0 HEAD 1 SOUR FTW 2 VERS 3.00 2 NAME Family Tree Maker for Windows 2 CORP Broderbund Software, Banner Blue Division 3 ADDR 39500 Stevenson Pl. #204 4 CONT Fremont, CA 95439 4 PHON (510) 794-6850 1 DEST FTW 1 DATE 9 Feb 1996 1 CHAR ANSI 1 SUBM @SUBM@ 1 FILE D:\FTW\STOWERS.GED 1 GEDC 2 VERS 5.3 1 SCHEMA 2 INDI 3 _FA1 4 LABL Baptism 3 _FA2 4 LABL Will probated 3 _FA3 4 LABL Burial 3 _FA4 4 LABL Military service 3 _FA5 4 LABL Census 3 _FA6 4 LABL Church 3 _FA7 4 LABL Fact 7 3 _FA8 4 LABL Fact 8 3 _FA9 4 LABL Fact 9 3 _FA10 4 LABL Fact 10 3 _FA11 4 LABL Fact 11 3 _FA12 4 LABL Fact 12 3 _FA13 4 LABL Fact 13 3 _MREL 4 LABL Relationship to Mother 3 _FREL 4 LABL Relationship to Father 2 FAM 3 _FA1 4 LABL Marriage fact 3 _FA2 4 LABL Fact 2 3 _MSTAT 4 LABL Marriage Beginning Status 3 _MEND 4 LABL Marriage Ending Status 0 @SUBM@ SUBM 0 @I0043@ INDI 1 NAME Robert Markham /Stowers/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 23 Aug 1897 2 PLAC Erie, Cass, North Dakota 1 DEAT 2 DATE 14 Oct 1961 2 PLAC South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana 2 CAUS Acute coronary thrombosis due to coronary sclerosis and hypertension & diabetis 1 _FA4 2 PLAC U.S. Navy WWI 1 FAMC @F04@ 1 NOTE @NI0043@ 0 @NI0043@ NOTE 1 CONC 1915, graduated from McKinley Manual Training School in Washington, D.C. 1 CONT Served in Navy during WWI; discharged at rank of Radioman Second Class. 1 CONT Was member of Midway Lodge No. 185 of Minnesota (Mason). 1 CONT 1925, Captain of Y.M.C.A. team that was northwest volleyball champions, 1 CONC in St. Paul, Minnesota. 1 CONT 1933, supervisor of the Chicago district retailers' occupational tax 1 CONC division, state department of finance. 1 CONT 1936, July "in charge of the Chicago office of the state department of 1 CONC finance" 1 CONT [Chicago American] 1 CONT 1938, was assistant to S.L. Nudelman, Illinois Director of Finance. At 1 CONC the time he was involved in an investigation into graft in the Chicago 1 CONC office of the State Finance Division and led efforts to collect 1 CONC delinquent taxes.. 1 CONT 1952 Elected president of the National Conference of Commercial 1 CONC Receivable Companies, Inc. "Stowers ... is vice-president of Associates 1 CONC Investment Co. and Associates Discount Corp., South Bend." [Chicago Daily 1 CONC News, p. 32, Oct. 28, 1952] 1 CONT 1 CONT Sources: Obituary; resume; Naval Reserve discharge; death certificate. 0 @I0048@ INDI 1 NAME Edward James /Stowers/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 13 Dec 1862 2 PLAC Cincinnatus, New York 1 DEAT 2 DATE 5 Sep 1938 2 PLAC Shelton, Mason, Washington 1 FAMS @F04@ 1 FAMC @F05@ 1 NOTE @NI0048@ 0 @NI0048@ NOTE 1 CONC At one time was Treasurer of the Philippines. 0 @I0049@ INDI 1 NAME Hattie May /Mosher/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 13 Oct 1860 2 PLAC Granville, Illinois 1 DEAT 2 DATE 20 Jan 1953 2 PLAC Langley, Island, Washington 1 FAMS @F04@ 1 FAMC @F01@ 0 @I0053@ INDI 1 NAME Charles Nelson /Stowers/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 24 Sep 1835 2 PLAC Prospect, Maine 1 DEAT 2 DATE 2 Mar 1896 2 PLAC Minneapolis, Minnesota 1 FAMS @F05@ 1 FAMC @F06@ 1 NOTE @NI0053@ 0 @NI0053@ NOTE 1 CONC 1835 born Prospect, Maine 1 CONT 1860 graduated Middletown, Connecticut 1 CONT 1861 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts (birth of Charles) 1 CONT 1862 in Casnovia, New York [birth of Edward) 1 CONT 1869/70 president of Upper Iowa University (Fayette) 1 CONT 1870/80 ?Wisconsin 1 CONT 1880/81 pastor in Fargo, North Dakota 1 CONT 1884 ?maybe in Faribault, Minnesota 1 CONT 1884 ?maybe in Winona, Minnesota 1 CONT 1896 died Minneapolis, Minnesota 1 CONT 1 CONT Had three sons and three daughters. 