Anne Bowman was born in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts December 4 , 1695, and was baptized there September 6, 1698. She was the daughter of Captain Nathaniel Bowman and Anne Barnard Bowman. [1][2]
Anne was married in Watertown to Nathaniel Bright, Jr., about 1714. He was the son of Nathaniel Bright and Mary Coolidge Bright. After his death in 1731, she married (2) Richard Clarke of Watertown October 6, 1741. [3][2]
Anne Bowman died in Watertown after October 6, 1741. [2]
Sources
↑ Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 1620-1988; Watertown Births, Marriages and Deaths, page 236
↑ Henry Bond: "Early Settlers of Watertown" page 88 (Bowman) and 111 (Bright), Little, Brown and Company, 1855..
Bond, Henry, M.D., Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston (Boston: Little, Brown & Company 1855)(Free e-book. Available at Google Play)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Anne by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Anne:
No evidence she was the mother of Mary, who was described as the "natural child" (illigitamate) of Nathaniel Bright. Mary was born years before the marriage of Nathaniel and Anne Bowman