Published Books and Articles

by Richard LeBaron Bowen, Sr.

Publications of Richard LeBaron Bowen, Sr. between 1939 and 1960.

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Nick Bowen, Ph.D.

© Nicholas Bowen 2015

Dec 22, 2016

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He published 9 books between 1942 and 1959 on history and genealogy of Rehoboth Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. These books contain 1,263 pages! He had an obsession on proving his lines to English heraldry which is a theme that runs through much of his work. When he died in 1969 he had three books in preparation (at least!). He self-published all these books and the family still has many pristine copies from the published. He copyrighted all his books.

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The Early Rehoboth Series was his most famous work. It focused on the founding of Rehoboth Massachusetts and covered the time period from the mid1600’s into the 1700’s. They were published between 1945 and 1950, and the research for these books started in the 1930’s. The books are collections of independent chapters - - in total 29 chapters and 716 pages.

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Early Rehoboth, Volume 1 (1945)

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Early Rehoboth, Volume 2 (1946)

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Early Rehoboth, Volume 3 (1948)

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Early Rehoboth, Volume 4 (1950)

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Rhode Island Colonial Money and its Counterfeiting: 1647-1726.

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Rhode Island Colonial Money and its Counterfeiting: 1647-1726.

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Rhode Island Colonial Money and its Counterfeiting: 1647-1726.

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Providence Records: Origin of work and contents.

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Mass records Massachusetts Records

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This is a reprint of most of his articles; Except the “Gray-Ide Bible Records.”

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Collected papers

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Collected papers

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Official reprints of all articles: note the two “Arms of Richard Scott are different!”

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I am not exactly sure his specific role in these.

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This is the inside jacket from Early Rehoboth Volume 4 published in 1950 when he was 72 years old. He clearly had confidence there would be four future books. Although I have thousands of files from his work, there is no “near final draft” of any of these books. The good news is he saved everything. The bad news is he saved everything - - sometimes there is a single file with 5 copies of a manuscript with no markings of the latest version!