Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82761589
The daughter of Francis Carter of Bromsgrove, Worchester England, Ann married John Bowater Jr abt 1650 in Spitalfields Hamlet, White Chapel, London England. They had at least one son.

No other children of this couple are known at this time. In 1677, Ann stayed behind in England while her husband, a Quaker minister, traveled to America. He may still have been in Virginia, when she died two years later.

Ann is said to be buried at the North Friends Burying Ground in Warwickshire, England. However, this is still being verified. She is my 8th paternal Gr-Grandmother through her son Thomas Bowater (1655-1705).

Family/Spouse: John Bowater, Jr.. John was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England; died on 4 Nov 1704 in Chester County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82755629
The son of John Jr and Ann (Carter) Bowater of England, Thomas married:

1) Sarah Edge on 4 Oct 1686 in Edgemont, Chester Co PA; she died 1692.
2) Widow Frances (Lambe) Barnet in Feb 1703 in Concord Twp, Chester Co PA.

Children with Sarah:
1) Sarah C Bowater (1688-1765), m: John Jacob Beals Jr.
2) Thomas Bowater Jr (1691-c1752)

No known children with Frances.

Thomas immigrated from England in 1683, joining the Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia, certificate dated in England, Mar 14, 1683. To pay his passage to America, Thomas indentured himself to Francis Fincher. According to the manifest of th e ship "Bristol Comfort", "Tho. Bowater out of Worcestershire, servant to francis fincher out of Woster City, glover, for three years."

In 1695 Thomas purchase 100 acres of land in Edgmont, Ridley Creek PA.

Died:
Y
Y
Y

Thomas married Sarah Edge on 4 Oct 1686 in Edgemont, Chester Co PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82845144
One of at least two children born to Thomas Sr and Sarah (Edge) Bowater of England and later Chester Co PA, Sarah married:

1) John Jacob Beals Jr, her 2nd cousin, on 14 Aug 1711 at the New Garden Friends MH in Chester Co PA; he died 12 Dec 1744. They had at least nine children, six daughters and three sons.
2) Alexander Underwood; no known children.

Sarah transferred back to York Co PA, on a certificate dated 25 Apr 1748. She was accompanied by her son Bowater Beals, who had married Sarah Cook, daughter of Thomas Sr and Mary (Underwood) Cook. Mary is a daughter of Alexander Underwood.

Another record shows Alexander at the Monacacy Friends MH in MD on 7 Feb 1745, requesting permission to marry Sarah Beals, widow of John Beals.

Sarah is recorded on 12 Sep 1761, when she was succeeded as "overseer". She died a few years later, aged abt 77 yrs. Alexander died in 1767, not mentioning Sarah in his Will, an indication of her death prior to his.

Died:
Y

Sarah married John Beals on 14 Sep 1711 in Chester County, PA. John (son of John Beals and Mary Jane Clayton) was born on 28 Jan 1685 in Chester County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]