Obadiah Bowen

Abt 1628 - 1710  (82 years)

• Name	Obadiah Bowen
  Relationship	with Robert Alan Roy
  Birth	Abt 1628	Wales   [1]
  Proprietor	1667 (Age 39)	Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [1]
  Married	Abt 1680 (Age 52)	Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Mary ______. She was born in 1628 in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales. [This marriage] She died in 1697 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Issue: 1. Obadiah Bowen (1651-1699) 2. Mary Bowen (1653-____) 3. Sara Bowen (1654-____) 4. Samuel Bowen 5. Joseph Bowen (1662-1685) 6. Lydia Bowen 7. Marcy Bowen (1672-____) 8. Isaac Bowen (1674-____)
  Offices Held	1681 (Age 53)	Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts
  1681 - Representative to the Plymouth Colony General Court for Swansea
  Religion	say 1685 (Age 57)
  He was an active member of the Baptist Church.
  Death	10 Sep 1710	Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [1]
  Probate/Proved	14 Oct 1710	Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts   [2]
  Siblings	8 Siblings
  + 1. Alice Bowen,   b. About 1620, Wales ▻ Robert Wheaton,  m. 1636   2. William Bowen,   b. Abt 1622, Wales bur. 10 Mar 1686/87, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 65 years)   3. John Bowen,   b. Wales   4. Sarah Bowen,   b. Abt 1624, Wales d. 14 Oct 1676, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts  (Age 52 years)   5. Thomas Bowen,   b. Abt 1625, Wales d. 1663, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts  (Age 38 years)   6. Ruth Bowen,   b. Abt 1625, Wales d. 31 Oct 1688, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts  (Age 63 years)   7. Obadiah Bowen,   b. Abt 1628, Wales d. 10 Sep 1710, Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts  (Age 82 years)   8. Richard Bowen,   b. Abt 1631, Wales   9. George Bowen,   b. 1631, Wales
  Person ID	I20862
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2019

  
  

  Father	Richard Bowen,   b. Abt 1594, Glamorganshire, Wales bur. 4 Feb 1674, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts (Age ~ 80 years)
  Mother	unknown wife
  Family ID	F912	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Marriage: Early sources have incorrectly identified Mary as Mary Clifton. There is no evidence of this, and a review of the records of the Clifton family shows no Mary who could be the wife of Obediah. [3]

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Abt 1628 - Wales Proprietor - 1667 - Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts Married - Abt 1680 - Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts Offices Held - 1681 - Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts Death - 10 Sep 1710 - Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate/Proved - 14 Oct 1710 - Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S1345] Bowen, Richard LaBaron Jr. "The Ancestry, Wives, and Children of Richard Bowen of Weymouth and Rehoboth, Massachusetts", (New Haven, Connecticut: The American Genealogist, volume 76, number 4, October 2001). [S1404] Riley, Henry, Letter: 1994-03-27 to Jane Mullins, (Letter to Jane Mullins, 27 March 1994). [S1405] Saxbe, William B. "New Old Information about the Family of Richard Bowen of Rehoboth, Massachusetts" , (New Haven, Connecticut: The American Genealogist, volume 84, January 2010).