Abijah (Bowen) Crawford (abt. 1720 - 1774)

Born about 6 Aug 1720 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Crawford — married before 1742 (to Dec 1746) in Rhode Island [uncertain]

Died 23 Sep 1774 at about age 54 in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island Colony

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Biography

Abijah Bowen was born at Providence, Rhode Island, about 1720, a daughter of Jabez and Hulda (Hunt) Bowen. She married Capt. John Crawford (the younger) by 1742 -- the birth year of their first recorded child; widowed by the loss of her husband at sea at the close of 1746, she never remarried, and she died at Providence in late September of 1774.

Research Notes

While the sources cited do not offer an exact birthdate for Abijah Bowen (and possibly the 6 August date is a christening), the broadside held by the Rhode Island Historical Society memorializing Abijah and her husband (see Sources) gives her age at the time of her death in September, 1774, as 55. If this is a rounding up of "55th year", it supports a birth in 1720; if not, then she was likely born in 1719.

Sources

• John Carter of Providence, Rhode Island : July 21, 1745-August 19, 1814 Author: John Carter Brown Woods. Publisher: Providence Gazette 1918.

• Death, Sept. 23, 1774; parentage; and spouse's death at sea: broadside, "In memory of Capt. John Crawford, of Providence... also of [Mrs.] Abijah Crawford, his wife, daughter of the late Col. Jabez Bowen", collection of the Rhode Island Historical Society; https://www.rihs.org/collection_item/in-memory-of-capt-john-crawford-of-providence-who-sailed-on-a-voyage-to-the-west-indies-december-11-1746-and-was-lost-at-sea-aetat-28-in-memory-also-of-mrs-abijah-crawford-his-wife/

• Death (burial?; NEHGS): "CRAWFORD... Abijah, widow, Sept. 25, 1774" -- Providence, Town & Church, Vol. 10, Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014), Originally Published as: Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850: First Series: births, marriages and deaths: a family register for the people, by James N. Arnold. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB532/i/14497/149/264823552 (subscription)