Joshua [José D.] Bowen

I represent Joshua D. Bowen. I lived in the Escambia River District, which included both banks of the Escambia River from the Alabama line into present day Santa Rosa County, about 25-40 miles north of Pensacola as it existed in 1820. My household was part of an Anglo-American population that settled and farmed land in Spanish territory without permission of the Spanish government, but which was tolerated because it supplied Pensacola with produce. I was from North Carolina, and at the time of the 1820 census of the Escambia River District, I was 21 years old. I was single, and I owned a small plot of land with no cattle or hogs.