Individual Details
Obadiah Bowen Jr
(18 Sep 1651 - 1699)
Events
| Birth | 18 Sep 1651 | Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachuesetts |  | ||
| Residence | 22 Feb 1669 | was one of the first signers admitted to the town - Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Marriage | 25 Jul 1677 | Swansea, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Abigail Bullock | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 7 Feb 1689 | listed as Proprietor not inhabitant, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachuesetts | | ||
| Death | 1699 | Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Move | | ||||
| Burial | Obadiah Bowen Lot - School House Road and Market Street, Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Abigail Bullock (1657 - ) |
| Child | James Bowen (1680 - ) |
| Child | Hezekiah Bowen (1682 - 1751) |
| Child | Mary Bowen (1684 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Bowen (1686 - ) |
| Child | Daniel Bowen (1689 - 1736) |
| Child | Aron Bowen (1694 - ) |
| Child | Sarah Bowen (1696 - ) |
| Child | Nathan Bowen (1698 - ) |
| Father | OBADIAH BOWEN Sr (1627 - 1710) |
| Mother | Mary maybe Clifton? (1628 - 1697) |
| Sibling | John Bowen (1646 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Bowen (1652 - 1678) |
| Sibling | Sarah Bowen (1654 - 1703) |
| Sibling | ? Samuel Bowen (1659 - ) |
| Sibling | Joseph Bowen (1662 - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas Bowen (1664 - 1730) |
| Sibling | Hannah Bowen (1665 - ) |
| Sibling | Lydia Bowen (1666 - ) |
| Sibling | Marcy Bowen (1672 - ) |
| Sibling | Isaac Bowen (1674 - ) |
Endnotes
1. Muriel Riemer Genealogy .
2. James N Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896: Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths (Providence, RI: Narragansett historical Publishing Company, 1897), 545.
3. "Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 17 August 2025), Obadiah Bowen, son of Obadiah, b. 18 Sep 1651.
4. Otis Olney Wright, History of Swansea Massachusetts: 1667-1917 (Published by the town: n.p., 1917), 49.
5. Muriel Riemer Genealogy .
6. William Richard Cutter, A.M., Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs: Relating to the families of Middlesex County, MA (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Comapny, 1908), 227.
7. Alverdo Hayward Mason, Book A Records of the Town of Swansea, 1662 to 1705 (East Braintree, Mass: Alverdo H Mason, 1900), image 29, Obadia Bowen & Abigall Bollock, 25 Jul 1677.
8. "Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700," database, (americanancestors.org: accessed 18 August 2025), p. 180, Obadiah Bowen and Abigail Bullock, 25 Jul 1677.
9. "Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 16 August 2025), Obadiah Bowen, both Sr. and Jr, proprietors, 1689.
10. Muriel Riemer Genealogy .
11. The Editor, "The Wills of Obadiah and Thomas Bowen," The Mayflower Descendant: a Quarterly Magazine, 18 ( : http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101076382637;view=1up;seq=1 7 June 2014).
12. "Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 16 August 2025), Obadiah Bowen, d. 11 July 1699.
13. Francis Baylies, An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth, from the Flight of the Pilgrims into Holland in the Year 1608, to the Union of That Colony With Massachusetts in 1692: Vol I containing parts one and two (Boston, MA: Wiggin and Lunt, 13 School St, 1866), 241, image 591.
14. Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : 7 October 2016), Steele Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, NC, memorial # 103166561, photo by “t. stephens”, grave maker of James Greer, 11 Sept 1828., Obadiah Bowen, Obadiah Bowen Lot, Warren, Bristol, RI.
15. Rhode Island Genealogical Society, "Rhode Island Roots," database, NEHGS, American Ancestry (americanancestry.org: downloaded November 2314), Warren Historical Cemetery article; citing Vol 29, Sept 2003, p139-148.