SILENCE BOWERS

(circa 1630/1635-after 1675) - Manby, Lincolnshire, England; Braithwell, Yorkshire, England; Scituate, Plymouth co., MA ; Plymouth, Plymouth co., MA; Cambridge, Middlesex co., MA; Dedham, Norfolk co., MA; Medfield, Norfolk co., MA

(Second Generation - Bowers Family)

FATHER	MOTHER
GEORGE BOWERS	BARBARA SMITH

BIRTH	Based on her marriage date, she was probably born circa 1630/1635.
DEATH	According to Torrey, she died in 1677^[2].
MARRIAGE #1	On 14d:10m(December):1656 Silence first married Elnathan DUNKLEE, in Dedham, Norfolk co., MA^{[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]} as "Elnathan Dunckly & Silence Bowers".

CHILDREN (surnamed DUNKLEE)	i.	Ruth DUNKLEE
	ii.	David DUNKLEE
	iii.	Nathaniel DUNKLEE	Please see his own page.

MARRIAGE #2 On 25 May 1675 in Medfield, Norfolk co., MA, Silence second married Nicholas ROCKETT as his third wife. He died in 1680[2].

CHILDREN (surnamed ROCKETT) i. Isaac ROCKETT

GENERATION

Great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G7) Grandmother

FAMILY NUMBER

977

SOURCES

1. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

2. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 79:288.

3. Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, Mass. 1630 to 1877, (Boston: H. O. Houghton and Co., 1877), [Cambridge], 493.

4. Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, Mass., (Cambridge: The Cambridge Hist. Soc., 1930), [Cambridge Hist. Supp.], 62.

5. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:223.

6. Bowers, A. B., Bowers Family of England, typescript, ([Washington, D.C., 1911]), [Bowers (ms)], 18.

7. Smith, Tenney, Charles Smith and Rachel Amy Bryant, Their Ancestors and Descendants, (Brattleboro, Vt.: The Vermont Printing Co., 1938), [Smith-Bryant], 122,188.

8. Emery, William Morrell, Newell Ancestry, The Story of the Antecedents of William Stark Newell, (Boston: privately printed, 1944), [NewellAnc], 101.

9. Sibley, John Langdon, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, (Cambridge: C.W. Sever, 1873-85), [Sibley's Harv. Grad.], 1:192.

10. Sumner, Edith Blake Bartlett, Ancestors and Descendants of Amaziah Hall and Betsey Baldwin, (Los Angeles: American Offset Printers, 1954), [Hall-Baldwin], 27.

11. Libby, Charles Thornton, The Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass., from the Register, (Boston: NEHGS 1925-26), [Knowles], 288.

12. Bullock, Joseph Gaston Baillie, A History and Genealogy of the Habersham Family in Connection with the History, Genealogy and mention of Families of Clay, Stiles, Cummings, King, Elliott, Milledge, Maxwell, Adams and Many Other Names, (Columbia S.C.: R.I. Bryan Co., 1901), [Habersham], 74.

13. New Haven Genealogical Magazine, v.1-8, later The American Genealogist, Jacobus, D. L, ed., (New Haven, Conn., 1922+), [New Haven Gen. Mag.], 236.

14. Ludington, Ethel M. (Saltus), Ludington-Saltus Records, (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1925), [Ludington-Saltus], 92-3.

15. [NEHGR], 80:278.

16. Ibid. 79:288; 8:345.

17. [Cambridge], 492.

18. [Savage], 1:219,223.

19. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 78:176.

20. [Smith-Bryant], 123.

21. The Mayflower Descendant, vols. 1-34, Bowman, George Ernest, ed., (Boston: Mayflower Society, 1899-1937), [MD], 13:85:210.

22. [NEHGR], 8:345; 79:288.

23. Ibid. 79:288-9.

24. Dedham, Norfolk co., MA Vital Racords, [DedhamVR], 127.

25. Duncklee, Ada Melinda Lakin, A Sketch of the Duncklee Family: and a History of the Descendants of David Duncklee of Amherst, N.H.: and of His Sister Hannah Duncklee Howe of Milford, N.H., (Milford, N.H.: J. P. Melger, 1908), [Duncklee], 7.

26. Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker & Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., (Boston, Mass.: [S. Usher], 1913), [Parker (#9), Parker-Ruggles], 186.

27. [NEHGR], 48:459.

28. [Hall-Baldwin], 29.

29. [DedhamVR], 11.

30. The Early Records of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1659, [appended to the Norfolk co., VRs CD], [DedhamTR], 194.

31. Ibid. 195.

32. Ibid. 214.

33. Cambridge, Middlesex co., MA Vital Records, [CambVR], I:76.


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