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John Edmund Bowker

Also Known As: "Edmund Bowker"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Death: 1740 (50-51)
Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Edmund Bowker, Jr. and Sarah Bowker
Husband of Sarah Bowker; Hannah Bowker and Elizabeth Bowker
Father of Mary Moore; Noah Bowker, Sr.; Edmund Bowker; Hon. Capt. Joseph Bowker; Capt Daniel Bowker and 11 others
Brother of Elizabeth Bowker; Arabella Bowker; Daniel Bowker; Sarah Bowker and Joseph Bowker

Managed by: Joseph Stanley Bonnard, II
Last Updated:

About John Edmund Bowker

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Parents:
Edmund Bowker, b. 13 Oct 1661 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, d. 1706 Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He fell out of a canoe and drowned

Sarah Parmenter, b. 29 Aug 1668 Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Wives:
1st - Sarah Clapp, b. 30 April 1693, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Mass.,[p.200,ClappMem.], m. 21 Feb 1720-1, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Mass., [p. 172, Vital Records, Sudbury], d. abt. 1725 in Hopkinton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts [parents: Noah and Mary Clapp, p.200, ClappMem.]

2nd -Hannah [Annah] Clapp - b. 10 Sept 1691, Sudbury, Middlesex co., Mass. She was married about 1728-1730 at Hopkinton, Middlesex Co., Mass. [parents: Noah and Mary Clapp, p.200, ClappMem.] She was Sarah's older sister. - sleuth2 (47283159)]

Children by Sarah Clapp:

-- Hannah Bowker, b. 4 Apr 1721 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Mass. She married William Joyner, [p. 172, Vital Records, Sudbury], b. 18 March 1745

-- Mary Bowker, b. 21 Sept 1722 in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Mass., m. Ruben Moore , March 24, 1746-47 [p. 239, Vital Records, Sudbury]in Sudbury, Mass.

-- Noah Bowker, b. 16 May 1724, [p.35, Vital Rec. Hopk.], in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Mass., d. 16 Oct 1813, [p. 515, Barbour Collection, Columbian Centinel], West Springfield, Mass. , m. Hepzibah Willard, ['Noah (Bowker) of Somers and Hepsibah Willard, int. Jan. 2, 1753, [Bk. 2, p. 74] married Feb. 22, 1753, at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, [Bk. 2, p. 108, p. 169, Mass.Town & V.R.]. She was b. 1731, and d. at West Springfield, Mass.

-- Joseph Bowker, [see #34549607], b. 28 Dec 1725 [p.34, Vital Rec. Hopk.], in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Mass. He died on 11 July 1784 at Rutland, Vermont. He married Sarah Taintor, 21 Nov 1749, [p. 126, Vital Rec. West.] at Westborough, Mass.

Children by Hannah Clapp:

-- Capt Daniel Bowker, b. Nov. 23, 1731, Hopkinton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, [p.33. Vital Rec. Hopkinton] in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Mass.,d. Jan. 31, 1822, Massachusetts, Age 92. Revolutionary War Veteran, He married Sarah Brigham,June 1755 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Mass. b.Nov. 23, 1731, d. Jun. 28, 1813, Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, Wife of Capt. Daniel Bowker

-- Elias Bowker, b. 6 April 1733, [p.33. Vital Rec. Hopkinton], in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Mass., d. Feb. 29, 1816 in Georgia, ?. M. 1st. Sarah Harwood on 13 Sept. 1757 [p.162, Vital Rec. Leicester], in Leicester, Mass., 2nd Deborah Goodspeed [p.155, Vital Rec. Leicester], 3 Nov. 1760, also at Leicester, Mass.

