The Bowen family web presents: An e-History narrative.
The Bowens of America:
By Benjamin L. Bowen

The Bowens listed here are persons that I have come across in my research. The information is placed here for educational and research purposes only.

Includes the Bowen,Bowin,Bowan & Boen spelling variations.

This names listed here are references found in different publications that include persons with the name of Bowen. These publications may be articles written completely about certain Bowens or may be articles written that simply include single references to specific persons or family groups. Our hope is that these references will aid those searching for their Bowen family roots.
Most persons investigating the name of Bowen have heard of Richard Bowen of Rehoboth Ma., Griffith and Moses Bowen through to Brothers William and Reese Bowen as well as the other Bowens' of Virgina and the middle new river settlements. It is often told that Bowen clans arrived in Pennsylvania, Rhose Island, Massachusetts and New Jersey. The Bowen clan then migrated to other parts of America including Kentucky, Virgina, Tennessee, North and South Carolina. As America expanded so did the territory covered by the adventurous Bowens. Bowens help settle America, fought in the battle for American independence,some fought to preserve the rule of the king and were loyalists to the crown of England. Bowens fought in the war of 1812, various Indian and frontier wars. Bowens served as statesman and politicians. Bowens ventured into the wilds of the undiscovered territories and as they became crowded some continued with the expansion west into Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri and beyond.The story of the Bowen clan is the story of America, the search for freedom and the pursuit of happiness that continues to this day.

Feel free to join with us and add your family history as we begin to record the continuing saga of the Bowens' of America by sending us any information or references that you have concerning those with the name of Bowen.

If you have a publication that references the Bowen clan please send it to us at bowen151@yahoo.com.
If you have printed materials please make a copy ( do not send your original !!! ) e-mail us with a description of what you have and we will send you our physical address. Please reference the original source of all information whether it be verbal folklore,a written account,census records etc.

Names contained in this narrative:

Griffith Bowen, Evan ap Owen, Evan Bowen, Margaret Fleming, Henry Bowen, William Bowen, Margaret Bowen,Mary Bowen,
Elizabeth Bowen,Esther Bowen, Abigail Bowen,Peniel Bowen, Doriah Bowen, Francis, son of Philip, son of Griffith ap Owen, Thomas Bowen, Elizabeth Bowen,Thomas Bowen Jr., Richard Bowen of Rehoboth.Obadiah Bowen,Obadiah Bowen( Jr.) and Isaac Bowen,Moses Bowen (1) Moses Bowen (2), Rebecca Reece, John Bowen,Lily McIlhaney,Morris Bowen Charles City County, Va,Samuel and Phillip Bowen of James City County, Va.,John Bowen of Plymouth Mass,Henry Bowen of Boston, Mass. Oliver Bowen of Georgia,Captain Prentice Bowen of New York, Captain Seth Bowen of New Jersey, Captain Thomas Bartholomew Bowen of Pennsylvania, Lieutenants John Bowen and Reece Bowen of Virginia

 

Bibliography

[1]The name of Bowen:Compiled by : The Media Research Bureau,Washington, D.C. Transcribed by George C. Shaw II.
who named the following as sources:
Bardsley English and Welsh Surnames, 1901. Burke Landed Gentry, 1900. Dwnn Visitations of Wales, 1846.
E. C. Bowen Memorial of the Bowen Family, 1884. D. Bowen The Family of Griffith Bowen, 1893.
Savage Genealogical Dictionary of New England, 1860. Hughes American Ancestry 1893, 1899.
Greer Early Virginia Immigrants 1912. E. A. Bowen ; Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Conn., 1897
Pilcher Campbell, Pilcher and Allied Families, 1911. Heitman : Officers of the Continental Army, 1914.
The Americana, 1932. Burke General Armory, 1884.

[ 2 ] Bertie Co., NC Deeds Book E 1736-39 Pt. 1

[ 3 ] Bertie Co., NC Deeds Book F 1739-43 Pt. 1.
Transcribed from LDS Microfilm - Bertie Deeds by Jim Vosper.

[ 4 ] 2002 Narrative by Jeannie Frazier descendant of Lt. Rees Bowen of Tazewell Virginia.
A History of the Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory :
The Bowens, of Tazewell. By David E. Johnson (1906)

[ 5 ]History Of Tazewell County And Southwest Virginia, 1748 - 1920, by Wm. C. Pendleton. 
W.C. Hill Printing Company, Richmond, Virginia.  1920.

[ 6 ]Bertie Co - Sales & Inventories 1867-1871 pg 1-174
transcribed by Virginia Crilley

[ 7 ] History of Bowen-Green families 1793-1928 by Addison Theodarus Green

[ 8 ] One Hundred Years in Livingston County, Missouri.
Published by the Livingston County Bicentennial Agriculture Committee. July, 1976.

[ 9 ] Timothy Brooks of Massachusetts and his descendants.
By ROBERT PEACOCK BROOKSLimited Edition 1927 THE BIBLIO COMPANY Publishers Pompton Lakes, N.J.

[ 10 ] "COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
RAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA PAGE 285
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

[11 ] inventory of Friend's cemetery - Northbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts located at the intersection of Quaker St. and Church St. in the Whitinsville section of Northbridge overlooking the Blackstone River and Canal (latitude: 420750 N and longitude: 0713805 W).by Michael J. Leveille

[12] Revolutionary Soldiers aboard the Frigate South Carolina is found on LDS Microfilm entitled Miscellaneous Equity Records, Richland County, S.C. It is Labelled Report No. 2, 1818. Mathew Mathewman and other vs the comptroller General. It dates from the period when Richland District was a part of Columbia Equity District. Transcribed and ©2000, by T. Parsons-Holder.

[ 13 ] Eliza Brown Bowen Jumel Burr : Haunted mansion: The Morris-Jumel house ghosts.
The Ghost of Madam Eliza Brown Bowen Jumel Burr. Author Unknown

[14] From A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. [Revised ed.] Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919, c1918

[15] History of the Town of Skaneateles Onondaga County, New York< from Vol. II, pp. 977-1015 of Onondaga's Centennial, edited by Dwight H. Bruce and published by Boston History Co., 1896.

[16] A history of the town of Skaneateles as Submitted by Sue Goodfellow Source:  Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County by The Rev. William M. Beauchamp.  NY: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1908, pp. 421-431.

[17] Miles Spurlock - Genealogy and History, migration.

[18] Duplin Co., NC Archives. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncduplin/rev-war.htm and http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/duplin.htm 

[19] The Bowen Family Written by Jay Guy Cisco From Historic Sumner County, Tennessee 1909

[20] Library of Congress Biographies.

[21] Description of the tour of Maiden Springs Va.

[22] Bowen family history by: Susan Fahnstrom

[23] Jamie Ault Grady's Bowens of Virginia and Tennessee:

[24] William & Rees Bowen By Jeannie Frazier

[25] The Library of Virginia e-text : Plymouth Colony wills

[26] Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA - Early Settlers

[27] 1790 Federal Census for Rehoboth, Bristol County Massachusetts.

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[29] 1757 Bertie County NC Tax List - "A List of Taxables taken by Cullen Pollock 1757"

[30] North Carolina Loyalists during the American revolution.

[31] 1675 Survey of familes for Swansea Mass.

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[34] Misc. census records
Brenda Boen's compilation of Boens/ Bowens listed in the census 1790-1920
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brendaboen/Records/Census/census.html

[ 35 ] Chalkey's reference : Augusta County Virginia Court records.