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Mattaponi (John Bowie Jr. House)
Mattaponi, also known as the John Bowie Jr. House, is a historic home in Croom, Maryland, built c. 1820 on the foundation of an earlier house dating to the 1730s, three miles northwest of Nottingham, Prince George's County, Maryland. John Bowie, Sr., who emigrated to colonial Maryland in 1705 from Scotland, purchased a large tract of land called "Brooke's Reserve" about two miles west of Nottingham for a son, Captain William Bowie, when the son was twenty-one years old. A large brick house was erected there that was called ''Mattaponi'', the name of the nearest creek and a Native American word meaning ''"meeting of the waters"''. The tract of land later became known by the name for the house. The current house is the second, being built on the foundation of the first. A tribe by the name Mattaponi resided in what would become colonial Virginia. The Bowie family had extensive landholdings in the county and were important politically. They settled in and near Nottingham during ...
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Croom, Maryland
Croom is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Southern Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 2,720. Croom largely consists of former tobacco farms and forests converted to Washington bedroom subdivisions such as nearby Marlton. The main (Jug Bay Natural Area) part of Patuxent River Park is in Croom. History The community was patented in 1671 as ''Croome'' by Christopher Rousby; it was named for the manor of Croom, near Sledmere in the East Riding of Yorkshire. In August 1814, British forces marched through Croom on their way to the Burning of Washington in the War of 1812. St. Thomas' Episcopal Church dates to colonial times and was listed on the NRHP in 2000. Other buildings on the National Register of Historic Places located at Croom are the John W. Coffren House and Store, Bellefields, Brookefield of the Berrys, Mattaponi (John Bowie Jr. House), St. Thomas' Episcopal Parish Historic District, an ...
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Nottingham, Prince George's County, Maryland
Nottingham is a small town on the Patuxent River in Prince George's County, Maryland, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. It contains an archaeological site which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Pre-European era The Nottingham site is an archeological site located on a terrace of the Patuxent River, near Upper Marlboro, Maryland, Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland. The site contains an important record of more than 5000 years of prehistory, including Archaic period in the Americas, Middle Archaic (c. 6000 BC) through Woodland period, Late Woodland (AD 1600) materials. Of particular note are a sizable Middle Woodland Selby Bay component, and a large Late Woodland component (c. AD 1550–1600) which may correspond to the village of Mattpament depicted on John Smith of Jamestown, John Smith's 1608 map. Colonial settlement Colonial families of Maryland#Founders and scions, The Bowie family settled in this area during the co ...
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John Bowie, Sr
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Captain William Bowie
Captain William Bowie was an early colonist in the Province of Maryland and an American Revolutionary, a member of the Assembly of Freemen, and a delegate to the Annapolis Convention (1774–1776). Early life Captain William Bowie was the son of John Bowie, Sr. and Mary Mulliken. Bowie was born in 1721 at the home of his parents, Brookridge a few miles from Nottingham in Prince George's County, Maryland. His father purchased a large tract of land about two miles from Nottingham for him when he was twenty one years called "Brooke's Reserve" which later became known as "Mattaponi". Here he erected a large brick house. It is probable that William Bowie commanded one of the militia organizations maintained by the Province though no record of his commission has been discovered. In 1753 he was appointed tobacco inspector for Nottingham and later a justice of the peace, a member of St Paul's vestry, and in 1767 warden of the parish. In 1770 it was rumored that ships were en route fr ...
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Mattaponi
The Mattaponi () tribe is one of only two Virginia Indian tribes in the Commonwealth of Virginia that owns reservation land, which it has held since the colonial era. The larger Mattaponi Indian Tribe lives in King William County on the reservation, which stretches along the borders of the Mattaponi River, near West Point, Virginia.Wood, Karenne, ed., ''The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail'', Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2007
The Mattaponi were one of six tribes inherited by in the late 16th century. The tribe spoke an
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Colonial Families Of Maryland
The Colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the Province of Maryland. Several also had interests in the Colony of Virginia, and the two are sometimes referred to as the Chesapeake Colonies. Founders and scions See also * First Families of Virginia * American gentry * Hammond-Harwood House * Whitehall (Annapolis, Maryland) * Tulip Hill * Pimlico Race Course * Preakness Stakes * History of White Americans in Baltimore * Old Stock Americans Old Stock Americans, Pioneer Stock, or Colonial Stock are Americans who are descended from the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies of mostly British ancestry who emigrated to British America in the 17th and the 18th centuries. These Old ... References Further reading * External links Search engine of Maryland's families of early settlers * Hester Dorsey RichardsonSide-lights on Maryland history: with sketches of early Maryland families. Vol. II Williams and Wilkins. 1913. * Joshua Dorsey WarfieldThe ...
