Josiah BOWERMAN

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• _UID: 20271657039047AFBB86A502168B6F073C71
• Religion: 1820, Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada; member of the Society of Friends (Quaker)
• Marriage witness: 8 Jan 1845, Prince Edward District, Canada West, Canada; at the wedding of Stephen Blount and Parmelia Brewer

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Family history:
Josiah Bowerman was the son of Thomas Bowerman and his second wife, Matura Bull.

Religion:
He was listed as a child of Thomas Bowerman and as a member of the West Lake Meeting of the West Lake Monthly Meeting.

Marriage witness:
The other witness was David D. Rogers.

Josiah married Sarah BREWER on 25 Apr 1825 in Picton, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada. Sarah and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
M. Y. William's manuscript actually says 4 mo. 25th, 1815, but Josiah would only be 11 years old. This is likely a typing error and should be 1825.

Marriage:
The witnesses were Thomas Stinson and Lydia Bowerman, Josiah's sister.

1. Dianna BOWERMAN and died.
2. Henry BOWERMAN and died.
3. Nelson BOWERMAN and died.
4. Freeman BOWERMAN and died.
5. Anice BOWERMAN and died.
6. Patience BOWERMAN and died.
7. Harvey BOWERMAN and died.
8. R. Byron BOWERMAN and died.
9. Lydia M. BOWERMAN and died.
10. Thomas W. BOWERMAN and died.

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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 Maturah BULL on 4 Apr 1793 in Dutchess County, New York, United States. Maturah (daughter of Josiah BULL and Mehitabel) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Matura Bull
• _UID: A1E235380768497E92ED5BD63F673B7A319C
• Residence: Abt 1793, Dutchess County, New York, United States

Notes:

Residence:
Maturah was living with her family in Duchess County, when Thomas came from Canada and married her.

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Marriage:
Thomas Bowerman marred Matura Bull, as his second 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

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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,

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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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• _UID: 28CF15C7AF744A38BDEAC89A739CAAFE38E0

Josiah married Mehitabel. Mehitabel and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 5E513420699C4EF68EA990E2039100FF8800

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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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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