I collected this from a discussion back in the early days of the internet.
"Dear B-Lers;The following is the best Bowen info I have yet found. Itis
copyrighted and available from the author. After giving you his first
few pages, I will extract some of the more important and relevantparts
associated with what we have been discussing.Jack Wilson
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ANCESTRAL LINESTHIRD EDITION206 FAMILIES IN ENGLAND, WALES, THENETHERLANDS,
GERMANY, NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEYAND PENNSYLVANIA
WITH ADDITIONAL ANCESTOR TABLESCOMPILED BYCARL BOYER, 3RDCARL BOYER,3RD
SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA1998ANCESTRAL LINES, THIRD EDITION
Those who wish to write with questions are asked to enclose a
self-addressed stamp envelope.
Those who would like to undertake research into their lines notcovered
in this work might wish to purchase Val Greenwood's 77te Researcher's
Guide to American Genealogy as well as my own How to Publish andMarket
Your Family History (now in its fourth edition). Both contain a great
deal of material of value to a beginner.Carl Boyer, 3rdP.O. Box 220333
Santa Clarita, CA 91322-0333 Page 104 ANCESTRAL LINES, THIRDEDITIONBOWEN
The following presentation is an effort to convince descendants that
published theories, as well as those in the files of Richard LeBaron
Bowen, have been rejected for cause. The complete Bowen files ofRichard
LeBaron Bowen were copied and forwarded to the compiler by his son,
Richard LeBaron" Bowen, Jr., who was born in 1919 and lives at 35
Fessenden Road, Barrington, RI 02806 (1995).
There is no grouping of graves of children and grandchildren ofRichard'
Bowen around any unmarked or worn flat tombs. indeed, much laterburials
were made near the ancient tombs of Rehoboth, eliminating any
significance of the position of graves. The Newman Cemetery, known in
the contemporary Rehoboth records from 1669 to 1790 as the "Burying
Place," was probably started about 1647 and expanded in 1680, 1738 and
1790. The first burials were made about 250 feet southeast of thefirst
meeting house; the cemetery, which now contains about ten acres, lies
south of the Newman Congregation Church and Newman Avenue, and west of
Pawtucket Avenue, now in East Providence, R.I. [letter from Richard
LeBaron Bowen, Jr., dated 3 Jan. 1994, which revised at length his
father's presentation in Early Rehoboth, 4:31-371.
"One has to assume that my father soon realized that in allprobability
Jabez4 Bowen had simply appropriated a Coat of Arms from some heraldry
book where they were shown as Bowen arms. Indeed, a letter he wrote to
Harold Bowditch on August 11, 1939 indicates that he was actively
searching for the specific English work from which the arms hadbeencopied.
There is no known connection to Griffith Bowen, of Boston, whose Welsh
line to Bleddyn ap Maenyrch and beyond is well documented [Herman
Nickerson, Jr. "Griffith and Margaret (Fleming) Bowen of Wales and
Massachusetts," NGSQ, 67 (1979), 163-166, and Nickerson, "GriffithBowen
of Wales and Massachusetts," 77te Connecticut Nutmegger, 19(1987),588-5961.
Moreover, E.C. Bowen's own words make obvious the reasons for a lackof
trust in the statement that Richard1 Bowen of Rehoboth was a son of
James Bowen of Llwyngwair. "I have seen a record somewhere, and noted
it, that Richard Bowen of Kittle Hill (who emigrated in 1640) had ason
George, his eldest son and heir, whom he left in Wales (and this party
was probably the sheriff in 1650), and that Hugh and the second George
were his descendants." Cottingham identified positively George Bowenof
Kettlehill in 1679 as son of Charles, who was son of George of Kittle
Hill, sheriff in 1650, who in turn was a son of John Bowen ofPennard.
Cottingham, whose work is mentioned below, had George Bowen of
Kettlehill, Esq., Sheriff 1679, Admin. gr. 1698, as soil of Charles
Bowen of Kettlehill, living in 1686, who was son of George Bowen of
Kettlehill, Sheriff 1650. This George was in turn the son of JohnBowen
of Pennard, whose will was proved 1609, and his wife Margaret,daughter
of John Daniel of Kitthill and widow of Matthew Hamon. It is apparent
that much of E.C. Bowen's work was fabricated, and none of the data in
it call be trusted without verification from independent sources.
Elislia Chandler Bowen [101] quoted Dwn [sic; reference is to Lewys
Dwnn] by saying that he used "a term (all equivalent), which, being
translated into English, signifies that Richard, son of James Bowen of
Llwyngwair, 'chose the hunter's armor, and left the country with,it."
This is false, for the term published is mort, which means "dead,"
implying died young.
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There you for today. We can't be descended from someone who died in childhood.
jack wilson"