1 CONT 1 CONT He graduated from college at Middletown, Connecticut in 1860. Was 1 CONC Methodist Episcopal divine and preached in central New York, and 1 CONC afterward became professor of mathematics of Lawrence University of 1 CONC Appleton, Wisconsin, and later president of Upper Iowa University at 1 CONC Fayette, Iowa (1869/70). He then engaged in the ministry in southern and 1 CONC eastern Wisconsin, and then at Fargo, North Dakota (1880/81), and later 1 CONC returned to Minnesota, where he died in 1896. 1 CONT 1 CONT On October 11, 1880, Rev. C.N. Stowers was regularly appointed to the 1 CONC Fargo charge and served as its pastor until the summer of 1881 at which 1 CONC time he was obliged to resign on account of ill health occasioned by 1 CONC overwork. ... The fall of 1880 and the winter of 1881 under the pastorate 1 CONC of Brother Stowers were busy seasons for Methodism in Fargo. 0 @I0054@ INDI 1 NAME Maria Louise /Bowen/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 13 Apr 1835 2 PLAC New York 1 DEAT 2 DATE 13 Jul 1887 1 FAMS @F05@ 1 FAMC @F07@ 0 @I0056@ INDI 1 NAME James /Stowers/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 24 Mar 1794 2 PLAC Sandy Point, Maine 1 DEAT 2 DATE 9 May 1881 2 PLAC Stockton, Waldo, Maine 1 FAMS @F06@ 1 FAMC @F19@ 1 NOTE @NI0056@ 0 @NI0056@ NOTE 1 CONC According to Irving Stowers, Elizabeth Stowers married Edward Harriman; 1 CONC one of heirs of James Stowers is James Harriman. 1 CONT In 1820 census has own household in Prospect, Hancock, Maine. 1 CONT Sources: 1 CONT Birth: Irving Stowers 1 CONT Death: Probate records. 1 CONT Marriage: Irving Stowers. 0 @I0063@ INDI 1 NAME Elias /Bowen/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 16 Jun 1791 2 PLAC Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts 1 DEAT 2 DATE 25 Oct 1870 2 PLAC Cortland, Cortland, New York 1 FAMS @F07@ 1 FAMC @F37@ 1 NOTE @NI0063@ 0 @NI0063@ NOTE 1 CONC "American early Free Methodist leader. He was pastor and presiding elder 1 CONC in the Oneida Conference of the M.E. Church and seven times a delegate to 1 CONC the M.E. general conference. He joined the Free Methodist Church in 1 CONC 1869. He was author of The History of the Origin of the Free Methodist 1 CONC Church. All agree that Bowen was an able administrator, a strong 1 CONC doctrinal preacher, an effective servant of Christ and the 1 CONC church."--World Encyclopedia of Methodism. 1 CONT E. Bowen was a member of the committee that established the Cazenovia 1 CONC Seminary. He was one of the seminary's first trustees (served 1824-1826; 1 CONC 1838-1844; 1846-1857). "Rev. Elias Bowen, D.D., was a strong man, long 1 CONC time a presiding elder, positive and strong in his approbations and 1 CONC dislikes, and at one period in his life regarded as the foremost witness 1 CONC and teacher of the higher spiritual life. He was conservative in his 1 CONC earlier, and radical in his later, years on the question of "Slavery and 1 CONC the Church." He was many times elected delegate to the General 1 CONC Conference. He was a clear and strong writer, and contributed largely to 1 CONC periodical literature. He published sermons on education and other 1 CONC subjects, and in later life a volume entitled "Slavery and the Church."" 1 CONC While a trustee he introduced a resolution against parties at the 1 CONC seminary, regarding them as exerting a deleterious influence on the piety 1 CONC and religious convictions of the student.--First Fifty Years of Cazenovia 1 CONC Seminary: 1825 to 1875. 