I have published the following articles using material in my grandfather’s collection:
- “Bowens, Wheatons, Baptists, and the Beginnings of Brown University,” Nicholas Bowen and William Saxbe, Rhode Island Roots, Volume 42, No. 1, March 2017. This is a story that explores the founding of the first five Universities in America and in particular the roles the Bowen and Wheaton families play in the founding of Rhode Island College (which was renamed to Brown University about 40 years later).
- “Before 1709′ Baptismal Records of Trinity Church, Newport, R.I.,” by Nicholas Bowen, Rhode Roots, Volume 45, No. 1, March 2019. This story is based on research I did at the Newport Historical Society using the original baptismal book for Trinity Church. I did work in a reference to Sarah Sylvester Sweet who would be one of my great-great-great-great grandmothers. When Emma was baptized at the church we sat in the pew owned by Sarah’s uncle, Samuel Sweet.
- “The Bowen, Lindley and Carpenter Families: Migration from Massachusetts to Vermont,” by Nicholas S. Bowen, Vermont Genealogy, Volume 27, No. 1, Spring 2022. This story is about two men from Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Isaiah Lindley and Nathan Bowen, who collectively would have twenty-two children of which six would marry and ultimately thirteen would move to Royalton, Vermont.
The Richard Bowen Project 