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 Descendants of Thomas Olney, Providence
 by Descendants of Thomas Olney, Providence		Global TreeClubsMy GenCirclesSmartMatching
Ephraim Bowen6 SmartMatches
Birth:
Death:1812 in Providence, Providence, RI
Sex:M
Father:Thomas Bowen
Mother:
  

Spouses & Children 
Mary Fenner (Wife)
1
Marriage: 7 FEB 1737/38 in Providence, Providence, RI
Children: 
  1. DescendantsJabez Bowen b. 2 Jun 1739 in Providence, Providence, RI
  2. DescendantsOliver Bowen b. 17 Nov 1742 in Providence, Providence, RI
 
Lydia Mawney (Wife)
2
Marriage: 10 JUN 1746 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
Children: 
  1. DescendantsWilliam Bowen b. 8 Mar 1746/47 in Providence, Providence, RI
  2. Mary Bowen b. 20 Oct 1748
  3. Sarah Bowen b. 26 Jul 1750
  4. DescendantsLydia Bowen b. 3 Jan 1752
  5. DescendantsEphraim Bowen b. 29 Aug 1753
  6. Benjamin Bowen b. 17 Oct 1755
  7. DescendantsPardon Bowen b. 26 Mar 1757
  8. Benjamin Bowen b. 9 Nov 1759
  9. Nancy Bowen b. 9 Jun 1762
  10. Elizabeth Bowen b. 7 Mar 1765
  11. Fanny Bowen b. 29 Mar 1768
 
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Notes 
Individual:
French Settlements in Rhode Island
Author: Elisha R. Potter

A memoir concerning the French settlements and French settlers in the colony of Rhode Island. Also includes accounts of the Ganeaux, Marchant, Targe, Lucas, Jerauld and Ginnado families.


THE BOWEN FAMILY.

Dr. Ephraim Bowen, son of Thomas, died 1812, age 96 years. Married, first, Mary, daughter of Thomas Fenner, February 9, 1737-8. Second, Lydia, daughter of Col. Peter Money [Mawney?], June 10, 1746. Children by first wife:

1. Gov. Jabez, born November 17, 1739; died in 1815; married, December 19, 1762, Sarah, daughter of Obadiah Brown. She died March 17, 1800.

Children: a. Obadiah, born 1763; died 1793. b. Oliver, born 1767. c. Mary, born 1772. d. Jabez, born 1774. e. Henry, born 1776; died 1777. f. Horatio G., born 1779; Librarian of Brown University; died March 23, 1848. g. Another, born 1782. h. Henry, 2nd, born 1785; for thirty years Secretary of State of Rhode Island.

He married, second, Peddy Leonard, May 21, 1801.

2. Oliver, born November 17, 1742. His son, Oliver, Jr., was father of Mary Demont Bowen, lately deceased.

Children by second wife:

3. Dr. William, born March 8, 1747, married Susan Corlis, 1769, died 1832, aged 86 years. Children: a. Elizabeth, married Thomas Amory, 1799, whose children were: Mary; Harriet, married Robert H. Ives; John, Julia, married Rt. Rev. M. A. D'W. Howe; Louise; Anna; Helen, married William Raymond Lee; Thomas. b. Sarah, married William S. Skinner, 1816. c. Maria, married Hon. John Whipple, B. U., 1802, whose children were: John; Maria, married Rev. Francis Vinton; Elizabeth, married Prof. William Gammell; Sarah C., married, first, Robert P. Swann, of Virginia; second, William H. Potter; Samuel, died young; Harriet, married William S. Slater; William. d. Harriet, married, 1815, Commodore Charles Morris, United States Navy, whose children were: Charles; Harriet, married Rev. Dr. Coolidge; Louise, married William W. Corcoran, of Washington; Elizabeth, married Dr. John L. Fox; Helen; R. Murray; Dr. William B.; Maria, married Rev. Mr. Duncan; George; Julia, married Dr. Addison. e. Dr. William C. Bowen, born June 2, 1785; died 1815; married Rebecca Olney, 1812; had a son William.

4. Mary, born 1748; unmarried.

5. Sarah, born 1750; married Thomas Lloyd Halsey.

6. Lydia, born 1752; married John Innes Clarke, 1773, of whose daughters, Harriet married, 1811, Dr. Robert Hare, of Philadelphia and Anna E., married, 1803, Oliver Kane.

7. Col. Ephraim, born 1753; married, first, Sally Angell; was in the Revolutionary army, and one of the captors of the Gaspee. Children: First, William B., born in 1777, died August 26, 1826. Second, Julia, born in 1779; married John D. Martin, 1803. Third, Nathaniel, died young. Fourth, Sally A., died young. Fifth, Elizabeth, born in 1787; married Hon. John H. Clarke, B. U. 1809, afterwards Senator in Congress. Mr. Clarke died in 1872. Their son, Hon. James M. Clarke, B. U. 1838, was for several years U. S. District Attorney in Rhode Island.

Col. Bowen married, second, Sarah Whipple in 1794. Children: First, Esther; second, George T.; third, Sarah; fourth, Mary.

Col. Bowen died September 2, 1841, at his home at Pawtuxet, in Warwick.

8. Benjamin, born 1755.

9. Dr. Pardon, born March 26, 1757; died October, 1826, aged 69 years; married Elizabeth Ward, 1780. Had two sons, William, who went South, and Henry, who died young; and three daughters, Esther, married Charles W. Greene, 1806; Frances, who married Charles W. Greene,
1813, and Anna E., who married Franklin Greene, and is still living at East Greenwich.

10. Benjamin, born 1759; went to New York.

11. Ann, born 1762; married Edward Mitchell, 1792. Mrs. Mitchell died in Charleston, S. C., in 1855.

12. Betsey, born 1765; married John Ward, 1792; no children.

13. Fanny, 1768; married John E. Moore, 1789.

Dr. William Bowen, Dr. Pardon Bowen, and Dr. William C. Bowen, were all of great eminence in their profession, See Thatcher's New England Medical Biography and Dr. Usher Parsons' Sketches of Rhode Island Physicians. Married by Rev. Josiah Cotton

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Sources 
  1. Title: Arnold's Vital Records of Providence, RI
  2. Title: Arnold's Vital Records of Rhode Island; Providence
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SmartMatches 
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Ephraim Bowen of Ward and Meacham

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