Alice "Elce" Darling

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wheaton-10

Robert Wheaton married Alyce Bowen, daughter of Richard Bowen who came to America about 1639. Their children included:[citation needed]

1. Joseph, born Salem
2. Samuel, born Salem
3. Jeremiah, born Salem
4. Obadiah, born Rehoboth, January 20, 1647; (a notation in the published vital records suggests this child was Abigail)[4]
5. John, born Reh. April 20, 1650
6. Bethia, born Reh. May 20, 1652
7. Hannah, born Reh. Sep 18,1654
8. Mary, born Reh. Nov 4, 1656
9. Ephraim, born Reh. Oct 20, 1659
10. Benjamin, in Reh. last of February 1661

Supporting data

• 'New England families, genealogical and memorial: a record of the ..., Volume 4 edited by William Richard Cutter
• New England families, genealogical and memorial: a record of the ..., Volume 4 edited by William Richard Cutter
• Pg. 1799
• Richard Bowen, the immigrant ancestor, came from Kittle Hill, Glamorganshire, Wales, to this county about 1638 and settled at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He was a son of James and Eleanor Bowen, of Ilewyndwar, Pembrokeshire, Wales, and grandson of Mathias Bowen or Bowin. He was a proprietor and town officer in Rehoboth, and was admitted a freeman, June 4, 1645. He married (first) Ann ___, and (second) Elizabeth ___. He was buried February 4, 1674, and in his will, dated June 4, 1673, he bequeathed to his wife and children. His widow was buried in 1685. Children: William; Obadiah, mentioned below; Richard; Thomas; 'Alice, married ___ Wheaton'; Sarah, married ___ Fuller; Ruth, married ___ Leverich.
  • (II) Obadiah Bowen, son of Richard Bowen, was born in Wales about 1627, died 1727. He married Mary Clifton. Children, born in Rehoboth: Obadiah, September 18, 1650; Mary, January 18, 1652; Sarah, November
  • Pg. 1800
  • 6, 1654; Samuel, July 16, 1659; Joseph, mentioned below; Thomas, August 3, 1664; Hannah, May 3, 1665; Lydia, April 25, 1666; Marcy, March 18, 1672; Isaac, September 20, 1674.
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• Richard Bowen came from Kittle Hill, Glamorganshire, Wales, to this country, about 1638, lived for a time at Weymouth and settled at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He was a proprietor and town officer in Rehoboth, and was admitted a freeman, June 4, 1645. His first wife bore the name of Ann and the second Elizabeth. He was buried February 4, 1674, and in his will dated June 4, 1673, he bequeathed his property to his wife and children. His widow was buried in 1685. Children: William; Obadiah, mentioned below; Richard ; Thomas ; 'Alice, who married a Wheaton' ; Sarah, married Robert Fuller; Ruth, married George Kendrick.
• http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/american-historical-society/e...
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• Alice Bowen Wheaton Find A Grave Memorial# 44174408
• Burial: Unknown Birth and Death Dates are approximate. She was perhaps born in Wales, and arrived in American about 1640 with her father and siblings.

Daughter of Richard Bowen, immigrant ancestor who settled at Rehoboth,MA.
Source: Find A Grave - Memorial 44174408

• Richard LeBaron Bowen Jr., The Ancestry, Wives and Children of Richard Bowen of Weymouth and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist, vol. 76 (October 2001):263-278.

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GEDCOM Note

Category:US President Direct Ancestor

Biography

Alice Bowen was born about 1620, possibly in Glamorganshire, Wales. She emigrated with her father (and possibly mother, name unknown) about 1640, which is the same year she likely married Robert Wheaton in Salem, Massachusetts <<ref name="TAG 2001">Richard LeBaron Bowen Jr., The Ancestry, Wives and Children of Richard Bowen of Weymouth and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist, vol. 76 (October 2001):263-278. </ref> . They lived there several years before removing first to Weymouth and then following the Reverend Samuel Newman's congregation to Rehoboth, Massachusetts in 1643/4<ref name="Bliss">Bliss, Jr., Leonard, (1836), “The History of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts: Comprising A History of the Present Townsof Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Pawtcket, From their Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Sketches of Attleborough, Cumberland, and a part of Swansey and Barrinigton”. (pp 26 & 67). Boston, MA., Otis and Boarders, Accessed 23 Sep 2018. https://books.google.com/books?id=T5qZBD5qK2EC&printsec=frontcover&... </ref>. Alice's husband, Robert is listed in the "Ring of Green" townsite map in what is present day Rumford, RI<ref name="Ring of Green">Rehoboth Ring of the Green Map. “Historic Bus Tour 2016: A map of the “Ringof the Green,” the original town center of Rehoboth, now located inRumford, RI. “, Rehoboth Antiquarian Society Newsletter, March 2016, pp. 3-4. Accessed 25 Oct 2018: http://www.carpentermuseum.org/RSANewsMarch2016FINALLoRez.pdf</ref>.caption=Rehoboth Ring of the Green Map Roberts simply states that her name is Alice Bowen, married (1) RobertWheaton ca. 1636. She married (2) Unknown Darling.<ref>Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009, p. ??</ref>

Sources

• Look at the raw image on page 768: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1V-TDVY : 29 November 2018), Ephraim Wheaton, 20 Oct 1659; citing Birth, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm. Whoever wrote Abigail on the raw document was in error as Robert'swife was Alice Bowen.
• ""Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3NG4-TLZ : accessed 5 November 2018), entry for Ira B Barney, cites sources; "Lyons/Harding Family Tree" file (2:2:2:MM6Z-9YC), submitted 3 April 2018 by smlyons77 [identity withheld for privacy].
• Charles Shepard, Richard Bowen's Descendants to the Fifth Generation, Troy, MI, 1921
• William B. Saxbe Jr., compiler, <i>Richard Bowen and His Descendants: (1594?-1675) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts</i>, 3 volumes (Hope, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 2011), Volume I, page 11