Thomas Fowler |
Thomas Fowler<br>Also known as: Thomas Fowle<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: 1636 - Marlborough, Wiltshire, England<br>Christening: Aug 9 1636 - Marlborough St Mary the Virgin, Wiltshire, England<br>Marriage: Spouse: Hannah Jordan - Apr 23 1660 - Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America<br>Residence: Between 1660 and 1667 - Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America<br>Residence: Mar 1 1660 - Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America<br>Residence: Between 1667 and 1727 - Amesbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America<br>Death: Oct 3 1727 - Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America<br>Occupation: Husbandman, Planter<br>Parents: William Fowler Sr., Jane Fowler (born Wylshire)&;lt;br>Wife: Hannah Fowler (born Jordan)<br>Children: Hannah Ring (born Fowler), Jane Ford (born Fowler), Thomas Fowler, William Fowler, John Fowler, Margaret Challis (born Fowler), Jeremiah Fowler, Mary Colby (born Fowler)<br>Siblings: Margaret Fowler, John Fowler, William Fowler, Jr., Gemime Fowler, Israel Fowler, Jeremiah Fowler, Elizabeth Fowler, Joan Eliot (born Fowller), Philip Fowller, Peter Fowller<br> Additional information:
LifeSketch: Brief Life History of Thomas Fowler (1636-1727) [LRMZ-CYJ]am, MA. Feb 10, 2019. in Marlborough, England, m. in Ipswich, Salisbury (1662), Amesbury (1668-1727) A SON OF PHILIP. Some genealogical publications/tree indicate his parents were Philip Fowler and Mary Winsley but this has been DEBUNKED. He was a nephew of Philip Fowler, not one of his sons; this is proved in the Ipswich Court files for 30 Sep. 1656, found in the Essex County Quartely Our Records and Files (1912), vol. 2. p. 3. Here it is recorded "that John Cogswell and Phillip Fowler consent to an assignment by said John of his servant, “Thomas Fowler, to his UNCLE, Philip Fowler.” (NEHGR, Vol. 121, pg 313. This is also proven by the christening record for Thomas that lists his father as William*******Adams Stickney, Salem, Mass. Printed for the Author. Salem Press, 1883. (also published by Higginson Book Co., 1883.) INCORRECT PARENTAGE IS GIVEN IN THIS BOOK.ston scanned copy found here:tic/fowlerfamilygene00stic.pdf th side of Jeffries Neck.nthony Morse. The latter was from Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, and one of the writer’s (Matthew Adams Stickney;s) ancestors.states his age as about 26 years.r the Merrimack river.with dwelling house, etc., to James Freeze.house lot adjoining, in Salisbury, between the lots of Edward Cottle and George Carre, senior, butting with one end on Merrimack river, six acres in all. buys marsh land of John Dickison.or, or Salisbury, also 12 Oct., 1685, of James George, senior, swamp and meadow there.) widow Jane Jordan of Ipswich, in her will, mentions her daughter Hannah Fowlerpril) when of Amesbury, husbandman,with wife Hannah, sells Capt. Stephen Greenleaf of Newbury, 120 acres of land in Amesbury, formerly purchased of William Sargeant of Amesbury, now deceased.(13 April) he buys of “John Dole of Newbury, Chryrurgeon (surgeon), …a Twenty acre Lott of Upland belonging to ye right of Thomas Dummer, according to grand made of ye same unto Said Thomas Dummer, to butt upon ye north side of Merrimack River, by ye west of ye powwow River, as may more particularly appear by ye Towne booke of records for Salisbury” etc.ings in Amesbury 1690, 1691, 1692, 1693, 1697, 1698, 1701, 1704 1705, 1707, 1710, Tithingman, 1713.a comfortable maintenance, his homestead in Amesbury, salt meadow in Salisbury, etc., which he ack. 5 March, 1721-2.“In the Name of God. Amen. the Twentieth first Day of January, one thousand seven hundred and twenty and five six, I THOMAS FFOWLLER of Almsbury, In the County of Essex, with-in His Majesties Province of the Massechusets Bay, in New England, Husbandman, being well stricken in yers but of perfect mind and memory Thanks be Given unto God: Therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Dye, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all, I Give and Recommend my sole into the Hands of God that Gave it, and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of Executors, nothing doubting but at the Generl Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God: And as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life, that I have not disposed of, I give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. Imprimis. I Give and bequeath to my well beloved son William ffowller, forty Ackers of that Lot of Land that I bought of Jems George, in Almsbury, joining to the Country Pond so called, upon Consideration of my aforesaid son William, paying ten pound in money or cattle at monys price, to my Dafter Geane fordes children, within three yere after my Desest, and ten pound to my Dafter Mary Colbes children, in three yere after my Desest: upon Consideration that my aforesaid son William, not paying the abovesaid sums by the time above mencend if demanded, then my said Dafter fordes children, shall have ten Ackers of the abovesaid forty Ackers of Land, and my Dafter Mary Colbes children, shall have ten Ackers of the abovesaid forty Ackers of Land. Item. I give to my Dafter Hannah Ring, and my Dafter Margrit Chales, and my granson Thomas ffowller, the son of Jeremiah ffowler, that Lot of Land which I bought of William Osgood, which lyes Joining to the Country Pond in Almsbury, to be Equelly Devided, them three last named, one to have as good a serve as the other. Item. I give all the stock and houshold goods that I Leave, to my beloved son Jeremiah ffowller, after my Desest: Item I order my Executors to take out my funerl Charges out of the Land which I have not Disposed of, that Lot that I bought of Jems George, abovesaid, and the Remainder of said Lot I give to my said son William ffowller. Item. if anybody should com in by Ayreship of my son Thomas ffowller, which is Desest, then my executors shall pay them five silens, if they com in by Law in full of his porson. Item. If give to my son John ffowller, five silens in full of his porson, besides what he have had all redde: Item my son William fowler, and my Daftor Hannah Ring, and my Dafter Margret Chales, and my son Jeremah ffowller, shall pay all the charges that my executors may be at, in settleing of my estate after my Desest, ach one shall pay equally alike: Item I constitute make and ordain my well beloved son Jeremiah ffowller, and my Niabor Jedediah Titcomb, of the town and county above said, my sole executors of this my last Will and testament, and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all any every other former testaments, Wills, Legacies and Bequests, and Executors, by me in any ways before Named, willed and Bequeathed, Ratifying and Confirming this and no other, to be my last Will and testament, in witness whereof I have Hereunto set my Hand and Seal, the Day and year above written. FFOWLLER, as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us the subscribers.Probate 16 Oct., 1727. Recorded Essex Probate Bk. 15: 269 original on file. all the records of his descendants to the present time... are collected and arranged by the writer (Matthew Adams Stickney), but owing to his advanced age, they will remain unpublished.”
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