Re: Bowden/Kerly/Cearley Black Point to VA
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Bowden/Kerly/Cearley Black Point to VA
Judith Schreiber 8/18/09
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Descendants of Edward Small of New England, and the allied ..., Volume 3 By Lora Altine Woodbury Underhill
look at pages 1465-1467
It is probable that the wife of Ambrose Bowdoin, Sr, was not living at the time of his death; his age was eighty-six years.* The bill of .£50 for "the ould mans Dyet" and
* Ambrose ' Bowdoin, of Scarborough; the name of his wife is not known. They probably had other children than the three who are mentioned.
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I. Ambrose a Bowdoin, b. 1632, or earlier. He married Mary . (Vide
above.)
II. John 2 Bowdoin, b. 1640, or earlier. He probably was the " John boden " in service, 1676, in " Captain Gardiner's Souldiers, credited to Salem." The wife of John Bowdoin was Grace, daughter to " Nicholas Bully of Saco." They lived in Saco until driven off by the Indians, in 1690; the date of his death is not known. That she took refuge in Boston is evident from the fact that " Wid° Booden " was mentioned in 1700 in a list of tax abatements. In a return of a census of Boston, taken June 26, 1707, " Grace Bowden W. P. [Widow, Poor] " appears as living at " Widow Henlys " — rent £4:10.
" John Bowden of Saco . . . Planter " was living there in 1687, on the two hundred acres which he bought, Oct. n, 1659, of "Joseph Boles of Wells ;" the land adjoined that of Peter Hills. " William Kerley [Car- ley] of Boston, in behalf of his wife & three Sisters Daughters of John Bouden Some time Jnhabetant of Saco Dec* " claimed (no date given) the above mentioned land " near Peter Hills." In 1726, "William Care- ley . . . Mariner & Mary Carley my Wife . . . Ruth Bouden Spinster . . . Margaret Foxwell Widow . . . Ann Mullins Widow . . . William Marshall . . . Butcher & Hannah my Wife ... all of Boston in the County of Suffolk . . . Elias Ware of Rhode Island . . . Merch* . . . Benjamin Collins of Dighton in the County of New Bristol in Rhode Island . . . Housewright & Elizabeth my Wife . . . Joseph Andrews of Dorchester ... Husbandman & Elizabeth my Wife . . . Jonathan Chan-
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Re: Bowden/Kerly/Cearley Black Point to VA
Judith Schreiber 8/20/09