Individual Details
OBADIAH BOWEN Sr
(Ca 1627 - 28 - 10 Sep 1710)
Events
| Birth | Ca 1627 - 28 | Wales, British America |  | ||
| Immigration | 1640 | New England | | ||
| Marriage | Abt 1645 | Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Mary maybe Clifton? | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 22 Jun 1658 | was among several where division of the meadows onthe north side of the town was made (Attleborough) - Rehoboth, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Property | 22 Jun 1658 | Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Religion | 1668 - 1675 | Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Property | 26 May 1668 | Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Move | 12 Feb 1669 | first inhabitants of new town of Swansey - Swansea, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Military | 1676 | money to sustain Philip's War, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachuesetts | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 12 Nov 1680 | with Hugh Cole and Samuel Luther were chosen a committe 'to lay out with the Tauton gentlemen our two mile due from Taunton to Swansey' - Swansea, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1687 | in probate records of brother William | | ||
| Residence | 1687 | Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Property | 1687 | 20 acres in town, 2 acres of slatmarsh lying in New Meadow Necke - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Property | 1689 | Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 7 Feb 1689 | listed as Proprietor not inhabitant, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachuesetts | | ||
| Will | 11 Dec 1708 | Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts | | ||
| Death | 10 Sep 1710 | Swansea, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Burial | Obadiah Bowen Lot - School House Road and Market Street, Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Mary maybe Clifton? (1628 - 1697) |
| Child | John Bowen (1646 - ) |
| Child | Obadiah Bowen Jr (1651 - 1699) |
| Child | Mary Bowen (1652 - 1678) |
| Child | Sarah Bowen (1654 - 1703) |
| Child | ? Samuel Bowen (1659 - ) |
| Child | Joseph Bowen (1662 - ) |
| Child | Thomas Bowen (1664 - 1730) |
| Child | Hannah Bowen (1665 - ) |
| Child | Lydia Bowen (1666 - ) |
| Child | Marcy Bowen (1672 - ) |
| Child | Isaac Bowen (1674 - ) |
| Father | Richard Bowen (1594 - 1674) |
| Mother | unknown - not Ann ( - ) |
| Sibling | Alice Bowen (1620 - ) |
| Sibling | William Bowen (1622 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Bowen (1624 - 1676) |
| Sibling | Ruth Bowen (1626 - ) |
| Sibling | Richard Bowen Jr (1631 - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas Bowen (1634 - ) |
Endnotes
1. 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.
2. "American Genealogist, The," database, (americanacestors.org: downloaded 8 August 2014), 'The Ancestry, Wives, and Children of Richard Bowen of Weymouth and Rehoboth, MA.
3. "American Genealogist, The," database, (americanacestors.org: downloaded 8 August 2014), 'The Ancestry, Wives, and Children of Richard Bowen of Weymouth and Rehoboth, MA.
4. "American Genealogist, The," database, (americanacestors.org: downloaded 8 August 2014), 'The Ancestry, Wives, and Children of Richard Bowen of Weymouth and Rehoboth, MA.
5. "Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700," database, (americanancestors.org: accessed 18 August 2025), p. 180, Obadiah Bowen and Mary Clifton, by 1651.
6. 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), 208, image 558.
7. James N Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896: Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths (Providence, RI: Narragansett historical Publishing Company, 1897), 914, Richard Bowen, Sr and Obadiah Bowen [Sr], property, 22 Jun 1658.
8. William B. Saxbe Jr., CG, FASG, "New Old Information about the Family of Richard Bowen of Rehoboth, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist, 84 (2010): 67.
9. James N Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896: Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths (Providence, RI: Narragansett historical Publishing Company, 1897), 914, Obadiah Bowen, property, 26 May 1668.
10. 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), 240, image 590.
11. "Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 16 August 2025), Obadiah Bowen, 1676, adv. money to sustain Philip's War.
12. 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), 95.
13. Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986", images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-36088-17004-48?cc=2106411&wc=MCBL-168:361612901,361839501 : accessed 21 Sep 2014), Bristol > Deeds 1686-1696 vol 1-2 > image 55 of 431.
14. Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986", images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-36088-17004-48?cc=2106411&wc=MCBL-168:361612901,361839501 : accessed 21 Sep 2014), Bristol > Deeds 1686-1696 vol 1-2 > image 55 of 431.
15. Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986", images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-36088-17004-48?cc=2106411&wc=MCBL-168:361612901,361839501 : accessed 21 Sep 2014), Bristol > Deeds 1686-1696 vol 1-2 > image 55 of 431.
16. William B. Saxbe Jr., CG, FASG, "New Old Information about the Family of Richard Bowen of Rehoboth, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist, 84 (2010): 67.
17. "Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850," database, American Ancestors, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org: accessed 16 August 2025), Obadiah Bowen, both Sr. and Jr, proprietors, 1689.
18. 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).
19. By the Editor, "The Will of Richard Bowin, Sr," The Mayflower Descendant: a Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, XVII V.17 & 18 (1915–1916), Book Published by MA Society of mayflower Descendants, Boston, 1915-1916 (http://www.mocavo.com/The-Mayflower-Descendant-a-Quarterly-Magazine-of-Pilgrim-Genealogy-and-History-Volume-17-18/718949/1153#7 : accessed 17 July 2014), Bowen Family..
20. By the Editor, "The Will of Richard Bowin, Sr," The Mayflower Descendant: a Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, XVII V.17 & 18 (1915–1916), Book Published by MA Society of mayflower Descendants, Boston, 1915-1916 (http://www.mocavo.com/The-Mayflower-Descendant-a-Quarterly-Magazine-of-Pilgrim-Genealogy-and-History-Volume-17-18/718949/1153#7 : accessed 17 July 2014), Bowen Family..
21. , The Mayflower Descendant: a Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History: XVII Vol 17 & 18 (N.p.: Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1915–16), 204, image 1145.
22. "American Genealogist, The," database, (americanacestors.org: downloaded 8 August 2014), 'The Ancestry, Wives, and Children of Richard Bowen of Weymouth and Rehoboth, MA.
23. Rhode Island Genealogical Society, "Rhode Island Roots," database, NEHGS, American Ancestry (americanancestry.org: downloaded 23 November 2014), Warren Historical Cemetery #14, The Obadiah Bowen Lot, Sept 2003, Vol 29, p139-148; citing Vol 29, Sept 2003, p139-148.
24. 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.
25. 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.