Nathaniel Mowry

THE

DESCENDANTS

NATHANIEL MOWRY,

Bv WILLIAM A. MOWRY, i\. 1\1.,

JIEIIBKR OF :rHR ~KW F:NGLA~'"D HISTORIC, GENEAL()Gll'AL SOCU."TY; lfEXBER OF TBE Rut•Dlt lSLA:SI> Hli.TOIUCAL SOC'IETY ; HOSORARl" llHIB£R OJo' THE :S. ff. ASTIQCARJA:S SOCIETl"; AND CORRESPO:SDJSG llEXBF.R 01'' TH& OREGON PIONEER ASD HISTOiUt"AL S

PROVIDENCE: SIDNEY S. RIDER, PUBLISHER. 1878.

" Who ,io unmindful or his birth, home, and country as not to det1ire to know from whence be came, who hi:i anct>Sto~ Wt're, what they have done, and to inquire what he is doing for the welfare ol' his tt'llow-man ! and who dOt's not ret!'l a pride in tracing his d~ceot through a long line of noble ance!'ltONI, hi:i heart 1,:lowing with ft'n·or to emulate tht!' examples of the lllui:1trious men ! ., - Hos. }(ARSJULL P. WILDER, Ph. D.

" A desire to be cherished in the regru-d,i of our ab~nt rri,:mdi<, and to live in their memories when we shall be numbered among the dead, is one or tht: most common and powerful senti m1::nts ot our nature. It is not a weakness of onr nature, but a heaven-born instinct. He only is willing that all remembrance or him~lf :ihould be cut otf, who is con11eiou:1 that his memory can bring no bl~ng to him:lt'lf or otbeni. To all bt."Sid~ it i:i a sweet and animating assuranCEI> Btrengt.bening in life and con!'(oling in death, tbut tltey shall not t"ntirely pass away from the world or loved and familiar thin'-"!(, but that their memory shall i,,-un·ive and flourish still." REV. c. H. WmntLEL.

COPYIUGHT. Wrr,r.r.u1 .A. l\lOWRY.

PREFACE.

OsE of the hopeful signs of the times is found in the interest, which is of late becoming more general and wide-spread, in questions per taining to genealogical inquiry. These questions are now taking firm hold of the popular mind. Good fruits have already been produced by the publication within the last few yea.rs of many excellent family histories. This increase· of interest in our ancestors has also been specially appa.rent in the publication of many valuable town and other local l1istories. These books will hereafte1· fur11ish important aid to future his torians, when 11istory shall have been reduced to a science, and his torical studies sl1all have taken their true place in educational systems and private study. The writer has for more than twenty years had an earnest desire to know something of his ancestors. He has for many years been con vinced of the sterling worth, the indomitable energy, and the manly virtues manifested by the earlier generations of the l\lowry family in New England. About six years ago he found, in the first volume of the Providence P1·obate Records, the will of Nathaniel .Mowry. This led to a careful perusal of the records of wills, deeds, births~ marriages, and deaths, and other matters preserved in the to,·vn records of Providence and Smithfield. The fact was soon established bevond. doubt that. two brothers, John and Nathaniel Mowry. were among the earliest set tlers of Northern Rhode Island. and the first ancestors of our race in this country. }"'or nearly six years tl1e writer has labored diligently to secure a record of Nathaniel :rt!owry's descendants, which should 4 THE l\lOWRY FAMILY.

be reasonably free from errors, and as full as it could well be made. Although it is not complete or perfect, and perhaps never could be. it is believed to be sufficiently full and reliable to warrant its publi cation. It has been the aim of the author to exercise all possible cau

tion 1 and put nothing in the record which does not appear to be con firmed by reliable authority. Where any doubt exists, it is indicated by a question-mark, or in some other way. Yet it is hardly possible to obtain information from so many differ ent sources, much of which has been copied five or six. times, "';t11out falling into some errors. The author will thank any one who discov ers such errors to communicate them to him, in order that, should the subject be pursued further, or any additional account be published iu the future, the errors may not be pepetuated. Only those who have beel). engaged in similar service can appreciate the vast labor required to prepare a record of f amilics long since passed a,""ay, and of families now living, but widely scattered. The writer, can only claim an honest purpose, much painstaking, and great labor in the preparation of the work. For the assistance kindly rendered by many hands he is duly grate ful. He desires to make special mention of aid received from the following persons: first of all, his thanks are due to Erastus Richard son, Esq., author of the history of \Yoonsocket, for much aid and many kindly suggestions; to Ephraim Sayles, Esq., and Benjamin W. Mowry, Esq., of Smithfield, for valuable papers loaned; to Burrill R. Mowry, Esq., of Smithfield, for invaluable aid from time to time con cerning many families, accurately 1·emembered by him through a long period of many years; to Herbert E. Morey, ~sq., of Boston, Mass., for many papers furnished, which have proved to be of much assistance· in tracing the history of many families; to Mrs. :Mary Elizabeth Mas ters, of Greenwich, N. Y., for much of the family history of the descendants of John Mowry, son of Natllaniel; to Elisha C. :Mowry, Esq., of Providence, Nelson Mowry, Esq., of Wilbraham, l\Iass., and Mrs. Lydia C. Wells, of Charleston, S. C., for excellent sketches fur nished; .to many others, though unnamed here, yet remembered with gratitude, for kind assistance and encouraging words. He desires • to express his high appreeiation of the liberality of those who have generously contributed of their means to help defray the necessary PREFACE. 5

•expense of publishing the work, without whose aid its publication could never have ~een accomplisl1ed. He would also make deserved mention of important assistance rendered, during summer vacations and winter evenings, in copying, collating, and adjusting papers, reading copy, correcting proof, and making the indexes, by his son, Arthur May Mowry. The author takes this occasion to thank many subscribers for kind words and friendly notices of his book, recently published, entitled "RICHARD MOWRY; His Ances~ors and his De.~cendants"; which embraces in its earlier pages the same matter as in this book, but the latter part gives the descendants of Richard only, with a very full biog raphy of that worthy man, by his grandson, Richard D. Mowry, Esq., of San Francisco, Cal. In giving dates, no changes are made, but whether Old Style or New Style, they are all given as they were found. It may be proper to say to the general reader, that the Old Style continued in England and her colonies till 1752 ; that under the Old Style the new year began March 25; but that for many years before, in events occurring between Jan. I and !Iarcb 25, both years were frequently named, since most of the other nations of Europe had al ready adopted the :New Style, wl1ich began the year on the first of January. Also, when the style was changed by Act of Parliament in 1752, ele-ren days were dropped from the calendar, so that the tllird of September became thefourteentl,. To illustrate: Richard Mowry was born Feb. 11, 1748. 0. S., which would be Feb. 22, 1749, N. S. Yet we might find it in the old family Bible, Feb. 11, 174...,~9. The book is now sent out to the family, as the author's contribution towards rescuing from oblivion and preserving for posterity the rec ord of our ancestors, many of whom lived noble lives in the early his tory of these colonies. He l1opes it will prove reasonably satisfactory to the families, and that cl1arity will be shown towards its errors of commission and of omission. , ery respectfully, WILLIAlI A. 1\10\VRY. ELMWOOD, PROVIDESCE, Sept. 21. 18,8.

CONTENTS.

PAGE lNTRODCCTION 9

CHAPTER I.

THE FIRST GKXERATIOS 29

CHAPTER II. THE SECOSD GEXERATION • 30

CHAPTER III. THE THIRD GEXERA.TION 55

CHAPTER IV. THE FOURTH GEX.EHA.TION • 66

CHAPTER Y.

TUE FIFTH GENERATION 113

CHAPTER VI.

TIIE SIXTH GENERATION

CHAPTER VII.

THE SEVENTH GENERATION 252

CHAPTER VIII.

THE EIGHTH GENERATION . 301

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS . 319

INDEX 327

INTRODUCTION.

F&oM the records of real estate in the Town- of Provi dence, it appears that among the earliest, if not the earliest $ettlers in Northern Rhode Island, were Eow ARD INMAN, and JOHN MOWRY. Soon after these men had established themselves, we find STEPHEN .A.RNOLD and NA.THANIEL MowRY with them. Their first settlement was on Sayles's Hill, so called in modern times. The precise time, when they came to Rhode Island, is not known. Nor is it clear whether Edward and John came together or separately. It is surmised, however, that they both came here from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where they had probably spent some time, prior to making their permanent settlement within the limits of this State. There is but little doubt that this is the John Mowry who came over from London in the ship Blessing in 1635, aged 19. H so, it is now unknown where he was dur ing the period that followed his landing 'in the Bay Colony, until we find him in Rhode Island. The first record wliich can now be found of his purchase of land was in 1666. He had probably lived here some years be fore the date of this deed :- 2 10 THE :MOWRY FAMILY.

INDIAN DEED, 1666.

" Be it known unto all 1nen by these presents, that I~ Willia1n llinnion, of Punskepage, in ye Collony of ye Massachusetts Bay, have, upon good consideration moving me thereto, have freely given and passed over a tract of land unto Ed ward In1nan aud John llowry, of Provid~nce, etc., being two thousand acres 1nore or less, ye bounds of their lands lying fron1 Loqueesit Northward. "Ye first bound is a cl1estnut tree on ye South, marked on four sides at ye first Indian field on W essulkuttomisk Hill, running a 1nile due North, and then upon a line to Ummolibukkonit, taking in all ye meadows, and so to run to Nysshacuck, and so to a clump of pines called ye Keyes, and so to ye spring called ,v essukkattomsuk, to ye chestnut tree above-1nentioned, and so to Pawtucket River. To l1ave and to hold without any trouble or molestation by - any Indians, and for the true perfor1nance hereof, I have sett my hand and seal ye 14th day of ~Iay, 1666. WILLIAlI l1INNION." " In presence of J D ANlEL ABBOTT' J OBN STEERE." There probably was a deed prior to this, which is some times spoken of in early records a.:; the 1_,000 acre ?eed, but no copy of it is no,v known to be extant. It is prob ably alluded to in a deed dated Providence, 12, 1, 1661, from " .Alexander, alias W anmsitton, or Sepauqut" to• '' Thomas Olney, Sen., John Sayles, John Brown, Valen tine Whitman, and Roger Willia1ns," in which the Indian · deeded to the white men " all my right and interest, claim and challenge, unto my lands, grounds and meadows, lying and being on the west side of Seecuuk or Pawtuckqut. AGREEMENT. 11 river, for the use of the town of Providence, excepting a tract of land about fou.r or five miles, which I gave leave to William, or Quashawauna1nut of Massachuset, to dispose of, ,vhich said land begins at the old field of Wesquado misk.''*

A.ltl1ough this deed mentions only Edward Inman and John Mowry as purchasers, we soon after find associated with them Nathaniel ~owr.y, a brother of John, many years 11is junior, and Stephen Arnold. It is probable that Nathaniel was a partner at the thnc of tl1c deed, although the transaction with the Indian was only with Edward and John. Possibly this was owing to the fact that the for1ner dC;ed was to those two men. In 1668, it appears by ~_Id papers still in existence that Inman sold one share of Iiis right to Jolin Steere, and one to Tho1nas W,alling. There were then five proprietors; and from the document given below it would seem that Ed ward Inman held one share ; John Steere, one ; Thomas Walling, one ; John and Nathaniel Mowry in partnership, one; John alone, one; and •Nathaniel, one.

AGREEMENT, 1668 . . "We, tl1e proprietors, being met together this twenet.h daye of April, one thousand six hundred sixti and eight, doo conclude and agree as foloweth: to make an equal division of a certain tract of land and medo [meadow] which we l1ad originally of William .Anminion ; that is to say to each proprietor three l1undred acres of upland and swampcs; and six acres medo ; and that no proprietor amonst us shall have any medo layed out in his grate lot ; but that

~ Staples' Annals, p. 575, 12 THE l\lOWRY FAMILY. which is medo shall be taken up for medo ; and that each manes land shall' be laid out with all convenient speede that may be if desired ; and that a publick record be keept of each mans land and medo ; and that the remainder of the land and medo undivided doo remain as comon till we see cause further to Agree ; we haveing drawed our lots for this present division of six Acres of medo; Ed,vard Inman first in turn in medo ; John Steer third, John Mory and Na thaniel Mory are second and Nathaniel Mory is forth, Thomas Wallin is fifth and John Mory sixth ; and this present division of upland and medo to be laid out by the sixteen foot and a half to the pole ; also reserving to our selves convenient highways threwout this whole tract if need require ; loweing [ allowing] to that man in whose land it shall fall reesnable [reasonable] satisfaction ; and that Arthur Fenner take care of this our agreement untill he hath transcribed unto us true copies hereof : which is oned [ owned] to be as authentick to us as the original with the subscription of l1is hand ; in the true perlormance of these our agreements we have here unto subscribed our names. EDWARD INMA-~, The mark of T. W. THOMAS WALLING, JOHN STEER, • NATH.A.NIEL MOWRY, JOHN MOWRY, NATHANIEL MOWRY.. This is a true coppy of the original ; in witness wher~of I have hereunto set my hand this 23 : day of February : 1707: 8 ARTHUR FENNER." Another interesting question here suggests itseli ; were John and Nathaniel Mowry of the same family as Roger Mowry, who;came over from England in 1631, and after wards settled in Providence. It is quite possible, and per haps probable that Roger was a brother of John and ROGER l\IO\YRY. 13 N atl1aniel, yet at this day no evidence has been found to make it certain. It may not be altogether a fanciful inquiry whether this Roger Ma\Vry ( as it was generally spelled) was not a relative of Roger Williams. This i& suggested from the following facts: In the records of Boston may be found the following : ~, Eighteen May, 1631, names of such as desire to be made ffreemen, [among them] Roger Mawry, Roger Wil liams." Soon after this without waiting to accept the duties and privileges of " ffreemen " in that colony, they both went to Plymouth and resided there several years, then Roger Williams moved to Salem, and Roger Mawry either went with him or followed him soon after, for in 1637 he was a member of the church in Salem and was appointed "Neat herd." His oldest son Jonathan was left in Plymouth, where he lived and died, and many of his descendants are there to this day. Subsequently he followed Roger Wil liams to Providence. The first record known of him in Providence was in 1649. He died January 5th, 1666. There is a tradition that John Mowry and his wife both died of small-pox and were buried on their farm on Sayles's Hill, on land now belonging to Benjamin Sayles, 2d. A document, well preserved, is now in the possession of . . Ephraim Sayles, Esq., of Smithfield, ( to whom the writer: is specially indebted for many kindnesses, particularly for the privilege of examining many valuable papers of great age now in his possession,) which '' quit claims unto the aforesaid John Mowry a piece of land of two poles square, adjoining on the northeastern side of the said highwaye, at 14 THE MOWRY FAMILY. the place where his father and mother was buried." This document is signed by James Bick, to whom John Mowry ( son of John 1st) had deeded his farm. No reservation having been made of this burial ground, Bick quit-claimed it back to John. This quit-claim deed was ,vritten by Nathaniel Mowry, and witnessed by him and John Sayles, February 3, 1710-11. Below is a fac simile of bis autograph in witness of the above quit-claim.

Nathaniel's age at this tin1e is proved by a deposition made by him about a month previous to the above date, viz.: January 6, 1710-11, in which lie says he was tl1en 66 years of age. He was therefore born about 1644. If John was he who came over in the Blessing in 1635, Natl1aniel must have been born after his brother's departure from the old coun try. Nathaniel n1arried in the fall of 1666, Joha.nnah Inman, daughter of Edward, lie being at that time, there fore, a young man of 22 years of age. John and Nathaniel were admitted freemen in Provi dence, May 1, 1672. They were brothers, without doubt, although some have ht>retof ore supposed otherwise. In proof of this the following is copi_ed from the Provi dence Records: "At a meeting of the Town Council of Providence, April 16, 1695, Natl,aniel Bfowry hath this day given in to the Council au account of his administration upon the estate OTHJ<~R MOWRYS IN A1'IERICA. 15

·-of !tis deceased brotlter, Jolin Mowry. * • • • • Tbe Council hath exan1ined and allowed his account, and find that all debts and charges paid, there is yet * * * re1n;1.ini ng to be di vidcd am~ngst the children, the sum of .£48, 10s only what James Phillips and his wife had of the said John Mowry, before the deatl1 of the said John Mowry, shall also be counted dividable with the rest of the estate. .And whereas John Mowry,. heir of the deceased John Mowry, is now of full age to receive his· part of the said estate, the Council do hereby order the administrator, Nathaniel Mowry, to deliver his part of the said estate into his hands."

It may not be a1niss to add a word here 1n reference to other Mowrys in A1ner1ca. We have spoken above of John and Nathaniel, and of Roger. Savage in his New England Genealogical Dictionary mentions in addition to the above, Jonathan, of Plymouth, ·who, we ha,-e already seen, was the elder son of Roger; and George Morey, Duxbury, 1640. Of this George noth ing need be said in this place. Besides these we find Benjamin, of Kingston, _1688. He was undoubtedly son of Roger, of Providence, as Roger had a son Benjamin, who was born May 8, 1649. Thomas, of Roxbury, was also son of Roger and was born July 19, 1652. .All these can be properly accounted for, but the '' Rliode Island Colonial Records " mention a ..Joseph Morie, as deputy from Jamestown in 1686, and (probably the same) Joseph Mowry, grand jury man in 1687, and same name, constable the same year. It has not yet been determined who tltis Joseph was. 16 THE MOWRY FAllILY. In regard to the spelling of the name a few words may be said. In the early records its orthography varies to an almost unlimited degree. it is Mory, Morey, Mowry~ lfowrey, lia·wry, l\lawrey, Mawrie, Moorie, and various. other ways. Much of this variety is owing to the little attention paid in those days to orthography, and much, may be attributed to the fact that most of the documents. that ha,e come down to us are copies, and we have pre serYed only the spelling of the clerk. Yet even when the original papers are preserved, the spelling is by no means. uniform. In a document referred to heretofore from which Nathaniel Mowry's autograph is taken, written evidently by Nathaniel, he spells John Mowry, repeatedly, and in affixing his own signature_, he spells it Mawrey. But in the same signature he spells Nathaniel, Nathaneal. Yet he· was a good writer, evidently more versed in literary and legal matters than most of his neighbors. In process of" time, the spelling Mowry prevailed almost exclusively among thP descendants of John and Natbaniel, and that of 111.orey, with equal uniformity among the descendants. of George, and many of t11e descendants of Roger, (per haps altogether among the descendants of Roger's son Thomas, of Roxbury.) Whether there was a difference in the spelling in Eng land, it may be now impossible to say. There are persons. now living in England, by the name of Morey; and I. have heard it said that there are other families,-called la·nded families, who spell the name Mowry. The place where they first established themselves was. near the summit of" Sayles's Hill," so-called, or as it was. FIRST SETTLEMENT. 17 generally known for the first hundred years, " Mowry's Hill." Probably t11e same reasons prevailed in this case to induce them to settle upon the top of a high hill, as in most of the neighboring towns of the Bay Colony. Un questionably the advantage which such a position gave them in guarding against surprises from the Indians, and in defending themselves from the assaults of these natives were prominent reasons for selecting l1igh ground for their settlement. There are some scraps of information still in exist.ence concerning fights with the Indians from their fort on this hill . .A.bout fifteen years after the date of the deed given above we find the proprietors to be John and Nathaniel Mowry, Edward Inman and Stephen Arnold. They had bought land of various parties, and in 1682, there having arisen some disputes as to the boundary of these lauds, the Town of Providence appointed commissioners to run out the lands and define tl1e boundaries. The commission did its work and made report t-0 the town, the boundaries were confirmed, and an instrument somewhat similar to a deed, and largely answering the purpose of one, was granted to the said John and Nathaciel Mowry, Edward Inman and Stephen .Arnold, signed by these commissioners, who evi dently were among the first men of the town. Their names were .Arthur Fenner, William Hopkins, John Whip ple, Jr., Thomas Olney, Jr., and Richard Arnold. By this. deed of the commisioners it appeared_ that these four men now owned 3,500 acres of land, extending from the west side of Woonsocket Hill eastward nearly to Pawtucket, and from Woonsocket and the Blackstone river on the north,. southerly nearly to Stillwater and Georgiaville. 18 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

These con1missioncrs describe this land as follows : • "It lieth in three parts, namely:- ,, 1. Two thousand three hundred and fifty acres lieth north and by west across the eastern end of said tract part bordering upon Pawtucket River, and _part upon a small stream called W asquadonsett. ~, 2. One thousand acres at Wansaukit Hill, beginning ~t the south end of said hill, and so ranging northward to the Pawtucket, the north end thereof bordering upon said river, the southeastern corner being bounded with a snag tree, and from the said tree to range west to a low rock, wl1ich is a southwestern corner bound ; and from said rock to range north to a big rock standing in Pawtucket river a white oak tree standing southward from said rock, a little way from the brin1 of the river bank, being marked for a range tree, the which said rock is a northwestern corner bound ; and from said rock to follow the river unto a. walnut tree, marked from the hri1n of the river banks, the which said walnut tree is a northeastern corner bound -0f the said thousand acres of land. "3. One hundred and fifty acres where James Black morc's house once stood, the said land being four square, Blackmore's hou.~e being in the middle of it." Soon after this they divided the land between them, each taking his portion, a.nd about tl1is time tl1ey separated 'from Sayles's Hill and each family took up a residence by itself. Nathaniel lived over fifty years after his marriage, and -died March 24:- 1717-18, a little over 73 years of age. Tl1e exact date of his marriage is not known, but we have the following, by which we may fix tl1is itnporta11t ~vent as occurring early in the fall of 1666. t

•Richardson's History of Woonsocket, p. 32. tSavage says he was married in July, 1666. This is unquestionably prema,. rare. WILL OF NATHANIEL MOWRY. 19

"At a town 1nceting Aug. 28, 1666, Nathaniel Mowry, hath this day declared his intention of marriage with Johannah Inman,* it being the first time of publishing." This Johannah was the daughter of Ed\vard In1nan. In a rate bill for taxing the in11abita11ts of the Town of Providence, dated June 16, 1713, t11e following Mowrys are mentioned, and taxed as follows :

£ s. d. Nathaniel Mowry ...... 0 15 00 Henry Mowry, [ son of Nathaniel] ...... 0 8 06 John Mowry, Jr., [ '' " ] ...... 0 5 00 John Mowry, [son of John] ...... 0 14 00 Joseph lfow-ry, [son of Nathaniel] ...... 1 5 00 Of more than 130 u::uncs upon this bill, representing the northern section of the town, only one na1ne was taxed for a larger suin than this Joseph Mowry. In one or two instances, where two persons were taxed together, the tax exceeded that levied against him.

WILL OF NATHANIEL l{OWRY. t " I, Natl1aniel Mowrey, of Providence, in the colony of Rhoad Island and Providence.Plantations iii New England, yeo1nan, being weak of body, but of sound aud dissposeing memory, (praise be given to God for the same) d.oe make this my last will and testament iu 1nanner and form fol lowing: "First and principally, I commit my sperit into the marcifull hands of Almighty God my Creator: and my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried after the decressiou [discretion] of iny executor hereinafter named :

• Record of Deeds. &c., Prov., Book 1. t From Wills, &c., No. 2, 1716-26. Council Records,,.-Providen~. 20 THE lto,vRY FAMILY. and as to the worldly estate which the Lord hath lent mee in this present life, I give and bequeathe as fol loweth: lmprimis; I giv·e and bequeathe unto my son Nathaniell Mowrey, one-hundred acres of land which is scituate and lieing upon the hill called W ansecutt hill,. within the township of Providence, aforesaid : to have and to hold the the said hundred acres of land, be it more or less, with the priviledges and appurtinanses, unto him-my aforesaid son Nathaniell, his heirs and assigns forever. " 2dly. I give and bequeathe unto my son John Mowrey Ten acres of land which lieth adjoyning to his homestead, and also Thirty acres of land lieing upon the west side of the aforesaid W ansecutt l1ill, within the township of Provi dence aforesd, it being the one-halfe of sixty acres of land which lieth in partinorship betwixt my son John Mowrey and myself, to have and to hold the said ten acres unto him-my sd son John, and unto his heirs and assigns with all singulier the priviledges and appurtinanses thereunto belonging f ore\-er. " 3dly. I give and bequeathe unto my son Henry Maw rey fifty acres of land to be taken of on the north side of my homestead, where on I now dwell, which is scituate witl1in the towneship of Providence above said and upon W esquotomsit hill, the said fifty acres to be devided of with a straight line and to be of equal breadth throughout from East to West on the North side of my sd homestead : to have and to hold the said fif~y acres of land with all and singulier the priviledges and appurtinanses there in contained unto him-my said son Henry Mawrey his heirs and assigns forever. "4thly. I give and bequeathe unto my son Joseph lfawrey the remainder parte of all my homestead which I suppose to be one hundred and ten acres of land with the dwelling house standing there on, orchard, and all other and singulier, the priviledges and appurtinanses there unto WILL OF NATHANIEL MOWRY. 21 belonging: he allowing the priviledge of the dwelling house to his mother during the term of her naturall life : to have and to hold the said hundred and ten acres of land be it more or less, with the dwelling house and orchard and priviledges afore sd unto him, my afore sd son Joseph llawrey, his heirs and assigns forever: provided he doth not charge the money I haYe had of him, so as to have destitution out of my other estate: it being under that consideration of the money I have had of him that I give him so much more than tbe other of his brothers. "5thly. I give and bequeathe unto my daughter Martha Ma wrey one l1alf e house Iott, so-called, in a late devision made in and about the towne of Providence aforesaid : and halfe a right in the Com1non Lands on the east side of the seaven mile line in said Providence, the said halfe Iott and halfe right in the commons being in the origanall right of Richard Pray : Item, I give and bequeathe unto my afore said daughter Martha a small piece of meadow lieing att a place called Popple swamp neare Mateteconuet : within the towne ship of Providence aforesaid. To have and to bold the said Lands, Commons, Meadow and Priviledges aforesaid unto her, my aforesaid daughter Martha Mawrey, lier heirs and assigns forever. "6thly. I give and bequeatbe unto my loving wife Johannah Mawrey my dwelling house dureing the term of her naturall life, and, after her decease, to go to my son Joseph or his heirs or assigns as aforesaid : Item, I give and bequeathe unto my sd loveing wife all my house hold goods of what sort so ever to be equally devided amongst my six daughters, namely Sarah Phillips, Mary Arnold, Johannah Pheteplace, Patience Smith, Marcy Smith & Experience Malavory, and to be unto them, there Heirs or assigns forever. "7thly. I give and bequeathe unto my aforesaid six daughters, as namely: Sarah Phillips, Mary Arnold, Jo- 22 THE l\lOWRY FAl\llLY. hannah Pheteplace, Patience Smith:- Marcy Smith, & Experience Malavory : all 1ny WQole stock of cattle to be equally dcvided a1nongst the1n 1ny aforesaid six daughters and to be unto the1n, theire heirs and assigns :-excepting onely one Cow I have already varbaly gh~cn to my daughter Martha }fawrey and a 1neaire coult which is not to come into the division. '' And my will is tl1at my two sons Joseph Mawrey and Henry }lawrey shall take the care and provide for theirc mother, my ,vife, during the time of her naturall Life as she may have nessesaryes fit for her condition in her old age: and I doe name and appoynt my son Joseph llawrey to be my sole executor to this n1y last Will and Testament. In ·witness whereof I do hereunto sett my hand and scale this 18th day of March, in the fourth yeare of his }Iajestyc's Reigne, George, King of Grcate Brittan, &c. Anno Dom.: 1717-8. NATH1\NIEL MAWREY. J _,_ l his n1arke. l L.s. ~ + --.- " Signed, sealed and pro nounced in the presence of us. JOHN MAWREY, JOSEPH BOLKCOl\lE, RICHARD W ATER:\IAN, JUNR.

" Att a towne council held att Providence this 4th day of Aprill : 1718-- " The within will was examined, approved and allowed to be rcco rded.

.Attest Per RICH.A.RD W ATERML~, Gierke. Recorded -this 18th day of April, 1718.

Per mee, RICHARD WATERMAN, Gierke ... INVENTORY. 23

INVENTORY OF NATHANIEL Mowav"s EsTATE. " •.\. true Inventory of all the Goods and Chattles and Credits of Nathaniel Mawrcy of Providence, who deceased }larch the 24th, 1717. £ s. d. Imprimis-His wearing a.pparil ...... 11 08 00 Itc1n-Bills of Creadit ...... 4 14 10 Ite1n-.A feather bed and bedstead and furniture belonging to it-all old ...... 08 00 00· Item-Four Sheets, a table Cloth, two nap- kins and sun1 other old linin ...... 01 08 06 Item-A paire of Stillards ...... 00 16 00 Itcn1-A CJ1est ...... · ... . 00 09 00 Itcn1-.-ln old Chest a.nd a box ...... 00 02 00· Item-A paire of 1noney Skales and two pair of Cards and so1ne old things...... 00 14 06 Item- .. A Stone J ugg and sum Rum in it, and a Earthin Pott and Suger...... 00 08 00· Itc1n-Four Bags .. su1n Meele and a Riddle, 00 11 00 Iten1-Ryc in a Barrill...... 00 10 00 Ite1n-Three Pewter Platters...... 00 17 00 Itc1n-Four Pewter basons, two plates and tvto porringers...... 00 16 00 Ite1n-Three old basens, seaven spoons an oald Pott an

£ s. d. Item-Pork in two barrils...... 04 00 00 Item-A grindstone, an iron pin, a candlestick and a Trowel ...... ·...... 00 06 00 Item-....\. narra ax, 2 old axes and an adds. 00 09 00 Item-2 augers 2 Chizels, a hamer and pi11cher ...... 00 05 00 Item-2 bolte rings, 3 wedges an old Cleevis and pin...... 00 03 06 Item-A square, a sickle a hooke and sum other old things...... 00 05 00 Item-An old gun...... 00 06 00 Item-Two old chains and a narra ax.. . . . 00 12 00 Item-A poale, 3 boos and spade...... 00 08 06 Item-Hors trases, taile cheaine, coller and harnes...... 00 06 00 Item-Saddle, maile pillion and bridle .... . 00 12 00 Item-A carte rope and halter ...... 00 06 00 Item-A old Bible and four old books .... . 00 07 00 Item-A tobacco box, tongs, a knife and Glass bottle ...... 00 01 00 Item-Two beds in the chamber ...... 05 03 00 Item-Salt in a barril...... 00 02 00 Item-Beans, some malte and hops ...•... 00 09 00 Item-Nailes and old iron, some sheepes woll and two Calves skins ...... 00 11 00 Item-Two Tramels and fire tongs...... 00 l'O 00 Item-Plough Irons ...... 00 04 00 Item-Indian Corne ...... 00 10 06 Item-A spinning wheel ...... 00 02 06 Item-Two barrils Cyder, some Empty Cask and trays in the seller ...... • 01 14 00 Item-A Mayr ...... •....•.•.••••••..•• 9 00 00 Item-Six Cows, 2 heifers 5 yeare olds and some hay...... • . . . 42 00 00 Item-Four Swine...... • . . • • . . • . 01 14 00 Tota.II • . . . . . • ...... • . . . • . . • 106 08 02 NATHANIEL MOWRY. 25

"Praisied March ye 31st 1718, by JOHN MOWRE. SAMUEL Col\ISTOCK, JuNR." ·' Recorded this 18th day of Aprill, Anno Dom. 1716. Per mee RICHARD WATERMAN, Gierke." On the back side of the Inventory it was written as fol loweth: - " At a Town Council held att Providence this 4th day of Aprill, Anno Dom. 1718, the within Inventory was examined, approved and allowed to be recorded. As attest: Per RICHARD WATERMAN, Gierke." •• Recorded this 18th day of Aprill, Anno Dom. 1718. Per mee RICHARD W .A.TERI\-IAN, Gierke."

CAPT. JosEPH MoWREY's PowER OF EXECUTOR ON ESTATE OF NATHANIEL MOWREY. " Where as Mr. N athaniell Mowrey of this Towne of Providence in the Colony of Rhoad Island and Providence Plantations in New England, yeoman, who departed this life March the 24th, 1717-8 : did, in his last Will and Testament, appoint his son Joseph Mowrey to be executor to bis sd Will, and where as the said Joseph Mowrey hath presented an Inventory of the estate of his sd deceased father to the Towne Councill of Providence afore said, which was by the said Towne Councill accepted : and hath also given bond for his true and faithful! performance of his administration upon sd estate : '• These are therefore to order and fully empower you, Capt. Joseph Mowrey of Providence above sd to take into your care and custody all and singulier the moveable estate, goods, cattle and chattels which belonged unto your said deceased father att ye time of his death, with the debts due to said estate : and on the same to administer, in order to pay his debts and performe his ·will: and to act 26 THE MOWRY FAI\ULY. and doe in all cases relating the premises as neede shall require, as the law empowereth an executor to do. ~- Given at a Towne Council held at Providence above said this 4th day of Aprill, in the fourth yeare of his llajestyes Reign George King of Great Brittan, &c. Anno Dom. 1718. , -·- , Signed and sealed by order of the Councill and on · L.S. · 1 ' __ their behalfs. Per mee RICHARD W ..\.TERMA!\, Clerke of ye Cou-ncill. Recorded per mee RICHARD WATERMAN, Clerke."

CAPTAIN JOSEPH MOWREY's Accou:sT AS ADMINISTRATOR 0~ ESTATE OF HIS FATHER NATHANIEL MOWREY.

• " APRIL 14th, 1718 . " Paid to satisfie Martha Mowrey for her trouble and care for what shee did for my mother in the time of her sickne_ss, twelve sl1illings...... 00 12 00 .A.pril 14, 1718. · Paid to Lidia Bolkcome, t,vo shillings...... 00 02 00 April 17, 1718. John Mowrey for prisner and going to towne, five shillings...... 00 05 00 .A.pril 19, 1718. Paid to John Crawford one pound...... 01 00 · 00 April 28, 1718. John Sayles, Junr. for digging the two graves, six shillings...... 00 06 00 ....\.pril 28, 1718. Richard Sayles, for his w·orke towerds makeing of the two cofins six shillings. .· ...... 00 06 00 A.pril 29, 1718. To John Arnold for bords for the co fins and his worke towerds m&.ke- ing, fifteen shillings...... 00 15 00 liay 17, 1718. Paid to Joseph Whipple, one pound and three shillings. . . • ...... 01 03 00 May 17, 1718. Paid to Docto:s Bowing, fourteen shillings...... • • • • • • • . • . . . . 00 14 00 NATHANIEL MOWRY . 27

.June 2th, 1718. ~Ir. Samuel '\'\1 ilkinson Justice of the Peace taken the Count of the Inventory and wrighteing of the Pro- bate, five shillings ...... 00 05 00 June 3d, 1718. Paid to Abigail Harris, four shillings ...... 00 04 00 June 4, 1718. Paid to Joseph Balk cum, four shillings and three pence ...... 00 04 03 August 1, 1718. Paid to Samuel Comstock, shillings ...... 00 06 00 September 20, 1718. Paid to Leiutt. Sam-· uel Thard twelve shillings...... 00 12 00 January 29, 1718, or 19. Paid to John · Arnold, Senr., three shillings ...... 00 03 00 February 29th, 1718, or 19. Reconed with Mr. Joseph Whipple. Paid to him two pounds, sixteen shillings and five pence .. 02 16 05 Paid to ye Towne Councill ...... 00 06 00 To ye Clerke for writeing ...... 00 07 06

" The above written is an account of my administration upon the moveable estate of my honrd father, Nathaniel Mowrey, deceased.

PROVIDENCE, April ye 20tl1, 1719. JOSEPH MOWREY."

"Recorded this 29th day of April, .A.nno Dom. 1719."

RECEIPTS OF THE HEIRS OF NATHANIEL MOWRY TO CAPT. JOSEPH MOWRY, EXECUTOR.

"Received this fifth ·day of May, 1718, wee Richard Phillips, John Arnold, Edward Smith,Joseph Smith, Wal ter Pheteplace and John Molavory, of the towne of Provi- 28 THE MOWRY FAlllLY. dence, in the Colony of Rhode Island, in New England : of Joseph Mawrey of the towne and colony above sd, Executor of his honored Father Nathaniel Mawrey, of the towne and colony above said, deceased, the legacies which were given to our wives, viz.: Sarah Phillips, Mary Arnold, Marcy Smith, Patience Smith, Hannah Pheteplace, and Experience Malavory, by theire honored father the sd Nathaniel Mawrey in and by his last will and testament which was all his household goods and all his stock of cattle, except one cow and one colt, of which said house hold goods and stock of cattle wee, the said Richard Phil lips, John Arnold, Edward Smith, Joseph Smith, Walter Pheteplace, and John Molavory, do acquit and fully dis charge the said Joseph Mawrey, his heirs, executors, ad ministrators, and every of them forever, by these presents. " In witness where of wee have here unto sett our hands and seals the seacond day of June, Anno Dom. 1718.

Signed, sealed and deli'oered in the presence of VALLINTINE WHITMAN. RICHARD PHILLIPS, [L.s.J JOHN WHITMAN. JOHN ARNOLD, [L.s.J SA.ML WILKINSON, Justice. EDWARD SMITH, [L.s.J JOSEPH SMITH, [L.s.J WALTER PHETEPLACE, [L.s.J The marke of JOHN + :MALA VORY. [L.s.] " May the 5th, 1718 : I Received of my brother Joseph Mawrey my portion in full which my father gave to me by will, I say Received by mee MARTHA MOWREY. her + marke.,, " as witness my hand RICHARD PHILLIPS.'' " as witness my hand LIDIA BOLKCOME." "The above Receipts recorded this 22d of November, , 1718, by mee RICHARD WATERMAN, Cl.erke." CHAPTER I.

THE FIRST GENERATION. 1. NATH.A.NIEL MOWRY, born... 1644; married in 1666, JOHANNAH, daughter of Edward Inman ; died March 24,1717-18, aged 73.

CHILDREN. 2. Nathaniel. 8. Mary. 3. John. 9. Johannah. 4. Henry. 10. Patience. 5. Joseph. 11. Mareyr 6. Martha. 1~. Experience. 7. Sarab. All of these children are known to have been married except Nathaniel and Martha. It is supposed they died unmarried. A full account of Nathaniel Senior having already been given, we now pass to the second generation. CHAPTER II.

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THE SECOND GENERATION.

3. JOHX )IOWRY, son of ;Nathaniel, called John Mowry, Jr., married March 24, 1699, ELIZABETH CLARK.

CHILD. 13. John, b. about 1700. There remains some doubt concerning who this John was. In those early days there were so many di:ff erent persons by the name of John Mowry that it is somewhat difficult, when the name is found, to determfne which person is meant. In the records of deeds this John, son of Nathaniel, was called John, Jr., while John the son of John (Nathaniel's brother), being younger than John, Jr., received the name of John, 2d. One John Mowry was called " Black-headed John" ; and another, who lived at a place called Nipsachuck, or Nipsa-· chuck Hill, was called "Nipsachuck John.'' The Josephs were also so numerous that one was known as " Candle haired Joe," one " Captain Joseph," and a little later one was called "Bachelor Joe." Indeed, special cog nomens were Yery common. Of two Job Mowrys, at a little later date, one was dignified by the name " Royal JOHN :\IOWRY. 31 Job," or " Job the Royal Sawyer" (in common parlance, "Rial Job"); while the other, for some reason, was de nominated "Flick-an-flaw Job." The Daniels also were distinguished in the following manner : ~, Captain Daniel," " Daniel Jr.," " Daniel ye 3d," " Daniel ye 4th," and " Hill Daniel." There are no records in Smithfield or Providence to show what became of this John, Jr., or whether he had any children. But the records of a very respectable family in Greenwich, Washington County, N. Y., are sufficiently full and reliable to prove beyond much doubt that this John, Jr., had one sou, named Jolin, and that he married .Anna .Appleby, and had a son Jo11n. The proof is not conclusive, but nearly so, that he was the son of John, Jr., and Elizabeth. H this point be admitted., all the known facts in the history of this family can be reconciled, and, so far as I can discover, on no other theory. John Mowry, who married Anna Appleby, if the son of John, .Jr., and Elizabeth, was born about 1700, or a little later. His son John was born probably about 1725 or 1730. The father died soon after the birth of the son, leaving .Anna ·a widow. She subsequently married a Mr. Latham, and they bad two children, a daughter named Rhoda, ind a son named .Arthur. This son John married Lois Potter, daughter of John and Elizabeth Potter. Elizabeth was the daughter of Elizabeth and Robert Earle, of Newport, R. I. Probably this marriage was about 1755 or 1758. He was a baker, and suppl_ied the American troops with bread during the Revolution. After peace was declared 32 THE MOWRY FAMILY. he moved to Woodstock, Conn., and purchased a farm. He had nine children, seven sons and two daughters. He lived and died in Woodstock. His son William, born in 1779, learned the cotton manufacturing business of Samuel Slater, at Pawtucket; and after removing to Washington County, N. Y., set up the first cotton machinery in that State. The evidence is so strong that this family sprang from John, Jr., and Elizabeth, that I shall venture to place them so in the record.

4. HENRY MOWRY, son of Nathaniel, married1 Nov. 27, 1701, MARY BULL, of Providence, daughter of • Isaac and Mary Bull. He died Sept. 23, 1759.

CHILDREN. 14. Mary, b. Sept. 28, 17 02. 15. Urial1, b . .Aug. 15, 1705. 16. Jonathan, b. June 1, 1708. 17. Jeremiah, b. April 7, 1711. 18. Sarah, b. April 5, 1117. 19. Elisha. 20. Phebe.

Married 2 Jan. 4, 1733-4, Hannah Mowry, in Gloceste~. She was widow of John Mowry, 2d, who was the son of John, and own cousin of Henry. Her maiden name was Packard. Henry Mowry was a prominent man in his day. He lived and died on the home farm of his father. The place has been in the family till very lately. It is situated on the northerly side of Sayles's Hill, and has been known of HENRY MOWRY. 33 late as the Tyler Mowry place. Since his death, his daugh ter, Miss Sarah Ann Mowry, lived there, till her decease, a year or two ago, and now the place has gone out of the family. Henry Mowry was a very active man, and filled the office of constable for many years. Some one has said that "The Mowrys have been noted for their hard work to get money, and quite as famous for their inability to keep it, by reason of their inclination for the law." How ever this may be, it would· certainly appear that some of them have been much inclined to litigat~on. They prob ably, as a class, have quite an average share of wilfulness, if not stubbornness. Henry and his brother, Captain Jo seph, were for several years engaged in a lawsuit about the boundary of a piece of land. The one sued the other for trespass, and in turn was sued for assault and battery. Finally they agreed to submit the case to arbitration, and it was decided - which way is of no material consequence at this day. The Arbitration Bond given between these men is a curiosity. It is dated Sept. 4, "'In the eighth year of his Majesties Reign, George, King of Great Brit .a.in, &c., Annoque Domini, 1721." The amount of the bond is " one hundred pounds cur rent money of New England."

" The ~ondition of this obligation is such that if the above bounden Joseph Mowry, his heirs, executors, or ad ministrators shall and Do in all things well and truly stand to, obey, abide, observe, perform, fulfill, and keep the award, arbitrament, order, final end, Determination and Judgment of Joseph Jenckes, Andrew Harris and Philip 34 THE :\10\VRY FA)lILY.

Tillinghast ( or any two of them agreeing), all of Providence aforesaid, Gentlemen Arbitrators, indifferently chosen, selected and named, as well on the part and behalf of the above bounden Joseph Mowry, as on ye part and be half of the above mentioned Henry Mowry, to arbitrate, award, order, Judge, Determine and a final end to make, of, for, upon, touching & concerning any measures or bounds, of Lands in controYersy between them, and all 1nanner of actions, troubles, or Controversys between the said Henry Mowry and Joseph Mow·ry, at or before the Day of the Date of these Presents. For by reason or means of a suit commenced by the said Joseph Mowry against the said Henry }Iowry, as ye said .Joseph Mowry is attor ney to Benjamin Paine, and to take for their bounds & measures for their lands in controversy such as the said arbitrators shall order & erect to be measured, made, & settled between them : So as the said award, arbitrament, final end and determination of the said arbitrators or any two of them, of, in, and upon the pren1ises be made & put in writing under their hands and seals, Ready to be Deli\"" ered to each party, at, on or before the Twenty eighth Day of this Instant, September ----, at the house of William Turpin, in Providence. within mentioned, and it is further agreed between the parties within mentioned that if either of the said arbitrators should through Sickness, Death, or any other Casualty not be able to finish the said award ; That if the said Joseph J enckes should be want ing, then the said Joseph Mowry shall choose another in his room ; if the said Philip Tillinghast should be wanting then the sd Henry Mowry shall choose another in his room ; and if the said Andrew Harris should be wanting then the said Joseph ~Iowry & Henry Mowry shall choose such a person as· they two shall think proper. And to finish all · matters & Differences between them.as well those not men tioned as mentioned. Then the above or within obligation HENRY l\IOWRY. 35 to be void & of no effect, otherwise to stand & remain in full force and Virtue in the Law." _.__ JOSEPH MOWRY. ·' Signed, Sealed & Delivered In the Presence off us, ROBERT CURRIE. CH.ARLES BURDIN.

It is supposed, at this distant day, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, that the "award, arbitrament,. final end and determination of these arbitrators " was made, and that the parties did "well and truly stand to, obey, abide, observe, perform, fulfill and keep the award, arbitrament, order, final end, determination and judg ment," etc. etc. etc. Be this as it may, it is certainly true that while the papers of " the parties aforesaid " are full of matters per taining to " measures or bounds of lands in controversy between them," for several years previous to the date of this bond, no mention is made in any paper, now to be found, of any further difficulty at any subsequent date. From the multitude of papers still existing, many of them in. the possession of the writer, it is apparent that Henry was a vigorous, active man, earnest and decided. He did a large business in public affairs for many years, and was always active in his own concerns. Besides his extensive farm, from which he made large quantities of butter and cheese, he was a cooper by trade, and followed the business more or less during his long life. He died in 1759, and his two sons, Jonathan and Elisha, were his executors. THE MOWRY FAMILY.

From a letter written by him March 4, 1736-7, to Samuel Thayer, is copied his autograph, given below.

Omitting the details of his will, the Inventory of his personal property, as rendered by the appraisers, is given below. These old inventories convey to us much informa tion concerning the habits, manners and customs, mode of life and values in those ancient times.

"A True inventory of all the Goods and Chattels and Credits of Henery Mowry of Smithfield, in the County of Providence, &c., who departed this Life on the 23d day of September, A. D. 1759, and was prised by us the Subscribers the 29th day of November, 1759, as followeth: -

£. ss. d. Imprimis-To his wareing apparril ...... 68 10 00 Item-To silver money Reckoned in old Tennor ...... 31 04 4 Item-To bills of Credit old Tennor ...... 71 16 4 Item-To one note from Elisha Sayles Due April ye 15th, 17 57 ...... 3 14 7 Item-To one note more from Elisha Sayles Due April ye 15th, 17 57 ...... 46 15 u- Item-To one note more from Elisha Sayles Due May ye 21st, 1757 ...... 138 16 0 Item-To one note more from Reuben Al- drich on Demand...... 7 13 0 Item-To one bond from Edward Mitchell. 360 05 0 Item-To 3 Puter Platters ...... 18 00 0

Item-To one Dusen of puter plates ...... 10 00 0 HENRY MOWRY. 37

£.. ss. d. Item-To 2 Basins, 3 puter pots, and old puter, all ...... 4 14 0 Item-To six Basons and some old puter, all ...... 10 00 0 Item-To two Brass Kittles ...... 50 00 0 Item-To two Iron Kittles ...... 3 10 0 Item-To two Iron Kittles ...... 9 00 0 Item-To one Bed and Beding and cord, all 114 00 0 Item-To half a dozen of old Chears...... 4 10 0 Item-To one clock Reel...... 3 10 0 Item-To one hatchel, one Grid Iron, one frying pan, all ...... 8 00 0 Item-To one Pea.ce of Cloath...... 22 00 0 Item-To one Stone Jug, one Glass Bottel all...... 2 00 0 Item-To two old Books...... 2 00 0 Item-To one chease tub, one churn, one mortor, all ...... 5 00 0 Item-To two old tramels one old Sickel all. 3 10 0 Item-To one old Broad ax...... 2 00 o Item-To one pair of money scales and some weights ...... 5 00 0 Item-To one old chest and small trunk and Box, all ...... 10 00 0 Item-To horse tackling and old chains, all. 18 00 0 Item-To one Grind Stone ...... 6 00 0 Item-To one Brindle Cow ...... 85 00 0 Item-To one white fast Cow ...... 60 00 0 Item-To one white fast heifer...... 80 00 0 Item-To one tramel, one pair of tongs, one fire shovel, all ...... 12 00 0 Item-To Coopers tools and one broad chisel, one orger, one Rasor, all ...... 24 10 0 Item-To one large table, one small table, .all ...•....•...... 10 00 0 38 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

£.. ss. d. Item-To one old Iron Spade ...... 0 10 0 Item-To one pair of Stilyards...... 8 00 0 Item-To one old Iron pot...... 1 00 0 Item-To one old pair of Sheep shears, one old f row, one Iron weg ...... 2 10 0 Item-To one old bell ...... 0 05 0 1254 13 08 BENJAMIN PAIN. RICHARD SAYLES.

" At a Town Council in Smithfield, December 10th, 1759, the within Inventory was accepted of, as a Lawfull Inventory and ordered to be Recorded. "Test JOHN SAYLES, JuNR., Cou'l Cler. ,: .And is Recorded in Smithfield Town Council Records in the Second Book and in Page 321. "Pr JOHN SAYLES, JUNR., Cou'l Cler." On the back of this Inventory is this record:- " The Hole Inventory ...... 1254 13 8 .All the Debts taken out and Paid and Rem 1002 00 0" The Executor's Bond was given to the Town Council, '' Dated this 12th day of novembr, 1759, & in the 33d year of his Majesty's Reign." The amount of the bond was " Ten Thousand pounds." This bond only called for the Executors to " make, or cause to be made, a True & perfect Inventory of all & singular the goods and chattels of Mr. Henry Mowry, of Smithfield, afd., Deceased, and the same so made do Exhibit, or cause to be Exhibited, before the afd Town Council on or before the 12th day of Decem~er next." -1~1\·, \: :~/ ;,< ~\\ ." ' ' '!_.~ ..~~ ~ J!,1.\l; t_ , 1-.';· { .: .j I,' ~~/',",'. i::·.. ··:,/:',::_'

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CAPTAIN JOSEPH lVlovVRY HousE, Si\llTJII•'IELD, I{. I. r 708.

JOSEPH MOWRY. 39

5. JOSEPH MO\V'RY, son of Nathaniet called Captain Joseph, married June 3, 1695, ....\.LICE ,VHIPPLE.

CHILDREN. 21. Daniel.; b. Sept. 6, 1697. 22. Joseph, b. Feb. 26, 1698-9. 23. Oliver, b. Sept. 26, 1699-1700. 24. Alice, b. Jan. 6, 1712. 25. Waite, b. June 6, 1716. This Captain Joseph lived till sometime after 1721. He was married in 1695, and in 1708 he built a fine large house, one of the largest houses in the colony, several 1niles southerly from his father's. The house is now standing (1878), one hundred and seventy years old. It is situated a short distance south of the Douglas Turn pike, so called, and about one mile northwesterly from the village of Still water. In spite of its great age, the house is even now in good condition, and is one of the oldest houses now standing in the State. Since writing the above, a small black glass bottle has come into the possession of the writer, marked by a gla zier's diamond with the following: -

The tradition is that when this house was built, a glazier came out from Providence to set the glass for the 40 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

windows, and that the owner of the house wrot~ his name and the date upon this bottle with the glazier's diamond. The bottle descended from Joseph to his son, Captain Daniel ; from him to his son, Judge Daniel ; he gave it to his daughter Mary, who married Dr. John Wilkinson; then it passed into the possession of her only c)lild, Amey, the wife of John Harris; and from them totheir daughter, Mrs. Dr. T. K. Newhall, of Providence, who· presented it to the writer. The following account of this house is copied from the Protidence Journal, September, 1876 :-

HISTORY OF AN OLD HOUSE;-

" It is a large, square house, the front measuring moee than forty feet, and having a depth nearly as great. It has two large ~ front rooms,' one on either side of the ' front entry,' while the chimney formerly stood in the middle of the house, built of stone, and occupying a space nearly fifteen feet square, back of the front entry. Near the top of this chimney, upon one of the stones in its face, was chiselled the year the house was built, 1708, one hun dred and sixty-eight years ago, yet the house is strong, and in a remarkably good condition at the present time. .All who were living when it was built have passed away, and all their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The eighth and even ninth generation from the builder of that house are already upon the stage of being, yet so strongly was it built, of such strength of materials, such huge timbers were put into it, and so honestly and skil fully was the work done, that few houses built at the present day could so successfully withstand a severe gale. Indeed,. standing, as it does, on the northwest side of a high hill, it .AN OLD HOUSE. 41 has probably withstood more gales and severer ones, than any other house now· standing in this State. "The ' summer piece,' as it used to be called, which runs across the ceiling in the middle of each of the front rooms, is a stick of white oak timber of about twelve by fourteen inches dimensions . .'' From facts which appear to be unquestionable, this house is believed to have been built by Capt. Joseph Mowry, the son of Nathaniel Mowry, an Englishman, one of the original settlers of Northern Rhode Island. " Captain Joseph was born about 1675 or 1676, just two hundred years ago. His mother ,vas .Johannah Inman, daughter of Edward Inman, who was also one of the orig inal settlers. '' He was 1narried June 3, 1695, to A.lice Whipple. His three sons, Daniel ( afterwards called ' Captain Daniel '), Joseph, and Oliver, were born prior to the building of this house. The first birtl1 in the new house ·was his daughter Alice, Jan. 6, 1712. His second daughter, Waite, was born here June 6, 1716. ,v aite married Israel Arnold. '' Before the death of Captain Joseph, he deeded the ho1ne estate, including the l1ouse and one third of the farm, to his eldest son, Captain Daniel. The entire life of Cap tain Daniel, more than ninety years, was passed here, and from this house he was carrieq. to his grave the last of May, 1787. . " After him the old house passed into the hands of his third son, ' Judge Daniel.' His oldest son, Joseph, an emi nent lawyer of that day, built a house upon the western part of the farm, on the very spot where Mr. Emor }Iowry now lives, and another son, 'Colonel Elisha,' built a house upon the -eastern portion of the farm, now the house in which Mr. John A. Mowry lives. " The writer of this article is a lineal descendant o1 '¼i,wyer Joseph,' of the fourth generation. 4 42 THE MOWRY FAMILY. " Some years before the death of Judge Daniel, the home stead passed into the hands of bis son, ' Clark Daniel,' so called because he was Town ' Clark ' of Smithfield for thirty-five years. " After the death of Clark Daniel, the place was owned by his _son Gideon, and after his death in 1865, Thomas, brother to Gideon, took it. He died in 1872. Sometime previous to his death it passed OYer to his sou Immer, who, a few years since, sold it to }Ir. S. Keefe, its present occupant. "Thus it will appear that for more than one lrundred and sixty years this house was the home of one branch of the descendants of Nathaniel llowry, during which time it never passed out of their possession. It was the home through this long period of seven families in succession, representing six generations. The first five generations lived in it over one hundred and fifty years, or an average of thirty years each. Throughout this entire period the family was one of the foremost of the town. The se\"'eral men occupying and owning the house were men of sterling integrity, of excellent ability, and were well esteemed by their fellow-citizens. "As a rule they were long-lived. Captain Joseph, the builder of the house, was the only exception. He probably died in middle life. Wolves were at that period common upon the hills of this old town, and a price was set ·upon their heads. Among the records of the town of Provi dence (for 8mithfield was then a part of Providence) may be found the following entry: 'November 7, 1687. Nathaniel Mowry brought in a Wolf's head, killed by his son Joseph.' This lad Joseph was. then not more than twelve years of age ! Twenty-one years later he built the house in question. As there is no record of him after about 1720, it is probable that he died near that time, aged about forty-five. He was a vigorous man, earnest, AN OLD HOUSE. 43 active, and energetic. He "'·as captain of the military of that vicinity. " His son, ' Captain Daniel,' was born in 1697, and died , in 1787, aged ninety. He, too, commanded the militia company, and was a highly esteemed citizen. "His son,' Judge Daniel,' was born in this house in 1729, and died in 1806, aged 77. He was a man of strong charac ter, and filled many important town and State offices for fifty years, or during nearly the whole period of his life after he reached manhood. He was for twenty years the accomplished clerk of the town, frequently represented the town in the General Assembly, was placed upon important committees during the Revolutionary War, and ·was for t.wo terms a member of the Continental Congress. To this important office he declined a re-election. " His son, ' Clark Daniel,' was the fourth head of the house. He was born here in 1750, and here died in 1839, aged 89. He, too, was for more than ]1alf a century con stantly identified with the public affairs of his town and State. For thirty-five years he was town clerk, and the records of Smithfield during this long period have an elegant handwriting, and were kept with neatness, good order, and great accuracy. " ' Clark Daniel ' was a young man when the Revolu tionary War broke out, and he espoused the cause of the colonies with all the zeal of his father. It is said that he was an officer in the army, and at the close of the struggle refused to take tlte pension to which he was legally entitled. A gentleman now living, at a very advanced age, remem bers when his friends urged him to receive it, but to no purpose. This gentleman says the pension and back pay to which he was entitled, and which he refused, were more in amount than all the property he was worth. " His son Gideon was born in 1784, and died in 1865, aged 81. Like nearly all of this family, he was a good 44 THE l\lOWRY FA..MILY. mathematician. A copy of Pike's Arithn1etic, now in the possession of the writer, obtained through Mr. Rider, of this city, bears his signature, in an elegant, bold hand, dated Dec. 18, 1806, and the hook shows such evidence of careful use as to indicate au expert in the science of arithmetic. " Thomas, brother of Gideon, and the only exception to the rule of the son succeeding to the father's estate, was born here in 1785, and died in 1872, in Pro,·idence, aged 87 years. He was the father of Miss Martha H. Mowry, ll. D.~ of Providence, and was noted for his intellectual strength. His son I1nmer, also born in this house, is now living in Brooklyn, N. Y . .;, \Vhere can another house be found, with such a history of one fa1nily connected with it ? "' The house is one of the oldest now standiug in the State. It is believed that there are but few, perhaps only two or three, as old, and none of them in so good a state of preservation as this. There is a tradition in the family that at the time it was built, there was but one other dwell ing-house as large as it was in the colony. "What stories could this old mansion tell, if it had a tongue! What quantities of New England and West India rum were drunk at 'the raising ' of it! What scenes of joy and of sorrow, births, marriages, and deaths, has it wit nessed ! Generation after generation of this noted family have been born, have lived and have died here. '" What changes in the country have taken place since it was built. What growth, what inventions, what improve ments during this one hundred and sixty-eight years. Our country then consisted of a few feeble colonies of Great Britain, with here and there a little settlement along the coast scarcely reaching anywhere fifty miles inland. The entire interior was dense forest, the hunting-grounds of the red man. The population of Rhode Island was literally but JOSEPH :MOWRY. 45 a few hundred. But the little one has become a thousand, and the feeble one an armed band. "This family, the descendants of this Capt. Joseph Mowry, now number sev·eral thousands, and the country, for a century independent of the mother-land, now stretches away, not merely from the Lakes to the Gulf, hut from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and embraces under its starry flag a happy, thrifty, enterprising, and enlightened people, self governing, and numbering more than forty millions. Let Americans render all honor and respect to the hardy pioneers who first settled these shores and subdued these wilds, thus laying the foundations of a great and glorious republic." Here Captain Joseph liYed and died, and was buried in the family burial-lot upon the farm, where many of his de scendants from the several generations since his time now sleep. But little is known of his character more than a few meagre facts, which, however, are sufficient to show that he was a man of strong purpose, great determination, an inflexible will, and was honored and respected by his f el l ow-citizens. A fac-simile .of his autograph, taken from a document dated 1720, is given below.

WILL OF CAPT. JOSEPH MOWRY. "I, Joseph Mowry, of Smithfield, in the County of prov idence, in the Colony of Rhodeisland and providence plan tations in New England, yeoman, Being Sick and weak in body, but perfect mind and memory, thanks be Given to God for the Same, and Calling to mind the mortality of 46 THE MOWRY FAMILY. my body and knowing it appointed for all men once to Die, Do make and ordain this my Last w·ill and testament : that is to Say, princippally and first of all, I Give and Rec ommend my Soul into the hands of almighty God that Gave it, and my body I Commit to the Earth to be Decently bur ied according to the Descression of my Executor hereafter named : and as Touching all Such worldly Estate where with it hath pleased God to Bless 111e in this Life : I Be queath and Dispose of the Same in the following manner and form- " lmprimis - I give and Bequeath to my Two Sons, namely Daniel llowry and Oliver }Iowry: all my Lands Lying at a place Commonly Called pa.sscogue within the Town Ship of Glocester in the County aforesaid to be Equally Divided between them. I also Give to them my above mentioned Two Sons my half purchass Right in Com mon on the west side of the line called the Seven mile line to be Equally Divided between them : it being part of the original Right of Edward Inman. To have and to hold the above mentioned land and Commonage as is above Ex pressed to them the said Daniel Mowry and Oliver Mowry and to their heirs and assigns forever. ·" 2d. I Give and Bequeath to my son Oliver Mowry and to his heirs and assigns forever : that parcel or Tract of land upland and 1neadow which I purchased of Samuel Steere, lying in Smithfield abovesaid and lyeth at a ·place Called Ridge Hill. '' 3d. I give and bequeath to my son Joseph }Io wry my homestead place or farm on which I now Dwell scituate lying and being within the Township of Smithfield afore said with all tbe apurtenances thereunto belonging. Item. I give and bequeath to my Said Son Joseph Mowry my farm which lyeth adjoining to the now Dwelling place of John Sayles, in Smithfield aforesaid, it being the farm on which my Honored father Mr. Nathaniel Mowry neceased JOSEPH MOWRY. 47 last Dwelt, Sd farm Containing one-hundred and ten acres with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging. Item. I give and bequeath to 1ny said son Joseph Mow~y my tract of land lying at a place called Shoggonogue within the Town Ship of Glocester in the County above said with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging. Itetn. I Give and Bequeath to my son Joseph Mowry my farm lying in the To,vnship of "\\rood Stock ine the County of Worcester, in the province of the Massachusetts Bay, the which farm I purchased of Samuel ,vnson ; with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging. Item,. I Give and bequeath to my son Joseph Mowry Two pieces of land which I purchased of francis whitmore, one piece of sd land lyeth in Gloces ter aforesaid Containing Twenty-acres ; the other piece of said land lyeth in KillingRly in the County of "rindham in the Colony of Connecticut containing ninety Eight acres ; with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging. " Item. I give and bequeath to n1y son Joseph Mowry that Tract of land I purchased of Benjamin Jacobs : the which land lyeth in said Killingly north parish in the Col ony of Connecticut aforesaid. '' Item. I Give and bequeath to my son Joseph Mowry all my part of. the original Right of Benjamin Smith De ceased, which I purchased of Stephen Harding lying on the west side of the line Called the Seven mile line in the County of providence aforesaid. "Item. I Give and bequeath to my son Joseph mowry all my Right in the Common or undivided land on the East Side of the Said Seven mile line in the county of provi .dence aforesaid, which I purchased of the said Stephen Harding. To have and to hold the above mentioned lands and commonage to him my Said Joseph Mowry and to his heirs and assigns forever. " 4ly. I Give and bequeath to my Son Daniel Mowry the sum of one Thousand three hundred and Twenty Eight 48 THE l\lOWRY F.-\.!\llLY. pounds Good and Lawfull bills of publick Credit old tenor to be paid to him out of my Estate by n1y Executor here after na1ned. " 5ly. I give and bequeath to my Son OliYer lfowry the Sun1 of one Thousand four hundred and Eighty Six pounds in Good and Lawfull Bills of publick Credit old tenor to be paid to him out of 1ny Estate by my Executor hereafter named. "6ly. I Give and bequeath to my Daughter ....\.lee Mowry the Su1n of one thousand and five hundred pound in Good and Lawfull Bills of publick Credit old tenor to be paid to her out of my Estate by my Executor hereafter named. " 7th. I give and Bequeath to my Daughter Wait Arnold the Sum of one thousand and five hundred pounds in good and lawfull bills of publick Credit old tenor to be paid to her out of 1ny Estate by my Executor hereafter named. " 8th. I Give and Bequeath all 1ny Silver money to my above named five Children to be Equally Divided Between them and my will is that my son Daniel ~lowry shall have the use of that piece of Bogg meadow lying on this East Side of the little River that Runs through n1y homestead farm and that lyeth above the dam so far up : as that wee Call the Island, and to have it the term of seven years: the Reason why my Son Daniel mowry and my Son oliver mo wry is not made Equall with their Sisters in the bills of publick credit before mentioned is because I have given them part before this bequest which makes them equal with their Sisters. "9ly. I Give and bequeath to my Son Joseph Mowry whom I Likewise Constitute make and ordain Sole Execu tor of this my last will and testament, my Two negroes, and all my household Goods and moveables Ready money and all moneys Due to me (Except my Silver money as is abo¥e Expresst) and all other things to me belonging which I might Justly Claim in whose hands Custody or JOSEPH l\lOWRY . 49

. possession they be, he paying the Legacies as is above Expressed : and 1ny will is that my Son J c,seph Mowry shall Take the care of his mother, my loving wife Alce Mowry During her natural life providing all things neces sary and Comfortable for her in her old age : if She please to abide with him, but should She See Cause to Remove from him then he my Executor Shall pay to her the Sum of three hundred pounds in Good and lawful Bills of publick Credit old tenor, and my will further is that my four Children, namely Daniel Mowry, Oliver Mowry, A.lee Mowry, Wait Arnold Shall be helpful and assisting to their Brother my Executor in Geathering in the Debts and to bear Equal Charge with him in the Same and if it so hapen that there Should be any person or persons now Indebted to me by Bonds Bills or notes and prove not able to pay, then all and of my above named Children shall bear an Equall part of the Loss. And I Do hereby utterly Disallow, Revoke & Disanull all and Every other and former Testaments wills and Legacies, Bequests~ and Executors by me in any ways before this time named, willed or bequeathed Ratifying and Conforming this and no other to be my last will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have her.eunto Set my hand and Seal this ninteenth Day of May in the ninteenth year of his majes ties Reign George the Second King of Great Britain &c . .A.nnoque Domini 1746. _,_ JOSEPH MOWRY. -: L. s. :- -.- " Signed, Sealed, published, pronounced and Declared by the Said Joseph Mowry, as his Last will and Testament,. in the presence of us the Subscribers : WILLI.Al\l BAETS. A.NANI.AS MOWRY. THOS. SAYLES." 50 THE MO'WRY FAMILY.

