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303. Adam H. BOWLBY ⁽³⁾⁽⁵⁾⁽⁶⁾⁽⁷⁾⁽⁸⁾ was born on 29 Mar 1792 in Wilmot Township, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Canada.⁽¹⁸¹³⁾⁽¹⁸¹⁴⁾ He died on 26 Feb 1883 in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario.⁽¹⁸¹⁵⁾ He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Waterford, Norfolk County.⁽¹⁸¹⁶⁾ He served in the military.⁽¹⁸¹⁷⁾ A veteran of the War of 1812. He was a captain of a company of coast guard which guarded the Bay of Fundy against privateers.

According to R. Robert Mutrie, in an email exchange March 2001, Adam served as a private in 1830. He resided in Ontario, Canada.⁽³⁶⁸⁾⁽¹⁸¹⁸⁾ After the was, Adam moved to Townsend Township, Norfolk County, Ontario, because his uncle, Thomas Bowlby, was located there. It was there he became an extensive farmer and dealer in farm lands, who owned large tracts of land in Norfolk and adjoining counties, and acquired considerable wealth. Adam was one of the seven councillors of what was known as the Talbot District.

He was married to Elizabeth SOVEREIGN (daughter of ) in 1819 in Norfolk, Ontario, Canada.⁽¹⁸¹⁹⁾⁽¹⁸²⁰⁾⁽⁹⁹³⁾ Elizabeth SOVEREIGN⁽¹⁸²¹⁾⁽⁵⁾⁽⁶⁾⁽⁷⁾⁽⁸⁾ was born in 1795 in Burlington, New Jersey.⁽¹⁸²²⁾ She died on 17 Aug 1867 in Canadaigua, NY.⁽¹⁸²³⁾⁽¹⁸²⁴⁾ She was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Waterford, Norfolk County.⁽¹⁸²⁵⁾ Elizabeth was the niece of Philip Sovereign, member of the first
parliament of Upper Canada at Niagara.

Pat Reece posted in genforum:

The Waterford Star, 1 September 1904 part of an article about Dr A
Bowlby

It might not be out of place here to give a sketch of my mother's side
of the house. Her father, Leonard Sovereign, was born either in
Pennsylvania or New Jersey. His parents were both Germans and could
never speak English. His wife was a Collver and could never speak
Dutch. They had four children before emigrating to Upper Canada. My
mother was the youngest, then not three years old. He first came to
this country alone, guided a great part of the way through the woods,
using a compass, or following a trail, carrying only his trusty rifle
and knap-sack spying the country as he passed along. He did not find a
place that suited him until he reached the Round Plains, then a most
beautiful and fertile prairie, free of all underbrush and timber to
the extent of over 1,000 acres. Here he located his farm of 400 acres
and built a log house on the Windham side of the Town Line, not far
from where the schoolhouse now stands. It took all his time the first
year to do this, get back, have his emigrant wagons fitted up and
everything ready for an early start the next year. He brought his
horses, cows, sheep, pigs, geese, chickens and all farming implements,
which they had at that time for running his farm, driving and leading
all that could travel and carrying the rest. Not long after this,
other members of the Sovereign family arrived in this country. They
kept on coming until the whole large family of father, mother, boys
and girls were here. Some time before the War of 1812, my grandfather,
Leonard Sovereign, bought the farm here, partly in this village,
afterwards owned by his son, my uncle Leonard, father of L L
Sovereign, its present owner and occupier. He built and lived in the
house on the north side of the creek, lately known as Teeters Hotel,
which was burned not long ago. After moving to Waterford, he went into
partnership with his brother, Morris. They bought the gristmill from a
man named Avery. The Americans set this on fire, left on their march
but not seeing the mill burning, returned and caught Morris at work
putting out the fire. Adam H. BOWLBY and Elizabeth SOVEREIGN had the following children:

+714 i. Dr. Alfred BOWLBY.
+715 ii. William BOWLBY.
+716 iii. Dr. David Sovereign BOWLBY.
+717 iv. Mary Ursula BOWLBY.
+718 v. Ward Hamilton BOWLBY.
+719 vi. John Wedgewood BOWLBY.
720 vii. Mary Lavine BOWLBY⁽⁵⁾⁽⁶⁾⁽⁷⁾⁽⁸⁾ was born in 1848.⁽¹⁸²⁶⁾ She died on 16 Jan 1850.⁽¹⁸²⁷⁾