BOWER, Samuel Jr [583] ¹

  General Notes:

Sorce Philadelphia City Muster Rolls, Philadelphia Militia, 6th/7th Battalion, 1783-1790 Pa. Archives, Vol. III-6th Series, pp. 1163-1188 : 5th Co., 7th Batt. 1787
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Source <http://www.kennethwmilano.com/KensingtonHistory/KensingtonBiographies/SamuelBower/tabid/208/Default.aspx> :
"Samuel Bower [Bowers] (1760-1834) - prominent shipbuilder and merchant, he started his career building transport boats for Revolutionary troops while still a teenager. His shipyard, above Laurel Street on the Delaware River, built and repaired 379 vessels from the late 1780's to the 1820's. He was active in public affairs, serving as lieutenant colonel in the state militia, and helped found Hope (2nd) Baptist Church. So highly was his work esteemed that he was offered the post of chief naval constructor by the Spanish government during the Napoleonic Wars. This biography was compiled by Rich Remer

The following book also provides details on Bowers as a shipbuilder:
Chandler, Charles Lyon. Early Shipbuilding in Pennsylvania 1683-1812. [Philadelphia: Reprinted by The Guild of Brackett Lecturers, 1932].

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One of the most prominent shipbuilders of this period was Samuel Bowers who, was born at Southwark in 1760, and began shipbuilding at Kensington in 1789. In 1790 he received $2,940.67 for a ship and $1,288.66 for a brig - and did some $2,000 worth of repairs. In 1790 he did a business of about $15,000.
In 1796 he built the Samuel Smith of 705 tons for $24,000. In 1795 he built the Indostan of 470 tons for the East Indian trade at $31.00 a ton.
For several years a ship for the China and East Indian trade was launched at Bowers' yard each year.
After 1816 he built several steamboats for use on the Delaware and other rivers. He once completed a brig of 200 tons in 6 weeks.
Samuel Bowers was asked in 1800 to become the chief naval constructor of the Spanish Government.
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Source Bower[s] in the Lineage Books of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution <http://www.bowercommunity.com/homestead/darrecs.html> :
Samuel Bower and Anna Mary Sutter (1774-1850), his wife, m. 1790
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Source <http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/WebServant/genealogy/dat205.htm#18> :
Children:
- Ann
- Martha - Birth : 12 OCT 1792 Philadelphia, PA - Death : 29 JUN 1840 Philadelphia, PA
- Rebecca
- Samuel D S
- Mary Ann
- Joseph Morris
- Susan - Birth : 5 JUL 1803 - Death : 5 DEC 1804
- Lenora
- Caroline Catherine
- Emma Deal - Philadelphia, PA - Birth : 24 AUG 1810 - Death : 25 DEC 1829
- Frances
- Matilda Antoinette
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Source <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/do/digitalbookshelf/27843260/27843260_part_167.pdf#search=%22%22samuel%20bower%22%20philadelphia%22> :
... The Treaty Elm.
There was taken as a scion from the treaty tree, by S. Coates, a
young tree, which sprung up from the roots of the -fallen tree, which
he planted in the -grass lot, Westward of the Hospital Wall on Ninth
street. It there grew to be a large tree (high as -the three storied
house)-but when they opened Clinton street, it left that tree standing
out in the street, two feet beyond the curb-At my request of the lot
.owners it stood there awhile alter the pebble pavement was madebut.
now I see they have cut it down as an incumbrance, alas! how
little many care for our antiquities! It is vain .to argue with money
interests -It stood about the sixth house, North side, from Ninth St.
-I have just learned from Mr. S. D. Bowers, that there is now alive
a large Elm tree, upwards of sixty years of age, standing on the
street, at the place long known as the dwelling house and ship yard
of his father, taken by his father, Samuel, when a young man, sixtyfive
years ago, as a shoot, from the celebrated Treaty tree.-There
*ne nursed and cherished it, during all his life-time, and at this time,
it is now in full vigour. Loing may it survive, as a gratefil historical
remembrance! It is- indeed strange, to be so little generally known.
It stands a little South of where the British had their River battery
*n, the Revolutionary War, and on the river street, -,Penn"
as then there. (Samuel Bower died in 1834, at seventy-five years
of age.) Thetree stands on theWest side, fronting Rowland &Co-
Iron works,-and is midway between Maiden on the. North,and
March or Poplar on the South. Before the death- of Samuel Bower--
a limb of fifty feet across the street, got broken by a storm-It was
strengthened and stood a few years; when another storm broke it off
-The tree now spreads sixty feet..."
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From History of the Town of Conesus Livingston Co., N.Y. from 1793 to 1887 (William P. Boyd) :
<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/newyork/conesus_ny_settlers.htm> :
The area of Conesus was part of a huge tract of New York land originally purchased by the Hon. Nathaniel GORMAN & Oliver PHELPS, Esq. for £300,000 in 1788. It was subsequently sold to Robert MORRIS of Philadelphia, and then in 1792 to Charles WILLIAMSON, an agent of Sir. William PULTENEY, an Englishman. WILLIAMSON held the land up until 1801 [until 1798, by law, Sir PULTENEY, who was classified as an "alien" could not hold or sell land in New York.] A few years after the transfer of title to Sir PULTENEY, he sold part of what was to become the town of Conesus to William BOWERS, retaining 63 lots. When BOWERS died, his 70 lots, were divided among his children: John BOWERS, Mary [BOWERS] CAMPBELL, Rebecca [BOWERS] SCOTT, Mary Ann [BOWERS] Duane, & Harriet [BOWERS] MUMFORD.]
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Philadelphia, PA. Shipbuilder

Samuel married Anna Mary SUTTER [584] [MRIN: 283], daughter of Daniel SUTTER [815] and Anna Catherine GARDNER [816], on 18 Apr 1790.¹ (Anna Mary SUTTER [584] was born on 18 Apr 1774 and died on 12 Jan 1850.)