Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bowery \Bow"er*y\, n.; pl. {Boweries}. [D. bouwerij.]
   A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U.S.Hist.]

         The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries
         or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of
         living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and
         1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into
         ``villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in
         the habit of doing.''                    --Bancroft.