0 @I0070@ INDI 1 NAME Nancy /Pendleton/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 12 Oct 1797 2 PLAC Searsport, Waldo, Maine 1 DEAT 2 DATE Mar 1863 2 PLAC Maine 1 FAMS @F06@ 1 FAMC @F09@ 0 @I0098@ INDI 1 NAME Alfred /Mosher/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 20 Mar 1834 2 PLAC Hoosick Falls, New York 1 DEAT 2 DATE 10 Nov 1920 2 PLAC Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota 1 _FA1 2 DATE 1920 2 PLAC Buried Erie, Cass, North Dakota 1 FAMS @F01@ 1 FAMC @F02@ 1 NOTE @NI0098@ 0 @NI0098@ NOTE 1 CONC Alfred and his wife came from Wisconsin to North Dakota in 1880 1 CONT Alfred served in the Civil War; he enlisted in 1863 and served in Company 1 CONC g, 32nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th 1 CONC Army Camp, Army of Tennessee. He was in Sherman's march from Atlanta to 1 CONC the sea. 0 @I0099@ INDI 1 NAME Persis Gillette /Parker/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 28 May 1836 2 PLAC Bennington, Vermont 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1902 1 _FA1 2 DATE 1902 2 PLAC Buried Erie, Cass, North Dakota 1 FAMS @F01@ 1 FAMC @F03@ 0 @I0100@ INDI 1 NAME Alpheus Adam /Mosher/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1808 2 PLAC Hoosick, New York 1 DEAT 2 DATE AFT 1860 2 PLAC Manitowoc, Wisconsin 1 _FA1 2 DATE 1830 2 PLAC Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York 1 _FA2 2 DATE 1838 2 PLAC Bennington, Bennington, Vermont 1 _FA3 2 DATE 1848 2 PLAC Rhode Island 1 _FA4 2 DATE 1850 2 PLAC Bennington, Vermont 1 _FA5 2 DATE 1860 2 PLAC Manitowoc, Wisconsin 1 FAMS @F02@ 1 FAMC @F10@ 0 @I0101@ INDI 1 NAME Susan /Willis/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1809 2 PLAC New York 1 DEAT 2 DATE AFT 1852 2 PLAC Manitowoc, Wisconsin 1 FAMS @F02@ 0 @I0150@ INDI 1 NAME Thomas /Parker/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1802 2 PLAC New York 1 DEAT 2 DATE AFT 1850 1 FAMS @F03@ 1 FAMC @F38@ 1 NOTE @NI0150@ 0 @NI0150@ NOTE 1 CONC In 1850 enumerated in Bennington, Vermont. Occupation "square maker." 0 @I0151@ INDI 1 NAME Fannie /Haines/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1805 2 PLAC Vermont 1 DEAT 2 DATE AFT 1850 1 FAMS @F03@ 0 @I0182@ INDI 1 NAME Nicholas /Mosher/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1775 2 PLAC Hoosick, New York 1 DEAT 2 DATE BEF 1843 2 PLAC Sandy Creek, Oswego, New York 1 FAMS @F10@ 1 FAMC @F12@ 0 @I0183@ INDI 1 NAME Susannah /Bracey/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1787 2 PLAC Massachusetts 1 DEAT 2 DATE AFT 1860 1 FAMS @F10@ 0 @I0201@ INDI 1 NAME Wilcox /Mosher/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 16 Jan 1723/24 1 DEAT 2 DATE BEF 1813 2 PLAC Hoosick, New York 1 FAMS @F12@ 1 FAMC @F13@ 0 @I0202@ INDI 1 NAME Hannah /Wickham/ 1 SEX F 1 DEAT 2 DATE AFT 1824 1 FAMS @F12@ 0 @I0213@ INDI 1 NAME Nicholas /Mosher/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1 Jan 1702/03 2 PLAC Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 1 DEAT 2 DATE AFT 1765 2 PLAC Beekman, Duchess, New York? 1 FAMS @F13@ 1 FAMC @F14@ 0 @I0214@ INDI 1 NAME Rebecca /Wilcox/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 14 Aug 1711 1 FAMS @F13@ 0 @I0239@ INDI 1 NAME Nicholas /Mosher/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1666 1 DEAT 2 DATE 14 Aug 1747 2 PLAC Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island 1 FAMS @F14@ 1 FAMC @F11@ 0 @I0240@ INDI 1 NAME Elizabeth /Audley/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1667 1 FAMS @F14@ 1 NOTE @NI0240@ 0 @NI0240@ NOTE 1 CONC Also "Odlin." 0 @I0258@ INDI 1 NAME Hugh /Mosher/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1633 1 DEAT 2 DATE BEF 7 Dec 1713 2 PLAC Newport County, Rhode Island 1 FAMS @F11@ 1 FAMC @F15@ 0 @I0261@ INDI 1 NAME Rebecca /Horndel/ 1 SEX F 1 DEAT 2 DATE BEF 25 Feb 1707/08 1 FAMS @F11@ 1 FAMC @F26@ 0 @I0278@ INDI 1 NAME Nicholas /Mosher/ 1 SEX M 1 _FA1 2 DATE 19 Dec 1596 2 PLAC Christened: Chucklinton, Somerset, England 1 FAMS @F15@ 1 FAMC @F16@ 1 NOTE @NI0278@ 0 @NI0278@ NOTE 1 CONC Also "Moger." 