" A True Inventory of all and Singular the goods and Chattel$ of Capt. Joseph Mowry, Late of Smithfield, De ceased, Aprized at said Smithfield, the 8th and 10th of November, 17M-, by Thomas Steere and Daniel Smith, Esq., as Followeth : - £. s. d. qr. Impri!llis---His Wearing Apparel ...... 11513 7! g Item1n Cash ...... : 7 1· 1, _ Item-Note of Hand from Anthony Steere .... ! 2 4, 6 3 Item-.A. Note from Willia1n Sevier for...... 1 0 O;1 0 Item-.A. d!tto fro1n Eldad Hu!1ter for ...... : 0!15 01 0 Item-.A. ditto from Jos. Boud1sh for ...... , 1 0 0, 0 Item-A ditto from Adam Comstock for onei l pound fourteen Shillings Recd. 4-3¼- Remains! I due ...... : 1 9 8 1 3 Item-A Ditto From Dan'l ,r aughn for ...... : 1 0 oi 0 Item-.A. ditto from Obadiah Brown, Jr. for ... : 2 5 o! 0 Item-.A. ditto from Edward Hore for ...... : 017; lj 3 Item-...<\. Ditto from Amos Stafford for ...... ; 0 1 '. Si 2 Item-A Ditto from Sam'l Cook, Remains due. 012 OI 0 Item-A ditto from Thos. Sayles for ...... , 0 lff 7! 0 Item-.A ditto from John Melavory for ...... ! 017: 1 3 Item-.A ditto from Thos. Stone for ...... 1 1 5: 8 2 Item-A ditto from Zeph. Mowry ...... ; 01210 1 Item-A ditto from Benj. Smith for ...... ·: 0171 11 3 Item-.A ditto from Ephraim Kittle ...... I 1 5! 8' 2 Item-A ditto from Nath'l Andrews for ...... ! 013j 6 2 Item-A ditto from Richard Smith for ...... i O16 11. 2

Item-A ditto from James Leonard for ...... '. 0 5\ 3 1 1 Item-...<\. ditto from Peleg Dexter for ...... ' 1 1110! 1 Item-A ditto from Jonathan Paddelford for .. : 013! 81 3 Item-A ditto from Jeffrey "\Vhelock for ...... : 0 s: 6! 3 Item-. A ditto from Peleg Dexter ...... 1 10: 8 1 3 Item-A ditto from John Manchester...... 1 i: 5 0 Item-A ditto from Elisha Hopkins...... 2 210 1 1 Item-A ditto from Elijah Hawkins...... 0 81 6j 3 Item-...<\. ditto from Richard Mathewson...... 01 T 1. 3 Item-...<\. ditto from ditto for ...... · Oil7: 1 3 Item-A ditto from John Manchester for ..... ' 017/ 1 3 Item-A ditto from Thos. Sayles for ...... : 0 2) 8 0 Item-A ditto from John Woodward for...... 0. 2l 6 3 JOSEPH MOWRY. 51

£. s. d. qr. Item-To three Cows, all at...... !1314 3 1 Item-To one mare at...... \ 6 0 0 0

Item-To two Calves a...... •...... i 2 8 0 0 Item-To Five Swine a ...... ; 317; 1 3 Item-To Indian Corn...... 2 210 1 Item-To about two thousand Hhd. and Bar- ril St.aves...... 2 lli 4 0 Item-To ten old barrils ...... 0 111 1 3 Item-To pork and bogs fat ...... 1 8! 4 0 I Item-To Sope and Tub 0-5s. 2d.-To meat : barrils & other old Casks ...... 0 10: 4 0 Item-To about ten Bushels of potatoes ...... 0 gl 6 3 Item-To about 180 lbs. Butter a ...... 5 1111 3 Item-To a quantity of Cheese ...... 1 410 1 Item-To about 48wt. Honey...... 1 gl 9 2 Item-To one feather bed and furniture ...... 911013 1 Item-To one ditto and ditto ...... 6 6il0 0 Item-To one bed Ticking and feather £3 &1 3 pillow cases ...... 3 610 0 Item-To one flock bed and furniture ...... 213 1 2 Item-To one ditto and ditto ...... 119 5 1 Item-To plough Irons a 6s. To old Iron a 10 3 1 ...... 0 16 3 1 Item-To 12 Chairs a ...... 1 3 1 3 Item-To two old Wheels 6s. To one pair Cotton Cords 5s ...... 011 0 0 Item-To one wooling wheel 6s. 10d. and old Clock Real ls. 9d ...... 0 8 7 0 Item-To one small ovel table & 2 Square dittos 1 4 0 0 Item-To two white Chests & one chest of Drawers ...... i'13 51 0 Item-To one small Desk ...... o' s 6 3 Item-To one Gun. To one Bullet mould & Shot ditto ...... 1' 8 31 1 Item-To one pistol Barril and Brass Guard .. O' 4 3! 2 Item-To two powder horns Shott Bag some Shott and Lead ...... 0 3 0 0 Item-To Pewter of Sundry sorts all at ...... 217 5'. 0 Item-To Coffe pot funnel and Pepper Case all. ff 3 5! 0 Item-To Earthen Ware, Glass bottles, Drink- ing Glasses a~d Salt Cellar ...... •I 0-13 7 0 Item-To Tea k1ttle, Tea Cups, &c ...... o: 9 I 5 0 THE lfOWRY FAllILY.

£. s. d. qr. Item-To Two punch Bowls and JI ustard pot .. · Of 2- 4: 0

Item-To one 1narking Iron, one Bra8S and 1 · 1 '. Iron Candlestick...... 01 3 oi 0 Item-To one Saddle and Bridle at...... 1116· Oj 0 Item-To one pear of Saddle Bags...... Oi 8 6: 3 Item-To one Brass Skillet and ditto kittles a.. 01'18 O) 0 Item- T o one warming. pan...... 0·, v.; 2i- 0 Item-To four Iron pots, one Iron Kittle & ,1 bason...... Oil 7 41 0 Item-To gridiron, flesh fork & flesh books all. . o! 3 o! 0 Item-To 1 pear Sheep Shears a Reapers Cickel. O! 3 sl 0 Item-To Beatle and \Y edges...... o! 2 7 i 0 Item-To three augurs and Gi111blet and Chisel ! and Drawing Knife and adds and one pear / 1 Nippers all a ...... - 10 61 0 1 Item-To a pear of old hand Irons, three Train- I j mels and Crain hooks...... 0!1210: 1 Item-To Tongs Shovel melting Ladle and burn- I ( ing Iron...... Oj 6101 1 Item-To one pear of pinchers and three ha1n- . I I mers all...... OJ 5. 2/ 0 1 I tem-.A 11 I ro11 Barr ...... •• - • • • • • 01: 9· 5I 0 Item-To one Brass Scimmer and frying pan .. o! 6 0, 0 Item-To three old Scythes and Tackling. . . . . o! 4: 9: 0 Item-To 4 old axes a 12s two old hoes a 4s 4d. Oil6 41 0 Item-To 3 pithing forks & 3 Rakes all...... o! 7; sl 3 Item-To old Casks Chests and other Lumber.. o; 2; 7( 0 Item-To one tobacco Case 101 to Sundry Un- i 1 tensils For Drawing Teeth lls ll all...... 0:12· 01 0 Item-To 7 vds fustian a 18s and a remnant of ··1 · I Sattin 10s"' 3-!...... l j; Si 3: 1 Item-To two meal bags and one Sheet...... 0 s: 6j 3 Item-To W oil 41 wt...... 2:16:1 2, 6 Item-To two Cheese fats 2 Morters 2 dishes & : i ten trenches, all...... o[ 5: 2 0 Item-To one pail 1 Seive & one Slate all. . . . . O! 2i 5 1 Item-To one Corn Basket and flax Seed Sieve.i O 3il0 1 Item-To 6 Silver Spoons ...... ! 3 lj 8 2 Item-To 1 Sword ...... I 01 5 1 3

THOMAS STEERE. DANIEL SMITH.'" PATIENCE MO"~Y. 53 7. SAR.A.H MOWRY, daughter of Nathaniel; married RICHARD PHILLIPS. Nothing is found con~erning their family.

8. )!ARY l\10,VRY, daughter of Nathaniel; married JoHx ...~nNOLD, and died Jan. 27, 1742, aged 67.

CHILDREN.

Willia1n, b. Oct. 9, 1695; d. Aug. 2, 1766. John, b. May 29, 1697; d. 1727. Israel. • Mercy, b. Octobe~, 1701; m. -- Lapham, and re mo"\"ed to Dartmouth. Daniel, d. July 30, 1773 . ...-tntbony, b. Jan. 12, 1704; m. Susanna Fisk, and removed to the State of New York. Seth, b. July 26, 1706; d. 1801. Anna. Susannah . .Abigail.

9. JOHANN.AH MOWRY, daughter of Nathaniel; married w ALTER 'PHETTEPLACE. Job. She was called" Hannah" in her father's will. It ap pears to have -been the custom to call " Hannah " as a sort of abbreviation of " J oha.nnah." The latter name is probably the same as is now spelled "Joanna."

10. PATIENCE MOWRY, daughter of Nathaniel; I married JOSEPH SMITH. Nothing known of their family. 54 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

11. MARCY MOWRY, daughter of Nathaniel; mar ried EDWARD S:l\nTB. Nothing further known of them.

12. EXPERIENCE MOWRY1 daughter of Nathaniel; married JonN }I.A.LAVERY. Nothing further known of them. CHAPTER III.

THE THIRD GENERATION.

13. JOHN MOWRY, son of John and Elizabeth, born about 1700: married ANNA APPLEBY.

CHILD. 26. John. 14. MARY MO"\VRY, daughter of Henry, born Sept .. 28, 1702; married }larch 6, 1727, JONATHAN SPRAGUE.

CHILDREN. Bethiab, b. July 5, 1729. Mary, b~ Sept, 13, 1733. Abraham, b • .Aug. 14, 1737. Zilpha, b . .April 28, 1739. Jonathan, b. Dec. 25, 1742. Gideon, b. July 15, 1747.

15. URIAH MOWRY, son of Henry, born Aug. 15, 1705; married 1 URA!\1A

CHILDREN. 27. Martha, b. April 1, 1726 .. 28. Nathan, b. June 10, 1729. 29. Stephen, b. Dec. 13, 1731. 30. Philip, b. Feb. 1 T, 1733. 56 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

31. Gideon, b. July 18, 1736. 32. Wanton, born Aug. 7, 1739. 33. Jonathan, b. March 10, 1741-2. 34. Mary, b. Oct~ 30, 1745. 35. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 30, 1748. Perhaps another one named Henry, and there n1ust have been others, for it is well known that Jonathan was the seventh son. Ile had an extensive reputation as a doctor, especially for '' King's Evil," or "Scrofula." Uriah's will was probated },eb. 7, 1792; Stephen and Jonathan were executors. Married2 Nov. 28, 17"73, HANNAH ARNOLD, daughter of Joh Whipple. She was the widow. of William .Arnold, having been liis fourth ,vife, and having been married three ti1nes hefore she married Uriah. Her second hus band was --Eddy. 16. JON.A.THAN MO'\'\tRY, son of Henry, born June 1, 1708; married March 13, 1736, ELIZABETH SAYLES. 36. }Iary, d. Sept. 13, 1742. 17. JERE)IIAH MOWRY, son of Henry, born Sept. 7, 1711 (perhaps 1710) ; married Feb. 27, 1734-5, ALICE MowaY. She is spoken of in the will of ber son Nathan iel as Alice Ballou. She married Peter Ballou. They had no children. 37. Nathaniel, b. Aug. 3, 1737. 18. SARAH MOWRY, daughter of Henry, born April 5, 1717; married Feb. 27, 1734-5, JOHN WILKINSON. CHILDREN. Stephen. Anne. D.\NIEL l\1O\VRY.

l!l. ELISH.A. 11O"'.""RY, son of Henry, 1narried Oct. 2, 1743, PATIENCE ~L-\X. Lived ou the homestead farm on

• Sayles's Hill. Elisha died iutestate6 Hi8 son Israel, of ~{endon, }lass., was ad1niuistrator.

CHILDREN. 38. Israel. 44. Sarah. 39. ,Yai te ( see 58 ) . 45. Esek. 40. Uriah. 46. Henry. 41. Esek, died young. 47. Jerc1niah. 42. Abiel, b. ~ept. 8, 17ii6. 48. Patiencc.1" 43. ....\.1nasa.

20. PHEBE )[O\YRY, daughter of Henry; 1uarried ' April 26, 1744, ELISHA .A.RXOLD, son of Willian1, who was the son of John and )fary Mowry A.r1~old.

CHILDREN.

Rufus, h. Feb. 5, 17 45 ; d. July 17, 1813. An1ey, b. Monday, }fay 20, 1751. Ezekiel, b. Oct. 23, 1753 ; d. }Iay 7, 1817 . ....\.lsie, b. July 9, 1757. Mary, b. Jan. 1, 1763.

21. DANIEL lIOWRY, son of Captain Joseph (called "Captain Daniel" _and "Daniel 1st"), born Sept. 6, 1697 ; married MARY STEERE, daughter of. Thomas and Catherine Steere ; died May 27 (28 ? ) , 1787, aged nearly 90. Mary died Jan. 2, 1776, in lier seventy-fifth year.

CHILDREN.

49. Joseph, b.Nov.10, 1.723. 50. Thomas, b. May 27, 1726. 58 THE )IOWRY FA)IILY.

51. Daniel, b ..A.ug. 17, 1729. 52. Elisha, b. !larch 28, 1735. 53. lfary, b. Sept. 7, 1737. 54. Alice, h. Dec. 27, 1739 ; d. Dec. 4, 17 42.

The record of this fan1ily I found in a very old Bible belonging to Dr. Samuel Mowry, of Providence. This Captain Daniel was a prominent man in his time .. He was -born in the Joseph l1ouse, and having lived in it l1is long life of ninety years, he died there, and was laid with his father in the family burial-ground. A fac-simile of his autograph is given below, taken from a very ancient looking document, without date: -

Two of his sous, " Judge Daniel " and " Colonel Elisha,''" · took a prominent part in town and state affairs during the long period comprised in the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary "\Var, and the intervening years. " Lawyer Joseph," his oldest son, was one of the promi nent men of his day, from about 1750 to tl1e time of his death, in 1764, aged 41. These three brothers passed their lives on the~homestead, v.ith the exception of a few years that Judge Daniel lived· away, in the latter part· of his life. Judge Daniel Ii ved in the Captain Joseph house. Col onel Elisha built a house now standing, and lately the resi dence of John A. Mowry, Esq., a little way east of the old house which Lawyer Joseph built upon the western part of the farm, at the place where Emor H. Mowry, Esq., now lives. DANIEL MOWRY. 59

WILL OF CAPT. DANIEL }IOWRY.

" I, Daniel Mowry, of Smithfield, in the County of Prov idence, In the State of Rhode Island, &c., yeoman, Being at this time in a Reasonable State of health and of a dis posing mind and Memory, But being far advanced in years and often Calling unto mind the 1nortality of my Body, Do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testa ment that is to say, I recommend my Soul into the hand of God that gave it, .A.nd my Body to the Earth, &c. And as Touching Such Worldly Estate it hath pleased God to bless me with in this Life, I give Devise, and Dispose of the same in the Following manner. "Imprimis. I give and Devise unto my Grandson Dan iel Mowry the Remainder of my Homestead Whereon he and I now dwell which I have not already disposed of by deed to my Son Daniel; and is bounded Northwardly on my said son Daniel's land on which he now dwells, and on my Grandson, Job Mowry's land, Westerly on James Ap pleby's land, Southerly on land owned by me and my Son Elisha; Easterly on Land owned by the Widow Abigail Smith Together with all the appurtenances thereunto be longing, to be and remain unto him my said Grandson and to his Heirs and Assigns forever. " Item. - I give and devise unto my son Elisha Mowry all the land I own bounded on the southward of the Home stead aforesaid and westerly on land owned by Job Al drich and by my said son Elisha ; Southwardly on the river, and eastwardly on Daniel Smith's land, and on the highway. It being part of the sa1ne tract of land on which my said son Elisha new dwells and hath a deed or deeds of part thereof ; and the remainder with all the appurte nances thereunto belonging to me I give unto him, his heirs and assigns forever. " .Also I give unto my son Elisha a small piece of nO THE )[OWRY FAMILY.

meadow on the west side of the rivet· that runs out of n1y ln·othcr Joseph .. s 1neadow and adjoining to n1y other n1eadow there ; 011 the East side of said ri \·er called ,v ater n1an 's 1ncadow which I ga,·e unto mv )nv sou Daniel and -.;. "' ,I unto 1uy afore8aid Grandson Daniel to be ef1ually between the1n au

0 Boset Britl0 ·e at Pro\·iy cstiluatiou~ ouc hundred and sixty acres, together with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging ( that belonged to n1e) to Le and remain to her, and the lawful law-full heirs born of her bodv forever. "' .:, Item. -1 give my Plate unto my Three Children, Viz. - Daniel, Elisha, and !olary : also I give unto my said Daughter ~Iary one fourth part of the remainder of my Personal Estate after n1y just debts are paid and the re ~a.inder I gire unto my :;d Two sons to be equally divided between them. '' .A.nd I do hereby constitute and appoint my Sd two sons Daniel and Elisha Executors of this my said will, and I do hereby revoke and disanull all and every other former tes taments, wills, legacies, bequeaths, and Executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequeathed ratifying JO~EPH )IOWHY. Gl and confir1ning this and no other to he n1y last will and testa1nent. - In witness whereof I ha\·e hereunto set 1ny hand and seal, the fir~t (hn~., of .Julv... .. A.. n. ouc thou~an

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"In Town Couucil, held in Sn1ithfield, in the County ·of Providence, &c., by agrec1nent, on the 2d day of .July~ A.. D. 1787,- ,, The last will and Testament of Daniel lfowry of Smithfield in this county of Providence Esq Deceased, was laid on the bor

22. JOSEPH lfOWRY, called "Candle Haired Jo seph," son of Captain Joseph, born Feb. 26, 1698-9 ; mar ried 1.-IARGERY Mow&Y, daughter of John and Margery ( WJ1ipple) llowry, his second cousin.

CHILDREN. 55. Alice, or Alse, b. Nov. 5, 1738. 56. Joseph (called "Bachelor Joe"), b. April 24, 1740. 62 THF. l\[OWRY F.-\l[ILY.

57. .Jeremiah, l,. March 24-t 1742. 58. John, b. Dec. 4, 1743. 59. _l1ney, b. Dec. 4, 1746. 60. Eleazer, h. ~ept. 5, 1750.

~3. OLI\~ER 110WRY, son of Captain Joseph, born 8ept. 26, 1699 (1700 ~); n1arried Dec. 18, 1727, DORCAS ,v HIPPLE. Ile died )larch 2, 1756.

CHILDREN . ('1. .Job. 62. .Ja1ucs. 63. ~ilence, 1n. -- Cook. 6-l-. .\higail, 1n. -- Saunders. 65. Anne .. n1. -- Hidden. 66. }farcy, I think, m. a Staples, and was n1other of Na than Staples.

\VILL OF OLIVER ::MownY (so:s 01,• JosEPH).

" I, Oliver )Iowry of Sn1ithficld, in the County of Provi dence in the Colony of Rhoad Island In New England being alling of Bodely health but of parfect mind and 1nemory Thank:-; he to god for the sa1ne, and calling to 1nind that it is appointed for all n1en to Die, Do make and ordain this 1ny Last will and Testa1nent that is to Say princepely and first of all I give and Recommend my ~oul unto god that gaYc it and 1uy body to the Earth to be buried in a Decent manner at the Decration of zny Execu trix hereafter na1ned; and as touching Such worley Estate wharwith it hath pleased god to Bless me with all I give and Bequeath and Dispose of in the following n1anner. "lmpri,nis. I giYe and bequeath to my Son Job mowry n1y homcstid farin on which I dwell Containing by estimation one hundred and twenty acres. I also give to my Said Sou Job mowry my pece of Medow Called Ridg OLIVER :\IOWRY. 63

Hill in said Sn1ithfield to hiin and his Heirs, Executors Administrators and A.ssigns forever. Item. I give and bequeath to my Son Ja1nes 1nowry all the Land that my -honered father gave me by his Last will and Testament to him and his Heirs Executors ...\.dn1inistrators and assigns forever. Item. I give and bequeath to n1y three Eldest Daughters namely Silons Cook and .Abigail Sanders and .A.nne Hidden one hundred and fifty pounds apiece to be paid them in one years ti1ne after my Death by 1uy Execu trix hereafter named out of n1v estate in Bills of cradet old ol .tenor. Itam. I give and bequeath to my youngest Daugh- ter Marcy mowry two hundred and fifty pounds in Bills .as above said when she 1ny said Daughter ~larcy attains to the age of Eighteen years, to be paid her by n1y Execu trix out of 1ny Estate and 1ny will further i8 that if my Son Job mowry dies before he attains to the age of twenty one years that then my son James :\fowry Should have all the Land that I ha\·e given his brother Job Mowry on the sa1ne conditions only Excepting what his brother Jobe was to pay his brother J a1ne8 and then the Land that I J1aYe given my son James is to be Equally devided Be tween all my cl1ildren and if n1y two Sons attains to the age of twenty one years then n1y son Job shall pay his brother J a1nes mo wry fi ,e hundred pounds in Bills as above said and if my Daughter Marey mowry Dies before She attains to the age of Eighteen years then that part or portion that is given her shall be Equally Devided be tween my surviveing Daughters, and in case my son James dies before he attains the age of twenty one years then what I have given him Shall be Equally devided between all my Childre11. Item. I give and bequeath to my Granson that lives with me Called Nathan Stapels one hundred and ninety pounds of good Bills of publick Cradet and two good Suts of apparil when he attains to the age of twenty -0ne years to be paid him by my Executrix out of my Es- 64 THE )IOWRY FA)[ILY. t.ate. Item. I give and bequeath to my Loving wife Dor cas mowrv "rho1ne I 1nake Sole Executrix of this mv Last ~ w will and 'festament three hundred pounds good bills of publick Cradet old tenor, and the one half, of all 1ny household goods fre and clear forever anu She 1ny Said wife to have the I1npr0Yen1ent and profets of n1y hon1estid farm till 1ny son Job lfowry attains the age of twenty one years and then to Resign up the farm to n1y son Job 1nowry and my said wife to have her Choyse of the Best Roon1 in my now Dwelling house to Lh·e in so long as She Remains my widow and in case she 1nan·ies again then to Resign up all her privileges in the house aforesaid to 111y Son Job Mowry and he to pay his 1nothcr for the privileges she had in the house one hundred pounds in bills as above said in one years tin1e after She 1narries. LastlJ/. I giYe and Be queath aH the Rest of n1y estate that is not before men tioned to be equally Devided between all 1ny cl1ildren Rat tefying and confirming this to he my Last "~ill and Testa ment, in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the fift day of Decen1ber in the twenty-ninth year of l1is majestes Raign George the Second King of great Britain and in the year of our Lord on thousand seven hundred and fifty fiYe. -·- OLIVER llOWREY. --- " Signed, Sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the Said Oliver mowry to be his Last will and Testament in the presents of us the Subscribers.

En,YARD MITCHELL. ,v lLLIA!'tI FORD. PETER _.i\..LDRICH."

24. ..A.LICE MOWRY, daughter of Capt. Joseph, born Jan. 6, 1712. Did she n1arry Jeremiah (17) ? WAITE )lOWHY. 65 25. WAITE MO,VRl... , daughter of Captain .Joseph~ born June 6, 1716 ; married ISRAEL _.\R~OLD. They Ii ved at Glocester, afterwards Burrillville.

CHILDREN. ,villiam? Israel. Elisha. Benedict. Oliver, d. Oct. 9, 1770. Lucy, m. San1uel Con1stock. Martha, 1n. Ezekiel Con1stock. }Iary, m. 1 Peter Taft; 2 Darius Daniels. Mercy, 111 •.A .. aron Taft. CHAPTER IV.

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THE FOURTH GENERATION.

26. JOHN MOWRY, son of John and Auna;· married Lois POTTER, daughter of Job n and Elizabeth Potter.

CHILDREN. 67. Anna, b. Nov.15, 1759. 68. Earle, b.. A.pril 25:- 1762. 69. Ralph, b. May 28, 1765. 70. Susanna, b. Dec. 4, 1768. 71. Richard, b. June 12, 1771. 72. John, b. May 26, 1773. 73. George, b. Sept. 24, 1776. 74. William, b. July 27, 1779. 75. .James, b. July 26, 1782. 27. )f.A.RTHA MOWRY, daughter of Uriah, born April 1, 1726; married PRESERVED HARRIS. I have no record of their children at band.

29. STEPHEN MOWRY, son of Uriah, born Dec.13, 1731; married May 20, 1762, AMEY CooK.

CHILDREN. 76. Huldah, b. Oct. 16, 1762. 77. Charlotte, b. Oct. 7, 1763. WAN'TOX lIOWRY. 61 78. Aaron, l>. }!arch 3, 1765. 79. Wanton, h. May 18, 1767. 80. Mary, b. April 2, 1770. 81. Urana 1 1, I.v- ...A_ ug. -">6 , 1-,..9, , ..... 82. Benedict, b. Sept. 23, 1777. 83 .. Amasa, h ..A.pril 7, 1779. 84. Stephen, b. Sept. 7, 1781. 85. Charles, b. Dec. i, 1783.

"t)oo • PHILIP l\IO\VRY, sou of l;riah.. called "Potash Philip," born Feu. 17, 1733; u1arried--PAINE, daughter of Benjamin Paine. Philip owned tl1c farm lately known .as the S1nithfi(!ld Town Fal'm. l{e u1oved to Cazenovia, N. Y.

31. GIDEON MO,VRl-., son of l:1·iah, boru .July 18,

1736; 1narried 1 ----

CHILDREN. 86. David. 87. Jesse. 88.. ~mith. 89. Gideon. 90. Uriah. 91. Thankful. 92. Dorcas, and three others.

lfarried 2 ----.

CHJLD. 96. Robert.

32. ,v ANTON MO\VRY, son of l 1dal1, born ...lug. 7, 1739; 1narried DINAH, daughter of Benjamin Harris.

CHILDREN. 97. . Martlrn. 6 8 THE )IO WRY FA )I IL Y.

qo. ~. ._.'°' usanna. !•tl. Olive.

;13. JOX ATlfAX }10\\"'RY, se,·enth son of C'riah, called '' Doctor Jonathan," born )larch 10, 17 -11-2; died }larch 27, l 814, aged 72. Ile n1arried DEBORAH ,v1xG, daughter of Jabez and ::Mary ,ving, of S1uithficld, R. I. She was born ~la)· 27, J7;j0: died July 1:3, 1825, aged 75.

CHILDREX. 100. Rebecca, h. Feb. 9, 1770. 101. Caleb, b. }larch 5, 1771. 102. .A.. nna, b. Feb. 4, 1773. 103. Robert, h. Dec. 2, 177 4. 104. )Iartha, b . .June 7, 1777 ; d. ~ept. 21, 1778. 105. .Abigail, h. J\Iarch 30, 1780.

. 106. Dorcas .., h. }Iav., 6~' 1782. 107. Grania, b. June 21, 1785. 108. Peleg, b. Feb. 2, 1788 ; not 1narried. 109. Deborah, b. Oct. 6, 1789.

Dr. Jonathan was a noted n1an in his neighborhood. He used to speak in the Friends' 1neeting. His family of ten children nearly all liYed to have large families of their own. His mother Urania was a woman of ren1arkable · vigor of mind. It is related of her that she spun and wove wed ding suits for all her seven sons, and bed-ticking for all their beds. Jonathan was the seventh. He did not want to be n1ar ried in " homespun." Still, he did not wish to offend his 1nother. But he went to Providence and bought silk vel vet for Yest and breeches ( designing to wear the homespun coat), and silk and worsted stockings, of yellow and brown. DEBORAH MOWRY. 69 1~hese he brought ho1ne and put the1n away. On the 1norn ing of his weddiug-day, he put on his suit, the ho1nespun coat, the Yelvet Yest ( or waistcoat) and breeches, and the silk and worsted stockings, and ca.n1e down to show the1n to his mother. His n1othcr looked at him, surveying l1i1n from head to foot, and exclaimed, ",ven, Jonathan, thy clothes look very grand, but thou art the sa1ne old stick .vet." His wife Deborah was a preacher in the Friends' So ciety also. An account of her sickness and death has been preserved and is given below.

'· &nne account of our raluable friend, Deboralt 1Wowr.lJ, 'Wlto departed tit is life ajler a sltort but distressing illness, tlte 13th of 1tlt montlt, 1825~ in lite se·re11,ty-s-fa:tlt year oj' lier age. "Se·ve-ntli of tlte montlt, she said to a friend who was with her, ' Things never looked so pleasant to n1e as they have for three weeks past, both outwardly and inwardly. For n1a.ny years I have been eudeav·oring to obtain the crown, and I hope I have at length obtained it.' · " Nintli, she thus expressed herself to one of her daugh ters : ' The Lord has been good to me through all my days. He bas preserved me through many trials, and I hope he will not forsake n1e in time of distress.' Then she offered the f ollowiug supplication : " 0 Lord, grant me patience and resignation, I pray thee. Not my will but thine be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give me this day my daily bread, and lead me not into temptation; the light of thy countenance was never more precious than now on a sick bed.' Then she said, ' I think I never was more favored than I have been of late; I don't remember to have had a more favored meeting than the last I at- 70 THE MOWRY FAMILY. tended.' One of her neighbors coming in to assist in wait ing on her through tl1e night, she affectionately embraced her, then supplicated thus : ' There was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour; the vocal tribute of " Holy, holy, l1oly ! Lord God Almighty ; just and true are all thy ways, thou King of Saints," was suspended. Men and angels flew before thee. Oh, thy goodness ! thy good ness ! Did the world know thy goodness, there would thousands of thousands flow unto thee. Then rightcous- ness would cover the earth as waters do the sea ! ' " Seventl,, day mor11ing, on taking leave of her, she sa.idt ' 0 ! how I love thee.' Ber physician coming in, she asked him if he had done all be could for her. He replied that he had. 'I believe thou hast, and I am satisfied.' Then she bid him farewell, saying, ' I think I shall never see tl1y face more in this world, but hope we shall meet in a better. I want thou should seek the " one thing need ful," as Mary did ; that is, to choose the better part. It is a pearl of great price, worth more than ten thousand worlds besides.' In the afternoon she spoke to her beloved son ; laying her hand upon his head, she said, 'I am about to leave thee ; and I love thee, my son. Thou hast been good to me ; we l1ave lived happily together, and if thou dost follow on as thou hast begun, the Lord will bless thee forever. Since I have been a widow, I have been a widow indeed ; and if thou hast anything to accuse me of, please to express it.' He replied,' Not anything.' In the evening,.. to a friend that called to see her, she said, ' This day has. been the most trying one of my life, and if it bad pleased the Lord for it to have been my last, it would have been my happiest.' " Eleventh, speaking to her children, she said, 'I hope my death will be the cause of sanctifying and keeping you upon he sure rock of your soul's salvation.' Then turning to others in the room, she said, ' I ·hope it will be to you DEBORAH MOWRY. 71 all,- give not sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eye lids, until you know of being sanctified.' Soon after she said, 'My distress is great; yes, very great. Why am I continued here? ' One of her daughters replied, ' Perhaps it is for our refinement.' She answered, ' May you be purified ; may you be like gold seven times purified : the pure gold that will bear hammering, how little there is of it.' " Twelftl,,, her bodily distress continued great, but her in tellect clear. To a friend who came to see her she said, ' I am almost worn out ; dost thou think I shall continue through the day ? ' Another friend who came to spend the day, said,' It is encouraging to be with thee, to witness thy great patience and entire resignation.' She replied~ 'Am I patient? Do I bear my sufferings with patience ? I was afraid I did not.' The friend said, ' Thou dost, and I am comforted in believing thou hast borne an honest, faithful testimony to the truth.' She replied, ' I have en deavored through strength to fill up my small measure.' Soon after she requested tbe same friend to read to her the account, in Job Scott's Journal, of his last sickness, sufferings, and death ; wbich being done, appeared to be a comfort in her mind. Then, on taking a little cold water, she said,' How I long to be drinking at the pure fountain of living water.' To the same friend, when taking leave of her, she observed, after embracing her, ' Thy company has been pleasant; it has tended to mitigate my pain.' One of her granddaughters coming in, she took her by the hand and said, ' Precious blossom, how many precious blossoms I have to leave behind me ! May the Lord bless them.' Then she said, 'Oh, heavenly father, be pleased to bring the dear little creatures to an acquaintance with thee.' " ln the evening she said to a neighbor who came to see her, 'I have 110 wish to live; no, not if I could be re stored to perfect health.' A friend present asked her if 72 THE MOWRY FAl\ULY.

she wished her to stay through the night. She said, ' Yes, thou must' ; then embraced her affectionately. The friend observed, 'It is pleasant to find thou lovest me still.' She replied, 'I love everybody ; n1y love extends to the ends ~)f the earth.' During the night she suffered much ; her :,;trength appeared nearly exhausted, and her mind at times a little wandering. lier desire to ·depart seemed to in crease. .A. friend observed to her that she hoped she would he enabled to wait with patience the Lord's time. ' It seems pleasant, very pleasant, to look forward.' " Tltirteentlt, her distress continued ; life see1ned nearly spent. She uttered son1e expressions which could not be distinctly understood, although she appeared to be sensible and resigned, and continued in frequent supplication. '' Near her close. a friend said to her, 'Thou hast been preserved through great patience to-day.' She replied, 'Yes,' and again expressed a ,vish to wait the Lord's time . .About half-past one o'clock she quietly departed this life without sigh or groan, and we are comforted in the belief, having no doubt that her close was peaceful, and her spirit gathered to enjoy that rest pr~parcd for the children of God. " On the 15th her remains were interred in the Friends' burial-ground at Smithfield, where a large and solemn meeting was held on the occasion."

37. NATH.A.NIEL Mo,v H.l'., son ot Jeremiah, born Aug. 3, 1737 ; married URANAH PAIXE. He had no chil dren. His will is very important, as giving much infor- 1nation in refere nee to the relationship of several families.

WILL OF NATHANIEL MOWRY (SON OF JEREMIAH).

" IN THE NAME OF Gon, A.MEN. I, Nathaniel Mowry, of Smithfield, in the county of Providence, in the colony of NATHANIEL MOWRY. 73

Rhodisland, & in New England. Gentleman : Being in Health and perfect Memory (Blessed be God therefor) Do this Twenty Seventh Day of May in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of George the Third, King of Great Britain, &c., and in the Year of Our LORD, One Thou sand Seven Hundred and Seventy three, make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner following (that is to say,) " l~IPRIMTS. I Commend my Soul into the Hands of Al mighty God who Gave it Me ; and my Body to the Earth from whence it was taken, in Hopes of a Joyful Resurrec tion Through the Merits of my S ..\.. VIOUR J Esus CHRIS'£. " And as for that Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased Goo to Bless me, I dispose thereof as followeth- " FIRST. I give to my Loving Wife Uranah Mowry, the Improvement, Profits and Income of all my Real and per sonal Estate ; by Her freely to be possessed and Enjoyed .during the full Term of Her Natural Life. "ITEM. I Give to my Cousins Jona. Mowry, Junr., Son -0f my :Uncle Uriah Mowry, and Israel Mowry, Son of my Uncle Elisha Mowry, and Nathaniel Newman and Jeremy Newman, Sons of Tho1nas Newman, All that my Farm situate lying and being in Smithfield aforesaid, which my Honoured Father Jeremiah Mowry deceased purchased of Ephraim Whipple, with the Buildings thereon standing ; a.nd is Bounded Westerly with the High-Way, Northerly with Land belonging to Samuel Hill and Thomas Lapham, Esqr., Easterly with Pawtucket River, and Southerly with Land of Daniel Jenks, Esqr., to be equally divided between Them ( due Regard being had in the Division thereof re specting Quantity and Quality) to Them and to their sev .eral and respective Heirs and Assigns forever, and to enter into the possession thereof within One Year after the Death of my honoured Mother Alice Ballou, or after the Death of my above said Loving Wife, either of which that 74 THE :MOWRY FAMILY. shall last happen. And further my Will is, and I hereby order and direct that, if either the above nan1ed Nathaniel Newman or Jeremiah Newman shall happen to Die before he shall arrive to the age of Twenty One Years that then and in Such Case the Surviving Brother l1aYe and enjoy the Share in the above Farm which would have belonged to the Deceased had he 8urvived, and to the Survivers Heirs and Assigns forever...... \ud in Case the said Nathaniel New man and Jeremiah Newman shall both Die before they ar rive to the age of Twenty One Years, that then and in such Case I give the Two Shares in the above described fann herein before given unto them, unto Thomas Newman (Father of the said Nathaniel and Jeremiah) and to His Heirs and ...A .. ssigns forever. "I GIVE to 1ny good Friend and well beloved Cousin Eli sha Mowry, Jun'r, of Smithfield aforesd Son of my Uncle Daniel }Iowry, All my homestead farm situate in Smith field aforesd .. with the Buildings thereon, being and stand ing; Bounded Westerly and Northwesterly with Lands of David Harris, Esqr., and David Jenks, Esqr. Easterly with the Highway, and Southerly ,vith Lands of Capt. \Villiam Whipple, and the Heirs of Christopher Jenks Deceased, to him and to his Heirs and Assigns forever ; together with all my movable and personal Estate, and to enter into Pos session of both Real and Personal Estate immediately after the Death of my afore named Loving "'\\i.,.if e ·; and as a Condition that the said Elisha Mowry hold and enjoy the aforegiven Real and Personal Estate, he is hereby Ordered and directed to pay out of the same the fol lowing Legacies herein Given to sundry Persons : - " ITEM. I Give to my honoured Mother Alice Ballou the Sum of Thirty Pounds Lawful money to be paid unto her by the said Elisha Mowry within One Year after the Death of my aforesaid Loving Wife. "ITEM. I Give to my Three Cousins Stephen Mowry, ~ATH..\~IEL :MOWRY. 75 Philip Mowry and Gideon Mowry, Sons of my Uncle Uriah l:lowry Fifteen Pounds La·wful money Each, to be paid to tl1em severally and Respectively by the said Elisha Mowry Jun'r within One 1T ear after the Death of my afore said Loving Wife. "ITEl\l. I Give t-0 my five Cousins, namely, Esek Mowry, Abiel llowry, Henry }lowry, l.Iriah llowry Jun'r and Jeremiah Mowry jun'r, Sons of my Uncle Elisha Mowry, Fifteen pounds Lawful money Each, to be paid unto them severally and Respectively by the aforenamed Elisha Mowry J un'r witl1in One Year after the Death of my aforesd Loving Wife. "lTEl\I. I give unto my Cousin Martha Harris, the now , Wife of Preserved Harris of said Smithfield Thirty Pounds lawful money to be paid unto her by the said Elisha Mowry Jun'r within One Year aft.er the Death of my said Loving Wife. "lTEl\I. I Give to my Brother in Law Thomas Newman Thirty Pounds lawful Money, to be paid unto him by the said Elisha Mowry J un'r within One Year a.fter the Death of my aforesd Loving Wife. " ITEM. I Give to my Cousin Mary Arnold, Daughter of my Uncle Israel Arnold Seven Pounds and Ten Shi! lings Lawful money, to be paid unto her by the said Elisha Mowry Jun'r within One Year after the Death of my said Loving Wife. "ITEM. I give to my Cousin Sarah Mowry, Daughter of my Uncle Elisha Mowry Seven Pounds and Ten Shillings Lawful money to be paid. unto her by the said Elisha Mowry jun'r within One Year after Death of my said Loving "\Vife. " ITEM. I give to my Cousin Patience Mowry, Daugh ter of my said Uncle Elisha .Mowry Seven Pounds and Ten Shillings Lawful money, to be paid unto her by the said Elisha Mowry Jun'r within One Year after the Death of my said Loving Wife. 76 THE l\IOWRY F.-\l\IILY.

" !TE)t. I Gi ,·e to my Three Cousins Benedict Arnold, ,villia1n ..A.rnold jun'r and Elisha Arnold Jun'r Sons of my Uncle Israel .A.rnold Esq'r Fifteen Pounds Lawful 1uoney Each, to be paid unto them severally and Respec tively by the faid Elisha Mowry Jun'r within One Year after the Death of my said Loving Wife. " I TE!\I. I Give to my Two Cousins Rufus Arnold and Ezekiel ....\.rnold, Sons of my Uncle Elisha .....\.rnold Fifteen Pounds Lawful money Each, to be paid unto Them se,· erally and Respectively by the said Elisha Mowry jun'r within One Year after the Death of my said Loving \Vife. "lTEl\l. I Give to 1ny two Cousins Abraham Sprague -and Gideon Sprague, Sons of my Uncle Jonathan Sprague, Fifteen Pounds Lawful Money Each, to be paid unto the1n severally and Respectively by the said Elisl1a Mowry jun'r ·within One Year after the Deatl1 of my said Wife. "lTE:\I. I give to my two Cousins Bethiah Sprague and llary Sprague, Daughters of the said Jonathan Sprague, Seven Pounds and Ten Shillings Lawful Money Each, to be paid unto them se¥erally and Respectively by the said Elisl1n Mowry juu'r within One Year after the Death of my said Lo,iug Wife. "lTEl\l. I Give to my .Apprentice A.bial Baker, provided he shall live to the A.ge of Twenty One Years and serve faithfully agreeable to his Indenture, the Sum of _Tl1irty Pounds Lawful money to be paid unto liim by the said Elisha Mowry jun'r within one year after tbe Death of 1ny said Loving Wife, or when his Apprenticeship expires, should my said Wife be dead at that Period. " NEVERTHELESS If I the Testator should leave IssuE of my Body born ,vithin Nine 1.fouths after my Decease, of the Body of my now Wife, or witbin such term of time as the Law shall Jimmit in such Cases, then Every Clause and Article of the afore written shall be void and of none Effect, anything contained to the Contrary notwithstanding. ISRAEL )I0WRY. 77

" Axo I Do hereby Constitute and Ordain n1y aforesd Lo,·ing WifeUranah lfowry, and my trusty and well beloved Cousin Elisha Mowry jun'r aforenamed Joint Exequtors of this my last Will and Testament ; And do hereby utterly Disallow, Revoke and Disannul All other former Testa ments, Wills, Bequests, and Executors, by me in any Ways before ua1ned Willed and Bequcsted, Ratifying and Con firming this and no other to be my last \Vill and Testa ments. "IN WITXESS whereof I, the said Nathaniel lfowry, have hereunto Set 1ny Hand and seal the Day and Year first before Written. N ....\THAXIEL MO\VRY.

" Signed, Sealed, published and Declared by the said Na thaniel liowry as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of Us, whose names are hereto subscribed ; who Set our hands as Witnesses th~reto at his request and in bis Presence. J ERE:\IY WHIPPLE. Eow.A.RD CLA.RKE. OTIS WHIPPLE. JOHN DEXTER."

38. I8RAEL lfOWRY, son of Elisha, born Jan. 1, 17 44 (17 43, 0. S.) ; married 1 SUSA~ .A.LDRICH, daughter of Judge Caleb Aldrich. She was born X ov. 25, 17 48. He died April 1, 1813, aged 69. She died April 30, 1790, aged 43. CHILDREN. 110. !.riel ( or Azael), b. Jan. 3, 176!); d. Oct. 27, 1773. 111. Elisha, b. Oct. 2, 17_70. 112. Arnold, ·r twins,. b. Oct. 17 (or ...9 7), l 772. 113. Gardner, 78 THE MOWUY FA~IILY.

114. Elsie ( or ....\.Icy), b . .April 25, 1775. 115. Mary:- h. lfarch 4, 1777 : d. Oct., 187 4, aged 97. 116. ...:\nna .. b. Sept. 30, 1779. 117. Caleb, } twins, h. lfarch 3, 1783. 118. 8arah, 119. Waitee. 120. Israel. 121. Susanna, d. June 8, 17-.

Married 2 PATIENCE _.\.LI>RICH, daughter of Robert _.\.l drich. ~he was cousin to 8usan. She died May, 1814.

CH I LOREN. 122. .A.mey. 123. Robert. 124. Patience.

40. C"RIAH MO,V'RY, son of Elisha; 1narried Sept. 7,t1783, JOANNA BARTLETT, daughter of Jeremiah Bartlett, of Cumberland. CHILDREN. 125. Cynthia, d ..A .. pril 2, 1861. 130. Joanna. 126. Sally. 131. George. 127. Uriah.'. 13:2. Patience. 128. .Alzada. 133. Delpha, d. at 17.. 129. Rebecca. 134. Barton.

42. ..A.BIEL lIOWRY, son of Elisha, b. Sept. 8, 1756; married March 30, 1788, TAB.A.TH.A Wu.BOUR, daughter of Daniel and Ruth '\i\7ilbour, uear Centredale, R. I.

CHILDREN. 135. Adal1, b.Oct.30,1788. 141. Susan, b. June 4,1800. 136. Patience, b.July 21, 1790. 142. Liami, b. Apl. 13, 1803. 137. Dan, b. April 14, 1792. 143. Ruth, b. Nov.13, 1805. 138. Abiel, b. Feb, 7 .. 1794. 144. Esek, b. Jan. 18, 1808. 139. Tabatha, b. Aug. 2, 1797. 144½ . .Angeliue, b. May 18, 140. Japhet, b.Jan. 25, 1799. 1813. JEREl\IIAH MOWRY. 79 Abiel d. May 26, 1830, aged 73. Tabatha d. Aug. 12, 1859, aged 90. Japhet d. April 22, 1801.

44. S.A.R-AH 110'\\""RY, daughter of Elisha; married .June 5, 1774, BENJ. SLOCUM, Jr., son of Benj. Slocum. He moYed to North Adams, Mass.

45. ESEK MOWRY, son of Elisha. He was never married. He lived on Sayles's Hill, on the old place, with .Jeremiah. Then Jerry took the place ; and after him

his son Tvler., .

46. HENRY MOWRY, son of Elisha; married THANK FUL BowEx. She died Nov. 17, 1851, aged 88. He died Sept. 15, 1847, aged 87.

CHILDREN. 145. Windsor, b. }larch 31, 1795; d. Jan. 14, 1861, aged 65. 146. George. 147. Henry, b. March 10, 1802. 148. Joel. 149. Fanny. 150. Chloe.. 151. Amev., . He moved to Mendon about 1802, and lived and died there.

47. JEREMIAH MOWRY, son of Elisha; married Oct. 29, 1790, SARAH CooPER, daughter of Moses Al drich, Jr. CHILD. 152. Tyler, b. Feb. 26, 1792. 80 THE MOWRY FAMILY. 48. PATIENCE MO,VRY, daughter of Elisha; mar ried JABEZ ,Y1:sG, Xorthbridge, }lass.

CHILD. Hiram. 49. JOSEPH lIOWRY, son of Captain Daniel, born Nov. 10, 1723 ; lawyer ; married Feb. 12, 17 43, ANNE "~HIPPLE. He died in the autumn of 1764, aged 41.

CHILDREN. 153. Job, b. Jan. 24, 17 44. 154. Thomas, b. March 15, 17 46. 155. Richard, b. Feb. 11, 1748-9. 156. Andrew, b. April 4, 1751. 157. Ruth, b. Aug. 13, 1753. 158. .Anne, b. Dec. 14, 1755. 159. Phebe, b. Nov. 14, 1758. 160. Augustus, b. A.ug. 9, 1761. Joseph was evidently a man of good abilities. From an old account-book in the possession of the writer, it appears that at the several terms of the courts from 1757 to 1764,. he had many cases in court as attorney, and he was called upon to issue, or " put out," as he called it, a large num ber of writs to be served for various causes. The.se ~rits numbered for the different terms of court from fourteen to fifty and sixty. In one instance a great many cases were prosecuted in the name of Cornelius Culnon. It would ap pear that this Culnon was a sutler, or broker, or money lender, or something of that sort, at the camp at Crown Point, · about 1760, during the French and Indian War. There are accounts of various articles sold, and frequent orders for money to be deducted from the soldier's wages. One of these bills reads as follows : - JOSEPH :\lOWRY. 81

"JOSEPH BENNETT to CORNELIUS Ct7LNON, Dr. Xew York Currency. 1760 June 30. 'fo 2 lb. Loaf Sugar 5 s. To 1 Loaf of Sugar weight 6 lb. 10 oz...... 1 1 3- July 5th, 6th, 10th. To 1 quart Rum 1 pint wine 1 pint ginn 1 quart Rum ..... 0 14 6 16th. To 1 Bullett pouch 1 quart wine 1 Jill of Ginn ...... 12 Sept. 30. To 1 pint wine. October 4th To 1 lb. chocolate & 4 lb. Sugar ...... 12 6 Oct. 7th. To To 1 quart wine 3 lbs. Sugar & 1 lb. Coffee ...... · ...... 1~ 16th, 20th. To To 1 Dozen of Red Her- - ring and one pair of gloves ...... 10

.£4 2 3 Errors Excepted."

This account was sued in October, 1763. The following· is the writ in the case: -

" PROVIDENCE, ss. George the Third, by the Grace of God, of (;reat Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c: " To the Sheriff of our County of Pro,idence or to his Deputy, Greeting : - "We command you to arrest the body of Joseph Ben nett of Situate, in the County of Providence, Labourer, (if he may be found within your Preecinct) and for ,v ant of his Body to attach his Goods and Chattels, and hiin or them in safe Custody keep until he give sufficient Bond, returnable according to law, to .answer the complaint of Cornelius Culnon of Albany in the County of Abony ~ 82 THE l\lOWRY FA)[TLY.

marchant, at the next Inferior Court of Con1mon Pleas, to be holden at Providence, ·within and for our said County of Providence, on the third )Ionday of December next ensuing the Date hereof, in an .i\.ction of the case for the recovery of four pounds two shillings and three pence New York Currency, n1one.y due by Book, as n1y Declaration to be filed in Court will be fully set forth, the non pay1nent whereof is to the Damage of the Plaintiff one hundred and seventy pounds current lioney of New England. Hereof fail not, and make true return of this ,v rit, with your Doings thereon-,Vitness, Daniel Jencks~ Esq, at Pro,·idence this fourth Day of October in the third year of our Reign, Anno Domini 1763. GEO JACKSON, Clerk.

This writ is iudorsed on the back: -

'' SCITUATE, October ye 10th AD 1763. Then I sar,ed this writ upon the Body of Joseph Bennet, according to Law, per n1e JOHN BLACKMAR, Df'p. Sheri.ff."

The following is a copy of one of these numerous orders from the soldiers 1n our army in favor of Cornelius Cul non: - " CROWN POINT 11th Novr, 1760. " Gentm. Please to pay to Cornelius Culnon or order the sum of sixteen Shillings, New York Currency for value recd and Deduct the same out of the wages first due to me as a soldier in Majr Birkitt's Company & youl Oblige &c JAMES MOWRY. "To either of the Hon'l Committee of war for the Colony of Rhode Island." JOSEPH MOWRY. 83

It would appear that 1nost or all of these orders were sued, and at one ti1ue there were nearly fifty of then1 sued by Lawyer Joseph as attorney for Culuon . .A.mong the papers presen·ed in the fa1nily for nearly one hundred and twenty-fl. ve years, are several briefs and notes for pleading. One of these papers he has inscribed, "' llinits in Judg Steere Case," which is gi,en below, with the spelling and abbreviations retained : -

" The Deft. Defends and observes first he is sued in Ejectment therefore ye Pit was oblidgd to set up a Title and not only so but n1ust n1aintain and prove it or he can not oust ye Deft. if he had only a bare possession. " 1st, the Plt hath set up ye Right o"f Gideon Harris and Declairs on a Deed from sd Harris to the plt. to which we answer: that the fee of ye Lands in Dispute did not pass by sd Deed, for that said Harris had no Right in sd Lands nor Lawfull Deed, That the deed made to him by Jedediah Harris and the plt. could not pass the fee it being made with pretence to convey Lands belonging to Wm. Brooks, in order to Discharge sd brooks debts when the plt. had money in hand to Discharge sd Debts, if any Debts there were which is not proved and with a pretence to Seport brookses widow, when otl1er wise provided for. "2ndly, if any thing bad-passed by the Deed Declared in it is not Good nor effectual against the Deft. it not being Recorded in the Town where the Land Lyeth, which is Re quired to prevent Clandstaine and unsarton Sails. Colony Law, page 50. " plead this to ye Cort or J urey as you please. "3dly, for that Wm. Broocks had no Title to the prem isses at bis Death the Same being part of one of the 13 Lots Granted to the Purchasers of weftanalig on Good Consideration in the of and that the Same was sev- 84 THE l\lOWRY FAl\llLY.

~red from the Co1nmon Long before tl1e SurYey Declaired on made to llr. Broocks, and before the purchase of the plt. write the Deft. was possessed of the premisses in fee by purchase on Good Consideration. "4thly. That if }Ir. Brooks did Include the premisses. in his survey Declared on, there is Sufficant number of acres there in Contained, that the Deft. may hold his full Demand there in, aud Mr. Brookses Right, if he had any,. its full number of acres and 40 acres more for any honest n1an that Can make out a right to it."

Lawyer Joseph receiYed from Stephen Hopkins, Gov ernor, in 1761, a commission as captain of the Third Com pany or Trained Band of the town of Smithfield. After this he appears in all correspondence to have been ad dressed by his title of Captain. A fac-simile of his autograph, given below, is taken from a. receipt written Feb. 8, 1762.

: What was the cause of his death is uot now known .. But he was cut off in the prime of life, being but a little over forty years old. There are records of his business in June, and lie probably died in September, 1764. He died intestate, and Anne, his widow, was offered the office of administratrix, but for some reason she refused it, and

Daniel Mowry, his brother1 was appointed administrator by the Council. DA~IEL l\IOWRY. 85 A.t that time Richard, the tl1ird son, was hut in his six teenth year, and he chose his uncle Daniel to he bis guar dian. .A.nne, the widow, afterwards married Jonathan Harri8, son of Richard Harris. She was his second wife. Rich ard Harris was born Nov. 14, 1668. He was the son of Thomas Harris, 2d, who was an original proprietor in Prov idence and Pawtucket, and died Feb. 27, 1710. He wag the son of Thomas Harris, 1st, who ca1ne to Providence with Roger "\v'"'illiams. He was town treasurer and sur veyor, and died in 1686.

50. THOMAS MOWRY, son of Captain Daniel, boi-n May 27, 1726 ; married WHIPPLE; died April 27 .. 1745. They had no children.

51. DANIEL ·MOWRY, son of Captain Daniel, called "Judge Daniel," born Aug. 17, 1729; married 1 Aug. 27, 1749, ANNE PHILLIPS, daughter of Richard and Anne Phillips. He died July 6, 1806, aged 77. She died Sept. 18, 1753, aged 30.

CHILDREN. 161. Daniel, b. April 8, 1750. 162. Amey, b. Sept. 1, 1751. 163. Anne, b. June 21, 1753.

Married 2 Aug. 19,. 1756, AMEY .A.RNOLD, widow of Thomas Arnold. CHILDREN. 164. Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1756. 165. Marcy, b . .A.ug. 28; 1758. · 86 THE l\lOWRY FA:\IILY.

Married 3 CATHERINE STEERE, daughter of .Anthony and Rachel Steere. She died ...~ pril 4, 1827, aged 75.

CHILDREN.

166. Joseph, b. June 30, 1788. 167. Rachel, b. Nov·. 22, 1790. Judge Daniel Mowry was one of the foremost men of Northern Rhode Island, during the important period that comprised the Revolutionary "'\Y ar and the years immedi ately preceding. The following tribute to his memory was published in the Woonsocket Patriot of Jan. 31, 1868, and is in the main correct.

JUDGE DANIEL MOWRY. " The town of Smithfield, Rhode Island, was once, and only once, represented in the Congress of the United States. That Representative was Daniel Mowry, the son of Daniel Mowry, and grandson of Joseph Mowry. He was. born on the 28th of .August, 1729. His father then lived on a farm now owned by Burrill Mowry, near the ' Yellow Tavern,' a few rods from the road leading from Woon socket to Greenville. His childhood, youth, and inanhood were passed upon the farm with his father. In those early days schools were few and far between, so that he was denied the advantages of a school education. He never attended school, in all, more than three months. He learned the trade of a cooper, and some of his work has been in the family of his daughter since her remem brance. This daughter is the widow of the late Maj. Morton Mowry. He early manifested a taste for reading, and soon acquired .a better knowledge of books than. DANIEL l\lOWRY. 87 many possess "·ho are favored with libraries. Not only did he read books, but what is 1nore Yaluable to a public man, he learned to read that mysterious scroll called 'human nature.' Men of his stamp do not long keep hidden within the shadow of their own dwellings. The public soon found out his merits, and he was repeatedly called from the monotonous routine of a farmer's life to act in various public capacities. He was sent to the Gen eral Assembly for a number of years, both from Smithfield, his native town, and also fro1n the town of Glocester, where he resided six years of his life. He served as town clerk of his native town for a series of years, and any one who will take the trouble to examine the records in the town clerk's office in Smithfield will there find the books then kept by him written in a clear, full hand. " He was of ten called upon to act as counsellor or adYo cate for parties having cases before the cou~ts. He was tall and slim in person, with blue eyes, remarkably sharp and piercing, and a light, clear complexion. He was a very fluent speaker, and it is said that when he became interested in a subject, his large full eyes would dilate still more, his tall form would sway to and fro, and in clear, pointed sentences he would utter his convictions. " He was one of the judges of the oourt at one time, and by the name of 'Judge Mowry ' he was known for years. He was in Congress one term, and might have gone longer, but would not accept a second nomination. He was pos sessed of a large share of sound common-sense, - a qualifi cation sadly lacking in some of the Congressmen of the present day,-which enabled him to see the difficulties under which he labored, in attempting to cope with other members, whose early education had not been so neglected as his own. His native pride caused him to decline a re election. He came back to his farm, and there passed the remainder of his days, honored and respected by all who 88 THE l\IOWRY F.-\:\IILY. knew him. He was three ti1nes married. His first wife was .Anna Phillips, and by her he had three children, one son and two daughters. His second wife's maiden name was .A.rnold ; two daughters came by her. Catherine Steere was his third wife, and two boys·and one girl blessed their union. He died in the year 1806, July 6, after a short illness, at his home, where Mrs. Morton Mowry now lives, about four 1niles from Woonsocket, and was buried beside his three wives, in the family lot, near his childhood's home." The foregoing needs amplification in some particulars. He represented his native town in the General ..Assembly 1nost of the time from May, 1766, when he ,vas first chosen, till he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in October, 1776. He was re-elected judge in 1777, 1778, 1779, and in February, 1780. It was his good fortune to be a member of the General Assembly in May, 1776, when that body passed the famous " Independence Act," just two months before the " Decla ration of Independence " by Congress. The previous Assembly had displaced the Tory governor, Joseph Wanton, and appointed that stanch patriot, Nicho las Cooke, governor. May 4, 1776, the Assembly passed an .. A.ct repealing " The Act for the more effectually secur ing to His llajesty the allegiance of His Subjects, in this his Colony and Don1inion of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

THE ACT OF }L~ Y 4, 1776.* " An Act repealing an Act, entitled, 'An .A.ct for the n1ore effectually securing to his Majesty the Allegiance of

• Colonial Records, Vol. VII. p. 522. DA~IEL )IO WRY. 89 of his subjects, in this his Colony and Dominion of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,' and altering the for1ns of Comn1issions, of all Writs and Processes in the Courts, and of the Oaths prescribed by law. " Whereas in all States, existing by compact, Protection and Allegiance are reciprocal, the latter being only due in consequence of the former ; and whereas George the Third, King of Great Britain, forgetting his dignity, regardless of the compact most solemnly entered into, ratified and confirmed to the inhabitants of this Colony, by his illustri ous Ancestors, and till of late fully recognised by Him, - and entirely departing from the duties and character of a good King, instead of protecting, is endeavoring to de stroy the good people of this Colony, and of all the United Colonies, by sending fleets and armies to America, to con fiscate our property, and spread fire, sword, and desolation throughout our country, in order to compel us to submit to the most debasing and detestable tyranny; whereby we are obliged by necessity, and it becomes our highest duty, to use every means with which God and nature have fur nished us, in support of our invaluable rights and privi leges, to oppose that Power which is exerted only for our Destruction. " Be it therefore enacted by this General Assembly, and by the Authority thereof it is enacted, that an Act entitled, ' .An A.ct for the more effectual securing to his Majesty the .Allegiance of his subjects in this his Colony and dominion of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,' be, and the same is hereby repealed. "And be it further enacted by this General Assembly, and by tl1e authority tl1ereof it is enacted, That in all Com missions for Offices, Civil and Military, and in all Writs and Processes in law, whether original, judicial, or execu tory, civil or criminal, wherever the name and autl1ority of the _said King is made use of, the same shall be omitted, 90 THE MOWRY F.\:\IIL ¥. and in the roon1 thereof the na1ne and authority of the GoYernor and Company of this Colony shall be substituted in the following words, to wit: 'The Governor and Con1- pany of the Engli~h Colony of Rhode Island and Provi dence Plantations.' That all such Commissions, ,v rits and Processes,' shall be otherwise of the san1e for1n and tenure as thev., heretofore were ; that the Courts of Law be no longer entitled nor considered as the King's Courts; and that no instrument in writing of any nature or kind, whether public or private, shall in the date thereof men tion the year of said King's Reign; Provided nevertheless, that nothing in this Act contained shall render void or vitiate any Commission, ,v rit, Process or Instrument here to£ ore made or executed, on account of the name and authority of the said King being therein inserted."

~Ir. Cowell, in his book, Spirit of '16 in Rhode Island, says:-

" Fearless of all consequences, and long before the Dec laration of Independence, the General Assembly took the bold stand of dissolving the allegiance due by his subjects in the colony to their king. This was a proud day for Rhode Island, and the passage of such an Act at such a cri sis will ever redound to her glory, so long as the love of political liberty and equal rights shall predominate in the hu1nan breast. To appreciate the boldness of this move ment, we must consider that at this time three of the best regiments were absent from the State ; that there was a .great scarcity of the munitions of war ; that the enemy had full command of the bay, and the shores to a gre&.t extent were accessible to his ships of war. In addition to which there were, as always will be on such occasions, ' croakers,' - a tribe always inimical to the progress of liberty or religion, and who preached up submission to the 'powers DANIEL MOWRY. 91 that be ' ; hut in spite of all the surrounding difficulties, the heart of the people was to 'go forward ' as if they had heard the voice of the Almighty~ as did the children of Israel at their passage through the Red Sea ; and they went forward, and ruptured the strongest ties that can exist between a peo ple and their rulers, and they did it because it was their rigltt to do so, under the circumstances of the case." " Seldom, if ever, ·was a Legislature so unanimous and so fearless in carrying out the voice of the people. It ·was no trivial matter for the people of this colony to throw off their allegiance to their sovereign lord and king, and that, too, at a time when it was problemat ical what course the Continental Congress would pur sue in regard to Independence. But in the language -0f the preamble to the Act, the people knew that ' Protection and Allegiance were reciprocal,' and on this rock they stood ; and when the former was withdrawn, it was their right and duty' to use every means which God and nature had furnished them in support of their inalien able rights.' Such was the language of the Representatives -0£ the people of this State, in May, 1776 ! No doubt this act was ' treasonable and rebellious,' as treason and rebel lion were then defined by British statutes ; but in point of fact, it was simply a declaration of what were some of the inalienable rights of man, and now in 'this age of prog~ ress ' generally so acknowledged by all disbelievers in the "divine right of kings.'" In May, 1780, be was elected, with James M. Varnum, Ezekiel Cornell, and John Collins, to represent this State in Congress.

In May, 1781, he was re-elected, and this time the General .Assembly passed the following vote: - *

• R. I. Col. Records, IX. p. 428. 92 THE )IOWRY F.A)IILY. "Voted and Re~olred, That the Hon. Daniel liowry:, Jr., and James M. ,.,. arnum, Esqs., be, and they are hereby requested to proceed to Philadelphia, and take their seats in Congress as soon as possible, to represent this State for the ensuing six months ; and that the Hon. William Ellery and Ezekiel Cornell, Esq., be, and they are hereby, re quested. to proceed to Congress at th~ expiration of that time., to relieve the first above-named gentle1nen, and to represent this State for the remaining six months." Daniel Mowry was placed on many important commit tees by the General .A.. sseQ1bly during these troublous times. In 177 4 he was appointed one of the census-takers, to " make an enumeration of the inhabitants of the Colony_,,. He ·was also upon a similar commission in 1776. He was a member of a committee appointed in 1777 to number all persons capable of bearing arms. In 1776 he was on a legislative committee to superintend. the erection of fortifications. He was, at the same time, intrusted with the duty of remoYing to tbe "Battery at Fox Point " certain ordnance. And in 1779 he was on a committee to estimate the taxable property of the State. He was town clerk for twenty years, and his son Daniel continued to serve in the same capacity for thirty-five years, thus father and son holding that peculiar and responsible office for fifty-five years ! Where can a paral lel to this be found in any New England town ? A f ac-simile of his autograph, given below, is taken from a notice written May 26, 1769. Co11frd/r11111 a 1'/intor1mph. /11 liolf//lL' I'ti11ti11y (',,., :!LO l1t•1·011.~liire ,",'l. 1 /111.~/1111 •

Co1,or-.;1-:1. l~LlSIIA l\lo\VR\' 1-lolrsi,:, SM ITH Fl ELD, K l. r 759·

ELISHA MOWRY. 93 52. ELISHA. lIO\VRY, son of Captain Daniet called (' Colonel Elisha," horn March 25, 1735; married Jan. 28, 1757-8, PHEBE GULLEY. She was born Jan. 25, 1738. He died June 28, 1792, aged 57. She died Feb. 21, 1823, aged 85. CHILDREN. 168. \\:--illia1n, b. Aug.. 23, 1761. 169. }Iarcy, b. July 29, 1763. 170. .A.bah, b. Sept. 9, 1766. 171. Sylvester, b... A.ug. 7:- 1768. 172. Phebe, b .. Sept. 1, 1770; d. March 22, 1797, aged 26. 173. Jesse, b. Jan. 5, 1773. 174. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 18, 1774. 175. Martha, b. Feb. 6, 1777. 176. Mary, b. Feb. 7, 1779. 177. Alce, b. Nov. 1, 1781.

The record of this fan1ily and s01ne portions of their ,descendants was copied fro1n an old fa1nily Bible belonging to John A. }fowry, son of 8ylvester.

Col. Elisha Mowry was known as " Elisha, Jr.," since l1is father's cousin Elisha, the son of Henry, was about fifteen years his senior. Colonel Elisha ,vas one of the leading men of his day. In 1759 he built the house lately occupied by John A. Mowry, Esq., in Smithfield. He was at that-time a young man of twenty-four. It was one -of the largest and most substantial houses in that part of the State. When be n1oved to the Lilnerock, to the place given him by his cousin Nathaniel, then this house was taken by his sous Sylvester and Jesse. Sylvester after- THE :MOWRY FA)IILY. wards bought out Jesse's right, and li,ed and died there. Sylvester was married in 1793, and his death occurred there in 1831. John A., son of Sylvester, was n1arried in 1838, and lived in this house till his death in 1876. The house is an excellent one at this day, although it is nearly one kunclred and tu:enty years old, and during all this pe riod it has been occupied by only tltree fam.ilies, the father, son, and grandson, in lineal descent. During a long term of years, preceding and during the Revolutionary War, Colonel Elisha was not only a farmer but a merchant, doing a large business in the West India. trade. He had a store in Smithfield, and one at Ware house Point in Connecticut. · Indeed, he was the pioneer in trade at that place, which was named from his " Ware House," and has always retained the appellation. He would often send a load of molasses to Hartford or Ware house Point, and bring back to Providence a cargo of shin gles. When the ·war broke out in 177 5, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel in the Army of Observation. He had warmly espoused the cause of the Colonies; and when the Legislature had deposed the Tory governor, Joseph Wan ton, and put in his place the Hon. Nicholas Cooke, and· had ordered a regiment to be raised, armed, and equipped for three months, then the patriotic governor issued a new commission to him as lieutenant-colonel. These two commissions are now lying before the writer,. and are of interest as showing the progress of events in a little more than a single year. The first was " By the Honorable the General Assembly of the English Colony of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, in New Eng- EU~HA )IOWRY. 95 land, in .. A.. merica/' and was signed by " Henry \Vard," the ~ecretary of said Colony. The second was " By the Hon orable Mcltolas Cooke, Esquire, Governor, &c., of and over the STATE of RHODE ISLAND and PROVIDENCE PLA~TATIONS," and was signed by '· Xicholas Cooke," the Governor, and "Henry \Vard, Secretary." As these documents possess unusual interest, hy showing the change which had come over the laws and custo1ns and modes of tl1ought of our people at. that transition period, they are given in full below. It will be noticed that the purpose expressed by the first, or colonial commission, is '' to preserve the Interest of His Jlfajesty and His good subjects in tltese Parts." In the second, or State commission, the object is " in order to preserve tlie Rights, Property and Li·ves of tlie good People of this and tl,e other United States." This in fact well expresses the difference in tbe object of the government 1nanifest between the "nineteenth of June, A. D. 1775," and the" fourteenth of September, 1776."

"By the Honorable the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the -·- , 1 English Colony of Rltode-Island, and Providence '~--~ i Plantations, in J.Vew-England, in America.

