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163. Rachel BOWLBY⁽³⁾⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾⁽⁷⁾⁽⁸⁾ was born in 1756 in Sussex County, New Jersey.⁽⁹⁷⁰⁾⁽⁹⁷¹⁾ Bowlby Families offers abt. 1757, but gene pool offers 1756

She was married to Jolly LONGSHORE on 12 Dec 1782 in New York.⁽⁹⁷²⁾⁽⁹⁷³⁾ Her marriage is recorded in NEW YORK MARRIAGES PREVIOUS 1784, "Marriage Bonds," Volume xxxvii, page 134. This New York marriage occurred three years after the marriage of Abraham Bowlby in New York, and about the time loyalists were being evacuated from New York to Nova Scotia.

Also noted in Names of persons for whom marriage licenses were issued by the secretary of the Province of NY previous to 1784. Albany, 1860. (480p.):236 Jolly LONGSHORE⁽³⁾⁽⁵⁾⁽⁶⁾⁽⁷⁾⁽⁸⁾ was born in Bucks Co., PA. Jolly Went to Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada during the American
Revolution and is listed as living there in 1784. May have
subsequently removed to Bucks Co., PA.
source: Ewart D. Bowlby Jan. 1999
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Raymond Edwin Bowlby additionally mentions that he received a grant of
250 acres of land in Digby Township, Anapolis County, Nova Scotia.

(Cynthia Katzman Bowlby) Rachel BOWLBY and Jolly LONGSHORE had the following children:

288 i. Richard Bowlby LONGSHORE⁽³⁾⁽⁵⁾⁽⁶⁾⁽⁷⁾⁽⁸⁾ was born in Bucks Co., PA.
289 ii. Robert Jolly LONGSHORE⁽³⁾⁽⁵⁾⁽⁶⁾⁽⁷⁾⁽⁸⁾ was born in Bucks Co., PA.