0 @I0279@ INDI 1 NAME Lydia /Maxson/ 1 SEX F 1 DEAT 2 DATE 2 Feb 1717/18 2 PLAC Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island 1 FAMS @F15@ 0 @I0284@ INDI 1 NAME John /Moger/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 PLAC England 1 _FA1 2 DATE 15 Jan 1611/12 2 PLAC Buried: Cucklington, Somerset, England 1 FAMS @F16@ 1 NOTE @NI0284@ 0 @NI0284@ NOTE 1 CONC Also "Mosher." 0 @I0285@ INDI 1 NAME Edith /Crosse/ 1 SEX F 1 _FA1 2 DATE 22 Apr 1619 2 PLAC Buried: Cucklington, Somerset, England 1 FAMS @F16@ 0 @I0403@ INDI 1 NAME Samuel /Stowers/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 16 Aug 1761 2 PLAC Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts 1 DEAT 2 DATE ABT 1825 2 PLAC Prospect, Hancock, Maine 1 _FA1 2 DATE 16 Aug 1721 2 PLAC Rumney Marsh, Massachusetts 1 _FA7 2 DATE 16 Apr 1786 2 PLAC "Own the covenant"--church at Rumney Marsh. 1 FAMS @F19@ 1 FAMC @F20@ 1 NOTE @NI0403@ 0 @NI0403@ NOTE 1 CONC In 1790 census, resident of Frankfort Town, Hancock, Maine. Household 1 CONC composed of one white male above 16 (self), no sons below 16, three free 1 CONC white females (one would be wife, then two daughters). 1 CONT In 1810 census,a Samuel Stowers is resident of Farmington, Kennebec, 1 CONC Maine, but may not be the Samuel Stowers. 1 CONT In 1820 census, resident of Prospect, Hancock, Maine. There are also 1 CONC Samuel Stowers' listed in Farmington, Kennebec and 1st Township, Oxford. 1 CONT Sources: 1 CONT Birth: Irving Stowers, Vital Records of Chelsea [baptism] 1 CONT Marriage: Vital Records of Lynn, Vital Records of Marblehead. 1 CONT Death: Probate records. 0 @I0416@ INDI 1 NAME James /Stowers/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 15 Dec 1716 2 PLAC Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts 1 DEAT 2 DATE 16 Jan 1780 2 PLAC Malden, Suffolk, Massachusetts 1 FAMS @F20@ 1 FAMC @F27@ 1 NOTE @NI0416@ 0 @NI0416@ NOTE 1 CONC On March 29, 1773, the town of Malden, Suffolk, Massachusetts "warned 1 CONC off" James Stowers and Elizabeth his wife who came from Chelsea with 1 CONC their sons Nathaniel and Samuel and their daughter Mary taking her child 1 CONC Catherine with her and depart. 1 CONT Sources: birth: Vital Records of Charlestown; death: Vital Records of 1 CONC Chelsea 0 @I0417@ INDI 1 NAME Elizabeth /Vial/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 3 Jul 1717 2 PLAC Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 1 DEAT 2 DATE 9 Mar 1802 2 PLAC Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts 1 FAMS @F20@ 1 FAMC @F08@ 1 NOTE @NI0417@ 0 @NI0417@ NOTE 1 CONC Birth: Boston births: 1700-1800. 1 CONT Death: Vital Records of Chelsea. Also, DHoC, p. 613, "Mrs. Elizabeth 1 CONC Stowers, 85. Lung Fever; but, previously much debilitated by age." 0 @I0447@ INDI 1 NAME Nathaniel /Vial/ 1 SEX M 1 DEAT 2 DATE BEF 23 Nov 1732 1 FAMS @F08@ 0 @I0448@ INDI 1 NAME Sarah /Bennett/ 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F08@ 1 FAMC @F34@ 0 @I0451@ INDI 1 NAME Greene /Pendleton/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 21 Jun 1774 2 PLAC Westerly, Rhode Island 1 DEAT 2 DATE 12 Apr 1863 2 PLAC Searsport, Maine 1 FAMS @F09@ 1 FAMC @F21@ 0 @I0452@ INDI 1 NAME Nancy /Park/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE Oct 1776 1 DEAT 2 DATE 6 Oct 1839 1 FAMS @F09@ 1 NOTE @NI0452@ 0 @NI0452@ NOTE 1 CONC John Park appears in 1790 census as resident of Frankfort Town, Hancock, 1 CONC Maine. 0 @I0503@ INDI 1 NAME Peleg /Pendleton/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 12 Feb 1731/32 2 PLAC Westerly, Rhode Island 1 DEAT 2 DATE 12 Jul 1810 1 FAMS @F21@ 1 FAMC @F22@ 1 NOTE @NI0503@ 0 @NI0503@ NOTE 1 CONC The name Peleg is from the Bible: Genesis 10:25 "And unto Eber were born 1 CONC two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth 1 CONC divided; and his brother's name was Joktan." 