Ancestry of
Franklin Pierce

14th U.S. President

Abigail Bowen

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• • Great-grandmother of Franklin Pierce — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • John Bowen 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Brewer   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Jul 1700 
  • Birth Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 5 Sep 1775 to 16 Sep 1775 
  • Death Location:
  • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Caleb Kendrick
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Sep 1721 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Benjamin Kendrick (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Sources for Abigail Bowen

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Marriages, 1700-1809, Vol. 1, p. 313, Marriage record for Caleb Kindrick and Abigl. Bowen in Roxbury.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury Marriages, Vol. 2, pp. 38, 236, Marriage of Abigail Bowin and Caleb Kindrick.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury Births, Vol. 1, p. 34.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newton Deaths, Vol. 1, p. 473.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Groton Deaths, Vol. 2, p. 237.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newton, Vol. 1, p. 323, Marriage record for Caleb Kendrick and Abigail Bowen in Roxbury.
  • ⁷ The American Genealogist, 1979, Vol. 55, p. 142.
  • ⁸ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 421.
  • ⁹ Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants, Boston: Privately Printed (1913), 5.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 452.
  • ¹¹ Stearns, Ezra S., comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 298.