Col. Jabez Bowen

Jabez Bowen

• Birth: October 19, 1696, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts
• Death: August 18, 1770 (73) Providence, Providence County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• Father: Richard Bowen, M.D., b. Mar 17, 1665, New London, Connecticut; d. Feb 12, 1736, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
• Mother: Mary Titus, b. 1665, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts; d. 1747, Rehoboth, Mass.

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Family

Marriage 1) Jan 30, 1717, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass

Spouse: Huldah Hunt, b. Dec. 10, 1697, Rehoboth, Bristol Co, Mass; d. Aug. 12, 1754, Providence, R.I.; dau. of Benjamin Hunt and Mary Peck.

Children:

• Anna Bowen, b. cir 1718; d. Mar. 17, 1724 (6 yr.)
• Mary Bowen, b. cir 1722; d. Nov. 17, 1742 (20 yr.)
• Hulda Bowen, b. 1726; d. February 22, 1800; m. Eliphalet Dyer
• Col Benjamin Bowen, b. cir. 1727; d. Feb. 21, 1784; m. Abigail Norton Simons
• Jabez Bowen, b. 1728; d. Jun. 19, 1730 (2 yr.)

Marriage 2) January 27, 1759, Massachusetts

Spouse: Hannah (Whipple) Smith, b. cir 1712; d. 1778, Providence, R.I.

"1759 MARRIAGE AGREEMENT To Hannah Smith, in lieu of her dower and in anticipation of her marriage to Jabez Bowen, the use and occupation of the souther- most half of the house on the lot of land where he now lives lying between Main Street on the W and a new street called Benefit on the E and is bounded by said streets: S by heirs of Mawney; N by other moiety of Homestead Lot being the southmost part of his NEW DWELLING HOUSE lately built by Jabes Bowen on said premises"

Place of Burial: Newman Cemetery, East Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island

"Jabez of Providence who died Aug. 18th AD 1770 in 87th yr. He was long eminent in the practice of Physic and Surgery & Sustained several important Offices, Civil & Military in the Colony of R. I. with honor to himself and Benefit to his Country."

Coat of arms on this stone.

Sources:

Jabez Bowen House, 39 Bowen Street, Providence, Providence County, RI - https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/ri/ri0100/ri0148/data/ri014...

Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780: A A Biographical Dictionary, by John A. Schutz, p. 342 (re: Nathaniel Smith)

Familysearch Pedigree Resource File https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L4N2-VLV
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61579474&ref=wvr