The Bowles, Anderson and Shelton Families as Related to the Descendants of William Sims (1765-1833), and His Wife, Elizabeth Shelton Sims (1767-1833), of Union County, South Carolina

Abstract

It has been pointed out in an earlier study1 that Captain Charles Sims of Albemarle and Amherst counties, Virginia, migrated to Union County, South Carolina, shortly after the Revolutionary War and settled extensive lands. Deed Book C, Amherst County, Virginia, pages 537-40, records the purchase of a tract of land by Charles Sims of Albemarle County, Virginia, from John Reid of Amherst County, Virginia, for 75 pounds on May 3, 1773. Deed Book E, Amherst County, Virginia, page 101, gives the record of the sale of 487 acres of land by Charles Sims of the County of Albemarle to Lee Harris of Amherst County for One Thousand Pounds of current money of Virginia, on February 8, 1779. Captain Charles Sims was the son of Matthew Sims and his wife, Jemima (Glenn) Sims, who were married on November 2, 1736. Charles was evidently the first child of this marriage, since he was born in 1737. There are records of this family of Sims in New Kent County, Virginia, as early as 1708, and later in Hanover and Louisa counties. Tradition says that they emigrated to Virginia from Somerset, England. Charles Sims, son of Matthew Sims and his wife, Jemima Glenn Sims, in 1764 married Sybella (Isabella) Bowles, daughter of John Knight Bowles of Hanover County, Virginia.