Person:Asa Bowen (2)

Asa's parents were almost certainly among the many early settlers of Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut. Henry and John Bowen were among the very first settlers in that place in 1684. 57 Bowens are buried in Woodstock Hill Cemetery.

Asa Bowen was a blacksmith in the Revolutionary War. Bowen, Asa, Private in Capt. Horton's Company (late Parker's) in Regiment of "Artificers". Residence Killingly. Enlisted Feb. 26, '77 for term: 3 yrs. [Continental Army] Disch. Feb. 1780. Was with Washington at Valley Forge and shared hardships with the other members of the army. For a description and history of Quartermaster Artificers during the Revolutionary War, see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wjohn55447/quartermaster_artificers.htm

1790 Census:
Name: Asa Bowen
Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Thompson, Windham, Connecticut
Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females: 4

Asa lived in Windham County, Connecticut until 1790 when he moved to the Brattleboro area of Vermont, then to Saratoga County, New York and finally in the early 1820s to Genesee/Orleans Counties, New York where he died in 1823.

New York Pensioners:
Name: Asa Bowen
Rank: Private
County: Genesee Co.
Annual Allowance: 96 00
Sums received: 41 80
Description of service: Massachusetts line
When placed on the pension roll: 23 Apr 1823
Commencement of pension: 1 Mar 1823
Laws under which inscribed, increased or reduced OR Remarks: Died August 7, 1823.
Original data: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [New York Section]. Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.

Probably living with or close to son Abiel at the time of his death.

1.   Windham County Military Records.

   http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/cowindham/records/military/byjohnston2.html

2. ↑ The 1841 Pensioners List.

   New York State - Excerpts; Publication Place: Albany, New York; Page Number: 147.
   Gives Genesee County as place of death. Genesee is the county just south of Orleans County.

3.   United States Census, 1840.

   FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHBC-82F), Asa Bowen, Killingly, Windham, Connecticut, United States; citing p. 167, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 32; FHL microfilm 3,023.

4.   United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783.

   FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-6YTT), Asa Bowen, 26 Feb 1777; citing Military Service, , Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711093.