0 @I0504@ INDI 1 NAME Ann /Park/ 1 SEX F 1 DEAT 2 DATE 20 Mar 1817 1 FAMS @F21@ 0 @I0524@ INDI 1 NAME William /Pendleton/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 23 Mar 1703/04 2 PLAC Westerly, Rhode Island 1 FAMS @F22@ 1 FAMC @F23@ 0 @I0525@ INDI 1 NAME Joseph /Pendleton/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 29 Dec 1661 2 PLAC Westerly, Rhode Island 1 DEAT 2 DATE ABT 20 Sep 1706 1 FAMS @F23@ 1 FAMC @F25@ 0 @I0526@ INDI 1 NAME Patience /Potts/ 1 SEX F 1 DEAT 2 DATE AFT 22 Feb 1705/06 1 FAMS @F23@ 1 FAMC @F24@ 0 @I0532@ INDI 1 NAME William /Potts/ 1 SEX M 1 FAMS @F24@ 0 @I0536@ INDI 1 NAME James /Pendleton/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1628 2 PLAC England 1 DEAT 2 DATE 29 Nov 1709 2 PLAC Westerly, Rhode Island 1 FAMS @F25@ 1 FAMC @F18@ 0 @I0537@ INDI 1 NAME Hannah /Goodenow/ 1 SEX F 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1709 1 FAMS @F25@ 1 FAMC @F17@ 0 @I0542@ INDI 1 NAME Edmund /Goodenow/ 1 SEX M 1 FAMS @F17@ 0 @I0543@ INDI 1 NAME Anna /???/ 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F17@ 0 @I0584@ INDI 1 NAME Brian /Pendleton/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1599 2 PLAC England 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1687 2 PLAC Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1 _FA1 2 DATE ABT 1634 2 PLAC Came to America. 1 _FA2 2 DATE 3 Sep 1634 2 PLAC Admitted freeman in Massachusetts Colony. 1 FAMS @F18@ 1 NOTE @NI0584@ 0 @NI0584@ NOTE 1 CONC Came to America in or around 1634 with his wife and children. He was 1 CONC admitted freeman in the Massachusetts Colony on September 3, 1634 and 1 CONC settled at Watertown. 0 @I0585@ INDI 1 NAME Eleanor /Price/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE AFT 1687 1 FAMS @F18@ 0 @I0858@ INDI 1 NAME Elizabeth /Brooks/ 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F19@ 0 @I0874@ INDI 1 NAME Abigail /Sprague/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1692 1 DEAT 2 DATE 16 Oct 1741 2 PLAC Malden, Massachusetts 1 FAMS @F27@ 0 @I0906@ INDI 1 NAME Nicholas /Stowers/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1594 2 PLAC Upwey, Dorset, England 1 DEAT 2 DATE 17 May 1646 2 PLAC Charlestown, Massachusetts 1 FAMS @F28@ 1 FAMC @F32@ 1 NOTE @NI0906@ 0 @NI0906@ NOTE 1 CONC Arrived in Massachusetts in 1629 on the Lyon's Whelp. Arrived in Salem 1 CONC but soon moved to Charlestown. 1 CONT "The inhabitants yt: first settled in this place and brought it into the 1 CONC denomination of an English Towne was (were) in Anno 1628 (1629) as 1 CONC follows, viz: 1 CONT Ralph Sprague, Abra. Palmer, Mr. Graves 1 CONT Richd. Sprague, Walter Pamer, 1 CONT William Sprague, Nicholas Stowers, 1 CONT John Meech, John Stickline, 1 CONT Simon Hoyte, Tho. Walford smith 1 CONT yt lived heere alone 1 CONT before 1 CONT 1 CONT p. 20, History of Charlestown, Frothingham 1 CONT Will: 1 CONT To beloved wife Amy Stower my dwelling house wth ye barn & all other 1 CONC houseing, wth the two Acres of ground by it, & all the ground in th necke 1 CONC of Charlestowne. Also a hay lot on Mistick syde near the North spring 1 CONC next or sister Rands, also half of the hay of the other hay lots on 1 CONC Mistick syde. Likewise 4 Cowe Comons on the stinted Comon wthout the 1 CONC necke. Also 3 of the Acres of planting ground on Misticke syde that is 1 CONC broken vp, & it is now sowen wth english corne & planted wth Indian 1 CONC Corne: she to haue the vse of all the aforenamed -- She to haue vse of 1 CONC the cart & plow & its furniture: she to haue my two best working oxen -- 1 CONC all the English Corne & Indian corne on the ground on mistick syde -- 1 CONC except that wch my Son Richard is to haue of the same crop. 1 CONT When wife is deceased my sonne Joseph Stower to haue the