SEVENTH GENERATION

112. Richard BOWLBY Sr. ^{(3)(611) (6)(7) (8)} was born about 1718. He was christened on 12 Jan 1719 in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England. ^{(612)(613) (614)} He died in 1818 in Near Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Canada.⁽⁶¹⁵⁾ Appointed Justice of the Peace for Sussex Co. (Perth Amboy), NJ in 1772.

From the minutes of a Council held at Perth Amboy on Thursday the 17th of September, 1772, his Excellency, William Franklin, being at that time Governor of the province: "His Excellency was pleased to nominate Jacob Starn and Samuel Lundy to be Judges of the Pleas in the County of Sussex, and Jacob Lundy, Abia Brown, Robert Allison, Abraham Van Camp, and Richard Bowlby to be Justices of the Peace in said county; to which the Council assented." See New Jersey Archives, Vol. XVIII., page 294.

A Loyalist who remained in NJ throughout the American Revolution. Went to Annapolis, Nova Scotia in 1784.

source: Descendant, Mike Sharp, Oct 14 1998 posted on the Internet "GenForum" site "Bowlby Family Genealogy Forum".

Excerpt from "Bowlby Families in England and America, Part 2", page 64, written by Raymond Edwin Bowlby

Richard Bowlby was the ninth child and sixth son of Thomas and Martha (Barker) Bowlby, christened 12 Jan 1719/20... Though no original documents can now be found, several early family historians unequivocally state that he married Mary Drake in New Jersey around 1750...

Richard evidently accompanied his father and two brothers to Burlington in the province of West Jersey in 1727, since his father's will of 23 February 1730/31, states that only one of his sons, Thomas, remained in "Old England" at that time.

Richard's farm was confiscated in 1779 by the Rebels, while he was in exile in New York.

He was married to Mary DRAKE about 1752. ^{(368)(612) (616)} Judy Grecco <grecco@mediaone.net> notes their marriage date in 1756. Richard BOWLBY Sr. and Mary DRAKE had the following children:

159 i. Martha BOWLBY^{(617) (5)(6) (7)(8)} was born in 1752. ⁽⁶¹⁸⁾ She died. ^(368)(619) Died in infancy. According to William A. Reeves's chart, Martha was the second of Richard and Mary (Drake) Bowlby, and would then have been born in Sussex County, NJ, in the early 1750's. Newbold Woolston states that Martha died in infancy. Ward Hamilton Bowlby lists Martha as the eighth child and as having married to an unknown person. Richard and Mary may have had two daughters which they named Martha.
+160 ii. Elizabeth BOWLBY.
+161 iii. Mary BOWLBY.
+162 iv. Abraham BOWLBY.
+163 v. Rachel BOWLBY.
+164 vi. Katherine BOWLBY.
+165 vii. Sarah BOWLBY.
166 viii. Josiah BOWLBY^{(3) (620)(5) (6)(7) (8)} was born in 1759 in Mansfield, Warren, NJ. ⁽⁶²¹⁾ According to Raymond Edwin Bowlby:

He probably died before the family left for Canada. William A. Reeves' chart of the early generations of the Bowlby family in America Lists him as having died young. Ward Hamilton Bowlby does not mention him. Newbold Woolston lists Josiah as the last child of Richard and Mary (Drake) Bowlby. There is the possibility that Josiah's full name was Josiah James Bowlby, and that he dropped the Josiah and became known only as "James". If this were true, then this Josiah and the James Bowlby identified as his sibling are one in the same person.
+167 ix. George BOWLBY Sr..
+168 x. Richard BOWLBY Jr..
+169 xi. Thomas BOWLBY.
+170 xii. James BOWLBY.