Individual Details
Richard BOWLBY Sr.
(Bef 12 JAN 1719 - 1818)
Appointed Justice of the Peace for Sussex Co. (Perth Amboy), NJ in 1772. A Loyalist who remained in NJ throughout the American Revolution. Went to Annapolis, Nova Scotia in 1784. Died in a farming accident at the age of 99.
Source: Descendant, Mike Sharp, Oct 14 1998 posted on the Internet "GenForum" site "Bowlby Family Genealogy Forum".
Excerpt from "Bowlby Families in England and America, Part 2", page 64, written by Raymond Edwin Bowlby:
Richard Bowlby was the ninth child and sixth son of Thomas and Martha (Barker) Bowlby, christened 12 Jan 1719/20... Though no original documents can now be found, several early family historians unequivocally state that he married Mary Drake in New Jersey around 1750...
Richard evidently accompanied his father and two brothers to Burlington in the province of West Jersey in 1727, since his father's will of 23 February 1730/31, states that only one of his sons, Thomas, remained in "Old England" at that time.
Richard's farm was confiscated in 1779 by the Rebels, while he was in exile in New York.
Events
| Birth | Bef 12 JAN 1719 | ||||
| Christen | 12 JAN 1719 | Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England, UK |  | ||
| Immigration | 1727 | the Colony of New Jersey | |||
| Marriage | ABT 1754 | Mary DRAKE | | ||
| Death | 1818 | Bricton Co., Nova Scotia, Canada | |
Families
| Spouse | Mary DRAKE ( - ) |
| Child | Martha BOWLBY (1752 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth BOWLBY (1753 - ) |
| Child | Mary BOWLBY (1754 - 1834) |
| Child | Abraham BOWLBY (1755 - ) |
| Child | Rachel BOWLBY (1756 - ) |
| Child | Catherine BOWLBY (1758 - ) |
| Child | Sarah BOWLBY (1758 - ) |
| Child | Josiah BOWLBY (1759 - ) |
| Child | George BOWLBY Sr. (1760 - 1846) |
| Child | Richard BOWLBY Jr. (1761 - 1845) |
| Child | Thomas BOWLBY (1766 - 1848) |
| Child | James BOWLBY (1779 - 1862) |
| Father | Thomas Bryan BOWLBY (1665 - 1730) |
| Mother | Martha S. BARKER (1671 - 1761) |
| Sibling | Jordan B. BOWLBY (1696 - 1726) |
| Sibling | Samuel BOWLBY (1698 - 1724) |
| Sibling | John M. BOWLBY Sr. (1703 - 1779) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth B. BOWLBY (1706 - 1782) |
| Sibling | Thomas BOWLBY (1708 - 1787) |
| Sibling | George B. BOWLBY (1711 - 1773) |
| Sibling | Martha BOWLBY (1713 - 1743) |
| Sibling | Jane BOWLBY (1714 - 1743) |
| Sibling | Edward BOWLBY ( - ) |
Endnotes
1. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A., Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993
2. John Marshall, Web site
3. Fred Potter
4. Florence Bowlby.
5. Lauri Gray-Stoewsand
6. John Marshall, Web site