Ancestry of
Bob Taft

67th Governor of Ohio

Benjamin Bowers

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Bob Taft — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 160 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Bowers 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Newhall   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Jul 1743 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 May 1817 
  • Death Location:
  • Blandford, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hepsibah Savage
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  • Child:

  Nathaniel Bowers (Ahnentafel No:80 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    D.A.R. #A213160

• Sources for Benjamin Bowers

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A213160.
  • ² The Essex Genealogist, 1995, Vol. 15, p. 100.
  • ³ U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, 05 JAN 1809, American Mercury, Death notice for spouse Hepzibeth Bowers.
  • ⁴ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Vol. 1, New York: John F. Trow and Sons (1874), 278.
  • ⁵ Savage, James Francis, Family of John Savage of Middletown, Conn., 1652, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1894), 34.