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Dick Van Dyke

TV Actor - “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

Abijah Bowen

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Dick Van Dyke — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 851 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1663 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 May 1746 
  • Death Location:
  • Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abial Wood
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Dec 1683 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elnathan Wood

  Abijah Wood (Ahnentafel No:425 )

  Abial Wood

  Jerusha Wood

  Timothy Wood

  Ebenezer Wood

  Judah Wood

  Thomas Wood

  • Notes: 

  • Abijah Bowen's given name is also seen as Abiah.

    Despite claims that Abijah Bowen is the daughter of Thomas Bowen and Elizabeth Nichols, no evidence has been found to confirm this.

• Sources for Abijah Bowen

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/28/2019).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Middleborough, Vol. 1, p. 1, Marriage record for Abiel Wood and Abijah Bowin.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Halifax, Vol. 1, p. 2, Death record for Abijah Wood.
  • ⁴ The Mayflower Descendant, 1998, Vol. 48, pp. 136-137.
  • ⁵ Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 33.
  • ⁶ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 7, 2nd ed., Peter Brown, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2002), 26.
  • ⁷ Weston, Thomas, History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1906), 649.
  • ⁸ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 371.
  • ⁹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 201.

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