Individual Details
Valentine Bowen
(25 Nov 1722 - 20 Jan 1799)
Events
| Birth | 25 Nov 1722 | Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America |  | ||
| Marriage | 14 Nov 1745 | Swanzea, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Jemima Martin | | ||
| Signature | 1751 | on father's probate record - Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America | | ||
| Property | 17 Dec 1770 | purchased property at New Providence (Later Adams, Still later Cheshire), New Providence, Berkshire County, Massachusetts | | ||
| Property | 1771 | sold land - Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America | | ||
| Property | 1772 | purchased property - New Providence, Berkshire County, Massachusetts | | ||
| Property | 1772 | sold land - Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America | | ||
| Property | 1773 | purchased land - New Providence, Berkshire County, Massachusetts | | ||
| Property | 1775 | sold land - Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America | | ||
| Military | 1777 | served as lieutenant in Col Joab Stafford's (independent) company of volunteers | | ||
| Census | 1790 | Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States | | ||
| Will | 5 Jun 1797 | Cheshire, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States | | ||
| Signature | 5 Jun 1797 | Cheshire, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States | | ||
| Death | 20 Jan 1799 | Cheshire, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States | | ||
| Burial | Aft 20 Jan 1799 | Bowen-Bliss-Smith Cemetery, Cheshire, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Jemima Martin (1717 - ) |
| Child | Phebe Bowen (1746 - 1787) |
| Child | Hezekiah Bowen (1748 - 1809) |
| Child | Elizabeth Bowen (1750 - 1838) |
| Child | Anna Bowen (1753 - 1797) |
| Child | Nathan Bowen (1755 - 1842) |
| Child | Elijah Bowen Sr (1756 - 1807) |
| Child | Elizabeth Bowen (1756 - ) |
| Child | Aaron Bowen (1759 - ) |
| Child | Peley or Peleg Bowen (1761 - ) |
| Child | Benejah Bowen (1762 - ) |
| Child | Jemima Bowen (1765 - ) |
| Child | Mercy Bowen (1768 - ) |
| Child | Ame Bowen (1770 - ) |
| Father | Hezekiah Bowen (1682 - 1751) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Landon (1688 - ) |
| Sibling | Anne Bowen (1707 - ) |
| Sibling | Rachall Bowen (1709 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Bowen (1709 - ) |
| Sibling | Seth Bowen (1711 - ) |
| Sibling | Martha Bowen (1714 - ) |
| Sibling | Nathan Bowen (1715 - ) |
| Sibling | Lydia Bowen (1718 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Bowen (1724 - ) |
| Sibling | Amu [Ame] Bowen (1728 - ) |
| Sibling | Peleg Bowen (1729 - ) |
Endnotes
1. Muriel Riemer Genealogy .
2. "Ancestor Search," database, DAR Daughters of the American Revolution (https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search/?Tab_ID=1: accessed 10 August 2025), Valentine Bowen, b. 25 Nov 1722, d. 20 Jan 1799, Lieutenant.
3. H.L. Peter Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992), 207.
4. Muriel Riemer Genealogy .
5. "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Swansea - Vol 1," database, (americanancestors.org: accessed 3 June 2014), Wedding record.
6. Probate Records, 1797, Bershire Probate Courty, 76 East Street, Pittsfield, MA.
7. "Rhode Island, Town Births and Baptisms Index, 1639-1932," database, FamilySearch (famlysearch.org: accessed 10 August 2025), Valentine Bowen and Jemina Martin, 14 Nov 1745.
8. "Massachusetts, State Vital records, 1638-1927," database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org: accessed 10 August 2025), Valentine Bowen m. Jemina Martin, 14 Nov 1745.
9. "Rhode Island, Town Marriages Index, 1639-1932," database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org: accessed 10 August 2025), Valentine Bowen and Jemina Martin, 14 Nov 1745.
10. H.L. Peter Rounds, Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850 (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992), 207.
11. "Western Massachusetts Families in 1790," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 20 August 2025), 65, Jemima Martin parents John and Mercy/Marcy Thurber Martin.
12. "Bristol County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1880," digital images, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 16 August 2025), probate record of Hezekiah Bowen, 1751.
13. "Western Massachusetts Families in 1790," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 20 August 2025), 65-65, property purchased.
14. "Western Massachusetts Families in 1790," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 20 August 2025), 67.
15. "Western Massachusetts Families in 1790," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 20 August 2025), 65-65, property purchased.
16. "Western Massachusetts Families in 1790," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 20 August 2025), 66, property sold.
17. "Western Massachusetts Families in 1790," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 20 August 2025), 65-65, property purchased.
18. "Western Massachusetts Families in 1790," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 20 August 2025), 67.
19. "Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620-1775, Massachusetts Officers in the French and Indian Wars, 1748-1763," database, (americanancestors.org: accessed 2 June 2014), List of officers 1762.
20. "Ancestor Search," database, DAR Daughters of the American Revolution (https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search/?Tab_ID=1: accessed 10 August 2025), Valentine Bowen, b. 25 Nov 1722, d. 20 Jan 1799, Lieutenant.
21. "Western Massachusetts Families in 1790," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 20 August 2025), 65-66.
22. 1790 US Federal Census, Adams, Berkshire, MA, , image 1 of 3, Valentine, Nathan, Aaron, Hezekiah Benajah, Elijah Bowen; digital images, (ancestry.com : accessed 17 July 2014).
23. Probate Records, 1797, Bershire Probate Courty, 76 East Street, Pittsfield, MA.
24. Probate Records, 1797, Bershire Probate Courty, 76 East Street, Pittsfield, MA.
25. Daughters of the American revolution, Lineage Book - Nation Society of the Daughters of the American revolution: Volumes 61-62 (on googlebooks: n.p., n.d.), 35 Mrs. Vera L Brackett Brown -60097.
26. "Ancestor Search," database, DAR Daughters of the American Revolution (https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search/?Tab_ID=1: accessed 10 August 2025), Valentine Bowen, b. 25 Nov 1722, d. 20 Jan 1799, Lieutenant.
27. Find A Grave, photo of gravestone (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 10 August 2025), memorial page for Valentine Bowen, Find A Grave Memorial # 134285309, citing Bowen-Bliss-Smith Cemetery (Cheshire, Bershire, Massachusetts), memorial created by YankeeGraver, photograph by Daniel W.