Bowen, Penuel, 1742-1788

Episcopal minister. A native of New England, Penuel Bowen was appointed to a parish on Johns Island (S.C.) in 1787 and died there late in 1788. After his death his wife, Susannah Barrett Bowen (1741-1797), moved back to her native city of Boston (Mass.). Nathaniel Bowen (1779-1839), Penuel Bowen's second son, was born in Boston. Penuel Bowen's daughter Susannah Bowen (1783-1835) married John Cooke (1775-1840) of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Penuel Bowen (1742-1788) was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. He graduated from Harvard College in 1762 and was ordained in 1766; he served as a pastor in Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts. In 1768, he married Susannah Barrett of Boston. After the Revolutionary War, Bowen and his family moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where he became the rector at St. John's Episcopal Church. Bowen died n 1788 (for more information, see Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augusts Bowen. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1897).