house, barne & 1 CONC other housing wth the 2 Acres of ground, to abide with his mother to do 1 CONC her service while she liues, or till he be twenty & one yeare old. Hee 1 CONC to pay his sister Abigail 2 Cowes, & one to his sister Jone at ye decease 1 CONC of my wife. 1 CONT To daughter ffar a great bible, & the great brasse pan after my wifes 1 CONC decease, all the rest to be my wiues for euer. 1 CONT To son Richard my two oxen next to the best land on mistick syde, only 1 CONC his mother to haue the use of 3 Acres, -- to dau. Jone Stower one Cowe 1 CONC presently, & one out of Josephs portion. 1 CONT To dau. ffarre a great Bible. Wife sole executrix -- loued brethren 1 CONC Thomas Lyne & Robert Hale to be overseers of this my last will. 1 CONT Witnesses 1 CONT Increase Nowell 1 CONT John Greene 1 CONT Thomas Lyne 1 CONT Robert Hale 1 CONT 1 CONT Freeman: 1631. Herdsman: 1633. As herdsman his duties were "to drive 1 CONC the herd forth to their food in the main every morning, and to bring them 1 CONC into town every evening, and to have fifty bushels of Indian corn for 1 CONC keeping the milch cows till Indian harvest be taken in." He was also to 1 CONC have the benefit of keeping such other cattle as came into town during 1 CONC the summer. 1 CONT 1 CONT History of Charlestown, p. 23. 1 CONT 1 CONT Nicholas and Amy accepted the covenant Nov. 2, 1632 in the church in 1 CONC Charlestown. Previously services were held in Boston.---ibid, p. 70. 1 CONT 0 @I0907@ INDI 1 NAME Amy /James/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1604 2 PLAC England 1 DEAT 2 DATE 27 Feb 1666/67 2 PLAC Charlestown, Massachusetts 1 FAMS @F28@ 1 NOTE @NI0907@ 0 @NI0907@ NOTE 1 CONC Also "Amie." 1 CONT Death: Charlestown Vital Records. 0 @I0908@ INDI 1 NAME Joseph /Stowers/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 21 Dec 1632 2 PLAC Charlestown, Massachusetts 1 DEAT 2 DATE 16 Nov 1672 2 PLAC Charlestown, Massachusetts 1 FAMS @F29@ 1 FAMC @F28@ 1 NOTE @NI0908@ 0 @NI0908@ NOTE 1 CONC Birth: Charlestown Vital Records. 1 CONT Marriage: Partial chronology ...; wife Marie named in Charlestown Vital 1 CONC Records on birth of Samuell. 1 CONT Death: Charlestown Vital Records. 1 CONT Parents: Charlestown Vital Records 0 @I0915@ INDI 1 NAME Mary /Blaisdell/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 5 Mar 1641/42 2 PLAC Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 1 DEAT 2 DATE 29 May 1681 1 FAMS @F29@ 1 FAMC @F33@ 0 @I0916@ INDI 1 NAME Samuel /Stowers/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 14 May 1665 2 PLAC Charlestown, Massachusetts 1 DEAT 2 DATE 26 Dec 1721 2 PLAC Malden, Massachusetts 1 FAMS @F30@ 1 FAMC @F29@ 1 NOTE @NI0916@ 0 @NI0916@ NOTE 1 CONC Birth: Charlestown Vital Records; Partial chronology ... 0 @I0919@ INDI 1 NAME Hannah /Sprague/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1665 1 FAMS @F30@ 1 FAMC @F31@ 0 @I0920@ INDI 1 NAME Samuel /Stowers/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 17 Jul 1692 2 PLAC Charlestown, Massachusetts 1 FAMS @F27@ 1 FAMC @F30@ 1 NOTE @NI0920@ 0 @NI0920@ NOTE 1 CONC Birth: Charlestown Vital Records. 0 @I0946@ INDI 1 NAME John /Horndel/ 1 SEX M 1 FAMS @F26@ 0 @I2115@ INDI 1 NAME Ralph /Blaisdell/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1600 2 PLAC England 1 DEAT 2 DATE ABT 1649 2 PLAC Salisbury, Massachusetts 1 FAMS @F33@ 1 NOTE @NI2115@ 0 @NI2115@ NOTE 1 CONC Ralph was a tailor. Settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts. 1 CONT 1 CONT Sources: Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of 1 CONC The State of Massachusetts. vol. I (New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1 CONC 1910) 0 @I2157@ INDI 1 NAME Elizabeth /???