Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Arthur St. Clair, Anthony Wayne, James Wilkinson, Joseph Desha, Charles Scott, George Madison, John Adair, William Clark, William Wells, John Bowman, Thomas Allin, Abraham Bowman, David Ziegler, Simon Girty, Winthrop Sargent, Michael Rudolph, Ebenezer Denny, Simon Kenton, Richard Butler, William Eaton, Anne Bailey, Edward Butler, William Christian, Benjamin Logan, John Whistler, Richard Taylor, Jonathan Haskell, Henry de Butts, Josiah Harmar, Jean Franois Hamtramck, John Hardin, Paschal Hickman, John Mills, John Pratt, William Russell, George M. Bedinger, Martin Baum, Richard Allison, William Darke, John Armstrong, Bland Ballard. Excerpt: Abraham Bowman Colonel Abraham Bowman (October 16, 1749 November 9, 1837) was an 18th century American frontiersman and Revolutionary War military officer, who served as an officer and later commanded the 8th Virginia Regiment popularly known as the German Regiment. He and his brothers Isaac, Joseph and John Jacob Bowman were among the earliest settlers in Kentucky. His grandson, John Bryan Bowman, founded Kentucky University and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky . His father George Bowman and grandfather Jost Hite were both well-known Virginian pioneers and the first to explore and settle Shenandoah Valley . Biography Born to George Bowman and Mary Hite (the eldest daughter of Jost Hite), he was raised on the Bowman family estate on Cedar Creek near Strasburg, Virginia . In 1766, the 17-year-old Bowman played a prominent role in the defence of the area against an Indian raiding party. When one of his neighbors, the daughter of George Miller, arrived at his home seeking help from an Indian raiding party, he took a gun and rode to Miller’s home where he was joined by another young man, Thomas Newell. However, they arrived…