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Oliver Bowen was born in Providence, Rhode Island on November 17, 1742 and was a Revolutionary War naval hero. He was the first Commodore of the Georgia Naval and his capture of the gunpowder laden, ship, the Phillippa, was the first capture made by any order of any congress in America. Bowen was later dismissed as Commodore because of a difference of opinion with his superior, but was vindicated of the charges against him. After the war he serves as a United States Federal Marshall in Chatham County. He died at August, Georgia on July 11, 1800 at the age of 59, leaving a wife, but no children.
Publication Date
11-21-1985
Recommended Citation
Ailes, Dan, "Oliver Bowen: Revolutionary Patriot and Hero" (1985). Savannah Biographies. 24.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/24
