Bowles Colgate (1789 - 1845)

Born 14 Jan 1789 in Filston Hall, Shoreham, Kent, England

Ancestors

Husband of Lourina (Townsend) Colgate — married 8 Oct 1812 in Andes, Delaware, New York, USA

Descendants

Died 20 Aug 1845 at age 56 in New York City, New York County, New York, United States

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Biography

Bowles Colgate was born to Robert Colgate and Sarah Bowles in 1787 at Filston Hall in Shoreham, Kent, England.^[1]

His family moved to the United States when he was six years old, first to Maryland and then New York State. He had an apprenticeship with a merchant in New York City when he was sixteen, but thereafter returned to the family farm in Charlton, Saratoga County, carrying much of the load of the family on the farm, first in Charlton and continuing in Delhi, Delaware County^[2] as the family moved.^[1].

He married Lourina Townsend in 1812 in Andes, New York, and in 1813 they moved to New York City to join his brother William as junior partner in William Colgate & Co., making soap and candles. His family lived on Dutch Street, first at No. 7 and then No. 9^[3][4][5][1] (the family business was at No. 6, one of the first major establishments in the neighborhood).^[6]

Bowles and Lourina had eight children who survived infancy:

• Charlotte Colgate, b 1817, m. George Waldo Abbe
• Abigail Colgate, b. 1819, m. John Sperry Baker
• Maria Colgate, b. 1820, m. Rev. Orrin Bishop Judd
• Charles Carroll Colgate, b. 1822, m. Frances Eliza Perego
• Harriet Colgate, b. 1824, m. Samuel Perkins Lord
• John Henry Colgate, b. 1826, m. Frances Lydia Griggs
• Frances Colgate, b. 1829
• Stephen Bowles Colgate, b. 1834, m. Susan A. Black

Bowles died in 20 August 1845,^[7] and was first buried in New Jersey and later reinterred at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.^[1][8]

The current building at 7 Dutch Street was built in 1900. It's not clear whether the property was still in the family when this was constructed.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Robert Colgate, the Immigrant, A Genealogy of the New York Colgates and some Associated Lines, pp. 64-66, compiled by Truman Abbe and Hubert Abbe Howson, New Haven, Connecticut. The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company. 1941.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1810," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH23-WM1 : accessed 7 April 2015), Robert Culgate, Delhi, Delaware, New York; citing p. 421, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 26; FHL microfilm 181,380.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1820," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHL1-69H : accessed 7 April 2015), Bowles (Unknown) Colgate, New York Ward 2, New York, New York; citing p. 116, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 77; FHL microfilm 193,732.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1830," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5Q-Z85 : accessed 7 April 2015), B Colgate, New York Ward 2, New York, New York; citing p. 89, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 96; FHL microfilm 17,156.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1840," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHT7-PR7 : accessed 7 April 2015), Bowles Colgate, New York Ward 2, New York, New York; citing p. 51, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 299; FHL microfilm 17,194.
6. ↑ Kordsmeier, Jessica. Dutch Street: A Piece in the Evolution of New York, A Global City. 2011. Online resource. Archived.
7. ↑ The Evening Post (New York, New York) 21 Aug 1845, Page 3.
8. ↑ "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FD1Y-DP2 : accessed 7 April 2015), Bowless Colgate, 20 Aug 1845; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm .

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 17 February 2019), memorial page for Bowles Colgate (14 Jan 1789–20 Aug 1845), Find A Grave: Memorial #140212230, citing Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave.