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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
Author: Gary Owen Green
Lieutenant Clifton Bowen was born in 1738 in Duplin County, North Carolina, the child of Clifton Bowen Sr and Elizabeth Harris. He married Martha in 1756 in Duplin County, North Carolina. They had at lest four children, Amelia, Mark, Stephen, and Mary during their marriage. He died on August 3, 1789, in Screven County, Georgia, at the age of 51.
Clifton BOWEN served in the NC line as a lieutenant. He was from Duplin Co, NC. He had two sons that also served in the Revolutionary War. He served in the NC militia as a lieutenant in the Duplin County militia. He was honorably discharged in 1781 because of a pulminory ailment that made him too feeble to carry on. He moved with his family to Effingham Co, Ga. between 1785-90. He lived in Bulloch Co until his death.. *Clifton Bowen, RS, (1735-1806) was the son of Clifton Bowen (1700) who was the son of Samuel Bowen. *Source: ancestral file from William Ayres of Salem, NJ.
Service: Ensign and Lieutenant under Captain Aaron Williams, Wilmington District, NC Militia
Source: (DAR File # 358,460 and 474,974; Revolutionary Army Accounts, Volume W., No 1, page 27; NSSAR # 92132, 93827 and 96731)
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