Alice (Bowen) Wheaton migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm
Biography
Alice Bowen was born about 1620, almost certainly in England. She emigrated with her father (and possibly mother, name unknown) about 1640, which is the same year she likely married Robert Wheaton in Salem, Massachusetts <[1] . They lived there several years before removing first to Weymouth and then following the Reverend Samuel Newman's congregation to Rehoboth, Massachusetts in 1643/4[2].
Alice's husband, Robert is listed in the "Ring of Green" townsite map in what is present day Rumford, RI[3].
Rehoboth Ring of the Green Map
Roberts simply states that her name is Alice Bowen, married (1) Robert Wheaton ca. 1636. She married (2) Unknown Darling.[4]
Sources
↑ Richard LeBaron Bowen Jr., The Ancestry, Wives and Children of Richard Bowen of Weymouth and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist, vol. 76 (October 2001):263-278.
↑ Rehoboth Ring of the Green Map. “Historic Bus Tour 2016: A map of the “Ring of the Green,” the original town center of Rehoboth, now located in Rumford, RI. “, Rehoboth Antiquarian Society Newsletter, March 2016, pp. 3-4. No longer online.
↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009, p. ??
Look at the raw image on page 768: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1V-TDVY : 29 November 2018), Ephraim Wheaton, 20 Oct 1659; citing Birth, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm . Whoever wrote Abigail on the raw document was in error as Robert's wife was Alice Bowen.
""Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3NG4-TLZ : accessed 5 November 2018), entry for Ira B Barney, cites sources; "Lyons/Harding Family Tree" file (2:2:2:MM6Z-9YC), submitted 3 April 2018 by smlyons77 [identity withheld for privacy].
Charles Shepard, Richard Bowen's Descendants to the Fifth Generation, Troy, MI, 1921
William B. Saxbe Jr., compiler, Richard Bowen and His Descendants: (1594?-1675) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 3 volumes (Hope, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 2011), Volume I, page 11
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Alice by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
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"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:332V-XTL : accessed 14 April 2018), entry for Eleanor Alice /Bowen/, cites sources; "My Family Tree 12 Feb 2014" file (2:2:2:MMD8-6MS), submitted 12 February 2014 by Charles Kemp [identity withheld for privacy].
I don't see another source in FamilySearch for "Eleanor." Do you? Thanks.
https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image?volumeId=13224&pageName=276 where it says her father Richard Bowen was orn perhaps in Glamorganshire, Waltes...
"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:332V-XTL : accessed 14 April 2018), entry for Eleanor Alice /Bowen/, cites sources; "My Family Tree 12 Feb 2014" file (2:2:2:MMD8-6MS), submitted 12 February 2014 by Charles Kemp [identity withheld for privacy].
I don't see another source in FamilySearch for "Eleanor." Do you? Thanks.