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Ebenezer Bowman

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Ebenezer Bowman

Birth
Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
20 Sep 1832 (aged 65)
Westford, Chittenden County, Vermont, USA
Burial
Westford, Chittenden County, Vermont, USA Add to Map
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66th yr.
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Ebenezer Bowman settled in Westford, VT about 1785. ". . . Ebenezer, was a Jeffersonian democrat, and he was a disciple of the school of Andrew Jackson, although for many years a Free Soiler from principle. His home was one of the stations of the famous "Underground Railroad" which aided in the escape of negroes from slavery, and it is a source of pleasure and pride to [his son] Nathan that on several occasions he was a conductor on that road." (Jeffrey, Successful Vermonters, 1904, pp. 20-23).

Contributor: Cindy Walcott (48460179) • [email protected]
66th yr.
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Ebenezer Bowman settled in Westford, VT about 1785. ". . . Ebenezer, was a Jeffersonian democrat, and he was a disciple of the school of Andrew Jackson, although for many years a Free Soiler from principle. His home was one of the stations of the famous "Underground Railroad" which aided in the escape of negroes from slavery, and it is a source of pleasure and pride to [his son] Nathan that on several occasions he was a conductor on that road." (Jeffrey, Successful Vermonters, 1904, pp. 20-23).

Contributor: Cindy Walcott (48460179) • [email protected]


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