-- John Bowker, b. 4 Oct 1735, [p.34. Vital Rec. Hopkinton], in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Mass., d. 21 May 1765 in Westboro, Mass. He married 1st: Tryphena Kendall[#138891234], October 12, 1760 in Mass. (She married 2nd, to Joseph King, 3rd,1741-1814 [#33397581] of Suffield, Connecticut in 1769 [p.369, Geneal.NEHGR]

-- Silas Bowker, b. 3 May 1739,[p.35. Vital Rec. Hopkinton], in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Mass. d. 15 Oct 1789 in Chenango County, New York. He married Esther Hobbs, at Concord, Mass. 3 Sept, 1761. [pp.105, 114, Town of Weston]

Sources:
Births:
Sudbury Town Records: Births - Clap or Clapp, p. 39, 40.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97M-RD6R?i=30&cc=...

p.20, A Cutler memorial and genealogical history containing the names of a large proportion of the Cutlers in the United States and Canada, and a record of many individual members of the family, with an account also of other families allied to the Cutlers by marriage compiled by Nahum S. Cutler, Pub.1889 by Press of E. A. Hall & Co. in Greenfield, Mass.

p. 33, in, Births, vol.1, Vital records of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Pub. 1911 by New England historic genealogical Society, at the charge of the Eddy town-record fund in Boston
'Daniel, ch. John, bp. [rec. before Apr. 11, 1731]. c.r.i.',
'Daniel, s. John and Hannah, Nov. 23, 1731', .

'Elias, s. John and Hannah, Apr 6, 1733 [Bouker, C.R.I.]'

p. 34, in, Births, vol.1, Vital records of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Pub. 1911 by New England historic genealogical Society, at the charge of the Eddy town-record fund in Boston.

'John, s. John and Hannah, Oct 4, 1735 (Bouker, C.R.I.)',
'Joseph, s. John and Sarah, Dec. 28, 1725. (Bouker, C.R.I)',
'Mary [dup. Bouker], d. John and Sarah, Sept. 21 [dup. Sept. 12], 1722',

p. 35, in, Births, vol.1, Vital records of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. Pub. 1911 by New England historic genealogical Society, at the charge of the Eddy town-record fund in Boston.

'Silas, s. John and Hannah, May 3, 1739. (Bouker, C.R. 1)',,
'Noah, s. John and Sarah, May 16, 1724 (Bouker, C.R.1.)',

p. 8, City Document No. 59., Dorchester, vol. 1, Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850
'13th Nov. 1661 in Dorchester, Mass.

Marriages:
p. 126, Westborough Marriages, in, Vital records of Westborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, Worcester, Mass. Published by Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Fund. 1903. Stanbope Press (1903), F. H. Gilson Co., Boston.

p. 172, Marriages, Vital Records of Sudbury, Mass. up to the end of year 1850

p. 239, Marriages, Vital Records of Sudbury, Mass. up to the end of year 1850

p. 248, Marriages, Vital Records of Sudbury, Mass. up to the end of year 1850

p. 105, p. 114, in, Town of Weston. Births, deaths and marriages, 1707-1850, by Weston, Mass. [from old catalog]; Pierce, Mary Frances, 1831- [from old catalog] ed, Published 1901

'The Intentions of marriage between Silas Bowker of Concord, Mass and Ester hobbs of Weston Mass Were Entered and Published August the 7th, 1761',

p.162, Vital records of Leicester, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849., Pub. 1903 by F.P. Rice in Worcester.

p. 155, in, Vital records of Leicester, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849., Pub. 1903 by F.P. Rice in Worcester.

p.200, in the Clapp Memorial. Record of the Clapp family in America, containing sketches of the original six emigrants, and a genealogy of their descendants bearing the name. With a supplement, by Clapp, Ebenezer, 1809-1881, Published 1876,
Publisher Boston, D. Clapp

pp. 74, 108,Bk 2., in, Vital Records of Springfield, Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1849
Noah of Somers and Hepsibah Willard, int. Jan. 2, 1753'
'Noah of Somers and Hepsibah Willard, Feb. 22, 1753.'

p. 169, Massachusetts Town & Vital Records, 1620-1988

Deaths:
p. 297, Deaths, Vital Records of Sudbury, Mass. up to the end of year 1850

p.369, Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1, Genealogical Publishing Com, 1983.

p. 114, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 57 1903, by New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff

p. 515, Barbour Collection, Columbian Centinel, 16 Oct 1813, in West Springfield, Mass.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: May 11 2023, 17:03:54 UTC

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John Edmund Bowker's Timeline

1689
August 5, 1689
Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
1722
September 21, 1722
Hopkinton, MA
1723
March 1723
Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
1723
Sudbury, Middlesex MA
1724
March 19, 1724
Hopkinton, MA
May 16, 1724
Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
1725
December 28, 1725
Hopkinton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
1727
September 19, 1727
Hopkinton, MA