Person:Nathaniel Bowers (1)

Nathaniel does not appear in Savage's Dictionary, but 29th Dec, 1707, Mrs. Bridget Bower deeds to "my beloved son Nathaniel Bower of Green witch, in the county of Fairfield." He removed to East New Jersey and in the grant for Derby appear the minor heirs of Nathaniel Bower in East New Jersey, deceased. He was Rev. Nathaniel, minister of the first church in Greenwich in 1700. He succeeded Mr. Wakeman at Newark, New Jersey, and was succeeded shortly after Aug., 1716, by Mr. Whittlesey in Newark. He is beyond all question the Rev. Mr. Bower of Rye — in 1696, and remaining there until 1700, when he was "settled" at Greenwich. The period of his stay at Rye was while the people of Rye "revolted" from New York to Connecticut, which revolt apparently arose in considerable degree at least, from religious feeling. In 1700 the town ordered his salary to be paid "in specie as followeth, wheat at five shillings per bushel, and all other provisions pay equivalent." His salary was fifty pounds.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Bowers, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
   1:236-37.

   "Nathaniel (Bowers), d 14 Dec 1712 (Derby Vital Records); of Greenwich, Rye, N. Y., & Newark, N. J."

2.   Nathaniel, in Baldwin, Charles Candee. Rev. John Bower, first minister at Derby, Conn., and his descendants. (Seymour, Connecticut: s.n.], 1879)
   p 3.