Henry Bowen (1679 - 1755)

Born 1679 in Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Husband of Jane (Carter) Bowen — married 1704 in Brick M House, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 1755 at about age 76 in Frederick, Colony of Virginia

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Note: Further research is required to locate primary documents to satisfy Wikitree source standards for this info from MyHeritage. Some research documents are shown below. Parents have been removed as they were spurious, ie same dob as son.

Biography

Henry Bowen 1679 - 1755

Birth: Circa 1679 Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania

Marriage: Jane Carter Feb 1704 Brick M House, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Death: 1755 Frederick, Virginia

Wife: Jane Bowen (born Carter) 1683 - 1744 Wife: Anne Bowen (born Cunningham)

Siblings: William Bowen 1688 - ? Henry Bowen 1720 - 1784 John Bowen 1696 - 1761

Children:

1. Jane Jean Kirk (born Bowen) 1705 - 1752
2. Margaret Reece Or Rees (born Bowen) 1712 - 1792
3. Son Bowen 1718 - 1796
4. William Gaddis Bowen 1718 - 1773
5. Catherine Crumley (born Bowen) 1710 - 1764
6. Henry Jr. Bowen 1715 - 1784
7. Priscilla Gaddis (born Bowen) 1718 - 1796 ^[1]

The excellent web site: "sjz's certain folks and events" sjzuraff@gmail.com, contains a good deal of information on Henry Bowen. Relevant portions of that information state:

"Henry Bowen’s name first appears in Bucks County records in a case held at the Court of Quarter Sessions on the 10th day of the 4th month 1696 [10 June 1696]. A grand jury presented that Ralph Boome and Joseph Croff unlawfully took away a black walnut log belonging to Claws Johnson, Edward Lane, Wm Howard, and John Johnson “from John Bowens Landing at the bottom of nefhaminah Creek”. Attesting for the plaintiffs were John Bowen, Lucy Boare, Henry Bowen, and Margret Matthews. [source: Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Records of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1684-1700 (Meadville, Pa.: Tribune Publishing Co., 1943), p.295, 299. On 26 March 1697, for nine score (180) pounds, John Bowen of Bucks County sold to Joseph Growden also of Bucks County the “plantation wherein I now dwell together with two hundred and fifty acres of land be it more or less thereunto belonging bounded to the Northeast ward with Neshaminy creek to the South-Eastward with Delaware River to the South west with the land now or late in the tenure of Thomas Fairman and to the North west with the land now in the tenure of the said Joseph Growdon.” One of the witnesses to the deed was Margaret Mathews. (Bucks Co. Deeds v.2, p.282)

Records of deaths and burials kept by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting indicate that John Bowen was buried 11-6-1697/8 [i.e., 11th month, 6th day, 1697/8 = 6 January 1698]. John Bowen had written his last will and testament on the third day of the eleventh month 1697. It was proved on 19th March 1697/8 [19 March 1698]. John gave “unto my Cozen Henry Bowen” 50 pounds and all other money and goods belonging to him in England or Wales. He gave "unto my Cozen Margaret Mathews” the remaining money and property not already bequeathed. He also named Margaret his executrix.

On the tenth day of the twelfth month 1698/9 [10 Feb 1699], the daughters and heirs of William Clark--Anna Clark and Martha Dawson wife of John Dawson of Chester County--sold to Henry Bowen of Bucks County husbandman, for 30 pounds, 209 acres more or less in Buckingham (later called Bristol Township) in Bucks County. It lay on the opposite (eastern) side of the Neshaminy from John Bowen’s tract. (Bucks County Deeds, v.2, p.238-239)

On the first day of the sixth month 1699 [1 Aug 1699], Henry Bowen signed as a witness to the will of "James Boyden of Neshaminy Creek in the Township of Buckingham in the County of Bucks". (Philadelphia County Will Book B, p.26-27)

On 16 May 1702 Henry Boyen [sic-Bowen] of Bucks County Yeoman and Jane his wife (daughter of Robert Carter) sold to John White of Bucks County, for 62 pounds and ten shillings, 100 acres. This 100-acre tract represented Jane’s allotment of her deceased father’s 500-acre tract. "And Whereas one hundred acres (part of the aforesaid five hundred acres) according to an order of the Orphans Court held for the aforesaid County of Bucks was allotted and ordered to be the second hundred acres of the same five hundred acres and to belong and appertaine unto the aforesaid Jane (the said daughter of the aforesaid Robert Carter and now wife of the said Henry Boyen[sic]) as part and share of her portion of her deceased fathers estate which of right belonged to her heirs and which said one hundred acres so ordered to and for the said Jane is lying and being next to the west side towards Neshaminy Creek of that one hundred acres of land allotted and laid out of the said five hundred acres unto Joan late the wife of John White and one other of the daughters of the said Robert Carter which said division so allotted by the Court aforesaid were also allowed and approved of by the rest of the children of the said Robert Carter as by records of the said Orphans Court whereunto relation being had doth and may appear” (Bucks County Deeds, v.3, p.84-85) Both the Henry Bowen whose wife was Jane Carter and the Henry Bowen who purchased and later sold the 209 acres belonging to Anna Clark and Martha Dawson were identified as having the occupation of "husbandman". This lends credence to the idea that they were indeed the same individual. The 209-acre tract was just across Neshaminy Creek from John Bowen's 250-acre tract. This might suggest that the Henry Bowen associated with John Bowen was likewise the same individual as the other Henry Bowen--although John had sold his tract and was deceased by the time Henry had purchased his 209 acres. In his will, John Bowen called Henry Bowen his "cozen" and made him a principal heir."

Died Bet 1755 and 1758. Frederick Co, VA. Imported only 1755 from Death Date and marked as uncertain.

web site: "sjz's certain folks and events" sjzuraff@gmail.com

Birth

ABT 1682 SDATE 1 JUL 1682^[2]

Death

ABT 1754

SDATE 1 JUL 1754 Frederick County, Virginia^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ MyHeritage
2. ↑ Source: #S553 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page
3. ↑ Source: #S553 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page

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