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• Name: Jacob BOWSHER
• Sex: M
• Birth: 27 Feb 1772 in Albany Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania ^b
• Death: 7 Feb 1849 in Adelphi, Colrain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio ^d
• Burial: local cemetery, Adelphi, Colrain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Johan Daniel BOUCHER Birth: Abt 1725 in Alsace-Lorraine, States Of France Death: 2 Sep 1792 in Albany Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania
Mother:

• Anna Maria (BOUCHER) Death: After 1778 in Albany Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania

Family:
Marriage:

• Christina FRY on Abt 1796 at Berks Co, Pennsylvania .^m1
  
• Christina FRY Birth: 1768 in Pennsylvania Death: 14 Feb 1864 in Colerain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio

Children:

1. Susanna BOWSHER Birth: 21 Dec 1796 in Albany Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania
2. Esther BOWSER Birth: 23 Dec 1798 in Windsor Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania
3. Elisabeth BOWSHER Birth: 13 Feb 1801 in Windsor Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania Death: May 1866 in Adelphi, Colrain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio
4. Hester BOWSHER Birth: 1802 in Windsor Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1875 in Sunbury, Ohio
5. Amos BOWSHER Birth: 26 Oct 1803 in Windsor Twp, Berks Co, Pennsylvania Death: 24 Oct 1878 in Colerain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio
6. Magdalene Polly BOWSHER Birth: 1808 in Colrain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio Death: 1895
7. Mary BOWSHER Birth: 18 Dec 1811 in Colrain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio Death: Dec 1892 in Adelphi, Colrain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio
8. Thomas BOWSHER Birth: 1812 in Colrain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio Death: 1846
9. Amelia BOWSHER Birth: 1813 in Colrain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: DAR #598396]

1772 [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p97, DAR #568332A720],

place:

[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p97, DAR #598396],

father:

[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p83, Burkhardt BOUCHER p97, DAR #568332A720, DAR #598396]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

mother:

Anna Maria "Eva" DRACH (#293) [Ref: June Jones 12/9/2000]

Eva ___ (#293) [Ref: DAR #568332A720]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: DAR #598396]

1848 [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p97]

27 Feb 1848 [Ref: June Jones 12/9/2000],

place:

[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p97]

Colerain Twp, Ross Co, Ohio [Ref: DAR #598396]

Ross Co, Ohio [Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p97]

Sources with Information about marriage to Christina FRY

date:

abt 1796 [Ref: June Jones 12/9/2000],

place:

[Ref: June Jones 12/9/2000]

Pennsylvania [Ref: DAR #598396],

names:

[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p97]

Jacob BAUSCHER & Christina ___ [Ref: Bowsher StPauls, Humphrey BerksCoPA Births2 p15 Esther, Wright BerksChRec v2p277]

Jacob BAUSCHER & Christine ___ [Ref: Humphrey BerksCoPA Births2 p15 Susanna, Wright BerksChRec v3p49, Ziegler NewBethelChurch pB13],

child:

[Ref: Bowsher StPauls, Burkhardt BOUCHER p365, Burkhardt BOUCHER p368, Burkhardt BOUCHER p378, Burkhardt BOUCHER p379, Burkhardt BOUCHER p382, Burkhardt BOUCHER p98, DAR #598396, Humphrey BerksCoPA Births2 p15 Esther, Humphrey BerksCoPA Births2 p15 Susanna, June Jones 12/9/2000, Wright BerksChRec v2p277, Wright BerksChRec v3p49, Ziegler NewBethelChurch pB13]

Research Notes:
1800: Tax returns indicate that he lived in Windsor Township at that time. [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p97]

1801: With William and William Stump they journeyed to Ohio. They rode as far as the "Pickaway Plains" A half section of land was selected and the purchase completed at Chillicothe. [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p97]

1804: after Ohio had been admitted to the Union, Jacob and William and families started for the new home. They built a log cabin at a place only a few feet away from where now stands the residence of Jacob's grandson, Jacob L. Bowsher, near Adelphia, Ohio, in what is now Coleman Township, Ross County. [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p97]

When the War of 1812 was being waged Jacob entered the service of a Ross County Company. [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p97]

Jacob was a cabinet maker, and in addition to overseeing his farm he built the coffins, cider mills, cider presses, fanning mills, furniture, and many machines of wood that were ingenious in those days. The products of his skill were much needed by his countrymen as they were far removed from any towns or cities where such articles were made.

Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America To all Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:
Know ye, that Jacob Bousher, assignee of Abraham Eyestone, having deposited in the Treasure a certificate of the Register of the Land Office of Chillicothe, whereby appears that full payment has been made for the west half of lot or section Number 2 of Township Number 10 in Range Number 20, of the Lands directed to be sold at Chillicothe by the Active Congress entitled "An Act providing for the sale and lands in the United States in the Territory Northwest of the Ohio and above the mouth of Kentucky River," and of Acts amendatory of the same. There is Granted by the United States unto the said Jacob Bousher the half lot or section of land above described.
To Have and to Hold the said half lot or section of land with appurtenances unto the said Jacob Bousher, his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the letters to be made Patent and the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed. Given under my hand and seal at the City of Washington the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Thirty-second. [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p97]



Pedigree of Jacob BOWSHER
 /-----Johan Daniel BOUCHER
Jacob BOWSHER
 \-----Anna Maria (BOUCHER)



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