Richard Bowen

Abt 1594 - Bef 1675  (~ 81 years)

• Name	Richard Bowen
  Birth	Abt 1594  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 4 Feb 1675  [1, 3]
  Burial	4 Feb 1675	Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I23199	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	12 Aug 2021

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Alice Bowen,   b. Abt 1620   d. Between 11 Jan 1696 and 31 May 1699, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age ~ 76 years) + 2. Sarah Bowen,   b. Abt 1622   d. 14 Oct 1676, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age ~ 54 years)
  Family ID	F13959	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He and his children were possibly born in Wales. The 1815 armorial tombstone of his great-great-great-grandson Jabez6 Bowen (Ephraim5, Thomas4, Richard3, Thomas2, Richard1) at Swan Point in Providence, Rhode Island, says that Jabez was "the fifth in descent from Richard Bowen, who emigrated from Glamorganshire in South Wales / A.D. 1640". After graduating from Yale, Jabez Bowen was successively a justice of the Rhode Island supreme court, its chief justice in 1781, deputy governor 1778 to 1786, and the first chancellor of Rhode Island College (later Brown University) in 1785.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3020] Richard LeBaron Bowen, Jr., "The Ancestry, Wives, and Children of Richard Bowen1 of Weymouth and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, with Notes on His Sons-in-Law Robert1 Wheaton and Robert1 Fuller and on Griffith Bowen1 of Roxbury, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 76:263, 2001. [S4089] Richard Bowen (1594?-1675), of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and His Descendants, volume 1, by William B. Saxbe, Jr. Hope, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 2011. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015.