Penuel Bowen inaugural dissertation, 1786.

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Penuel Bowen inaugural dissertation, 1786.

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This collection consists of a forty-three page inaugural dissertation to the opening of an English academy for young women in Savannah, Georgia, given on November 20, 1786, and entitled "Upon Virtue in general, and female Education and manners in particular, Being an inaugural Dissertation to the opening an English Academy for young Ladies and Misses, in Savannah the 20th Novr 1786 By the Preceptor of the Academy who undertook the business of his own motion." The dissertation is attributed to Penuel Bowen by Mary Beth Norton in her text Liberty's Daughters, as the dissertation appears to be written in Bowen's handwriting. According to Norton, Bowen also mentions the Savannah academy in letters to William Gibbons and his wife (Mary Beth Norton, Liberty's Daughters. Cornell University Press, 1996. Footnote 22, p. 368). The name of the academy is unknown.

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Bowen, Penuel, 1742-1788

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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. From the description of Penuel Bowen family co...