Ancestry of
Franklin Pierce

14th U.S. President

John Bowen

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Franklin Pierce — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 26 
  • Father:
  • Henry Bowen 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Johnson   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 1 Sep 1662 
  • Christening Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 24 Nov 1718 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Brewer
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1696 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Abigail Bowen (Ahnentafel No:13 )

• Sources for John Bowen

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury Births, Vol. 1, p. 34.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1979, Vol. 55, p. 143.
  • ³ Bowen, Daniel, The Family of Griffith Bowen, Gentleman, Welsh Puritan Immigrant, Boston, Mass., 1638-9, Especially the Branch of . . ., Jacksonville, Florida: DaCosta Printing Company (1893), 30, 33.
  • ⁴ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 421.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 452.