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Daniel BOWEN

SAR Patriot #: P-118436

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State of Service: CT      Qualifying Service: Private
DAR #: A012672

Birth: 21 Oct 1750 Woodstock / Windham / CT
Death: 13 Aug 1829 Reading / Windsor / VT

Qualifying Service Description:

1777-1780, he served as a Private in the company of Captain Ephraim Manning, commanded by Colonel Charles Webb (later Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Sherman, Colonel Zebulon Butler), 2nd Connecticut Regiment.


Additional References:
  1. Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War. Micropublication M881, roll 0190. Washington: National Archives.
  2. Johnston, Henry Phelps, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Services During the War of the Revolution 1775-1783, Connecticut. Harford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1889, pg 160

Spouse: Mehitible/Mehetible Packard
Children: Elisha; Susannah;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
2019-10-25 NC 87911 Orin Winslow Sadler (182372) Elisha   
Burial:
Greenbush Cemetery (C-0094158)
Location:
Weathersfield / Windsor / VT / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2228666
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
117324428
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Comments:

Original upright stone



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Author: Orin Winslow Sadler

Daniel Bowen was born on 21 October 1750 in Woodstock, Connecticut, the son of Silas and Dorothy (Lyon) Bowen.

He served at Bunker Hill.3]  Daniel enlisted in the 2nd Connecticut regiment on 1 April 17771 as a private in Captain Ephraim Manning’s company, General Israel Putnam’s regiment.2 He later joined General Washington’s Life Guards. His discharge papers are signed by General Washington on 1 April 1780.2

The 2nd Connecticut was raised in 1777 and subsequently garrisoned the area along the Hudson River. They were ordered to join Washington’s Army and took numerous casualties at the Battle of Whitemarsh. They later encamped with the rest of the army at Valley Forge. His unit took part in the Battle of Germantown in 1777, the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, and the Battle of Monmouth in 1778. Baron von Steuben would have selected him to be part of the Lifeguards. They were trained by this Prussian, and then the Life Guards became the model unit for the rest of Valley Forge encampment.

He married Mehitable Packard on 21 February 1788 in Brookfield, Massachusetts. 

  1. Elisha was born on 2 January 1791 and married Mary Ann Clark.
  2. Dorothy was born on 30 July 1793 and married Solomon Parker.
  3. Hervey was born on 2 April 1795 and died young.
  4. Silas was born on 8 November 1797 and married Rowena Banister.
  5. Susanna was born on 1 September 1799 and married James Johnson.

Shortly after marriage, he moved his family to Reading, Windsor County, Vermont.  

The Patriot died on 13 Aug 1829 and is buried beside his wife Mehitable in Reading, Vermont.4
 

Sources:

  1. Family of Griffith Bowen, Gentleman, Welsh Puritan Immigrant, Silas Bowen, 1893
  2. Lineage of the Bowen’s of Woodstock (1897), E. A. Bowen, p131
  3. Lineage Book, National Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol 165 (1921), p212
  4. Findagrave.com memorial 117324428

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