Brief Life History of Patience
When Patience Bowen was born on 2 April 1734, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Peter Bowen, was 35 and her mother, Susannah Kent, was 33. She married Richard Whitaker on 2 July 1752, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 26 August 1798, in Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Newman Cemetery, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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- James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 1642-1896, Births.
- Patience Bowen, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Patience Whitaker, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · Rhode Island Declares Independence
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen ), with fused patronymic marker (a)p, which is normally voiced before a vowel.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan ).
Irish: used to ‘translate’ Ó Cnáimhín ‘descendant of Cnáimhín’, a personal name meaning ‘little bone’ or ‘little body’, see Nevin 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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