Person:Anna Bowman (16)

Anna Bowman

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m. 26 Sep 1661

Facts and Events

Name	Anna Bowman
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	19 Sep 1676	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Death^[2]	26 Sep 1700	Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Historical Society of Watertown (Massachusetts). Watertown Records. (Watertown, Mass.: Press of Fred Barker, 1894-1939)
Vol. 1, p. 41.

[81] 1676.
Anna Bowman daughter of Frances and Martha Bowman borne the 19 of September.
↑ Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Record of births, marriages, and deaths to January 1, 1898. (Boston, Massachusetts: Wright and Potter Printing, 1898)
p. 166.

Bowman.
Anna, [died] Sept. 26, 1700.
Hudson, Charles, and Lexington Historical Society (Massachusetts). History of the town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from its first settlement to 1868. (Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Houghton Mifflin, 1913)
p. 44.

Children of Francis Bowman [#2] and Martha Sherman: 7) Anna, b. 19 Sep 1676, d. 26 Sep 1701 [sic].
[Note: Hudson adds in parentheses that Anna was baptized 14 Sep 1701, a record of which is found p. 6 of Lexington VRs. Clearly he is assuming this is an adult baptism, and therefore, that the year in the death record cited above, is incorrect while accepting the rest of the date as valid. However, it remains possible that the baptism is a daughter of the son Francis. The use of the name by the son to honor a recently deceased sibling, soon after the sibling's death, would not be unusual. Also, Hudson must have struggled with the sparse records for the son's family, and appears to have already confused the son's daughter Martha as belonging to the father.]