Family History Research: by Lorna Flint Laughton

Thomas BOWERMAN

Male 1760 - 1810  (50 years)


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  • Name Thomas BOWERMAN 
    Birth 29 Mar 1760  Dutchess County, New York, British Colonies in America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Birth 20 Mar 1761  Dutchess County, New York, British Colonies in America Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Birth 28 Mar 1761  New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • Vincent Bowerman's manuscript of 2 November 1870 gives the birth date as 3rd month 20th 1761.
    Emigration Abt 1783  Dutchess County, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • 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 1784  Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • 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 1793  Dutchess County, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • Thomas "went to Duchess County and returned with his second wife, Maturah".
    Residence 1793  Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5
    • 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 1800  Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • 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 1810  Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • He was "brought home and buried in the old Friends Burying Ground by C. G. Bowerman".
    Death 1810  Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • 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".
    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.
    Mary Bowerman married Ezra Jennings as her second husband.
    Thomas Bowerman was born in 1760 and died 20 1810.
    "Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte", page 131.
    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".
    Residence Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    _UID BA94B34E89E24D5AA227166DE597DEE6ED1B 
    Death 28 Aug 1810  Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Person ID I2777  Everyone
    Last Modified 30 Dec 2015 

    Father Ichabod BOWERMAN,   b. Abt 1721, Massachusetts, British Colonies in America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1790, Dutchess County, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Mother Jane RICHMOND,   b. 17 Jun 1735, British Colonies in America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1797, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1757  [7
    Marriage Abt 1758  New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Marriage 15 Nov 1759  New York, British Colonies in America Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Family ID F899  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sarah VINCENT   d. May 1791, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1790  [8
    Marriage
    • Thomas Bowerman marred Sarah Vincent, as his first wife, according to ?i?Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte?/i? (page 131).
    Mary Bowerman married Ezra Jennings as her second husband.
    Thomas Bowerman married Sarah Vincent.
    "Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte", page 131.
    Children 
     1. Vincent BOWERMAN,   b. 27 Mar 1791, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 May 1885, Bloomfield, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years)
    Family ID F900  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Oct 2012 

    Family 2 Maturah BULL   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 4 Apr 1793  Dutchess County, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 8
    Marriage
    • Thomas Bowerman marred Matura Bull, as his second wife, according to ?i?Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte?/i? (page 131).
    Mary Bowerman married Ezra Jennings as her second husband.
    Thomas Bowerman married Matura Bull.
    "Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte", page 131.
    Children 
     1. Mary BOWERMAN   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Sarah BOWERMAN,   b. 31 Oct 1794, Upper Canada, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jul 1882 (Age 87 years)
     3. Mary BOWERMAN,   b. 4 Jan 1796   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Phoebe BOWERMAN,   b. 18 Aug 1797   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Stephen BOWERMAN,   b. 13 Mar 1799   d. 1886, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
     6. Joseph BOWERMAN,   b. 11 Apr 1800   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. Thomas Levi BOWERMAN,   b. 18 Dec 1802   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. Josiah BOWERMAN,   b. 31 Aug 1804   d. Yes, date unknown
     9. Amos BOWERMAN,   b. 20 May 1806   d. Yes, date unknown
     10. Lydia BOWERMAN,   b. 11 Oct 1808   d. Yes, date unknown
     11. Patience BOWERMAN,   b. 10 Aug 1810   d. 12 May 1842 (Age 31 years)
    Family ID F901  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Oct 2012 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsImmigration - 1784 - Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1793 - Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 1810 - Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S196] Merton Y. Williams, A00169, 8 Feb 2001, Page 3, A00169. (Reliability: 2).

    2. [S196] Merton Y. Williams, A00169, 8 Feb 2001, Page 12, A00169. (Reliability: 2).

    3. [S1138] No editor named., Canada. Ontario. Quinte. Family History. PLBQ, (Toronto, Ontario. 1904.), 12 Jun 2005, page 131 (Reliability: 2).

    4. [S1199] Flint, Richard Arless, Family Researcher. Bowerman. Richard Arless Flint, Set of Family Group Sheets for Bowerman family - no source noted.
      (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S196] Merton Y. Williams, A00169, 8 Feb 2001, Page 14, A00169. (Reliability: 2).

    6. [S196] Merton Y. Williams, A00169, 8 Feb 2001, Page 13, A00169. (Reliability: 2).

    7. [S1138] No editor named., Canada. Ontario. Quinte. Family History. PLBQ, (Toronto, Ontario. 1904.), 12 Jun 2005, page 128 (Reliability: 2).

    8. [S196] Merton Y. Williams, A00169, 8 Feb 2001, Page 4, A00169. (Reliability: 2).



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