James Bowen (1765-1847), his wife Chloe Thayer (1766-1814) & Henry Bowen (1800-1
James Bowen (1765-1847), his wife Chloe Thayer (1766-1814) & Henry Bowen (1800-1835)
I am trying to resolve some puzzles with respect to my Bowen side of my family tree.
My ancestry is as follows:
Me (old)
My Mom (96 years old)
Her dad: Arthur CW Bowen (1879-1969) & her mother is Ethel Brown Thornton
Henry W. Bowen 1829-1924) & his mother is Ann Francis Crossman
Henry Bowen (1800-1834) & his mother is Mary Ann Prout
Henry Bowen; b 1800, Warren Center, PA; died in 1835 in RI. Buried @ the North Burial Grounds in Providence. There are many family trees that show this Henry’s date of death of 1885 which is not correct. I have a pix showing his gravestone and it shows 1835. His wife Mary Ann Prout remarried a Capt. Nathaniel Sowle (Soule) after Henry’s death. From what I have heard it was a stormy relationship and she was buried in the Bowen Plot in the North Burial Grounds.
A number of family trees show that a James Bowen (1765-1847) was the father of this Henry Bowen (b1800-1835) and his mother was Chloe Thayer. But we have yet to find any verification of this fact. Cemetery records in Warren Township, PA shows a James Bowen (1764-1847). But there is no mention of his wife.
Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636-1899 does show a James Bowen Jr. marrying a Chloe Thayer on March 22, 1789.
On the same page of this Extract there is another James Bowen marrying a Sally Kelley on Sept 28, 1794. I wonder what the possibility of James Bowen Jr. being the same as the James Bowen below (1765-1855). Can anyone help with this?
James Bowen (1765-1855)
The Rhode Island Vital extracts, 1636-1899 shows a James Bowen and lists his wife as Sally Kelley, married Sept 28, 1794. This James, his wives: Sarah (Sally) Kelley and a Judith are listed on page 246, “Descendants of Roger Williams Book III, Sayles line through Mary Williams.” But there is no mention of a Chloe Thayer. This same book lists this James Bowen (1765-1855) his father as-James Bowen, (b1721-d1793) and his mother Ann Thurber (1728-1821)
We are not sure if his (James Bowen {1765-1855}) parents are:
Josiah Bowen (1734-1763) & Huldah Esterbrook (1735). From here back one can review the ancestry in the book:
“Richard Bowen (1594?-1675) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and his Descendants, Volumes 1 & 2.”
Or is Josiah’s brother, Captain James Bowen (1721-1793), & Ann Thurber the parents of James?
Can anyone provide some information on this?
Continuing on back in time:
Josiah Bowen (1691-1747) & Margaret Child (1696)
Thomas Bowen (1664-1743) & Thankful Mason
Obadiah Bowen (1627) & Mary Clifton
Richard Bowen (1594-1627) & Unknown wife (Perhaps Ann).
Thanks for your time.
Mike
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Re: James Bowen (1765-1847), his wife Chloe Thayer (1766-1814) & Henry Bowen (1800-1
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Re: James Bowen (1765-1847), his wife Chloe Thayer (1766-1814) & Henry Bowen (1800-1
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Re: James Bowen (1765-1847), his wife Chloe Thayer (1766-1814) & Henry Bowen (1800-1
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Re: James Bowen (1765-1847), his wife Chloe Thayer (1766-1814) & Henry Bowen (1800-1
bret bowen 4/14/14