{"page_2": " NOTES:\nJoseph Bowker served in the French and Indian War 1755-1757 in Capt.\nPettibone's Company®\ntime he had residence in\nAt that\nSimsbury, Conn.\nHe removed to\nRutland,\nVt. in 1773 with the rank of Captain.\nHe served in the Revolutionary War as follows:\n\" Board of War.\nVoted in the Convention at Dorset\nSept.\nComittee 1775, that xxx Capt.\nJoseph Bowker xxx be :\nSigned - Murdock A. Campbell \"\nOct.\n9,\n1777 xxxx Capt.\nJoseph Bowker and George Foot\nappointed\nCommissioner of sequestration.\nRef: Records of Council of Safety and of Governor and Council\npgs 784 and 837\nFrom the Revolutionary War\nfind\nRolls of Vermont page 772\nunder\nJoseph Bowker, Isa., elected Connissary or\nIn\nan excerpt from Henry Hall's Speech before the Vermont Historical Society in 1863 we learn about the date or his death:\n\" Bowker died between the 10th of April and the 2nd\nof September, 1784.\nRutland then,\nThere was no burial\nground in\nexcept the one at\nsomewhere\nin that public acre his remains\nButland Centre, and\nThe Rev.\nJacob Wood\nwere and.\na revivalist,\nattended his funeral\nThe funeral procession had nearly completed its walk of two miles when Mr.\nurning towards the mourners and\nWood suddenly Leaped upon a stumed.\ntheir friends.\n• Hark!\nHarks at the\nday of judgment it will be an honor to be\nthe rest towards the graveyard.\nthen jumped down and silently walked with\nJoseph Bowker held many positions of trust in the early history of Rutland having served as Justice of the Peace, Judge.\nHe and his\nwife Samph ton~\namong\nCongregational Church\nthe organizing members\n٦٦٠٠٦ ٥٦٠٠\nthe West Parish and located in\nWest\nRutland,\nCapt. Joseph Bowker-- Cont'd\nReferences:\nBirth--- Hopkinton,\nMarriage--\nMass.\nVital Records\nWestboro, Mass.\nvital records\nDeath - Vermont Governor\nand Council Vol I pg 190\nal so\nRevolutionary\nWar Rolls pg\n772\n784, 837\nRutland\nCounty Genealogical\nGleanings -\nE.E.\nVermont\nGazette of July 19, 1784 Vol 3 pg\nBrownell\n54\nHenry Hall's Speech,\n1863 as found in\n\" Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer Vol 3\nSmith and Rand Rutland County History pg 316\nDAR\nPatriot Index (1966) pa 75(death\nIn Outlad City Sands decks Bove I Of 122 we lean t bards ocead as her scord husband Sageant\nMean\nin the 1790. Census a late\n\"Know all man by alone\nThere prements that we Saich Scengearts\nLate histond Honorable gosiph Bowl, Eag\nDec 21, 1739\nand inly.\ny Rutled \"De\n2 \"alependen Becke I Sech Becke his wjo eddet daught\n+ him to said decad\"\n3 Solomen Bed a Rebecca Becke hi wi and denghte,\n5 hén to and deceased a\nRecorded Jan 21, 1786 "}