Silas Day Bowker, Sr.

DAR Ancestor # A132732
NEW YORK, PATRIOTIC SERVICE, SOLDIER

Revolutionary War veteran
(Enlisted man in Levies Regiment under Lieut Col Albert Pawling, 1780)

"Silas Bowker visited the Onondaga Salines in 1774 and reported that 'the manufacture of salt was wholly in the hands of two Negro men, deserters from their master in Esopus, who used brass kettles for this purpose and whose only customers were the neighboring Indians.'”
(source: Onondaga County Freedom Trail: Historic Context, Milton C Sernett, http://pacny.net/freedom_trail/context.htm)

(sources: Ms. Jean Colson; Robert Bowker, 2001; Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915; Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910; "New York In The Revolution, As Colony And State. . .", Vol. I, 1904, transcribed by Coralynn Brown; "Vital records of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850", 1911, p. 35; "New York in the Revolution as Colony and State. . .", Vol 1, 1904, p. 82)
Revolutionary War veteran
(Enlisted man in Levies Regiment under Lieut Col Albert Pawling, 1780)

Parents:
John & Hannah Bowker

Wife:
Esther (married 3 Sept 1761, Weston, MA)

Other Children:
~ Orsimus (3/9/1770, Willington, CT-1795)
~ Cynthia (b. 9/25/1768, CT, d. Westfield, MA?)
~ Lisa Eliza "Bowker" Rose (15 Jun 1765, Willington, CT-20 Aug 1839, Trenton Township, Delaware Co., OH; m. Jacob on 5 Aug 1784)
~ Daniel (22 Feb 1767, Willington, CT-1 May 1829, Hancock, NY)

"Silas Bowker visited the Onondaga Salines in 1774 and reported that 'the manufacture of salt was wholly in the hands of two Negro men, deserters from their master in Esopus, who used brass kettles for this purpose and whose only customers were the neighboring Indians.'”
(source: Onondaga County Freedom Trail: Historic Context, Milton C Sernett, http://pacny.net/freedom_trail/context.htm)

(sources: Ms. Jean Colson; Robert Bowker, 2001; Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915; Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910; "New York In The Revolution, As Colony And State. . .", Vol. I, 1904, transcribed by Coralynn Brown; "Vital records of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850", 1911, p. 35; "New York in the Revolution as Colony and State. . .", Vol 1, 1904, p. 82)* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: May 11 2023, 17:03:54 UTC