"To Elisha Mo'llJrey jun. Esq. GREETING. , .. You, Elislia .1Howrey jun. being, by the General Assembly aforesaid, appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the second Regiment of Militia in tl1e County of Providence in tbe Colony aforesaid, are hereby, in the Nan1e of His Majesty GEORGE the Tllird, by the Grace of God, King of Great-Britain and so forth, authorized, empowered, and commissioned to exercise the office of Lieutenant-Colonel, 00 THE MOWRY FAMILY. of and o,·er the Regiment aforesaid ; and to conunand, guide and conduct the sa1ne, or any Part thereof. And in Case of an In \·asion, or A.ssault of a co1n1non Ene1ny, to infest or disturb this His )Iajesty's Plantation, you are to alarm and gather together the Reghnent under your Con1- mand, or such Part thereof as .,vou shall deem sufficient, and therewith, to the utmost of your Skill and A.bility, you are to resist, expel, kill, and destroy them, in order to pre8erve the Interest of His llajesty and His good Subjects in these Parts. You are also to follow such Instructions, Directions and Orders, as shall, f :·0111 Time to Time, be further given forth, either by the General .A.ssemhly, the Governor and General Council, or other your superior Officers. _.\nd for your so doing, this Con1mission shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge. " By· ,~irtue of _.\n _.\.ct of the said General Assembly, I, Henry Ward, Esq. Secretary of the said Colony, have hereunto set my Hand, and the Public Seal of the said Colony, this 1Vineteentlt Day of June, _,\_ D. 1775, and in the Fifteenth year of His said ~fajesty's Reign. Henry Ward." This was giYen June 19, 1775, under authority of an Act passed the third day of May, which provided that the .C01n mitlee of Safety, or any four of the1n, '' he, and they are hereby, appointed and fully e1npowered, during the recess of the General Assembly, to fill up all vacancies that shall happen amongst the officers" for the ~aid army, na1nely, the "Army of Observation." This comn1ission, it will be observed, is signed only by Henry Ward, who was Secre tary of the Colony. Governor 1\.. an ton having been forbidden to act as governor, it was further enacted,- 97 "That Henry ,v ard Esquire, Secretary of the Colony 1)e, and he is hereby directed, and fully authorized anti ,en1powered, to sign the co1umi8sions for all officers, ci\'il and n1ilitary, chosen by this ...\ssemhly, as ,,·ell those going in the service, abo,esaid, as others." *

This explains the a~101nalJ; of a military co1n1nission not signed by the governor. Fifteen n1onths later, the second -commission was given to this patriotic lieutenant-colonel, signed by that stanch old hero, Governor Cooke.

~, By the Honorable NICHOLAS COOKE, Esquire, GoY -·- ERNOR, CAPTAIN GENERAL, and Col\ll\L.\.NDER IN CHIEF., -: L.s. :- of and over the STATE of Rliode Island and Prori- dence Plantations. "To Elislia Mowry Esquire, Greeting. "WHEREAS the Con1mittee appointed to act in the Recess of the General ....\.ssembly of the State aforesaid, at their l[ceting in J.Ve1cport on the Tu:elftlt day of September, in the Y car of Our Lord One Thousand Seven-Hundred and Seventy. Six, ordered a Regiment to be raised fro1n the l\Ii litia of t]1e said State, to continue in the Service thereof "Three Months fro1n the Time of Inlistment; and you the said Eli.~lta Mou·ry have been appointed LiPutenaJ1,t Col onel of and 01.:er tlte Regiment aforesaid, and to com1nand, guide and conduct the same, or any Part thereof ; and in ease of an Inv-asion, or .....\.ssault of a con1mon Enemy to infest or disturb this or any other of the t' nited States of America, you are to alarn1 or gather together the Regi- 111,ent under your Comn1and, or any Part thereof, as you shall deem sufficient, and therewith, to the utinost of your Skill and Ability, you are to resist, expel, kill and destroy them, in order to preserve the Rights, Property and Lives of the Good People of this and the other l.Inited States.• ----·------• Colonial Records, Y ol. VII. p. :t2'3. 98 THE )IOWRY FA)IILY. _,You are also to follow· such further Instructions, Direc tions, and Orders, as shall fron1 Tin1e to Ti1ne be further given forth, either by the General Assembly, the Governor and General Council, or other your superior Officers. ..And for your so doing, this Co1nmission shall be yo~r sufficient \Varrant. " GIVEN under my Hand, and the seal of the said State, this Fourteentlt Day of September in the Year of Our Lord One Tltousand &ren Hundred and Seventy-si:c. 1.Viclt's Cooke. By His Honor's Command, HENRY ,v ARD, Sec'y." Colonel Elisha is said to ha,·e been a good specimen of the gentle1nan of the old school. He was dignified and decorous. He had a strong, fir1n mind, and was robust in body. He had a pleasant word for e,erybody, but .would· never be imposed upon. It is related of hiin that at one time he was insulted by an intoxicated man, who also was a large, strong, athletic man; but Colonel Elisha, haYing ordered him away, and he having refused to go, took him without further cere mony by his coat-collar and the large part of his breeches and threw him into the road. Early in the Revolution he had occasion to march his regiment fro1n Providence to Rhode Island, through Fall RiYer and Tiverton. When in the latter town he passed the night at the farm of Col. \Villiam Cooke, three miles below Fall RiYer. Colonel Cooke had a daughter, a little girl named Pa tience, who observed very particularly Colonel Elisha with • his stately bearing, his short breeches and knee-buckles,. ELISHA )IOWRY. 99 and ever after re1nembered that, since his n1en could not all sleep in beds, he refused a bed, though urged upon him, and so slept upon the floor of her father's house. Little did she dream that in process of tirne she should marry the accomplished, tall, well-proportioned, and handson1e son of the stately colonel. In 1793 she 1narried his son Syl ,ester, with whom she lh·ed happily tltirty-eigllt years, when lie died. She outlived him fourteen years, and died aged seventy-eigl1t, mourned by a large circle of descendants and friends. Colonel Elisha was cut off suddenly in the midst of a useful and successful life, a little more than fifty-seven years of age. He had been lifting a tierce of molasses, in Providence, and ruptured a blood-vessel, from the effects of which he died, June 28, 1792. Before his death, how ever, he made his will, but when it was written out by the clerk'.' and the witnesses brought in, he was too far gone to sign it, and so died, leaving tbe will, prepared in accord ance with his express directions, unsigued. Now follows a very remarkable circumstance. All bis heirs who were aboYe age petitioned the probate court to haYe the will proved, and it was proved, allowed, executors appointed, and the property dividedin accordance ·with the provisions of the will. This is a remarkable case, perhaps without a parallel, and certainly very creditable to the character of the heirs. A fac-simile of his handwriting is here given. 100 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

His will, and the proceedings connected therewith, are given below.

WILL OF CoL. ELISHA MowRY. "In the name of God, .A.men! I, Elisha lfowry, of Smithfield, in the County of Providence, Esquire, being weak in body, but of sound disposing mind and memory, do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner fol1owing : - " First. I order all my just debts to be paid by my executors- " Secondly. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Phebe in Lieu of her dower The rents and profits of n1y farm whereon she now lives during 11er life provided she remain my widow - But in case she shall again marry I give unto my said wife Five-hundred dollars to be paid her by my four youngest sons to wit -Ahab, Sylvester, Jesse, and Nathaniel- " I give and bequeath unto 1ny son William Mowry Ten pounds, lawfull money to be paid him by my executors - " I gh·e and devise unto my sons Ahab Mowry and Syl vester }lowry Two-thousand dollars each in value of my real estate, and in case they cannot agree in the division thereof To be set off to them by three judicious men To have and to hold their respectiv-e shares to them, their several heirs and assigns forever.- " I give and devise to my sons Jesse Mowry and Nathaniel lfowry Eighteen Hundred Dollars in ,·alue of my real estate to be div-ided or set off to them as herein before directed respecting .Ahab & Sylvester - to hold their respective shares to them their seYeral heirs and assigns forever- " I give and bequeath to my J)aughters Phebe, Martha, Mary, and Alice, one thousand dollars each to be paid them by my executors. ELISHA )IOWRY. 101 "' I gi,·e and bequeath to my daughter Marcy Randall Five Hundred-dollars to be paid he1· by my executors. " The rest and residue of my estate real and personal I give and devise to my sons Ahab, Syh·ester, Jesse and Nathaniel, to hold to them their respective heirs and as signs share and share alike forever. " I constitute and appoint my sons Ahab lfowry and Sylvester Mowry joint executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills - " ,vitness my hand and Seal this Twenty eighth day of June, 1792.

, , I - L. IS. j 1 -.- ~, Published and pronounced by the testator as his last will and testa1nent in presence of us who in his presence and of each other l1ave signed as witnesses - Colonel Elisha having died unable to sign the above will, yet it having been written in full accordance with his directions, his heirs presented the following document to the probate court, asking that the will be approved as though it had been duly signed and witnessed.

" Know all men by these presents, That whereas it hath pleased the Lord in his Pr~videuce, to remove by death our honoured ·Father Elisha Mowry on the 28th of ye 6th month called June last, after a short illness, during which it appears by tbe declaration of our uncle Daniel Mowry of Smithfield, Doct. William Bowen, Pardon Bowen, and Daniel Cook all of Providence, where he sickened and died, that he appeared sensible and desirous of making his last will and testament and in their presence, dictated to the said Daniel Cook who was sent for as a scribe for that purpose, minutes and directions to write the same, and that it was accordingly written as on the above and pre- 102 THE MOWRY FA~HLY. ceeding page appears. But before it was completed his disorder had rendered hin1 incapable of further executing the sa1ne. ,Yherefore that harmony, concord and n1utual love mar he preser,·ed in the family : ,v e \V m. ~Iowry, .A.bah llowry Sylvester llowry, John Randall, and ~Iary his wife, and Phebe liowry children and heirs of our said hond father Decsd Do by these presents, for our sakes, our heirs, and assigns declare our free and full approbation of the said instrument as and for the last will and Testament of our said hond father decsd - and hereb,· severall v ~ ~ covenant and engage to do everything necessary on our part to ratify and confirm the same in every part thereof, and hereby for ourselves and heirs and assigns release and forever quitclaim to each other all right title and interest which we or either of us have, might, or could by law have in any or all the estate both real or personal which our said bond Father died siezed of other than that part share or portion which is assigned us severally in and by the aforesaid Last will and testament of our honoured father Decsd and which is hereby agreed to be understood that the land given to Al1ab and Sylvester in their father's life time be apprised and charged them as part of their por tion, and that in case the estate should by any means fall short of paying all the legacies n1entioned in the said will that such deficiency be proportioned and deducted out of each ones share according to the sums given and mentioned in the said will, and that the executors therein named pay out the legacies accordingly and that for this purpose we hereby covenant to render them our assistance in the execution of such further instrument or instruments in writing as may be devised in order to vest them with powers Edequtte to the full execution of the said will in the best manner that may be devised and found necessary so that the estate may be preserved and justice done to the children under age as well as ourselves. And I Phebe ELI~HA MOWRY. -103 l\Iowry hereby acknowledge n1y acceptance of the said last "·ill and testan1ent of n1y loving husband Elisha lfowry Decsd-and in consideration thereof which is to be under stood and is now agreed to extend to a sufficiency of fire ·wood for the fan1ily fro1n the Iott purchased of Isaeed )Iowry and also the priviledge from the estate ·wood for burning a kiln of lime annually, and also two feather beds .. and furniture with other household goods for keeping 11ouse, in proportion, ,vhich beds and furniture (not worn out) to be returned aft,er my decease-In consideration of all which and one cow I do by these presents, release, quit claim all n1y right of dower and Power of Thirds in the -estate of my said Husband died siezed of except the part assigned me in the said will. "In witness whereof we hereunto set our hands and seals in Smithfield the rifth day of the seventh month called .July, in the year of our Lord 1792. In presence of MOSES BROWN. ,vILLIAl\I :MOWRY, [ L. S.] DANIEL COOK. MARCY RANDALL, [ L. S.] JOHN RANDALL, (L. s.] AHAB MOWRY, [L. S.] SYLVESTER l\IOWRY, [L. S.] PHEBE l\Io,vRY, [ L. S.] her PHETIE x lIOWRY, [L. 8.] mark. " SMITHFIELD, ss. Personally appeared Wm Mowry, .John & )fary Randall Ahab }Iowry, Sylvester Mowry Phebe Mowry & Phebe Mowry, and acknowledged the above and foregoing instrument to be their voluntary act and deed hand and seal before me the day above said. Before me, JOHN SAYLES, Jus. Peace. " At a Town Council held in Smithfield in the county of Providence &c, specially convened on ye 5th of July A.. D. 104 THE )IOWRY FA)IILY. 1792, The last will and testament of Elisha ~fowry Esq of Smithfield in the county of Providence Decsd was laid on the bord by .A.hab llowry and Sylvester llowry who was nan1ed executors in said will, who accepted of being exec utors as they was appointed and desired said will might be proved by this council, and the following testimony ,vas engaged to by the witnesses-Y"iz- " "1"" e the subscribers being duly engaged do testify and and say that we were present with Col. Elisha Mowry on the 28th day of June 1792 that he the said Col. Mowry was desirous of making his last will and testament and in our presence gave directions therefor, and that a will was drawn agreeable to said directions bearing date the said 28th of June and which has this present day, being the 5th of July 1792 been exhibited to tbe town council of Smith field. That the said Elisha Mowry at the time the will was compleated was unable to sign the same but at the time he gave the directions as aforesaid was of sound disposeing mind and memory, and in our judgment as capable of dis posing of his estate as at any time. DANL. MOWRY. WM. BOWEN. PARDON BOWEN. DA:SL COOK. "Whereupon this Council having maturely heard and considered every circumstance relating the will aforesaid Do therefore hereby prove and Approve the aforesaid Will, to be a lawfull will and testament and the approbation of the heirs that are of age have signed and sealed the same by assent and agreement, approving and accepting the said ,vill, all which is approved and ordered recorded. Witness, D.A.:SL MOWRY ye 3 Coun Clk.

"And is accordingly recorded by Danl Mowry ye 3d Coun Clk. ELISHA :MOWRY. 105 " An Inventor, of the Goods- and Chattels of Elisha "' Mowry Late of Smithfield in the county of Providence &c. Esq. Deceased, who departed this life June ye 28th day A. D. 1792. Taken by us the subscribers the 3d & 4th days of ·July A. D. 1792. £. s. d. To Wearing Apparel ...... ,1511 6 To Cash £ 2, 1 Os Brass Pistols 12s 2 small Arms: I &c 42 ...... : 5 8 - To one Calf skin & remnant of Leather 14s, one: I Watch£4.4s ...... / 418- To one case High Draws £3, 12, one Desk £2 14,i one high case not finished £2. 14, one Uhest 9s: Small Table 3s one large Ovel Ditto 18s all ... )10/10- To one Square Table 14s one Table 6s one Chest; I \

9s one chest with drawers 9s one Kittchen Ta- 1 ble 6s one cloth Press 12s one Large Looking: i · Glass £2, 8 One small Ditto 5s one other ditto I 6s all...... ! 5:15- To 14 "\V1nsor Chairs and 3 Large Ditto £5, 2 I Two great dittos 8s all ...... , 5;10 One Long Table 9s one old Do 4s Small Chairs 26 1 119 To 34 Milk Trays 34s One Butter Do. 2s one Bread; ; Trough 2s all ...... I 1110 To one cheese Tub 6s one churn 3s 8 milk Pails; 12s 2 Chesse v... atts 6s all ...... ,- 1 7 To Two Cases and bottles 12s one Hatchell 12s,1 I one fine ditto 8s one s1nall Trunk 4s all ...... ! 116 To two Bibles small 4s 10 Table Silver Spoons' I £5, 8s, 7d Tea dittos 14s a.ll ...... I 6: 6 One silver cup 6s Money Scales 6s one Link Silver Buttons ls all...... " 13 To 321b Pewter a 18d p lb-18lb old Ditto a 9 36 I Queen Ware Plaits 9s all...... 3 10. 6 To 2 Pewter Tea Potts 12s Tea Cups Saucers &c! I1 10s Glass ware of Sundry Sorts 24s all ...... I 21 6 To 4 Delph Bowls 3s one earthen can ls one pipel 1 box 3s 3:11 .. : . : ...... -I I 7 To one pair Shtt1ards 8s 2 old Saddles and 3 old I bridles, old Saddle bags 40s...... 2, 8 6

To 2 pair hand Irons 15s 3 Trammels 12s 2 pair 1 old Tongs & two old Shovels 10s all...... 115. 8 106 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

£. s. d. To Grid Iron Ss Gridle Iron & Flesh Pork 4s one: ! large Iron Spittle 12s all ...... · I 1: 4 " To 4 Small Iron ~pittles 9s Rake Spittle ls 2 Spi-j" i I ders 3...... 13.- To Two Tea Kittles, 12s :2 Skillets 2s 3 Iron Potts , I 8s 2 Flatt Irons 5s all ...... 1 7 To 5 candlesticks 3s 3 and Iron Spoon 6d 2 Iron 1 Basins 2s all ...... · 5 · 9 To Tin Ware 14s Powder Horns & Some Powder j 1 s 6 ...... 1516 To one old Box Iron and one heater ls Case Knives i and fork~ 8s all ...... • . • • • • • • · · · - · · 9\ To one ha1nmer & pincers 3s one cross cut saw and file 10s old Handsaw 1 6 all ...... I1 1 2 6 To one Feather bed & Furniture No 1. £12 one 1 I Ditto & Ditto No. £ 9 1 Os all ...... t2110 - To one Ditto and Do No 3 £8, one ditto & ditto: No 4 £6 One Ditto and Ditto No 5 £4,1 10s ...... 11810- To one Ditto & Do No 6 £4. 10s, one Do & Do'. I No 7 £ 8 ...... 12 10 - To one Ditto & Do No 8 £9, one :Flock Ditto & I Do £2. 10 ...... :1110·- To 3 New Coverleds Toe 30s one old Ditto 2s 1 I 3 Blankets 18s all ...... · I 210- To 25 yds new Blanketing «.!10th a 2s 6 p yd ..... i 3 2 6- To 7 11..,lannel Sheets 46s 3 pr Uotton & Linnen; ! Dittos 40s all ...... · I 4 6'. To 2 pr. Linnen Sheets 30s one pr. old do 5s 7 Pil- · I low Cases 10s 6 all...... 2 · 5 6 To 5 Table cloths 18s 6 Towels 6s all...... 1 4- To one yoke Oxen £13, 10,-6 cows £4, 10 each 1 2 Steers year old £ 8, 2s all ...... 48 12 - To one horse £9, one old Do £3, 5 calves a 12s I eacl1-all...... 15 1 To 2 Yearlings £2. 8-2· Cows Dry a £4. 4 each- 13 Sheep & 4 lambs £3 16s 6 ...., ...... 1412 6 To one Grindstone 12s 3 Scythes & Tackle 21s . I Waggon Boxes 7s 6 all ...... : 2-' 6 To 3 old Ox Yoke ring 10s Staples 9s 3 Iron· ! I Shovels 12s all ...... 1l 1:- ELISHA MOWRY. 107

£ s. d. To two Iron Bars 18s 3 old Broad Hoes 3s 2 new; ditto 6sall ...... · 1 7 To two Setts Horse Traces, Coller, and hains 18s 3 1 Draught... Chains 21s ...... 119 To Beatie Rings & 3 Wedges 6s one Dung Fork: 2s 6 4 augers Chisels & Gong Ss all...... 16 1 t3 To Carpenter & Coopers ....\.dz and 2 Drawing K11i,·es all ...... 9 ,- To Smoothing Plain&:; Jointure ls Horse IIarrow 8s 2 Plows 22s all...... 111- To one old Cart and Wheels £ 2. 2 Linnen \Vheels 24s one Clock Reel ls 6 all...... 3 5 6 To one Bed Cord and Cart Rope 6s one ,Yoolen· Wheel 9s 6 Xew Scythes 24s...... • ...... 119 To 9 hay Rakes 8s 5 Hay forks 2s each-all. . . . . 18 To about 220. lbs. Salt Pork '-~ Hains a 4d p lb.. . 3 13 4 To 8 New Empty Firkins a 2s...... 16 To about 12 lb Dry Fish 3s 3 pecks salt ls 6. . . . 0: -1 6 To about 5-1 bushell Indian Corn a 2s 6 per bushell, ' 5 bushell Rice 3s 6 all...... 8 1 6 To 2 half bushells, one peck, one half peck :\Ieas- ure all...... -: 3 t, To old Ox Slead 6s one old cheese press 3s ~undry · i old casks 50s all ...... 2· 19 - To 19 Li1ne Casks in the Barn a ls 8d ea...... 111 8 To Sundry old Baskets 6s 3 Barrells Sope & Casks: a 12s pr Barrell...... · 116 - To one pair Brass Scales 4s one Coffe )Iill 4s One small Mortar ls 6 all...... 9 To 10 Chestnut logs drawed to the house for Staves; 210 ~- ' To 46 lbs Sheeps wool a ls -1 To Drills Hanuners: &c for digging lime _rock 20s ...... i 4 1 l 0 To one Loom Slay Quill Wheel &c 60s about lJc I old Iron 18s all ...... : . : 3 18:- To about le ,v Popalouia Sugr 60s ~1nall Brass. (__ Kittle 36s all. . . . . ; ...... : 511 To 3 Chamber Potts and 2 Stone Jars 4s 4 Swine ! @ 1 ~ an d 4 P1gs. m 6s ~w"' · 1ne · a -'>d :f ·~ lb .... • • • • • • • :1 910 i 8 To two cows one at Pawtucket, one at Stephen: 1 Gulleys farm a 13 Dollars Each ...... ! 7j16:- To one brass Clock £ 12 6 Banister Backd Chairs : \ £1 10s ...... -13J10. 108 THE MOWRY F.-\MIL Y.

£. s. d. To one Great Chair 6~ 1 :3 old Chairs 13s one \-:--el I Table 15s one Tea ditto 9s ...... 1 2 3· To 3 old Tables 8s one Desk 30s one ~Ieal chest'. 6s one ditto with drawers 1Os ••..•.....•.••••. 2·14, To one old Chest 6s one Looking glass 15s ...... : 1: 1- To one Featherbed and Furniture in the X. ,vest bedroom below a ...... ' v - - To one Feather hed and Furniture Southeast Bed: room lJelo,\· ...... · 6.-- To one ditto and ditto in chamber £3 ...... ' 3! To one Case Draws 18s one Candle Stool 2s ..... · 1- To one pr. Iron Dogs 5s One pr. hand Irons 12s ! 2 Tran1n1els 10s ...... 1 7- 1 To 2 old Fire Shovels 2 pr. old Tongs 4s Beatles and Wedges 5s one Iron 8hovel ls...... -10 -

To Two old hoes 1 s one old larg-e'--' brass kettle 18s one large iron ditto 8s all...... l 7 - To 3 old Iron Potts 7 s 6 2 old dish dittos 2s one hake ditto 3s all ...... 12 To one flat Botto1ned ditto ( ·?) 2s one Tea Kittle 5s 1 Iron Bason ls...... ; 8 To two Flat Irons 5s 2 Iron Skillets 2s 2 Broad: axes one old 9s ...... i 16 To one Post A.xe ls one Carpenters A.dz ls old Scythes ls 6 ('Ile handsaw 4s ...... · 7 6 To a quantity old Iron 10s-old Jointer & Plain 2s Old Horse Hai1ns 1 Os ...... To old ...lugers Chisel Drawing Kni\"es &c ...... To 6 Cyder Barels 12s old casks 12s 5 bushells Rice 17s 6 all ...... To old Diamond ,viudow Glass 5s 2 old "\\i... oollen: , Wheels 2s all ...... - 7 - i To son1e poor Clapboards 5s about 45 lb Hogs I Lard a 6d ...... 1 7i 6 To 2 empty Firkins 3s Earthen Pot, Jug &c 3s ... . 6- To 350 ,rt 8alt Pork a 4d 3 1neat barrels 6s .... . 6 2 8 To one wash barrel Vinegar Barrel & Several Firkins all ...... ; To Sope Trough 3s one Small Grindstone 2s Ham- mer and Pincers 2s all...... : To one old Saddle and 2 old Bridles 6s 2 old poor: Linnen Wheels 6s all ...... : ELISHA l\lOWRY. 109

£. s. d. One old Clock Real 2s 2 old candle Sticks 9d 22 Milk trays a ls other poor Do. 2s ...... i 1 6 9 To one cheese Tub 6s one Churn 3s 5 milk pails: • 5s all ...... 14

1 I To Cream Bowl, Cheese Basket &c l:; Cheese ' Press 6s 1 pr. Large St.illiards 10s 1 pr. S1nalll ~..,t·11· .1 1ar d s 9~s ...... : 19 . 2 Cheese V atts 2s 6 Case Knives and forks 2s 6 .. ; 5 To Sundry Pnter Vessel~ ,-alued at 24s one Cop-, per Tea kittle 4s all ...... i 1! 8 To 3-} Sheeps wool a ls 4d - 10 lb Sic. a 4d oldi Portmanteau 2s ...... i 10 To 3 lb Hatchelled flax a ls 5 Cotton ,v ool a 2s 6l one old cart rope 2s ...... : To one Coarse Hatchell 2s Hogs Hams 70 wt @I 4d...... · To Sundry old Baskets 2s one S1nall ....\.nu 24s one ! old ditto 8s all ...... 114· To 1 pr. Cotton Cards 5s one ~ickle ls 6 old cards1 2s 1 old warming pan 2s ...... · 8 6 To one case part filled with bottles and other: glass bot...... : 9 To old Box Iron with one heater ls 6 Earthen! ware 2s 6 one Knot Bowl ls all...... : 5 To one Silver Kilted Sword 60s one Hanger 6d .. ' 3 0, 6 ·To Tea cups Saucers Cups potts \..,..ials, Glasses &c ' 6s The book called English Liberty 5s ...... · I 11 To old Hay Rakes and Pitch Forks 6s old curry! comb 3d part of a ~eed plow 9s ...... '. 15' 3 To old cart and \Vheels Clevis & pin & 2 Rings &i i Staples all ...... · 113 To two draught chains 12s 2 Swine a 2s...... 4; 4· To 4 Cows...... 5:1s: To one Bull 54s one 3yr. old colt £ 9 one yearling Ditto £ 4 10...... ,16 4 · 0 To about 40 Cords of wood for burning Li1ne 6s 1 pr Cd ...... 12'. O! 0 To 2 old Sheep & one La1nb 13s one Inch and ½• , . Auger 3s Iron Fetters ls 6...... !11: 6 To 2 Cows at George Bakers @ 14 Dollars ea.... : Sj 8! 110 THE 1\-lOWRY FAMILY.

£. s. d. 'fo about 70 ,vt of Butter a 8d 46s 8d...... 1 To about 80 "\Vt. Scu1n Cheese @ 2d 13s 6 ...... 31 0 2 The whole a1nou11ting to ...... £4291 191 7

,vitness: STEPHEX \\"HIPPLE. ~YLVA:St;S SAYLES. DANL MOWRY."

The widow of Col. Elisha llowry lived more than thirty years after the death of her husband. She died Feb. 21, 1823, aged 85 years. The following notice of her death appeared in the Providence Journal, Monday iuorning, Feb. 24.

,a Died in Smithfield, on Friday evening last, after a short illness, much and descr,·edly la1nented, Mrs. Phebe l-Iowry, relict of the late Col. Elisha Mowry, in the eighty sixth year of her age. She was a tender and exemplary wife and 1nother, a sincere and disinterested friend, a "·orthy and obliging neighbor. She enjoyed the affection, friendship, and respect of all with whon1 she was con nected in the various relations in life; and possessing a strong and vigorous mind, she displayed on the bed c,f death a resignation to the divi11e will that evinced her hope of a blessed immortality beyond the graYe."

55. ...\.LICE ( or ....\.LSE) }IOWRY, daughter of Joseph, born Nov. 5, 1738; married a man by the name of SMITH. Nothing further is known of the family.

57. JEREMIAH MOWRY, son of Joseph, born March 24, 1742; married July 15, 1781, ELIZABETH )loRTON. A:\IEY )f OWRY. 111

CHILDREN. 178. Ruth, b. Feb. 13, 1782. 179. Rachel. 180. Jere1niah, b. May 6, 1786. 181. Morton. 182. Joseph, b. May 25, 1795 ?

Jeremiah Mowry was a sterling 1nan, of much energy a1id thrift. He lived a long life in his native town, and did much town business. His farm was an excellent one, a . few miles south of ,v oonsocket. His children all lived to rear families of their own, and some of thein l~.rge families. His youngest son Joseph had the largest family, and outlived all the rest.

58. JOHN l{OWRY, son of Joseph, born Dec. 4, 1743; n1arried April 26, 1764, ,v AITE llowRY (39), daughter of Elisha. CHILDREN. J 83. Nathaniel, b. May 27, 1765. 184. Eliakim, b. June 28, 1767. 185. Joseph, b. Oct. 14, 1"770. 186. John, b. May 20, 1773. 187. Jeremiah. 188. Israel. 189. Welcome. 190. Amasa.

59. AlIEY MOWRY, daughter of Joseph, born Dec. 4, 17 46 ; married May 15, 177 4, PETER ALDRICH, son of San1uel. 112 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

60. ELEAZER lIO\YRY, son of J oscph, born Sept. 5~ 1750; n1arried Nov. 27, 1773, EUNICE ALDRICH, daughter of Reuben. CHILDREN. 191. !fargery, b. !fay 3, 1774. 192. Lydia, b. July 28., 1776.. 193. Eunice, b ..A.pril 11, 1778. 194. Reuben, b. llay 10, 1780. 195. Rhoda, b. Feb. 24, 1783. 196. Phila, b. Feb. 4, 1785 (living in 1874). 197. Ruth, b. No,·. 28, 1786. 198. Robe, b. Oct. 22, 1789; d. June 9, 1874. 199. Eleazer, Jr., b. Sept. 7, 1791. 200. Joseph, b. June 25, 1795. 201. Ezekiel, b. !larch 4, 1798. 202. Levi, b ..A.ug. 29, 1800.

61. JOB 11O,vRY, son of Oli,·er, called "Flic-an-fiaw Job." He lived on tl1e hill west of the" Joseph Mowry House."

CHILDREN. 203. Joab. 204. Ziba. 205. Martl1a, m. Caleb Remington. 206. Job, m. Anna, daughter of Job. 207. George, d. aged 16. CHAPTER V.

THE FIFTH GENERATION. 67. .A.XN.A. 110,VRY, daughter of John, born Nov. 15, 1759 ; married Sept. 26, 1789, W1LLIAl\I COZZENS. 68. E.A.RL lfO\\.,.RY, son of John, born .A.pril 25, 1762; married 1 in 1784, POLLY GORTON.

CHILDREN. 208. John Potter, born at East Greenwich, R. I. 209. William. 210. Daughter. lfarried 2 MARGARET GARDNER. He died .Aug. 29, 1818, at East Greenwich, R. I., aged 56. He is reported to have been a man of great physical strength. It is said that he was the most powerful man in the State, in his day.

69.. RALPH MOWRY, son of John, born May 28, 1765; not married. In the twenty-third year of bis age he sailed for Charleston, S. C., in a small vessel, which was wrecked and lost,July 23, 1788~ and all on board perished.

70. SUSANNAH MOWRY, daughter of John, born Dec. 4, 1768; married Sept. 10, 1794, ELISHA BROWN. He was a farmer. She died March 20, 1813, aged 44. 114 THE MOWRY F.-\llILY.

71. RICH.A.. RD lIO\VRY, son of John, born June 12, 1771 ; 1uarricd 1 BETSEY HOLMES. She died Dec. 11, 1822. llarried 2 in 1824, HANXAH GATES. He was by occupa tion a farmei•. He died in Leyden, ~lass. They had no childreIJ.

72. JOHX ~10,vRY, son of John, born llay 26, 1773; PoLLY ll..\.RCY. married She was born .A.ug.'-- 17,, 1776. He was a blacksn1ith, 1niller, and farmer; and died in 1852. in Leyden, ~lass.

CHILDREX. 211. Ralph, b. liay 3, 1795. 212. Charles, b. lfarch 27, 1797, in Woodstock, Conn. 213. Eliza. 214. Lucy. 215. Lois. 216. John. 217. ~[ariah. 217 a. ~Iarv.. Ann. 217 b. '\Yillian1. 217 c. Clarissa.

These all married, but I ha,e the record of only the firs~ two.

73. GEORGE ~IOWRY, son of John, born Sept. 24, 1776 ; married 1 POLLY BROWN. She died two years after their marriage.

CHILD. 218. George, born 1800; died 1820.

Married 2 POLLY AVERY. WILLIAM MOWRY. 115

CHILDREX. 219. John,b.Jau. 27,1803. 220. llanley, b. June 17, 1805. 221. Polly l\laria, b. Feb. 2, 1807...... ')()') Nathan .A.very, b.. A .. ug. -, 1810. 223. DaYid, b. Sept. 7, 1816. 224. ....\.lbert Leroy, b. July 9, 1820. All of who1n were horn in Leyden, l\Iass. George l\Iowry was an honest, upright, intelligent 1nan, 1nuch respected by a ·wide circle of friends and acquaint ances. He was in his younger life a clothier in the town of Leyden, Mass., "'"here he passed his life, his later years .as a farmer. He held many offices, town and otherwise. For six. sessions he represented his town in the Massachu setts Legislature. He ,vas oYerseer of the poor and chair man of the board of selectmen and assessors for many years. He was justice of the pe·ace for over twenty years. He died in Leyden, Oct. 25, 1851, at the green old age of 75 yrs. 1 mo. 1 day.

74. WILLI.A.1\1 lIOWRY, son of John, born in Wood stock, Conn., July 27, 1779; married Nov.14, 1807,LYDIA WHIPPLE, daughter of Job Whipple, of Greenwich, N. Y ., formerly of Cumberland, R. I.

CHILDREN. 225. Leroy, b. Aug. 26, 1808. 226. Anna Caroline, b. Oct. 13, 1809. 227. William Henry, b. July 23, 1811. 228. llary Elizabeth, b. Nov. 21, 1820. He died March 23, 1845, aged 65 yrs. 7 mos. 24 days. His wife Lydia died Nov. 25, 1870, aged 87 years. 116 THE MOWRY FAMILY. ,Yilliam Mowry was one of the pioneers in ·.American cotton manufacture. San1uel Slater commenced, on a small scale, carding and spinning cotton by n1achinery propelled by water power, at Pawtucket, R. I., in December, 1790. Early in 1793, what has recently been termed the "Old )fill " was built, and this may be properly termed the first. cotton factory in ....\.merica. v· ery soon after llr. Slater commenced operations at Pawtucket, there came into his employ a young 1nan f ro1n his father's farm, in ,v oodstock, Conn. He was not yet. twenty years old, but he was delighted ·with the htun of machinery. He was at work early and late. He studied the n1achines; he learned the processes; he saYed his. ·wages . ....\.bout the year 1800 he left Pawtucket, and the employ . of }Ir. Slater, and, like many a young man twenty-one years old, turned !tis steps westward. Whether he had ever heard one as wise as Horace Greeley was at a later· day, say, " Go west, young man, go 'West! " or not, may not now be known. It is even doubtful if he had read the words,- " Westward the star of empire takes its way."

But be that as it may, he turned his face towards the· setting sun, and struck off into what was then almost a wilderness. .And yet that was but a little over seventy-fl. ,e years ago ; and he only went westward to the eastern por tion of the great State of New York . ....\rriving at a place afterwards named Greenwiclt, in \Vashington C_ounty, he joined hims~lf to a Mr. Job Whip ple, and commenced the erection of a cotton mill. Here \VILLI.\l\l MOWRY. 117 it is said they put in operation the first power 1nachinery for spinning cotton in the State of New York. Like the cotton 1nills of New England, the business rapidly increased, and in the fall of 1807, ~Ir. ~Mowry for it ,vas he - found hin1self in circun1stances to warrant .settling in life, and enjoying the co1uforts of a ho1ne of 11is own. ....\..ccordingly he n1arried lliss Lydia, the daughte·r of his business associate, ~Ir. "'\\'."'hipple. They lived happily together n1any years, and had the satisfaction of seeing· their four children, two sons and two daughters, 111arried, ·and pleasantly settled in comfortable circumstances. In 1816 )Ir. ~lowry visited England, and after his return introduced new and i1uproved 1nachinery for the 1nanufac ture of cotton cloth. It is believed that he caused to be built for hitn, and put into operation, the ji,-st double speeder in ....\.1nerica. This "-as about the year 1816 or 17. The -extracts quoted below· are f ro1n an article published in the Greenwiclt (X. Y.) Journal, Noven1ber, 187-!.

" The na1ues of San1uel Slater and ,Yillia111 ~Iowrv·., were :an1ong the 1nost distinguished 111anufacturers and ca pita lists in this country. It will be rc111en1bcred that lir. !lowry "·as, at an early period, e1nployed by ~Ir. Slater as an assist -ant in the 1nanufacture of cotton cloth, at Pawtucket, R. I., where llr. Slater erected the first valuable mach_inery, and spun yarn to 1nake the first cotton cloth in A1nerica; :and by their superintendence and direction, as well as by intense labor, erected the first cotton 1nill in Rhode Island, which was the first in the land of Pilgri1ns. And well 1night they be styled the fathers of American manufac tures. ,.: Mr. liowry was by nature inclined to be a 1nanufac- 118 THE )IOWRY FAMILY. turer, for he could not rest contented without being within hearing of the buzz of the spindles, which was 1nusic in his ears, and he continued in the employ of )Ir. Slater until he becan1e thoroughly acquainted with the business, when he 1nadc a 1noderate and courteous request to be admitted as a partner· in the concern, which proposition was pere1nptorily rejected as a presu111ptuous daring on the part of )fr. 1Iowry, who preferring to be his own master, and the manufacturer of his own fortune, resigned his subordinate situation, and came on to Greenwich, then called ,Vhipple City, in co1npany with )Ir. Job "\\'"hipple: ·who held the control of a fine water power there, and had driven his own tea1n all the wav., to Rhode Island, in search of son1e competent person to join with hi1n in carryingon the 1nanufacturing business~ where he had previously erected a flouring mill, - the inhabitants of the village having natned it ,vhi pµle City, after the erection of the mill, in his honor. _ "lir. ,Yhipple had such implicit confidence in the integ rity and ability of )Ir. ~fowry to erect and carry on success fully a cotton mill, that he proposed to sell him one half his interest in the water power, and join him in erecting a new mill, and agreed to let him have his daughter, Lydia, in the bargain, she being a model housekeeper, adorned with every Christian grace, to render his new home cl1eer ful and happy; he did not hesitate a moment in having· the nuptial ceremony performed, thus securing a precious jewel for a companion through life. Mr. Slater, havi11g been ad vised through some source that Mr. Mowry was. about to erect a cotton mill at Whipple City, addressed a. letter to him, offering to admit him as a partner in his manufacturing business upon almost any terms he might suggest, 011 condition he would abandon the project of erecting a cotton mill at Whipple City. Mr. Slater had evidently become alarmed lest he might lose the monopoly WI LLIA)I ::\IOWRY. 119 in this country of 1nanufacturing cotton fabrics unless he could by so1ne means persuade lir. Mowry to abandon his present scheme, and accept his proposition and return to Pawtucket. )fr. Slater had no one to censure but hiinself, for )Ir. l'Iowry had always acted honorably towards hi1n, hut had then too deep an interest at stake with Mr. "\Vhip ple to accede to his proposition. " A.fter the completion of the new mill, and running it ::;uccessfully during the ,var ·with Great Britian, ~Ir. ~Iowry conceived the idea that son1e i1npr0Yements might be perfected in his n1achinery by personally visiting some of the cotton 1nills in England. He made his arrangements accordingly, and repaired to New York, taking with him, as traYelling companion, lir. \Yild, of Hudson, an ingen ious machinist, who could 1nanufacture anything, from a cambric needle to a steam-engine. They e1nbarked on the 9th of July, 1816, on board the packet ship 'South Caro lina,' Captain Babcock, bound for Li ,·erpool, where they safely arrived in twenty-three days' passage. They were courteously received, and treated with great attention. But when travelling through the manufacturing districts they 1net ,vith great difficulty in gaining access to the mills. Their applications for admittance were invariably rejected. They finally resolved to take the hazard of being ejected, by entering one of the large mills without apply ing for permission. In doing so, they ca1ne to a door over which was a written notice, 'Positively, no admittance' ; but notwitlistanding, they fearlessly entered the room, where they were delighted at discovering the double speeder in full operation, with every spinner's eye turned upon them; but they were not to be daunted, for they proceeded at once to examine the machine. But when the over seer entered the room, and lost no time in hustling them to the door in double-quick time, Mr. Mowry began to despair, but Mr. Wild assured him that he could unmis- 120 THE l\IOWRY FAMILY. takably manufacture a similar machine. They returned to London after achie,ing the chief object of their voyage. " On their return to the United States, }Ir. ,vnd set his clear brain at work manufacturing the machine, and in due time succeeded in fulfilling his promise, in turning out a perfect double speeder, which J[r. llowry im1nedi ately placed in his mill, and set in successful operation. The people were so elated at this news, that they by accla1nation exempted the 1nill f ro1n taxation, and ~Ir. l\lowry f ro1n military and jury services. When this news rea<::hed England, it aroused the jealous feeling of the 1nanufacturers, whose bitterness of feeling towards us had heen engendered by the late ,var in 1812, and which at that ti1ne had scarcely subsided. In their frenzy, they concocted a diabolical sche1ne to destroy the life of one of our esti1nable citizens, by means of an infernal 1nachine, which was 1narked and directed to the person who first introduced the double speeder in ~4.merica. "The 1nachine was sent as freight, on hoard one of our packet ships then lyiug at the dock in London, bound for Xew York, where she safely arrived. ,~Fortunately, when discharging her cargo, the machine slipped fro1n the ca1·-hook, and fell with a crash upon the wharf, causing it to explode without injury to any person. Thus exploded an infamous plot, designed to assassinate a_ worthy .. A.merican citizen. "~Ir. )Iowry seldo1n alluded to the affair, or co1n·ersed with his friends upon the subject."

75. JA)JES :lIO,VRY, son of John, born July 26, 1783; n1arried in Pomfret, Conn., Sept. 27, 1804, LYDIA ,YEBSTER. CHILDREX. 229. Lucius Potter, b. Oct. 12, 1805, in Guilford, v· t. 230. James W., b. April 20, 1808, in Guilford, ··vt. JAMES MOWRY. 121

231. William Pitt, b. llay 5~ 1809, in Guilford, , ... t. 232. Lydia, b. June 23, 1811, in Guilford, ,~t.; died Oct. 14, 1844. 233. Nelson, b. Nov. 19, 1813, in Guilford, \'.""t. 234. Ann, u. Aug. 24, 1820, in Leyden, l\fass. 235. George, b ..A.pril 22:- 1825, in Leyden, l\Iass. : died youug.

Jan1es l\fowry was the youngest sou of John l\lowry, who -died of apoplexy, wl1en Ja111es was sixteen years of age. Previous to the death of John, he had ,~ paid off,~, as .Jan1es used to say, his older boys, and had intended that · .Jan1es should lh·e at ho1ne, as he was the youngest, and inherit the hon1estead. As 110 charges were n1ade against .such as had been paid, aud no will or deed was 1nade, the law took the property and 1nade an equal diYision to all the legal heirs. J an1es, the refore, ,vent as apprentice to the tanning, currying, and shoe1naking trade. .A.bout the ti1ne he was of age, he was 1narried to Lydia "\v"' ebster, and took up his residence in the southern part of Guilford, \Tt. Here he bought a house, built a tannery and shoe1naker's shop, and worked at his trade for ten or fifteen years. At this place n1ost of his family were born, and while living l1ere, he and his wife embraced religion, and joined the llethod ist Episcopal Church. His house fro1n that time beca1ne a horne for all itinerant l\fethodist 111iuisters who ca1ne into that circuit. Though in indigent circu1nstances, l1e was an uprigl1t man, respected by the community in which lie lh·ed, a good husband, an excellent father, and a consist -ent Christian. Fro1n about 1818 he was a farmer, residing first in Leyden, llass., and after\Vards in Guilford, Vt. He was of a cl1eerful disposition, always happy when sur- THE )IOWRY FA)IILY. rounded by his friends, especially those of his own family. He died at the home of his son-in-law, Horace ,v. Liude, and was interred in the public ground, in Guilford, ·v·t., where a stone is erected to his 1nemory.

Below is ~giYen a fac-si1nile of his handwritiuO'.0

Since Chapter iv· was in type, the names of the children of Preserve_d and llartha (27) Harris haYe been found, as mentioned in the will of G riah }Iowry, their grandfather. They are: Israel, Rufus, Nathan, Jesse, Nathaniel, Lydia,. Elnathan. Preserved and Martha were married April 26, 17 44.

76. HULD ....\.H 110,vRY, daughter of Stephen, born Oct. 16, 1762; married June 18, 1789, DuTEE Sl\IITH, son of Daniel Smith, of Smithfield, R. I.

CHILDREN . :-;eneca...... Mowry. Alvah. H uldah ; m. Ahaz }Iowry.

77. CHARLOTTE MOWRY, daughter of Stephen, born Oct. 7, 1763; married Jan. 7, 1785, CHARLES SAYLES, son of Capt. Sylvanus Sayles, of. Smithfield, R. I. WANTO~ MOWRY. 123

CHILDREN. llartha, b. Jan. 6, 1786. )lowry, b. June 12, 1788. They lived at the place known as the , .. Doctor F,owler place," in Smithfield.

78. AA.ROX lIO,YRY, son of Stephen, born !larch :3, 1765; married lIARY SAYLES. She w·as born Feb. 16, 1769; died Feb. 2, 1861, aged 92. He diecl ~fay 15, 1849, aged 84. CHTLDREX. -·:')36 . .A.nne, b. Xov. 6, 1789. -·:)'3"""1 . Russell, b. Sept. 30, 1791. -·:')38 . Sayles, b. Oct. 18, 1793. -·:')39 . Charles, b. Aug. 12, 1795. 240. Stephen, b. Feb. 14, 1798. 241. Cyrene, b. Aug. 7, 1800. 242. Thon1as J., b. Sept. 8, 1804. 243. Huldah, b. Oct. 18, 1809. 244. !Iary, b. July 25, 1813 ; not n1arried. • He was a farmer, and lived near Greenville, R. I.

79. \V .ANTON MOWRY, son of Stephen, born May 18, 1767; married MARY MownY, daughter of Philip. She was born Feb. 20, 1768.

CHILDREN. 245. Duty ; died in infancy. 246. Polly. 24 7. Charlotte, b. Feb. 13, 1794. 248. Sarah, b. 1796. 249. Ruth, b. Dec. 23, 1798. 250. 8alljluel S. 124 THE MOWRY FAl\IILY.

Alanson. Lydia; died young. Stephen ; not married. \Vanton liowry was a farmer, and lived and died in South l ... xbridge. His house was built of brick, and his farn1 was on the old road, about a n1ile west of the village -of Ironstone.

80. lI.A.RY )IOWRY, daughter of Stephen, born .A.pril 2, 1770; 1narried July 2, 1789, Snrox TH0RXT0X, son of Richard. CHILDRES. liausa; died in 1877. }Iary _.\nn ; m. ,vinsor l\Iowry . .Julia; m. Aaron Smith.

81. "CRA.X.AH ~1O"\VRY, daughter of Stephen, born A.ug. 26., 1772; n1arried J au. 20, 1791, S. .\:.\IUEL S:.\IITH, son of John Smith, Esq., of Glocester. Ko children.

82. BENEDICT l\IO,YRY, son of Stephen, born Sept. 23, 1777; 1narried Jan. 17, 1799, PHEBE l\IowRY, daughter -0£ David. CHILDREN. Sin1on ; died. Fenner. Phebe Amey. Benedict lived in S1nithfield, R. I.

83. Al\1..4...SA l\IOWRY, son of Stephen, born April 7, 1779; married JOANNA BARTLETI. He died May 3, 1850, aged 71 years. She died Jan. 7, 1855, aged 75 years. DA VJD l\IOWRY. 125

CHILDREN. Caleb B.; died Feb. 29, 1864, aged 59. Elisha S. -u9 -9 . A mey. 260. "7'illard A. 261. Charles, b. Dec. 17, 1812. 262. "rilliam S. 263. Amasa. Amasa Mowry lived for many years before his death in South Uxbridge, about one mile south of the village of Ironstone. He "·as a farmer.

84. STEPHEN }IOWRY, son of Stephen, born Sept. 7, 1781; married ALPHA. CHASE,daughter of Barney Chase, of Smithfield. CHILDREN. 264. Smith Ray, b. Aug. 13, 1808. 265. Uranah Paine, b. Sept.-, 1814; died, aged 14 .,vears . Stephen Mowry was a farmer, and lived on an excellent farm, about a mile south of Sayles's Hill, in Smithfield, R.I.

86. DAVID MOWRY, son of Gideon ; married 1 .A.MEY

CHILDREN. 266. Silence. 267. Pbebe. 268. --. Married 2 ELIZABETH --

CHILDF.EN. 269. E;ther. 270. Susanna. 126 THE MOWRY FAl\lILY.

87. JESSE lIO,YRY, son of Gideon.

CHILD. 271. Thankful (?).

88. SMITH lIO,VRY, son of Gideon, born Aug. 25 .. 1781; n1arried 1 SARAH SlIITH, daughter of John Smith, Esq., of Burrillville, R. I. He died ~\pril 2i, 1852, in his

71st .,vear . CHILDREX. -9-,-· 9 Scott ,v., b. July 7, 1808. ...9,..,3 ' .. ~Iary ....\.nn, b. July 30, 1810. 274. Brown, b. l\Iay 17, 1812. - :.'9- ~- }[arcelia, b. ~larch 9, 1815 ; died April 14, 1818.

~Iarried 2 lL.\.HALA EDWARDS, of Glocester.

CHILDREN. 276. Jackson Ed wards, b. July, 1818. -9,..,,..,' '. Emily, b. 1820; not 1narried. 278. Daniel S., b. 1822 ; not married; died 1853. 279. Ann, b. 1824. 280. Checkley A., b. 1826. 281. Sarah, b. about 1828. 282. Albert, b. about 1830. Smith lfow·ry was a farmer and mill-wright, and lived in Glocester, R. I. He was a man of ability and good character, and brought up a large family of children, who have made for themselves an honorable record. He was captain of a militia company in the war of 1812; and was a prominent man in Glocester for many years. REBECCA l\lOWRY. 127

89. GIDEOX l\lO"TRY, son of Gideon, horn in 1776. CHILD. 283. \\.. aterman, b. 1795.

90. TJRI.A.H }IO\VRY, son of Gideon, born in 1760; 1narried HA WKI~s, of Glocester.

CHILDREN. 284. rrania. 289. Susan. ...')8"' ;). Jencks. 290. Lv·dia. w 286. 1\:--illia1n, born Sept. 1797. 291. Stephen. 287. Uriah. 292. Gideon. 288. Rachel. 293. Amev., .

91. THANKFCL l\IO,VRY, daughter of Gideon; 1nar ried JosHL"..\ Kil\lBALL.

92. DORC.A.S l\lOWRY, daughter of Gideon; 1nar ried JEREl\IIAH You~G, a prominent man from Sterling, Conn. 93. MARTH... il l\lOWRY, daughter of Gideon; married Dec. 9, 1784, RICHARD BURLINGAME, son of David.

96. ROBERT MOWRY, son of Gideon; was killed by being su:ff ocated by a falling sand bank, when he was about 18 years of age.

100. REBECCA MOWRY, daughter of Doctor Jona than, born Feb. 9, 1770; married BERNARD F-

CHILDREN. Mary; m. Shadrach Steere. Robert; m. Permela McManary.· 128 THE MOWRY FAMILY. 1Villis; not n1arried. Phebe; m. Tin1othy liclianary. Caleb; not married. Samuel. This was a '\"'ery respectable fa1nily. They lh·ed in Xorthbridge, lfass.

101. C.A.LEB ~IOWRY, son of Doctor Jonathan, born )larch 5, 1771 ; married llarch 10, 1796, NANCY lio,vRY,.

CHILDREX. 29-1. Jesse, b. June 4, 1796; died, aged 3 or 4 years .. 295. Dutee, b. Feb. 14, 1798. 296. Uranah, b. }lay 22, 1800. 297. Barney, b. May 3, 1804. His widow Nancy married Eliakim llowry (No. 184).

102. .A.NN ....\ llOWRY, daughter of Doctor Jonathan,. born Feb. 4, 1773; married JOHN COOPER, of Burrillville .. She died .A.ug. 18, 1823, aged 50 years.

CHILDREN. Job. l!ary.

103. ROBERT llOWRY, son of Doctor Jonathan, born Dec. 2, 1774; married MARY ALDRICH, daughter of Thomas. He died Oct. 30, 1814, aged nearly 40. She died Feb. 1, 1848, aged 67.

CHILDREN. 298. Martha, b. in 1798. 299. Laura; died, aged 14. DORCAS )10\VRY. 129 3_00. Tho1nas; died, aged 12. 301. George .A.. , b. A.pril 19, 180-1. 302. Diana, b. )larch 22, 1807. 303. Susan. 304. Robert. 305. }Iarv., .

105. .A.BIG.A.IL lIO,VRY, daughter of Doctor Jona than, born liarch 30, 1780; 1narried DA~IEL lNMA~, of Smithfield, R. I. CHILDREN. Irena, b. Oct. 12, 1803 ; died, aged 17. Urania,-b. June 16., 1805; n1. Benj. 1Vheeler. Lucy, b. lla.y 26, 1808; not married; died in 1839. Daniel, b. Dec. 10, 1810; m. l\fary Saunders; died Jan. '")') 18-... --, :) .. Anna, b. Feb. 20, 1813 ; not 1narried; practising physician in Providence, R. I. Deborah, b. April 7, 1815; m. Albert Kelley. Jonathan, b. May 23, 1818; m. Alice Bradford. Abigail, b. April 17, 1820 ; m. Geo. B. Wheeler. Thomas, b. Aug. 9, 1822; m. )lary Allen.

Tbis was a Yery respectable and worthy family, members of the Society of Friends. They lived near Slatersville, R. I.

106. DORCAS MOWRY, daughter of Iloctor Jona than, born May 6, 1782; married CALEB PAINE.

CHILDREN. Senter. Arnold. Millie. Caleb. Mary ; died young. Dorcas. Anna. Caleb Paine lived in Smithfield, R. I. 10 130 'fHE MOWRY P..\.l\lILY. 107. UR ...-\.XI ....\. lIOWRY, daughter of Doctor Jonathan. born June 21, 1785; 1narried Dec. 1, 1803, AMASA A.LDRICH, son of Levi. CHILDREN. Levi .. Alanson. ,-ClT\". . Desire. llown·., . l ... rania. Robert. Jashub. Infant. ...-\.1nasa Aldrich li\·e

109. DEBORAH )IO,YRY, daughter of Doctor Jona than, born Oct. 6, 1789; n1arried Oct. 27, 1808, EPHRADI CoE, son of John, Sn1ithfield, R. I. She died Jan. 17, 1857, in her 68th year.

CHILDREN . .Anna, b. ~ov. 27, 1809. E1nor, h. l\farch 24, 1812. Rebecca, b. ~larch 27, 181-1. Infant, b. Feb. 2-!, 1816. John, b. Oct. 30, 1817. Sarah P ., b. Dec. 24, 1819. )Iartin, b. Oct. 30, 1821. Juliette, b. Feb. 16, 182-1. ,Yilliam E., b .....\.pril 24, 1828. Ephraim Coe was a very respectable 1nan, a member of the Society of Friends. They Ii v-ed in Woonsocket, R. I.

111. ELISHA. ~1O,YRY, son of Israel, born Oct. 2, 1770; 1narried. CHILDREN. 306. Sabina. 307. Hethgot M. ALCY .MOWRY. 131

308. J a1nes B. 309. Israel. 310. l\folly (?). Elisha l\Iowry n10,·ed to ~Iadison, K. Y., about the year 1831. Previous to 1843 he went farther west, ·and settled in ~Iichigan. He carried a barberry bush fron1 Uxbridge'.' lfass., to l\Iadison, N. Y. This ·was the first introduction of the barberry in that section of the country. It grew :and spread as usual. He sold his far1n in l\Iadison to Xoah 1Vashbur11, who 1nany tin1es afterwards wished that Elisha l1ad taken his barbern· bush with hin1 to }fichigan. ,Yheat w ~ would not grow in its presence.

112. ARNOLD )IO,\""RY, son of Israel, born Oct. 17, 1772 ; married OLIVE Bu.OWN, daughter of Aaron Brown, ~ xbridge, l\Iass. He died }fay 26, 1851, aged 78. She -died }larch 30, 1851, aged 72.

CHILDREN. 311. Gardner, b. Sept 13, 1~05. 312. l\laria, b. June 10, 1808. 313. Josiah, b. l\Iay 15, 1812.

Arnold l\Iowry was a respectable fariner in the eastern part of Uxbridge, Mass., near the }Iendon line.

11.4. ALOY MO,VRY, daughter of Israel, born April 25, 1775; married April 27, 1796, OBADIAH ,vooo, sou of Solomon Wood, of Uxbridge. She died !larch 19, 1859, aged 84. CHILDRE:K. Susannah, b. Jan. 13, 1797 ; died Sept. 29, 1798. Waitee, b. Oct. 21, 1798. 132 THE )IOWRY FA)IILY. Lewis, b. ~o,·. 24, 1800. )lary, b. )larch 15~ 1803. Harriet, h. July 15, 180.5. Hannah, b. Dec. 14, 1807; died June 27, 1855. Obadiah, b. Aug. 1, 1811 ; died July 29, 1852. Perry, b. ~ov. 2, 1813 . .A.ustin, b. Aug. 10, 1817.

)Ir. Wood was a man of much mechanical skill. He li,ed in ~Iendon, near the Uxbridge line.

115. MA.RY :i\IO,YRY, daughter of Israel, _born March 4, 1777, in Uxbridge; married Jan. 15, 1800, GRINDALL RAWSON, son of Joel, of l~xbridge. She died Oct. 25,. 1874, aged 97. CHILD • ...\.Icy, b ..A .. ug. 23, 1812; m. Timothy Ellis, Jr.

116. A.XXA. lIO,VRY, daughter of Israel, born Sept .. 30, 1779; married BENJAMIN THWING, of Uxbridge.

CHILDREN. _.\.lbert. ~--ara~ h . Benjamin. Anna. Susan. Hannah. Charles. l'linerva. Almon. Elsey. llary. Amy. Syl~ia.

117. CALEB lIOWRY, son of Israel, born March 3,. 1783; married 1 .A.pril 25, 1802, POLLY HAYWARD, daughter of Jonathan Hayward, of Upton, }fass. He died May 16, 1845, aged 62, at Halifax. She died Feb. 20, 1805,. aged 21. ,v.A.ITEE MOWRY. 133

CHILDREN. 314. Caleb, Jr., b. March 5, 1803. 315. Polly, b. Oct. 11, 1804; died Oct. 14, 1804. . Married 2 Sept. 13, 1813, CLA.RIXDA TAFT, daughter of Frederick Taft, of C" xbridge. She was born Feb. 28, 1789. CHILDREN. 316. En1ily, b. Oct. 13, 1814, in l\Iendon. 317. Decatur, b. Sept. 30, 1816, in llendou. 318. Bainbridge, b. July 23, 1818, in )Iendon. 319. Albert, b. April 20, 1822, in Jlendon. 320. Reuben Rawson, b ..A.prii 5, 1826, in l\Iendon. 321. .A.nna Rawson, b, Sept. 13, 1827, in llendon. 322. "\Vesley, b. May 26, 1830, in Uxbridge ; died Aug. 11, 1833, in llillville.

118. S.A.. RA.H ~IO\VRY, daughter of Israel, born }larch 3, 1783 ; 1narried SAMUEL TAFT, "G xbridge.

CHILDREN.

Israel. Clvrena., . Susan. Sarah. Anne. Frederick. Polly. ,vaity.

Abigail. Perlev., . Calista.

119. WAITEE l\f o,vRY, daughter of Israel ; 1uarried J°ESSE "\Vooo, of l\lendon.

CHILDREN. Zalmon .G., b. 1812. Hannah C., b. 1814. L. Edwin, b. 1816 ; died in 1841. Samuel Warren, b. 1818; died in 1849. 134 THE )IOWRY FA)IILY.

122. .A.}[EY MO\VRY, daughter of Israel ; married DAVID )[OWRY. Xo children.

123. ROBERT lIO\VRY, son of Israel; married P ..\ULINA FISHER, of lfedway.

CHILD. 323. .Abbie.

125. CYXTHIA lIO,YRY, daughter of Uriah, born in Glocester, R. I., in 1784; married EPHRADI PAINE. She died •.\.pril 2, 1861, aged 76 yrs. 11 mos.

CHILDRE:S-. Xelson. Epl1rai1n. ,villiam )1. i t . Ruth. . ~.r ( -WlllS. W a1ty ..:.u. J liarvin )I. ~ t . . l WlllS. lfercy. )lary •.\.nn ~I. ,

This family lived in Xorthbridge, )!ass.

126. S.A.LLY )!0\VRY, daughter of Criah; n1arried EDlIU~D LEE, of ,~ermont. No infor1nation has been received of this family.

127. C'RIA.H )fO\VRY, JR., son of "C"riah; married 1 RUTH BowEx. They lived in Burrilh·ille, R. I.

CHILD. 324. .A.lfred.

llarried 2 FREELOVE SlIITH, daughter of Obed, of Glo cester. They had one child, a daughter. criah died at Chepachet, R. I. ADAH lIOWRY. 135

128. ALZ.A.DA. MOWRY, daughter of Uriah; mar ried 1 ISAAC BowEx, of Scituate. )Iarried 2 JoHN SPRAGUE, of Glocester. He was a dealer in stock. She died in Glocester. It is not known whether they had children.

129. REBECCA }IO WRY, daughter of Uriah ; mar ried ELISHA TAFT, of Burrillville. No knowledge of this family.

130. JOANNA ~1O,vRY, daughter of Uriah; 1narried SA)IUEL Ro8s, of Burrillville. '\Ve have no infor1nation of this fan1ily.

131. GEORGE }1O'\VRY, son of Criah; married, and went to Killingly, Conn. He was a house-carpenter by trade.

132. P.A.TIENCE MO,YRY, daughter of Criah; 111ar ried LYJIA~ BARNES, Glocester. She died in Glocester.

134. B.A.RTON ifOWRY, son of Uriah; 1narried Rt;TH ,VALKER. CHILlJREN. 326.. Sylvester. 328. Origen. 327. Harlev., . 329. .A.naldo. He lh·ed in Burrillville in his early life, but e1nigrated to California. He was a stone-111ason by trade. He be came wealthy, and died in San Francisco, about 1871.

135. .A.D.A.H MO,VRY, daughter of Abiel, born Oct. 30, 1788; married AMOS IDE. She died in Ohio. 136 THE MOWRY FA:\ULY • • CHILDRF.~. An1os. Rosella. Henry. Benjarniu. .A:lbert. E1nily . Levi. ~Iinerva.

136. P.A. TIEXCE )Io"·R·Y, daughter of .. A.biel, born July 21, 1790; 1narried CYRCS OL~EY, Korth Providence.

CHILDRE~. )laranda. Cvrus. A.ugustus. ¥ ~ulliYan. Edward \r. Catharine J. Pan1ela. Ira. Sa1nuel.

DAX )10\\.Rl~~ son of A.biel, born .A•. pril 1-1~ 1792;

CHILDRE~. 3:30. Eliza. 331. Orin. 33~- .... )Ian·..,

~Iarried ~ FA~~Y S:'.\UTH. X o children. llarried ~ ----. No children. He died in llarch, 1875 (?), in Xorthbridge.

138. .A.BIEL lIO,VRY, JR., son of Abiel, born Feb. 7, 1794; married in 1819, LYDIA .K.DIB.-\LL. She was born Aug. 15, 1796; died Dec. 9, 1876, aged 80. He died .A.pril 21, 1861, aged 67 years.

CHILDREN. 333. Edwin ,v., b. Sept. 21, 1820. 334. Prusha Ann, b.... .\.ug. 30, 1822. 335. Tillinghast, b. Nov 20, 1824. 336. Ahnira, b. }larch 21, 1828. 337. George, b. Sept. 20, 1833. Li\"ed in Smit11field, R. I., and was a farmer. ESEK MOWRY. 137

139. TA.BATRA 11O'\V'RY, daughter of ALiel, born · Aug. 2, 1797 ; 1narried RuFus ,VILLI.\MS, of Burrillville.

C'HILDREX. Paulina; 1n. Slater Colwell. Gilbert; died in the ariny.

141. Sl"."SA.X lIO\VRY'.' daughter of .A.biet born June 4, 1800 : 1narried JOHN HARRIS, son of ,Y elco1ne, of S1nithfield. CHILDREN. Sn1i th ; went to California. Rufus ; lost at sea.

142. LI... -\.~fl ~IO\YRY, daughter of ...i\.hiel, l,orn A.pril 13, 1803 ; 1narried }larch 13 .. 1823, DA v10 HAHRIS, son of ,Y clco1ne, of S1uithfield.

CHILDREN.

~Ianton. Abbv., . Crawford. "--··~ usau. E1nilv. ol

143. RUTH ~IO\VRY, daughter of ...i\.biel, born No\·. 13, 1805; 1narried VERRY .ALDRICH, son e,f .A.111asa.

CHILDREN. Burgess. Oli \·er.

They li\·e in .Arispe, Bureau Co., Ill. He is a far1ne1· .. and has an orchard of 2,700 apple-trees.

144. ESEK MOWRY, son of Abicl, born Jan. 18, 1808 ; 1narried March 15, 1863, MARCY G. KNIGHT, 'daugh ter of Eenja111in. She died Dec. 4, 1871. 1:38 THE )IOWRY FA:\ITLY.

CHILO. 338. Lafayette E., b. May 24, 1864. He lives on the family homestead, near Georgiaville, R. I.

14-!J. A.XGELIXE )10\VRY, daughter of .A.biel, born · )lay 18, 1813; n1arried JoH:s .AD.-\)Is, of Sn1ithfield.

CHlLDR.E:S. _-\.un Frances. Hcnrv. )Ielissa. ol John . Herbert. Esek Henry. .Julia. )larv. ...-\.bner. ol They li\'cd near Greenville Turnpike.

145. ,vIXDSOR )IO\YRY, sou of Henry, born March :31, 1795; 1narried ELIZ.-\ HOL:\IES. He lived in }Iendon,. near t·xbridgc. Died Jan. 14, 1861, aged nearly 66. No children.

146. GEORGE )10\VRY, son of Henry; n1arried lf..\RY .-\'.'.X THORXTO~, daughter of :-,i1non.

CHILD. 339. Cranah. He lh·ed in :llcndon. He died October, 1871.

147. I-IEXRY )10\YRY, JR., son of Henry, born )larch 10, 1802, in )Icndou; 1narried Nov. 12, 1839, SARAH ,v. DA VI~, daughter of Capt. Christopher Da,is, of ,vest port, )lass. CHILD. 340. Louisa El \·ina, b. Sept. 30, 1840, in Providence. He was a boot and shoe 1nerchant in Charleston, S. C., six years, and subsequently in Providence, R. I., fourteen TYLER MOWRY. 139 years. In 1853 he removed to Crawfordsville, Ind. Here he kept a hotel. After this he lived in Upton, )!ass., half a dozen years; t)ien in Northbridge and l{endon ; and is now residing, a hale old n1an of 76 years, with his daughter, Mrs. Lovewell, in Providence.

1-19. F.A.NNY )10"1RY, daughter of Henry; married GEORGE PREXTICE, of l\filh·ille.

CHILD. lfowry. He lh·es in Douglas, 1'fass.

150. CHLOE i10,vRY, daughter of Henry ; married .Aug. 4, 1822, W ELCO:\IE .A... Co)ISTOCK, son of Isaac, of S111ithfield. They are both dead.

CHILDREN. Elisha, b. June 1, 1823. lfetcalf, b. Dec. 21, 1825. An1anda l\Iarinh, b. Feb. 1, 1829 ; dead.

151. .A.JIEY lIO\VRY, daughter of Henry; n1arricd :,Iay 6, 183,5, SETH PAilTRIDGE, of Galena, Ill. ' · CHILDREN. Henry l\fo"·-ry, b. Sept. 4, 1836; died Xov. 3, 1836. E1nn1a ..A.llna, b. )larch 1, 1839.

152. TYLER lIO,VRY, son of Jere1niah, born Feb. 26,. 1792; married March 16, 1815, URANAH SAYLES, daughter of Jona.than, of Smithfield. She was born No,·. 24, 1794.

CHILDREN. 341. Sarah Ann, b. Sept. 17, 1815; not married ; died 1876. 140 THE MOWRY FA~ULY.

