Vincent BOWERMAN

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• _UID: 270FFA343A964C799822C1D236EF1E4CD57F
• Childhood: 1791, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Birth: 21 May 1791, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Birth: 1792; according to his gravestone inscription
• Childhood: 1793, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Farming: 1810, Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Religion: 1820, Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; member of the Society of Friends (Quaker)
• Family history: 2 Nov 1870, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1879, Bloomfield, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Burial: 1885, Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada; in The Friends' Cemetery, East Bloomfield
• Death: 1885, Bloomfield, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Family: 1885, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Family history:
Vincent Bowerman was the son of Thomas Bowerman and his first wife, Sarah Vincent.

Photograph:
There is a sideways outline of his face in the manuscript.

Religion:
According to Levi Bowerman, "my father was always firmly established in their [Friends] principles and a diligent attender of their meetings and careful to have his family go with him. They went to Adolphustown for a number of years. At this time they belonged to Nine Partners Quarterly meeting. Then they got a meeting at West Lake held once in two weeks in Cornelius Blount's log house and in warm weather in his log barn, and then they got a monthly meeting in Adolphustown and a Preparative there and at West Lake. There were no divisions or subdivisions in the society at that time".

Childhood:
Vincent was motherless and was "placed under the care of Daniel and Elizabeth Pettit, where I remained until I was two years old". They used a sap trough for a cradle.

Birth:
Thomas and Sarah moved "over on the West Lake shore near where Hiram Tubbs now lives and there, I was born the 21st of 5th month 1791".

Childhood:
Vincent moved back to his father's house. His father had gone to Duchess County and returned with his second wife.

Farming:
At the age of nineteen, in 1810, Vincent, "with the assistance of his step-mother, took charge of all the business, and oversight of nine children (his half brothers and half sisters) and the 1430 acres of land". Since "at that time the oldest son heired all the real estate property, the land was divided among the family and he signed all the deeds to entire satisfaction. Except the oldest brother".

Religion:
He was listed, with his wife Nancy, as a member of the West Lake Meeting of the West Lake Monthly Meeting.

Family history:
Vincent left a manuscript titled "A Short History of the Life of Thomas Bowerman, as related by his son, Vincent".

Residence:
Vincent moved to Bloomfield in 1879.

Family:
When Vincent died, he had "lived until the whole family was buried".

Death:
At his death, Vincent was aged 93 years 7 months and 2 days.

Vincent married Nancy SOUTHARD on 19 Sep 1813. Nancy (daughter of William SOUTHARD and Amy) was born on 14 Jul 1796; died on 2 Mar 1848; was buried in 1848 in Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Canada West, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sarah BOWERMAN was born on 21 Aug 1814; died on 21 Sep 1892; was buried in 1892 in Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
2. Amy BOWERMAN was born on 31 Oct 1815; died in 1897; was buried in 1897 in Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
3. Thomas BOWERMAN was born on 1 Jan 1819; and died.
4. Maturah BOWERMAN was born on 27 Nov 1820; and died.
5. Lydia BOWERMAN was born on 22 Aug 1828; and died.
6. Levi Vincent BOWERMAN was born on 28 Apr 1831 in Upper Canada, Canada; died on 9 Jun 1910; was buried in 1910 in Bloomfield, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.

Vincent married Deborah HAIGHT on 24 Jan 1850. Deborah (daughter of William HAIGHT and Mary MULLETT) was born on 29 Nov 1804; died on 27 Oct 1892. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• _UID: BA94B34E89E24D5AA227166DE597DEE6ED1B
• Birth: 20 Mar 1761, Dutchess County, New York, British Colonies in America
• Birth: 28 Mar 1761, New York, United States
• Emigration: Abt 1783, Dutchess County, New York, United States
• Immigration: 1784, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Marriage: 1793, Dutchess County, New York, United States
• Residence: 1793, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Farming: 1800, Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Burial: 1810, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
• Death: 1810, Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Family history:
Thomas Bowerman's birth and death dates, according to ?i?Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte?/i? (page 131) were 1760 and 1810.

Religion:
According to Levi Bowerman, Thomas did not belong to any religious denomination. However, all of his sons and one of his daughters (Lydia) joined "Friends by request".

Birth:
Vincent Bowerman's manuscript of 2 November 1870 gives the birth date as 3rd month 20th 1761.

Emigration:
Thomas lived in Duchess County "until he was grown". "During the Revolution war he remained attached to the King's party and as soon as peace was proclaimed he came to Canada".

Immigration:
Thomas married Sarah Vincent and "settled on the North Shore of the little lake in the Thompson place near where Dyer Ogden now lives. He soon left it and moved over on the West Lake shore near where Hiram Tubbs now lives".

Marriage:
Thomas "went to Duchess County and returned with his second wife, Maturah".

