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Notice of Death
Major Thomas Bartholomew Bowen
Died, on Thursday evening last, at Hillsborough, the seat of
Major Charles Lining, in the 63d year of his age, Major Thomas
Bartholomew Bowen, a member of the society of the Cincinnati of
this state, and a much respected officer of the Pennsylvania line,
during the revolutionary war. At the peace of 1783, he returned
and settled in this place, and for a number of years was the Editor
of a valuable Newspaper and Museum. Although frequently himself
in embarrassed circumstances, yet still he was to be found
providing for the orphan, educating the indigent and unprotected,
and brining them forward to society, prepared and qualified to be
useful citizens. Of a warm and benevolent heart, he would forget
his own distresses, when those of others were presented to his
view; and the fear of sensibility often unwillingly proclaimed how
much he felt that his powers of doing good to them were so
circumscribed.
For some years past he had felt the hand of misfortune, and was
pressed by infirmities; but he bore them with resignation, and
without a murmur. In the hospitable and friendly retreat of a
brother officer, who knew how to appreciate his worth, the evening
of his days began to brighten, and he was looking forward to some
years of calm and philosophic retirement, unconnected with, not
disturbed by the busy scenes of life, when death, after a short
sickness, closed with him this earthly scene, and took him beyond
“that borne from whence no traveler returns.”
His remains were on Friday evening deposited in the family
burying ground of Major Lining, at his seat at Hillsborough,
attended by the Rev. Mr. Mills, several members of the Cincinnati,
and a few intimate acquaints, who were desirous of paying to their
departed friend, this last tribute of attention and respect.
Reference: Charleston Courier
Date: Tuesday July 16, 1805