342. Jackson Potter, b .....\pril 26, 1821. 343. Frances Emily, b. Jan. 24, 1829. Tyler ~Iowry was a far1ner in Smithfield for many years. He lived upon the ho1nestead, on the north-west slope of Sayles's Hill, a beautiful spot, cultiYating an excellent farm, which conuuanded one of the finest prospects; and l1ere he died about 1852 or 3. 15:3. JOB lIO\YRY, son of Lawyer Joseph, born Jan. 24, 17-14, in S1nithfield; 111arried HAN~AH SMITH, widov{ of Nathaniel Sn1ith, who was brother of" Jeems S1uith the ~filler." Her 1naiden nan1e was .A.ppleby. He died Jan. 11, 1803. CHILDREN. 344. Nathaniel, b. June 23, 1772. 345. Dorcas, b. Oct. 3, 177 4. 346. Ephrain1, b. Dec. 2:3, 1777. 347. ...\.nne, b. Dec. 1, 178-1. l\. fac-siinile of his autograph is l1ere given.

Job was known as ,~Job the Royal Sawyer," to distin guish him fron1 '" Flic-an-flaw Job." He was a prominent man in his native town for 1nanv., .,vears. He was constable for a long period. He lived on the home place, in the house built by Lawyer .Joseph, his father. Besides his farm, he run the ·saw-mill near by; and this, with his town busi ness, constable~ tax collector, and town sergeant, made him a busy man. He "·as a man of sterling integrity, reliable, and of good judgment. THOMAS )10\VRY. 141 154. THOMAS l-IO,VRY, son of Lawyer Jostph, born ~larch 15, 17 46-47 ; married RHODA .A.LDRICH.

CHILDREN. 348. Thomas. 351. Cvrus.. . 349. Jared. 352. Polly. 350. Havilah, b. Nov. 1776. 353. Rhoda. 354. Phebe. Thomas llowry was a man of intelligence and enter prise. He ,vas a good penman ; taught school ; married young, and 1noved to Scituate. His wife was Rhoda Aldrich~ a young Quakeress of Scituate. "\Vhen they were married is uncertain, but it was prior to 177 4, for he and his wife Rltoda Mowry signed as witnesses the marriage certificate of his brother Richard in J auuary of that year. He built a house on " Chipmuck Hill," and painted it red. During. the Re,olution he raised a liberty pole, from which the British vessels in Newport Harbor could be seen. In 1813. he moved to Killingly, Conn., and afterwards to New York St.ate. He brought up a family of children, some of whom it is known have attained an honorable position for them selves and their children. The following is a fac-simile of his handwriting, when he was a young man about twenty years of age.

Of the children of Thomas and their families, we have been able to rescue only the record of Havilah and his descendants. 142 THE )[OWRY- FAMILY. 155. RIC HA.RD lIO\YRY, son of Lawyer Joseph, born Feb. 11, 17-18-9; 1narried 1 ~lay 6, 1770, PHEBE SlUTH, of Glocester. She was born A.pril 28, 1750. She died liay 2, 1771, aged 21 years. Xo children. )larried 2 Jan. 5, 177 4, HULDA H HARRIS, daughter of Gideon Harris, of Scituate. She was born ~lay 25, 17 45. She died ~ept. 1, l 795~ aged 50 years.

CHILD RE~. 355. H uldah, b. Dec. 30, 177 5~ in Scituate, R. I. 356. Gideon, It. July 7, 1778, in t· xhridge. 357. P~he, h.. A.ug. 6, 1780, in l~ xhridge. 358. \Vaite, b. Feb. 4, 1783, in l"'" xbridge. 359. .A.mey, b. Feb. 2, 1785, in {j xbridge. 360. Sarah, h ....-\..ug. 14, 1788, in Uxbridge.

)farried ~ !SABEL CHACE, Nov. 5, 180.0. She was born Sept. 19, 1760 ; died Oct. -, 1820, aged 60. No children. Richard ~I owry died in t· x 1,ridge, Jan. 23, 1835, aged nearly 86 years. It has already been shown that Richard's father, Lawyer Joseph, died when he was in his sixteenth year. Before his father's death, he ,vent away from home to earn his living. '\Ye soon find hi1u in Scituate, R. I., apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade. In 1770 he married Phebe Smith, of Glocester. She died in a little less than a year after their marriage. They had no children. In January, 177 4, he married Huldah Harris, daughter of Gideon Harris, of Scituate. Gideon Harris was born ~larch 16, 1714. His wife's name was Demaris \Vestcott. He was son of Thomas Harris, 3d, born A.ug. 19, 1665. Thomas married Philis Brown; died Sept. 1, 1741. RICHARD l\IOWRY. 1-13 Tho1nas was son of Tho111as Harris, 2d, who was an original proprietor in Providence and Pawtucket; he died Feb. 27, 1710. He and his father, Tho111as Harris, 1st. hav-e alreadv., been 1nentioned in connection ,vith Jonathan Harris, who 1narried the widow of Lawyer J oscph. The children of Gideon Harris were, -

,vaity, not 111arricd. Tabatha, 1n ....i\.ndrew A.ngell. Huldah, 111. Richard ~fowry. Thomas, lived in New York State. A.sahcl, 111. Nao1ni ,vinsor. John, 111. X ancy Arnold. Charles, n1. 1 llary Fenner ; afterwards 111. 2 another 1.Iarv. Fenner. IIuldah was the 1nother of Richard's children. ~he died in 1795, aged 50 years. In 1800 Richard mar~-ied for his third wife, L"ABEL CHACE, a wo1nan of great worth, 111entally and 1norally. They lived happily together for twenty-one years, wheu she died. She was the daughter of Jonathan and ::\Iary (Earle) Chace. He was the son of Job and Patience (Bourne) Chace. He was the son of Joseph and Sarah (Shearman) Chace. He was the son of ,vnliam, who was born in England about 1622. He was the son of "\Villia1u and Mary Chace, who came over with Gov." ,vynthrop" in 1630. In his youth he learned the "house-carpenter's trade." After working at that trade for some years, and having joined the Quakers, and married Huldah Harris, sometime between 1775 and 1778, he moved to South Uxbridge, 14! THE l\IOWRY FAMILY. )lass. Here in the spring of 1778 he bought a farm of )Ir. Benjamin Archer, who had originally taken up the land, and had built a small house upon it. This house being small, old, and inconvenient, Richard immediately set to work to build a new one. The cellar of a large house was dug, the cellar walls laid up from rough stone taken from the farm, the timber for the fra1ne cut and hewed, the frame raised, the house covered, shingled, and clapboarded, and he moved in about the 1st of July. And a very large part of this work was done with his own hands. Here, in the new house, his only son Gideon was born, July 7, 1778. To one only acquainted with the houses of a later period t~1is dwelling ,vould appear singu lar indeed. It is still standing, though a hundred years old, and is in ,ery good condition, with not ohly the same frame, still strong and sound, but the same floors, the sa1ne doors, and the same interior finish throughout. The inside doors were made with his

R.1c11ARD lVlo\VR \' 1-IousE, UXBIUIH~E. i\lASS.

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RICHARD MOWRY. 145 He was not only a successful far1ner and a skillful house carpenter, but an expert with all edged tools, which he used for various special purposes. He was an ingenious cabinet-maker,. an excellent carriage-builder, and for 1nany years supplied a large section of the country with the great timbers and wooden screws used in the old-fashioned e. cider-press. This really ,vas an ingenious trade by itself, and required no small skill to make the thread of those large wooden screws, and fit them to the thread of the huge nuts into which they were to be fitted, which formed the great press which was to extract the juice from the ground apples. The large carryall which· he used for n1any of the last years of his life, and which was fitted for two horses or one, was made throughout by his own hands. I haYe seen a wooden high-backed rocking-chair, still in constant use at tltis day, which was 1uade by hin1, and presented to his second daughter in the early part of this century. It is • now used by his grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. The following beautiful tribute to. his 1nemory consists of extracts f ron1 letters recently written by .Anthony Chase, Esq., of ,v orcester, l\{ass., a very respectable gentleman, for 1nany years the county treasurer of W or cester County, and an honored and beloved 1nember of the Society of Friends.

"In the spring of 1800 I was' consigned and made over' to Richard l\Iowry, to ser\"e him until I was fourteen years of age. He ""'as a widower at that time, - his aged mother, an only son, and five daughters constituted his 11 146 THE .MOWRY FA:\[)LY. household. Ile was a strict disciplinarian in his farnily, and goYerned it well. First-day schools, and meetings for studyin!,! the ~criptures, were unknown at that tiiuc, neither was it the practice to r(\ad the Bible at the break fast-table, Lut the Scripture~ were frequently read in his fa1nily. Then it was and there that I learned to lo,·e the sacredabook. "He was a fanner, house-carpentei-, carriage-1uaker, and cider-press builder, diligent in business at all seasons and in all the changes of weather. Hi8 farm was a poor one, and scantily repaid the labor bestowed up

• This is a mistake. IIis son Gideon was married in 1799. II, liolyJw /'1•i11li11f/ (',., :l:.!O /Je1·011sl1irt' ,",'f,, /Josto11,

FRIENDS lVIEETING 1-lousE,

I 770.

RICHARD MOWRY. 147

,.; I ren1e1nher when I was old enough to have a woolen ~oat with skirts to it, I wanted buttons on the skirts, as other boys had the1n. I pleaded hard, but it availed n1c nothing. He said they were of no usf., and there the 111a t ter ended. "He was quick at repartee, and often 1nade his listeners smile when he related his victories over his opponents in arguments. "It is now 1nore than seventy years since I was an inmate of his fa1nily, and my recollection of daily occur rences is a good deal impaired. I regret n1y inability to detail more fully tl1e incidents in the life of a very worthy man, whose 1nemory is very precious to 1ne. Sincerely thy friend, .ANTHONY CH.A.SE.'' The fac-shnile of his handwriting given below is taken from a letter written when he was in his eighty-fourth year.

After the death of his wife Isabel in 1820, he lived 1nore than fourteen years a widower. These years he spent as a housekeeper, preferring to keep up his own house to living with any of his children. During most of this period, Mary Hunt (daughter of Daniel Hunt), who111 he had taken (a poor motherless girl) to bring up, and his grand daughter, Sarah Thayer, were his housekeepers. He kept his health unusually well for one of his age, except the diffiulties which he experienced from the asthma during his later years. He died at night, Jan. 23, 1835, aged (85 years, 11 months, and 12 days) 86 years, lacking 18 days. 148 1'HE )IOWRY FA)llLY.

156. .A.NDRE\V llO\VRY, son of Lawyer Joseph, born .April -1, 1751; n1arried ELIZABETH --

CHILDREN. 361. Joseph, b ....-\.ug. 3, 177 2. 362. Lydia, b ....t\.ug. 22, 177 4, in Glocester.

157. RUTH lIO\VRY, daughter of Lawyer Joseph,. born A.ug. 13, 1753; married .A .. ug. 13, 1772, JEREMIAH HA WKIXS. Nothing known of their family.

160. ....\.GGGSTGS l\IO\VRY, son of Lawyer Joseph, born .A.ug. 9, 1761. Nothing p~sitive is known of him. There are vague ren1e1nbrances by old people that he had a family. I find a 1narriage, which I suppose is his, recorded in the S1nithfield records as fo:Iows: " .A.ugustus llowry, residing in Cumberland, and l\Iiss Chloe Fisk, of Cumber land, were married Xo,·. 30,-1780." I find also a record as follows : ;, Died in ,v orcester, ~lass., Oct. 8, 1798, ,rhi pple )lo wry, son of A.ugustus Mowry" ; but it is not certain whethe1· it was this ...\.ug-ustus ..... or not .

161. DA.NIEL l\IO,YRY, JR., son of Judge Daniel, called " Clark Daniel " ; born ...\pril 8, 17 50 ; 1narried 1 ~larch 7, 1773, A.LCE ....\.LDRICH, daughter of Samuel and Priscilla A.ldrich, of S1nithfield. She was born in 1751, and died Oct. 27, 1806.

CHILDREN.

I . 370. Jabez, b. July 22, 1773. 371. Samuel, b. }lay 16, 1775. 372. )Iary, b. Nov. 4, 1776; died Nov. 2, 1806. 373. Reuben, h. Sept. 2:3, 1778. DANIEL MOWRY, JR . 149 • 37-1. Thankful, b .•-\.ug. 18, 1780. 375. A.1ney, b. June 16, 1782; not 1narried; d. Jan. 1, 1863. 376. Gideon, u. ltfay 11, 1784. 377. Tho1nas, b. Sept. 20, 1785. 378. Daniel, b. June li>, 1788. 379. ~.\.ldrich, b. ·Jan. 1, 1794.

){arried 2 .April 21, 1808, SusANNAH STEERE, daughter of Elisha. No children. He died July 19, 1839, aged 89 -vears. We liaYe now· arrived at the period of the Revolutionary ,Y ar. ,v e ha,·e already seen that several 1ne111bers of the family had warn1Iy espoused the cause of the united colo- 1ues. Judge Daniel was two years a 1nember of the Conti nental Coi1gress. He had been invited to aid in a con spiracy against ,v ashington, and had scornfully rejected the proposition. He had aided his nati \·e colony, now the State of Rhode Island, in every possiule way. Colonel Elisha, con1n1issioned in the " ar1ny of ouservation," after wards in the regi1nents raised for the war, had buckled on bis sword, and done good service in the field. " Daniel ye 4th" (Clark Daniel) had ser,ed as a soldier; and so also had V{illiam, son of Colonel Elisha. The family had increased in numbers till they were now counted by hun dreds. They were, so far as now known, to a man, loyal to liberty. It may be interesting at tl1is point tQ observe what fan1i lies, and how many, of the Mowrys, there were at this period in the colony. On the next page will be found the entire list, fro1n the Rhode Island Census of 1774, including the names of 150 THE )IOWRY F •.\)lILY.

the heads of f an1ilies, and the uun1Ler in each family, by towns.

--·~ ------· No. 1:s NAllE:0-. Tow~s. F.~llILY. )Iown·. ' John ...... North,, King~town, 8 " Benjan1in 5 " Daniel . . . . . Smithfield, •)... " Daniel, Jr. " 7 " Joseph . . .,•• 6 '' ...i\.nanias . . . 4 " Richard " :>. .Job . . . 10 "... ,," ,.. Daniel, 3d ,, ;) ,," Philip . . . 12 Daniel, 4th . . 44 :~ ·" Job, Jr. . h 3 H Elisha, .Jr. . . ., 9 •• Philip, Jr. ., 12 .... .,'- Ananias, Jr. 8 Gideon "., ~ " Elisha !-}· H Ezekiel . . •• 3 .,•• Stephen . . . •• 10 Uriah . . . . "' 2 ., .Jonathan 4' 6 44 .John . . . ,, 7 .. Israel . . . . 6 "' David. " 8 •• Uranah . . . '" 3 ~ .. Glasco . . . . I 6 J ""~, " George . . . 3 ., Jonathan . . Scituate, 4 " Gideon . . . . Glocester, 10 ~, Thomas, Jr. . ,. . '' 4 •Jacob . . .. . " 6 H Thon1as . ., 2 " Zepheniah . . . " 5 )lor,·,.. Jeremiah \'\.,.. est Greenwich 5 )lowry, .Joseph . . Exeter, ' 14 .," Samuel . . . . i " 9 Christopher . . . I " 4 " .J anles . · l Cumberland, 3 DANIEL )IO WRY, JR. 151

Fro1n the preceding table it appears that there were in the col~ny in 1774, 233 persons by this na1ne. Of these, :-:mithfield clain1ed 154 ; Exeteri 27; Glocester, 27; North Kingstown, 13 ; ,yest Greenwicl1, 5 ; Scituate, 4 ; and Cumberland, 3. Of these, at least 10:1 can be traced as the descendants of Nathaniel. It 1nay not be out of place to obser,·e just at this point, - looking forward son1ewhat,-what }Iowrys, and how n1any, ha,·e been 1nembers of the town council of Smithfield, R. I., the old bo1ne of the }Iowrys, f ro111 the organization of that town in 1731, to the present ti1ne, and to see what other offices in that town have been filled hy 1ne1nbcrs of this fa1nily. The following ha,·e been presidents of the council for the years indicated : - Daniel l\Iowry, Jr., 1785 to 1789. Reuben :Mowry, 1818 to 1822. llorton llo\\TJ, 1827 to 1830. Richard llowry, 1854. ..A.rlon llowry, 1869.

T'he following have been 1ne1nl,ers of the council : -

Joseph, 1731 to 1735. John, 1731 and 1732. Jeremiah, 1747. Captain Daniel, 1747, 1750, and 1756. Philip, 1785, 1786, 1794 to 1796. Seth, 1797 to 1801, and 1802 to 1R07. Joseph, 1792 to 1794 . .A.11ab, 1800. Enos, 1803 and 1806. Reuben, 1816 to 1822. THE l\IOW'RY F..\)IILY.

)forton, 1819 to 1822, 1824 to 1830. Xathauiel, 1826 to 1830. Sessions, 1826 to 1830. Tyler, 1836. ~mith Ray, 1836 to 183K . .A.haz't Jr., 18-13. Gideon, 1842 and 18-1-1. Richard, 1S-18 and 18-19. Daniel, 1~5-1, 18~6, and 1858. ,villia1n, 185tl and 1861. .Arlon, 18t•l to 1869.

·- .Judge " Daniel llowry WU$ town clerk fro1n 1760 to li80 ; and his son," Clark'' Daniel, fro1n 1780 to 1815, - a total of jifty:fil:e consecutive years. These two 1nen were excellent pe111nen, and their handwriting ahnost identical. Indeed, it is Yery difficult, son1eti1nes alinost in1po~sible, to detenninc whether a paper was written by the father or the son. Fron1 1760 to 1780 the signature is" Daniel :\Iowry, Jr." This wa8 -'.Judge Daniel." Then, fro1n 1780 to 1787, when "· Captain Daniel" died, it was ,~ Daniel )Iowry, -!th." It becan1e .:, Daniel ~fowry, 3d," till the death of " Judge Daniel," in 1806, and f ron1 1806 to 1815 we find it " Daniel }Iowry, .Jr."

A.mong the town sergeants of S1nithfield, we find the following : - Uriah )lo wry, 1731. Joseph llowry, 3d,1747. David l[owry, 1778. Job Mowry, 1780. David ::Mowry, 1790. DANIEL MOWRY .. JR.

Nathaniel ~iowry, 4th, 1800. _.\.znasa ~Iowry, son of .John, 1810 to 1822. Stephen .-\.. )lowry, 1856 to 1861. Rensselaer L. )Iowry, 1861 to 1H6!l.

'' Clark " Daniel l(owry was a 1nan of znark. He wa~ -a strong 1nan,-vigorous in 1nind and robust in body. He was elected town clerk when he was thirty years of age~ and held the office till he waR sixty-fi ,·c. During 1nost, if not all this ti1ne, he was also clerk of the Probate Court. Besides these, he held n1any i1nportant officeg, and always had the respect and cstcc1n of his towns1nen. 1-Ie had a large fa111ily of children, 1nost of who1n outlived hi1n. lie died at the advanced age of 89 years, 3 n10s. 11 days. The following tribute to his worth was published in the Providenre Journal of Thursday, .Aug. 8, 183~).

'~ Died, in Sn1ithfielcL on the l~th of July, Daniel iiowry .. .. Ji·., Esq ... in the ftOth year of his age." ,~ llr. ~I owry was the Ron of Daniel Jio,vry, Sen,, who was a n1cn1uer of the Congress at the period of the .A.n1eri

can Revolution, and was iin·ited bv., the f ricnds of General Gates to attend thei1· meeting to supersede General "\Vash- ington in the co1nn1anu of the army. ~{r. ~[owry indig nantly reje~ted. the p1·op::>sition of the f ricnds of Gates, which caused the1n not a little 1nortification. " The subject of this notice iinbibed the lofty and stern principle of integrity which characterized his father. He.. too, was solicited to beco1ne a candidate fo1· Cong1·ess, but declined, prefe1·ring to serve his fellow-citizens in a 1norc l1011orablc capacity. He was one of the soldiers of the Revolution, for many years a senator and representative in the General Asse1nbly of this State, and town clerk in his native town for thit-ty-six successive years. He was a 1nan 154 THE MOWRY F..\:\IILY. of strong personal influence, respected for his intelligence and probity, and has left behind hin1 a large circle of rela tives and friends to 1nourn the departure of one who lived to a green old age. ,; Let the sons in1itate the virtues of their excellent father, and let the conununitv., duh·., estin1ate the value of such citizens. For nowhere can be f onnd n1en who more faithfully discharge their respective duties as husbands and citizens."

Below is given a fac-sin1ile of his handwriting, which is taken fro1n an agreement between himself and his father. The chirography of the two~ father and son, are almost exactly identical, with the single exception that the •· Judge " signed as Daniel ... Jr.," and the ~, Clark " a:-;. Daniel ,; 4th." The date is July 10, 1780.

162. A.lIEY )IO,YRY, daughter of Judge Daniel, horn :::ept. 1, 1751 ; 1narried Feb. 14, 1773, S.AMCEL CLARK, of S1nithficld, son of Robert Clark, of Glocester.

CHILDREN. ~tephen. Sa1nuel. )Iowr\". . John. Their third son, San1uel, was the father of Hon. Samuel Clark, for 1nany years town clerk of S1nithfield, R. I., and at the present time general treasurer of the State of Rhode Island.

163. .A.NNE }IO\YRY, daughter of Judge Daniel, born ~Tune 21, 1753; 1narried June 24, 1772, EZEKIEL SMITH,. WJLLIAl\I MOWRY. 155 son of Col. Richard S1nith, of Smithfield, R. I. Nothing further known. 164. MA.RY 110\VRY, daughter of Judge Daniel, born Oct. 14, 1756; 1narried April 23, 1780, Dr. JOHN ,vrLKIN sox, son of Benjamin \Vilkinson, of Scituate. He was horn Feb. 16, 1753. CHILD . .A.1ney, born Dec. 4, 1780; m.JOHN HARRIS. (See p.40.) Dr. ,Yilkinson was a surgeon in the R.e,·olutionary War, and died Dec. 26, 1836. 165. lIARCY ~IOWRY, daughter of Judge Daniel, born Aug. 28, 1758; 1narried -- ....\LDRICH. They lived iu Xew York State, and afterwards ren10,·ed to Michigan . . X o record of their children. 167. R.A.CHEL }10"\VRY, daughter of Judge Daniel, born Nov. 22, 1790; n1arried Major l\ioRTON MowRY (No. 181, which see). 168. ,vILLI....\.l\f 1\10\VRY, sou of Colonel Elisha, born ...-\.ug. 23, 1761 ; married March 30, 1783, SusA~NA l\fown.Y, the daughter of \Vanton (No. 98). She was born Oct. :3, 1763. He died Sept. 29, 1837, aged 76 years. CHILDREN. 380. Oli,·e, b. Aug. 13, 1783. 381. \Vanton, b. Sept. 19, 1785. 382. Diana, b. Sept. 21, 1788. 383. l'Iartha, b. Jan. 17, 1791 ; not 1narried. 384. Elisl1a, b ..A.ug. 7, 1793 ; not 1na.rried. 385. Harris Jencks, b ..A.pril 27, 1796. 386. Susanna, b. Aug. 12, 1798 ; not 1narried. 387. Mary .Ann, b. July 21, 1801 ; not 1narried. 'I'hese nan1es and dates were taken from a fan1ily Bible. 156 THE l\lOWRY FA:\IILY.

Will:am llowry was the eldest son of Colonel Elisha. He married Susannah l[owry. She was the daughter of ,v anton (No. 98). He was a n1an of clear head, of large infonnation, and of a judg1nent so sound as to be often sought by his neighbors and townsn1en. He ,vas but twenty-two years of r..ge when the treaty of peace with Great Britain closed the Revolutionary struggle, a.nu secured the independence of this country. But he had taken an acti\-e part in the struggle, and was commissary, probably in his father's regin1ent. Ile is spoken of in an obituary notice in the Providence .i.llornin,g Courier of Oct. 2, 1837, as a " Revolutionary pensioner.~, He held several 1ninor offiees, and f ro1u )lay, 1798, to j\[ay, 1802, represented his native town in the General Assembly, wielding therein a large influence. During thi:; period occurred the general agitation of the question of public sehools for the State, and in the year 1800 a school law· was passed by the _.\.sse1nhly, providing for free schools throughout Rhode Island. The opposilion in certain quar ters was so intense, t11at in 1nany portions of the State the intent of the bill was defeated, and it was not till 1828 that a new hill was passed, which proved effectual in . establishing schools in all lite tou·ns of the State. But in this general agitation of the subject in 1799 and 1800, llr. l'Iowry exerted all his influence, both out of and in the legis lature, to procure the passage of the bill. He was a regular attendant, in all the later years of his life, upon the meetings of the Society of Friends; and in a long life of probity and industry, accumulated, and, at his decease, left, a large landed estate. He died at his home SYLVESTER :\IOWRY. 157 in S1nithfield, Sept. 29, 1837, in the seYenty-se,·enth year of his age.

169. }IA.RCY lIO\VRY, daughter of Colonel Elisha, Lorn July 29, 1763 ; n1arricd JOHN RAND• .\LL, of North Providence. ~he died Jan. 25, 1811, aged 47.

CHILDREN. Dexter. l{artha. ~Iowry. .Abby ; 1n. --Arnold. S1nith. Freelove.

170. A.H.A.B ~10,vRY, son of Colonel Elisha, born Sept. 9, 1766 ; n1arried Feb. 23, 1797, HANNAH \YHIPPLE, daughter of Benjamin. He died July 10, 1840, in his 74th year. 3he died .A.ug. 25, 1809.

CHILDREN. 388. Sophia, b. Dec. 17, 1797 ; died )lay 11, 1842. ( ?) ; not married. 389. Maria, b. July 6, 1799 ; not n1arricd. 390. Elisha, b. Feb. 3, 1801 ; not n1arried. ~91. Benja1nin ,v., b. Sept. 30, 1806 ; not 1uarried.

171. SYL\ .. ESTER ~IO"\\"RY, son of Colonel Elisha, born Aug. 7, 1768 ; n1arried Oct. 17, 1793, PATIENCE. COOKE, daughter of Colonel William and Ruth Cooke, of 'fiverton, R. I. Colonel William was brother to Gov. Nicholas Cooke. She was born ....\.ug. 22, 1764, and died Sept. 26, 1845, aged 81 years. He died Dec. 15, 1851, aged 83 years. CHILDREN.

392. " .. aity, l,. Oct. 31, 1793; not 1narried ; d. Sept. 23, 1874, aged 81 ye1rs. 158 THE MOWRY FA~ULY.

393. ~1nith, L. )larch 17, 1795. 3!t4. Charles Cook, b. July 13, 1798. •3 ◄-\-~';J. Phebe, h. Dec. H~ 1796; not 1narried; d. Xov. };~, 1826. Edward, b. )larch 3, 1800 ; not 1narried ; d. at Providence, Oct. 1-1.. 1861, aged 61. 3f-l7. ~r., at· c1a.. . b • ~ cpt. '>-- , , 1S0:)-· 398. Julia Eliza:- b. June :3, 1804 ; d. A.ug. 26, 1824. 399. John ...-\.lexander, b. ~fa.rch 21, 1806. 400. ,villia1n Gulley, h. Jan. 4,- 1808; d. Dec. 4, 1830. Sylvester )lowry was a good exan1ple of the old-ti1ue gentle1nan farmer of New England. He was one of those sterling characters that ha,e 1nade ~ew England what she is. Possessing intelligence, integrity, enterprise, he was a power wherever placed. ....i\.lways active in reference to affairs of his native town, he yet al ways shunned politics and office. If there was anything to do, like breaking out roads after a snow-storm, or repairing them after a severe rain storm, he was always on hand. But he would not enter the arena of local or general politics. One of the n1ost in telligent of 111en in conversation, upon whatever current topic was introduced, ,vell posted upon n1atters of general interest, a good reader, a good thinker, expert in co1n.. ersa tio11, he yet shrank fron1 publicity and public life. He spent his life almost entirely upon the far1n, where he was born and where he died. He was strongly attached to home and friends. He shone brightest in his family. He lived specially for them. He gave his children the best education the times afforded in the old academies. He took pains to select the best teachers for the nei!!hLorhood·- school, and when the chil- drcn wei·e old enough to go away to the boarding-school or the acadc1ny, he sent the1n to the Lest. Old )faster Thornton, of the Smithfield A.cade1ny; )laster }.,isk, of the Leicester .A.cade1ny; Master \Villia1n ,vinsor, of Provi dence ; DaYid A.Id rich, son of Joel, - these were a1nong the teachers of the sons of Sylvester. He was e1ninently a social man. Ifc enjoyed society~ and he w·as favored with the best the times afforded till his death. ~fany an1ong the first 1nen of his day were counted an1ong his personal friends. He lived in a for1uative period for our State and our country, - a period of great thoughts, great deeds, great changes, great men. Eight years old when Independence was declared, fifteen at the time of the treaty of peace with Great Britain, nineteen when the Constitution was adopted by the Federal Conven tion, not old enough to vote when Washington was first elected, but a voter at the first Presidential election in which Rhode Island participated, undoubtedly voting for Washington at that time, espousing the cause of the Fed eralists, he probably cast his vote for John .A.dams in 1796, against Jefferson in 1800 and in 1804, and he probably voted at every election of President from that time till Tyler had annexed Texas, and Polk had fought }fexico, adding her northern provinces, and had settled the Oregon boundary question. , He died during the agitated tiines of the Fillmore ad1ninistration. He was ever a consistent and an intelligent adherent of the old Federal cause in the early tin1e, and of the Whig party and the party of" law and order" in the later days. 160 THE )IO WRY J.' ..\MIL Y.

Respected and honored by all who knew him inti1nately,. yet it was in his own family and at bis own fireside that he appeared to best advantage, and was loYed the most. He left a will, hy which his property was divided, and in which his characteristic love of his home and his family circle was apparent. It pro,·idcd that all his children could have a ho1ne at the old firesi

1nodern da., rs like him . Below will be f ouud a f ac-si1nile of his handwriting.

173. JES~E lIO,VRY, son of Colonel Elisha, horn Jan. ~, 1773 ; 111.arried march 5, 1818, Sc;~ANNA EA~TERBROOKS. lie died Sept. 6, 1844, aged 71 years.

CHILDRE~. 401. .J amcs lL, b. Sept. 15, 1811 ; not married. -!02. .A.. bby A.un, b. March 30, 1820; d. June 5, 1842. 403. Lyman J., b. April 2, 1822; not married ; d. October, 1869. 404. Leonard S., b. }lay 21, 1824 ; not 1narried. 405. Otis T., b. June 1, 1825 ; not 1narried. 406. llary J aue, b. May 11, 1832. 407. Elisha J ., b. Oct. 15, 1838 ; not married. These all liYed near Limerock, Smithfield, R. I. ~ ATHA~IBL l\lOWRY. 161

174. XATH.A.NIEL 11O"\YRY, son of Colonel Elisha, called " J[ajor Nat," horn Dec. 18, 177 4 ; 1narried April 20, 1806, LYDIA DEXTER,, daughter of Jonathan Dexter. She wa~ born in 1778, and died liay 10, 1838, aged 60 years. He died .July H, 1843, aged nearly t39 years.

<'HILDRE~. 408. St~pheu Dexter, b. liarch 9, 1807; not 1narried. 409. ,Y.illiaru Gulley, b .•June 5, 1808 ; d. lfarch 5, 1809. 410. Dexter Low, IJ. June 30, 180!t; drowned June 24, 1837 ~ aged 28. 411. \Villia1n Gulley Randall, h. Dec. 20, 1810. 412. Alice, L. June 26, 1813. 413. Nathaniel Sn1ith, b. )larch 14, 1815 ; not mar ried. 414. llartha Jencks, b. Feb. 11, 1817. 415. Betsey Dexter, b. Jan. 22, 1819 ; d. March 8, 1844 ; not married. 416. .John Dexter, b. Sept. 28, 1820.

Major Nathaniel liowry was a prominent 1ua11 in S1nith field, R. I., for half a century. Ile kept a ta,·ern at Lin1e rock fro1n 1817 to 1841. In those days, stages ran daily between Providence and \V orcester, and between Providence and \Voonsocket; and all coaches stopped at Major Nat's tavern to change horses. He "·as a man of 1nuch legal knowledge, and his ad \·ice and assistance ,vas often sought in law cases. He was a man of great executive ability, of good judg1nent, and was often en1ployed as ad1ninistrator to settle estates, as referee to settle difficulties, and the 1 ike. He was for 1nany years an auctioneer, and in this capacity was ,·ery skillful and exceedingly popular. In 12 16:2 THE )[OWRY· F.-\)IILY. 18-!:2 he warinly espoused the Free Suffrage cause, and was one of the represeutati,·es i11 the Dorr legislature that helcl its sessions in the old _, Eddy ~treet Foundry," owned by lfarris .J. :\Iowry. Ile was a p.-:1ace 1nan in that couh·o\·ersy, oppo~ed to extre1ne n1easures. He disupproYed of the proposal to take possession of the court-house. ~.\.t the close of these troubles, like 1nauy of the leaders in the Don: 1no,·c1uent, he was obliged to go into exile for a tin1e. Ile was a large-hearted, generous, l>ene,·olent 1nan ~ and no one c\·er went f ron1 his door hungry or thirsty. He delighted in relieving suffering and aiding the unfortunate. His Lusiuess talent., legal knowledge, generosity, executive ability .. and withal his easy, affaule, genial 111anner, 1nadc hi1n po11ular whereYer he went, and with all kinds of people. Ile was properly known as " Xathaniel )Iowry, :2d," to distinguish hi1n fro1n Nathaniel 1st, the son of Joh; but he was c\·erywhere called "~Iajor Xat," - a title re ceived f ro111 holding for a long ti1ne the co1n1nission of 1najor in the State 1nilitia. He was never a strong 1nan physically, but he lived to be nearly 69 years of age. He died at his hoine in S1nithfield, July 6, 1843.

175. lIARTHA. lIO\YRY·, daughter of Colonel Elisha, born Peb. 6, 1777 ; married Gen. CHARLE~ JENCK~. She died llarch 11, 1828, aged 51 years. He died .July 4, 1838. CHILDREN. Elisha ~Io wry. Charles. .Almira. Martha. Harriet. Elsie Maria. RACHEL MOWRY. 163

176. lL.\..RY lIO,VRY, daughter of Colonel Elisha, born L'e).,,1.., 1 .... 1--.-~,,.,; d.1e d L,re,.,, l 1,- 18t.> .. "... ,aged 7"'.....

177. A.LCE :\IO,VRY, daughter of Colonel Elisha, born Nov. 1, 1781; 1narried Feb. 24, 1811, BAGLSTON BRAYTON~ son of John Brayton, of S1nithfield, R. I. She died ~larch 18;1812; aged 31. Xo children. It is supposed that John Brayton was the son of Baul ston, who was born )lay 11, 1717. He was the son of Pre served and Content, of Swanzey. Preserved was born lfarch 8, 1685. His father was Stephen, of Tiverton, R. I. He married ~larch 5, 1678, Ann Talman: of Ports1uouth. Stephen was the son of Francis and liary. Francis was the first of this fa1nily in ...\.1nerica. He was born in 1611, and made a frec1nan in Portsmouth, R. I., in 1643, and died in 1692, aged 81 years.

178. RUTH ~10\YRY, daughter of Jeremiah, born Feb. 13, 1782; 1narried JOHN THAYER, of Douglas, llass. She died Sept.-, 1875.

CHILDREN. Mowry. Charles . .A.urilla. They 1noved to Connecticut.

179. RACHEL MOWRY, daughter of Jeremiah, mar ried WILLARD SMITH, of Smithfield, R. I. She died in the · fall of 1856. CHILD. Mowrv., . 164 THE :'\IOWRY FAl\lILY. 180. JERElIIA.H )£OWR\... , JR., son of Jeremiah, called " Esquire Jerry,'" born llay 6, 1786 ; 1narried 1 _\pril 30, 1809, BETSEY ~TEERE, daughter of ,vnlian1 Steere, of Glocester. She was born Sept. 29, 1790, and died May 8, 1848 .. aged nearly 58. CHILDREN. 417. Esther, b. June 23, 1810. 418. Eliza, b. llay 11, 1812; d. Feb. 18, 1817. 419. Ifuldah, b. Jan. 13, 1814. · 420. Eliza llaria, l,. Sept. 11, 181;>; d. Xov. 24, 18L5. 421. Eliza _\nn, b. Jan. 13, 1817. 422. ~1nith, b. June 6, 1819. -123. Rachel, b. No,·. 23, 1821. 424. l[orton, b. )larch 16, 1823; not 1narried. 42;3. Ruth, b .•July 13, 1828. 426. Susan ~f. J., b. July 18, 1834. lfarried 2 RACHEL EsTEX, widow of Bufftun Esten. No chil

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CHILDREX. Daniel. Joseph. '' Major }[orton" was one of the leading n1en of his native town for many years. .A. 1nan of unusually good ability, a strong 1nind, a resolute will, enjoying public life, he was for a long period a 1nen1ber of the town council, and filled other offices with credit to hi1nself and satis faction to the town. He was al ways a 1nan of industry and enterprise.

182. JOSEPlI )IO,YRY, son of Jerc1niah, born ~lay 25, 1795 (?); 1narried ~[a.y 10, 1822, )L.\RTHs\ ~TAPLI<;s.

CHILDREN. 429. llannah S., h. Dec. 10, 1823. 430. Jcre1uiah, h. A.ug. n, 1825. -!31. Nathan S., b. Feb. 23, 1827. 432. Ja1nes, b. July 10, 1829. 433. ~Iary E., b . .Feb. 3, 1831. -134. ~f incn·a, b. ~lay 10, 183:!. 435. La Fayette, b. Oct. 23, 183~t 436. Eliza .Ann, b. June 19, 183;:i; died. 437. Charles, b. Feb. 10, 1837; not 1narried. 438. llartin L., h. Oct. 23, 1838. 439. ~Iartha P., b. 18-!0. 440. ~Iercy Cornelia, b. ~f arch :>, 1842; died, 4 n1onths old. -:t'-c41 • .:ia1nue~ 1, b. 1N· ov· ..... '>- , , 18-i:~. '-.> 442. Thomas Dorr, b. Feb. 23, 1845; died. Joseph Mowry was a hale, robust, Yigorous man, always active, and he brought up a large family of children. His wife was a wo1nan of great industry and activity. "rhen the writer called upon her to get an account of her chil- 16fj THE ~IOWRY FA)llLY.

tlren, she na1ned f ro1n 1nen1ory the list,-fourteen of the1n, - and ·-ga,·e the dates of their birth, and the deaths of those not li,·ing, without looking at the fa1nily register...... _) 1 <~•_). X..:\TH.:\.XIEL )10,YRY, son of .John, born llay It is supposed that he went. to the Hoosac countrv.. in ,,yestern )[a:;sachusetts. ''fhcre i~ no further record of hi n1.

18-1. ELIA.Kl~I )10\\YRY, son of .John, born .June 28, 1767: u1arried 1 LYDIA PAI~E, daughter of Bcnoni.

CHILD. -1-13. Elisha. )[arricd 2 X ..\~CY ~IowRY, widow of Caleb )lo wry (No. 101 ). :-0:he was sister to -~ King DaYid '~ )fowr,~. ~- ~ CHILDRE~. 44-1. Eliza. 446. ..\.rinda ; not 1narried. 445. Lavina. -147. Lucretia.

185. .JO~EPfI lIO,YRY, son of John, called "Ji,ox Hunter Joe," born Oct. 1-1, 1770; 1narried Dec. 5, 1792, HA~SAH SAYLES, daughter of Jonathan Sayles. She ,vas born July 16, 1775, and died June 7, 1852, aged 77 years. He died )Iay 5, 1850, in his 80th year.

CHILDREN. 448. Duty, b ....L\pril 4, 1793.,; d. l!ay 22, 1793. 449. Amey, b. June 15, 1794. 450. Rachel, b ..Aug. 11, 1796; d. Nov. 27, 1797. 451. }Iary, b. Sept. 27, 1798. 452. Sally, b. May 3, 1801; d. June 11, 1857. 453. Margery, b. June 24, 1803. 454. Eliza S. C., b. July 8, 1805; d. Oct. 29, 1845. I~R.\EL :MOWRY. 167

4;j5_ )Iercy, b. _-\.ug. 5, 1807 ; . April 11, 1813 ; . )larch 31, li,15. 460. John, lJ. Sept. 10, 1817. They liYed a little distance west of ,rankeag Hill (the old spelling was Jl'iungkheage), upon a hill which is sup posed to be the one called in the old records i.Vipsacltuck Hill.

I ha,·c been able to .__g-ather but little infonnation concerning hi~n, but enough to show that he was a Yigorous, hard working n1an, of good character, respected by those who knew hi1n, honest and honorable.

186. .JOHX lIO\rHY, JR., son of .John, born }fay 20, 1773; 1narried -- lL\)IILTO~.

CHI LORE~. 461. .Tohn. 465. Ly

187. JERElII.A.H llO\VRY, son of John; married Feb. 16, 1804, Co~TENT .A.PPLEBY, daughter of John.

CHILDRE~. 468. Esek. 469. Polly.

188. JSR.A.EL MO\VRY, son of John; married Feb. 9, 1812, REBECCA BRow:s-, daughter of Israel Brown, of Burrill \·ille, R. I. 168 THF. MOWRY FAMILY.

CHILDREN. 470. .Jesse T. 47-1. Julia A . 471. \\. aity. 470. Laura A. 472. _-\.n1asa; d. voung-. Hiran1 A.: d. young. , . .... -176. 473. Elizabeth.

189. \\.ELCO)IE . )[0\VR.Y. ~on of John; n1arried

Lc;c1XDA Bol-TELLE. CHILDHEX. -177. ,v elco1ne, and two daughters, 11a1ncs not known. One of these daughters 1narried Joseph Giln1an, and the other 1narried Gilbert Ballou.

190. _.\~IA~ ..:\. )fO\YRY, son of .John ; 1narried ...-\.s~1-; HA:\IILTO!\. CHILDRl-::s'. Stephen. 479. Patience. -l~O. Phi la.

191. · )IARGERY :lIO,VRY, daughter of Eleazer, born ~lay 3, 177 4 ; married .July 10, 1791 ..J ES~E T~\FT, son of :Nathan~ of Burrillville.

CHILDREX. ~amuel ; n1arried a daughter of \Velco1ne Ballou. Mowry ; drowned at Tarkiln saw-1nill. Nathan·; 1narried -- Paine. Martha : 1narried Si1non Richardson. Polly ; n1arried --".alling.

192. L YDI_\. ltO,VRY, daughter of Eleazer, born July 28, 1776; 1narried \YILLIAl\I Ross. They had one child, who married -- \Vilson. ROBE MOWRY. 160

193. EUNICE MO\VRY" daughter of Eleazer, horn April 11, 1778; 1narried lfay 24, 1801, JOHN COOPER, son of :lf oses, of Glocester.

CHILJ>ltEX. Corbin, Daughter...... 194. REC~EN !10\YRY, son of Eleazer, horn J\fay 10~ 1780 ; 1narried DACY STAPLES. Xo children.

196. PIIIL.A. lIO,YRY, daughter of Eleazer, horn Feh. 4, 1785 ; n1arried 1 PETER .ALDRICH.

CHILDHE~. Smith. Daughter.

Jlarried ~ --THAY.EH. Xo children.

197. RUTH 110\VRY, daughter of Eleazer, born Nov. 28, 1786; n1arri'ecl ,YELCOl\IE B.ALLOV".

CHILD HEN. Nelson. Mowrv. " After her death, \Velco1ne 1narried Lavina Cha8e. She was the 1nother of eigl,teen children.

198. ROBE ~iOWRY, daughter of Eleazer, horn Oct. 22, 1789 ; n1arried .JosEPH RICHARDSON, son of Joseph, of Soutl1 Uxbridge. (He was brother to Shnon.) She died June 9, 1874, in her 85th year.

CHILDREN. Mowrv·... Joseph . David. Willia1n. Caleh. Levi. 170 TH 1-; )IOWRY F ~\)IJLY.

l !_.ft. ELE.-\.ZEH )1O\YRY, .JH., sou of Eleazer, horn ~ept. 7, 1791 : 111arried X ov. 11, 1812, )f..\.HCY BALLoe, daughter of Benja1ni11 Ballou.

CHILDRE~.

481. .A.Lncr Ballou, 11. ~ept. 22, 1814 ; not n1arried. 482. \\9 illia1n Bainbridge, h. )larch 9, 1816. -183. Content Ballou, b ..June ~2, 1817 ; not 1narried. -18-!. .John Ord(), b. Feb. 2-!, 1820.

200. .JO~EPH )IO\YRY, 8011 of Eleazer, called '· Crooked Fin!!er Joe." Loru .June 25. 1795 ; 1narried L , ,, " :EL~IE }!. Bot·TELLE, daughter of ::-:an1uel Boutelle.

C'HILDRE~.

-18;j_ ~alh·.., -!88. Xancy.

-186. Emilv.., 489. Esther. 487. ~errill, L.. Jan. 20, 1826.

201. EZEKIEL )10\VRY, son of Eleazer, Lorn ~larch 4, 1798; 1narried J GLL\ ,v HEELOCK. He died .June 22, 1871, aged 73 years.

CHILDRE~. 490. Lavina, b. Jan. 4, 1823. 491. Ja1nes Francis, b ..A.pril 30, 1825 ; d. July 2, 1830. 492. Eunice, b. Oct. 29, 1828 ; not 1narried. 493. ..A.lbert, b. Oct. 5, 1830. 49-1. Lucinda, b. Jan. 21, 1834. 495. Daniel ,vheelock, b. Sept. 12, 1836 ; d. May 14,. 1839. 496. 81nith B., b. )larch 13, 183~. 497. Julianna, b. )larch 3, 1845. .lOB ::\IOWHY. 171

202. LE\~I )[O\YRY, son of Eleazer, horn A.ug. 29, 1800 ; 1narried Nov. 23, 18:23, CERSAH ,YAR~ER~ daughter of Daniel '"" arner, of )Iendon.

CHILDIU:~. -!98. \r aruer ; not 1narried ; went to Chicago ; died wealthy. -!99. Elizabeth. 500. .J anc ; not 1narried.

203. .JO.:\.B )IO \YRY, son of Job : 1narried Ou,. E )IOWRY ( perhaps No. 9f4,

CHILDHE'.';. 501. Randall. 502. A.1ne,·., . .;o~) V ,u. \Yhipple . 504. Sayles ; 111arried. No children. 505. S1nith. 506. Sarah.

204:. ZIB.A. )1O\VRY, son of .Jol,. lia,·e not learned wl10 he rnarried. CHILDREX. 507. Ziba. 508. \Vaitee. 50H. Esther ; not 1uarried. 510. Christopher. 511. Horace ; 1narricd. No children.

205. M.A.RTH ...~ MOWRY, daughter of Job; 1narried CALEB REMINGTO~. Nothing further known of this family.

206. JOB lIO\YRY, son of Job; 1na.rried Sept. 20, 1801, AxNE MOWRY (No. 347), daughter of .Job (No. 153). 172 THE l\[OWRY F.\l\lILY.

CHILDREX. 512. ,v illian1 ; died young. 513. _--\.rnold.

514. George.'-- 515. O ri n ; died, aged 5 .,,vcars . 516. Erie. 517. _.\.nthony ; 1narried -- Paine. 518. Lydia~ b. April 21, 1813. CH..t\PTER VI.

THE SIXTH GENERATION. 208. JOHN POTTER 1\1O\Y.RY, son of Earl, born at East Greenwich about 1786.

CHILD. 520. Da,id Potter, b. Oct. 12, 1811.

211. R ..~LPH ~10\VRY:- son of John, born May 3,. 1795 ; died f ro1n hon1e, tlate unknown.

CHILD. 521. George L. 212. CH.A.RLES MO,VRY, son of ~John, horn }larch 27, 1797, in Woodstock, Conn.

CHILDREN'. Emma S., h. Sept. 23, 1823. 593-· . Leonard C., b. Aug. 22, 1825. 524 . Richard H., b. Dec. 28, 1828; dead. .525. John S., b. June 26, 1832. 526. Elizabeth E., b. Sept. ·16, 1834. 527. Mary A., b. Oct. 27, 1838; dead. 528. "\Yilliam L., b. Aug. 20, 1841. Charles is now living, more than 80 years old, at Canastota, Oneida Co., N. Y. He has displayed remark- 174 THE MOWRY F.\:\IJLY. able in venti vc powers. He has taken patents for several 1nechanical inventions, and even at his present advanced age is still at work to perfect a favorite plan of his to pro pel cars upon a railroad without the use of stea1n. Ile has also invented a n1achine for sawing all kinds of sta·n~s, for tight or loose ,York, f ron1 a keg to the largest kind of a hogshead. 219. .JOHX lro,,·ny~ son of George, Lorn Jan. 27, 1803, in Leyden, ~!ass.; 1na.rried 1 )lay 20, 1835, CORDELL\

DEAXE. ~he died Oct. 8 .., 184G .., at Levden.of )fass.

CHILDRE~. ·-;'>:)9.... . Sarah Elizabeth, b. ~larch 7, 1840. 530. Henry Clay, b. A.ug. 15, 1842. 531. George, b. Dec. 13, 1843. v--39.... Christopher, b ..Aug. 27, 18-!6.

liarried 2 X ov. 3, 18;j6, )l.\RY ROGERS. She died May 3, 1872, at Bernardston, ~!ass. Xo children. He is a fariner, and lives at Bernardston, ~lass. 220. ~I....\.NLEY ~1O,YRY, son of George, horn June 17, 1805, in Leyden, )lass.; married J A~E ,YILES.

CHILDRE~. 533. Elizabeth. 534. ~[ary Cordelia. 535. Susan. 536. lfilton ; teacher; not 1narried. 537. Haven ; machinist ; not n1arried. Manley llowry is a farmer, living in Leyden, Mass. 221. POLLY MARI.A. liIOWRY, daughter of George, born Feb. 2, 1807, at Leyden, lfass. ; married DENNIS GREEN. l>.\ \'ID )(0\VR ¥. 17,)

CHILDREX. George Dennis. _.\.lbert; fal'lucr, at Leyden; not 1narried.

David _.\xerv:., , clerk~. at Bo~ton : not 1nurried .

)Ir. Green was a funner at Leyden, )[ass.

born _.\.ugust, 1810, at Leyden, }laRs.: 1narried .Jt·LL\. EASO~. CHILDREX. •J~~l..:-~8 E1ueliue. :33!( Hart Eason. :"i40. liiles L. ; not 1narried ; clerk at Leyden.

I-Ie was a farn1e1· at Leyden, ~[ass.

:223. D.A ,·10 lIO\VRY, 8on of George, born July t\ 1818, at Leyden, ~lass.; married 8ARAH _.\.~GELINE CAR PEXTER. ~he was born NoL 16, 1820.

CBJLDRE~. 541. Charlotte; not 1narried ; teacher. 542. David Carpenter, b. 1842. 543. lfary ; teacher; not married. 544. A.ustin Carpenter ; not 1narried ; far1uer. 545. Hosea Ballou; not married; farn1er. David ~Iowry was a fanner, at Leyden, ~fass.

David Carpenter was a soldier in the war of the Rebel lion. He enlisted Sept. 13, 1861, in Co. C, Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment ; corporal ; died in '\\r ashington, N. C., Oct. 10, 1862. 116 THE MOWRY FA)llLY.

~2-l. A.LBERT LEROY llO\VRY, son of George, born July 9. 1820, in Leyden, lfass.; n1arried )larch 31, 1840, Ut"L('ENA P. GREE~, of Coleraine. ~lass.

CHILD...... v-:tti- . Helen )I., h. at Shelburne Falls, lfa.y 26, 18-13.

.. Albert LeRoy )Iowry lives in Xcw York City. He has retired fron1 actiYe business, ha,·ing been largely engaged in 1nanufacturing car wheels. at Cincinnati, 0., since 1851. }le is still president of the ~Iowry Car and ,vheel \V orks. He was in banking fron1 1857 to 1871. A.t the latter date he retire

22.-5. LEROY. )1O\VRl~, son of \\.. illiam, born ...-\.ug. 26. 1808 ; n1arried .April 18, 1831. CA THERIXE R ..\ NKS, at Lv1ne. Conn. . ; CHILDREN. Sarah Griswold. h. Feb. ti, 1832 ; d. June 29,. 1847. ;y-4) 8. ,villia1n LeRoy, b. Jan.1, 1834. 5-19. Charles Townsend, b. July 4, 1837. 550. Kate Noyes, b. Dec. 6, 1851 ; d. July 28, 1859. LeRoy ~Iowry has been for many years one of_ the promi nent 1nen of Washington County, N. Y. Born in Green wich, N". Y., he resided in his nati-ve town till he was about twenty years of age, when he went into business in Troy,

N. Y., under the firm name of Vail & }Iowrv·.., He resided in Troy for about twenty years, and ,vas for a number of years director in the Old Farmers Bank, the oldest .bank in the city. While in Troy he was a member of the City Council, and a trustee of lfrs. ~Villard's Female Seminary. WILLIA~l HENRY )lOWffY. 177

He was also one of the pro1ninent persons who were instrtnnental in Luilding the Second Street Presbvterian ~ w Church . ...\fter a residence of twenty years in Troy, he returned to his nati,·e village~ where he has resided to the present ti1ne. Ile has represented ,rashington County in the State legislature, and ha~ been for 1nany years the presi dent of the ,Yashiugton Xational Bank in Greenwich. He was, with two other gentle1nen, - liessrs. )!asters (his brother-in-hnv) and .A.ndrews, - instru1ne11tal in starting the first n1anufactory for 1nakiug tea-trays in this country. This co1upany is now doing a large business in that town. }Ir. liowry is the agent, and one of the proprietors, of the " ";ashington )Iachine "1... orks" at Sandy Hill in the sa1ue county, where are 1nanufactured water-wheels, saw-1nills, and other machinery. 226. .ANN.A. C ...-\..ROLINE lIO,YRY, daughter of Wil liam, born Oct. 13, 1809; married Sept. 18, 1827, HENRY HOLMES. She ·died Feb. 3, 1875.

CHILDREN. William }Iowry, b. Oct. 19, 1828. Mary Bishop, b. May 19, 1830 ; d. June 10, 1831. Charles Henry, b. Nov. 12, 1832; d. Oct. 9, 1854. Marion B., b. }larch 12, 1837. 227. WILLIAlI HENRY MO"rRY, son of William, b. July 23, 1811; married Jan. 15, 1833, ...i\.NGELINA GIF-. FORD. He died Oct. 22, ;1.850. She died May 19, 1853.

CHILDREN. 551. Jane Elizabeth, b. Dec. 5, 1833. 552. Henry Lovejoy, b. Dec. 13, 1837. 13 178 THE )IOWRY FAl\llLY.

553. LeRoy, b. Oct. 28, 18-!0: d. liay 23, 18oH. 55-!. ".illiam Gifford, b. )[arch 12, 1842. 55.'J. Sarah Griswold, b. Jan. 13~ 1349.

228. ~IARl- ELIZABETH ~IO"~Rl... , daughter of ,Yil lia1n, born XoL 21, 1820; 1narried Sept. 16. 1840, JoH~ T. )L.\~TEn~, f:rcenwich, X. Y.

CHILDRE~. Xicholas )Ierritt )Iowry, b. Aug. 22, 18-!2; 1n. June t3, 18LHj, )fary IIer,·ey. He died 8ept. 10, 1875. )Iary Elizabeth, b ..Aug. 3, 1845; d. )lay 27, 185-!. ,Yillia1n )fowry, b. Aug. 16, 1846 ; d. Sept. 7, 1846. LcRo:r )fowry, b. July 24, 1851 ; d. ~Ia_y 5, 1868. )Ir. )!asters Lelougs to one of the n1ost respectable and e11ergctic fa1nilies in that part of ~ew York State. IIe is a Yigorous, active, business man, of sterling character, integrity~ and honor. Ile has Leen largely engaged in ex tensi,·c busines~ relations, particularly in connection ,vith his lJrother-in-law. )Ir. )Iowrv. . ~

229. Ll"'."Cll:S POTTER MO,YlfY, son of .Jan1es, horn Oct. 12. 1805 ; n1arried 1 Dec. 13. 1827. DESL\ H KEXYON. " ~ ; . She was born )[arch 8, 1807. She died July 5, 1872, aged t:t5 .,vears . CHILDREN. 55(,. Lucius Philetus, b. June 16, 1829. 557. Ellen Desiah, h. )lay 17, 1838. 558. Cassius, l J :)l n . l J. une - ; 184.:1. 559. L uc1us,

)1arried ~ June 17, 1873, Lucy -.\.NN A VERY, of Cole raine1 liass. She was born Dec. 18, 1816. No children. NELSON l\IOWRY. 179 230. RE~-. JAlIES W. lfO'\VRY, son of Ja1nes, horn .A.pril 20, 1808 ; 1narried 1 June 4, 1834, MARY "\V. CusH )IA~, daughter of Ebenezer, of "\Yarren, N. H. She wa8 born at Lisbon, N. H., June 1, 1814. She died Feb. 14, 1848.

~farried 2 ...-\.IL\.THUSA SAWYER. He is a minister, and Ii,·es in Barre. He has two children.

231. "\VILLI.A.)! PITT MO,YRY, son of James, bor11 ~lay 5, 1809 ; 1narried .A.l\IELIA CRAXE. Ile lives 111 "'\Vindsor Locks, Conn., and has three children.

232. LYDIA lIOWRY, daughter of James, horn June 23, 1811 ; 1narried J. B. SHEPARDS0X. She· died Oct. 14~ 1844, leaving two children.

233. NELSON }IO,VRY, son of Jan1es, horn Nov. 19, 1813 ; married ...-\.ug. 4, 1842, in New York City, SoPHL\. L. SILBER. CHILDRE.X. 560. Charles X., b. !lay 20, 1844, in New York City. 561. "'\Yilliam A., b. Sept. 8, 1847, in Newark, N. J.; not married. 562. De "\Vitt, b. Sept. 27, 1851, in Newark, N. J. ; not 1narried. Nelson Mowry was for seven years the principal of a select school in the city of New York, and subsequently for seven years principal of one of the public schools of the city of Newark, N. J. He is now residing in Wilbraham, }lass., where his sons are engaged in mercantile business. He is a gentleman of unusual intelligence, good education, 180 THE MOWRY F..\)IILY. excellent judg1nent, and sterling character. The following is a fac-si1nile of his hand writing .

:)3.1 --· "'t'. ...-\.XX )IfHYHY. daughter of Jan1es, born .Aug. 24, 1820; n1arrie

236. .AKXE )IO,VRi.... , daughter of Aaron, born Nov. 6, 1789. She ,vas nC'rer 1narried, but lived to great age,. always remaii1ing on the ho1nestead.

237. RCSSELL lIOWRY, son of .Aaron, born Sept. 30, 1791; married NAXCY lfowuy, daughter of David, of Smithfield. Nancy was born Jan. 31, 1796. He died Nov. 3, 1821, aged 30. CHILDREN. 563. Cyra; not n1arried. 566. Lorenzo. 564. Saben. 567. Harley. 565. Ezekiel ; not married.

238. SA. YLE8 )IOWRY, son of ....\.aron, born Oct. 18, 1793; married PHEBE liowRY, widow of Charles (his brother). She ,vas the daughter of Benoni Latham.

CHILDRE~. 568. Phebe ....\.nu ; died ; not married. 569. Sarah. 570. A.lbert; died. POLLY MOWRY. 181 ,.._1 i)' . Narcissa B. 572. Catherine. 573. liary .Austin ; died.

239. CHA.RLES ~1O\VRl'', son of ..Aaron, born .-.\ug.12~ 1795: married PHEBE LA.THAM, daughter of Benoni.

CHILDRE1'. 574. Scott, b. 1817. 576. ~hadrack. 575. \Vindsor. ;j 77. Charles.

240. STEPHEN JIO\YRY, son of •.\.aron, Lorn Peb. 14, 1798. Ile was never 1narried but liYed to O'reat age, ' ::, - on the ho1ncstcad, a short di:;tauce ahovc Greenville.

241. CYREXE ~IOWRY, daughte1.of -.\.aron ; 1narried BURRILL BRowx, son of Levi.

CHILDHEN . .Joseph ; died. lfary Elizabeth ; died. Tho1nas.

242. THO~IA.S J. lIO\\~RY, s~n of .,\.arou, b. Sept. 8,

180-! ; 1narried Loc1sA SEARLE~, daughter,_ of \Villia1n. .No children.

243. HULDAH lIO\VRY, daughter of --laron, b. Oct. 18, 1809 ; 111arried Sl\IITH PHILLIPS.

CHILD. Charles Aaron. llr. Phillips forinerly managed the Anne Jenkins farn1.

246. POLLY' lIO\VRY, daughter of \Vanton; n1arried REUBEN JEPHERSOX. CHILD. Reuben. 182 "fHE )IO WRY FA)IILY. -94-.. CH_-\RLOTTE )IO,YRY, daughter of \Yanton,. born Feb. 13, 179-!; n1arried Sept. 6~ 181-1, 8FLLIY AN TH:\ YER~ son of _-\sa, of Uxbridge, )Iass. ; born ..A. pril 3:- 17f'2. ~he died nee. 13, 1815.

CHILD . .Alonzo, born ~ept. 1:2, 181£'i : d. Feb. 26, 1816.

2-!~. SAR.-\II )I o,VRY,

2-!9. RL"TH ){O\\.RY, daughter of ,,·anton, born Dec. :2::t 1798; 1narried Jan. :27~ 1817, Bt:LLIVA:S THAYER (whose first wife was her sister Charlotte'.' Xo. 2-17).

CHILDltE:S . .Austin, b. )farch 9, 181H: d. ( >ct. lG, 1810. ~ullivan, h. _-\pril 17 '.' 1820; d. _.\.pril :20, 1860. Charlotte )I., b. XoL :23, 18:21. )[ary .. A. )[owry, b ..Jan. 10, 182-l; cl. Jan. 7, 1826. Edwin ~-, b. June ;>, 1826. Asa, b. June 2, 1828; d. Oct. 2'.' 18-!9. licnry B., h. )[arch 13, 1832.

250. S_-\)ICEL S. ~10,vRY, sonuf ,Yanton; 1narried 1 CA:SDICE liownY, daughter of ,Yillia1n ( descended fro1n .John). CHILD. 580. )[ary -~daline, b. Feb. 6, 1828 ; not n1arried. ~Iarried 2 Lucr:so.\ TE:'.\IPLE, of llarlboro', )lass.

CHILDRE~. 581. \Y anton ; dead. 582. Philip ; lives in :Marlboro', }lass. 583. Eliza ; dead. 584. Samuel. PHEBE A)IEY )h)WRY. 183

_.\.LANSOX lIO,rRY, son of,,.anton ; n1arried 1 ~\.)IEY HARRIS ( ~). l'H I LI>REX. 585. ~tcphen; died ; not n1arried. 586. Caroline; died. :\Iarried 2 Lt:cI~D.\ liownY, wiclow of his brother 8a1n uel ~- CHILDHEX. 587. Henry; lives in ~farlboro'" )Ia~~

588. Lvdia;., died . - (')( ;y~ .) . Rensselaer. 590. Charles.

:!55. _FEXXER lIO"·Ry, son of Benedict ; 1narricd 1 Fu>ELL\ S~IITH, daughter of Lindon S1nith, of Glocester, R.I. CHILDRE~. 591. Phebe S.; died, aged 18. :"iH:2. ~inion R., b. June 22, 1831. 593. Rensselaer L., h. June 21, 1833. •JV-:t.-o• OrYille ; died, aged 3 year~.

l{arried 2 SARAH )IoxROE~ of Pawtucket, R. I. Xo chil dren.

256. PHEBE _.\MEY }10\VRY, daughter of Benedict; 1uarried A.LBERT CooK, son of .A.riel. He was born ~..\..pril 13, 1812 ; died ...-\.ug·. 3, 1878, aged G6 years.

CHILD. Phebe.

The following notice of )Ir. Cook's death appeared in the Woonsockrt Patriot of ....\.ug. 3, 1878: - 184 THE l\IOWRY FAMILY. .

.:.; This old resident, who has lived iu '\\1 oonsocket forty two years, died this 1norning, at his residence on South )Iain Street, aged 60 years. ")Ir. Cook was a son of the late A.riel Cook, and was horn near Cu1nberland Ifill. He settled in ,v oonsocket in 1836, and was en1ployed in the cotton 1nill of the late George C. Ballou for eight or ten years. He then went into the grocery business, and re1naiucd in it till about fif teen years ago. -4-fter that ti1ne,for several years, he was interested in the Bailey ,Y ashing ~Iachine Co1upany. Dur ing the recent years he has Leen iu no actiYe business, but was president of the Citizens ~a \·ings ·Bank at the ti1ne of his death . .:.; )fr. Cook was thrice 1narried, his last wife (Elizabeth Co1nstock, of c·nion ,-illage) having preceded hin1 to the gra \"C two years. Of the farnily, three sons sun·i '\"C : Simeon and Benedict, Loth interested in the ,v oonsocket ~Iachine Co1npany ; Charles, absent in the "\Vest; and a daughter, who li\·es at home. Three brothers of the deceased live in this town, - IIorace, John, and A. Lindsey Cook; while a fourth brother li\·es at Cun1berland Hill, and is cashier of the Cu1nberla11d National Bank. "}Ir. Cook has been in declining health for upwards of a year. He was a good citizen, a sociable 1uan, and lea,·es 1nany f rieuds to n1ourn his final departure."

CALEB B. lIO"rRY, son of ....\1nasa; 1narried

.A.)lELI..\ C. STODDARD, nee Langlev.'-' .,

CHILDREN.

:)-9- - ;). Caleb Frank, b. lfay 17, 1853. -596. George Henry, b. Sept. 18, 1855.

Caleb B. was a farn1er, and lived in Burrilh·ille. He died Feb. 28, 1863. WILLIAM S. l\lOWRY. 185

258. ELISHA. S. lfOWRY, son of .A.1nasa. ,vhen he was a young man he ,\·ent ,yest, and we ha Ye no knowl edge of his fa1nily, if he liad one.

259. ...i.\.lIEY )IO,VRY, daughter of .A1nasa; 1narried J[osEs D.-\~IELS, of Blackstone. X o knowledge of the fa1nilv., . 260. \YILLA.RD A.. lICHVRY, son of A.1nasa; 1narried ~L\RY HARRI~, of S1nithficld. ~o children.

261. CHARLES )1O".RY, son of .A.1nasa, born Dec. 17, 1812; n1arried Sept. 10, 18-10, E:\IELIXE BRowx, daugh ter of Stephen, of Burrilh·ille, R. I.

CHILDREN. 597. Caroline B., b. NoL 5, 1843. ;j98. Adin Ballou, b. No\". 17, 18-16 ; d. aged 6 1uos. 599. En1111a J., b. _-\.ug. 31, 1850. 600. Frank P., l.,. March 11, 1853.

Charles }Iowry was a pro1nincnt business 1nan for 1na11y _years. He carried on butchering and the sale of n1eat at Slatersville and elsewhere. He now resides at Pawtucket, R.I.

262. \\.ILLIA}I S. lfO\VRY, son of .A.1nasa; 1narried Lecy BARTLETT. CHILDREN. 601. \Yillian1. 604. Sophia. 602. Furmer. 605. Anne. 603. Herbert Elisha.

Willia1n S. }Iowrv., liYed for n1anv., .,vears on his father·s 11omestead, near Ironstone, Uxbridge, ~lass. He was a farmer, and dealer in stock and horses. THE )10\VRY FAllIL Y. life he took the advice afterwards so liherally given by liorace nreelcy, and '' went \\" est:'

:!64. S~IITlf HA¥ )IOlVRY, son of Stephen, born _\ug. 13, 1808 ; 1narricd 1 June 11, 1837, Du.:s A •.\.LDRICH,. daughter of Daniel. ~he died J unc, 1847.

