BOWER, Ruth

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Ruth married KNOWLES, Richard on 15 Aug 1639 in Plymouth, MA. Richard was born on 17 Sep 1614 in Lancashire, England; died on 3 Jun 1675 in Eastham, MA; was buried in Eastham, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _COLOR: 11
• Will: 1 Jun 1732

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owned a large quantity of land, evident by the number of documents pertaining to this fact SOUR: @S243@ PAGE: 79:296 "The Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass," by Charles Thornton Libby, Esq., of Portland, Me. This GEDCOM is generated by The Master Genealogist (TMG). Care must be e xercised in using these data; it is a "work in progress."

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Samuel married FREEMAN, Mercy on 16 Dec 1679 in Eastham, MA. Mercy (daughter of FREEMAN, Major John and PRENCE, Mary Mercy) was born on 23 Jun 1659 in Eastham, MA; died on 19 Jun 1737 in Eastham, MA; was buried in Barkhamsted, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: a mariner and sometime shopkeeper
• _COLOR: 2
• Residence: 1717, Windham, CT

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From Libby’s Knowles genealogy:22     “As a boy Nathaniel Knowles evedently woud rather go to sea than to school; for, although he belonged to an educated family, he did not learn to write. After his marriage his father attempted to establish him by giving him a large quantity of land in the new settlement at Windham, Conn., in that part of the town which is not wht town of Scotland; but in a few years he had evidently run through with this, and in a Windham deed he is called ‘of Branford, Conn.,” 27 Mar 1724, when he sold the last of his land at Windham. At Branford he bargained for a house, a shop, and two acres of land, in an instrument dated 8 Aug. 1722, but he did not get his deed until 21 Aug. 1724. Two years from that time he quit claimed his equity in the house and a half acre of the land, an acre and a half having been already levied on by a creditor, 18 Mar. 1724/5. At Branford he attempted to keep a store, and also was licensed as an innkeeper, enterprises which only a keen man could carry on successfully without an elementary education. After his house was gone he continued to live at Branford, doubtless going back to his early choice as sailor. Suits for debts appear in the court, and he was also arrested for having in his possession a man’s purse containing a large sum, but on surrendering this and showing penitence he was discharged with a small fine. A lawsuit in Apr. 1730 gives us his last appearance at Branford, except what we may infer from the marriage of his daughter a few months later; and the only evidence that he removed to Provincetown is found in a military roll in which his youngest son gave his birthplace as ‘Cape Cod,’ an expression which at that time meant Provincetown, where all the inhabitants were squatters, a law of the Province prohibiting the purchase of lands from the Indians. Whether he died at Provincetown or in his father’s house we can only doubtfully infer from his father’s will, which was evidently prompted by his prodigal but beloved son’s lying at death’s door. In one part of the will the father speaks of his son Nathaniel as alive, and in another part he calls Elizabeth a widow.”

Nathaniel married HUNT, Mary in Feb 1706–7. Mary was born on 8 Feb 1687–8 in Weymouth, MA; died on 17 Jun 1716 in Windham, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married BACON, Elizabeth on 25 Apr 1717 in Windham, CT. Elizabeth (daughter of BACON, Jacob and KNIGHT, Elizabeth) was born on 6 May 1692 in Roxbury, MA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rebecca married HUBBARD, George on 10 Jan 1753 in Branford, CT. George was born on 30 May 1717 in Guilford, CT; died on 2 Nov 1762 in Branford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary married LUDDINGTON, William on 5 Nov 1730 in Branford, CT. William was born on 6 Sep 1702 in Branford, CT; died on 17 Apr 1760 in CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: a yeoman
• _COLOR: 11
• Residence: Abt 1743, Falmouth, ME
• Milit-Beg: Between 1776 and 1778

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Samuel married ELWELL, Sarah on 29 Dec 1754 in Falmouth, ME. Sarah (daughter of ELWELL, David and MARINER, Sarah) was born in Jul 1730 in Gloucester, MA; died after 1784 in Addison, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]