Abigail (Bowen) Round (abt. 1664 - 1710)

Born about 1664 in Swansea, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Round — married about 1699 (to about 1710) in New England

Descendants

Died 1710 at about age 46 in Swansea, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Abigail Bowen was born in December 1674 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts.

Others say she was born in 1660 in Rehoboth, MA.

Or 1678^[1]

She was the daughter of Thomas Bowen.

She died in November 1710 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. John Rounds remarried in 1711.

She married John Rounds about 1697 in Swansea, Bristol, Mass

ROUNDS, John2 & 1/wf Abigail [BOWEN]; by 1699; Swansea {Round-Rounds 11; Bosworth 269}^[2]

• It has been suggested that Abigail was the daughter of Obediah Bowen: John Round, of Swansea, "married there Abigail Bowen, daughter of Obediah Bowen." They had Jabez^[3][4]
• Torrey's New England Marriages gives the following sources {Round-Rounds 11; Bosworth 269} "^[5]
• Since Torrey does not mention parents, his sources were checked for this information.
• Bosworth 269^[6] contains the information that Sarah Round, daughter of John and Abigail Round, married 26 Nov 1703, Jonathan Bosworth.
• Round-Rounds 11 The Round Rounds Genealogy^[1] states: "John² (John¹) Rehoboth, Mass. d. 1758. m. 1st about 1697-8 Abigail Bowen, b. 1678. Not the Abigail Bowen dau. of Obadiah and Abigail (Bullock) Bowen. m. 2nd, Mrs Hannah Card 1711"

Research Notes

None of these dates 1660, 1674, 1678, 1710 are supported by actual records in the Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 series of books.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Nichols, Nathan Round. Round, Rounds genealogy, descendants of John Round of Swansea, Massachusetts, who died 1716 and Rounds families of undetermined relationship [Congress Park? IL : s.n., 1928] (p. 11)
2. ↑ Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Volume 2, Page(s): 1303
3. ↑ Cutter, William Richard (compiler, editor) New England families, genealogical and memorial; a record of the achievements of her people in...the founding of a nation. Boston, The American Historical Society, 1916. p.101
4. ↑ Cutter, William Richard. Encyclopedia of Massachusetts.Cutter's Encyclopedia of Massachusetts p. 101
5. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1985. Volume 2, Page(s): 1303
6. ↑ Clarke, Mary (Bosworth). Bosworth genealogy; a history of the descendants of Edward Bosworth who arrived in America in the year 1634; with an appendix containing other lines of American Bosworths. San Francisco, 1926. p. 269