CHILI>H.E~. HOti. Andrew •.\.., L. October, 1838.

tW7. )Iareus )Iorton. h. J uh·.., . 1840 :, not 1narried. t;os. Enieliuc )f., I, ...:\ug-ust, 18-!2; not 1narricd ; teacher. t;ot•. ..An infant tlau:.d1te1·. June .. 1847. l.# I ✓

)Iarried :! October, 185ti, ..:\DELIA BALLoc '.' daughter of ,\.illiam, of ~n1ithficld. Xo children. ~1nith Ray )Iowry was a 1ue1nber of the ~n1ithfield town council in 1836, 18~7, aud 18:38.

::!7:2. SCOTT \Y. )IO\rirY·, son of ~1nith, born July 7, 1~08, in G locestcr, R. I. ; 1narried 1 )!ARY H c~T, llarch, 1~=-34, daughter of Pardon'.' of Glocester. Xo children. ~Iarried 2 .April, 1846, ..\.lIEY HrNT (sister to lfary).

CHILDREN. GlO. )Iary liunt, b. liarch 31, 1847 ; not 1narried. 611. Helen Smith, b. June 14, 18;j2 ; not married. 612. ,Y alter Scott, h. ~fay 20, 1850; drowned in Septe1nber, 1869. t313. Herbert ,Yinsor, b. Feb. 1, 1858. ~cott ,v. }Iowry learned the trade of a 1nill-wright with his father, and remained with hi1n till he was twenty-four years of age. In 1832 he removed to Pontiac, R. I., and SCOTI W. )IOWRY. 187 took charge of a cotton factory as superintendent. .A.fter three years in Pontiac, he conunenced 1nanufacturing for hi1nself in Chepachet., R. I. \Yith his father an

He is· a 1uan of unblemished character and reputation; honest, public-spirited, generous, of wide observation and general intelligence, excellent judg1nent, and thoroughly honorable, he is honored and respected by his business associates, and a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. 188 THE MOWRY F.-\lHL Y.

273. ~IA.RY ...\.~X lIO,VRY,

BRU\rX )fO,VRl-, son of ~1nith, born ~lay 17, lc1.oil2; 1uarricd .AXXA PAIXE~ daughter of Stephen, of Glo cester. She was born A.ng. 13, 182;\ and died in Saratoga~ .July 18. 1~77, age2. CHILDH.EX. Gl-!. Bvron .A .• h. Jnlv 29. 18-!8: d. at Hallowell, ~ . ~ ~ )le.~ Feb. 27 ~ 1858. t_;J;j_ Elliott, h. Jan. 2, 18£i0. t316. .Ann B.~ l,. Dec. 24, 18tj~:;.

Brown )Iowry in his younger year:; was a Iuill-wright with his father S1nith, who was one of the n1ost famous 1nen in that trade in Rhode Island in his day. He had great 1ncchanical skill, which he could develop in aln1ost any direction, but it "·as 1nost conspicuous in his tra~e of 111aking water-wheels and their attaclunents for large 1nan ufactories. In 1848, or about that time, he commenced 1nanufactur i ng with his brother Scott ,Y. and his father at Che pachet. Since that tin1e he has been variously engaged in the cotton business, but mostly as superintendent of 1nills. He is now superintendent of the " ·v·ictory Mills," in ,·ictory, Saratoga Co., N. Y. He is an esthuable n1an, capable and honest. WATER)lAX )lOWRY. 189

276. J.A.CKSON ED WA.RDS llO,YRY, son of S1nitl1, born July~ 1818; 1uarricd .-\.xx DARLIXG, daughter of •.\n gcll D., of Glocester. Ile had three children. One is dead, and a son and daughter are now living. Thev., live in ,,·est Glocester.

279. .A.NN ~IO\YRY~

280. CHECKLEY A.. lIO\VRY, son of Sn1ith, born 1826 ; n1arried a lady f ro1n Chestnut Hill, Conn., - nan1e is not known to the writer. He has one or two children.

281. 8.A.. R.AH 110\\YRY, daugter of 81nith, born about 1828 ; 1narried GEORGE KING, of Glocester. He is not living. They had two daughters.

282. ALBERT MO,\"RY, son of Smith, born about 1830; married -- SAYLES. They lh·e at GreenYille, R. I., and have one child.

283. W.A.. TER~l~.\N MOWRY, son of Gideon, born in . d C -, . -, / ' 1795 ; n1arr1e . v · • ,_ - • · CHILDREN • ...i.\..lbert Waterman, b. Dec. 31, 1821, at )Vin field, N. Y. 628. Lydia Lucinda, b. May 2, 1824 ; died Oct. 5, 1825. 629. Semantha Desdemona, b. lfarch 29, 1826 ; died March 30, 1827. 630. Ellen, b. May 29, 1829; died July 8, 1846. 631. David S1nith, b. July 14, 1832; died March 10,. 1833. 190 THE l\IOWRY FA:\ULY.

,,~ ater1nan )Io wry lin~d in ,,.. infield, IIerki1ner Co., X. Y., and Hopkinton, R. I.

284. CRA.XI.-\. )10'\.. RY, daughter of Griah: married ,r A~TO~ ,:--.-\LLETT.

28G. \\.. ILLI.-\.~I lfo,,·RY, son of l~riah, born Septe1n ber, 1797. CHILDRE.X. 632. l>elia. 635. George. 633. .-\.11 ne. 636. .A.ziel. t334. ,Yillian1 Kelson. 637. Daniel Congdon.

287. t·RI.-\.II )IO,VRY, JR., son of lTriah, born 111 1790, in Burrillville, R. I. CHILl>. 638. E. S.

29;:i. Dl~TEE ~10,rRY, son of Caleb, born Feb. 14, 1,98; n1arried 1 HA~~AH (?) SAYLES, daughter of Stephen.

CHILDREN. 639. Scott ~ayles ; died, 5 years olu. 640. Infant. •

llarried ~ )L-\.LA.XCY ,:--OSE, daughter of ...4..1uariah, of oonsocket. Xo children . ,v . Dutee ~Iowry is now living in ,v oonsockct, at the

advanced age'-' of 80.

296. UR.A.N.~H ~IO"rRY, daughter of Caleb, born May 22, 1800 ; married CHARLES BOWEN, son of Thon1as, ·of Northbridge, Mass. He was born Sept. 16, 1800. She died June 26, 1872, aged 72. 1~1

CHILDR~:N. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Xo,. 22, 1825 : d. Dec. 1:3, 185~J . ....\.nn liaria, b ..A.ug. 1-1, 1827 ~ d ....-\.ug. 2H, 1821). Smitb, b ...... \.ug. 20, 1830. Isaac, b. }lay 29, 1834. Nancy E1neline, b. Jan. 2tl, l83R. lfary Ellen, b. lfay 17, 1840. Mr. Bo,ven Ii ves in ,v-orccster, lfass.

297. BARXEY lIO\YRY, sou of Caleb, horn llay 3. 1804 ; 1narried 1 Jan. 21, 1829, PHI LA llc>WRY ( X o. 480) ~ daughter of ....\.1nasa. CHJLDHEX. 641. Orin Pratt, b. ~lay 24, 1829. 642. ....\.lbert, b. l\Iarch 9, 1831. 643...... \.rlon, b. Feb. 23, 1833. 644. Stafford, h ..A.pril 14, 1835. 645. Atwell, b. Nov. 18, 1836.

}Iarried 2 l ... RA~AH STEERE, daughter of Peoli Steere.

CHILD. 646. Erwin A.rista, h. Dec. 8, 1847.

298. M.A.RTH.A.. lIOWR.Y, daughter of n,obert, horn in 1798; married in 1822, JESSE PAIXE, son of Obed Paine. She died in 1825, aged 27.

CHILD. Laura; married 1 Edwin Burlingame; 111. 2 Joseph O. Mowry, son of Silas.

301. GEORGE A. MO\VRY, son of Robert, born ....\.pril 19, 1804; married ....\.pril 20, 1828, NANCY J.ACK, of Cecil Co., Md. She was born Oct. 25, 1806. · 192 THE ::\IOWRY FA)lILY.

CHILDREN. 647. )Iartha, b. )larch;;, 1829, in Steuben Co., N. Y. 6-18. Jesse, h. Feb. 3, 1831, in Steuben Co., X. Y. 6-19. Tho1na~, b. Jan. 19, 18i33, in Steuben Co., N. Y. t3;30. George, b. -.\pril 7, 1835, in ~tcuben Co., N. Y. G51. Robert, b. ~fay ~3, 18~7, in Steuhcu Co., N". Y. £-!,..vv-- .) llargaret, b. Oct. 20, 1839, in ~teuhen Co., N. Y. .~vv•..>. -o \Velco1ne, b ..April 3, 18-12, in Putnan1 Co., Ill. (;54. )Iary, h. )lay 17, 184-1, in Putna1n Co., Ill. ; died A.pril 13, 1862. X aucy, b. Dec. 21, 1846, in Putna1n Co., Ill.

,Yhen George -.\.. llowry "~as about ten years of age,. his father, grandfather, uncle Caleb, brother Thomas, and sister Laura died, all within a few years. Ile learned the carpenter's trade, built a house for Walter Allen, did other jobs, and in the spring of 1824, being twenty years of age, he went to Steuben County, N. Y., and bought eighty-five acres of land, at $1.50 per acre. · He put up a log cabin and a framed barn, set out an orchard, cleared about thirty acres, and in 1841 exchanged it for 280 acres in Bureau County, Ill. .A.fter this he went South, OYer the Illinois River, into Putnam County, and within ten years he broke about one thousand acres of wild prairie land. He then recrossed the river, put up a shanty, and commenced im provements. Here he has now lived more than a quarter of a century, with as nice a place as one need wish for. The best of his land is now worth $50 &n acre. It is pre su1ned that he considers he has done some hard work within these fifty years and piore of Western life. Although he has travelled o,er 5,000 miles by land, he has never rode in a rail-car or a steamboat. For more than thirty years REY. ROBERT MOW'RY. 193 be has been a 1nember of the Society of Friends ; but he has preached in Yarious places, and held 1neetings, n1ore or less, as a 1nissionary, for n1ore than fifty years. He l1as written and published sc,·eral tracts upon religious sub jects.

802. DIA.N'.A. }10\VRY', daughter of U.obert, born llarch 22, 1807; 1narried Kov. 15, 1827, PHEDERI<"'K ,v. CAs1-:, of Corning, Steuben Co., N. Y.

CIIILDREX. Robert ll., b. July 2~, 1828 ; died llarch 5, 183~). John K., b. Xov. 8, 1830. llary R., b. Dec. 21, 1832. ,villia111 f,., b. NoY. 13, 1884; died Dec. 18, 1854. Diana F ., b. Oct. 20, 1830. George 11., h. }lay 15, 1841 ; died ...-\.ug. 15, 1841. Sarah A., b. July 29, 1843. James )I., h. Dec. 4, 184:7; died A.pril 28, 1848.

808. SUSAN 110\YRY, daughter of Robert, b. 1808; married Dec. 18, 1826, }IELTIAH WARE. She died in 1841, aged 33, at Cairo, Ill. CHILDREN. Ann Frances, b. in 1828 ; died 1882. Ellen, b. in 1830. Leonard, b. in 1833.

304. REv. ROBERT MOWRY, son of Robert; married in 1883, MARY WILLARD. No children. Rev. Robert Mowry went to Hornersville, N. Y. He was a Methodist local preacher. He preached the first sermon, held the first prayer-meeting, married the first 14: 194 THE MOWRY FAMILY. couple, at Xeosha Falls, ".,. oodson Co., Kansas, where lie now lh·cs.

3(Xi. lL\.RY lIO""RY, daughter of Robert; 111arried \\" ILLIAll JoHX~OX. CHILDREX. \Villian1 . .Joanna. They lil"e in "\Vatertown, }lass.

311. GA.RDXER llo"·RY, son of .Arnold, b. Sept. 13, • 180~; 1uarried January, 1835, CHLOE Axx 'fAFT, daughter of Elkanah, of Blackstone. He died Nov. 17, 1843, aged 38.

CHILD. 656. .Arnold, b. No,·. 27, 183ti. Arnold enlisted in Co. H, Fifteenth Massachusetts In fantry, Jan. 20, 1862; died at ··f·orktown, Va., of fever, April 2-1, 1862, aged 25.

:'.312. 11.A.RI.A. lIOWRY, ·daughter of .~rnold, born June 10, 1808; married April 17, 1829, 8.A.MCEL TAFT, son of Genery, of llendou. She died Nov. 28, 1873, aged 64.

CHILDREN. Olh·e, b. June 10, 1831; d. Jan. 14, 1856. Henry llillens, b . ..!.pril 20, 1834.

314. C.A.LEBlMOWRY, Jn., son of Caleb, born in Bos ton, March 5, 1803; married April 4, 1824, in Boston, VIRTUE V1Lus, daughter of Samuel Vilus. She was born Oct. 22, 1804. DECATUR MO\VRY. 195

CHILDREN. 657. .Amanda, b. Dec. 7, 1825, in Uxbridge, Mass. 658. Charlotte, b. June 8, 1827, in Griswold, Ct. 659. Charles Leonard, b. }larch 29, 1829, in Gris w·old, Ct. 660. llary H., b. Oct. 7, 1831, in Griswold, Ct. 661. .Albert Slater, b. June 18, 1837, in Fitchburg, l\fass. 662. .A.lmon Thwing, b. June 19, 1842, in Millbury, }lass. Caleb Mowry, Jr., is an overseer of carding in a woolen manufactory in ,val pole, l\lass.

316. EMILY 110\VRY, daughter of Caleb, born iu Mendon, Oct. 13, 1814; 1narried ...lug. 18, 1833, WILLIAl\l C. BOYDEN, son of Deacon Amos, of Mendon. He was born May 11, 1811. CHJLDREX. Mary Amanda, b. Aug. 16, 1834, in Mendon. William Collins, b. April 3, 1836, in Mendon. Sanford H., b. Dec. 20, 1838, in Mendon. Decatur M., b. Aug. 21, 1840, in Mendon. Emily Frances, b. Jan. 19, 1845, in l\lendon; died August, 1846. Emily Ann, b. Jan. 10, 1848. Reuben M., b. Dec. 19, 1853. Amey Leona, b. May 23, 1856, in ,v oonsocket, R. I. Mr. Boyden lives in South ,v alpole, Mass. 317. DECATUR MOWRY, son of Caleb, born Sept. 30, 1816, in Mendon, Mass.; married ELIZA A. BOYNTON, of Norton, Mass. He died July 31, 1856, in Natick, Mass., aged 40. 196

CHILDREN. 663. Eliza }!aria. 664. Clara; died July, 1856. 665. Decatur, Jr.; died.

'fill 1849 Decatur llowry was a successful woolen man ufacturer, when his factory was burned, with a loss of $60,000.

318. B.A.INBRIDGE )10\VRY, son of Caleb, born July 23, 1818, in :Mendon; 1narried .A.ug. 25, 1841, E:\IILY F. CARROLL, daughter of Joseph, of Walpole, llass.

CHILDREN. 666. Junius Bainbridge, b. July 20, 1842, in Dedha1n. 667. Ella Frances, h. Dec. 24, 1847, at \Valpole. Bainbridge }Iowry was a school-teacher, woolen manu facturer, merchant, and for more than twenty years em ployed by the Union Steam ,vorks, Foxboro', Mass.

~19. ...~LBERT 110\VRY, son of Caleb, born April 20, 1822, at Mendon, Mass. ; married Aug. 23, 1844, HOPE H. SHAW, daughter of Ellis Shaw, of Plymouth. She was born Dec. 23, 1823. CHILDREN. 668. Albert Wesley, b. May· 25, 1845, at Halifax, Mass. 669. Frederick Taft, b. lfarch 28, 1847. He is a boot and shoe clerk, ii~ Brockton, Mass. Not married. 670. Caleb Ellis, b. Oct. 13, 1849; d. Oct. 15, 1849, in Halifax. .ANN.:\. RA\VSON. l\10\VRY. 197

671. Flora Isabelia, b. July :28, 1851, at Natiek. She is 1narried, and lives at Broc~tou. No chil dren. ~72. Nell~e Louise, b. ltlarch 24, 1857, in Brockton. 673. Clara .A.ddie, L. July 23, 1860, in Brockton. 674. Herbert .Austin, b. llay 31, 1863 ; d. Oct. 15, 1867. 67 5. }laud E,·ans, b. July 17, 1867 .

.Albert llowry is a 1nechanic and liYes at Brockton, llass.

320. REl""BE~ R ....\. ,vso:x llO\YRY,sou of Caleb, born April 5, 1826, in :Mendon. He left hon1c Jan. 22, 1852~ for California. ....\.t Havana he fell through a scuttle on. board a stca1ncr, iujuring hiinself internally.· He crossed the Istlunus on foot, and e1n- barked at Pana1na for San Francisco. He was taken sick on the passage, with hc1norrhage of the bowels. He arrived at San Francisco, Feb. 29, 18,32, and died in a pri vate hospital, haYiug had good care, )larch ti:- 1852, aged nearly 26 years.

321. ANN .A. R ...i\.. ,vsON llO,VRY, daughter of Caleb, born Sept.13, 1827; married June 11., 1848, CYRUS MORTON, .Jr., son of Dr. Cyrus, of Halifax, l\fass. He was born July 26, 1826. CHILDREN. Ella Clarinda, b. June 19, 1851. Lucy Drew, b. July 26, 1854. Twin sons, b. June 16, 1860, at ,vest Randolph, Mass. ; they died June 17 and 20.

'fhey live at South ,v alpole, Mass. 198 THE MOWRY FAMILY. 330. ELIZ ....\. Mo,v~y, daughter of Daniel; married THO)[..\S ALDRICH.

332. }IA.RY lIO,VRY, daughter of Daniel ; 1narried LEONARD DEAN.

S33. ED"'IN ":--· lIO\VRY, son of A.biel, born Sept. 21, 1820; married Jan. 23, 1845, LIVONIA THREESHIER, daugh ter of Henry, of Rehoboth, liass. No children. Edwin W. lfowry has hcen a 1ne1nber of the town council of S1nithfield for se,·eral years, and was a me1nber of the General ....\.sse1nbly of Rhode Island in 1848 and in 185!. He is one of the leading men of his native town.

334. PRUSHIA. .AN~ llO""'RY, daughter of ....\.biel,. born Aug. 30, 1822; 1narried ElIOR J .....\Nt;ELL.

335. TILLIXGH.A.ST IIO,VRY, son of A.biel, horn XoY. 20, 1824; 1narried 1 ELIZABETH HITCHC'O('K.

CHILD. 676. Jane E.

Married 2 ----. Xo children. liarried :i ....\.BBY , and had one daughter, \\·ho lives in Providence.

336. ....\.L}IIR ..:\. lIO\YRY, daughter of A.biel, bo~n )larch 21, 1828 ; married EsEK HARRIS, of Burrillville.

337. GEORGE lIOWRY, son of ....\biel; born Sept. 20, 1833; married in Troy, N. Y., --. He died in Smithfield, of consumption, ....\ugust, 1861, aged 28. 339. UR... .\N ... .\H llOWRY, daughter of George; n1ar ried BENJAlUIN FRASKLIN .ALDRICH, of Mendon, Mass. ~ATHANIEL MOWRY. 199

340. LOUIS... .\. ELVIN... ~ MOWRY, daughterof Henry, born in Providence, R. I., Sept. 30, 1840; 1narried Feb.13, 1865, BAROX P. LOVEWELL.

CHILDREN. Henry P ., b. Oct. 27, 1866. Anne L. C., h. Dec. 22, 1868; died .Aug. 9, 1869. llr. LoYewell is a clerk in the r·. S. Custom House, Prov idence, R. I.

342. JACKSON POTTER }1O\YRY,sonofTyler,born ....\.pril 26, 1821 ; married in LouisYille, Ky., .June 1, 1845, A.NGELINE C. REESE, nee }Iurray. She was sister to Commodore llurray, of Narrowsburg., N. Y. She was born .Jan. 3, 1812, and died .Aug. 25, 1868, at Louisville, Ky., aged 56. CHILDREN. 678. Thomas Sayles Reed, b. June 28, 1846 ; died )lay 28, 1851. 679. Sarah Ann, b. ~ept. 29, 1849. 680. Theodore Tyler: b. lfarch 28, 1853.

343. FR... .\.NCES El\lILY llO'\YRY, daughter of Tyler, horn Jan. 24, 1829; married ,VILLARD BALLotr, son of ,v illard Ballou, of Sn1ithfield.

CHILDREN . ....\.hnira. Lurissa.

344. N.A.TH ....\.NIEL MO\VRY, son of Job, born June 23, 177 2 ; married ....\.SH.:\. ALDRICH, daughter of Daniel, of Smithfield. She w·as born Sept. 30, 1770, and died llay 8, 1848, aged 77. He died July 17, 1841, aged 69. 200 THE l\lOWRY FAl\lILY.

CHILDREN. 681. ,,r aity .Ann, b. Feb. 15~ 1796. 682. Daniel A.. , b ..A.ug. ·31, 179,. 6~-n3 . ~an1ue-... I , I> .... ~ ep t.. :.':)- , , 1,..9°, ~- 684. Burrill R., b. _.\.pril 25, 1802. 685. .John B., b. }larch 18, 1804; not n1arried. 686. )lanton ,v- ., I,. llarch 11, 1806 ; not n1arried. 687. Xelson H., b. lfay 20, 1808; not 1narried. 688. J'onathan, b. Dec. 1-1-, 1811 ; d. Oct. 27, 1856, aged 45. Xathaniel )Iowry was a pro1ninent 111an in his day, often holding town offices. 1-Ie was a f ar1ner; intelligent and active; a kind father and husband, a good neighbor, and a useful citizen. He brought up one of the old-fashioned f an1ilics of children, who haYe been distinguished for strength of n1ind and hocly, integrity, and an honor~ble life. His handwriting is illustrated by the following fac ~imile: -

:345. DORC.A.S lIO\YRY, daughter of Job, born Oct. 3, 1774; 1narried ,July 20, 1796, LEWIS PLACE, son of Peter, of Gloce:,ter. CHILDREN. Drusilla. Oli,·e. l{owry.

Lewis Place Ih·ed in Glocester, and was six feet tl1ree inches in beight. HAVILAH MOWRY. -201

346. EPHRAIM lIO,YRY," son of Job, b. Dec. 23, 1777; 1narriecl Jan. 8, 1797, .A.CHSA.H HARRIS, daughter of Israel Harris, of S1nithfield.

CHILDREN. 689. Paris. 690. llartin. 691. Sally.

Ephrai1n lfowry 1110,·cd to ~heruuru, Chenango Co ... X. Y., in January, 1799. Thi~ journey was 1nade with hi~ fa1nily ou an ox-sled. He was twelve days on the journey f1·01u Sn1ithficld, R. I., to ..i\.lbany, N. Y. Fro1n letters now· in existence·, it .appears that he was there in 1810, and iu 1836 he was in ..-\.1nhoy, Oswego Co., X. y·_ Ile was a 1nan of excellent character .. a worthv n1e1nber of con11nu- . ~ nity, respected hy all who knew hint. His son Paris live~ about fifteen 1uiles north of Ro1ue, N. Y. ,ve have no further infor1nation concerning his children or their faiu ilies.

347. _-tX:XE lIO,VRl'"', daughter of Job, born Dec. 1, 1784; 111arried ~cpt. 20, 1801, JoB l[owRY (No. 206), sou of Job. For the children, sec Xo. 206.

350. H ..A. VIL.AH MO\VRY, son of "fho111as, born in Bcituate, R. I., No,en1ber, 1776; 111arried F.AXNY D1xo1'. She was born June 14, 1774, in Killingly, Conn., and died .A.. ug. 9, 1809. He died .A.. pril 11., 1811, in his thirty-fifth year, in ,v arren, X. Y.

CHILDREN. 695. Samuel, b. June 14, 1796, in Killingly, Conn. 696. .A.chsab, b. Sept. 8, 1798, in Killingly, Conn. 202 THE MO\VRY FAMILY.

697. Sally, b. Sept. 12, 1800, in Killingly, Conn. 698. Havilah, b. llarch _22, 1803, in Killingly, Conn. 699. Harriet, b. June 22, 1805, in Killingly, Conn. ; d. young. 700. •Jared Francis, b. June 16, 1809, in Killingly, Conn.; d. 1812.

Havilah was 1>01·11 in Rhode Island, but early moved to Connecticut, where he resilled so111e years, and then went to th.c State of Xew York. He taught school in Connecti cut and iu X ew ·york.

:;55_ :U:_l:LD.AH lIOWRY, daughter of Richard llowry~ horn in Scituate, R. I.., Dec. 30, 1775; 1narried Oct. 27,. 1810, STEPHE:S BeFFI:STO:S. He was born Feb. 5, 1744, probably in Swansea. She died Dec. 12, 1843. He died Oct. -, 1829. CHILD. Benja1nin, born .Feb. 13, 1812; not 1na.rried. He died llarch 31, 1847.* Stephen Buffinton was a respected men1her of the Soci eh·., of :Friends. He IiYed and died in Dartmouth. His son, Benjan1in Buffinton, was an honest, upright, worthy n1an. He e,·er had the respect and esteem of a wide circle of friends, f ro1n his relatives, his to\\·nsmen, and the relig ious society of ,vhich he was a worthy member. He was a farmer, and li,·ed upon the homestead place in Dartmouth. lic was always kind and affable, and had a pleasant word

• The abo\"e dates were furnished by Isaac R. Gifford, of North Dartmouth,. who was within sixty-two days of ninety years old when he penned the letter of information. GIDEON l\lOWRY. 203 for eYery one. He died in Boston, while serving his town as a representatiYe in the State Legislature. His remains were accompanied to Dartmouth by a delegation from the General Court, and the funeral services ,vere performed after the custo1n of the Society of Friends.

356. GIDEON MO,VRY, son of Richard, born July 7, 1778, in Uxbridge. llarried 1 Oct. 3, 1799, RUTH \\" HEELER, daughter of Jon a than and Alary (Buffum) \Yheeler, of Berlin, Mass. She ,\·as born Oct. 4, 1780; died March 1, 1816, aged 35.

CHILDRE~. 701. Jonathan, b. Feb. 2, 1801. 702. Lucetta, b. Jan. 2, 1803. 703. Isabella, b. Feb. 12, 1805. 704. Phebe, b. Sept. 19,. 1808. 705. }lelissa, h ..A.ug. 28, 1811. 706. Caroline, b. April 12, 1814.

}larried 2 May 6, 1818, .A.. NNE DENXIS, daughter of J oscph and Sarah Dennis, of Po1nfret, Ct. She "·as born in Ports- 1nouth, R. I., Oct. 24, 1787; died July 6 (~), 1858, aged nearly 71. CHILDREN. ...' o' . Richa_rd Dennis, b. Sept. 17, 181~). 708. Susan Lydia, b. Jan. 21;1822. 709. Huldah Harris, h. Sept. 15, 1824. Gideon llowry died Feb. 4, 1866, aged S7 years, 6 1nonths, and 28 days. He was for 1nore than half a century one of the most prominent men in his town. He was a man of large intelligence, strong mind, excellent judgn1ent, re- 204 THE MOW'RY F. .\MILY. markable probity of cbaracte1·, great personal influence, . and wide usefulness. With but meagre ad,·antages for study iu youth, and without e.s.teush·e tra,el, yet from his strong uath·e talents, his ,,·onderful power of careful reflec tion, and his_ broad and thoughtful reading, he ca1nc to be a Yery oracle among his towns1uen, and n1any a difficult question of science, mathcn1atics, law, 1ncdicinc, philoso phy, 01· of literature was referred to hin1, as a case of ulti inate appeal; and his judg111ent was alniost always taken as conclush·e and final. In his youth he had a strong desire to be a physi cian, hut circtuustauces co1npelle

He was frequently acth·ely c1nployed in public business. lie held many town offices during twenty-five years of his 1nost acti¥e life. Besides holding various other town offices, lie ,\·as a 111cn1ber of the school co1n1nittee of the town in 1830 and 1831, and selectinan in 1826, 1827, 1831, 1832, 1834, 1836, and 1839. In 1832 and 1839 he was chairn1au of the selcchncn. Ile was assessor of taxes in 1828, 1829, 1830, 1833, 1~38, and 1844. .A.tone tilue he was :1 candiua.te for the Legislature, hut the opposite polit ical party was in the 1najority ; and though running far ahead of his ticket, he was defeated. He had great skill and power as a debat<'r. Thi~ power was n1anifested in 1nany ways and on 1nany occasions dur ing 11is long lif~. It will be ren1e1nbcred that his entire life was passed in a rural district, several 111iles fro1n any village. Yet there, a111011g the sturdy yco1ne11 of those times, "·as for 1nany years regularly 1naintai11cd a debating society, which n1et f ro1n week to week throughout the year, and which was conducted with great energy and remark able success. From the records of that society, for the years 1836 to 1839, it appears that Gideon Mowry was the president through the whole time, and that during the year 1837 thirty-nine meetings were held, and thirty-two in 1838. The society numbered about· fifty gentlemen from that and the neighboring school districts, among whom were 1nany men of marked talent and ability. ,vhat au influence such a series of meetings must have bad upon those who participated in or listened to tbe discussions! In business mat~ers, Gideon Mowry was always a very acti¥e man. After bis father, he managed the home farm 206 THE MOWRY FAMILY. till he was seventy yea1·s of age. During 1nuch of this time he carried on an extensh·e business as tanner and currier, and also as s11oe and boot maker, employing 111auy hands. He was often employed as adn1iuistrator in settling estates, and as guardian for minors. In his religious life, he ·was by nature and by conviction a Quaker. He was emphatically a religious 1na11. He was an active 111e111ber of tl1e Societv., of Friends till sometime about 1823, when he violated the technical rule of the },riends by suing a party who, he thought~ had wronged hiin. For this offence, he ·would not apologize, as he believed he had done right, not wrong ; and he was disowned. .After this he aided materially in sustaining religious meetings in the vicinity of his home, principally of the Baptists; but after examining fully their tenets, he was not sufficiently convinced of their soundness to join them, or any other religious society. The ,vide-spread agitation of the doctrine of the Milleritcs, or the end of the world, for son1e years prior to 1842, attracted his earnest attention. After reading and studying with the utmost care all the prophets of the Bible, and Saint John's .Apocalypse, he ca111e to the decided con,,.iction that Miller's views of prophecy were totally unfounded by the Scripture, and destitute both of proof and of reason. Some years subsequent to this an effort was made by some members of the Society of Friends in his native town to have bim again received as a member. He made no concession, and offered no compromise ; but his name having been proposed by some prominent members, be was voted in, and again took his place among them. With some exceptions, when attending Baptist meetings in GIDEOS 1\10\VRY. 207' school-houses near bis ho1ue, he had al ways constantly attended the Friends' 1neeting, even while he was not a n1e1nber of the society. It was undoubtedly a plea.sure and a con1fort to hiln during his declining years to be again associated with the society of his choice, and for s01ne years he ~at at the head of tl1e 111eeting. He was ever a lo,·er of the Bible. During his later years he read but little else. At one time, when the writer called to sec him, in the 111011th of .A.ugust, he found hin1 reading the Scriptures, and so interested that he begged to he excused till he had finished his chap ter. On looking over his shoulder to see where he was reading, I found it to be in the prophets. Soon after, in eonversation upon the topic, I said to hhn, "Grandfather, you see1n to loYe to read the Bible ? " - " I love nothing so well. I read but little else."-" How much can you read ? Does your eyesight serve you ? " - "Very well. I use large type. I lta1,e read t/1e Bible t/1ro-ugll once since the year came in, and so far again ! " His last days were passed in pcacef ul retirement in bis natiYe town, with his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Gaskill. He died Feb. 4, 1866, at the ad,·anced age of 87 years, 6 months, and 28 days. He was gathered to his fathers, like a shock of corn fully ripe for the harrest. Three days later he was laid a.way in the graYe between his two loving wives, in the little quiet, family resting-place, which had been strongly walled in by his own hands, and a deed of which he l1ad secured from his son-in-law, like the elder patriarch Abraham, " for a possession of a burying-place " forever ; being followed to tbe grave by a large train of mourning 208 f rieuds and neighbors, includiug childrell, grandchildren~ and great-grandchildren. The following appropriate tribute to the worth of this good 1nan was written hy Gen. IIenry De ,Yolf, a veteran of the lfexicau \Var, and a life-long f rien

" I attended the funeral of 1ny friend, Gideon llowry, on the 7th of February, 186H. He dic

father .. the late Gideon llowl"\·,w conuucnced in the wvear 18=3~ .. ~oon after I opened an office in Fxbridge, and was al way:-; of the 1nost pleasant character. He see1ued to 111c at that tiu1c to 1,c a vencrahle 1na11, well ach·auccd in years. I-le was of ~lender for1n, and pleasant and gen~le in nulnner. lie was a thoughtful 1unn, and one who kept hiiuself well inforn1ed upon the leading topics of the day. He had the peculia1· appearance of those who have had a Quaker bring ing-up, and who retain their allegiance. to that Society. He was known and re,·ered as ' L°'uclc Gideon.' The records of the town confi1·1n n1y recollection~ that he was largely honored by the people of l~ .xbridge. Ife was a~scssor of the town fur the years 1825, 1827, 1828, 182ft, lSa0-1833, 1~?,8, and 18-!-!. Ile was a sclcchnan of the town for the

yea1.,. ~ 1~-)•··o-o, 1~-)1o•-> , 1~~>->u•.J-, 18·-'~~-i:, • 1836• , an d 1~3-u ct• • Ifc was a 111e1nbcr of the school conunittee for the years 1837 and 183t). Taking into consideration the fact that he belonged ~ ~ to a political party which as a rule constituted a 111inority of the voters. the fact of his 111uncrous elections to such i1nportant trusts de1nonstratcs either that his opponents were ,·pry liue1·al, or ,·cry apprcciatiYc of worth c,·en in one of an opposite party fro1n thcn1seh·es. Indeed, the tcr1u opponents is hardly a proper tcr1n to use in sp?nking of those who differed f ruin ,·our grandfather .. in reference to .. ·- " hir~. To hint there al ways sec1ncd to 111c a fit application of the couplet,-

" ' Xone knew him but to love him, Xone saw him but to ])raise.' '· Ile died Feb. 4, 1866, aged 87 years, G 1nonths, and 28 days. His first wife, Ruth \Yhcclcr llowry, died }larch 1, 18lti, aged 35 years, 4 111ouths, and 28 days. His second wife, .Anne Dennis :Mowry, cliccl .July, 1858, aged nearly scYenh,•-one.. .,vcars. PHI-:HE l\IOWRY. 211

"During the latter part of his lifc he beca111e considcr ·ably e1nbarrasscd in his circu1nstanccs ; and in the loss of property, the death of friends, and failing health, he found 11is life son1ewhat clouded ; but so far as I can learn, he retained largely his ecp1anii11ity and sweetness of spirit; and when the last su1nn1ons ca111c, he went to his grave like a shock of corn fully ripe, or 'like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about hi1n and lies down to pleas ant drea1ns.' • Pence to his ashe~.' Yours truly, • IfEXRY UH ....\.PlN°." "'' WILLL\:\l .A.. liowny, Esq.·~ 'rhe fac-silnilc of hi~ autograph which is gh·en below is his signature to the constitution of the dchating society before n1entioned. •

35.,. (J)-H'EBE 110,YRY, daughter of Richard, born Aug. 6, 1780, in l:xbridgc; 1narried July 2, 180o;B'xn LIXG S_.\HEX, son of Jsi.-ael Saben, of Riclnnon, aged 35.

CHILDREX. iU:owry, l,. Nov. 24, 1801. Lucy, b. NoY. 13, 1803. Sfirah, b. Oct. 20, 1806 ; died July 1, 1832. Huldah, b. July 21, 1800; died Oct. 14, 1838. Jsrael, b. Sept. 1, 1811 ; died April 12, 1839. Ruth, b. April 13, 1814 ; died .April 24, 1815. ,/ iJ)arling Saben married ~111ah Sherinan Dec. 5, 1817. She was born June 5, 1788; died Jan. 10, 1852. 212 THE :\IOWRY FAMILY.

CHILD. fl'S'aac, b. Dec. 30, 1818; still li\"ing iu ,vinchester, N. II., - an excellent 1uan and fat her of a family. Warling Saben was an intelligent and upright 1nan, a member of the Friends' Society,- a farn1er in Richmond and Winchester, N. H. fie died in 1822, in the ·prhne of life, greatly belo\"ed and respected by all who knew hin1 .

358. \Y• ~.\ITE lIO\\.RY, daughter of Richard, born Feb. 4, 1783, in l~ xhri

CHILDREN. lfowry. Sarah Mowry. George; died young. Ehnira; died young.

'rhe date of their birth is not known. If they are now li,·ing, it is not known where. A letter f ro1n Sarah, in 1846, to her uncle Gideon, dated " Tymochtee, Ohio," giYes her na1ne Sarah }I. ,r andemark •.

350. .A}IEY llOWRY, daugl1ter of Richard, bor)1 Feb..

2, 1.785, in lT xbridge; married Oct. 61 1805, PAUL AL DRICH, of Northbridge. Ile w·as born Dec. 19, 1784. He died April 18, 187 4, aged 89 years, 4 months. ..A.mey died Oct. 6, 1829, aged nearly 4;:;.

CHILDRE:S. Richard, h. llarch 20, 1807. Narcissa, b ..A.pril 2, 1809. Phebe S., b. Sept. 27, 1815 ; died Oct. 6, 1819. AMEY MOWRY. 213 Iiuth liowry, b. },eh. 14, 1818. Thomas Paul, b. Nov. 6, 1820. Henry A., b. June 1, 1826 .

.A.II the children born in Northbridge, }[a.ss. The following account of "Uncle Paul," together with most of the dates relating to his fa1nily, were kindly fur nished by Tho111as P. Aldrich, Esq., of ,vorcester, lfass. "Paul .A..ldrich was born in Riclunond, X. H., and received his father's name. The fa1nily re1novcd to the .southeastern part of Northbridge, on the Blackstone R.iver, when he was quite young. He lh·ed with his father until he was of age, and then conuuenced business for himself, on a sn1all scal-e, as farmer and carpenter. He bought a small tract of laud, near his father's, and built himself a l1ouse and barn. fie afterwards added to his f ar1n until he owned a hundred and sixty acres, and also enlarged and increased his buildings. Ife re1nai11cd in X orthbridge until 1861 or '62, when he ren10Yed to :Milford for a year or two. After leaving llilford, he settled in East Blackstone, near tl1e Friends' 1neeting-house, where he Ii ved until his death. " He 1uarried Amey Mowry, daughter of Richard }Iowry, in 1805, a few months before reaching his 1najority. They had six children, one of wl1om died young, the others sur ,·i'\"'ing both parents. His wife Amey died in 1829, on the twenty-fourth anniversary of their marriage. 111 18Sl he married Milla Cook, with who1n he liYed forty years, she dying in 1871. ...t\..t the age of· eighty-six he n1arried bis third wife, Elizabeth Rathbun, a widow of 69 ; but tl1is union was of short duration, as she died in little less than one year, leav-ing him again alone. After this his sister, Mrs. Phila Wheeler, li\"ed with him until his death. "He ·was strictly temperate in his habits, never using intoxicating :liquors, although he furnished then1 for his 214 THE )IOWRY F.:\:\IILY.

workineu .., according... , to the unh·ersal custoin of the tiincs. Between the .,vcars 1830 and 1835 he abolished all use of the1n on his far1n. 1-Ie was no politician, yet he held sev eral offices in the town. Ile was kind, genial, and upright ; a. 111an whose wor

iJ60. :-:..:\ltAII lIO\VRY·, daughter of Richard .. born _.\ug. 1-L 1788; 1narricd Oct. 31, 1810. ISRAEL ~ABEX, Jr., son of l;:,;rael Sahen, of Ricl11nond, X. H. Ile was born )lay 5, 17!)0. Ile died July 8, 1869, in U"xhridge, lla~s., aged 79. She

CHILDREX.

Richard liowry, b. Oct. 7, 1811 ; died Oct. 10, 1829. An infant son, h. July 6, 1813; died sa1ne day. \Vaite .A.nu, b ..Aug.-, 1814; died Nov.-, 1815. · :-:arah ....\.nn, b. Dec. 7, 1817 ; died Sept. 25, 1818. Gideon }Iowry, L. Feb. 8, 1819. lsrael,Jr., b. Jan. 7,1821. Cucy, b ..A. pril 1, 1824 ; not married. .Anne llowry, b. June 11, 1826. :-:arah, b. Sept. 7, 1828; died July 23, 1829. IIuldab, b. Nov. 23, 1830; died_Eept. 18, 1842. .J AllEZ )IOWRY.

was l~rael Babeu a vig-orous'-' ... har<.1-working...... 1nan, l1oue~t aull energetic, n far1ner in \Vinchestcr'.' X. H., Xorthhridge and l ... xbriuge .. )lass. By his industry autl intelligence he secured for hi1nself and his fa1nily a co1ufortable con1pt•• tcncc .. antl for his honor and enterprise he wa~ highly esteerned hy his fellow-citizens a11d a wiue circle of friend:;. l[c did n1uch puulic uusiness, and always with fidelity anc.l despatch. Early in life ·1ie left his nati,·e place ancl ren1oved to l .. xbridgc, )lass. ~oon after, he returned to ,rinchester ~ near his old ho1ne, nn'd lived there seYcral years. ::-:ul ,s<.~ '"1nently he llHH·e

370. J.A.BEZ lIO,YRY, sou of "Clark" Daniel, born ,July·22, 1773; 1narried C.\NDICE OLNEY, daughter of Capt. ~tcphen Olney. CHILDU.EN. 710. Edwin; uot married; dead. 711. San1uel. 216 THE MOWRY 1:-,..\1\IILY.

They had also a daughter, 11a1ue uot no,v known. They lived at Eastport, lie., and were ,·ery respectable people, re111arkahle for their industry and energy. 1-Iis hand writing is shown by the following fac-simile : -

371. :-0:A.lll.EL 110\YRY, son of , .. Clark ,:- Daniel, born llay 16, 177 ;j; not 1narried ; died iu Charleston, ~- C., Oct. ~ft, 1799, aged 2! years. He taught school in his native town, and one of his school bills is reproduced hel•JW. It is 111ade out against Job l{owry (No. 153 ), for the tuition of his daughter .Anne (No. 347). It has no date attached, but was written about 1795. THANKI-'UL l\lOWRY. 217 373. R~UBEN llOWRY, son of" Clark" Daniel, born Sept. 20, 1778; n1arried Dec. 30, 1804, PHEBE SMITH, daugl1ter of Junia Smith. ~he was horn Oct. 13, 178-1-, and died Feb. 6, 1873, aged 88 years.

CHILDREN. 712. Junia S., l,. July 18, 1805. 713. Lan1ech C., h. }larch 4, 1807. 714. ,vnson "':"·, h. Oct. 30~ 1810; drowned Jan. 18, 1824. 715. na.rwin, h. XoY. 21 .. 1812; died }larch 6, 1813. 716. .A.lee .A., h. ~ept. 12, 1814; died June 24, 1836. ,..1 ... ' ' . Elisha ~-, h. llarch 21, 1817; died Dec. 9, 1817. 718. Phebe ~-, b ..A.ug. 18, 181~: died llay 14, 1842. 719. Reuben }I., l,. Oct. 3, 1821 ; died June 21, 1838. -90.- . Jabez ,v., h. July 29, 1824. Reuben llowry was a vigorous 1na11, a farmer and tavern-keeper in his native town. He ,vas killed by a. locomotive in Providence, June 7, 1852, aged 74.

37 4. TH.A.NKFUL 11O,VRY, daughter of "Clark '' Daniel, born Aug. 18, 1780 ; 1narried }larch 24, 1805, Dr. .JouN ,v. C. BAXTER. He was born NoY. 9, 1781, and died J"une 9, 1833, aged 51. Sl1e died Oct. 30, 1821, aged 41.

CHILDREN. Delia E., b. May 14, 1806; died July 5, i844, aged 38. Clark Daniel, b. Sept. 28, 1807; died Oct. 4, 1808. John C., b. March 30, 1809. Moses, b. June 28, 1810 . .Amey M., b. June 8, 1812. Samuel, b. Dec. 30, 1814. Caroline 8., b. Aug. 11, 1819. They lived upon a part of the old homestead, in the house now the residence of Burrill R. Mowry. 218 THE :MOWHY FAlIILY.

~17tL GIDEOX )10"'."RY, son of •• Clark" Daniel, born )lay 11, 178-!; 1narrietl 1 Xov. :2-!, 1808, --\:\IEY ..A.Nt;ELL,. claughtcr of Jonathan. She died Jan. 8, 18-!i, n.ged ~ •. Ife «lied Xo,·. 15, 1X6;>, aged 81.

CHILDHE:S'. -. --·.J.) Tho1uas Steere'.' L. _-\.ug. 10, lt)09. Bu:;anna Caroline, b... April 19, 1824; 724. ~i1uo11 Boli,·cr, IJ. ~ept. 10'.' 1826.

llarriec.l :? Sn.;.\~ OL:s-EY, widow, si:;;ter of ..:\.1ney. his fir~t wife. Xo chil

llnrried a :\L-\RY _.\.:s-:s- ll.\LL, widow, 11/:,., )Iathewson. X o children.

Gideon )Iowry was a strong, Yigorous 1nan, physically and 1nentally. Ile was one of the long line of fathers and sons, who lived in the;, Captain .Joseph" house, and n1an aged the old homestead, ~o long in the fa.1nily. He was son1ething of a 1nathematician, and a well-used copy of the fa1nous ,.: Pike·s ...-\ritlnnctic," with his na1ne written in the fly-leaf, in a bold, elegant handwriting, is now in the pos :5ession of the writer.

:377 _ THOlI....\.S lIO\YRY, son of " Clark" Daniel, born Sept. 20, 1785; married 1 June 9, 1811, )L.\RTH.A. l-1..\RRis, daughter of .Jonathan. She was born Sept. 15, 1790, and died .A.ug. 6, 1819, aged 29. He died June 13, 1872, aged nearly 87. CHILDREN.

725. In1n1er Earl, b. Sept. 24, 1812. 726. llartha Harris, b. June 7, 1818. DANIEL :'\[OWltY, JR. 219

:lfarricd 2 Jan. 18, 18~1 .. POLLY BuFi:e~r, ·nfe Child~. widow of Gaskill Buffu1n. She was born J au. G, 1785, and died Feb. 20, 1842, aged 57. Xo c11iltlren.

Tho1nas liowry was a ~trong and Yigorous u1an, both 1nentally and physically. Ile was one uf those 111en. of whon1 we have too few .. that do their own thinking-. Ile , ~ recci,ed his opinions fro1n the ip:,£• di.dt of no 1nan. Ile read for hin1self and thous..d1t..... for hi1nsclf. It would not be strange, therefore, if he uitl not agree in all things with those with who1n he was surrounded. He was one of that line of fa1nilies who li,·ed in the '' Captain Joseph" house, but finallv., left it ... and 1110Ycd to Pro,·idcncc .., where he died in 1872, at the au.Yanccc.l age of 86 years, 8 1nonths, and 2-! davs.. . 378. D.A.NIEL lIO,VRY, Jn.~ sou of ,_Clark'' Daniel, horn J unc 15, 1788; 1uarricd 1 Dec. G, 1818, RrTH FAR ~l~l\1, daughter of Stephen. She died at Oxford, lfa~s., June 11, 1844.

CHILDUEX.

llaloncy, b .....\..ug. 18, 1819 ; not 1narried. 728. Daniel, b. Oct. 2, 1823. 729. R.uth ~,., b. Sept. 26, 1829.

liarried 2 Oct. 6, 1844, ELIZA FAR~Ul\I, widow of Stephen :Farnu1n, Jr., and sister of DaYid .Angell, of ProYidence, R. I. CHILD.

730. Eliza ....\.., b. Aug. 14, 1845. She is a teacher in North ProYidence; not married. THE l\10\VRY FAl\llL Y.

Daniel llowry worked on his father's farm in his earlier years. ,v1ine quite young, he ac<1uirccl a taste for reading'.' and improYcd every opportunity to infor1n hiinself iu the co1nn1on studies of the day ; and not feeling satisfied with the 1neagre ad,·antages of the schools of his nath·e town, h ·, with others, en1ployed a teacher fro111 Boston as a pri vate tutor. In this way he acquired a fair education for those days. ....\.ftcrwards he taught school for a short tin1e. Just before the war of 1812, he e1nigrate

25, 1829, he published a weekly paper, called 'l'I. e nlicro cosm : lfarch 18, 1830, a tri-weekly, called Tl1e Rl,ode Island Anicrica.u ; and Jan. 1, 1831, a daily, called the .DailJJ ildi-ertiser. This was one of the earliest daily papers, if not the first, puhli~hed in Rhode Island. lie continued the publishing of these papers for so1ue years~ with Benjan1in F. IIallctt as editor. Subsequently, he bought a large f ar1n in South t; xbridger about a 1nilc west f ron1 Ironstone, and about n 111ile east from the Gideon liowry (No. ·256) place. Ilere he dis played great ability, as well as industry, in reclain1ing worthless land. The place is now . the property and the residence of John C. Baxter, son of Dr. John and Thank ful (No. 374). After a ten years' residence in lJ xbridge, he lh·ed for a time at Oxford, and died in ,v orcester, Sept.. 7, 1870, aged 82. .A good idea of his character and ability 111ay be gained fro111 the two notices of his death, - the first fro111 a Providence paper, and the second fro111 a ,v-orcester paper.

DE.ATH oi" AX OLD PrBLISHER. "Daniel Mowry, recently deceased in \\" orcester, neared t11e ripe age of eighty-two years. He was a natil"e of S1nithfield ; and without special educational advantages, became a sound business man. He published Tiu~ Micro cosm, Tl,e RJ,ode Island American, and the Daily Adver tiser, in this city, papers which had a good infiueuce in their day, being under the editorial charge of Benja111in F. Hallett. '' Mr. llowry was eminently an honest man. He had an innate love of truth, and was fearless in its expression, as he saw it." THE :\IOWRY F.-\1\IILY.

F,·om the lVorcester :,py. '· Died in this city, on the 8th instant, Daniel llowry, aged 82 years. llr. liowry "·as Lorn June 15, 1788, at S1nithfield, R. I., the residence of his worthy ancestors f9r several generations. I{c was well known for 1nany years as ' Daniel llowry, 3d,' his grandfather, father, and hitn sclf hearing the sa1ne na1ne at the sa1nc tiine,- a. period in Kew England history when 11dddle names had not con1e into fashion, and would ha\·e Leen frowned at as ostenta- tious superfluities and apish aristocracy. [The writer 1night have added that his grandfather's fi.1tl1er was also named Daniel.] ... I>auicl llow ry, 2d, had nine children, of whon1 three died early, and six were long-lived. The special subject of this notice, as abo,·e stated, died at the age of 82 ; one brother at 86, another at 81, and a sister at 85. Two brothers survi ,·e., - one a~cd 85, and the other 79. Their father

380. OLIVE lIOWRY, daughter of ,Yilliau1, born .Aug. 13, 1783; maried llarch 12, 1809, FARXUM H.ARRIS. lie ,vas born .A.ug. 4, 1778. 224 THE !\IOWRY FAMILY.

CHILDREN. Lucy, b. ~ov. 20, 1810. Abigail, b. July 5, 1812. 8usan .A.nna, ~ _ .. q:, ,.. . \. h ..A.pi l 1 --, 181 •• D1ana, . Elisha lf., b. June 11, 1821 ; not married. ,v· anton }I., b. Sept. 8, 1823.

381. "\V .ANTON ltO,YRY, son of \Yilliam, born Sept. 19, 1785; 1narricd Jan. 1, 1812, ALPHA P.UNE, daugbter of John, of ,v oonsocket. No cbild1·en.

382. DI.A.NA 11O,YRY, daughter of ,vnliam, born Sept. 21, 1788; 1narried JOHN \'!'"E.AZIE.

CHILD. John; not n1arried.

385. H.A.RRIS JENCKS lfO,VRY, son of William,. born April 27, 1796; 1narried 1 July 11, 1822, SALLY .A.NN BALLOU, d~ughter of Dexter, of ,v oonsocket.

CHILDREN. . 731. Abigail Ballou, b. May, 15, 1823; died May 6~ 1827. 732. Harriet Jencks, b. April 20, 1825.

Married 2 in 1827, LAURA BAKER THAYER, of Mendon.

CHILDREN. 733. Adaline Amanda, b. Dec. 29, 1827; died Jan. 1, 1846. 734. .A.lbert Erastus, b. June 7, 1829. HAl?.RIS JENCKS llOWRY. 225 735. \Villia1n Harrh;, b. 11 arch 13, 1830 ; died at sea about 1858. 736. Charles Frederick, b. April 14, 1833 ; died A.ug. 22, 1833.

Ma1-ried 3 June 15, 1834, i··\~NNY CAPRo:s ScoTT, daugh ter of Elisha Scott, of Bellinghtin1, and granddaughter of Philip Capron, of Cu1uberland.

CHILDREN. ,..9,.. • •:J' • Susan .A.nna, b ..A.ug. 2:3, 1835. 738. Elisha Capron, b. Dec. 26, 1836. 739. Sarah Jane, b. }lay 23, 1839. 740. George \Vater111an, b. Oct. 24, 1844., 741. Lewis Philip, b. July, 1847; died June 30, 1848.

lfarricd 4 JE)IDlA HoLLINGSWOltTH, nee Sean1ans. No children. He died in Shel,oygan, ,vis., in Septe1nbcr, 1854. Major Harris Jencks llowry, youngest son of ,villiam · and 8usannah l\Iowry, received what for the time would have Leen called a' good education, and in his early 1na11- hood he taught school in Rhode Island and in New York. He learned the silversmith's trade, but soon left it to en gage in mercantile pursuits, and for a n1.unber of years was so engaged in ,v oonsockct, R. I., and later in life in Provi dence and in Sheboygan, \Vis. About the time of the Dorr Rebellion, so called, he was in the foundry b_usiness in Providence, and for several years owned and operated the old Eddy Street Foundry, made memorable by tl1e meeting therein of the Dorr legislature. He was possessed of rare mecl1anical genius, which on more than one occasion, by turning his attention to trades he 16 --v-)')&! THE MOWRY F.-\MILY. 11ad ne,·er learned, enahled hint to recover rapidly front business disaster~. Iluring early 111auhood he l1elorr zno,·crucut; nnd upon the suppression thereof, "·as, \\·ith t11c leaders of tJ1at 1uove1nent, obli~"ed for a ti1nc to ,; go into exile." Ile was a 1ue1uhcr of the l[asonic and Odd Fellow f rate1·nities, taking a high degree in each, and died u n1end,er of the Episcopal CJ1u,·ch iu :-:1teboygan, \\.is., of which he was senior warden.

393. ~)IITJI llO\YR)"', son of ~yh·cster, born }larch 1 i, 1795 ; iuarried Sept. 23, 1823, -~l\lEY l)EXTER, daughter of Lev.·is, of :o;.111itl1field, R. I.; diect at Charleston, S. C., ~!arch l;"i:- 1861. ~he died }lay 9, 1874.

CBILDlU-:X.

-,I '1'--•--> Lewis Dcxier, b. June 22, 182-l. 743. Elisha Cook, b. Sept. 16, 1826. 744. .Ed\\-ard Smith, b. Aug. 31, 1828. 745. Lydia Con1stock, b. Jan. 2, 1831 ; died ~CJ>t. 6, 1832. 746. ,vnuam Sylvester, b. Dec, 4, 1832. 74,. Lydia Comstock, b. Sept. 11, 1835, in Smithfield. 748. _.\.lbert, b. Sept. 10, 1839, in Smithfield ; died Aug. 22, 1842, at New Rochelle, N. Y.

Smith l[owry, eldest son of Sylvester, \l·as born iu S1nithfield, R. I., '" a little State peOJ)led with l1a.rdy and industrious farmers, and tl1rifty and uoble women; noted also for its quarries and mauufactui-es. There, amid these S:\IITH MOWRY. 227 solid associations, his character receh·ed its first impres sions of earnestness, siinplicity, and indefatiga.ble dili gence." IIe 1110,·ed to Cha1·lesto11, S. C., about 1816, and on Sept. 23, 18:23, having returned ho1ne, he 1nar ried A.1ney, the youngest daughter of Lewis Ilexter, of S1nithfield, carrying her at once to his Southern hon1e. During their n1arded life of thirty-eight years, she was ever a true wife and a devoted 111other; and in her last years, exposed to the bitter experiences of the South, during the late war, and to the sufferings which followed upon that war, she developed a 1nagnificent courage and fortitude. He was for 1nany years a successful cotton factor, and ·' maintained a character of high integrity and honor as a 111ercbant of Charleston, and occupied positions of e111inent usefulness and responsil>ility." He was active in 111any of the enterprises of his adopted home at_ the South ; " an energetic director of the South Carolina Railroad Co., and was a1no11g the f ore1nost to suggest the building of the Northeastern Railroad, of ·wl1ich company he was a direc tor up to the time of his decease. His earnest perse,.,.erance and energy 1nainly contributed to the perfectiou and con1- pletion of tbe enterprise." He was also the president of the Southwestern T~legraph Co. Of his life of forty-three years in Charleston, one wrote: "Of tbis generous and enterprising life, of its industry and success, of tbe great respect and bigh estee1n he won to himself, amid all the fluctuations and changes incident to such a business as l1is has been, all bear truth £ul witness. Of him, in very truth it can be said, that his word was as good as his bond, for none stood higher than h~, for strict honesty, for undeviating uprightness, and TUI-: llOWRY F..\lllLY.

un'f'arying truth aud candor. llis 1uauner~ wer~ 1nild and unassun1ing, and f rec f ro111 ostentation." His father, a Xew }~ngland farmer, ga\·e to Sn1ith, when he ca1nc of age, a certain portion of lu1uber f ron1 his farm, for his own. ~n1ith drew it into ProYidence, dcter1nined to ship it South, thinking to realize 1nore by so doing. On ,v ater Street he sought to get it shipped of a captain who had a Ycssel then loading for Charleston. The captain had neYer seen hi1n before, and hesitated about taking his lun1- ber; when a by-~tanuer said to the captain, ",Yh)", he is Smillt 1.llou·r.11: you can trust hi1n.'' ~o the lumber was shipped. \Vhen he first ca1ne to Charleston, an entire stranger, he found it very difficult to secure the husiness he sought. Ile was a Ycry early riser, and oue 1no1;uiug, at an early hour, he wa~ wandering on one of the whar\·es of the city, when ]1e wa8 accosted hy a sea-faring 1nan, like himself a ·· stranger in Charleston~ who said to hiin, '· Young n1an, can you infor1n n1e of sonic reliable person to who1n I can consign n1y cargo of corn ? " llr. llowry replied to hiln," I am not acquainted in this city, buf I am determined to est.a~ lisl1 myself l1erc, and if you will trust to 1ne your co~n, I think I will be able to satisfv., .,vou." For a mo1nent or two the captain studied the face of }Ir. llowry, and, as he afterwards said, " pleased with its honest, confident expres sion," he concluded to trust hiln with the corn, aud was well repaid for l1is venture. This was the beginning of .tbe business of both gentle men, which afterwards grew into large proportions to both ; also the beginning of a friendship between them which extended throu$?h their entire· liYes. ",vith l)ru- SMITH :t\IO\VRY. 229 deuce for hi~ guide, and unostentatious ~uanncrs, connected with his natural ccono1uy, he was enabled to realize, during the course of his life, u. handsome estate. Y ct his purse was open to all the needy wl10 required alms, and he freely and largely contributed to 1uaint.ain the church, and alleviate the lot of the affiictcd. In the midst of his useful, busy career, he wus stricken down with u painful 1nalady, which confined hi111 to his bed for two 1nonths ; hut still, through sufferings which his physician said were contin uous and 111ost acute, he ,vas ever patient and ::sub1nissive, - an unconunon Yirtuc in one whose life had been so active. He was visited by religion8 convictions, ackuow,edged 11is condition as a sinner, who could obtain salvation fro111 Christ alone, and cast hi1uself hy prayer upon the Di\·ine 111ercy, as revealed in the Go:,;pcl. These religious exer cises iinparted a certain dignity and great calmness to the closing scene. Hegan! n1inute directions in reference to l1is funeral, a hopeful farewell to his fan1ily, and preserYctl a clear intelligence ahnost to the 1no1ne11t of his departure. One of his last expressions was deeply affecting. Ile said to a dear daughter, who hau ad1ni11iste1·ed with inexhausti ble affcction for days and nights by his sick bed, 'Good-by; kiss n1e, Lydia,' - thus at the last showing that tender, earnest, and childlike sin1plicity which hacl so characterized his whole life." Ile died }larch 16, 1861. His wife survived hhn twelve yea1·s; ancl together they rest_ in their last sleep, in the fa1nily burial.:.ground of the First Baptist Church of Charleston. 'rhe P,-01.,,idence Jour·nal quoted the following notice of 11is death f ro1n the Charleston Cou·rier: - 230 THE l!OWRY FA~IILY.

HEATH 01-· A:S OLD PRO:\II:SE:ST }IERCHA:ST. '' )Ir. Smith llowry, Jr., an old and highly esteemed inerchant of this city, died at his residence on lleeting 8treet, on Friday, the 15th of liarch, at 3 P. :\I. He had been confined to his bet.I f ro1n a dropsical affection for the last eight weeks. llr. llowry was a native of 81nithfield, R. I. ; born on the 17th of llarch, 1795 ; and at the ti1ue of his decease was within two

The following i~ also fron1 a Charlc:;ton paper, con tributed over the signature ,~ S." : - " A Rhode Island n1a11 by birtb, and one of the oldest factors in this city, S1nith Mowry, Jr., died yesterday afternoon (}larch 15, 1860). He has been ill for two 1nonths. He has occupied some pro1ninent positions as a CHARLES COOK lIOWRY. 231 business man, and has always stood high in the conununity. Though long ( forty-three years) a resident of Charleston, he has kept up his affection for the scenes of his child hood, and he spent a portion of last su1un1er, as usual, in Pro,·idence and at S1uithfield. He is to ue buried this afternoon, from the Jt'irst Baptist Church, where he has been long a pro1nincnt society 1ne1nber. The New England Society attent.1 the funeral." 'The following is a fuc-si?nilc of hi~ autograph : ---

• H94. CHARLE~ COOK lIOWU,Y, son of ~ylvestcr, horn July 13, 1798 ; 111arricd .Aug. 26, 1827, CELIA E ..A.L DRieH, daughter of Da,~id. She was born Dec. 14, 1809, and died }larch 27, 1843, aged 33. He died June 15, 1861, aged 63, at Pro,·idcnce. l'HILDRl-:X. 74:~. Charles Edward, b ..A.ug . ."i, 1828. 750. Julia Eliza, b. J nly 10, 1830 ; d. ~ept. 27, 1830. 7;,l. ,villiam, b. Oct. 26, 1831 ; d. Peb. 23, 1832. ,.. ,. -> H>-· Syh·ester, h .•Jan. 17, 1833. 753. Daniel Aldrich, b.• July 14, 1835; d. lfay 30, 1837. 754. Henry Clay, h. Feb. 18, 1838. Celia E1nma, b. July 10, 1840. All born in Providence, R. I. Charles C. Mowry was an intelligent, active business man, for many years a n1erchant in ProYidence, R. I. He was somewhat in public life, and during the later years of his life largely engaged in land speculation at the West. THF. l\lOWRY FA~IILY.

The followin!!..., singularh·.... - accurate reco1·d of his life is found in the N'ecrology of the Rhode Island Society for the Encoura1,?'en1cnt of Don1estic Industry, in their report for 1861. CHAltLES CooK liownY -~ \Vas achnitted a 1nen1her of this ~ociety, Oct. 17, 1838 . •-\.t the annual election of its officers in October, 18-17, he was electecl a n1en1Ler of the standiu~.- conunittee. •• lf r. llowry was born in S1uithficltl, on the thirteenth day of July, 1798. llis parents were Syh·ester llowry son of Col. Elisha l[owry-aud Patience, daughter of Col. ,Yilliam Cook .. of Tiverton. He was the fourth child of hi~ parents. Ile rccei,·cd a conuuon school education. \\"hen about twenty-one years of age, he left his father, and can1e to Pro,·idence and opened a grocery store. After this he also engaged in a shipping and conunissiou busi neg~:- with ,·aried succe:-;:,. Ile was very sanguine· in all hi:-; pursuit~, and of great and 1narked perseverance . ..-\.bout the year 1850 he left Pro,·idence for the ,vest, where he was engagec.l iu land speculation till within one or two yen rs of his death. His operations were large, but not very successful. On the 26th of ....\.ugust, 1827, he n1ar ried Celia E1nma, daughter of David ....\ldrich, of Smith field, hy who111 he had seven children, three of who1!1, with their 1nothcr, died during his life. "' }Ir. llowry was elected one of the representatives of Pro,·idence to the Ueneral .Asse1nbly, at the October se~ sion, 1837. I-Ie held the office of n1en1ber of the city coun cil of ProYid~ncc f ron1 June, 1844, to June, 1848. He always retained his residence and citizen~hip in Provi dence, and never lo~t a vote in the State elections. '' He

Below is given a fac-si1nile of his autograph.

397. :\f.ARCI.A lIO\VHY, daughter of ~ylvc:;tcr, l>o1·n Sept. 27, 1802 ; 1narricd Sept. 10, 1837, ELISHA llowRY .JENCKS, sou of General Char~e~. Ile died J nne 1'.' 184~, aged 44. No children. }frs. lla.rcia llowry Jencks i~ now living in Pro\'idencc, R. I., at the age of seventy-:--ix. ~'ro1u one of the l>e~t fa1uilies, always surrounded by well-cultnred people, sbe i~ the centre of affection and interest to a wide circle of frieutls. Of high 1uoral .characte1·, with intelligence, genial and social, li,·ing, not for her own personal eujoy1nent, but for the happiness of others, she has rightfully received and retained the highest respect, affection. and estee1n of all those who know her.

399. JOHN .A. }10\VRY, son of Syh·e~tcr, born lfarch 21, 1806; 1narricd Feb. 15, 1838, .AL:\llRA SlllTH. He died Nov. 9, 1876'.' aged 70. CHILDREN. ...'i) -6 . Harriet Eliza, h. Nov. 11 .. 1838;

406. ll.ARY J ...\XE lIO\VRY,

)la\·.. 11.. 1832:. 1narried }>AL'..\lElt Y ALLETT. ~o children. lJe lh·es near Li111erock.

-!OH. STEPJ-IEX D. llO,VRY, son of llajor Xathauiel, l,orn March !\ 1807; not n1arrie

-110. DEXTER lIO\VRY, son of llajor :Nathaniel, horn ,June ;JO, 1800; drowned June 24, 1837, aged 28 years. l-Ie spent his life at ho1ne, acting as bookkeeper and accountant for hi~ father. Ile was drowned in Blackstone canal.

411. ,vILLI.A.lI G. R. MOWRY, son of lfajor Nathan iel, born Dec. 20, 1810; 111arried Nov. 30, 1846, LYDIA OL~EY., daughter of Obadiah Olney; and granddaughter of Eli~ha Olney, of Smithfield. She was born lfareh 20, 1809.

CHILD. 762. .Auna Frances, b. No\·. 30, 1848; d. Sept. 15~ 1849. "~ILLIAM G. R. l\10\VRY. 235

,vnlia1n Gulley Randall llowry, fourth son of N athanicl llowry, 2d ( or, as he was more generally known, }lajor Nathaniel llowry), and Lydia Mowry, was born at Lin1c rock, Sn1ithfield, R. I., Dec. 20, 1810. He was 1narried to Lydia, daughter of Obadiah Olney, of S1nithficld, Nov. 30, 1846, by wl101n he had one daughter, w·ho died in infancy. His advantages of education were li1nited, and were such only as an industrious boy could gain fron1 a schooling of three 1nonths in the year in an ordinary country school, until hi~ 1najority, and f ro111 two or three tern-..' attendance at a Quaker boarding-school at Bolton~ )lass. .At the age of seventeen years, he was apprenticed to Lowell :Fales, the t.hen well-known builder, of Pawtucket, R. I.~ with who1n he ser,ed his full ter111 of four years, and was subsequently associated as partner. After the dissolution of the copart ncrship, he carried on the carpentering business for a nu1nhe1· of years, -contracting for and erecting, a1nong other buildings, a 111.unber of churches and 1nills. In the spring of 1847 he re1no,·ed to Providence., and cinbarked in the hunber business at the lower end of ~out.h Main Street, where, on the san1c pre111i~es on which he Legan, or on the next adjacent premises, he has continued alone, or as a me1nber of the fir1n of lfowry & Steere, or of the fir1n of William G. R. llowry & Co., with an inter ruption of a single year, in the sa1ne business to the pres ent day, - carrying himself and his fir1ns with unsullied c1·edit through the several financial crises coYered by that period. But his actiYe business habits ""ould not allo,v hin1 to be content e,·en with the management of the large ln1sines~ wl1ich had so grown up under his care; and dur ing the last fifteen or twenty years he has taken conspic- 236 THE MOWRY F ..\l\lILY. uous position in other lines of business, having been pres ident, treasurer, or director of ~everal large 1nanufacturing corporations in Rhode Island c111d in other States. v· ery few 1nen in the co1n1nunity in which he has lh·e

412. ALICE lIO\YRY, daughter of llajor Nathaniel, horn June 26'! 1813 ; 111arried SAMUEL E. G ARDXER. She died July 23, 1848, aged 35.

