New York
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Anita Williams [11Aug98]:1) 1850 Census. Union Twp. Tioga Co., only 1 entry: BOWERS, JOSEPH, 67 yrs. b.N.Y. farmer; wife POLLY age 60 b. N.Y.
2) History of Tioga Co., R.C. Brown, 1897. vol. 2 pg. 675--article on David Sturrock, early citizen of Wellsboro, had a daughter named Mary, deceased wife of WM. J. BOWERS, Horseheads, Chemung Co., N.Y.
3) I found a BARNABUAS, JUANNA and WILLIAM BOWERS in 1850 census listings for Norwich, Chemung Co., NY.
4) NY census 1820:
--J. BOWERS of Sullivan Co., Neversin Twp.
--ZEPHANIAH BOWERS Sullivan Co., Tompson Twp.
NY census 1830:
--JESSE BOWERS, Tioga Co., Catlin Twp.
--JUSTUS BOWER, Sullivan Co., Thompson Twp.
NY census 1840:
--JUSTIS BOWERS, Veteran, Chemung Co.
--JUTHES BOWERS, Veteran, Chemung Co.
--JESSE BOWERS, Dix, Chemung Co.
--JESSE BOWERS, JR., Dix, Chemung Co.
NY census 1860:
--JOHN G. BOWERS, Chemung Co, Southport Twp.
--JESSE BOWER, Tompkins Co, Lansing Twp.
5) 1790 NY census:
--BARNET BOWERS, NY City-Harlem, 2,2,2,-,-;
--JACOB BOWERS, Albany Co, Hoosick town 1,2,1,-,-
--An additional note: I found no Bowers listed in "Early NY 1663-1772 State Census." Also found these two in 1800 census for NY plus a MARY and a MICHAEL.
6) 1850 Census for Chemung Co., Catlin, NY...found:
--PHINIAS BOWERS age 23, Boatman, born NY listed with PERRY BOWERS, 21, farmer, NY
--MICHAEL BOWERS, 45, Day laborer, born Ireland; listed with MARGARET, 27 and MICHAEL, Jr. age 2 born NY
--ABIJAH BOWERS, 42, Shoemaker, value $800, born Penn; listed with PHEOBE 43, NY and MARIETTA 16, CLONENDA [sp?] 10, SAMUEL 8, and ABIJAH [sp?] 5mo... all of NY
Extract from Manor Houses & Historic Homes of Long Island and Staten Island, by Harold Donaldson Eberlein 1928, Lippincott). It does not purport to be a genealogical reference at all, but a history of such houses and some history of their occupants.
From the chapter, The Old Stone House Gowanus 1699, I'll summarize the first part - This house, commonly called the "Cortelyou" house...was erected in 1699; it was a typically Dutch house, built by Nicholas Vechte, who was a farmer. He built a canal from the creek to his kitchen door, from where he could paddle off to the city market in New York. "The only difficulty was that the ebb tide often left his boat stranded in his own little canal. This annoying condition he remedied in 1709 by contracting with Abram and Nicholas BROWER, who owned Denton's Pond nearby, to supply him with water when he needed it. The he dug a channel from his canal to a water gate at the edge of the pond..." Besides this contract for water, "...from Denton's Pond, Nicholas also contracted for the right to plant oysters..." (It doesn't say where, so I guess in the pond?)
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