James Alfred Bowley (b.1844 - d.?)
MSA SC 5496-51330                                                                                                                                      
Fled from slavery, Dorchester County, 1851 

Sources:

Archival Sources - 

Dorchester County Register of Wills (Wills), Book JWF 2, p. 74 -76.

Newspapers and Journals - 

"Negro for Sale," The Cambridge Democrat. 29 August 1849.

"An Act to Charter the Union Savings Bank of Georgetown, S.C." The Daily Phoenix. 4 April 1872.

"From the State Capital," The Anderson Intelligencer. 5 December 1872.

"A Democratic Account of the Georgetown Riot," New York Times, 20 August 1874.  

"The Reconstruction Outrages in South Carolina," Baltimore Sun, 4 March 1878. 

"Too Much Clemency," The Anderson Intelligencer. 30 May 1878.

"District Attorney Melton as a Slave of Duty," The Anderson Intelligencer. 27 April 1882.

"Joseph Rainey Saved Georgetown from Itself," Georgetown Times, 30 June 2009.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. "The Georgetown Planet," (Georgetown, S.C.) 1873-1875. Library of Congress.

Books - 

Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2004. 

Reynolds, John S. Reconstruction in South Carolina. New York, NY: Negro University Press, 1969. 

Hollis, Daniel Walker. University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 1956. 

Internet Sources - 

Ancestry.com. 1861 Census of Canada, Kent, Canada West, p. 135.

Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census, Georgetown, South Carolina, p. 55.

Ancestry.com. 1880 United States Federal Census, Georgetown, South Carolina, District 50, p. 13.

Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census, Manhattan, Ward 22, New York, p. 1. (Henry A. Bowley)

Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census, Fall River Ward 3, Bristol, Massachusetts, p. 19. (James Bowley)

South Carolina, State Historic Preservation Office: African American Historic Places in South Carolina. "James A. Bowley House."
 

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