CHILD. Elizabeth. He was cashier of the Limcrock Bank. 413. NA.'l'lfANIEL S. 110,VRY, son of lfajor Nathan iel, born }larch 14, 1815; not married. Nathaniel S. llowry is characterized by l1is entire hon esty of purpose and life, good judgment, and success in business. He was ne,·er in debt, always punctual and true to his engage1ncnts, and a strict temperance man in theory and practice. 414. l-1.ARTHA JENCKS lIO,VRY, daugl1ter of llajor Natha1iiel, born ~eh. 11, 1817; married Nov. 12, 1834, WILLIAlI A. BRADLEY. Sbe died Jan. 13, 1861, aged nearly 54. CHILDREN. Nathauiel; dead. Alice. 238 THE MOWRY FAMILY. William ...\.. Bradley kept tavern for 1nany years at Lime rock, R. I., and was widely and favorably known.

416. .JOHN DEX'T'ER lIO\VRY, sou of llajor Xa thaniel, horn f-:ept. 28, 1820; married Sept. 25, 1845, .A.BBY B. PREXTICE, of Xorthbridge, llass. lie died at North bridge, .April 4, 1851, aged 30.

CHILDREN. 763. .Azuhah Prentice, l,. June 2-1:, 1846. 764. Ella Dexter, l,. Jan. 17, 1848. 765. Irving, b. llarch 11, 1850 . .All born in Xorthbridge, Mass. 417. ESTHER lfOWRY, daughter of" Esquire Jerry," born June 23, 1810; 1uarried Marcb 18, 1880, EPHRAIM 8AYLE8. CHILDRl-~N. Mowry, b. Jan. 12, 1831. Daniel, b. Sept. 4, 1832. Moses Manton, l,. June 16, 1835. Thomas, b. Sept. 14, 1841. Lewis Leprelet, b. April 11, 1846. Ephrain1 8ayles was hhnself descended, t1u:ough his mother, from J obn llowry, and his wife from Nathaniel and Jolin both. Through the long paternal line she was descended from Nathaniel; and through }fargery, the wife of Joseph ( No. 22), from Johu. He is a well-to-do farmer in Smithfield, widely and hon orably known. He bas in his possession a large quantity of old Mowry papers, reaching back, many of them, a hun dred and fifty, and some of them nearly two hundred years, R.-\CHEL MOWRY. .)oi>~'\...o~

·wl1ich have been of great value in tllc preparation of thi~ ,olume. lfoses llanton ~ayles was a nle1uber of Co. K, Eiglrty sixth Illinois Infantry. He died at Chattanooga .. Tenn., Dec. 7. 18t33.

419. Ill~LU.A.H lIO\\"'RY, daughte1· of '' 1'~squire .Jerry,'' hoi·n ,Jan.13, 1814; 1narricd in 1830, OLNEY ...-\.it NOLD. CHILDREN. John Owen, b. 1831; died 18a2. Ann Eliza, b. 1832. Gilbert Henry, b. 1836. Frances ...~dclaide, h. 1840 ; died 1848.

421. ELIZA .ANN ltO,VRY, daugbtcr of "Esquire Jerry," horn Jan. 13, 1817; married .January, 1843, ...i\sn~L PARKER. CHILD. Mary Eliza, b. Ko,·. 5, 1844.

422. SMITH MO"\VRY, son of " Esquire Jerry," horn J nue 6, 1819; married ...~ug. 27, 1843, JULIA BALLOU, daughter of .A.masa, of Burrill ville.

CHILDREN. 766. Herbert Smith, b. June 8, 1845; not 1uarried. 767. Julia Estella, b. Oet. 1, 1848. .An excellent 1uan, greatly respected, living on tbe old l1omestead in Burrilh-ille, R. I.

423. RACHEL l{O\VRY, daughter of" Esquire Jerry," born Nov. 23, 1821 ; married Nov. 9, 1851: AUGUSTUS REYNOLDS. 240 'l'HE MOWRY FAllILY.

CH IL DRE!\.. ,ri1Iia1n .A., b. liarch 21, 185~1. Betsey llorton, b. llay 2, 1857.

425. RlT'fII l[O\rRY, daughter of ,.; Esquire Jerry,'' horn July 13, 1828 ; 1narried liay 1, 1855, A.BEL PARKER, whose first wife was her sister Eliza .Ann (No. 421).

CIIILDRE~.

:Eveline Ruth, b. Nov. 28, 185!l; died Jul,... 13.. . 1860. Alice ...t\.., b. ,July 23, 1861. Esther S., h. l[arch 26, 186-1. ~label 11., h. April fi, 18t36.

426. ~l"~.A.N ll. .J. ll0\\9RY, daughter of "Esquire .J crry ," born July 18, 183-1 ; 1narried 1\Iay 29, 1855, JABEZ \V. )low RY, ~on of Reuben. For chiluren, sec '"lahez \V". (No. 701_).

427. D.AXI:f~L 11O,rRY, fo;on of "llajor llorton" ; 1narricd Sept. 6, 1857, CL.AltISSA PAISE, -uf:.t· Collins. No children.

428. .JOSEPII 11O\VRY, son of '' }lajor Mortou," b. June 20, 1826; 1narried Nov. 1, 1860, )L.\RY ELIZABETH llowny, daughter of Olney, who ""as the son of Darius. (They are descended from John, the brother of Natha11- icl.) 8he was horn }larch 2, 1840.

CHILDREN. ,.._o ' ' . Infant, b. Jan. 1, 1862; died same day. 771. Daniel llorton, b. June 28, 1863. 772. Clarence Olney, b. Sept. 27, 1864. 773. ,v alter Alston, b. Dec. 5, 1865. ?tlARY E. l\1O\VRY. 241

T14. Alzada Ballou, b. llarch 20, 1867. 775. .A.rthur Joseph, l>. Oct. 5, 1871 ; died No\". 19, 1871.

429. H.A.NN.A.ll S. llO\YR1... , daughter of Joseph, L. Dec. 10, 182:3; 1narried 1 Dox1s0:s ...-\... l:sl\I.A.X, son of Edward. CHILDREN. lfonroe. Ellen. Ida. Udah I. Louis L. Lester Eugene. }Iarricd 2 D ..\ RLING ,v HITE. No children.

430. JERE~ILt\.H lIOWRY, son of Joseph, L. Aug. 9, 1825 ; married A.Nx ELIZA Ross.

CHILDREN. i76. \Yarreu. 777. Maria. 431. NA.TH.A.N S. }IOWRY, son of Joseph, b. },eb. 23, 1827; married LOUISA QUACKENBOS.

CHILDREN. ,..,..8 ' ' . Albert. 780. Charles Edwin. 779. Anne. 781. Jennie.

432. JAMES MOWRY, son of Joseph, b. July 10, 1829 ; married 1 MARY Qu ACKEN BOS.

CHILD. 782. Alice. Married 2 LAURA. LOBDELL. No children. They lh·e in Georgetown, Mich.

433. MARY E. MOWRY, daughter of Joseph, b. Feb. 3, 1881 ; married FREEMAN M. CARR. 242 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

CHILDRES. ....\lonzo. Eliza A.nu . Martha. Mary Elizabeth.

The,·., live iu 8t. John's., Mich .

434. MINERY ....\. :MO,VRY, daughter of Joseph, b. lfav.. 10.. 1832:. 1narried ,VILLARD DARLJxc:.

CHILDRf:N. Laura. ...\.rabella, l t . ( WlllS. Olney. Isabella, ~ Charles. ....\.lice. They lh·c at liarrisville, Burrillville, R. I.

43{>. L.A. FAYET'fE 110,VRY, son of Joseph, b. Oct. 23, 183~; 1narried l-J.AXX..\H .JEXCKS.

CHILDREX. 783. If erbert. 784. Franci~. 785. Ervin.

They live at Glendale:- Burrillville, R. I.

439. M... .\.RTHA. P. llO,V'RY, daughter of .Joseph, born 1840; 1narricd JA.ll~ .ANDERSON. They lived in Michigan, and had two children. She is not now living.

441. SAlIUEL E. l'IOWRY, son of Josepb, born Nov. 27, 1843 ; 1narried REBECCA E. TAFT.

CHILDRES. 786. Eliza ....\1111. 788. Henry. 787. Etta. 789. One other. MARGERY MOWRY. 243

443. ELISHA 110,VRY, son of Eliakim ; 111arried ELIZA MOWRY, daughter of Arnold ( descended f ro111 John). CHILD. 790. Elisha Arnold.

445. L.A. YIN.A 110,VRY, daughter of Eliakiin; 1nar ried RICHARD Mo,vRY, sou of Arnold.

CHILDREN. 791. Marquis de La Fayette. 792. }lanton. 793. Arinda . ...lfter the death of Eliza, Richard married 2 ,VAITY HAR RIS, and had one child, which is dead.

447. LUCRETIA. MOWRY, daughter of Eliakim; married Sl\UTH MOWRY, son of '\Villiam (family of John).

449. AlIEY MO,VRY, daughter of Joseph, born June 15, 1794; married NICHOLAS· P. WHITE.

451. MARY MOWRY, daughter of Joseph, born Sept. 27, 1798; 1narried WILLIAM ANGELL. She died May 2, 1842. CHILDREN • .A.mey .Ann ; married John Maxfield. Abby M., b. Oct. 11, 1827; married Hiram Maxfield. She had seven child1·en, and died Jan. 5, 1859. Malona 11. ; n1arried ,villiam Cole, of Warren. Mary. 453. MARGERY MOWRY, daughter of Joseph, born June 24, 1803; married DARLING HUNT. She died Feb. 23, 1875. 244

CHILD. Orin.

459. JEXCK~ )1O\YRY, son of Joseph, born March 31, 1815 ; 1narried Sept. 2t3, 1844, .A.BBY GREENE, eldest daughter of Capt. Richard ,Yickes Greene, of "'."" arwick.

CHILDREN. ... o • v;:>. Joseph Edward, b. No\·. 2, 1845. 79t;_ Caroline F1·anccs, b ..Aug. 26, 1847; died July 1, • 1849. 797. Hannah Delia, b. llay 9, 1849. 798. Fannie \Velles, b. Dec. 16, 1851. 799. Jane .Anthony, b. March 16, 1855. 800. Raymond Greene, b. May 31, 1857. 801. Abby Jencks, b. July 21, 1865.

Jencks }fowry is a 1na11 of marked character, and de serYing of special mention. ,Vith limited advantages in early life, he succeeded in obtaining a good English educa tion, and has passed 11is life as a success£ ul school-teacher. After many years' service in the public schools of his native State, he co1nmenced, about twenty years ago, a private scl1ool near Olney\·ille, no,v Providence, R. I. Thi~ school grew in 11umbers and popularity, till a few years ago he built a new school-building, and the school was enlarged into ,,; The )fount Pleasant Academy." He has during these later years associated with him, in the management of the academy, his son, Joseph E. Mowry, a graduate of Bro,vn UniYersity,.a fine scholar, and a good teacher.

460. JOHN MOWRY, son of Josepl1, born Sept. 10, 1817 ; married SusAN E. FARNUM, daughter of Daniel. LYDIA MOWRY. 245

CHILD. 802. .John IIerbert ; married about 187:.?, and lh·es in Providence. He is a far1ner, and li;ed in Rhode Island, except seven years in Bureau Co., Ill., fro1n 1851 to 1858, and in Massachusetts since 1872.

461. JOIIN MO\VRY, son of John ( called "Little John") ; 1narricd .A.LICE(?) MowRY, daughter of Be11ja111in llowry, of Burrillville (John fa.inily). They had hvo daughters.

462. EL~IE 11O\VRY, daughte1· of .John; 1narried JoSEl'H Bnowx, of Burrillville.

463. X-.\XCY l[O\VRY, daughter of John ; 1uarried ....\R ..\D LAPHAl\l. CHILDREN. }[owry. George. Lydia. One otl1er, a s011.

464. L ...:\.. VINA. H. MOWRY, daughter of John; 111ar ried Sep\. 14, 1826, JuNL\. S. LATHAM, son of Benoni.

CHILDREN. Laura. Lucinda.. Benoni. Helen. Sarah. Daniel W. Lavinia. Edward. And four more.

465. LYDIA. MO,VRY, daughter of John; 1narried Ons BaowN, of Burrillville. 246 THE .MOWRY F.-\:~IILY. 467. CYRENE 11O,VRY, daughter of John; married THOlIAS P. .\ISE, of Smitl1field. 468. ESEK llO"~RY, son of Jeremiah. He married, and lh·ed in Willington, Conn., and afterwards in Thomp son (?), and died there. 469. POLLY }IO,\"'RY, daughter of Jere1niah; mar ried 1 GODFREY STONE. }Iarried 2 -- LILLIBRIDGE, of Willington, Conn. 470. JESSE •r. 11O,YRY, son of Israel; married. (Name of ,vife not known.) CHILD. 804. Erwin ; liYes iu X. H. 471. ""' .A.ITY MOWRY, daughter of Israel ; married ""'ILLlAM ARXOLD, son of Stephen G.

CHILDREN. lfary; m. Orin Cook, of Cumberland. Laura ; n1. Wm. Hutc11i11s011. ,vnliam ; 1n. Hannab Cook, sister of Orin. ,vnliam Arnold lived on the Smitl1field town farm, but. now lives at Limerock.

473. ELIZABETH 11O,vRY, daugl1ter of Israel ;· mar ried 1 ELIJAH SlnTH, soi:1 of Ephraim. CHILDREN. Infant son; died. Eliza ; m. Luke Ballou. Mary ; m. George Currier. Epl1raim ; m. Julia Buffum. Emma ; died, about 10 years old. Brown ; not married. llarried 2 FAYETJ'E NEWTON. No children. PHIL.-\ llOWRY. 247

474. JDLI... i\. •.\. 110"\\"'R\... , daughter of Israel; 1uarried WILLL\)I GOLDTH\\.AIT.

CHILDRES. Julia E. ; 111arried George W. Kin1ball. ,Villiam ll.; 1uarried Elonia M. Luther. Rebecca B. ; 1narried George H. Luther. John .A.• ; uot 1uarried. Maria J. ; not n1a rried . ...-'\.I wild a .A.• \"'arina D. Adelbert S.

475. LACRA.. ..-\ .. llOWRY, daughter of Israel; mar ried 1 lIAsox LEE. CHILD.

llarried 2 OTIS }lowuY, son of DaYid.

CHILD. , 805. Charles S., b. May 14~ 1857. 478. STEPHEN MOWRY, son of ....\.111asa; 1narried S. .\.RAH SAYLES, :,i:.;ter of Dutee l\lowry's wife.

CHILDREN. 806. Sarah ; 1narried -- Burdick. 807. Stephen ; married E1nily .A.Id rich, daughter o: Burrill. 808. Edwin. 809. · Franklin ; died youug 810. Lydia; died young.

480. PHILA. MOWRY, daughter of ..A .. masa; married BAa..,TEY :MOWRY (No. 297, whicl1 see). 24:8 THE MOWRY F.\l\ULY.

482. ,vILLlA.11 B.AINBRIDGE lIOWRY, sou of Eliezer, Jr.; born }larch t\, 1816; married .A.SN ELIZ.\ JEscKg'.' daughter of _.\.rnol

CHILDl?EX. 811. .Arnold Jencks, b ..A.pril 19, 1846. X.12. .A.nson Byron, b. July 31, 1849.

484. .JOHX ORDB JIO\VRY, son of Eliezer, Jr., horn Feb. 24~ 18:20; 1narriecl -- IIAmu~, daughter of Benja- . 1n111. CHILl>ltKX.

'J~1-"l €). ,,.. illian1 John, l, . .July 19, 1849. fil4. .A.ln1eda Lydia, b.• Jan. 16, 1852. 815. Xelson Harris, b. ~ept. 7, 1858. 816. Emn1a Ballou, h.. June 23, 185:3. ~17. .Jennie Louisa, b. llay 1, 1860.

485. ~ALL1- :\10\VRY, daughter of .Joseph ; 1uarrieti l[oWRY lsl\lAX, son of Edward.

487. ~ERRELL lIO,VRY, son of ,Joseph, born Jan. 29, 1826; married LYDIA WILCOX. No children. He is a merchant in Providence, R. I., where for 111any years past lie has kept a popular clothing store.

488. N.A.NCY }1O\VRY, daughter of Joseph; 1narriecl PARDON LAHHAl\l.

489. ESTHER MO\VRY, daughter of Joseph; 1narried ANDRE\V J. l\f..\THE,VSON.

490. LA. VIN.A. MOWRY, daughter of Ezekiel, born Jan. 4, 1823; married A.pril 3, 1842, ,v1LLIAM OLNEY. JULI...\NNA l\lOWRY. 249

CHILDU,EN. \Villia1u, b. 8ept. 18, 1842. .A.mey .A.1111, b. l\Iarch 21, 1844 ; died March 29, 184-L Oscar J., h ..A.pril 11, 18,5.

493. .A.LBERT i10,vRY:- son of Ezekiet horn Oct. 5,. 1830; 1narried ~ept. 1-1-, 1856, RUTH E. THAYER, daughter of ...,\,rcha Tha .,,--er . CHILDRKS. 818. ....\.. Frank, b. lfarch 10,.1859. 819. \\Tinsor H., b. :Feb. 2, 1861 ; died Oct. 20, 18t31. 820. Ella }lay, b. Oct. 11, 1864; died Jan. 3, 186;j_ ~:!: ITwin si.-ters, b. March 10, 1871; died same day.

494. LUCINDA. l-10\\~RY, daughter of Ezekiel, born J"an. 21, 1834; 1narried .April 27~ 1856, 8ul\tXER SHEI?l\L\N, son of Syra L. Shcr1uan~ of Burrillville.

CHILDREN. Lillian, b. Oct. 22, 1858 ; died }larch 27, 187 4. E,·erett B., b. Jan. 17, 1862.

496. Slt:ITH B. MO,VRY, son of Ezekic-1, born llarch 13, 1839; married Dec. 14, 1865, 1\1..\RIA L. SHERMAN, daughter of Syra L.

CHILDREX. 823. Stella Louise, b. Sept. 14, 1868. 824. Clarence Eugene, b. Jan. 10, 1871.

497. JULIANNA MOWRY, daughter of Ezekiel, born }larch 3, 1845; married June 15, 1872, EDWIN .JEPHRRSON. THE l!OWRY FA~ULY.

CHILDREN. :Bnuna Luella, b. April 15, 1873. Cora ,~iola, b. Bept. 23, 1875.

-!99. ELIZABETH MO,YRY, daughter of LeYi; mar ried a judge in .Albany, N. Y.

501. RAX DA.LL lIO\VRY, sJn of Joab; married --Randall. CHILDREX. ,vi1Iia1n. 826. IIen1·y. o:.u') •. D auie· 1 , 1v.• o~tc ....9 ~ • '.' 18~-_.'). 828. .A.1nev., . 829. Randall. 830. Eliza. 831. Tho1nas, h. July 28, 1835. 832. Emily. 833. George. 834. Albert. 835. Nelson; not n1arried. 836. .Ed ward. 837. .A.ubv., . Lh·es in S1nithfield, R. I. 502. .A.lIEY lIOWRY, daughter of Joab ;- married SlnTH .A.NGELL. They li\"e in Providence.

503. ,,.. HIPPLE iro,YRY, S011 of Joab ; married BAR BARA !RONS. CHILD .. 838. ....\.rnold. Lives in Smithfield, R. I.

SMITH MOWRY, son of Joab; married LOUISA ,VEST. LYDIA MO\VRY. 251

CHILDREN. 839. George. 840. Emma. .A .. nd one other son and one daughter.

506. SARAH MO,VRY, daughter of Joab; 1na1-ried .JOSEPH TURNER.

507. ZIB.A. }IO,VRY, son of Ziba; 1narried Sl\IITH. CHILDR'KN. 843. Crawford. 845. .A.lbert. 844. Rasselas. 846. Gilbert..

508. " .....\.ITEE MO,YRY, daugbter of Ziba ; 1narried GIDJ.~ON ALDRICH.

510. CHRISTOPHER }IOWRY, sou of Ziba ; 1uarricd .AXN BROWN. Have no knowledge of their children.

513. A.RNOLD MO,VRY, son of Job, Jr.; 1narried LolURA HILL. No children.

514. GEORGE MO,VRY, son of Job, Jr. ,vent. to Ohio, married and l1ad children, but nan1cs not known.

516. ERIE MOWRY, son of Job, Jr.; 1narried ADAH liowRY, daughter of Stephen, who was the son of Zebedee (family of John). CHILD. 847. A.dab ; ,vent to Colorado.

518. LYDIA MOWRY, daughter of Job, Jr., horn ...~pril 21, 1813 ; maried JAMES ,:--IALL. They li,c in Olneyville, and have seYeral children. CH.t-\.PTER VII.

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THE SEVENTH GENERATION.

ELIZ.A.BETH E. llO,VRY, daughter of Charles, horn Sept. 16, 183..J:; 1narried F1iEDERICK G. ,v1LKS. 529. 8A.l!AII ELIZA.BETH 110,VRY, daughter of .John, born l\farch 7, 1840, at Leyden, lfass.; 1narried May :20; -, R. B. RICHl\IOXD. llr. Richmond is a far1ner in .A.urora, Ill. .330. HENRY CL.A.Y MOWR1... , son of John, born ...-\.ug. 15, 1842, in Leyden, Mass.; married Nov·. 12, 1873, .J.:\XE HANDY. Henry C. lfowry is a 1nerchant in Chicago, III. 531. GEORGE MO\VR'l:... , son of John, born Dec. 13, 1843, at Leyden, }lass.; married No,'". -, 1871, AsNA Moa1L. George Mowry is a merchant, and Ii ,i-es in Chicago, Ill.

532. CHRISTOPHER MOWRY, son of John, born .Aug. 27, 1846, at Leyden, Mass. ; not married. Mr. Mowry was a volunteer in the war of the Rebellion, and fought in the battles of Pittsburg Landing and Cor inth, under General Grant. He is now· a 1nedical student at Detroit, Mich. HELEX )I. MOWRY. 2:33

533. ELIZ ...\.BETH 110\l"R ·r·, daughter of llanley ; married '\\'"' ARRE~ KIXGSLEY.

534. MARY CORDELI..-\. 110\YRY, daughter of Man ley ; married DWIGHT C.1RPENTI-~R. Mr. Carpenter is a farn1er, living in Leyden, ~lass.

535. SUSAN MO,YRY, daughter of lfanley; 1narricd EZRA Fo~TER. Mr. ~'oster is a far1ner, at Leyden, }lass.

538. EMELINE MO"\\rRY, daughter of Nathan A.; married GEOHGE WASHINGTON STETSON. Mr.. Stetson is a 1nechanic, and resides in Leydeu, }lass.

539. HART EASON MO'\VR\"", son of Nathan .A... ; married ELLA POTTER. Hart E. l[owry is a far1ner, living in Leyden, }lass.

542. DA YID CARPENTER MO\YRY, son of David, born in 1842 ; not married. David C. Mowry was a soldier in the war of the Rebel lion. He died of fe'\"er in 1864, in the hospital at Wash ington, N. C., after fighting bravely in the battles of Roa noke Island and Newbern. He was a young 1nan of great muscular power and acknowledged courage. His re mains were brougl1t home to Leyden, Mass., and buried. Over his grave stands a handsome granite monument.

646. HELEN M. MOWRY, daughter of Albert L., born May 26, 1843, at Shelburne Falls ; married Dec. 6 1 1866, CHARLES BosWICK PEET. She died Feb. 21, 1877, a1 New York City. 254 THE MOWRY F• .\MILY. 548. \VILLIAll LEROY MOWRY, soil of LeRoy, born Jan, 1, 1834; n1arried Feb. 22, 1856, MARY E. COT TRELL. 8he died lfay 2, 1861.

CHILDREN. 860. F1·ederick LeRoy, b ....-\.pril 14, 1857; died Sept. 11, 1858. 861. Kate Noyes, b. Nov. 26, 1859; died Jan. 13, 1860.

;349. CH.A.RLES TO,VNSEND MO\VRY, son of Le Roy, bor11 July 4, 1837; married June 14, 1865, HARRIET }{. BLANCH.ARD.

:j51. JANE ELIZ.A.BETfl MO,VRY, daughter of ,vn liam H., born Dec. 5, 1833 ; 1narried .April 18, 1854, DE OD.\TUS H.. .\SKELL.

554. ,\:'JLLI.A.M Gl~,FORD 110\VRY, son of ,villian1 H., born March 12, 1842 ; inarried .April -, 1860, CARRIE ,VHITE.

555. 8ARAII GRIS\VOLD 110\VRY, daughter of ,vn liam H., born June 13~ 1849; married Jan. -17, 1871, .JAME~ 0. LAVAKE.

560. CHARLE8 N. )10\VRY, soil of Nelson, born llay 20, 1844. He is married, and lives in Wilbraham, }lass. He is a merchant, and has associated with him his two younger brothers.

564. SABEN MO\VRY, son of Russell; married Euz .-\.BETH BROWN. SH.\DRACH MOWRY. 255

CHILDREN. 862.. Ellen Asenath. 863.. Harriet.. 864. Archibald.

566. LORENZO lfO\VRY, son of Russell, 1uarried EMILY BunLINGAME. No children.

567. H ...4.Rf .. EY lIOWRY, sou of Russell; 111arried Dec. 1852, LYDIA \Y. Baowx.

CHILD. 86:3. Harley Warren. 569. SAR.A.H MO"rRY, d~ugbtcr of Sayles; 1uarric-d JAMES WILLIAMS.. Nothing n101·e is known of tbis fa1nH.,r.

571. N.ARCISSA B. MOWRY, daugbter of Sayles; 1narried SIMEON Baowx ..

572. CATHERINE )IOl\'"'RY, daugltter of Sayles; married ....\.LANZO EY ANS.

574. SCOT1" MOWRY, sou of Charles; born in 1817: 1narried HALLY--. No children. He died .June lo, 1817, aged 60 years.

575. WINDSOR MO\VRY, son of Charles; mat·rie(l ELIZA LATHAM. CHILDREN. 866. Cbai-les .. 867.. Thomas. 868. .Mary Eliza ; not married.

576. SHA.DR.A.OH MOWRY, sou of Charles; 1ua.rried ALZ.ADA .....\.RMSTBONG. 2:j6 THE :\IOWRY FAMILY.

CHILDRES. 869. ....\buy Jane. 870. }.,rcderick ; not married. lie is a stone-1nason, and lives at Oakland, R. I.

577. CH ...\.RLE~ lIOWRY, Ju., son of Charles; mar ried E~IILY BuxTox. l'HILDREX. 871. ,v alter ; not n1arrieq. 8-~'-· Louis 'S. 873. En1il\·., . ~74. Julia. 875. Ella ; not 1narried. 876. Sarah.

f>92. SllIOX B. ·11O,VRY, son of Fenner, born June 22, 1831; 1111.rried E~lZABSTH Mo~ROE. No children. He li~es in Quincy, Mich .

. 593. RENSSELAER L. MOWRY, son of Fenner, born June 21, 1833; 1narried LAURA .A.. VosE, daughter of .Albert. CHILDREN. ,.._ 8 ... Albert ...~., b. 1854. 878. Edgar, b. October, 1857. 879. Orville, b. Marcl1, 1859. 880. Phebe, b. J nne, 1871. Mr. Mowry-is a farmer, at Manville, R.lI., and for two years past has represented the town of Lincoln in the Gen eral Assembly.

606. ANDRE\V .A. MOWRY, son of Smith Ray, born Oct. -, 1838 ; married ----. No children. His "'·if e died March 21, 1877. ARLON llOWRY • 257 ..-\.ndrew .A.. llowry is a clerk for Pooley & Co., dealers in preserres, Boston, Mass.

627. .A.LBERT \Y ...lT~~ltll!.X lIO,VRY, son of \Yatcr man, born at Winfield, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1821 ; n1arried Sept. 28, 184ii, ELEAXOR ( ?) BL1::-~.

CHILDREN. 881. Albert \Yater1nan, h ...-\.ug. 5, 1846. 882. liartha Jane, b. Dec. 11, 1850.

641. ORIN PR... -\. T1' 11O\VRY, sou of Barney, born llay 24, 1829; 1narried HAS~AH T. SMITH, daughter of E ze k·1e. l ~1n1t,, . I1. ~-·1 1e was born .rN· ov. 1·c>, 18;-,=>~:..

CHILD. 888. Bertha v· ., b. March 17, 1864.

642. .ALBERT MO\YRY, sou of Barney, born March 9, 1881 ; ma1Tied }[.ARY ARSOLD, daughte1· of J a1ucs. They liYe at Union Village, Sn1ithfield, R. I.

648. -ARLON :MOWRY, son of Barney, born Feb. 23, 1833; married HARRIET WHITMAS, daughter of Isaac. She was born .Jan. 1, 1887, and died Jan. 2, 1865.

CHILDREN. 884. Emma Lillian, b ...A.pril 27, 1858. 885. Eugene Clayton, b. Aug. 12, 1860. 886. Wilired Lester, b. Nov.15, 1862; died Nov. 18, 1862. 887. Harriet Whitman, b. Sept. 16, 1864. .Arlon )lowry is one of the leading men Qf North Smith field, R. I. He is now senator from that town in the Gen eral Assembly. JR 258 TH.I-: )IOWRY FAMILY.

o.J:4. BTAFFORD lIO\\"RY, son of Barney, born ...-\.pril 14~ 1835; 1narried ll.\RI.\ JI. Baowx, daughter of Daniel. of ,r oon~ocket .. It I. She w~s born Dec. 14, 1830.

CHILD HEX.

8~8. Eriuina"'Pu. b. llav"' 12 ... 1858. 88ft. Linette B., h.· Fch. 6, 1860. 890. llirtclla B., l, ....-\.ug. 23, 1861. Stafford llowry lh·es at \Yoousocket, It I.

645. ....\.T,VELL }IO,VRY, sou of Barney, born Xov.18, 1836 ; 1narried Oct. 26, 1856, H.\N~C~H ,Y. EDDY, daughter of Randall P. She was Lorn Oct. 8, 1838.

CHILDREX.

8c•) 1 • ,.. 10. Ia I ., b . ..:1.pr1' ·1 :.o,'> ~ 1 ~b,.~ - ... 892. .A.della, h. Oct. 26, 1858 ; died }!arch 12, 187•3. 893. Leolin X ., b. July 14, 1863.

646. ER,YIN .A. lIO\YRY, son of Harney, born Dec. 8, 1847; married ...\.NXJE CLARK,daughter of Tho1nas. S11e was horn Dec. 11, 1850. No children. Ile is a 1nerchant in l[ount Carroll, lll.

647. ll.ARTH ..-\. 110\\"RY,daughtcr of George ...\.,born }larch ;j, 1829; 1narried Dec. 3, 18.51, FENXER ...4..LDRICH.

648. .JESBE llO\VRY, son of George A., born Feb. 3, ] 831; 1narried Jan. 10, 1856, ELIZ.\ STICKLE.

649. THOlI... .\S lIO,VR1-, son of George .A.., born .Jan. 19, 1833; married Jan. 25, 1855, S.AR.AH SAPP.

650: GEORGE MO\VRY, son of George A.. , born ...;\.p,;il 7, 1835 ; married ....\ug. 22, 1858, ...4..NER SAPP. CHAR.LOTTE 1\1O\VRY. 259 651. ROBERT lIO\YRY, son of George .A.. , born }lay 23, 1837; n1arriecl Sept. 6, 1862, llARY ll. }IILLIGAN.

652. M.A.RG ....\.RET ¥O\VRY, daughter of George A.. , ~orn Oct. :20, 1839 ; married Dec. -, 1859, SuLLJV..\.X ...-\.L DRICH, son of Siiuon, of Illinois.

653. ,vELCOlIE lIO,VRY, son of George .A., born A.pril 3, 1842 ~ 1narried Sept. 5, 1866, Luc1N.\ SAPP.

655. N... .\.NCY 11O,vRY, daughter of George A.. , born Dec. 21, 1846 ; 1narried l[arch 19, 1865, · WEBSTER ,v. Mos&.;;.

657. .A.ll...\...ND.A. lIO\VRY, daughter of Caleb, Jr., born lll Uxbridge, Mass., Dec. 7, 1825; 1narried 1 )lay 1, 184-1, \VILLIAlI lL.\.RBLE, of llillbury, Mass.

CHILDREN. Ellen .A.ma.nda. Junius.

llarried 2 HENRY A~soN, son of Manning Anson, of U x l>ridge, Mass. CHILD. Nettie.

658. CHARLOTTE MO,VRY, daughter of Caleb, Jr., )Orn in Griswold, Conn., June 8, 1827; married 1 June -, 1845, JOSEPH }L\RTIN, of Maine.

CHILD. Helen Amanda. . Married 2 B •.\RTL~T F. B~oWNING, of ....\thens, l~e. 260 THE )IOWRY FAl\lILY.

CHILDREN. Charles D., b. Feb. -, 1855, at \Valpole, }lass. ; died May-, 1860. Alice Florence, b. Feb.-, 185i, at \Val pole, Mass. Charlotte llowry died at Foxboro', lfass., Jan. 5, 1859,. aged 31 years, 6 months, 28 days.

659. CH.A.RLES LEON.A.RD MO\VRY, son of Caleb, Jr., born at Griswold, Conn., }larch 29, 1829; married 1 .iBBY HOLBROOK, of Searsport, Me. She died Oct. -, 1855, at South \Y al pole. :Married 2 ELLEN LEV E:SS, of Webster, lfass.

661. ALBERT SLATER MOWRY, sou of Caleb, Jr.,. born at Fitchburg, Mass., June 18, 1837 ; married Aug. 29, 1859, KATIE lL\sox, of Walpole, }lass., daughter of '\Yilliam. She was born March 27, 1836.

CHILD. 894. Charles H., b. June 10, 1860, at South Walpole. Albert S. Mowry is the proprietor of a large and excel lent hotel, called the " Springfield House," in Nantucket, Mass. He has a very honorable record in the war of the Rebellion. He enlisted in the United States Navy at the beginning of the war, and served tl1ree years, with great bravery ; and at the expiration of his t~rm of service rece~ved a :flattering letter of appreciation and commenda tion from the officer under whom he served, Lieut.-Com mander E. K. Owens. He was sent out to the Mississippi River, and was upon the gun-boats under Admirals Foote, Davis, and Porter. He was in the engagements of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, Fort Pillow, W. .\ITY ANGELL 1\10\VRY. '>'1..ti }lemphis, Vicksburg, Haines's Bluff, Fort Hind1nan, the Deer Creek Expedition, Grand Gulf, and the Red River Expedition. Of 500 1ne11 who ,vent out with hiln, only 60 returned at the expiration of the three years. He was one of those who went into the service from patriotic 1noti,·es, endeaYorcd to do his duty honorably and faithfully, and feels now, like a multitude of others f ro1n both ar1nies, that one war is enough. He 11ever wants to see another.

662. ....\.LlIOX TH,YIXG lio,ritY, son of Caleb, Jr., Lorn at liillbury, llass., June 19, 1842; 1narried .....\..pril 5, 1863, ll.:\RY G. l\It:RPHEY, daughter of Charles.

CHILDU.E~. 895. Harry Clifton, b. Feb. 11, 1865. 896. Chester Frank, b. _-\.ug. 21, 1872. .A.nd hvo others that died . ....\.hnon T. llowry is also a popular hotel-keeper in Nan tucket.

679. 8 ....\RAH .A.NN lIO,\"Rl... , daughter of Jackson P., born at Louisville, Ky., Sept. 29, 1849; 1narried Jan. -6, 1870, "\YILLL.\l\I F. DIETRICKS, of St. Louis, }Io.

CHILD. ,villie Clay, b. Sept. 25, 1871, in St. Lotti$, Mo. }[r. Dietricks is a tobacconist in St. Louis.

681. W.A.ITY ANGELL liIO,VRY,daughter of Nathan iel, born Feb.15, 1796, ,vas never married, but is now living at the good old age of 82, in Glocester, where she has been for the last tw·enty-fi ve years. 111 her younger days she taught school for more than twenty years. " .Aunt W aity," as she 262 THE lIOWRY F ..\llILY. is generally called, has an excellent 1nind, a genial, kindly disposition, ever cheerful, and retaining in her old age a Yigorous 1nen1ory, which has been a n1arkecl characteristic all her life. She is a friend to everybody ; consequently she has not an enen1v.. in the world .

682. D... .\XIEL .A. )IO,YRY", son of Xathaniel, l,~rn .Aug. 31, 1797; 1narried 1 OJt. 15, 1818, }!ARY J. HARRIS, daughter of Jonathan, of 8n1ithfield. Bhe was born Dec. 8, 179G, and died ~cpt. 8, 1830, aged 3;J years.

CHILDREN.

899. Dar,1li11 R., 1., ...Jan. 13, 1820. 900. Daniel ....\.., b. No,·. 15, 1828.

)larried 2 Feb. 24, 1833, ...lBIG ..\IL HARRIS, daugl1ter of Jonathan. She was born June 13, 1803. He died July 19, 1877, aged nearly 80 years.

CHILDREN. 901. E111or H., b. Oct. 20, 1833. 902. Xathaniel S., b. A.pril 18, 1839.

Daniel ...t\.. Mowry was hrougl1t up on his father's farm .. ,Yhen he was about twenty-one years of age, he received, accidentally, an injury on general muster day, which lamed him for life, and unfitted him for the · more se Tere kinds of manual labor. He was gate-keeper for seY eral years upon the Douglas turnpike. For about five years he l1ept a retail store at the junction of the Douglas. turnpike and the Woonsocket and Scituate road. He moved to Providence April 1, 1832, and bought out the Ly n1an Arnold store 011 Canal Street, where lie kept grocer- DR. SA)lUEL )IOW'RY. 263 ies, grain, and flour. After a. dozen years or more, he 1n0Yecl his store fart.her up the street, and continued the grocery business, either alone or with his sons, till within a few years. In all, he carried on the business in ProYi dence for 1norc than forty years. Ile was a good business man, active, intelligent, and en terprising. He was generous, benevolent, kind to tl1e poor and the unfortunate ; large-hearted, sy111pathetic ; a good husband and father, and a useful citizen. He died at his hon1e on Smith's Hill, Providence, July 19, 1877, aged nearly eighty years . ...-\ .. fac-simile of his handwriting is given below.

683. DR. S.A.llUEL llOWRY, son of Nathaniel, born Sept. 27, 1799 ; 1narried July 31, 1839, ROBE BELLOWS.

CHILD.

903. ....:\.sha Annie Elizabeth, l,. July 31, 1840. llr. Samuel llowry attended the academy at Dudley, Mass., the academy at Amherst, and medical lectures at Boston in 1825 and '26. He was admitted a member of the Rhode Island lledical Society in 1838 ; and practiced for forty years with marked success in Chepachet and Providence, R. I. He is now liviug in Providence, and continuing his practice, although nearly eighty years old; and is often called in difficult cases, and sent for from a distance. 264 THE :l\lOWRY FAlUL Y.

684. Bt'RRILL R. MOWRY, son of Nathaniel, born .A.pril 2:i, 1802; n1arried PHEBE T. CHACE, daughter of Job.

CHILDREX. 904. Lilly Burrill, b . ...L\..pril 7, 1840. 905. ~ann1el Robinson, l,.• A.ug. 18, 1848. Burrill R. liowry is one of nature's noblemen. Endowed "·ith a strong 111iud, in a strong body, which is well forn1ed aud synunetrical, 1nore than six feet high, quick of appre hension, ,vith a tenacious 1nemory ; equally skillful in tl1e study of nature and in the reading of 111en, ingenious c.s a inechanic, always industrious, unswerving in integrity, he commands the respect of all who know J1hn. Had he en joyed the n1ore fa,·orable advantages of education and posi tion "·hich so 111any have squandered, he would ha,·e n1ade, as circu111stances n1igl1t baYc dictated, a fa111ous iin·entor, a 1naster 111echauic with wide reputation, or a successful 1ncrchant. He has, however, a sh·ong lo,·e for a quiet life, preferriug the leafy shade of the forest to the busy hu1u of the city street, and despising all pretense and shan1 hy ,\·hich so many ha,e foisted tl1e1nselves upon })Ublic atten tion. lie J1as led a retired but J1011est and honorable life, and is now carrying his seventy-six years as easily as 1nost 1nen do sixty. He is a mill-wright, a carpenter, and a farmer. He lh·es in old Smitl1field, upon the farin where his ancestors ba,·c lived before him for five generations. Belo,v is a fac-shnile of his autogra1>h. DEA. S.-\!\tUEL l\10\VRY. 265 687. NELSON" H. 11O,VRY, son of Xathauiel, born )lay 20, 1808; 1uarriecl LYDIA .A:sx DYF.R. He died April 8~ 1868, aged nearly 60 years.

('HILD. 906. Nel~on. For some unexplainable reason a 1nistake was n1ade upon page 200 in placing " not 1narried" against the na1ne of Nelson II. He was 1uarried, as stated aboYe; and his son Nelson has distinguished hiinself, as will be seen in the next cl1apter. Nelson II. llowry was a farmer and a 1uasou. For s01ne years he followed the sea. Twice he went to Califor nia, re111aining a year or 1nore in the 111ining district. But the 1uost of his life lie passed in 1ncrcantile bu~iness in Pro,·idencc. He ca1ne to Providence with hi8 brother Daniel, in 1832, and died there ....\.pril 8, 1868, aged nearly 60 years.

t395. DE.A. 8A.~1r·EL lIO,VR1... , son of Havilah, horn in Killingly, Conn.~ ,June 14, 1796; n1arried 1 Oct. ti, 1817', CYNTHIA CARY. CHILDREN. 907 . .A.nu R., b. Feb. 26, 1819, at Coventry, R. I. 908. James Dixon, b. Nov. 5, 1820, at Canterbury, Conn.

)Iarried 2 .A.pril 7, 1825, REBECCA STORY.

CHILDREN. 909. John Samuel, b. Jan. 1, 1826, at Bozrah ville, Conn. 910. David Sanford, b. llarch 10, 1827, at Bozrah ville, Conn. 266 THE :\IOWRY F ..\.'.\IILY.

911. Stephen Jared, b. June 26, 1828, at Bozrah,·ille, Conn. 912. Cynthia Rebecca, b. Xov. 1:3, 1830, at Bozrah Yille, Conn. ; died Feb. 4, 1834.

lfarricd :; .J unc 10, 1833, ELIZA II. lIILLEH.

CHILllREX. !)13. ,,.illian1 llavilah, b. June 8, 1835, at Greenville, Conn. ; died Feb. 13, 1839. !:414. Eliza Rebecca, b. NoY. 10, 18:37, at Greenville, Conn. l>ca. Saniuel liowry 1noved to GreenYillc, in Norwich, Conn., aud bcca1ne identified with the 111anufacturing in terests there from the start in 1831, beginning with the first 1nill::- the '~ Tha1nes llauufacturing Company," having the 1nanagement of the business, and also superintending the factories at Norwich Falls and Bozra]n·ille, until the spring of 1852. After a period of ill health he resumed active business in 1857, as a manufacturer of machinery, springs, axles, etc. lle was one of the founders of the Congregational Church in Greenville, and since 1834 has been one of its deacous. He has been a 1ne111ber of the Connecticut Legislature, and is now living in Greenville, 1nore than eighty-two years old, and Yery infir1n.

696. ...-t\.CHS.A.H lfOWRY, daughter of Havilah, born at Killingly, Conn., Sept. 3, 1798; married JOHN SP ..\LDI~G.

CHILDREN. Laura. Antoinette. Orpah. Harriet. Jacob. Celia. .A II born in Killingly, Conn. Achsah }Iowry is now lh·ing in South Killingly, Conn. JO~ATHA~ )lOWRY. 267

697. S.A.LL Y lIO,YRY, daughter of Havilal1, born in. Killingly, Conn., Sept.12, 1800; 111arriecl JOSEPH PEAR~ALL.

CHILDRES • .Amanda.. Ira. OliYe. Elizahetl1 . .All born in llunday, llich. )Ir~ Pearsall is a farmer, liYing in Flint, :Mich.

698. DEA. H.A VIL.A.H 11O,YRY, Ja., son of Havilah, horn in Killingly, Conn., }{arch 22, 1803; 1narried 1 May. 20, 1828, RcHAl\lAH SPR.. \.GUE. She "·as born Feh. 12, 1800, and died July 18, 1835. No cliildren. llarried 2 Aug. 30, 1836, ESTHER B. CARY. She was. born Oct. 4, 1814. CHILDREN. 915. Jan1es Taylor, b. July 27, 1837. t)16. 'Yilliam H., b. Feb. 17, 1839; died .Aug. 31,. 1860. ,.fhey were born in Hozraln·ille, Conn. Dea. HaYilah l\Iowry is a city 1nissiona.ry in Brook lyn, N. Y. 701. JON.A.THAN lfO\YRY, son of Gideon, horn Feb. 2, 1801 ; 1narried Sept. 12, 1821, HA~~AH BRAYTON, daugh ter of Preserved and Hannah Brayton, of Rehoboth, Mass.*

• Tl1e family of Braytous to whom Hannah belonged dates back also to oue of the original settlements of Rhode Island. The pe

She was born ..-\ug. 27, 1800; died llarch-21, 1872, aged 71 years, 6 1nonths~ and 2-1 days. He dic:SER ('?). He lh·ed in Swansea, Mass., and was a farmer. c'HJLl>RE:S. 1:s. .Jol111, b. Feb. 1, 1;1:!. u. Stephen, b. Dec. 2-', rri:c. 15. Da,·id, b. Feb. 14, l'i15 ; died Feb. 18. r,:r2. 16. Baulston, b. l\Iay 11, li17, of Smithfield, R. I. 17'. Content, b. April :J, 172-l; married Samuel Gartlner. l>l. Israel, b. Oct. 1:;, 17:!7', of Swansea, Mass. U. STEPHEN BRAYTON, son of Preserved, born Dec. :?-1, 111;1; mar ried Feb. 1:;, rm:?, HASNAH CHASE, daughter of Eber and Mary Chase. He lh·e,1 in Rehobotl1, and was a farn1er. ('RILD&ES. 10. Stephen. 20. Preser,·ed. :H. Anna ; married a )Ir. Russell. 2'..?. l\Iary; married a Mr. Comstc>ck. ~J. Hannah : married a Mr. Russell. ... -~•;.•.I:•:,./.-.• ( . :•.·. f •. ~;i.,, ;_.. ~ .··. ·t·. . ;~.. ' '

li,Jw.l Jhm1 ,, l'l1tJltJgr,1ph, 1/diolJ'f>,• J'ri11li11g l,,., 220 /Jcr,,mslu're St.~ BtJsto11.

J<>NATI-I.\N l\10,v1{Y I-lousE, CXIHUIHiE, ~IASS.

JOX.ATHA~ )IOW'RY. 269 influenza, fro1n which he ne\-er recovered. He uicd at the early age of thirty-two, leaving a widow and three children, the youngest but three years of age.. His wife was a wo111an of strong 1nind, great energy and perse,-eraucc, and liYed a widow 11ea1·ly forty years, burying her second

2(>- PRESERYED BRAYTON. married 1 in 1758, P.-\TIE:NcE G.aE&~E, daughter of David and Mary (Knowles) Greene, of North Kingstown, R. I. She was born Nov. 18, 177:{, and died July 30, 17H-l. She was a Quaker preacher, of much note, and was the 1irst preacher sent to England by the Friends of this country. Her :Memoir was published in New Bedford in 1801, They lived in Rebobotb. He was a farmer and miller.

CHJLDBE:S-. 24. Hannab ; married William Slade. 25. David. 26. Content; married Capt. James Maxwell, of Warren, R. I. Married t HANXAH Bown1sH, widow, nee Slade.

CHILD. ".!'{. Hannah, b. Aug. 27, 1800; died }larch 21, 1872. She married Jona than Mowry, of Uxbridge, l\-lass. 25. DAVID RRAYTON, son of Preserved ; married and lived in Reho both. He was a farmer and shoemaker.

CHILDBEN. 28. Daniel. 29. Mary. 30. David. 31. Henry. 32. Content. !\.'l. Patience; m. Mr. Hopkins, who Jived in Scituate and kept tavern. The above record has been kindly furnished by Capt. G. M. Brayton, of the U~ited States Army, in a letter dated May 28, 1875, from Camp Verde, Arizona. Territory. 270 "fHE l\[OWRY FAMILY. higher mathe1natics, natural sciences, especially botan)"~ and English literature. She followed teaching about ·fifteen years. ~he possessed a remarkably fine character, a. well-balanced 1nind, and great energy of purpose. She was a lo-ring daughter, a devoted sister, aud a firm friend. She was for 111any years a faithful and n1uch respected n1emher of the Congregational church, and died belo"f'ed by all who knew her. ..-\.n obituary notice soon after her death closes as follows : - " The pupils of twelYe different schools, in six towns and in three different States, who ha,e been under her instruc tion at s0111e tiine during the last eighteen years, w·ould number se,·eral hundreds ; and they will doubtless, whe1· ever found, attest her ability and success as a teacher. Her genial disposition, her quiet manners, her exhaustless patience, and her deep and earnest affection for her pupils, never failed to win their confidence and their love, while her dignified character, accurate scholarship, and thorough plan of instruction, insured their rapid progress in study. " ...-\..s a fl'iend, Miss Mo\Vry was ever faithful and true. As a true lady and a devoted Christian, she had few equals. During the thirteen years that she was a member of the Congregational Church in Slaters,!'ille, she was ever .con sistent, conscientious, earnest, and devoted. Her light shone to all with whom she came in contact. She lol9ecl the Sabbath school as well as the day school, and was ever before her class upon the Sabbath, if not compelled by ill health to forego the prh·ilege. " ...l\.s a sister and a daughter, her bereaved sister, brother, .and widowed mother attest her ardent devotion and worth. ...-\. large circle _of friends now mourn her loss. But, we trust, not without hope, for to her ' To live was Christ, to die was gain.' May all who knew her, copy her piqus example." -,-1 IS..\IH~LL.\ l\10\VRY. .... ' 702. LUCETT... .\. :MO\YRY, daughter of Gideon, born Jan. 2, 1803; 1narried Dec. o, 1826, CRO:\IWELL CHA~F., son of Joh and Sybil Chase. He was born llay 12, 1795, in Swansea~ liass. He died Jan. 17, 1856, aged 60 years.

CHILDllE~. Joanna ,,·heeler, b. June 9, 18:!9. Robinson Ja1ues }lontgo1nery, b. June 12, 183:2. Jonathan llowry, b. Feb. 20, 1836. Cronnvell Chase was a far1uer and house-carpenter. He was the son of Job and Sybil Chase. Job was the son of .Jonathan Chase, before mentioned. They were fro111 a Yery respectable fan1ily, and all 1nembers of the Society of Friends. Cromwell passed his life in the western part of ~1nith field and adjoining portion of Burrilh·ille. He died at his hon1e in Sn1ithfield, called "Horse Head." His widow is still Ii ving, at the age of , .j. Bhe is a woman of great strength and beauty of character, co111hin ing in herself the sterling virtues of the genuine Xe"· England character.

703. ISABELLA. lIO"rRY, daughter of Gideon }Io wry, born Feb. 12, 1805; married }lay 3, 1826, JosEPH GASKILL, son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth Gaskill, of Uxbridge, ::\lass. He was born .July 29, 1800; died Oct. 8, 1857.

CHILDREN . ...~nne Dennis, b. }larch 1, 1827; d. April 14, 1835. Ruth Elizabeth, b .....\.pril 28, 1830 ; d. Oct. 4, 1857. Susan Anne, b. Oct. 28, 1836 ; d ..April 26, 1839. Caroline Josephine, b. June 25, 1840; d. Oct. 4, 1857. Joseph, Jr., b .....\.ug. 4, 1845 ; d. Sept. 10, 1845. Lindley }Iurray, b. Sept. 7, 1847. · THE MOWRY FAlllLY.

Joseph Gaskill was a worthy member of the Society of Frieiids, and passed his entire life in his native town. He was an honest, industrions far1ner, who by his industry and frugality saved a snug little sum against a tin1e of need. His widow Isabella is still lil"iug in Millville, llass., being now 1nore than se,·enty-three years of age. She is a faith ful n1e1nber of the Society of Friends, 1nanifesting in all the relations of life a 111ost esti1nable character, greatly beloved by a wide circle of friends, and respected by all who kno\\~ her. Two of their children, Ruth Elizabeth, aged 27; and Caroline Josephine, aged 17, died the san1e day, and their father died four days later. The following obituary notice of Mr. Gaskill and his two children appeared in a \Vorcester paper a few days subse quent to their death.

'· Died, in t;xbridge, Oct. 4, Caroline .Josephine Gaskill, aged 17 years; on the same day, of typhoid fever, Ruth Elizabeth \Vhitc, aged 27 years, - both daughters of Joseph Gaskill ; and on the 8th inst., of dysentery, Joseph Gaskill, aged 57 years. " This is one of those remarkable dispensations of Prov idence that most clearly illustrates the great truth that ' God seeth not as man seeth.' " Mr. Gaskill was a devoted member and elder of the Society of Frieuds, and it may be said with truth that he lh·ed the life of an upright and honest man, and died the death of a true Christian. Through a long line of friends and acquaintances, a deep and lasting sympathy is ex pressed for Mrs. Gaskill, who may, with much propriety, use the language of ~ aomi, on her return to Bethlehem, ' God hath dealt l"ery bitterly with me.' " PHEHE l\lOWUY. :!73

704. PHEBE 110\VRY, daughter of Gideon, horn 8ept. 1ft, 1808; married 1 June 2, 1830, DAXIEL I-I. ....\.LDRICH, son of Ephrahn and Dorcas .Aldrich, of l: xbridge, }lass. He was born .July 14, 1806 ; died Dec. 6 .. 1870, aged 6-1 year~.

l'HILDREX. Josiah \Vilcox, b. :Feb. 12, 1831 ; died llarch 21 ~ 18:34. :Mary Brayton, b. :Feb. 20, 1832. Gideon llowry, b. Jan. 29, 1834. •Jonathan Richard, b. Oct. 31, 1838; u. Sept. 1:2~ 1841. Dorcas Hall, b. Sept. 17, 1841. Oscar De "rilt-011, b. Dec. 25, 1843. llarried 2 July 24, 1873, EsEK PITT~, of llillbu1·y, )Jass. He died Feb. 1, 187 4. Daniel 11 .•.\.ldrich was a worthy 111c1nl1cr of the Pricuds' ~ociety, and lived and died in l7 xbridge. Ile was a wheel wright, carriage-1naker, and sawyer. Ile built up an ex. tensiYe business on a little stream in South l; xbridge, where he erected a large building with a saw-1nill, shingle mill, and wheelwright and blacksn1ith's shop. This busi ness be managed for thirty-fl vc years. For scYeral yea1s subsequent to 1850 he shipped a large number of wagons to California. He left the business to his son Gideon, who is now successfully carrying it on. His widow, Phebe, n1arried Esek Pitts, of Millbury, a very worthy man, and life-long acquaintance and friend of the family, wbo lived but a little more than six months after their marriage. " •.\.unt Phel•e/' as she is generally called, is one of those rare characters, who, like Dorcas of old, is always" full of good works and alms deeds which she did." ,vhen anybody has been _sick in the neighbor hood during the last fifty years, they have always sent for ]9 274 THE ~IOWRY FA!\IIL Y •

~, .Annt Phebe .. , .·\n a

,Q;j. lIELI~~.\ )1O\\.RY, daughter of Gideon, born .-\.ug. 28, 1811; 111arrict.l .June-, 1840(?), A.eA B. GASKILL, st,11 of Ezekiel awl Elizabeth Ga~kill, of t.· xuridgc. ~he ,lied )!arch 10, 1853. Ile died )larch 2;3, 1863.

CHILDRE~ . .Anne Estella~ h. Sept. 2, 1842. Geo1·ge IIenry, h ..A.ug. ~:2, 1845. La,·ina Drew, b. Sept. 16, 1846; died July 2, 1847. Caroline )Iclissa, 1,. )larch 25, 1850 ; d. June 6, 1850 . .Asa B. Ga~kill wa~ also a Friend, and lived and died in 1· xhridge. "·hen his father-in-law, Gideon llowry, ga,·e up the acth·c business of fanning, he purchased the old ho1ncstcad, and there passed the rest of his days.

706. CAROLINE }10\VRY, daughter of Gideon ... born •.\.pril 12, 1814; 1narried Sept. 7, 1837, DAVID P. ,va1T1-~, ll. D. She died June 6, 1839. He was born Sept. 4, 1805. He died llay 23, 187-!, aged nearly 69. They had no children. Dr. \Vhite was the son of ~ilnon White, of U .xbridge. Ife sett.led in Dougl~s, where he passed his life, with an extensi f'C practice in ]1is profession. RICHARD DENNIS MOWRY. 275 Ile was three tilnes married, and died leaving a widow :and a fa1uily of children, one of which has taken his place as a physician, and succeeded to his business.

707. RICH ...-\.H,I> DEXNIS llo,rRY, son of Gideon, born Sept. 17, 1819 ; 111arried 1 Sept. 13, 1838, Lucy }Iou TOX ...4..LBEE, daughter of Joseph and Lydia llorton .Albee, of .Charlton, llass. She was uorn in Charlton, .June :28, 1817.

CHILDREX. 920. Helen Francelia, b. ~lay 9, 1840. 921. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Sept. 18, 18-!!J. }Iarried 2 in Provideucc, R. I., Dec. 3, 1868, Lucy ll. TAFT, forn1er wife of Thompson Taft, Jr., of Blackstone, }lass., and daughtc1· of ~quare ~ho,·e, of Blackstouc.

CHILD. Richard Dennis, Jr., l,. ~ept. 11, 1870, in ~an Francisco, Cal. Richart! D. lfowry was for 1nany years a pro1nincnt business 1nan in Uxbridge, and held 1nany town offices. He ,vas for n1any years a 1nember of the school co1nn1ittcc, .and frequently chairman of the conunittee, taking a lead ing position in all educational affairs in the town, visiting the schools, and writing the reports of the conunittec. ,,... hen quite a young man he bought a portion of his father's farm, with the house built by his brother Jonathan, .and conunenced life ~s a farmer, shoe1naker, and school teacher. After some years be sold his farm and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Uxbridge Centre. Here he kept .a large grocery, dry goods, and general variety store from 276 'fHE MOWRY F.-\)ULY.

1845 to 1867. During s01ne portion of this time he had two stores, a tailoring establishment, and furniture ware rooms. In the winter of 1868-9, he went to San Fran cisco, Cal., where he now resides, engaged in trade. 'fhc fa1uily arc greatly indebted to him for tbe marked ability, care, and skill with which he has prepared tl1e extended me1noir of his grandfather, Richard Mowry, which appears in this vohune. Below is given a f ac-silnile of his autograph.

708. ~lTSAN LYDIA )IOWRY, daughter of Gideon, horn Jan. 21, 1822; 1narried No,. 3,.1841, SETH S. PITTS, son of Abner and Polly Pitts, of lTxbridge. He ·was born June 26, 1818. CHILDREN. Seth Franklin, l,. July 14, 1847. Dennis llowry, b. Sept. 10, 1849. Leander Ed ward, b. June 17, 1851 ; _d~ Sept. 18, 1851. Susan Lydia, b. July 17, 1853 ; d. Aug. 18, 1853. Edward Harris, b. No,·. 11, 1855. George .Arthur, b. Nov. 21, 1861 ; d. Nov. 12, 1862. Seth S. Pitts was Yariously engaged in mercantile busi ness, principally in Uxbridge, from his marriage till about 1860, when he emigrated to California. He is at present residing in Antioch, Contra Costa Co. All of his children, except tl1e youngest, were born in Uxbridge. He was born aud died in California. JUNI.-\. S. :'\[OWRY.

709. HULD.\.H H ..:\.RRIS 110\VRY, daughter of Gid •eon, born Sept. 15, 1824; 1narried Nov. 4, 184:"i, I..1-~ANDEU H. SA ".YER, of S1nithfiel

CHILD. Philena S., b. Sept. 23, 1848, in C xbri

712. JUNI .. A. S. Mo,vRY, son of Reuben, born July 18, 1805, in ~mithfield, R. I. ; 111arricd 1 Hee. 2, 18S5, ~.:\LOM1-; LINCOLX, daughter of .A.mbrose, of H.ay11ha1n. )lass. She was born Sept. 13, 1807, and died July 21, 18-11.

CHILDREN.

923. l[ary E., b. Nov. 2, 1837; died ~1cb. ;j, 183H. 924. .:\.1ney ~I., b. llarch 2H, 1841.

}larried 2 Dec. 2, 1841, NANCY MANCHESTEit, daughter of .Jolin, of Tiverton, R. I. She was born }lay 2, 1812, and -died Feb. 24, 1868. CHILD HEN. 925. Salo1ne, b. Sept. 6, 1842; died Oct. 6, 1843. 926. Phebe S., b. June 6, 1844. 927. Reuben, b. Nov. 22, 1845; died ....\ug. 20, 1846. 928. liartha A., b. Sept. 2, 1847. 929. Deborah C., b. Feb. 11, 1849. 930. Daniel, b. Oct. 22, 1850; died Sept. 17, 1851. TB E :\IOWRY F .-\:\llLY.

~31. Esther .A.. , h. ,Jan. 30, 18;>1. fl.9.:)._,,.:, ... John R., b. Oct. 30, 1853. Deborah, Esther, and ,John ha,·c taught school in Iowa. )Iarrictl =~ July 15. 1869, lf ILDltEu AL.\ItY .A.~~ HoL:\lES, widow of Elder Luther llohn~~, a Baptist preacher, of ,Y yon1ing, .Jones Co .. lowa: and daugl1tc-r of Henja1nin Dubois. Re,·. J. ~- llowry, or ·· .Elder llowry ,'' as he was usually called, wa:-; orclainc-d in Xorth Taunton, :Mass.~ .Aug. ·23, 1832. Ile wa~ successively pastor of several churches, and preached iu \"ariou:, places where he was not settled as pastor~ till 1851. .An1ong these places 1nay be 1nentioned Taunton. Rehoboth, and I-Iebronville, :\lass., Tiverton, .Apponaug, and Georgiavillc, R. I.; aud in 1851 ,vent to Iowa. lie wa:-; settled at Lyons, Clinton Co., on tl1e l[ississippi River; then at Oliver, in the sa1ne county. He is at present lh·ing at Calamus, Clinton Co., Iowa. He l1as been a ,·igorous, active 111an, and has done 1nuch valuable pioneer 1nissiouary work in that new, but rapidly

0 0 e -rowins:r'-J countt·v.., He is now enJ· oviuo-., e a o Tecn old a2:e...., .., "·ith his children and grandchildren settled about him.

713. L.A}IECH C. 110\rRY, sou of Reuben:- horn llarch 4, 1807 ; 1narriecl 1 SARAH A.. ~TEERE, daughter of Elisha. She was born Juue 30, 1816, and died Nov. 9, 1848, in the 33tl year of her age.

CHJLDREN. 933. ..i:\.claline E., b ..A.ug. 14, 1846. 934. Sidney H., b. July 12, 1848. Married 2 .A.L1c1-: 11. ~AYLES. She was born }fay 12,. 1813, and died Aug. 7, 1858, in tl1e 46th year of l1er age. ~DION BOLIV'ER )IOWRY.

CHILD. Sarah C., b. Oct. 21, 1851. llarried a RACHEL SllITH .. widow of :-:al,en :-:n1ith .. and daughter of ,v clco1nc Harris. :-:he wa~ born Oct. 26, 1~1t>. Xo children. Lan1ech C. llowry is a very worthy 1na11, and nn excellent fa,i"mer, in ~1nithfield, R. I. unlike 111a11y uf the race, who have shown a disposition to 1uigrate to distant parts, but like 1nany others, who ha,·e Leen disposed to keep un changed the "ancient landn1arks/' he has re1uained upon the old ho111estcad., where he has pa~scd his threescore yea.rs and tea. 720. J.A.BEZ ,Y. l\1O,rH.Y, son of lteuLcn, born .July i~, 1824; 1uarried SesAx l\f. J. l\fown.Y <_Ko. 4:!tf) ~ daughter of Jere1uiah. :-:he was born July 18, 1834.

CHILDREN. 936. ..A.rahella. F., b. Jan. 16, 1857. 937. Roger '\Yillia111s, b. l\Iarch 2o, 1~60. 938. ...t\..braha111 Lincoln, b. Oct. 2: 1863. Jabez ,v. Mowry lives in :-:111ithfield, R. I. He is au excellent, upright n1an, intelligent, enterprising, and honorable. He 111anages one of the hest of IU1ode Island farn1s, and manages it ·well. He represented l1is natiYe town in the General A.ssen1bh,..., f ron1 1859 to 1864, a.nd from 1867 to 1873; and has now been the senator f t·om his town for hvo years. 724. SIMON BOLI,1ER MO\VRY, son of Gideon, born ~ept. 10, 1826; married N.~NCY CUTTING. He is not now living. CHILD. 939. ..Alvin. 280 THE l\IOWRY F.\:\IILY.

725. lllllER ~:_-\.RL lIO\YRY, son of Tho1nas, born ~ept. 24, 1812; 1narried Oct. 4, 1843, llARY SPRAGUE .AN

CHILD. H40. Itnn1er _.\ugcll, h. J uue 21, 18-14.

Inuner E. lfowrv., lin~s in Brooklvn,.. X. Y .

726. Du. lL\RTl-1..:\. II.ARRI~ lfO\VRY, daughte1· of Tho1nas, born .June 7, 1818. ~he is not 1na1·ried. She has Leen for 1nany years a regular physician in Providence, lt. L .. hn,·ing an cxtcnsi\"C and lucrath·c practice.

728. n_.\.XIEL JlO".,.RY, JR., son of Daniel, Jr., ~orn Oct. 2, 1823, in ~1nithfield, R. I. ; 1narried Oct. 27, 18:"i4, I-I E~RrETT .\ C. PrTs .\:\I.

":·•-:1: •1 • •J ushna. U., 1J. ~ep, , t . -4, 18 t>,.-,. 942. L. Daniel, b. X o,·. 8, 1863. ~43. Ethel Farnun1, b. Oct. 16, 186;3. 9-14. J[attie G., b. Oct 27, 1868.

On the next page (see cut No. 5) is given a. fac-~iinile of his autograph, taken fron1 a letter written in 1877. It is interesting to observe that he is the fifth in direct line, fathc1· and son, who have borne the name of Daniel Mowry. Fo1· the purpose of con1paring the handwriting of these five successive Daniels, the fac-siiniles of their autographs will here be g1·ouped. i81

Called '" Capt:lin ., Da.ni~l, written ahout 1740. lie clied in 1787, agecl 00 yearR.

Calle«l •· .J ml~u ., I>anfo1. w1·ittm1 in I iHO. Ht• cliecl in ISOti. :1.g,~cl 77 years. :J.

Calle,t ·• Cl:uk" D ..ulicl. wl"it~n in 17:-«t H~ diucl iu Hem. ag,•d SSI.

Son of •• Cl:irk ,. Daniel. written about 1~1n. lie dfod in l~in, a.god st.

