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Subject: [TXBROWN] Re: CW Bowden Obit
Date: 7 Feb 2003 16:48:00 -0700

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Surnames: BOWDOIN, BOWDEN, TRAVIS, SMITH
Classification: Query

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The common ancestors may be

William B. BOWDON
b. abt 1720 Delmarva, VA (?)
d bef 29 Oct 1774, Granville Co., NC
and Elizabeth (Betty) TRAVIS
d. aft 29 Oct 1774
m. abt 1733 Granville Co., NC

They had children Sarah, John, Travis (my ancestor), and William (possibly your ancestor?). My notes have William b. 1742 m. abt 1759 to Martha SMITH in Granville Co., NC. ( Your note said William was b.1752. Maybe there's been a typo or an assumption made somewhere along the line.)

Most of my notes come from Nick Catsban, a long term Bowden researcher, who not long ago e-mailed me his transcription of the Pierre Hayne papers (1935) which he found on file at the Indiana State Library.

Hayne, another Bowden descendant, traced the family to Pierre Claude Bowdoin, a "wealthy physician and publicist" who fled New Rochelle, France, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes deprived Protestants of their property and privileges. Bowdoin first went to Dublin and in 1687 emigrated to Casco, Maine with his family, eventually moving to Boston around 1691. His son John established the Virginia (North Carolina) branch of the family, while his elder son James remained in New England.

Please e-mail me if you would like a copy of the Pierre Hayne transcription.

Joan

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