Marriage(s)/Family
Born: Bef. 12 Feb. 1642/43 - Place: Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts
Died: 5 April 1706 - Place: Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island
Buried: ......... - Place: ........, .......
Father: William BOWDISH
Mother: Sarah UNKNOWN
!Karen Bowdish: Nathaniel was a weaver by trade. Nathaniel sold to John Pudney 30
acres of land in Salem. 10 March 1701/02 the Newport Proprietors granted a
tract of land to Nathaniel Bowdish bownded on the east and south by his own
land, north of a highway and on the land laid out to Lawrence and Cary Carew
Larke and west of Richard Dunn.
Newport town records were evacuated by the British and the ship sunk. The
records were salvaged two weeks later, but were in sad shape. (Moriarity's
article in NEGHR 1914) In the salvaged materials was Nathaniel's will dated 5
??? ????, probably 1706 and the inventory is dated 12 April 1706. In the will
he mentions his sons Nathaniel and William, and his daughter Sarah Bull, his
daughter Hannah, and his daughter Katherine and Richard Dunn. Administration of
his will was done by his son William on 2 May 1706.
He served on jury for tryals 25 July 1694 and on grand jury 31 July
1700...according to Newport records. The following is his epitaph (copied in
1884) --
Here lyeth ye body of
Nathaniel Bowdish
He dyeth April the 5th
1706 aged 63 years
No epitaph need make
The dead man famed
The just are praised when
Only named.