Grandson of ·• Clark~- Daniel, written in 1~77. He i~ now living in l\Iorenei, l\lich. Daniel llowry is the fifth in regular succession by the same name. He went West, when a young n1an, and ha~ now lived in Michigan for more than twenty-five year:14. He is a pro1uine11t and ,·ery acth·e man in llorenci, Michi- 282 THE l\H)WRY 'fA)IILY.

gan. Besides his trade, that of a cabinet-1naker, he l1as fron1 boyhood been a 1nusician'.' and has taught 1nusic. He has Leen variously engaged in trade, and has done 1nucb puhlic business. Ile wa~ for 1nany years justice of the peace and public notary, ~tnu wrote deeds, wills, agree- 1nents, and other legal papers. In the western parlance, "" he run a law shop" for se,·eral years. For the last twelve or fifteen years he has done a large huginess as a 111erchant, insurance agent, and real estate and stot"k hrokcr. Ile has the confidence of the people, aud is a popular and prosperous, as well as industrious a11d enterprising 1nan.

729. Rl~TII :F. llO,YRY, daugl1ter of Daniel, Jr., born ~cpt. 26, 1829; 1narried Oct. 14, 1850, EBE~EZER s. ,v1L LIA)IS, of Oxford, )lass. CHILDRE:S. Adelbert, h. Nov. 11, 1851; died Aug. 21, 1852. Ennna F., born llay 17, 1853. Ida E., b ..A.pril 9, 1871 ; died Aug. 6, 18,2.

732. IIARRIET JENCK~ 11O\YRY,daugliter of_ Har ris J ., born .A.pril 20, 1825 ; 1narried Feb. 18, 1858, Prof. J Ain!.-; Bu:o;HEE, ll. D. He was born in Smithfield, R. I., Oct. 15, 1805. t"HILDREN. Carrie H., b. Oct. 21, 1858; died }lay 31, 1863. Lucy Anna, b. Jan. 81, 1863. Prof. Bushee has an honorahle record as an enterprising an

734. .A.LBERT ERAS'l'l~S 11O\\"'RY, son of Harris .J., born June 7, 1829; 1uarried llay 16, 1862, L.\ t.:J?ETTJ;; C. CHA~EY, of Ca1nbridge, :\lass.; she was born }larch - .. 1831. CHILDREX. 945. Smith _.\luert, b. Jan. 18, 1864. 946. Laura Amanda, b. June 1, 1869; died .. Aug. 5, 1870. 947. Harry Phillips, b. Aug. 4, 1871; died Pel,. 26~ 1872. .A.lbert Erastus liowry, eldest son of Harris J. and Laura B. llowry, was born in Smithfield, R. I., June 7, 1829. He learned the foundry business witl1 his father in youth~ and continued therein a nu1nber of years. He responded to the first call for troops at the breaking out of the recent Rebellion, and serYed for three 1nonths in tl1e First Regi- 1nent R. I. Detached llilitia, taking part in the first battle of Bull Run. He is now, and for seYcral years past has been, a 111etal dealer and brass founder in Boston, in con1- pany with Enos B. Phillips, under the fir111 name of llowry &_ Phillips, doing a large and prosperous business. 737. SUSAN .A.:NN.A. lfOWRY, daughter of Harris J., born Aug. 25, 1835; married 1 No,. 16, 1851, DAVID CAR- 284 THE ~IOWRY 1', •.\l\llL Y.

~ox HAWKr:ss. He was born in ,,'!"estern New Yot·k. He died about 1871, in ~heboygan, Wis.

CHILDRE:S ... }.,annie Jane, h. ~,el,. 5, 1856. Charles ...-\.lbert, b ..Aug. 18, 1857 .

.Married~ iu Duxbury, }{ass., Sept. 8, 1877, JoHN ,,... ILDE. Tbey reside in Duxbury, lfass.

738. ELISH... :\. C... .\PRON l{O,VRY, son of Harris J., Lorn Dec. 26, 1836, in Smithfield, R. I. ; married Oct. 7, 1869, HANNAH RrcHARDsox, daughter of Benjamin, of Pro,idence. :-;he was born }larch 31, 1849.

CHILDREN. 948. }.,anny Richardson, h. Juuc 22, 1871. 949. Benjamin Richardson, b. No\". 5, 1872. 950. Em1na .A.ugusta, b. Sept. 2H, 1873. 951. Charles llatteson, b. June 29, 1876. 952. Harris Jencks, b. Aug. 19, 1878.

Elisha C. Mowry was horn in Sn1ithfield, near Black .stone. ,vhen about four years old, his father and family 1n0Yed to Providence, where he had the ad vantages of the -excellent schools of that city till l1c ,vas twelre years of age. After a residence of more than two years in Sheboygan, ,vis., he returned to Providence, and between 1851 and 1853 prepared for college at the excellent university gram- 111ar scl1ool, of which Messrs. Frieze and Lyon were princ_i pals~ Entering Brown Uni ,.. ersity in 1853, he had completed ELISHA CAPRON l\lOWRY. 285 but half of the college course, when ill health co1upelled him to suspend his studies. The next four years were passed in teacl1ing school in New York State, in which he was particular1y successful, and in co1nmercial business in Buffalo, N. Y. Having recovered l1is l1ealth, he returned to his college studies in 1859, and graduated at Brown lT nh·ersity in 1861. He served l1is country in the Tenth Regiinent Rhode Island Volunteers in 1862, and during tl1e next three years pursued the study of law in the office of the Hon. Samuel Currey, of Providence, teaching scl1ool "~inters in Rhode Island and Ifassachusetts with 111arked . success. In 1864 and early in 1865, he wa.s the principal of the High School in East Douglas. He was admitted to the Rhode Isla11d bar in }lay, 1865, and to the United States Courts in 1866. Elisha C. }Iowry is one of the most promising young lawyers of Providence. He has the entire confidence of the people and of a large clientage, as an honest, upright man, well-read in legal matters, of broad intelligence, large general culture, and sound judgment. Although attached to a political party largely in tbe minority, he has repeat edly been elected by the people to several responsible offices of trust and honor. He l1as been an active and efficient 1nember of the School Board of Providence since 1872, for several years chair man of the important· committee on evening schools ; was a member of the Common Council from 1871 to 1877. In the latter year be was elected alderman. In these posi tions lie has exerted large influence, l1aving been chairman and member of some of the most important standing and special committees. 28t3 THF. MOWRY 1''.UllLL

His autograph is illustrate

l,cJrn )lay :2:3, 1830 : married .Aug. HI, 1857, LESTER E. Ros:--, of Pro\·idence. No children. ~arah .J. ( :\Iowry) Ross died on board the steamship ,~Humboldt," .July 21, 1874, and was buried at sea, in Lat. N. -19 ° -18', Long. ,v. 11 ° -10'. )frs. Ross has often been called by her friends and rela ti n,s ~, the best of all the )[owrys.'' She had a character singularly pure, a disposition full of sweetness and gentlc nc8s~ and a mind well-cultured, fruitful, and active. Living not for hcr:self, enjoying most when contril,uting most to the happiness of others, heroic in her Christian hcnevolence, she was the dearly helo\'ed of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. ~he was a sincere and

1• ,, .Aftet· a low0 and wastino-0 sickness in a foreio-n0 land ' lfrs. Sarah .J. Ross entered into rest, leaving to her friends and kindred an example as pure and beautiful and attractive as the Church is wont to exhibit in these latter days. The 287 sad and painful circumstances of a death at sea ha ,·iug pre cluded the funeral rites and offices ::.o dear and sacred to the herea,·ed, we join, with a sympathy the more deep and earn ~st, in the solemnities of this occasion, alike grateful to tlw sorrowing hearts of the li,·ing. and due to the cherishe1l and hallowed memory of the dead. "Though her birth and early youth were hc1·e, she was :-;0011 removed to the distant "'." est, where, after bciuµ· orphaned of Loth he1· parents, she was • born again, awl received into the congregation of Christ's Hock.~ "One of the first and most signal achievements of he1· new life was the complete triumph over her constitutional infirmity, a st1·ong tendency to melancholy, which had sad others was meted to her a.gain. Attracted towards others, they were in turn drawn to her. · It was a a mutual sym pathy which continued to the last, even among strange1·s, and called forth many touching instances of affection: helping to lighten the burden of the weary hours of sick ness in a foreign clime. "Nearly allied to this trait in her character was a habit of active devotion to the good of others, especially of her nearer relatives and friends. \Vere it becoming to intrude upon the sanctity and privacy of domestic life, our lamented 288 THE :\lOWRY FAMILY.

friend would here appear in all the Io"eliness of a self-sacri ficing devotion. But it must suffice to say that her piety was active, rather tlian contemplative, evincing itself in that' clmrity which never foiletl1,' and which '.seeketh not lier own.' "It had been with her a life-desire to cross the ocean and Yisit other lands. The gratification of this desire brought to our friend a tide of satisfaction as exuberant as it was of brief duration. She rejoiced in e"·erything gi-and or hcautiful which her eyes beheld, alike in the wonders of the storm-tossed ocean, and in the sweet sights and odors which maue Nature glad in the g·ardeus around her; and to the last, though wasted with sickness, and doubtful of regaining her native land, she regarded the liYely satisfac tion received ·during he1· absence, from the beauties and wonders so lavishly exhibited in nature and art, as ample c;1mpensation for all the ills she had been called to endure in its attainment.

4 ' In ~fay, 1873, she passed her thirty-fourth birthday in Vienna, Austria, with usual health and unclouded pros pects. w·ithin a month her journal tells of feverishness and pain, the result of a sudden cold; afterwards of sleep less nights, and thoughts of possible sickness in a foreign land. Though no special anxiety is manifest, she has evidently contemplated the possibility of never again seeing home; and subsequent entries reveal deep tenderness of feeling for loved ones at l1ome, and a fen·ent interest in things divine, with glimpses of Christian faith and feeling which show that if the eventful day sl1ould come upon her unawares it would not find her unprepared. "On the 10th of August she took cold anew, and from that time commenced in earnest that unequal struggle against disease and pain which nearly a year afterwards ended in her release from mortal life. On the 13th of September occurred the last entry in her journal, - noth- GEOHGE WATER)l.-\~ !\IOWRL 289 ing of her own hopes or suffering or fears, - but an expression of glowing sympathy for a sick and, as it J)l'OYed, dying relati \·e, and earnest prayers that God would help and comfort him ; thus to the last haYing ···Tears for other·s woe, Aud patience for her ()Wn. • "'In July last she was again embarked upon the sea, in hope of, at least, reaching her native land. But an all-wise Providence had otherwise ordained. On the fourth day of the homeward voyage, conscious to the last, and hopeful still of meeting her friends at home. she gently fell asleep ; and tl1e weary was at rest.

·· • Night dews fall not 111ore gently to the ~round. Xor weary. worn-out winds expire i-o goft.'

At dead of night, in deep and tempestuous darkucss, her coffined remains were co1nmittcd, in rc\·ercnt silence, to the deep, to join the great throng whom the ocean num bers with the dead ; t11ere to remain in undisturbed repose on its clean, cold bed, until the resurrection of the just. The departing spirit journeyed onward in peace to its habi tation in the skies."

740. GEORGE ,VA.TERMAN MO\YRY, son of Harris J ., horn in Providence, R. I., Oct. 24, 1844. He learned the printer's trade in Wisconsin, and at the age of seventeen years, in the first year of the recent Rebellion, he enlisted in a Wisconsin battery, and served to the end of the war,-rc-enlisting after his first term of three years had expired. He is· now Ii Ying in Dayton, Ohio, and is one of the editors and publishers of the Dayton Life Boat, a temperance monthly printed in that city. 290 THE 2\lOWRY F..\ltlLY.

742. LE\\''!:; DEXTER lIO\VHY, son of ~111ith, born in Charleston. S. C., June 22, 1824; 111arried llarch 1:2, 18-lfL lL\Rt1.\HF.T D. lfcNELL..\GE.

CHILDIU.:X. 9."i3. .AlLert lln,·cn, b. July i, 18-17. 9;:i-!. Another ~011;

Lewis D. lluwry was the eldest 8011 of S1uith liowry. Jie was born in Charleston, ~- C., an

744. ED\V ..-\.RD SMITH 11O\VRY, son of Smith, born ...\.ug. 31, 1828 ; died Dec. 2-1, 1863, at Charleston, S. C. He was a major in the Confederate army. Not married. LYDIA COM8TOCK l\10\VRY. 291 Edward ~- llowry was born at Sullivan's Island, ~- C. ,vhile in the 1nidst of his collegiate course, he enlisted in the Palmetto Reghnent, raisecl in South Carolina, for the Mexican war. .A.fterwards, in the Confederate wa1·, he took the side of the South. Faithfully he stood up for what he thought the right, and gave up his life for the Southern cause, a~ a 1najor in its service. He died Dec. 24, 1863, nt Charleston. 7 46. ,vILLIAM SYL , ... ESTER lIO\VRY, son of S1nith, born Dec. 4, 1832; married Dec.-, 1866, JEXNIE MCLAU RIN, daughter of Col. T. C. \V eatherly, of South Carolina.

CHILDRI-::S.

H55. Lewi~ I >exter l • • ' r 1. · • t >9 1 "11.:•- 956. ,,u·· 1 11· 1am Sy l ves t er, \.. u. ~ep · :.. '· ~o ' · 957. 'Sn1ith, 1,. Aug. -1:, 1869. 958. .A.1ney Dexter, b. Oct. 17, 1871. 959. Louise, b. Dec. 27, 1873. These children were all born in )larll,oro' District, ~- C., except the .youngest. She was born in Englewood, N. J. Mr. liowry n1oved from South Carolina to Englewood, N. J., in 1873, where he now resides. He is a 1ncn1ber of the Cotton Exchange of N e,v York Citv. ~ ~

747. LYDIA. COllSTOCK MO\VRY, daughter of Smith, born Sept. 11, l 835, in 81nithfield, R. I., at the old homestead ; married in Providence, R. I., Nov. 23, 1876, JOSEPH T. WELLS, of Charleston, S. C., an hnporter and wholesale dealer in dry goods. Few families of the name of Mowry, or of any other name, can present a more honorable record in respect to intelligence, enterprise, strict integrity, and high character, 292 THE )IOWRY FA!\IILY. than the descendants of S1nith llowr,·.., ,v ar1n in their at- t.ach1nent to home and friends, l1onorable in all the affairs of life, daily excn1plifying the high ,principles of tbe Christian religion, they have filled useful a11d important ~tations, always with credit to then1selvcs, and have eV"er received the highest respect f ro1n all with who1n they have been associated.

749. CHARL}~8 :Eo,Y.ARD lIO,VRY, son of Charles C., born .A.ug. 5, 1828 ; married Dec. 15, 1854, IIARRIET CLAFLI~, daughter of Orin, of Pro,idence, R. I. CHILDREN. 960. 1-Jattie A.ldrich, 1,. llarch 1, 1863, in Pro,,.idence,. R.I. 961. Alice, b. lfay !l, 1867, in Sau Francisco, Cal. 962. Edward, b .•June 7, 1870, in Guaymas, l\Iexico. Charles E. Mowry was a sea-captain, and now lives near ~an Francisco, engaged in mining.

752. LIEUT. 8YLVESTER 110,vRY, son of Charles e., born Jan. 17, 1833; graduated at West Point }Iilitary ....\.cademy; died in London, Oct. 17, 1871, aged 38 years, 8 mos. Lieut. )fowry was probably n1ore widely known at his deatl1 than any other 1nan of the family name in America. The following careful and truthful biographical sketch is from the g1·aceful pen of bis warm pe1·sonal friend, Hon. Henry B. Anthony, United States Senator from Rhode Island, and appeared in the P-ro·vidence Journal the day he· died. DEATH OF SYLVESTER }IOWRY.. " A despatch from London announces the death of Syl vester Mowry, in that city, on the 17th. This intelligence- LIEUT. SYL\rE8TER l\10\VR\"". 293 is not unexpected. }Ir. Mowry left this city a few week:-; ago, terribly shattered in health, and with little hope of re turning, but feeling it right to consult the best medical ad vice, which, for the disease under which he ,vas suffering, known as Bright's disease, was thought to be found in a celebrated physician of London. In a note written on the day of his leaving Providence, he said: 'I don't think I ha,·e lost 1ny courage, hut the constant pain and croakings of the doctors have 1uade me indifferent to anv., result except a great horror of being an invalid for a long tin1e, of neither use nor pleasure to 1nyself or any one else.' "}Ir. }Iowrv., was the son of the late Charles C. Mowrv·~. . of this city, and was descended f ron1 one of the oldest and most respectable families of Smithfield. He was educatetl at the llilitary Acaden1y at \Vest Point, and, after grad uating, entered the United States Arn1y. Fascinated with the undeveloped wealth of the Pacific slope, and full of the spirit of adventure ·which found its exercise in the pioneer life, he resigned his conuuission, and engaged in mining enterprises in Arizona. These he followed with varying success, hut on the whole, ,ve judge, with re1nunerativc re suits ; although his 1uining property suffered se,·erely at differeut tin1es, from Indian raids and n1assacres. But the returns 1nust have been pretty large in spite of the111. " In the Thirty-fifth Congress an atten1pt was made to organize .....\..rizona into a territorial government, and, in ex pectation of success, }Ir. llowry was elected by the people to represent them as delegate in the House of Representatives. But the bill failed. He remained identified with the inter ests of Arizona, and l1eld a high place in the popular re gar J of the people, for whom he al ways manifested a lively interest, and to whom he was, on several occasion~, able to render serYice in directing the attention of the govern ment to measures for their protection. He recei·red from President Buchanan the Commission to run the boundary line between California and Nevada, on which be was THE )10,YRY F.-\l\lILY. employed when, on the accession of }Ir. Lincoln, he was superseded for political reasons. '· }Ir. }Iowry was a n1an of 1nore than ordinary ability, well educated, accomplished, fa1niliar with 1nilitary and political and ethnological subjects, of pleasing address, and a most agreeable cotu pan ion. His acquaintance was large a1noug the public men of the country. He had the ,·irtue and the faults of a sanguine tcmpera1nent, and it was nat ural for hitn to take strong and so1netimes exaggerated Yicws of passing events. '· The mistake of }Ir. llowry's life was that he did not offer his s,Yord to his country in the time of her se\"erest trial. Of Northern hirth, and educated at ,vest Point, he owed this to the goYernment. Had he done it, he probably "·ould ha,·e died a 1najor-general. But he had associated hhnself ,vith the Den1ocratic party, and his relations were inthnate with Southern men~ although he l1ad no sympathy "·ith their treason. He was arrested and confined at Fort Yuma, on a charge of disloyalty; but. he fully established his innocence, aud we belieYe that there was some private hostility in the accusation ; and he was released with l1is honor vindicated. ,.: Mr. llow·ry died unmarried. He was a most affection ate son. The declining years of his father, who was kl)own to so many of our readers, were soothed by his filial devo tion ; and to his only sister, a lady of uucon1mon attrac tions, who preceded hiin to the 'undiscovered land,' he was more than a brother. He supplied the place of a father." The following notice of his death appeared in the Lon don J;)aily Telegraplt, Oct. 19, 1871 : - " On Tuesday last, Mr. Syl\"'ester }Iowry, of Arizona, a truly representative American, breathed his last at Fen t.on's Hotel, in St. James's Street. The deceased was a nath·e of Rhode Island, and received his education at the LIEl"T. SYL \"ESTER )[OWRY.

}lilitary Academy of the United ~tates, at \\" est Point, where he graduated shortly aft.er the conclusion of the liexican war. He serYed in the E11gincer Corps of the {~ nitcd States ar1ny until after the acquisition of A rizoua.. when he attached his political fortunes to the newly-an nexed territory, and rc1naincd until death its 1nost steadfast and faithful f ricnd. The }lo wry or Patagonian n1i nc, of which he was once the owner, was a1nong the first 1netal lurgical enterprises attcn1pted in u territory regarded by 1nany persons as the veritable El Dorado of the Xcw ,v orld. ,vheu the war of secession hroke out, the proclh·itic~ of the ~parse white JlOpulatiou scattered over the ,·ast area of .A.rizona were for the iuost pa1·t intensely Southern. In spite of his Xew England extraction, }Ir. llo,Yry was strongly suspected of ' rebel' sy1upathics ; and, aware of the contagious influence which, by his exa1nple, he \Vould exercise an1ong the lawless rangers by wl10111 he was so belov-ed, the Federal general in command of the territory promptly arrested him, and kept him prisoner for 1nany 1nonths in 'r ucson. Released before long, Mr. Mowry took no part upon either side during the four years of frenzied ~trife which convulsed tl1e N ortb .A.merica11 Continent be tween 1861 an

754. HENRY CL.A.Y 110\VRY, son of Charles C., born Feb. 18, 1838, died }lay 22, 1863, aged 25 years. He ,vas first lieutenant in tl~e (Tnited States .Army, and was killed in battle at ,'.""icksburg. The following notice was copied f ro1n a Pro,·ideuce newspaper: '' The funeral services of First-Lieut. Henry V. }Io,vry, 72d Regin1e11t Illinois Infantry, killed in the battle of ,~icksburg, }lay 22, 1863, youngest son of the late CharlE:s C. Mowry, Esq., of this ~~ty, will be held at No. 10 Bowen Street, on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 12 o'clock." ELISHA. ARNOLD 1\10\VRY.

755. CELIA ElllIA MOWRY, daughter of Charles C., born July 10, 1840; n1arricd Dec. 17, 1868, T. B. ~AX TON. She died at ,varehouse Point, Conn., No,·. 19, 18tH\ aged 29 years. CHILD. Cecil }lowry, b. Nov. 18, 1869, at ,varehouse Point, Conn.; died .July 28, 1870, a.t New Haven.

761. PHEBB .A.LlIIR ....\. }IOWRY, daugl1ter of John .A.., born .A.ug. 12, 1850; married }lay 23, 187fi, .A.DIN C.\ PRON, of Woonsocket. CHILD. Helen llowry, L. Feb. 1, 1877. l{r. Capron is a very worthy 1na11, engaged in running a flouring 1nill at Stillwater, R. I.

764. ELL.A. DEXTER 11O\VRY,daughter of John H., born Jan. 17, 1848; 1narricd Oct. 21, 1874, Rev. D. \\r. HOYT: son of Daniel C., of Haverhill, }lass. He was horn ...-\.ug. 12, 1845. CHILD. llabel, b. July 26, 1875. Re,r. Mr. Hoyt is pastor of a Baptist church in ....\1uher~t, }lass. 767. JCLIA ESTELL ...-\. MOWR.Y, daughter of Smith, born Oct. 1, 1848; married No,. 23, 1872, JoHx .A. O,vi,~N: of Providence, R. I. CHILDREN. },red, b. },eL. 11, 1874. .A. daughter, b. Jan. 24, 1876.

790. ELISHA .ARNOLD MOWRY, son of Elisha; married llANXAH Sl\lITH. They had two daughters. 298 THE )10\VRY FAMILY.

7H.->. JO~EPH ED\\'."'.A.RD 110'\V'RY, son of Jencks, horn Nov. 2, 1~45; 1narricd Dec. 29, 1870, CAROLINE WHIP PLF. Low, daughter of ~:unuel Low, of ProYidence, R. I.

CHILDRE:S. 970. Jeanette Low, l,. Oct. 18, 1871. ft71. Grace C:rceue, L. Dec. 7, 1873 . . Joseph E. llowry is a gradua~e of Brown lTuh·ersity.,and is ~uccessfully engaged in teaching with his father. at )lount Pleasant _\caderuy, ProYidcnce, R. I.

LY I)) A BLAf'KlIF.R. l"HILDkl-::S. H80. ....\.lanzo. !•81. liar,·., ....t\.nna .

8i6. HENRY lIO\VRY, son of Randall; 1narried DEB

• ))l.\ H KERR. CHILDREN. 982. Charles. 985. "·inia1n. 983. George. 986. Frank. 984. ....\.nne. · Henry }lowry lh·es in S111ithfield, R. I.

827. DA.NIEL MO\VRY, son of Randall, born Oct. 27, 18:25 ; 1narried Sept. -, 1847, Sus.-\ x TAYLOR, of Green ville, R. I. CHILD. 987. Latilla, b. June-, 1856. Jlaniel }lowry lives in Chepachet, R. I . . 828. .A.MEY }IO,VRY, daughter of Randall.; married CTEOR(H-: LATHA)[. ABBY l\lOWRY. 299

829. R.A.NDALL lIOWRY, Ja.~ son of Randall; mar ried BARBERY STEERE. CHJLDRE:S. 988. ..A.nna. 989. Fred ; dead. ft90. l\Iarv.,, :. dead .

8;30. ELIZ.A. lIO,VRY:- daughter of Randall; 1narried :Euw1x KELLEY.

881. THO}l.. .\..S 110,vRY, son of Randall, horn July 28, 1835; 111arried June 27, 1855, .J -~~E E. BURLINGAME. No children. Thomas lfowry is a carriage-painter, living at Cent.re c_lale, R. I.

832. EMILY MO\\... RY, daugl1ter of Randall; 1narried .JESSE STEERE.

833. GEORGE llOWRY, son of Randall; 1narricd }IARY 8:MITH. CHILDREN. 991. George. 9~t2. Sarah.

834. ALBERT MO\YRY, son of Randall; married 8. .\R • .\.H COOK .. CHILD. 993. Eva._

836. Eo,vARD MOWRY, son of Randall ; 1uarried; lh·es in u· xbridge, and l1as two cl1ildre11.

837. ABBY MOWRY, dauglite .- of Randall; married DAVID LEONARD. 300 THE MOWRY FAMILY. ,ve will close this chapter by giving, iu tabular forn1, a list of the )Iowrys who have represented Sn1ithfield and several other towns of the State iu the General ....\.sse1nbly.

HATE OF TOW'.N. TERll t-:LF.<'TIO~. I ExPlR~. ~--- I -----1-- 1 ){a,y -i. 1686, i)tr. J~ph )lowry f>cputy for Jiunes Town • I )lay a. 1~, i)Cr. J~J>h )lowry .. .. )lay 6. IWI, :)tr. Jo~ph Mowry •• .. )lay:!, 1',0i, :)Ir• .Joseph )lowry . • )lay-&:. r;Oi, Ilk. J~ph Mowry . • 0l't. :!':'. l':'lJ\,,)lr. Joseph )fowry ...... )lu.y I, 1';'11, l)lr. Joseph )lowry • !\luy r,. 1-::J.l, ICapt. J<)tleph !\lowry .. ·• Smithfield )lay. litKJ, Capt. Joseph )lowry 'Oct., 1itil. 4kt•• l';'t», ( 'apt. J~ph Mowry 'Oct., li64-. )lay. lir,-;. Jeremblh )lowry • • .June. nr>K, Jeremblh Mowry · • • .. •• :!\lay. li59. )lay. IJ~• J~ph )fowry. Jr. • • .May, 1700. 4~ct., 1~m, l>an!t'l )fowl")·, Jr., E...~1-, .. .. ;May, 1767. h.•b-~ 1.69. Damcl Xowry, Jr•• Es.1., -Oct•• li69. )lay. l';"iO, Dttniel .Mowry, Jr.• &«1•• ;May. 17.2. Oct •• IE-, l>an!el Xowry. Jr., E."14.J., :Ma)·. l'ii4. )lay. 1. •~ Uamel Mowry. Jr•• E.-..1 •• .. -Oct., liia. Xay, l.i6, Daniel )[owry. Jr.• E...~J •• i llay, 1777. 0(:t .• l';'i'~ Daniel )lowry, Jr.• E.~1-, .. .. lla.)·, li.9. 1-"(~b •• l':"86. Daniel Mowry, Jr.• Jo:~ •• June. lit4t;. t >ct •• li91. Daniel llowrv. ,Jr•• E."14.1 •• lla.y, l";re. ~ Jct•• lil'IO, EJJsh11 )fowri· . • . • .. ·)hi.)·. 1,SJ • Ol"t., lit'.?, El~hn )fowr,· • • • , ~·e b •• li:;.t.. }lay. Ii~. Eli~hu lfowr,· • .. j lteb.• 1785 • May. l':'~ 'l'homM Mowry . • • •· •· ~itmltc }lay. 1~. Williaun Mowr~· •· ~mithflel

THE EIGHTH GENERATION.

866. CHARLfi~S MOWRY, son of ,\.,.indsor ; 1narried KATE IDE.

867. THOMAS MO\VRY, son of ,vindsor; 1uarried 1 EMl\lA THURSTON. CHILD. 1001. Mary. }larried 2 DORA REYNOLDS, and had one child .

.869. ABBY JANE llOWRY, daughter of Shadrach; married }!ERRICK REYNOLDS. 872. LOUIS N. :&IOWRY, son of .Charles, Jr. ,Yas married, but nothing further is known of him.

873. EMILY MOWRY, daughter of Charles, Jr.; married SENECA SMITH.

874. JULIA l\iIOWRY, daughter of Charles, Jr.; 1nar ried ALBERT SMITH.

876. SARAH MOWRY, daughter of Charles, .Jr.; married WILLIAM STEERE. 302 THE MOWRY FAl'tlILY. 881. .A.LBERT ,v ATERMA.i~ lIO,YRY, Ja., sou of _i\.lbert '\V ., born at Winfield, N. Y., .Aug. 5, 1846 ; married 8ept. 18, 1872, GERTIE H. GREENE. He was a member of Co. C, Sixtieth Massachusetts Reg iment, having enlisted July 14, 186-1, for one hundrecl days. He is a n1erchant in Brookfield, lladison Co., N. Y.

~82. ll.A.RTH.A. JANE lIO,VR.Y~ daughter of .A.lbert ,v., born at ,vinfield, N. Y., Dec. 11, 1850; n1arried Oct. -1, 1869, JOSEPH ,v. C. BURDICK. Sbe died Jan.13, 1872, a.t llil waukec, Wis.

899. DA.R"rlN RUSH lIO,YRY, son of Daniel ...-\ ... , born Jan. 13, 1820 ; married in Providence, llay 26, 1844,

.r.:MR A 1:• E:.;. "~ TEERE. CHILDREX. 1002. llary Jencks, h. Dec. 2, 1846; died }larch 4, 1853. 1003. .Adah Isabel, b. Aug. 30, 1858 ; died March 26, 1860. 1004. Florine Jiolhrook, b. A.pril 9, 1863.

900. DANIEL .A. MO,YRY, JR., son of Dauiel ....\..., born Xe),·. 15, 1828; 1narried ISABEL FLETCHER, daughter of .Jo seph, of Providence. CHILDRES. 1005. }lira Bnffun1 . . 1006. }Iary ~,. 1007. Classen.

901. ElIOR H. MOWRY, sou of Daniel .A.., born Oct. 20, 1833 ; married Jan. 28, 1862, .AMANDA }I. SLOCUM, of Georgiaville, R. I. She was born June 14, 1841. .-\~HA ANNIE ELIZABETH l\lOWRY. 303

CHILDRE'S. 1008. Daniel ...-\ .. , b. Feb. 19, 1863 ; d. llarch -1, 186.j. 1009. En1ily Isabel, h. July 27, 1865: died July 19, 1877. 1010. ....\.bby H., h. )larch 9, 1867. 1011. Emor H., h. Sept. 18, 1870 ;

902. N... .\.THANIEL SPACLDINl¾ lIO,YRY, son uf Daniel A., horn ....\pril 1.8, 1839; 1narried 1 Dec. 16, 1860, llARY E. IRON~, daughter of Feuncr.

CHILDREN. 1014. ,Johie ~haw, b. January, 1864; died .June 26, 1866. 1015. Chelsey Beach, b .•Jan. 4, 186l•. l\Iarried 2 June 12, 1878, !SABEL 8T.A'SDI8H, daughter of James Chester, of \V atertown, _Mass.

903. ...i\.SH ....\. ANNIE ELIZABETH MOWRY, daugh ter of Dr. Samuel; married l\larch 18, 1868, FR.ANKLIX P. BRANCH. CHILDREN. Roby Bellows, b. in Providence, .April 6, 1869. Waity .Angell Mowry, b. in North Bend, Neb., July 10, 1870 ; died .Aug. 23, 1870 . .Annie Mowry, b. in Providence, October 10, 1871 ; died April 3, 1872. 304 THE 1\10\VRY FAMILY.

904. LILLY BVRRILL lfo,YRY, sou of Burrill R., born .April 7, 1840; 1narricd in 1862, ELLES E. ESTEN, daughter of Stephen, of Burrill\"ille.

CHILD. 1016. Erswell, b. Aug. 12, 1863. Lilly B. llowry is a ,·ery respectable n1a11, an ingenious mechanic, capable of turning his hand to almost any .trade. Ile lh·es in S1nithfield, R. I.

905. DR. S.A.Ml:'EL R. 110,vRY, son of Burrill R., l>orn Aug. 18, 1848 ; died Sept. 18, 1876, aged 28 years. Not married. Dr. Samuel R. graduated at the Hahne1nan11 Medical College in Philadelphia, in 1873, and practised medicine in Olneyville, and subsequently in Greenville, R. I., whe1·e he died, after a painful sickness, at the early age of twenty

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906. NELSON lIO\VRY, son of Nelson H., early emigrated to California, where he became some.what famous as a horseback rider. He is said to l1avc rode 300 miles in 14 hours and 9 1ninutes, mounting and dismount ing 286 times, using 30 horses, and losing 15 pounds in his weight!' during the tiine of riding. In the sun1mer of 1876, he made a tour through New England and the Middle States witb his California Polo Club, giYing exhibitions of the exciting game of polo. His feats in horsemanship were truly ,vonderful, as described by the multitudes who witnessed them. He died of yellow f e,·er iu New Orleans, in the early summer of 1878. .A.N~ R. l\lOWRY. 305 907. ...lNN R. MO\VRY, daughter of Deacon ~amuel, born in Coventry, R. I., Feb. 26, 1819 ; 1narried Nov. 4, 1845, Rev. J. ,v. TucK. He was born in Kensington, N. H., Oct. 8, 1811. CHILDREN. Anna 11., b. in Ludlow, }lass., }lay 14, 1848. Irene M., b. in Ludlow, llass., June 21, 1850 ; d. in Gree1n·ille, Ct., Oct. S, 1865. Samuel 1\1., b. May 16, 1853 ; died in Ludlow, Sept. 24-, 1855. Carrie Cary, b. Aug. 13, 1855. Alfred Webster, b ....\.ug. 6, 1858 ; d. in Ludlow, llass., April 23, 1859. Mary Steven, b. in Thorndike, }Ia.ss., Dec. 3, 1860. Rev. J. ,vebster Tuck was a student in llamptou and Phillips Exeter Academies, N. H., and taught school sev eral seasons. He fitted for college at Phillips ...\.cademy, .A.ndover, and entered Amherst College in 1836 ; graduated in 1840; taught academy in West Brattleboro', Vt. ; pur sued theological studies at Ando,·er, Mass., and at East Windsor, Conn. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry Sept. 6, 1843. His first pastorate was at Ludlow, Mass., from 1843 to Dec. 7, 1859. He was pastor of the First Church in Palmer, Mass., six years ; preached for a time in Indian Orchard, Mass., and at Mystic Bridge, Conn. He was installed pastor of the church at Jewett City, May 3, 1866, and was dismissed June 28, 1876. He was installed pastor of the Third Church in Middletown, Ct., June 21, 1877, where be now remains. While upon the editoriai excursion to the Rocky Moun tains and California in 187 5, he preached six weeks in the :?l. 306 THE l\lOWRY FA?tIILY. city of Benicia, Cal., and received an invitation to beco1ne pastor, which he declined. He delivered the Historical ...-\.ddress at the Centennial Celebration of the town of Lud low, in 1874. His ministry has now covered the space of thirty-five years, and l1as been attended with good success. His wife, Ann R. (Mowry) Tuck, is a woman of unusually good mincl, well educated, and great excellence of charac ter. She graduated at the llount Holyoke Female Se1n inary in 1842, and ,vas im1nediately appointed a teacher in the sa111e. She taught there in 1842 and 1843. They are highly esteen1ed by a ,~ery wide circle of friends and present or foriner parishioners.

908. JAlIES D. }10\YRY, son of Deacon Sa111uel, born at Canterbury, Conn., N~v. 5, 1820; married llarch, 1844, E. LOUISE S1UITH. CHILDREN. 101',. Dav-id S., l,. in Norwich, Ct., March, 1845. 1018. ,vi11ian1 C., b. in Norwich, Ct., June, 1850. 1019. Louisa S., b. in N' orwich, Ct., August, 1858. 1020. Lucy C., b. in Norwich, Ct. James D. llowry is a manufacturer in Norwich, Ct.

909. JOHN S.!llOWRY, son of Deacon Samuel, born in Bozrahville, Conn., Jan. 1, 1826; married Sept. 18, 1865, )fARY G. PETERS. C3.ILDREX. 1021. John S., b. in GreenYille, Conn. 1022. S. Jared, b .. in Greenville, Conn. 1023. Halle B., b. in Preston, Conn. 1024. GraQe E., b. iu Preston, Conn. John S. Mowry is a farmer in Preston, Conn. RUTH WHEELER MOWRY. 307 910. DA ·v10 S. MO,VRY, son of Deacon Sa1nuel, born in Bozraln·ille, Conn., March 10, 1827 ; not 1narried. He graduated at Yale College in 1848. He was study ing la,v with Judge Osborne, in Fairfield, 001111., at the time of his death, Nov. 14, 1848, in his 22d year.

911. STEPHEN J. MOWRY, son of Deacon Samuel, born at Bozrahville, Conn., otfune 26, 1828; married in 1853, DELIA PETERS. CHILDREN. 1025. Lulu. 1026. Anna Griswold. They both died young. Stephen Jared Mowry was actively engaged as a 1nanu facturer in the llowry Axle Machine business in Green ville, Conn. He died A.ug. 26, 1865, aged 37 years.

917. RUTH WHEELER MOWRY, daughter of Jon .athan, born June 6, 1822 ; married Sept. 21, 1841, GEORGE INMAN, of Burrillville, R. I., son of George Inman. He was born Dec. 23, 1818 ; died Aug. 7, 1876, aged 57 years, 7 months, 14 days. CHILDREN. George Buffun1, b. March 18, 1843. Willard Frederick, b. July 8, 1845. Eugene Ferdinand, b. Aug. 29, 1847 . .Arthur lr,·ing, b. Jan. 11, 1850. Eliza Ann, b. Jan. 14, 1852. Augustus Washington, b. Dec. 24, 1853. Walter Samuel, b. Dec. 24, 1856. Mary Alberta, b. Jan. 30, 1859. Alice ,vood, b. June 30,1861. Charlie Elmer, b. Feb. 24, 1865. 308 THE l\lOWRY FAl\llLY. George Inman was a lineal descendant fron1 that Edward· Inman whose daughter Johannah married, in 1666, Nathan iel Mowry, the father of all this race of llowrys. He was a farmer, an honest 1nan, a good neighbor, a kind friend, and an intelligent citizen. On a s1nall farm, with poor health, he and his wife brought up and educated a fan1ily of ten children. The following obituary notice appeared in the editorial colums of the Woonsocket Patriot a few dars subsequent to his death. GEORG.E INMAN. ·' • Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. •, • Far from the mad'ning crowd's ignoble strife, · Their sober wishes never learned to stray : •.\long the cool, sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their w~y. "· Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send.' " ' The titnes change, and the people change with them,'" wrote the old Roman. New England at the present day is no exception to the truth of these words. If 'God made the country, and man made the town,' but few per sons nowadays choose to remain in God's dominions, but most prefer the excitement, or the vices, or both, of the crowded man-town. " It is refreshing, once in a while, to look upon a picture of the olden time ; to find a strong man, intelligent, active, but di~posed to re1nain upon the homestead of his fathers, and spend bis life in the quiet contentment of agricultural pursuits.. " <:1eorge Inman was born Dec. 23, 1818, in the RUTH lVHEELER l\lOWRY. 309 l1ouse where he al\Vays lived, and where he died. He was the sou of George, and his first-born bears the same name. His earliest ancestor in America was Edward Inman, who with Stephen .Arnold and John and Nathaniel Mowry, co1nmenced the first settlement in Northern Rhode Island as early as the year 1650. " Through the whole history of this colony and this State, the descendants of Edward have figured more or less prominently in matters relating to the public and pri vate welfare of Northern Rhode Island. " Conspicuous among the many honored names of this ·fa1nily, for quiet contentment, for domestic virtues, for honest integrity, stands the name of him who is the sub ject of this sketch. " Thirty-fl ve years of his married life had nearly passed before death broke the circle of his own immediate family, and then it was to leave his.wife a ,vidow and his ten chil dren fatherless. On a small farm, which for many years, -during the life-time of l1is mother, he conducted 'upon shares,' he had managed to bring up a large family, tl1e members of which, together with the host of oft-visiting friends, will ever remember the abundance of good cheer, the quiet, contented spirit of happiness and good feeling which ever pervaded the household. It will never be known l1ere what tact and management were necessary on the part of this worthy couple, what forethought and planning were needed to anticipate and supply all the wants of this grow ing family of seven boys and three girls ; how they were -clothed and fed, and bow all, save t~e youngest two, have had opportunities for intellectual culture in so1ne of the best high and normal schools of New England. These ten children and three grandchildren, hurried home by the news of his mortal illness, stood around his bedside and ministered to his wants with willing and affectionate hands -during his latest hours, and received his last blessing. 310 THE l\10\VRY FAl\llLY. "Just at high noon, having finished all his eartl1ly duties, in the full possession of his faculties, death crept o\·er him, and with the words, 'It grows misty ; I cannot see,' he passed away fro111 earth. " Few New England homes ha \·e been per,·aded by a purer spirit of domestic peace than this one. Few families can sho,v ten children brought up to greater thrift and energy of character, than in this instance. .A.s the wid owed mother of these children look back upon the pictures. which memory brings crowding upon the mind, well may she rejoice and be truly g1·ateful to the Giver of all bless ings for the measure of good that has been bestowed upon her, and she will have abundant reason to say, 'Through 1nuch tribulation are we 1nade perfect.' "

919. ,vILLI... .\lI .A.• 110"'."RY, son of Jonathan, born _,lug. 13, 1829; married 1 NoY. 15, 1849, RuFI~.A ll. E. ,VEAVER, daughter of Nehe1niah K.. and Freelove M. ,v ea Yer, Slatersville, R. I. She was born NOY. 11, 1831 ; died llarch 11, 1850, aged 18 years and 4 1nonths, of con sumption, four months after her marriage. }Iarried 2 .A.pril 29, 1858, CAROLINE E ...A .. LDRICH, daugh ter of Ezekiel and Eliza D. Aldrich, Woonsocket, R. I. She was born )larch 15, 1835.

CHILDREN. 1028. Walter Herbert, b. May 29, 1859. 1029. Arthur }lay,.. b. Jan. 19, 1862. 1030. Ruth Emeline, b. June 16, 1867. ,villiam A. Mowry has been a teacher in ProYidence, R. I., for more than twenty years. He began teaching iu 1847, i11 llohegan, R. I. ·During the 11cxt four years he taught in Burrillville, Uxbridge, and Whitinsville. He WILLI All A. l\lOWRY. 311 then fitted for college at Phillips .. A.. caden1y, Andover, Mass., where he graduated in 1854, and entered Brown UniYer sity. Prc,·ented by ill health f ro111 con1pleting the course, he wa~ obliged to leaYe college, and traveled to recruit his health. ·i,ro1n September, 1857, to February~ 1860, he wa.s the editor and publisher of the Rltode Island Scl1oolnia.:;ter. Pron1 }lay, 1858 .. to February, 1864, he taught in the pub lic High -School, Providence, during 1nost of which thue he was the principal of the English and Scientific Depart1nent. In Septe1nber, 1862, he enlisted in the Eleventh Regin1ent l{. I. Infantry, and was pron1oted to a captaincy. He took con1n1and of Con1~ K, ahd served through the ter1n fot· which the reg~~!1t eii"listcd, and ,vas houorauly discharged, July 13, 1863. He was a licensed preacl1er of the Congre gational Church, and for nearly a year was acting pastor of the Elmwood Congregational Uhurch, Cranston, after wards Pro\"ideuce. He was the superintendent of the public schools of Cranston from 1864 to 1866. In February, 1864, he com1nenced " THE E~GLISH AND CLASSICAL SCHOOL," a private institution for boys, of which he is now the senior principal. The school now 1iumbers two l1undred and fifty pupils, and bas fifteen teachers. In 1866 he received the honorary degree of )laster of .A.rts fro1n Brown University, and was subsequently elected 111ember of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity. He has been active in educational movements, especially in connection wit.h the Rhode Island Institute of Instruc tion, of wl1ich lie has been president, and the American Institute of Instruction. He has been interested in public movements, and a member of several societies, among which may be named the Providence Young Men's Chi is- 312 THE !10WRY FAMILY. tian .A.ssociation, the Providence Franklin Society, t]1e Rhode Island Society for tl1e Encouragement of Domestic Industry, the Rhode Island Horticultural Society, and the Rhode Island Historical Society. He is the author of some small publications, among wliich may he mentioned, "Who Invented the First Amer ican Stea1nboat?" published by the. New Hampshire An tiquarian Society. He has giYen lectures before the normal schools of liassachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; teachers' institutes in Ne,v Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Peunsylv:ania; the Rhode Island Historical Society, and other societies, and has cou tributed variously for the press. Below is given a fac-simile of bis handwriting.

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920. HELEN FRANCELIA MOWRY, daughter of Richard D., born )lay 9, 1840; married Jan. 27, 1864, CHARLES .....\. ALDRICH, son of Arnold and Lucy Aldrich.

CHILD. Morton Arnold, born Jan. 27, 187 4, in Boston High lands. • Helen F. }{owry received an excellent education, gradu- SIDNEY H. MOWRY. 313 ating at tbe Lasell Female Seminary iu Auburndale, Mass. She taught as first assistant in the W oonsoeket Higb School for several years with excellent success. She mar ried Mr. Charles A. Aldrich, a wholesale boot and shoe merchant, in Boston. Mr. Aldrich is a very successful business man, honorable and upright, of unblemished ·Christian character. Tbey are higllly respected, and beloved by a wide circle of friends. 921. SARAH ELIZABETH MOWRY, daughter of Richard D., born Sept. 18, 1849 ; married Jan. 27, 1869, WALTER P. ScoTT., son of Samuel and Susan Farnum Scott, -0£ Uxbridge, Mass. Mr. Scott is a . woolen manufacturer in Jewett City, Conn. They are very fine .people, intelligent, honorable, and respected by all. 924. AMEY M. MOWRY, daughter of Rev. Junia, born March 26, 1841 ; married May 21, 1863, EDWARD DUNN. 926. PHEBE S. MOWRY, daughter of Rev. Junia, born June 6, 1844; married May, 1860, WILLIAl\l W. HAZEN.

928. MARTHA .A.. MOWRY, daughter of Rev. Junia, born Sept. 2, 1847 ; married Sept. 17, 1873, GEORGE BuLL. 934. SIDNEY H. MOWRY, son of Lamech C., boru July 12, 1848; married BERTHA D. PRA'rr. She was born Jan. 20, 1847. CHILDREN. 1031. Edna E., b. Jan. 11, 1870. 1032. Mabel S., b. March 3, 1872. 1033. Leland B., b. July 13, 1875; died in 1877. 31-1 THE MOWRY FAl\llLY.

940. I}IlIER .A.NGELL l'IO\VRY, son of Inuner E., born June 21, 1844; 1narried Oct. 8, 1867, .A.BBY JANE ,r1LL.\no, daughter of George._.\.., of _\shburnha1n, Mass.

CHILDREX. 1034. l[artha \\""illar

f\53. .A..LBERT H.A. v·Ex 1\10\YRY, son of Lewis D., born in Charleston, ~- C., July 2, 1847; married Jan. 12, 1869, E:u:u.\ lL~XIG.\ULT, daughter of H. }f. llanigault.

CHTLDREX. 1040. Lewis Dexter, b. Oct. 24, 1869. 1041. A.lbert Haven, b. Oct. 22, 1870. 1042. _\dele }Ianigault, h ..April 30, 1872; died Oct. ..9 0 ' 1s-9.' .... 1043. Emma l\Ianigault, b .....\.ug. 1, 187 4. 1044. IIelen .l'Iiddleton, b. Oct. 6, 1876. AfJDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

So:\IE inforn1ation has been received since the foregoh1g pages were printed, whicl1 will be inserted here, ,vith. proper references to the body of the book. So1ne errors have been discovered, which will be corrected, so fa.r as possible. , Page 25. Fourth line from the top, read "1718" instead of " 1716." Page 39. Ninth line from the top, read : " This Captain Joseph lh·ed till the year 1746." See his ,vn1, page 49.

Page 50. Fourth line f ro111 the top, read " 17 46 " instead of " 1764." Page 57. 19. ELISH... .\. MOWRY, died July 28, 1790.

CHILDREN. 38. Israel, b. Jan. 1, 1744. 39. Waite (see No. 58), b. 1746. 40. Urial1, b. 1758. 41. Esek, b. 1747 ; d. young. 42. Abiel, b. Sept. 8, 1756. 316 THE MO\VRY FAl\ULY. 43. A1nasa, h. 1753. 44. Sarah, b. 17 54. 45. Esek, b. 1750. 46. Henry. 4 7. Jeremiah. 48. Patience, h. 1767.

Page 62. 63. SILENCE MOWRY, married JOSEPH CooK, June 8, 1746. Page 66. 26. JOHN lIOWRY, died Feb. 10, 1798, in the 60th year of his age. He was therefore born about 1738. His wife Lois died March 22, 1802, aged 62 years. (Nel son says " in the 61st year of her age.")

Page 67.

Number 93 is. )lA.RTHA. Also on sa1~e page, WAN TON MowRY (No. 32) died May 20, 1766. His widow DINAH ,vas his administratrix.

Page 78. 115. llary; died Oct. 25, 187 4, aged 97. 120. Israel, b. Aug. 24, 1787. 122. Amey, b. Sept. 3, 1803. 123. Robert, b. Dec. 5, 1805. 124. Patience, b. in 1807 ; died in 1834.

Page 99· Sixth to 10th lines from top, read, "In 1793. sbe married his son Syh·ester, with whom she lived happily fifty-two _years, when she died, aged eigltty-o-ne years, mourned by a large circle of descendants and friends." ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 317

Page 114. 72. JOHN MO,VRY, died May 4, 1852. His wife POLLY died Jan. 30, 1859, aged 82.

CHILDREN. 211. Ralph, b. May 3, 1795. 212. Charles, b. March 27, 1797, in Woodstock, Ct. 213. Eliza, b. .April 7, 1801 ; d. Sept. 20, 1854. 214. Lucy, b. Dec. 10, 1798; d. Aug. 2, 1876. 215. Lois, b. July 5, 1806 ; d. Feb. 22, 1856. 216. John, b. Feb. 1, 1808 ; d. July 3, 1840. 217. Mariah, b. Jan. 22, 1811. 217 a. Mary Ann, b. May 6, 1813 ; d. Jan. 11, 1865. 217b. William, b. Dec. 8, 1815 ; d. Dec. 8, 1877. 217c. Clarissa, b. June 24, 1819; d. }larch 2, 1850.

Page 120. .At the end of the account of \Villiam Mowry, insert the following obituary notice, which has been found in the for1n of a newspaper cutting since that page was printed. It is evidently from a paper published in the village of Green wich, N. Y. He was a man of such prominence, and the statements are of such value, as to warrant its insertion here. " Died, in this village, on Sunday morning, March 23, 1854, in the 66th year of bis age, William Mowry, Esq.:t one of our most respected citizens. " The death of such a man leaves a void in society not soon to be filled, and it well becomes the few who remain of his long attached friends to drop the tribute of a tear over his earthly remains, and to sincerely cherish the memory of his sterling worth and his manly virtues. "Mr. Mowry was a ~ative of Woodstock, Conn. In his early childhood his parents remo~ed to Rhode Island. His 318 THE l\lOWRY FAMILY. father's native place was Smithfield, R. I. Having acquired a knowledge of manufacturing cotton at the famed pioneer establishment of Samuel Slater, Pawtucket, of that State, he then came to this place, where he has since resided, and com1nenced business. It ,vas the first attempt in this State; it was regarded as a haza.rdous enterprise; it proved, howeYer, en1inently successful, and others were ready to embark in it. .A.n association "·as formed under the firn1 of ,vnliam llowry & Co., who have pursued the business to the present tin1e. The ,vhole manage1nent devolved on llr. Mowry, and was continued by him witJ1 singular ability, till long-continued illness compelled l1im to resign its di rection to other hands. "This article was not intended as an eulogy on the de ceased, nor is it necessary; his character for industry, pru dence, punctuality, and strict integrity is too firmly estab lished in the business comn1unit.y to require the aid of post humous praise ; nor will his courtesy, kindness, and liber ality be soon forgotten in the social circle ,vhere he so long 1110,·ed . . " llr. llowry, on the 12th of April, 1831, made a public profession of religion, and became a men1 ber of the Re f or1ned Dutch Church, - ·where he attended regularly, until sickness prevented his further enjoyment of the pri v ileges of the sanctuary. .A.s his physical powers gave ,vay, his 1nental were g1·adually affected. Still, however, he endured all patiently ; appeared interested in hearing the reading of the Bible and other religious books ; and uni formly expressed a sense of his utte1·sinfulness, and a hum ble dependence on the grace of God through Jesus Christ. Severely as his family must feel this bereavement, they cannot but remember how he was ' made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights were appointed unto him,' and now they sorrow not as those wbo have no hope." ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 319

Page 130. 111. ELISHA MO\VRY, married }larch 28, 1892, in Cheshire, Mass., BARBARA BAKER. I-le died l\larch 2, 1853, at Ann Arbor, Mich. She died Jan. 7, 1857, at Ann Arbor. CHILDREN. 305a. l\laria, b. Jan. 20, 1803, at Cheshire; d. Feb. 4, 1804. 306. Zebina M., b. Oct. 26, 1804, at Cheshire. 307. Hethcott l\L, b. Nov. 6, 1806, at Cheshire. 308. J a1nes B., b .....\.pril 26, 1809, at Cheshire. 308a. Elisha R.. , l,. A.ug. 24, 1811, at Che~hire; d . .A.ug. 27, 1830, at }fadison, N. Y. 309. Israel, b. May 15, 1814, at Cheshire. 310. Maria L., b. Jan. 23, 1820, at Madison, N. Y.

Page 133. 118. SA.RAH Mo,vRY, married SAl\IUEL TAFT, of Uxbridge. He was born Dec. J2, 1782, and died Feb. 8, 1842, in ,vestfield, Chatauqua Co., N. Y. She died Oct. 6, 1857, at the same place.

CHILDREN. Israel, b. Dec. 6, 1803. Susan, b. Sept. 12, 1805; d. April 3, 1866 . ....\nne C., b. Sept. 5, 1807. Polly, b. June 12, 1809; d. Oct. 15, 1809. ....\.bigail Wood, b. Dec. 10, 1810. Calista C., b. l\larch 13, 1813 ; d. Oct .. 7, 1815. Frederick, b. April 15, 1815 ; d. l\Iarch 24, 1844. Waity Mariah, b. Oct. 19, 1817 ; d. Oct. 1830. Perley P ., b. Feb. 20, 1820. Clyrena, b . ..c\..pril 12, 1822 ; d. July 22, 1822. Sarah Congdon, b. Oct. 4, 1823; d. No¥. 16, 1826. 320 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

Page 134. 120. !SRA.EL MOWRY, JR., son of Israel, born Aug. 24, 1787; married Aug. 20, 1815, PaILA Wooo, born July 12, 1798. He died June 16, 1855.

CHILDREN. 822a. Barbara B., b. Dec. 30, 1817. 822b. Betsey C., b. Dec. 16, 1819. 822c. Ezra W., b. Oct. 14, 1822. 822cl. Daniel C., b. June 16, 1825. 322e. Ann A., b. April 16, 1827. 32~{. Almira M., b. Jan. 12, 1829. 322g. John G., b. Sept. 10, 1831. 822/,. Charles H., b. May 23, 1833. 322i. George W ., b. May 25, 1835.

122. AMEY MOWRY, born Sept. 3, 1803; married .June 29, 1830, DAVID P. Mo,v&Y, born Feb. 25, 1810, and died Oct. 4, 1842. She died Jan. 27, 1859. No children.

123. ROBERT MOWRY, born Dec. 5, 1805, in Men don ; married Feb. 2, 1832, PAULINA. FISHER, of Medway. She was born in Bellingham, Oct. 19, 1810.

CHILDREN. 322k. Robert L., b. Aug. 1, 1835; d. Sept. 15, 1836. 322l. Mary H., b. Aug. 81, 1840; d. Feb. 21, 1846, in Grafton. 328. Abbie F., b. June 19, 1842. All born in Medway.

Page 173. 212. CHARLES MOWRY, married Ja.n. 1, 1823, MA TILDA DE~"1SON. She was born May 14, 1804. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 321

CHILDREX. Insert the follo,Ying additional dates : - 524. Richard H., b._ Dec. 28 (29?), 1828; d. May 27, 1871. 525. John S., b. June 26 (6?), 1832. v-•~.:)"" • }Iary .A.• ; d. NO'\"'. 7, 1854.

Page 179.

REY. J.AlIES ,vnE.A.. TON }IOWRY; married l llARY ,v. CUSHl\IAN. CHILD. 559a. liary Frances, born Sept. 10, 1835, in Lebanon, N. H. Mai·ried 2 Jan. 1, 1849, ARATHUSA SA ,vYER.

CHILD.

559b. Solon "\Vebster, b. Nov. 17, 1849, at Springficld1 Mass.; d. Oct.10, 1851, at Wilbraham,Mass. J an1cs \V. Mowry, at the age of twenty-two, entered the traveling ministry of the llethodist Episcopal Church. He joined the Vermont and New Hampshire Conference in the spring of 1830. He was ordained deacon at Lyn don, Vt., in 1832, by Bisl1op R. R. Roberts. He wa.s ordained elder at Windsor, Vt., in 1834, by Bishop Elijah Hedding. He was stationed in 1834 and 1835, at Lebanon, Vt.; next at Concord, N. H. Wbile_at Concord he served as chaplain at the state-prison. He preached at New Market, Great Falls, Nasbua, and Manchester, each two years. While at Manchester he was twice elected to the State legislature, and represented that city during the two terms, serving a.t· the same time as 22 322 THE l\lOWRY F.!l\ULY. chaplain of the House of Representatives. Fro1n l\Ian chester he was appointed to ,vorcester, Mass., and con tinued to serYc tbe cl1urch in the work of the ministry, from place to place, till .A.pril, 1878, when he retired fro1u acth·e ser,.. ice. He therefore labored in the ministry fortJJ eiglit years. He is now liv-ing in Barre, }lass., aged seYenty year~. Fron1 the above it will be seen that Elder )lowry has been a labo1·ious and success£ ul minister of the G-ospel for nearly half a century, serving as pastor of some of the largest and strongest of the l\Ieth~dist churches in

Kew Eng:land._ .

231. ,vILLI.A.lI PITT lIO,YRY; married April 17, 1836, lL.\TILD.\ ....\.MELIA CRANE. She was born ....\.ug.. 22, 1814. CHILD RE!\. 559c. Caroline Matilda, b. April 23, 1837; d. Jan. 2, 1839. 559d. James \Villiam, b. NOY. 9, 1839 ; d. Oct. 21, 1860. 559e. Louisa An1elia, b. Jan. 2, 1843. 559f. ·}lary Jane, b. No,·. 25, 1849.

Page 194. Should be added the following : - t---- 306. ZEBINA lIOWRY, son of Elisha, born Oct. 26, 1804; married 1 at l\Iadison, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1827, SARAH LEWIS. She died at }Iilford, Mich., March 7, 1845.·

CHILDREN. 655a. Henry B., b. March 21, 1828, at Madison, N. Y. 655b. Emily A., b. Feb. 18, 1883, at Madison, N. Y. ADDITIONS A.ND CORRECTIONS. 323 655c. Aun llaria, b. June 26, 1837, at Morrisville, N. Y. 655d. l\fary M., b. Nov. 14, 1843, at Milford, llicb.; d. Dec. 2, 1853. liarried 2 at lililford, llich., Dec. 18, 1845, MARY ANN THOl\lPSON.

1' 307. HETHCOTT 11. 11O":--RY, son of Elisha, born

No,. 6, 1806; married at Madison, N. Y., Dec. 30 1 1833, HARRIET A. J ..\CKSOX. CHILDREX. 655e. James Rodney, b. April 10, 1836, at Ann Arbor, Mich. 65~(. Mary B., b. Feb. 6, 1842, at Ann Arbor, Mich. 308. JAMES B. 1'1O\VRY, son of Elisha, born April 26, 1809; married 1 Jan. 11, 1832, ALLASEBA. l\I. EDGARTO~, at lladison, N. Y. She died July 2, 1835. Married 2 Dec. 25, 1836, ABIGAIL N1xox, at Ann Arbor, Mich. CHILDREN. 655g. Sarah A., b. Oct. 25, 1838, at Ann Arbor ; d. Dec. 2, 1860. _ 655/t. Lodem_a-E., b. Nov. 16, 1840. 655i. Catherine A., b. Feb. 22, 1842. 655k. Lucinda A., b. Jan. 16, 184- (!).

v309. ISRAEL MOWRY, son of Elisha, born May 15, 1814; married at Dixbow, Mich., Dec. 15, 1836, RUTH BEDELL. CHILDREN. 655l. Granville Gilbert, b. Sept. 9, 1837, at Ann Ar bor. 655m. Ida Corin~1e, b. Sept. 22, 1859 ; d. Aug. ~' 1860. 324 THE l\10\VRY FAMILY • .. 310. lI.A.RI.A. L. lIOWRY, daughter of Elisha, born Jai1. 23, 1820; 1narried 1 at .A.nu Arbor, Dec. 25, 1839, ,v ORDEN N. RICHARDSON •• He died liarch 12, 1854.

CHILDREN. Fanny, b. in Toledo, Ohio, l!arch 25, 1842. Fred, b. Jan. 2, 1846 ; d. Jan. 3, 1846. Clara, b. Jan. 9, 1849; d. Oct. 13, 1849. l\Iaurice, b. April 16, 1852 ; d ..A.ug. 11, 1852. liarried 2 .A.pril 25, 1855, JOSEPH L. BARKER, at Detroit.

CHILD . .Alice liariou, }larch 26, 1859 ; d. July 29, 1859.

Page 200. Read " 681, ,v aity Ang-ell }[owry ," not " ":--aity Ann."·

Page 251. 523. LEON.ARD C. lIOWRY, son of :Charles, born. ...lug. 22, 1825 ; married 1 Jan. 7, 1851, }IARINDA S. BAB COCK. CHILDRE:S-. 848. Mary E., b. Jan. 2, 1855; married Dec. 19, 1871,. G. Chapman. 849. Warren, b. May, 1857 ; d. l\Iay 19, 1859. llarried 2 Sept. 11, 1860, MARY E. BRADLEY.

CHILDREN. 850. Harriet }I., b. Nov.11, 1861; d. Nov. 21, 1E63 .. 851. William E., b. June 10, 1863. 852. .A.brah~m Lincoln, b. Sept. 15, 1864. 853. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 9, 1869.- 854. Walter S., b . .April 8, 1870. .ADDITIONS .A.ND CORRECTIONS. 325

Page 254. 560. CHARLES N. MO\YRY, s011 of Nelson. llarried Nov. 27, 1877, FLOREXCE SOPHIA ToltBs, of North Ben nington, Vt. Page 254. 559i. LOUISA A. lIO\VRY, daughter of ,vnlia1n Pitt, b. Jan. 2, 1843; married Sept. 12, 1866, JAMES W .. SMITH, of Glovers,·ille, N. Y. CHILDREN. Harmon liowry, b. NoY. 18, 1867. Carrie Louise, b. Sept. 23, 1869. Louis Ly111a11, b. March 29, 1872; died Aug. 21, 1872.

Page 259. 655a. HENRY B. MO\VRY, son of Zeuina, born March ·21, 1828 ; 111arried at llilford, !Iich.,- Feb. 13, 1855, }IARY s. WHITE. CHILDREX. 893a. }Iarion ~I., b. May 28, 1856, at Milford, }Iich. 893b. Cordelia L., b. July 2, 1860. 655b. EMILY A. MOWRY, daughter of Zebina, born Feb.· 13, 1833; married at }Iilford, l!ich., Aug. 22, 1848, SARDIS FLETCHER HUBBELL.

CHILDREN. Flora C., b. Jan. 24, 1850, at Milford, Mich.; died Jan. 25, 1850. Frank Zebina, b. Sept. 14, 1851. Fred Fletcher, b. May 4, 1859, at Howell, Mich.

655e. JAlIES R. MOWRY, son of Hethcott M., born April 10, 1836 ; married at Ann Arbor, Oct. 2, 1858, HARRIET BENH ..\.1\1. 326 THE llOWRY FAMILY. 65~f. llARY B. MOWRY, daughter of Hethcott M.,. born Feb. 6, 1842; married at ....\.u·n .A.rbor, May 8, 1861,. GEORGE 0. IDE. Page 269. By inadvertence tl1e fac-silnile of Jonathan llowry's. INDEX.

