Jane Bowen (née Spencer; c. 1737 – 18 October 1781) was an English woman who became known for assisting overseas officers working in support of the American cause during the Revolutionary War.
[5] Two years after the death of her husband, Bowen hosted two officers from the fleet of Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing, at Greenwich Plantation in Thunderbolt, Province of Georgia, during the 1779 siege of Savannah.
[9] On 30 March 1765, Spencer married English farmer and entrepreneur Samuel Bowen,[4] who established Greenwich Plantation in 1765.
Daughter Elizabeth Ann (1766–1816)[11] married British army surgeon Samuel Beecroft, to whom Jane sold the plantation in 1797.
[10] Upon her death in 1782, Bowen bequeathed her four children 26 slaves, 15 cows, and two oxen, along with a variety of machines for the processing of sago.