More Bowker-Harwood connections

In the wake of finding that Elias Bowker, brother of Daniel Bowker (father of Hannah, who married John Jacobs Jr.) married Sarah Harwood, daughter of Nathaniel Harwood, son of Peter and Mary (Fox) Harwood, two more Bowker-Harwood connections have been found. 

A match on Ancestry.com to someone I'll refer to as "JB", shows her connection to the same Nathaniel Harwood via his son James. James Harwood had a daughter Hannah, who married Asa Bowker, a grandson of our Edmund Bowker (father of Daniel). This match was common to our Jacobs cousin SA and my brother, DFJ. I was able to identify the DNA segment that SA and DFJ share by a process of elimination, narrowing it down to a segment on Chr#6. Triangulating that segment with them on GedMatch identified other matches to the same segment, among which was a match I'll refer to as "CB", who was on Ancestry.com. CB also had ties to the same Nathaniel Harwood via his daughter Hannah, b.1732, who married a Micah Whitney. Micah and Hannah (Harwood) Whitney had a son Nathaniel Whitney, who married Eunice Bowker, b. 1768, who happens to be the sister of our Hannah Bowker, who married John Jacobs, Jr.  One of the shared matches involved here is an LW, who has ties to Bowker's, but not Harwood's; because of this and the involvement of Bowker's in the other matches, we cannot say for sure at this time which family the Chr#6 gene segment came from. In any case, this finding demonstrates a close relationship between not only the Concord Harwood line and our Bowker and Jacobs families, but to a specific family, that of Nathaniel Harwood, son of Peter and Mary (Fox) Harwood.

Nathaniel Harwood is not likely to be the father of our Huldah Harwood, who was born in 1733. Not only was that only a year after the birth of his daughter Hannah, it is wedged between that birth and that of his daughter Sarah's in 1735 and both of those births were recorded (as were the births of all of his children). If Huldah was born to Nathaniel Harwood, why wouldn't her birth also be recorded? All of Nathaniel's children born 1745 and before were born in Lunenburg, Worcester Co., MA. 

In the post "Possible Parents of Huldah", the most plausible son of Peter and Mary (Fox) Harwood to be the father of Huldah was Joseph, who married Lidia Brooks in 1732 and died in November of that year, seven months after their marriage. It seems likely that Lidia died in childbirth and that, if she did, the father would not have kept the child (Joseph married again, but not until at least 1736). In this scenario, perhaps Nathaniel Harwood and his wife Hannah adopted Huldah.  Of course another major question is: Could a premature baby, born at seven months, have survived in the year 1732?