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Aaron. s. of Stephen, 78 Albert H., ~. of Albert H., lOU Abbie, d. of Robert, :J23 Albert L., s. of Genrge, ~24 Abbie F., d. of Robert, :~23 a. & c. Albert S., s. of Caleb, 661 Abby, d. of Randall, s:r, Albert ,v ., s. of "·atennan, 627 Abby A., cl. of Jesse, -l-02 Albert \V., s. of Albert, 008 Abhy H., d. of Emor H., 1010 Albert ,v ., s. of Albert \V ., 881 Abby ,T., d. tlf Jencks. 8Ul Alce, d. of Elisha, 177 Abby J., d. of Shadrack, s.m .-\.lee A., d. of Reuben, 716 .Abiel, s. of Elisha, 4-2 Aley, d. of Israel, 114 .Abiel, s. of Elisha, -12 a. & c. Alclrich, s. of Daniel, :rm Abiel, s. of Abiel. 138 Alfred. s. of Uriah, :324 Abigail, d. of Olh·er, 64 Alice, d. of Josepb, 24 Abigail, d. of .Jonathan, 105 Alice, d. of Daniel, 54 Abigail B., d. of Harris J ., 7:n Alice (or Alse), d. of .Josepl1, 55 Abner B., s. of Eleazer, 481 Alice, d. of Nathaniel, 412 Abraham L., s. of Leoi1. C., 852 a. & c . Alice, cl. of James, 78"J •-\.1,raham L., son of Jabez ,v., 938 .Alice, d. of Charles E., H61 Achsah. d. of Havilah, 6!N.i Alice A., d. of Immer .A., 10:~ Adah, d. of Abiel, 1:l.'i •.\lmeda L., d. of .John 0., 81~ Adah, d. of Erie, 847 Al1nira, ,1. of Abiel, !:136 •-\.dab I., d. of Darwin R., 100:J Almira. M., d. of Israel, 32'~1· a. & c . Adaline A., d. of Harris J ., 7;~3 Almon T., s. of Caleb, 662 Adaline E., d. of Lamech C., ~t:3."l .Alphonso, s. of John A., 759 Adelaide R., cl. of John A., 75S Alvin, s. of Simon B., 93H Adele l\I., d. of Albert H., 1042 Alzacla,

Amey, d. of Joseph, 449 Betsey D., d. of Xathaniel, -l-15 Amey, d. of Joab, 50-.? BrO\vn, s. of Smith, 27-1: Amey, d. of Randall, 828 Burril R., s. of Nathaniel, f>S-1: Amey D., d. of \Villiam S., 95S Byron, s. of Brown, 61-1: Amey M., d. of Junia S., !t2-l Analdo, s. of Barton, :.t.!9 Caleb, s. J onathn.n, 101 Andrew, s. of Joseph, 156 Caleb, s. of Israel, 117 Andrew A., s. of Smith R., 600 Caleb, s. of Caleb, 31-1: Angeline, d. of Abiel, Caleb B., s. of A.masa, 257 Ann, d. of James, Caleb E., s. of .Albert, 670 Ann. d. of Smith. 27B Caleb F., s. of Caleb B., 5~15 Ann.A., d. of Israel, 3::!"..?e a. & c. Caroline, d. of .A.lansou, 586 Ann B., d. of Browu, 616 Caroline, d. of Gideon, 70t; Ann M., c.1. of Zebiua, (i55c a. & c. Caroline B., d. of Charles, 5!)7 Ann R., d. of Samuel, 007 Caroline F., d. of Jencks, 7Ht; Anna, d. of John, ff, Caroline !\I., d. of \V P ., 559c a. & c. Anna, d. of Jonathan, 10-J '1assius, s. of Lucius P., 5!">8 Anna, cl. of Israel, llti Catherine, d. of Sayles, 57~ Auna, d. of Caleb, :t21 Catherine A., d. of J. B., 65ai a. & c. Anna, d. of Ramlall, 988 Celia. E., d. of Charles C., 755 Anna C., cl. of \Villiam, 2".!6 Charles, s. of Stephen, 85 Anna ~,., d. of \Villiam G. R., 762 Charles, s. of John, 21:? Anna. G., =tJ ~harles, s. of llenry, gs~ Anne, ,t. of Nathan 8., 77!) Charles C., s. of Syh-ester, :39-1 Anne, d. of Henry, u~ Charles E., s. of Charles c.~ 7~9 .A.nne L., d. of Emor H., 101:; Charles E., s. of Nathan S., 780 Anson B., s. of \Villiam B., 812 Charles F., s. of Harris J., 7:3t) _-\.nthony, s. of .Job, 517 Charles H., s. of Afbert S., 89-l Arabella F., cl. of Jabez W., u:31; Chart~ H., s. of Israel, 32"2h a. & c. Archibald, s. of Saben, 8t>-I: Charles L., s. of Caleb, 659 Arinda, d. of Eliakim, 446 Charles M., s. of Elisha C., !'51 Arinda, d. of Richarc.l, '793 Charles N., s. of Nelson, 560 Arlon. s. of Barney, (),I:~ Charles N., s. of Nelson, 500 a. & c. Arno·d, ~- of Israel, 112 Charles S., s. of Otis, 805 Arnold, s. of Job, 51:3 Charles T., s. of LeRoy, 549 Arnolcl, s. of Gardner. 656 Charlotte. d. of Stephen, 7, Arnold, s. of \\'bi1aple, s:~ Cbarlotte, d. of \Yanton, 2!7 -~rnold J., s. of \Villiam D., ·811 Charlotte, d. of Davicl. · Ml Arthur .J., s. of Joseph, 775 Charlotte, d. of Caleb, 658 Arthur 11., s. of \Villia.m A., lOOCJ Checkley A., s. of Smith, 280 Asha A. E., d. of SanmP.l, H0:3 CheLc;ey B., s. of Nathaniel S., 1015 Atwell, s. of llarney, «W> Chester F., s. of Almon T., 89fj Augustus, s. of ~T~ph, 160 Chloe, d. ef Henry, 150 Austin C., s. or Davitl, 544 Christopher, s. of\John, 53'J A7..ael, s. of Israel, 110 Christopher, s. of Ziba, 510 Aziel, s. of \V1lliam, t,:j(; Ch,ra, d. of Decatur, 664 Azubah }>., cl. of John D., 763 Clara, d. of Albert, 67:J Clarence E., s. of Smith B., 824 Bainbridge, s. of Ca~eb, :ns Clarence 0., s. of Joseph, 77'2 Barbara B.~ d. of Israel, 322a a. & c. Clarissa, d. of John, 217c Barney, s. of Caleb, 297 Clarissa, d. of John, 217 c a. & c. Barton. s. of Uriah, 134: Classen, s. of Daniel A., 1007 Benedict, s. of Stephen, 82 Content B., d: of Eleazer, -183 Benjamin \V ., s. of Abab, 3!)1 Cordelia L., d. of H.B., 893b a. & c. Benjamin R., s. of Elisha C., 9-19 Crawford. s. of Ziba, 84:J :Bertha Y., d. of Orin P., · SH:3 Cynthia, d. of Uriah, 12.5 Betsey C., d. of Israel, 322b a. &c. Cynthia R., d. of Samuel, 912 ISDEX. 829

Cyra, s. of Rus.'1811, tJ')o)I!!•"" Elisha, s. of Daniel, 52 Cyrene, d. of Aaron, 2-U Elisha, s. of Henry, 19 C)Tene, d. of .Tobu, 4H7 Elisha, s. of Henry, 1H a. & c. Cyrus, s. of Thomas, 351 Elisha, s. of Israel, 111 Elisha. s. of Israel, 111 a. & c. Dan, s. of .Abiel, 1:J7 Elisha, s. of \Villia.m, =~ Daniel, s. of Joseph, :!1 ! Elisha, s. of Ahab, :tQll Danif'll, s. of Daniel, 51 "°'' Elisba, s. of Eliakim. ,H:_~ Daniel, s. of Daniel, 11>1 Elisl1a A., s. of Elisha, WO Daniel, s. of Daniel, 378 Elislia C. s. or Harris J ., ,:~ Daniel, s. of Morton, 42i Elisba C , s. of Smith, 74:\ Daniel. s. of naniel, 'i:?8 Elisha J., s. of .Jesse, -107 Daniel, s. of Rancla.lJ, b':?i Elisha R., s. of Elisha, 308a a. & c. Daniel, s. of Jt111ia S., n:m Eli~ha S., s. of Amasa, 25..~ Daniel A., s. of Nathaniel, 682 Elisha S., s. of Reube11, 717 Daniel A.., s. of Charles C. 1 75:3 Eliza, d. of John, 21:i Daniel A., s. of Dauiel A., 000 Eliza, d. of John, 21:l a. & c. Daniel A., s. of Emor H., 1008 Eliza, d. of Dan, 3:)0 Daniel C., s. of Israel, 3".?2d a. & c. Eliza, d. of Jeremiall, 418 Daniel C., s. of \Villiam, (i:i7 Ehza, cl. of Eliakim, ~-H Daniel 1\1., s. of Joseph, 771 Eliza, cl. of Samuel S., 5S:\ Daniel S., s. of Slllith, ~78 Eliza, d. of Randall, 8311 Dauiel ,v., s. of Ezekiel, 4!15 Eliza A., tl. of Jeremiah, 421 Darwin, s. of Reuben, 715 Jt~liza A., d. of ,JoseJ)h, 4:~; Darwin n.., s. of Daniel A., SHH Eliza A., d. of Daniel. 7:30 David, s. of Gideon, X<; Eliza A., d. of Samuel E., 784; David, s. of George, 2'.?:3 Eliza M., cl. of Jerellliah, 420

Da,·id C., s. of Da,,id. 5-':? 1 Eliza M., d. c,f Decatur~ 6(;:; David P., s. of John P., 5:!0 ijliza R., d. of Samuel, ~•u David S., s. of \Vaterman, t>:31 liza S. c., d. of .Joseph. -l."H- David S., s. of Samuel, mo Eliza.beth, cl. of Uriah, :~; David S., s. of Ja1nes D., 1017 Elizabetl1, ci. of Israel, 47;:; Deborah, d. of Jonathan, l0CJ Eli7.abeth, d. of Levi, 4~~ Deborah C., d. of Junia S., !~) Elizabeth, d. of ltiauJey, v:>=; Decatur. s. of Caleb, :nr Eliza.beth, d. of Leon'd C.,853a.&c. Decatur, s. of Decatur, 6115 Elizabeth E , d. of Charles, 5:?t; Delia, cl. of \\.illiam, (;:t.? Ella, d. of Cha1·les, >m; ])elia lt.• d. of Joseph, 451; Ella D., d. of John D., 76-1- Delpba, d. of C'riah, 1::J:; Ella 1'... , d. of Baiubridge, (;(>7 De\Vitt, s. of Nelson, 5Ci2 Ella l\I., d. of Albert, 8'.?0 Dexter L., s. of Nathaniel, 410 Ellen, d. of \\'aterman, ti:30 Diana, <1. of Robert, 30'.? Ellen A. •• d. of Sabe11, 8li:? Diana, d. of \Villiam, :~ Ellen D., d. of Lucius P., r.si Dorcas, d. of Gideon, !)"J .Elliott, s. of Browu, HU> Dorcas: d. of ,Jouatbau. l'lG Elsie, d. of Israel, lU Dorcas, d. of Job~ :J.15 Elsie, cl. <•f John. 4f;2 Dutee, s. of Caleb, ~15 Emeline, d. of Nathan A., 5:lS Duty, R. of \\"anton, :!-15 Emeline M., cl. of Smith I:., liOK Duty, s of ,lose1,h, 4-lS Emeline l\l., d. of Jona.tba11, 918 1':mily, tl. of Smith, 277 Earl, s. of Jolm, r,s Emily, d. of Caleb, 31ti Edgar, s. of Reusselaer L., 878 Emily. d. of J~epl1, 48fi Edna E., d. of Sidney H., 10.11 Emily, d. of Randall, S:J-.! Edward, s. of Sylvester, ;f.)(i E111ily, d. of Charles, 87:.~ Edward, s. of R,mdaU, 836 Emily A., d. of Zebina, 655b a. & c. Edward. s. of Charles E., !162 Emily I., d. of Emor H., 1009 Ed ward S., s. of Smith, 7-14 Emma, d. of Charles, 52".! Edwin, s. of Jabez, 710 Emma, d. of Smith. 8-10 Edwin, s. of Stephen, 808 Emma A., d. of Elisl?a C., !150 Edwin \V., R. of Abicl, ~t3 Emma B., d. of Johu 0., Ste; Eley, d. of J~pb, 457 Emma J ., d. of Charles, ~• Eleazer, s. of .J oser,b, 00 Emma L., d. of Arion, 884 Eleazer, s. of Eleazer, lHlJ Emma M., d. of Albert H.; 104:; Eliakim, s. of J olm., 184: Emor H., s. of Daniel A., 001 330 THE l\IO\\"RY FAMILY.

Emor H., s. of Emor H., 1011 George, s. of Henry, 983 Emory, s. of John A., 757 George, s. of Geor~e, H!)l Epliraim, s. of Job, :ilf; Geo)lte A., s. of Robert, :io1 Erie, s. of Job, 51f> George H., s. of Caleb B., 596 Ermina P., d. of Stafford, &;S George L., s. of Ralph, 521 Erswelt, s. of Lilly B., l0Ui Georl?e W ., s. of Israel, 322i a. & c. Ervin, s. of La Fayette, 785 George ,v., ~- of Harris J., 740 Envin. s. of ,Jes.c;e T .• 80,l Gilbert, s. of Ziba, 846 1':rwin A .• s. of Barney, (i-l(j Gideon, s. of Uriah, 31 E. S., s. of Fri.ill, t;:~ GMeon, s. of Gideon, 89 Esek, s. of }:li~ha, 41 Gideon, s. of Criah, 29"2 Esek, s. of Elisha, 41 a. & c. Gideon, s. of Rich11rd, 356 Esek, N. of Elisha, 45 Gideon. s. of Daniel, :J76 Esek, s. of }:lisha, 45a. & c. Grace E., d. of ,John S •• 10-24 Esek, s. of .-\bicl, 14-l Grace G., cl. of Joseph E., H71 Esek, s. of Jeremiali, 468 Granville, s. of Israel, 6.1.1/ a. & c. Esther, cl. of Da,·itl, :.'fiH Esther, cl. of ,Jeremiah, .n; Halle B., s. of .John S., 10-23 Esther, d. of .Joseph, -1-8!) Hannah, d. of Jencks, 7~•7 Esther, d. of Ziba, '50H Hannah S .• d. of Joseph, 4~• Esther A., d. of Junia S., H:n Harley, s. of Barton. 327 Ethel F., d. of Daniel, !l-1-:; Harley, s. of Russell, r,1;1 Etta, d. of Samuel E .• 787 Harley, s. of Harley, 8(i5 Eugene, C., s. of Arlon, &::".. , Harriet, d. of Havilah, fin!) Ennice, <1. of Eleazer, w:i Harriet, d. of Saben, Hf;:J, Eunice, d. of Ezekiel. 4!r.? Harriet E., cl. of J obn A., 75ft Eva, cl. of Albert, !tHa Harriet J., cl. of Harris J., 7:.r2 Experience, d. of Natbaniel, 12 Harriet )1., d. of Leon. C., 850 a. & c. Ezekiel, s. of Eleazer, 201 Harriet \V., d. of Arion, 887 Ezekiel. s. of. Rns..~11. 565. Harris ,J., s. of \\"illiam, 385 Ezra \V., s. of Israel°, :J~ca. & c. Harris J ., s. of Elisha C., !l52 Harry C, s. of Almon T., S!t."> 1'.. annie W., d. of Jencks, ws Harry P., s. of Albert E., ~t.17 Fanny, d. of Henr_y, 14H Hart E., s. of N athah A. .• 5.>"9 Fanny R., d. of Elisha C., 9-'.8 Hattie A., d. of Charles E., !MiO Fenner, s. of Benedict, :!55 Haven. s. of l\lanley, 5:17 Flora I., d. of Albert, (j7l Havilah, s. of Tliomas, 350 Florine H., d. of Darwin R .• 1'•04 Havilah, s. of Havilah. 698 14.. rancis, ~- of La Fayette, · 784: Helen F., ,]. of Ricbard D., m Frances.

Huldah, d. of Aaron, 24.1 Jonathan,s.ofHen!Y, 16 Huldah, d. of Richard, ;w; .Jonathan, s. of Uriah, 33 Huldah, d. of Jeremiah, -119 Jonathan, s. of Nathaniel, 688 H,udah H., d. of Gideon, 709 Jonathan, s. of Gideon, 701 Joel,s.ofHenry, 148 Ida O., d. of Israel, 655m a. & c. Johannah, d. of Nathaniel, 9 Immer A., s. of Immer E., 940 John, s. of Nathaniel, :J lmmer E., s. of Thomas, 725 John, s. of John, 13 Irving, s. of Joh11 D., 7ti5 J oh n, s. o f John , ~ .,..-....-- 26 Isabeda, d. of Gideon, 703 John, s. of ,John, 26 a. & c. Israel, ,. of Elisha., 38 Jobn, s. of Joseph, 58 Isrr.el, s. of EUshr, 38 a. & e. John, s. of John, 72 Israel, s. of Israel, 120 John, s. of .John, 72 a. & c. Israel, s. of Israel, 120 a. & c. John, s. of J oh n, ]86 Israel, s. of John, 188 John, s, of John, 216 Israel, s. of Elisha, :ion Joh11, s. ot..1obn. 216 a. & c. I~rael, s. of Elisba., :roo a. & e. Joh11, s. of Glt,rl!'e, 21n .Tohn. s. of J oseph , ,..u;o ,Jabez, s of Daniel, ::\70 Jolm, s. of John. 461 Jabez ,v .. s. of Reuben, 7:?0 John A., s. of Syh·est~rf :!!~ Jackson E., s. of Smith, 276 Jolin B., s. of Nathame , E;85 Jackson P., s. of Tyler, :J4.2 Jolm D., s. of Nathaniel, 416 James, s. of Oliver, 6"] John G .• s. of brael, 3Z'2!J a. & c. James, s. of John, 75 John H., s. of .Jolm. 802 James. s. of Joseph, 43'.l John O., s. of Eleazer, 484: .James B .• s. of Elisha, 308 John P., son of Earl, . ~ .James B., s. of Elisha, 308 a. & c. John R., s. of Junia S., !,:.-\'.? James D., s. of Samuel, 908 John S., s. of Cbarles, 52.~ James F., s. of Ezekiel, 491 ,lohn S., s. of Cbarles. 525 a. & c. James M., s. of Je..e, 401 John S., s. of Samuel, 909 JamesR., s. ofHeth.M., 655e a. & c. .John S., s. of .John S., 10-.ll James T., s. of Ha,~nah, ms Josepb, s. of Nathaniel, 5 James \V., s. of .lames, 230 .Joseph, s. of Joseph, 2"..? .James ,v ., s. of J a.mes, 230 a. & c. .ToReph, s. of Daniel, 4!1 .James \V., s. of Wm. P., 559({ a. & c. .Joseph, s. of Joseph, 5ti ,Jane, d. of Ltvi, 500 Joseph, s. of Daniel, 16ti Jane A., d. of Jencks, 79'J Joseph, s. of Jerewiah, 182 Jane E., d. of William H., Ml J~eph, s. of John, 185 Jane E., d. of Tillinghast, 67n J osepb, s. of Elea.zeT, 200 .Taphet, s. of Abiel, 140 Joseph, s. of Andl"ew, :i61 .Tared, s. of Thomas. 34!t .Joseph, s. _Ctf Morton, 428 Jared F., s. of HaviJah, ;oo Joseph, K. of Josepl,, 4f>8 Jeanette, d. of Joseph E., 970 Joseph E.,.s. of Jencks, 795 J eneks, s. of Urjah, 285 Jo1dall. s. of Arnold, !J13 Jencks, s. of Joseph, 459 Julia, d. of Charles, 874 Jenni~ d. of Nathan S., 7Xl Juli& A., d. of lsr.i,el, 474 Jennie L., d. of .John o., 817 Julia E., d. of Sylvester, 398 Jeremiah, s. of Henry, 17 Julia E., d. of Charles U., '750 Jeremiah, s. of Elisha, -17 Julia E., d. of Sinith, 767 .Jeremiah, s. of Josepl1, 57 Julianna, d. ,,r E?..ekiel, 497' Jeremiah, s. of Jeremiah, 180 Junia S., s. of Reuben, '11:? Jeremiah, s. of Joh11, 187 Jllllius B~, s. of Bainbridge, (j66 Jeremiah, s. of Jose1ah, 430 Justina 0., d. of Daniel, 941 Jesse, s. of Gideon, 87 Jesse, s. of EJisha, 173 Kate N., ,1. of LeRoy, 550 Jesse, s. of Caleb, 294 Kate N., d. of \Villiam L., 861 Jesse, s. of George A., 648 Jesse T., s. of Israel, 4'10 LaFayette, s. of Jc>seph, 48.'> Joab, s. of Job. 20.1 Lafayette E., s. of Esek, 338 ,Joanna, d. of Uriah, 1:~ Lameck 0., s. of Reuben, 713 Job, s. of Oliver, 61 Latilla, d. of Daniel. . 987 Job, s. of .Joseph, 153 Laura, d. of Robert, 299 Job, s. of Job, 206 Laura A., d. of.Israel, 471> Jobie S., s. of Nathaniel S., 1014 Laura.A., d. of Albert E., 94.6 332 THE 1\10\VRY FAl\IILY.

La,·ina, d. of Eliakim, 445 )Iarcus l\I •• s. of Smith R., 607 Lavina, d. of John, 464: l\Iargaret, d. of George A., 652 Lavina, d. of Ezekiel. 400 Margery, d. of Eleazer, 191 L. Daniel, s. of Daniel, !»2 Mar~ry, d. of Joseph, 45;; Leland B., s. of Sidney H., 1003 Maria. cl. of Elisha. 305a a.&~. Leolin N., s. of AtwelJ, 800 l\Iaria~ d. of Arnold, 312 Leonard C., s. of Charles, 52:> Maria, d. or Ahab. 3b1t Leonard C., s. of Charles, 523 a. &c. )Iaria, d. of Jeremiah, 77, Leonard S., s. of .Jesse, 401- Maria L., d. of Elisha, 310 a. & c. LeRoy, s. of \Villiam, :?25 Mariah, d. of John. 211 LeRoy, s. of \ViJJiam H., 55:4 l\Iariab, d. of John, 217 a. & c. Levi, s. of Eleazer, 202 l\Iarion lf., d. of H.B., ·s!J3a a. & e. Lewis D., s. of Smit11, 742 )farqu!s D. L .• s. of Richard, 701 Lewis D .., s. of \VilJiam S., !l55 Martha, d. of ~atbauiel, 6 Lewis D., s. of Albert H., 1010 )Iartha, d. of Uriah, 2T Lewis P., s. of Harris J., 741 Martha, d. of Gideon, 93 a. & c. Liami, d. of Abiel, 142 l\lartha, d. of ,vanton, 9T Lilly B., s. of Burrill R., H04 Martha, d. of .Jonatlsan, l'H Linette B., d. of St:1,fford, 88!) J\Iartha, rl. or Elisha, 175 Lodema E., d. of Jns. B., 655h a. & c. :Martha., d. ot Job, 20.1 Lois, d. of John, 215 1\Iartba, d. of Robert" 298 Lois, d. of John, 215 a. & c. Martha., d. of \Villiam, :;s:i Lorenzo, s. of Russett, 566 Ma.nba, d. of Geo~ A.. 647 Loui.o; N., s. of <..:hn.rles, l:>1"2 Martha A., d. of Junia S., ~r2:-s Loui~, d. of ,villialll s., ~•m) )Ia.rtha. H., t.l. of Thomas, 7:!t.i Louisa A., cl. of \Y111. P., 55He a. & c. 1 Martha. J., d. of Nathaniel, 414 Louisa E., d. of Henry, :~ \ Martha J., auiel~ .5;; Lucius P., s. of Lucius P.. r»5t; :liar~·. cl. of Stepheu, 80 Lucretia, d. of Eliakim, · 44i l\lat\·, d. of Israel, 115 Lulu, d. of Stephen J., 10-28 l\farj·~ d. of Israel, 115 a. & c. Lydia, d. of Eleazer. l!l'.! lfary, d. of Daniel. 164 Lydia, d. of James, 2.3'.:? l\Iary, d. of Elisha. 17n Lydia, d. of Wanton, 252 llary, d. of Aaron, 24-l Lydia, d. of l'"riah, 290 Mary, d. of Robert, ;;{).'i Lydia, d. of Andrew, 362 Mary, d. of Dau, . . 3:~ Lydia, d. of Johu, 465 1\-lary, d. of Daniel, 312 Lydia, d. of Job, 518 Mary,

Mary E., d. of Windsor, sr>S j Patience, d. of r riah, 132· Mary E., d. of Junia S., n·.?:~ Patience. d. of A.biel, 1:~ Mary F.,d. ofJames,v.,559aa. & c. Patie11ce,

Robert, s. of Robert, :JOl Silence, d. of David, 26t, Robert, s. of George A., 6.51 Simon, s. of Ben~dict, 25-1 Robert L., s. of Robert, :l-2-.?k a. & c. Simon B., s. of Fenner, 5!~ Roger W., s. of Jabez ,v., H.'37 Simon B., s. of Gideon, 724 Russell, s. of Aaron, 2::17 S. Jared, s. of John S., 10-.?.! Ruth, d. of Abiel, 14:J Rmith, s. of Gideon, 88 Ruth, d. of Joseph, 151 Smith, s. of Sylvester, 393 Ruth, d. of Jeremiah, 178 Smith, s. of Jere1niah, 4•>-> Ruth, d. of Eleazer, 1H1 ' Smith, s. of Joab, 505--- Ruth, cl. of \Vanton, 249 Smith, s. of \Villiam S., !)57 Ruth, d. of Jeremiah, 425 Smith A., s. of Albe.rt E., 945 Huth E., d. of William A., }();_JO Smith B., s. of Ezekiel, 496 ltuth F., d. of Daniel, 7~J Smith R., s. of Stephen, 26-1: Ruth ,v., d. of lonathan, 917 Solon \V., s. of J. \V., 559b, a. & c. Sophia, d. of Ahab, 388 Saben, s. of Russell, 5f'l4 Sophia, d. of \Villiam S., GM Sally, d. of l"riah, 126 Stafford, s. of Barney, 6H Sally, d. of Joseph, 452 Stella L., d. of Smith B., 82:J Sally, d. of Joseph, 485 Stephen, s. of {;riah,, :?!t Sally, d. of Ephraim, U~l Stephen, s. of Stephen, St: Sally, d. of Havilah, 697 Stephen, s. of Aaron, 2-40 Salome, d. of Juni11. S., 9-.25 Stephen, s. of \Vanton, 25:J Samuel, s. of Daniel, 371 Stephen, s. of Uriah, :?!tl Samuel, s. of Joseph, 441 Stephen, s. of Amasa, 478 Samuel, s. of Samuel S., 584: Stephen, s. of Alanson, 585 Samuel, s. of Nathaniel, 683 Stephen, s. of Stephen, 807 Samuel, s. of Havilah, t,"95 Stephen D., s. of Nathaniel, 408 Samuel, s. of Jabez, 711 Stepheu J ., s. of Samuel, 911 Samuel R., s. of Burrill R., 905 Susan, d. of Abiel, 141 Samuel S., s. of \Vanton, 250 Susan, d. of Uriab, ~!t Sarah, d. of Nathaniel, 7 Susan, d. of Robert, ao:J Sarah, d. of HE:nry, 18 Susan, cl. of )lanley, 535 Sarah, d. of Ehsha, 44 Susan A., cl.. of Harris J ., 737 Sarah, d. of Elisha, 44 a. & c. Susan L., d. of Gideon, 708 Sara.Ii, d. of Israel, 118 Susan l\1 .•J.,d. of Jeremiah, 4~ Sarah, d. of Israel, 118 a. & c. Susanna, d. of John, 70 Sarah, d. of \Vanton, 248 Susanna, d. of \Vanton, ~)8 Sarah, d. of Smith, 281 Susanna, d. of Israel, 121 Sarah, d. of Tyler, 341 Susanna, d. of David, 270 Sarah, d. of Richard, 360 Susanna, cl. of ,vmiam, ::JSG Sarah, d. of J oab, 500 Susanna C., d. of Gideon, 723 Sarah, d. of Sayles, 569 Sylvester, s. of Elisha, 171 Sarah, d. of Stephen, 806 Sylvester, s. of Barton, :t.:?6 Sarah, d. of Charles, 876 Sylvester, s. of Charles C., .75:? Sarah, d. of George, 992 Sarah A., d. of James B., 655g a. & c. Tabitha, d. of Abiel, 13!J Sardh A., d. of Jackson P ., 67!' Thankful, d. of Gideon, 91 Sarah C., d. of Lamech C., 935 Thankful, d. of Jesse, 271 Sarah E., cl. of .J obn, 529 Thankful, d. of Daniel, 374 Sarah E., d ..of Richard D ., 9-21 Theodore T., s."of Jackson P., 680 Sarah G., d. of LeRoy, 547 Thomas, s. of Daniel, 50 Sarah G., d. of William H., 555 Thomas, s. of J osepb, 154 Sarah J., d. of Harris J., 739 Thomas, s. of Robert, 300 Sayles, s. of Aaron, 238 Thomas, s. or Thomas, 348 Sayles, s. of J oab, 504 Thomas, s. of Daniel, 377 Scott, s. of Charles, 574 Thomas, s. of George A., M9 Scott S., .s. of Dutee, 6."39 Thomas, s. of Randall, S.31 Sco1t W •• s. of Smith, 272 Thomas, s. of ,vindsor, 867 Sema.ntha D., d. of Waterman, b°29 Thomas D., s. of Joseph, 442 Serrill, s. of Joseph, . 487 Thomas J ., s. of Aaron, 242 Shad.rack, s. of Charles, 576 Thomas S., s. of Gideon, 722 Sidney H., s. of Lamech C., 934 Thomas S. R., s. of Jackson P., 678 Silence, d. of Oliver, 63 Tillinghast, s. of Abt.el, 335 Silence, d. of Oliver, 63a. & c. Tyler, s. of Jere1J1iah, .152 INDEX. 335

U ra.nah, d. of Stephen, 81 \Vilfred L., s. of Arion, 886 Urauah, d. of Priah, 28-l Willard, s. of A.masa, 260 Uranah, d. of George, :t~t ,vulian1, s. of John, 74 Uranah, d. of Caleb, !?!Ki "·imam, s. of Elisha, lfi8 l~ranah P., d. of Stephen, 2t;5 ,vmia1n, s. of Earl, 200 rrania, d. of Jonathan, 107 .,,,· ,vnliam, s. of ,John, ~17b Uriah, s. of Henrv, 15 ,vuliam, s. of ,John, ~177, a. & c. Uriah, s. of Elisha, 40 \Villiam, s. of Criab, 286 1~riah, s. of Elisha, -10 a. & c. \Villiam, s. of Job. 512 Uriah, s. of Gideon, ti() ,vmiam, s. of \Villian1 S., HOl Uriah, s. of Uriah, 1:!7 \Villiam, s. of Charles C., 751 Uriah, s. of Uriah, 287 \Villiam, s. of Randall, 825 Viola J., d. of Atwell, S'll \Villiam, s. of Henry, !185 L William A., s. of Nelson, otn

Waite, d. of ,Tosei,11 1 25 ,vnliam A .• s. of Jonathan, nm \Vaite, d. of Elisha, 39 \Villiam B., s. of Eleazer, 48~ ,vaite, d. of Elisha, 30 a.& c. ,vnuam C., s. of .James D., 1018 Waite, d. of Richard, ~~>8 ,vniiam E., s. of I~on. C., 851a. &c. \Vaitee, d. of Israt-1, 119 \Villiam G., s. of Sylvester, 400 \Vaitee, d. of Ziba, 508 "\Villiam G., s. of Nathaniel, 4~• ,vaity, d. of Syh-ester, ~{H'.! \Villiam G., s. of \Villiam H., 55-l Waity, d. of John, 461i \Villiain G. R., s. of Nathaniel, 411 Waity, d. of Israel, 471 \Villiam H., s. of William, :?-27 \Vaity A., d. of Nath., 681,681 a. &c. \Villiam H., s. of Harris J., 73.; '\Valter, s. of Charles, 871 ,vmiam H., s. of Samuel, 91:3 ,valter A., s. of Joseph, •n:i William H., s. of Havilah, 91fl ,valter H., s. of ,vmiam A., 1t-a. & c. William L., s. of LeRoy, !".>18 Wanton, s. of Uriah, 32 \Villiam N., s. of William, ti34: Wanton, s. of Uliah, :32 a. & c. ,vmiam P., s. of James, 231 Wanton, s. of Stephen, 79 ,vmiam P., s. of James, 231 a. & c. Wanton, s. of ,vmiam. 3Ml ,vmiam S., s. of Amasa, 262 \Vanton, s. of Samuel S., 581 ,vmiam S., s. of Smith, 74ti \Varner, s. of Levi, 4H8 \Villiam S. s. of ,villiam S., 956 ,varren, s. of Jeremiah, 776 \Yilso11 W., s. of Reuben, 714 Warren, s. of ~onard C., 8-19 a. & c. ,vindsor, s. of Henry, 145 Waterman, s. of Gideon, 2S:J ,vinclsor, s. of Charles, 575 \Velcome, s. of John, 189 ,vinsor B., s. of Albert, 81!1 ,velcome, s. of Welcome, 477 Welcome, s. of G"orge A., 65:3 Zebina 1\1., s. of Elisha, 30oa.& c. Wesley, s. of Caleb, S-2"2 Ziba, s. of Job, 204 \Vhipple, s. of Joab, 503 Ziba, s. of Ziba, 507 ----•----

11. OF ALL :N.A.llES, NOT Nr:MUERED .A.S DESCI-~XD.:\XTS OF NATHAN· IEL MOWRY, IXCLCDING HIS DESCE).'"1> •.\NTS OF OTHI-~B NAllES. THAN )!OWRY. [The ftgures denot.e the pagt-.] Abbott, Daniel, 10 · Adams, Melissa, 138. Aldrich, Asha, 199 Adams, Ann F., 138 Albee, Joseph, 275 ' Aldrich, Alce, 148 Adams, Abner, 138 .Albee, Lucy M., 275' Aldrich, Ama..i,a, 130 Adams, Esek H., 1:38 , Albee, Lydia M., 275 · Aldrich, Amasa, 137 Adams, Henry, 138 : Allen, Mary, 129 : Aldrich, Arnold, 312 Ada1ns, Herbert, 138 '. Alexander, aliaa i Aldrich, Benj. T., 198 Adams, John, 138 ! \Vaumsitton or I Aldrich, Burgess, 137 Adams, Julia, 138 I Se:eaugut, 10 Aldrich, Carol'e E., 310 Adams, Mary, 138 i Aldneh, Alanson, 130 · Aldrich, Judge Caleb, 77 336 THE ?tIOWRY FA)IlLY.

Aldrich. Celia E., :?:11 : AngeJl, Asahel, 280 Appleby, James, 59 Aldric-11, Charh•s A. :n:? Angell, Da.vid, 21!l Applel,y, John, 161 Aldrich, Da\'i Baker, Barbara, 319 Aldrich, 1:1i7.a D., :no · Angell, \\'"illiam, 243 Ballou, Adelia, 186 Aldrich, Ephraim, 27;3 · Anson, Henry, 25H Ballou, A1ice, 56 Aldrich, Eunice, 11~ Anson, :Manning, ~H Ballou, Almira, 199 Aldrich, Ezekiel, :no -Auron, Nettie, 25~' Ballou, Amasa, 239 Aldrich, Fenner, 258, Antl1011y. Hon. H.B. :,)!)2 Ballou, Benjaniin, 170 Aldrich, Gideon, 251: Archer, Benjamin, 1-14 Ballou, Dexter, 2"24 Alclf!,ch, Gideon l\I., ~:i Armstron~,. A~7.ada, 2..5? IBallou, Gil~rt, 168 Aldrich, Henry A.t 2U Arnold, Alngru.1, 5.t Ballou, Jufo,, 230 .~ldrich, Jashub, 1;JO Arnol,l~ _.\Jsie, 57 . Ballo11, Luke, 246 .A.ldricu, Job, im: Arnold, Amey, fi7 : Ballou, Lurissa, 1ro Aldrich, Joel, 15!.t; Arnold, Amey, 5:; Ballou, .Marcy, 170 .Aldrich, ,Toua. R., 273: Arnolcl, Ann Eliza, 2:3u Ballou, Mowry, 16.C) Aldricht Josiah \V ., 27:J 1 Arnold, Anna, S:J Ballou, Nelson, 169 .'\..ldricli, Levi, 130: An1olcl, Anthony, 5;3 Ballou, Peter, 56 Aldrich, Lucy, ;312: Arn,1111, Benedict, 65 Ba1lon, Sally Ann, 2'24 •.\.ldrich, Mary, 1~8 · .A.rnoM, Davitl, r»:3 Ballou, Welcome, 168 Aldricb, Mary B., · 273 • Arnold, Elisha, a7 Uallou, ,Yelcon1e, 169 Aldrich, Morton .A., 312 i Arnold, Elisha, 65 Ballou, ,vmard, 199 Aldrich, Moses, 7'9 i Arnol5 Baxter, Caroline S., 217 Aldrich, Prisci11a, U8 I Arnold, Lyman, 262 Baxter, Clark D., 21T .Aldrich, Reuben, 112 1 Arnold. Martha., f,5 Baxter, Delia E., 217 Aldrich, Rhoda, 141 Arnold, :Mary, 57 Baxter, Dr. J. W. C., 21T Aldrich, Richard, 212 Arnold, Mary, 65 Baxter, John C., 217 Aldrich, Robert, 78 Amold, Mary, 246 Baxter, Moses, :?17 Aldrich, Robert, 130 ! Arnold, 1\Iary, :?57 Baxter, Samuel, 217 Aldrich, Ruth l\[., 213 '. Arnold, Mercy, S:J Bedell, Ruth~ 323 AldricJi, Samuel, 111 i Arnold, Mercy, 65 Bellows, Robe, 263 Aldrich, Samuel, 148 J Arnold, Nancy, 143 Benham, Harriet, 39..5- .-\.ldrich, Sarah C., 791 Arnold, Oliver, 65 Bennett, Joseph, 81 Aldrich, Simon, 2591 Arnold, Olnev, 23S) Bick, Jame,i, 14 Aldrich, Smith, lo:t · Arnold, Richard, 17 :Blanchard, H. M., 254 Aldrich, Sullivan, 259 Arnold, Rufus, 57 Bl~kmar, .John, 82 Aldrich, Susan, 77 Amold, Seth, 53 Blackmer, Lydia, 298 Aldrich, Thomas, 128 Amold, Stepben, !) B1ackmore, James, 18 Aldrich, Thomas, 198 i Arnold, Stephen, 11 BJiss, Eleanor, 257 Alclrich, Thomas P., 213 1 Arnold, Stephen G., 246 Boutelle, Elsie ll., 170 Aldrich, Urania, 130 Amold, Susanna, 5-1 Boutelle, Lucinda, 168 Aldrich, Verry, 130 Amold, Thomas, 85 Boutelle, Samuel, 170 Aldrich, Verry, l,37 Amold, \Villiam, 53 Bowdish, Hannah, 269 Anderson, James, 242 Arnold, ,vnuam, oo Bowen, Ann M., 191 , Angell, Abby Ann, 243 Arnold, Wi11iam, 65 :Bowen, Charles, 190, Angell, .Am.ey, 218 ! Arnold, ,villiam, 246 Bowen, Dr. William, 101 Angell, Amey Ann, 243 I Appleby, Anna, 55 }Cowen, Isaac, 135, Angell,Andrew; 143 Appleby, Conten1i, 167 Bowen, Isaac, 191 INDEX. 337

Howen, Mary E., 191 Brown, Aaron, 1:n j Case, John K., 193 1 Boweu, Nancy E., 191 1 Brown, Ann. 251 i Case. l\lary R., 19:\ Bowen, Pardon, 101 i Brown, Burrill, 1811 Case, Robert M., W~l Bowe11, Pardou, 104: IBrown, Daniel, ~~ ! Ca.c;e, Sar-.i.h A., lfl3 Bowen, Ruth, lM Brown, Elisl)a, 1131 Case, William F., w:i Bowen, Sarah E., 191 Brown, Elizalleth, 2M · Cha.pin, Henry, 211 Bowen, Smith, Wl I Brown, Emelille, 185 Chaney. Lauretta C., 2s:-; Bowen, Than kf u l , ...,L, ,. I• B rown, Lev1, . 181 Cl 1ace, I sabel , 1-s:..4 ) 1 Bowen, Thomas, l~tO I Brown, Lydfa \V., 255 Chace, Job, u:J Bowen, ,vuliam, lOt-: Brown, Maria H., 258 Chace, Job, 261 Boyden, Amey L., 195 • Brown, l\lary E., 181 Chace, Jonathan, 143 Boyden, Amos. 195' Brown, l\1oses, 103 Chace, Joseph, U~"l Boyden, Decatur M., 195 Brown, Olh•e, 131 Chace, l\Iary Earle, 143 Boyden, Emily A., rn5 Brown, Otis, 245 Chace, Patience B., u:; Boyden, Emily F., l~l5 Brown, Philis, 142, Chace, Pbebe T., 26-l Boyden, l\fary A., 195. Brown, Polly, 114 Chace, Sarah S., 14:3 Boyden, Reuben 1\1., W5 , Brown, Israel, 167 Chace, \Villiam, 143 Boyden, Sanford H., 195: Brown, John, 10 Chase, Alpha, 125 Boyden, ,vu_liam C., 195; Brown, Joseph, 181 Chase, Anthony, 1-15 Boynton, Eh7.a A., W5: Brown, .Joseph, 245 Cha.c;e, Barney, 125 Bradford, Alice, 1~) i Brown, Rebecca, lb'7 Chase, Cromwell, 271 Bradley, Alice, 237; Brown, Simeon, 255 Chase, Eber, 268 Bradley, Mary E., 324 \ Brown, Stephen, 185 Chase, Hannah, 268 Bradley, Nathaniel, ~7 i Brown, Tbomas, 181 Chase, J oanua \V ., 271 Bradley, Wm. A., 237 I Browning, Alice F., 2li0 Chase, Job, 271 Branch, Annie l\I., 303 I Browning, Chas. D., 260 Chase, Jonathan 1\1., 271 Branch, FranklinP.,300 i Browning, 'B. F., 259 Chase, Lavina, 16~ Branch, Roby B., 30:J i Buffinton, Benj., 202 Chase, Mary, 268 Branch, W. A. l\I., 303 ! Buftinton Stephen, 202 Chase, Rob'n J.M., 271 Brayton, Ann, 268 I Buffum, G~kill, 21~ Chase, Sybil, 271 Brayton, Anna, 268, Buffum, Juba, 246 Chester, James, 303 Brayton, Baulston, 163 i Buffum, Polly, 219 Childs, Polly, 219 Brayton, Baulston, 2'>8 ; Bull, Isaac, 32 Claflin, Harriet, 29'3 Brayton, Content. 16:l I Bull, Mary, 32 Claflin, Orin, 292 Brayton, C'pt. G. l\I., 269 i Bull, George, 313 Clark, Annie, 258 Brayton, Content, 2681 Burckmyer, John C.,230 Clark, Elizabeth, :30 Brayton, Content, 2611 1 Burdin, Charles, 35 Clark, .John, 15-l Brayton, Dan~el, 2(!9 l Bur<1:ick, Jos. W. ~-, 302 Clark, Mowry, 15-l Brayton, David, 268 I Burhngame, Edwm, 191 Cfo:rk, Robert, 154 Brayton, David, 269 Burlingame, Emily, 255 Clark, Samuel. 154 Brayton, Elizabeth, 267 Burlingame, J.E., 299 Clark, Stephen, 154 Brayton, Elizabetl1, 268 Burlingame, Rich'd, 127 Clark, Thomas, 258 Brayton, Francis, 163 Bushee, Cai·rie H., 28"2 Clarke, Edward, 77 Bra1ton, Francis, 267 Bushee, Prof. Jas., 282, Coe, Anna, 130 Brayton, Hannah, 267 Bushee, Lucy A., 282: Coe, Emor, 130 Brayton, Hannah, 268 Buxton, Emily, 256 \ Coe, Ephraim, 130 Brayton, Hannah, 269 Coe, John, 130 Brayton, Henry, 269 Capron, Adin, 297 Coe, Juliette, 130 Brayton, Israel, 268 I Capron, Helen M., 297 Coe, l\Iartin, 130 Brayton, John, 163. Capron, Philip, 225 Coe, Rebecca, 130 Brayton, John, 2f>8 i Carpenter, Dwight, 253 Coe, Sarah P., 130 Brayton, Martha, 267 l Carpe11ter, Sarah A., 175 Coe~ ,villiam E., 130 Brayton, Mary, 162 ': Carr, Ala.nzo, 242 Cole, William, 24:3 Brayton. l\lary, 267: Carr, Eliza A., 242. Collins, Clarissa, 240 Brayton,Mary, ~ I Carr, Freeman M., 241 ! Corl)ss, George H., 2.36 Brayton, l\{ary, 269 ! Carr, l\lartha, 242 Collms, John, 91 Brayton, Patience, 269 i Carr, Mary E., 242: Colwell, Slater, 137 Brayton, Preserved, 163 l Carroll, Emily F., 196 · Comstock, A. M., 13ft Brayton, Preserved, 267 Cary, Cynthia, 265 : Comstock, Elisha, 139 Brayton, Preserved, 268 Cary, Esther B., 267 j Comstock, Ezekiel, 65 Brayton, Sarah, 267 Case, Diana F., 193 Comstock, Isaac, 139 Brayton, Stephen, 163 Case, Frederick W., ·193; Comstock, Metcalf, 139 Brayton, Stephen, 267 Case, George l\f., 193 i Comstock, Samuel, 65 Brayton, Stephen, 268 Case, James l\i., 193 Comstock, ,v. A., 139 ~ .338 THE l\lOWRY FAl\llLY.

Cooper, Corbin, lfm J>e\Yolf, Henry. ~•: Gaskill, Lavina D., :?i-l Cooper, Joh, 1~8 . l>ietricks, \Villiam, :.'61 I Gaskill, Lindley l\1., 271 Cooper. John, l:!8 , I>ietrick~, \Villie C., 2(;1 i Gaskill, Ruth E., :?il Cooper, .John, lti!t. I>ixo11, Fanny, :rol I Gaskill, Susan A,, :!il Cooper, Mary, 1~ l>ubois. Benjamin, ~S \ Gardner, Samuel E., 2-17 16!t . :n3 Cooper, l\Ioses, I>unu, Edwarcl, 1 Gates, Hannah, 11-l Cook, Albert. 18:\ l>uval, J.. 267 I Gatchell, Thomas, 267 Cook, A. Lindse~·, 184 I>yer, Lydia A., ~, Gifford, Angelina, 177 Cook, Amey, fiH : Gilman, Joseph, lli,.., Cook, Ariel, ls.I E1tS011, .J111ia. 175 : Goldtl1wait, A. S., 247 Cooke, Col. \Villiam ~u, Ea.-;terbrooks. Sus'h., rno Goldthwait, A. A., 2-l-7 Cook, Daniel. 101 Edtly, Amanda, 188 Goldtbwait, Jno. A., :!-l-7 Cook, Daniel, 10:\ }:du~·, Ellen, 188 Goldthwait, J.E., 2-li Cook, Hannah, 2-1:6 Edcly, Geor~e, 188 Goldth"•ait, l\[. J ., :!-1:7 Cook, Horace, 184 Eddy, George S., 188 Goldtll\vait, R. B,, :!47 ~ook, Jolm, 18-1 Eddy, Hannah \V .. , 258 Goldthwait, Y, D., :!-l-7 Cook, Joseph, b":!. Edd~-, Randall P., 258 c;oldthwait, ,vm., :!47 Cook, Joseph, 3Ui Eddy, Sarah. 188 Goldthwait, \V. 1\1., 247 Cook, Milla, 2m Ed~arton, Alias. )I.,:~:\ Gorton, Polly, 11:;; Cook, Orin, :,?4(; }~d wards, Mahala, 12fi Greene, Abby, 24-l Cook. Phebe, u;:; Ellery, Hou. \V'm., !)'.! Green, Albert, li5 Cook, Sarah, ~~• Ellis, Timothy, Jr., 1:~ Green, David A., li5 Cooke, Gov. N ., 157 Esten, Buffum, llW: Greene, David, 26H Cooke, P;\tience, 157 Esten, Ellen E.. 304 Green, Dennis, 17'4 Cooke, Ruth, 157 · E,;te11. Rachel, · Hi4 Green, Dulcena P., 176 Cooke, \Villfam. 157 Esten, Ste1>hen, :!04: Green, Geor~e D., 175 Cornell, Ezekiel, !)1 E,·aus, Ala.nzo. ~ Greeue, Gertie H., :lO".? Cottrell, Mary E., 25-1: Greene, Mary (K.), 26B Cozzens, \Villiam, 11:3 Farnum, Daniel. 24:4 Greene, Patience, 2titl Crane, l\latilda A., 179: Farnum, Eliza, · 219 Greene, Cap. R. W., 24-l Cra11e, llatilda A., :.r.?'i; Farnum, Ruth, 2Ul Gulley, Phebe, 93 Culnon, Cornelius, RO : }"'ar11u1n, .Stephen, 2Hl Currey, Hou. Sam'l, ~ }"'arnnm, Susan E.. 241 Hall, l\Iary Aun, 218 Currie, Robert, :xi i Fenner, Arthur, 12 Hallett, Beuj. F., ~l Currier, George, 24H. J·"'enner, :\Iary, 1-1:3 Hamilton, Anne, lf>S Cushman, Ebenezer, 17H I I•"i~her, Paulina, 1~ Handy, Jane, 252 Cushman, Mary \V., 17!1; 1-,ishPr, Paulina, :r.20 Harris, Abigail, 2"21 Cushman, l\lary \'f' ., :r.!1 Il•,isk. Chloe, HS Harris, Abigail, 26:! Cutting, Naucy, :!7~), Pisk, Susanna, 5:3 Harris, Abby, 1:r. Il-'letcher, Isabel, ::;o2 Harris. Achsah, 201 Daniels, Darius, ti.; J-'letcher, .Joseph, :~2 Harris, Amey, 18:\ Daniels. Moses, 185 1}•,owler, Barna.rel, 127 Harris, Andrew, 33 Davis, Capt. C., t:~ 11-'owler, Caleb, 128 Harris, A.sahel, 1-1.:; Davis, Sarah \V., 1:i~ Il•,oster, Ezra, 25:3 Harris, Benjamin, . 6i Darlin~, Alice, ~-l::? , l"owlt~r, l\Iary, 127 Harris, Benjamin, Darliug, Arabella, 2-1:::? I]-'owler, Phebe, 12~ Harris, Charles, Darling. Ann,· 18H Powler, Robert, 127 Harris, C.rawford, I Darling, An~ell D., 189 1 Fowler, Sam'l, 1~ Ilarris, David, Darling, Charles, :!-l::?; Ford, \Villiam, 64: Harris, David, Darling, Isabella, 2-12: Fowler. \Villis, 128, Ha.rris, Diana, Darling, Laura, ~-I~ ! Harris, Dinah. Da.rliug, Olney, 2-1:2 Gardner, Content, 268. Harris, Elisha l\I., 2-.M..,., Darling, Willard, 2-12: Gardner, Elizabeth, 2:~7 I Harris, Eluathan, 1_ _, Deane, Cordelia, 174-: Gardner, Margaret, 113 i Harri.c;, Emily, 1·>•··- De~m, Leonard, ms : Gardner. Samuel, 268 I Harris. Eiek, 198 Denison, l\{atilda, 320 : Gaskill, Anne E., 274 l Harris, Farnum, Dennis, Anne, 20:\ ' Gaskill, Annie D., 271 I Harris, Gideon, u:i Dennis, Joseph, 20:3 1 Ga.skill, Asa B., 274 1 Harris, Huldab, 142 Dennis, Sarah, ~:3 i Gaskill. Caroline 1\1., 274 Harris, Israel, l •')o)..,.., Dexter, Amey, 226 · Gaskill, Caroline J., 271 Harris, Israel, 201 Dexter, .Jonathan, 161 \ Gasklll, Elizabeth, 271 Harris, Jesse, 12"J Dexter, John, 771 Gaskill, Ezekiel, 271 Harri.c;, Jonathan, 218 Dexter, Lewis, 2"21> · Ga.c;kill, George H., 274- I Harris, .Jonathan, 2fi2 Dexter, Lydia, l(il G 1.skill, Joseph, 271 Harris, John, 137 J~OEX. 339

Harris, Jolm, 1-1:~ · Hunt, Orin, 2-14 Jencks, ,Joseph, :t; Harris, ,John, 155 Hunt. Pardou, 1Nt; ,Tencks, Martha, Hi!? Harris, Lucv, :!".!-l · Hutchinson, ""'m., :?4H Jenks. Christopher, 74 Harris, Ly,iia, l:?2 Jenks, Daniel, 7:; Harris, l\Iauton, 1:17. le.le, Amos. 1:3-5 Jenks, David, 74 Harris, Marthn, 12:! Ide, Albert, 1:~i Jencks, Harriet. 162 Harris, l\lartha, 218 Ide, Am~, 1:~i ,Johnson, Joan11a, W4 Harri~, Martin, :!01: Ide, Benjamin, rn<> Johnson. \Villiam, 1!1-l Harris, l\I:iry, 185 • Ide, Emily, 1:3t> I · Harris, :\Iary J., :!li2 Ide, George 0., =~26 1 K u :\.11 t 12!• Harris, Nathan. 12:?. Ide, Henry, 1:~; 1 K e ey, Ed le_r ·, ~l!l Harris, l:?:? 1'1e, Kate, ~-ull e11 1 wm, :? Nathaniel, ey, 4 H arr1s,. p a r·1s, ._,01 : lcle. Le.. • 1·, ·1•11•. ... , li:eefe,K S.,D · 1 1"',8 . p c) 1 · ,a • Y ' , Harris, Susa11, 1a7: Inman. Auua, 12!1 i ~!n~. George, lSH H · s " ,-,.1 · I · Cl 1- E ,..,. 07 ,, I~ m_~ley.1 ,v ~rren, :'?5:J arr1s, usan ~-,.nua, =--~ · umau, 1ar 1e ., , K 11 1t B 1:.l7 Harris, Tabitha, 14:1 • Inman, Daniel. 1:.>!I : p !~ ' enJ., :r, Harris, Thomas, t-1:J · Inman, Deborah, 12U '. 1'-mght, 'Marcy G., 1 Harris, \Vaity, 24:~ Inman, Donison A., 2-U I Harris, \Vantou )1., ~.!4 Immm, Ed., ~•, 24:1, 248, Lan~ley, Amelia C., 18-1: Harri~, Welcome, 137 Inman, Eliza, A., :-K>7 \ Lapham, Arad, 245 Harris. \Velcome, 2m. Inman, Ellen, 2-n I Lt1.pha.m, George, 2-15 Haskell, Deodatus, 254: Inman, Eugene F ., ;-l()7 i Lapham, Lydia, 245 Hawkins, Chas. A., ~·Inman, George, :m: Lapha.m, l\lowry, :!45 Hawkins, David C., 284- · Inman, George B., :3071 Lapl1am, Thomas, 7~~ Hawk!ns, Fanni~ J ., 2~ '. Inmau, !(la, 2.U Latham, Arthur, , 3! Hawkms, ,Terenua.11, 148: Inman, Irene. 12H Ii Latham, B., 181, 24;> Ha.y,vard, Jonathan, 1;\2 : Inman, Johaimab, U I Lath;1m, Daniel " .... , ~4:~ Ha.y,\"ar

llalaverv•• John, !"1-l ·1 Mowry, Olney, :?40 Paine, l\Iercy, lM :\Ian. Pu·tie11ce, 57 l\Iowrv, Otis. 2-1-7 Paine, l\Iillie. 129 )fanchester, .John, ::!77; llowry, Phebe, 1:?-1-, 180 Paine, Nelson, 134 llancbester, ~ancy, 277; l\lowry, Philip, 12a Paine, Obecl, 191 llani~ult, Emma, :n4 l\Iowry, Rich:u-d, ::!~:~ Paine, Ruth, 134 -lianigault. II. l\I., :~1-1: .Mowry, Ro~er, 1:1 Paiue, Senter, 12'-J l[arble, Ellen A., ::!m) l\Iowry, Silas. lHl Paine. Stephen, 188 )Iarble, .Juni•ts. ::!5!J l\lowry, Smith, 2-1-:i I Paine, Thomas, :?46 Marble, ,vmiam, ::!5H Mowry, Stephen, :?51 , Paine. Uranah, 72 l[arcy. Pollv, 114: :Mowry, Thomas, 15 I P:1ine, \\·aityl\l., 1:34: )Iartin, Helen A , ::!5~) l\Iowry, Uranab, 5.1 : Paine, \Yilliam M., 134 liartin, .Toseph. :?.1~) Mowry. \\·in., 182, 2~~ Parker, Abel, 2:~n, 240 )Iason, Katie, ~iO Mowrv, \Vin~r, 12-1, Parker, Alice A., 240 liasou. \Villiam. 2fi0 l\Iowry, Zebeclee, :!51. Parker, Esther S., 240 lia.sters, .John T.. 178 Murray, Ange. C., Hl9 Parker, l\Iary Eliza,_ 2:i9 )!asters, LeRov lI., 178 Murphy, :Mary G., 2Hl : Parker, )label l\1., :MO l\Iaste1-s, ~lary "E., 178 IParker, E,·eline R., 240 )Iasters, N. l\I. )I., 178 :Newman, Jeremy. 7:.l. Partrid~e, Emma A., 13'.) )!asters, ""'m. l\I., 178 I1 Newman, Nathaniel, 7:3 Partricl~e, llenry:M., 139 )Iathewson, A. ••J., t-18, Newman, Thomas, 7a Partridge. Seth, 139 )lathewon, )I A... 218 · Newto11, Fayette, 24H PearsaJl, Amanda, 267 )laxtield, Hiram, 24-:; Nixon, Abigail, :_;2;3 Pea~alJ, .Toseph, 261 ;"laxfield, .John, t4,:; Pearsall. Elizabeth, 267 llaxwcll. Ca1,t. J., ttm I Oluey, Amey A., 2-l!) Pearsall, Ira., :267 l\IcLearin, .Jennie, :.'!tl , Olney, Au:?Ustus, 1:;c; Peal'S&1.ll, Olive, 267 )Icllanary, P, 127 1, Olney, Caudice, 21;; I Peet, Charl~s B., :!53 )lcllanary, Tim., 128: Olney, Capt. Stepb., 2151 Peters, Delia, 307 )IcNellage, 1\1. D., :..~IO f Ol11e:)·, Catharine J., 1!:>(), Peters, llary G., :;oo l\liller, Eliza H., 2fifi' Olney, Cyrus, 1:l(; Pbetteplace, Job, 53 l\Iilli~an, Mary lI., ~5!'1 Olney, Eclward W., 1:~; Phetteplace,"'· R., 5.'3 )Iinnion, \Villiam, 10 Olney, Elisha, 2:~ Phillips, Anne, s.; llitchell, Edward, (>I . Owen, Ji~recl., 2H7 Phillips. Charle~ A., 181

)[onroe, Elizabeth, :!5(; i Olney, Ira. l!l1:, PhiUips. James, 15 )Iorey, George. 15 i Olney, Miranda, 136 II Phillips, Richard, ;;a, 85 l\Ioril, Anna, . ~.m2 t Olney, Obadiah. 2:34: Phillips, Smith, 181 )Ionon, Cyrni::, Jr., Ul7 i Olney, Oscar J., :?-1-U I Pitts, Abner, 276 )Iorton, Elizabeth, 110 ! Olney, Pamela, 1:.'16 Pitts, Demiis :M., 271; )Iorton, Ella C., 1H7 i Olney, Samuel, 1:~ Pitts, Edward H., :t76 )[orton, Lucy D., 1H7 , Olney, Sullivan, 13H Pitts, Esek, 273 )loses, \Ye~ter \\'., ~5!l ! Olney, Susan, tl8 Pitts, Georj!e A., 276 )Iowry, Adah, 251 i Olney, Thomas, Jr., 17 Pitts, Leander E., 276 )Iowry, Ahaz, 12'.! I! Olney, Thomas, Sen., 10 Pitts, Polly, 276 )Iowry, Alice, 245 Olney, ,Yilliam, 248 Pitts, Seth F. ~'i'6 )lowry, Anauias, 4H 1 Olney, ,vmiam, Jr., 249 l'!tls, Seth S., ~76 l\Iowry, Arnold, 2-1:l Owe11, John A., :ID7 Pitts, Susan_ L., 276 )Io\\·ry, Be11j.. 15, 245 Owens, Com. E. K., 2H0 . 1>1ace, Drusilla, 200 :Mowry, Candice, 182 __ 1Place, Lewis, 200 l[owry, Darius., 240 Packarcl, Hannah, :32 Place, Mowry, :!00 lfowry, David, 128 Paine, Alpha, 224 Place, Olive, 200 lio~·ry, David, 12CJ Paine, Anna. 1:?!t, 18.~ Place, Peter, 200 )Iowry, Da,·id, 180 Paine, Arnold, 1~) Potter, Ella, :!53 :Mowry, David, 247 Paine, Benjamin, 34. Potter, Elizabetl1, ti6 :Mowry, Da,·id P., :i20 Paine, Be11011i, me; Potter, John, · 66 l\Iowry, Eliza, 2-:1::i Paine, Caleb, 1~) Potter, Lois, 66 l-Iowry, Hannah, :32 Paine, CJlarissa, 240 · Potter, Philip, 189 l[owry,/ohn, • Pa!ne, Dore~, 1~), Pratt, ~ertba D., 313 .), 13, 14, 182, 240 1I Pame, Epl1ra1m, 1.34 . Pray, Richard, 21 :Mowry, Joseph, 15 Paine, Jesse, 191 · Prentice, Abby B., 238 Mowry, Joseph 0., 191 Paine, John, 224:, PTentice, George, 139 )lowry, Margery, 61 Paine, Laura, 191: Prentice, l\lowry, 139 :Mowry, l\Iary, 123 Paine, Lydia, 166; Putnam, H. C., 280 Mowry, l\laey Eliz., 240 Paine, l\lary, 12tJ: . Mowry, N., 128,166,180 Paine,MaryAnnM.,134: Quackenbos, Louisa, 241 841

Quackenbos, Mary, 241 Sa.wyer, Austin, 277 Smitl1,. Ezekiel, lM, 2.57 Sawyer, L. H., 217 Smith, Fanny, 136 Randall, Abby, 157 Sawyer, Phileua. S., 277 Smith, Fidelia, 183 Randall, Dexter, 157 Sawyer, S. lary, 246,299 Reynolds,BetseyJ.\.I., 240 Sayles, Martha, 123: Smith, llowry, 122, 16.3 Reynoldst Dora, :~1 Sayles, :Mary; 123 Smith, Nathaniel, 140 Reynolds., :i.\Ierrick, 301 Sayles, :&:Coses )I., 238 Smith, Obed, 134 Reynolds> Wm. A., 2.1:0 Sayles, :Mowry, 123, 238: Smith, P., 113,142,217 Richardson, Benj., 284 Sayles, Sa.rah, 24-7 Smith, Raebel, 279 Richardson, Caleb, 16H Say1es, Stephen, 123,190'. Smith, Sa.ben, 279 Richardson, Clara~ 324 Sayles, Sylva.nus, 110 ; Smith, Samuel, 124 Richa.r,lson, Da.vid, 169 Sayles. Thomas, 49t 238 Smith, Sarah, 126 Richardson., Fanny, :124: Sayle!i!, Urana.h, l3P · Smith,. Senec.a, I:», 301 Ricbanlson, Fred., 324 Scott, Elisha., 225 . Spalding, .A..., 266 Richardson, H., 284 Scott., Fanny C., ~,; . Spalding, Celia, 266 Richardson, Joseph .. 169 Scott., Samuel, 313, Spalding, Harriet, 266 Richardson, Levi, · 169 Scott, Susan F., 31:~, Spald!ng, Jacob, 266 Richardson, M., 324: ScoU, Walter P., 31:l Spa.ldmg, John, 266 Richardson, l\Iowry, 169 Seama.ns, Jemima., 225. Spalding, Laura., 266 Richardson, Simon, 168 Searle, Louisa, 181' Spalding, Orpaht 266 Richardson, W. N., 324: Searle, ,viUiam, 181 Sprague, Abraham, 55 Richardson, W., 169 Sha.w, Ems, 196 . Sprague, Abraham, 76 Richmond, R. B., 252 Sba,v, Hope H., 100 Sprague, Be1hiah, 55 Roberts, R.R... -321 Slierman, E. B., 24~) Sprague, Bethia.h,. 76 Ro~rs, James:, 61 Sherman, Baunah, 211 · Sprague, Gideon, 55 Rog,.rs, )Iary, 174 Sherman,. Lillian, 249 Sprague,. Gideon, 76 Rogers, O1ive, 61 Sherman, llaria. L., 249 · Sprague, Jolin, 135 Ross, Ann E.~ 241 Sherman, Sumner, 249: Sprague, J., 55, 76 Ross, Lester E.. 286 Sherman, S. L., 24H; Sprague, Ruhamal1, 267

Ross, Samuel1 · 135 Sbepardson, J. B.1 179, Sprague, Mary, 55 Ross, William, 168 1 Sho,•e, Square, 275; Sprague. Mary, 76 i Silber, Sophia L., 179 ! Spra~e, Zilpba, 55 Saben, Anne ll., 214 \ Slade, William, 269; Staples, Dacy, 169 Saben, Darling, 211 Slater, Samuel, 32, 116 • Staples, Martha, 165 Saben, Gideon )I., 214 Slocum, A.. )I., 302: Staples, Nathan, 62 Sabe», Huldab, 211, 214 · Slocum, Benjamin., 79: Standish, Isabel, 303 Sa"'ben, Isaac, 212 Smith, Aaron, 124, Steere, Anthony, 86 Saben, Israel, 211 Smith, Abigail, 59; Steere, l3arbery, • 299 Saben, Israel, Jr., 214 · Smith, Albert, 301. St~.ere, Betsey, 164 Salten, Lucy, 211,214: Smith, Almi-ra, 233. Steere, Catherine, 57, 86 Sa'ben, Mowry, 211 Smith, AlYah, 122 , Steere, Elisha, 149, 27S Sal:Hm, Richard M., 214 · Smith, Brown, 246 i Steere, .Jesse, 299 Saben, Ruth, 211 · Smith, Carrie L., 3'>..5: Steere, John, 10· Sa.hen, Sa.rah, 211, 214 SJn!th, Daniel, 50, 59~ 122 1 Steere, Mary, . 57 Saben, Sa.rah A., 2H:: Smith, Dutee, 122 [ Steere, !wfa.ry E., 302 Sa.ben, ,v aite A., 214 Smith, Edward, 54 ) Steere, Feoli., 191 Sapp, Lucinat 259 Smitb, Elijah, 246 i Steere, Raebel, 61., 86 Sapp, A.Der, 258 Smith, Eliza, 246, Steere, Sara.b A., 278 Sa.pp, Sarah, 258 . Sm!tb, E. Louise, 306 1 Steae, Shadrach, 127 Sa.unden, Mary, 129 · Smith, Emma, 246 i Steere, Susnnn~, 149· Sawyer, A.1 179,321 Smith, Ephrain, 246 Steere, Thomas, 50, 57 THE ~lOWRY 1-"A:\llLY.

~teere, l"ranah, 1!11 Tl1a1·er, San1uel, :~;. ,1ea,·er, R. !\I.E., :JtO Steert-. \Villiam, W+, :;01 Thayer, Sarah, H7 \Vebster, John, 188 Stetson, neo~e \V ., :?;.;.{ Tha"er, Sarah :\I.. 21t \Vebster, Lyclia. 120 Stickle, Eliza, :!58 Tlm~·er, Sullivan, Ut? \Velis, .Joseph T., :?HI Sto!, Simon, 274 Taft, Peter, fi5 Tuck, )lary S., :{05 . \Vhitman, Harriet, 257 Ta.ft-, Pc,lly, 1:;:{, Hi.~, 319 Tuck, Rev. J. \V ., :n1 ' Whitman, Isaac, 257 Taft. Rebecca}:.. 2-12 Tuck, Samuel :M., :10;; : Whitman, John, 2S Taft, Samuel, · 1:-c3 Turner, .Joseph, :!!il : \Vhitman, Valentine, 10 Taft, Samne1, ms Turpin, \Villiam, :w. : ,vatennau, Richard, :2'.t · Taft, Samuel, Ul-1 ; Wilbour. Daniel, 78 Taft, Samuel, :m) Vallett, Palmer, 2:l-1: : Wilbour, Uuth, 78 Taft, Sarah C., 1:J::, :IH9 Yallett, \Yanton, WO: \Vilbour, Tabitha, 78 Taft, Susan, 1:t{, :n9 Yanclemark, S. l\-1., 212 · \Vilcox. Lydia, 248- Taft, Thomp'n, Jr.• 275 Yarnum, James M., !ll \Vild, .Mr., 119 Taft, "·aity )I., 13:l, :>19 Veasie, .John, :2'14 ,vnde, .John, 284 Tnlman, Ann, Its:}, 2fj8 Vial, .James, 251 Wilts, Jane, 174 Talman, Franch=, lU:3 Vilus,-Samuel, 19-1: Wilks, Fred. G., 2::i2 Talman, Jamf's, :!t;B Vilus, Virtue, 194 \Vilkinson, Amey, 155 Talman, Peter, 2HS Vose, Albert, 2f>fj Wilkinson, Arine, 56 Taylor, Susan, ~•S Vose, Amariah, 100 Wilkinson, Benj., 155 Temple, Lucinda, 182 Vose, Laura A., :!56 Wilkinson, Dr. J., 155 Thayer, Alonzo, 1St, 212. Vose, Malaney, WO \Vilkinson, John, 56 Thayer, Asa, 182 ' · Wilkinson, Samuel, 28 Thayer, Archa, 2·1-9 · Walker, Ruth: 1:G; Wilkinson, Stephen, 56 Tbayer, A.urilla, 16:1 Walling, Thomas, 11 'Willard. Abby J., 314 Thayer, Austin, 182 Wanton, Joseph, !f4 i ,vmard, George A., 314 Thayer, Charles, 16:~ Ware, Ann F.. 193 ,Villard, Mary, 193 Thayer, C. :\"I., 182. Ware, Ellen, 193. Williams, Adelbert, 282 Thayer, E. S., 182, 212 · Ware, l\Ieltiah, 193; Williams, E. S., 282 Thayer, George, 212 Ware, Leonard, 19;l. WiHiams, EmmaF., 282 Thayer, Henry B., 182: Wat'd, Henry, 95. Williams, Gilbert, 137 Thayer, John, 163 i Warner, Cereah, 171 ! Williams, Ida E., 282 Thayer, Laura B., 2241 Warner, Daniel, 171 j Williams, James, 255 Thayer, Mary lf., - 182 I Weatherly, Col., .291 j Williams, Paulina, 137 Thayer, Mowry, 163,212 i Weaver, F. M., 310 j Williams, Rogp..r. 10 Thayer, Ruth E., 249' Weaver, N. K., 310 Williams, Rufus, 137 J ~ 1>1-:x. 343

Wing, Deuor;lh, HS \Vood, Harrit,t, 1;;~, \\"oocl, Samuel W 1a:; ,ving, l\lary, fiS \Vood. Lewi~. 1:;:? i \Y()()(}, Sololllon, 1:n ,ving.• Jabez, 1i8, 80 \Vood, L. E