TY - JOUR
AB -  JOHN BOWETER, MEETINGS IN AMERICA 1677-1678 JOHN BOWETER, AND FRIENDS' MEETINGS IN AMERICA, 1677-1678. The following list of meetings, places and Friends in America, 1677-1678, is taken from a little book entitled "Christian Epistles, Travels and Sufferings of John Boweter. . ." London, 1705. John Boweter (or Bowater, so spelled in the preface to the volume named above, and also in Besse's "Sufferings") was a Friend of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, a village half way between Birmingham and Worcester. Little seems to be recorded of him. He is mentioned three times by Besse as suffering for non-payment of tithes. His name does not occur in George Fox's Journal, though he must have known Fox well, for he furnished a brief testimony to Fox's Life and Character among others which are prefixed to Fox's "Doctrinal Works."* He was born in 1629 or 1630 and died in 1704 or 1705. At what time he became "convinced" is not mentioned, so far as known, or when first, as the biographical "Preface" puts it, "he was concerned in a Publick Testimony in the Gospel-Ministry." "He was called to Travel beyond the Seas, into America, and several Parts thereof, in the year 1677, and 
TI - John Boweter, and Friends' Meetings in America, 1677-1678
JF - Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia
DA - 1910-04-04
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SP - 131
EP - 135
VL - 3
IS - 3
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