/ 1 SEX F 1 DEAT 2 DATE Aug 1667 1 FAMS @F33@ 0 @I2161@ INDI 1 NAME Walter /Stowers/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1565 2 PLAC West Dorsetshire, England 1 FAMS @F32@ 0 @I2162@ INDI 1 NAME John /Sprague/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1635 1 FAMS @F31@ 0 @I2376@ INDI 1 NAME Elisha /Bennett/ 1 SEX M 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1726 2 PLAC Rumney Marsh, Massachusetts 1 FAMS @F34@ 1 FAMC @F35@ 1 NOTE @NI2376@ 0 @NI2376@ NOTE 1 CONC Mariner. 0 @I2377@ INDI 1 NAME Samuel /Bennett/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1611 2 PLAC England 1 DEAT 2 DATE AFT 13 Dec 1676 1 FAMS @F35@ 1 NOTE @NI2377@ 0 @NI2377@ NOTE 1 CONC Carpenter. Came in 1639 on the James. "During a lawsuit ... John Floyd 1 CONC said it was well known that Samuel Bennett, Sr., "sold everything he 1 CONC could for drink.""--DHoC, v.1, p.278. 0 @I2378@ INDI 1 NAME Dorothy /???/ 1 SEX F 1 DEAT 2 DATE ABT 1727 1 FAMS @F34@ 0 @I2417@ INDI 1 NAME Sarah /???/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1607 1 DEAT 2 DATE 18 Jan 1682/83 2 PLAC Lynn, Massachusetts 1 FAMS @F35@ 0 @I2614@ INDI 1 NAME Abigail /Birdseye/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 24 Jan 1803 2 PLAC Sauquoit, Oneida, New York 1 DEAT 2 DATE 24 Jan 1871 2 PLAC Cortland, Cortland, New York 1 FAMS @F07@ 0 @I2615@ INDI 1 NAME John /Bowen/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 28 Apr 1756 1 DEAT 2 DATE Jun 1831 1 FAMS @F37@ 0 @I2616@ INDI 1 NAME Sarah /Briggs/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1 Sep 1758 1 DEAT 2 DATE ABT 1804 1 FAMS @F37@ 1 FAMC @F36@ 0 @I2631@ INDI 1 NAME Lucy /???/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1777 2 PLAC Vermont 1 FAMS @F38@ 0 @I2800@ INDI 1 NAME Noah /Briggs/ 1 SEX M 1 FAMS @F36@ 0 @I2801@ INDI 1 NAME Elizabeth /Trumball/ 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F36@ 0 @F01@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0098@ 1 WIFE @I0099@ 1 CHIL @I0049@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 22 Oct 1854 2 PLAC Bennington, Vermont 0 @F02@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0100@ 1 WIFE @I0101@ 1 CHIL @I0098@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F03@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0150@ 1 WIFE @I0151@ 1 CHIL @I0099@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F04@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0048@ 1 WIFE @I0049@ 1 CHIL @I0043@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 4 May 1882 2 PLAC Wheatland, Cass, North Dakota 0 @F05@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0053@ 1 WIFE @I0054@ 1 CHIL @I0048@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 29 Jun 1860 0 @F06@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0056@ 1 WIFE @I0070@ 1 CHIL @I0053@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 7 Mar 1816 2 PLAC Prospect, Waldo County, Maine 0 @F07@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0063@ 1 WIFE @I2614@ 1 CHIL @I0054@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 3 Jan 1821 0 @F08@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0447@ 1 WIFE @I0448@ 1 CHIL @I0417@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 12 Jul 1708 2 PLAC Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 0 @F09@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0451@ 1 WIFE @I0452@ 1 CHIL @I0070@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 1795 0 @F10@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0182@ 1 WIFE @I0183@ 1 CHIL @I0100@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F11@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0258@ 1 WIFE @I0261@ 1 CHIL @I0239@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F12@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0201@ 1 WIFE @I0202@ 1 CHIL @I0182@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F13@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0213@ 1 WIFE @I0214@ 1 CHIL @I0201@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 20 Jan 1728/29 2 PLAC Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 0 @F14@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0239@ 1 WIFE @I0240@ 1 CHIL @I0213@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F15@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0278@ 1 WIFE @I0279@ 1 CHIL @I0258@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F16@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0284@ 1 WIFE @I0285@ 1 CHIL @I0278@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F17@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0542@ 1 WIFE @I0543@ 1 CHIL @I0537@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F18@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0584@ 1 WIFE @I0585@ 1 CHIL @I0536@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F19@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0403@ 1 WIFE @I0858@ 1 CHIL @I0056@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 12 Dec 1782 2 PLAC Lynn, Massachusetts 0 @F20@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0416@ 1 WIFE @I0417@ 1 CHIL @I0403@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 1 Feb 1737/38 2 PLAC Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 1 NOTE @NF20@ 0 @NF20@ NOTE 1 CONC Source: Boston Marriages: 1700-1809 0 @F21@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0503@ 1 WIFE @I0504@ 1 CHIL @I0451@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 7 Sep 1758 2 PLAC Stonington, Connecticut 0 @F22@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0524@ 1 CHIL @I0503@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F23@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0525@ 1 WIFE @I0526@ 1 CHIL @I0524@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 11 Dec 1700 0 @F24@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0532@ 1 CHIL @I0526@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F25@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0536@ 1 WIFE @I0537@ 1 CHIL @I0525@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 29 Apr 1656 2 PLAC Sudbury, Massachusetts 0 @F26@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0946@ 1 CHIL @I0261@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F27@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0920@ 1 WIFE @I0874@ 1 CHIL @I0416@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F28@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0906@ 1 WIFE @I0907@ 1 CHIL @I0908@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F29@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0908@ 1 WIFE @I0915@ 1 CHIL @I0916@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F30@ FAM 1 HUSB @I0916@ 1 WIFE @I0919@ 1 CHIL @I0920@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F31@ FAM 1 HUSB @I2162@ 1 CHIL @I0919@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F32@ FAM 1 HUSB @I2161@ 1 CHIL @I0906@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F33@ FAM 1 HUSB @I2115@ 1 WIFE @I2157@ 1 CHIL @I0915@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F34@ FAM 1 HUSB @I2376@ 1 WIFE @I2378@ 1 CHIL @I0448@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F35@ FAM 1 HUSB @I2377@ 1 WIFE @I2417@ 1 CHIL @I2376@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F36@ FAM 1 HUSB @I2800@ 1 WIFE @I2801@ 1 CHIL @I2616@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 1 MARR 2 DATE 1733 2 PLAC Tauton, Connecticut 0 @F37@ FAM 1 HUSB @I2615@ 1 WIFE @I2616@ 1 CHIL @I0063@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 @F38@ FAM 1 WIFE @I2631@ 1 CHIL @I0150@ 2 _FREL Natural 2 _MREL Natural 0 TRLR