 1761. Lilley Bowen's bond (with John and Wm. Mathews) as administratrix of Moses Bowen.

Lilly lists 8 of her children in her will. John, Nancy, and Moses preceded her in death. I'm not entirely sure that Rebecca, Jane, and Mary were her children. There was a Rebecca Roberts who was a mulatto slave, possibly Moses' daughter.

Sources
[S868] Historic Sumner County (TN), Cisco, Jay Guy, (1909, Folk-Keelin Printing Company, Nashville, Tennessee), pg 231.
... married Lily McIlhaney and ...