Moses John Bowen (abt. 1675 - abt. 1761)

Born about 1675 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Rebecca R (Rees) Bowen — married 1703 (to 16 May 1761) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died about 1761 at about age 86 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Moses Bowen was born in Wales.

Biography

"...The surname "BOWEN"is derived from the Welsh "ab Owen" or resented by a list of Christian names separated by ap"or "ab", as "William ap Robert ap James ap William ap Robert ap James ap Thomas. When one family arrived at some importance he would take as surname the Christian name of his father. So that it came that "ab Owen came into usage. At times brothers would different surnames. The BOWEN linage traces back to Bleddin ao Maenerch, last British sovereign of Brecknock as recorded in "Limbus Platrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae" by G.T. Clark and the " Golden Grove Book" Hugh Thomas, Deputy Herald , 1703..."^[1]

Moses BOWEN and Rebecca Reese, his wife emigrated in 1698 with a large group of Quaker settlers from Wales. He had purchased 10,000 acres of land in Guinnedd Township, Chester, PA. In 1732, they moved to Rockbridge County, VA.When they first arrived in Pa., they settled in Chester CO., PA. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~kenbowen/b24/d23.html
2. ↑ "Makers of America", Washington, DC, 1916, pp 491)

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• Paget, 1977 "the Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles,Prince of Wales
• Turton,1975 The Plantagenet Ancestry
• Evans,1974 "Land of my Fathers -2000 years of Welsh History"
• Gunn's Of Va,Tenn,Mo,Mis,And Else Where Title: Elizabeth McLaughlin, mclaughlin67@msn.com, Gunn's Of Va,Tenn,Mo,Mis,And Else Where (http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=emclaughlin&id=I1482 CONT Last updated 18 July 2003 CONT Accessed 12 Dec 2005)

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Bowen-702 created through the import of Lupton file.ged on Jul 7, 2011 by Kim Ostermyer. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Kim and others.