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Robert Bowie
Robert Bowie (March 1750 – January 8, 1818) served as the 11th Governor of the state of Maryland in the United States, from 1803 to 1806, and from 1811 to 1812. He was the third child born to Captain William Bowie and Margaret Sprigg, at Mattaponi. He graduated from Charlotte Hall Military Academy. He also served in the Maryland House of Delegates The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the legislature of the State of Maryland. It consists of 141 delegates elected from 47 districts. The House of Delegates Chamber is in the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis, ... from 1785 to 1790, and from 1801 to 1803. References Further reading * External links 1750 births 1818 deaths Bowie family People from Prince George's County, Maryland Maryland Democratic-Republicans Governors of Maryland Members of the Maryland House of Delegates Charlotte Hall Military Academy alumni People of Maryland in the American Revolution Democr ...
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Patuxent River
The Patuxent River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in the state of Maryland. There are three main river drainages for central Maryland: the Potomac River to the west passing through Washington, D.C., the Patapsco River to the northeast passing through Baltimore, and the Patuxent River between the two. The Patuxent watershed had a rapidly growing population of 590,769 in 2000. It is the largest and longest river entirely within Maryland, and its watershed is the largest completely within the state. Geography The river source, from the Chesapeake, is in the hills of the Maryland Piedmont near the intersection of four counties – Howard, Frederick, Montgomery and Carroll, and only from Parr's Spring, the source of the south fork of the Patapsco River. Flowing in a generally southeastward direction, the Patuxent crosses the urbanized corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and opens up into a navigable tidal estuary near the colonial seaport of Queen A ...
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Bowieville
Bowieville is a historic home located near Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. It is an elegant two-part plantation house of the late Federal style, built of brick and covered with stucco. The architectural detail is transitional between the Federal and Greek Revival styles. Bowieville is one of the finest examples of the Federal style in Prince George's County. Features such as its symmetry, elliptical fanlights at the entry and between the parlors, tripartite windows, bowed rear porch, and other Adamesque details exemplify the Federal style. Bowieville reflects the prosperity of the tobacco economy of Prince George's County, as well as the prominence of the Bowie family. Bowieville once held 54 slaves. The Bowie family had extensive landholdings in the county and were important politically. Bowieville was built in 1819-20 by Mary Wooton Bowie, daughter of Robert Bowie, Governor of Maryland, on property she inherited from her father, and is v ...
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Walter Bowie
Walter Bowie (October 15, 1748 – November 9, 1810) was an American slave owner and politician. Biography Born in Mattaponi, near Nottingham, Prince George's County, Maryland, Bowie attended Reverend John Eversfield's School near Nottingham, the common schools in Annapolis, and Craddock’s School near Baltimore. His father, Captain William Bowie bought him a large farm near Collington, Maryland, known originally as "Darnell's Grove" and later as "Locust Grove" and "Willow Grove". He engaged in agricultural pursuits, was a large landowner, and also was interested in shipping. He served as one of four members of the Maryland constitutional convention from Prince George's County in November 1776. During the American Revolutionary War, Bowie served as captain and later major of a Prince George's County company. He was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1780 to 1800 and served in the Maryland State Senate from 1800 to 1802. He was elected as a Republican to the 7th ...
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Richard Lowndes Ogle
Richard Lowndes Ogle (1819-1895) was the son of Benjamin Ogle II and the grandson of Maryland Governor Benjamin Ogle. He was a prominent landowner in Prince George's County, Maryland ) , demonym = Prince Georgian , ZIP codes = 20607–20774 , area codes = 240, 301 , founded date = April 23 , founded year = 1696 , named for = Prince George of Denmark , leader_title = Executive , leader_name = Angela D. Alsobroo ..., owning 31 slaves according to the 1860 Slave Schedules. Upon his father's death, in 1844, Richard Ogle and his brother, George Cooke Ogle divided the Belair Estate into two parcels. George took the parcel with the mansion and Richard moved to a house on his parcel known as ''Bladen'' (which was torn down in the 1960s to make way for the Kenilworth Elementary School). He married Priscilla Mackall Bowie (1825–1859) in December 1846 at the Bowie family estate, Mattaponi. Priscilla is buried on the grounds of the Belair Mansion.City of Bowie Museu ...
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Bowie Family
Bowie may refer to: People * Bowie (surname), origin of the surname and a list of people with the surname, including particularly: ** James Bowie (c. 1796–1836), Texan revolutionary ** David Bowie (1947–2016), English singer, songwriter, and actor * Bowie Kuhn (1926–2007), fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball Places * Bowie, Arizona, an unincorporated community * Bowie, Colorado, an unincorporated community * Bowie, Maryland, a city * Bowie County, Texas * Bowie, Texas, a city in Montague County * Fort Bowie, a 19th-century U.S. Army outpost in Arizona * Bowie Seamount, a submarine volcano on the coast of British Columbia, Canada * Bowie hotspot, a volcanic hotspot in the Pacific Ocean * Bowie Canyon, a submarine canyon in the Bering Sea * Bowie Crevasse Field, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica Entertainment *Bowie (Shining Force II), the default name of the protagonist in the ''Shining Force II'' video game * "Bowie" (Flight of the Conchords), the sixth episode ...
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