Residence:
Thomas, Maturah and Vincent moved "over on the north shore of the lake" and "settled on the farm lot No. 1 first concession military tract containing about 230 acres of entire wild land". Thomas bought the land from "Major Henry Young for about $ 100 and built a log house 20 by 22 down by the spring, w_uth of the road where he lived until about the year 1806". Then he built "the frame two storey house 30 x 40, which stood until 1879 when it was taken down by the present owner William S. Hubbs and Abraham Saylor". Vincent claimed that "Uncle Amos and Uncle Josiah raised both their families [in this house] , each having one half and one half the farm. Thomas used "a log barn for eith or nine years. He built a frame barn in the year 1800.John Bull and Cyrus Richman were carpenters used".

Farming:
Thomas "frequently let out three year old cattle to be broke and return them at the age of seven, and heifers the same way. On their return, he sold them and bought land. He continued buying until he had got twelve hundred acres beside the homestead".

Burial:
He was "brought home and buried in the old Friends Burying Ground by C. G. Bowerman".

Death:
Thomas "went to Quebec in the year 1810, with a raft of staves and was taken sick on his return home at Montreal with typhoid fever, and died at Kingston".

Thomas married Sarah VINCENT about 1790. Sarah died in May 1791 in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 4EF75C8A86084D9B944797169F08C446DA63
• Death: May 1791, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Death:
According to her son, Vincent, she "died when I was a day or two old".

Notes:

Marriage:
Thomas Bowerman marred Sarah Vincent, as his first wife, according to ?i?Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte?/i? (page 131).

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• Reference Number: 496.0
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• _UID: 5E771034CE6E4585AB42E58D3AB324C2516E
• Birth: Abt 1721, Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, British Colonies in America
• Birth: Abt 1721, United States
• Occupation: Abt 1740, West Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, British Colonies in America; farmer and miller
• Occupation: Abt 1750, Dutchess County, New York, British Colonies in America; farmer and miller in Beekman Patent
• Death: 1790, Dutchess County, New York, United States; between the signing of his will - fourth day of the second month - and its probation on March 1, 1790
• Death: 1791, Dutchess County, New York, United States
• Death: 1791, Dutchess County, New York, United States

Notes:

Family:
In his manuscript, M.Y. Williams says that Ichabod "seems to have been a descendant from one of three brothers that emigrated from England to one of the Eastern States".

Family history:
He was the son of Thomas Bowerman and wife. He had 8 siblings: Judah Bowerman, Davis Bowerman, Silas Bowerman, Joseph Bowerman, Sarah Bowerman, Eliza Bowerman, Peace Bowerman, and Deborah Bowerman. Ichabod was born in the Bay Colony in 1721. He married Lydia Mott about 1744 and Jane Richmond in 1757. With his wife Lydia Mott, he had 6 children: Timothy Bowerman, Elizabeth Bowerman, David Bowerman, Jane Bowerman, Hannah Bowerman and Sarah Bowerman.

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book or microfiche? "Cemetery Inscriptions of the Town of Barnstable, Massachusetts and it's villages, 1600-1900" was donated to the AFHS Library. Ref: Chinook, Vol. 19, No. 2, Winter 1998/1999, page 40.

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Article "Recent Developments in Mayflower Research. Ref: Newsleaf, OGS, Vol. 35, No. 1, Feb. 2005, page 15.

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Volume 20, No. 2, issue 39, 2003. Article "Society of Friends". Ref: Newsleaf, OGS, Vol. 35, No. 1, Feb. 2005, page 16.

Birth:
Ichabod "died in the year 1791 aged 70 years".

Ichabod married Jane RICHMOND about 1758 in New York, United States. Jane was born on 17 Jun 1735 in British Colonies in America; died in 1797 in Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 497.0
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• _UID: BF44BEB9D1974256832DEC53F59A4D8BD0D9
• Birth: 17 Jun 1735, Rhode Island, British Colonies in America
• Residence: Abt 1791, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Death: 1797, Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada
• Funeral: Abt 1797, Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; at the home of her daugher, Lydia Bowerman Blount, and son-in-law, Cornelius Blount,

Notes:

Family history:
Jane married Ichabod Bowerman in 1757. She was the daughter of Cyrus Richmond and granddaughter of Sylvester Ricmond, who became a Quaker in England in the time of George Fox, and was sent to America, where a large tract of land was purchased for him.

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Jane (Richmond) BOWERMAN died in 1797 likely in Marysburgh Township or Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County

Residence:
Jane "moved to Canada with all of the children except Phoebe and Deborah".

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• Family history: Massachusetts, United States
• Reference Number: 992.0
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• _UID: B9F6DD5CB5274B90B5D51979B673B1089DEC
• Residence: Abt 1720, West Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, British Colonies in America

Notes:

Family history:
He was the son of Thomas Bowerman and Mary Harper. He had five siblings: Samuel Bowerman, Stephen Bowerman, Benjamin Bowerman, Hannah Bowerman and Waite Bowerman. Thomas married and had 9 children: Ichabod Bowerman, Judah Bowerman, Davis Bowerman, Silas Bowerman, Joseph Bowerman, Sarah Bowerman, Eliza Bowerman, Peace Bowerman, and Deborah Bowerman.

Family history:
Did he have a daughter named Jane?

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microfiche

Thomas married Jane HARBY. Jane was born about 1681 in Massachusetts, United States; died about 1721 in Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 993.0
• _UID: E92A14396C484C91A4DF3BB311D417C42208