Oliver Bowers

Married 1) Esther 2) Elizabeth Merrill, widow of Benjamin Pierce

Children by 1st wife, all born at Chelmsford, include:

•  Oliver, L Oliver and Easter, Nov. 25, 1754.
• Betty, d. Oliver and Esther, bp. Jan. 30, 1757. CR1  
• Betty, d. Oliver and Ester, Feb. 22, 1757.
• Esther, d. Oliver and Esther, bp. Mar. 13, 1763. CR1
•  Jerahmeel, s. Oliver and Esther, Mar. 11, 1765.
•  Lucy, d. Oliver and Esther, Apr. 27, 1767.

Children by 2nd wife, born at Chelmsford

• John, s. Oliver and Elisaheth, Oct. 17, 1769.

Source: Vital Records of Chelsmford - Births Bowers

notes

• Residence 1775 Age: 47 Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire
  • From An Account of Some of the Early Settlers of West Dunstable, Monson and Hollis, N. H. by Charles Spaulding p 199: came "to Hollis, in the spring of 1775, and settled in the Witch brook valley at North Hollis... establishing the north cemetery... in 1778"
• Petition for Magistrate 1784 2 Jun Age: 56 Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire
  • N. H. Provincial and State Papers, Vol 12 p 251: Both Oliver Bowers and his son Oliver Bowers, Jr. signed this petition

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• Vital Records of Chelsmford - Births Bowers, Oliver, s. Jerahmeel and Sarah, Apr. 14, 1728
• Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2.  Ezra S. Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher, Edward Everett Parker. Lewis Publishing Company, 1908 - New Hampshire - 2067 pages.  Page 558. "(V) Benjamin, youngest child of Stephen and Esther (Fletcher) Pierce, was born in Chelmsford, November 25, 1726. He was a lifelong resident of Chelmsford, and his death, which was untimely, occurred June 16, 1764. His wife, who was Elizabeth (Merrill) Pierce, of Mcthuen, Massachusetts, born February 22, 1728, survived him and married for her second husband a Mr. Bowers,
• Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1914), p. 191. "BOWERS, Oliver, and [Mrs. int.] Elizabeth Pierce, Jan. 3, 1769."
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