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About Jabez Bowen
Jabez Bowen Sr. was an American shipper, slave trader and politician. He was a militia colonel during the American Revolutionary War, and served as Deputy Governor of Rhode Island and chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Everything about Jabez Bowen →- Occupation
- lawyer, judge, slave trader, jurist
- Position held
- member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, chancellor
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 2, 1739
- Died
- May 7, 1815, May 8, 1815