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State of Service: RI
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Staff Officer / Surgeon's Mate / Apothecary's Mate
Gallery: Pension # S.4268, 35 pages (document images) and image of Final Payment Voucher with Date of Death: 12 Aug 1832.
Death date and Marriage Date from Source: Original data: Arnold, James Newell. Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636–1850. 21 volumes. Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891–1912. Digitized images from New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
DAR Ancestor #: A012710 Pension Number: S4268 Service Description: 1) Surgeon's Mate, Dr. Jonathan Arnold; Also Apothecary's Mate; 2) Surgeon on Privateer 'VENGEANCE,' Capt. Collyer; Prisoner of War on Prison Ship 'JERSEY'
Sums received: 542 79, Description of service: Rhode Island Navy
When placed on the pension roll: 27 Oct 1832, Commencement of pension: 4 Mar 1831
Age: 77, Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks: Died August 12, 1832.
Joseph Bowen entered the service as a Surgeon's Mate in 1778, and attached to the R.I. State Military and Hospital at Providence. He served as Surgeon's Mate during Spencer and Sullivan's expeditions, and stationed on the Island of Pawpawsquash in care of the wounded, after the battle of 1778. In May 1779, he received a United States appointment under the U.S. (warrant on file in Pension Office); reentered the service of the state as Surgeon's Mate, Aug. 3, 1780. He continued in service for six or eight months; became Surgeon on Privateer "Vengeance", sailing for Newbury Port; capture by the British, Mar. 24, 1782, carried to New York and confined as a prisoner until June 1782; permitted on parole and subsequently released. Verified by DAR National Number: 261163
Warrant certificate and declaration on file in Pension Office. See National #48646
A Patriot of the American Revolution for RHODE ISLAND with the rank of STAFF OFFICER.
Marriage: 14 December 1782, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
Wife/Spouse Hannah Robinson Simmons 1757–1824
Children of Hannah Robinson Simmons and Dr Joseph Bowen (9)
1. Capt Benjamin Bowen 1783–1846
2. Abigail Bowen 1786–1836
3. Joseph Bowen 1788–1831
4. Louis H. Bowen 1790–1798
5. Maria Antoinette Bowen 1794–1873
6. Julia Ann Bowen 1800–?
7. Clovis H Bowen 1801–1875
8. Emaline Frances Bowen 1802–1876
9. Hannah Bowen 1804–1814
Burial Site: Acotes Hill Cemetery, (AKA) Also known as Chepachet Cemetery, Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Glocester #23, Putnam Pike, Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Island
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