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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The following partial excerpt concerning this individual is from the biography of Jeffrey Ferris in the "Great Migration" book. These are highly reliable summaries of early pre-1636 colonists and the entire biography can be read in Jeffrey's notes:
"Jeffrey Ferris...
Death: Greenwich 31 May 1666 [Gillespie Anc 118, source not cited].
Marriage: ...[As 3rd wife] By about 1662 Judith (Feake) Palmer, daughter of James Feake of London and widow of William Palmer {1636, Watertown} [NYGBR 86:211-12, and arguments presented there]. She married (3) John Bowers soon after the death of Jeffrey Ferris, for, on 9 March 1666/7, "Judah Bowers, lately widow Ferris sometimes wife to Jeffery Ferris, do openly acknowledge I have received in full satisfaction what was given me by my husband's will" [Fairfield PR 2:21]..."
2. The book "Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich with Genealogical Notes …," by Spencer P. Mead (Camden, Maine; Picton Press):
-Chapter VIII, p. 92, "Commissioned Officer in the Militia During the Colonial Period": (From "Colonial Records of Connecticut."): "BOWERS, JOHN, April Session, 1690, was commissioned lieutenant of the train band in the Town of Greenwich."
-P. 289, (those with asterisks are in my database): "The militia generally has been considered in Chapter IX. As regards the military forces in Greenwich, a company was organized soon after the town was first settled, and Captain Daniel Patrick was the first military commander. After his death in 1644, he was succeeded by William Hallett, who was banished in 1648, for the commission of the act of adultery with Mrs. Elizabeth Peaks. The next leading citizen was Richard Crab, who seems, to have removed from Greenwich about 166o. The following were his successors:
1669 to 1688, Sergeant Jonathan Lockwood.*
1689 to 1695, Lieutenant John Bowers.*
1696 to 1725, Lieutenant James Ferris.
1726 to 1735, Captain Caleb Knapp.*
1736 to 1739, Captain James Reynolds."
-Chapter: "Landowners," p. 449: "BOWERS, JOHN, March 23, 1664, granted a parcel of land at Mianus Neck. March 16, 1666, granted a swamp so far as it adjoins his lot. Feb. 6, 1699 [author's typo for 1669?], granted ten acres of land. Dec. 30, 1670, granted part of the uppermost meadows lying south of the Westchester Path."
4. "Nicholas Knapp Genealogy," compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp, M.D. "This Genealogy of the Descendants of Nicholas Knapp, first found mentioned at Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630, is the result of the work and research of many individuals. The four principal collectors of data were Charles Ruggles Knapp, Henry Eno Knapp, Ezra Fred Knapp and the author, Alfred Averill Knapp, but they were assisted through correspondence by a large number of individuals who furnished much valuable family and local information...":
"Hannah Close, dau. of Goodman or Joseph and Elizabeth ( ) Close. Hannah was b. in 1632, d. 1696. She m. 2nd John Bowers. Others say her estate was settled in 1695 and that she d. 10-6-1694... John Bowers was made Proprietor at Greenwich 2-5-1664, was called 43 years old in 1681 and d. in 1694. No children."
5. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991:
"The will of Joshua and his inventory of estate bear the same date (27 Oct 1684), dying the same day, and is spoken of as a good estate. He mentions his children, except Jonathan, who died young, saying that the sons, shall receive their share at age 21 and the daughters at age 18. The will is signed by his widow, Hannah, John Bowers, and Moses Knapp, all of Stamford, Connecticut, also by John Reynolds... The value of his estate in 1684 was 54 pounds... After his death, Hannah (Close) Knapp, the widow, married John Bowers of Greenwich, b. 1638 - d. 1694. No children of the marriage."
6. The book "Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich with Genealogical Notes …," by Spencer P. Mead with the assistance of Arthur S. Kimball (Camden, Maine; Picton Press), pp. 517-18:
"GOODMAN1 CLOSE, b. about 1600, in County York, England, m. Elizabeth ___, b. about 1606, in England, came to America about 1642, and finally settled in Fairfield, Connecticut, where Goodman Close died in 1653. His widow afterwards married George Stuckey, and died in Stamford, Connecticut, Sept. 4, 1656. Her children by her first husband were:
-Hannah2, b. about 1632, m. June 9, 1657, Joshua Knapp, and after his death she married John Bowers.
-Joseph, b. about 1634, d. without issue before 166o.
-Thomas, b. about 1637, m. Sarah, daughter of Richard and Ann (Husted) Hardy, in 1669, he d. in Greenwich, in 1709.
Mary, b. about 1640, living April 15, 1725, m. June 25, 1668, Samuel Holly."
SOURCES_MISC:
1. Not mentioned in the book "The Great Migration Directory, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640," by Robert Charles Anderson, NEHGS, 2015.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Abt 1638 - 1694 (~ 56 years)