 Abt 1598 - 1646 (48 years)
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| Name |
Nicholas Stower |
| Born |
Abt 1598 |
Upway Parrish, Dorestshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
17 May 1646 |
Charleston, Suffolk, MA [1] |
| Person ID |
I139 |
Paul's Tree |
| Last Modified |
2 Jul 2018 |
| Father |
Walter Stowers, b. Abt 1568, Dorchester, Eng |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Anne, b. Abt 1569, Dorchester, Eng |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Married |
Abt 1591 |
Upwey Co., Dorchester, England |
| Family ID |
F131 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Amy Marnam, b. Upwey Co., Dorchester, England , d. 2 Feb 1668, Charlestown, Ma |
| Married |
2 Nov 1632 |
Lynn, MA |
| Children |
| | 1. Joanna Stowers, b. Abt 1624, d. 25 Dec 1689, Charlestown, Ma (Age 65 years) [natural] |
| | 2. Sarah Stowers, b. Abt 1626 [natural] |
| | 3. ? Stowers [natural] |
| | 4. John Stowers, d. 15 Aug 1638, Charlestown, Ma [natural] |
| | 5. Richard Stowers, b. 16 May 1620, d. 10 Jul 1698, Charlestown, Ma (Age 78 years) [natural] |
| | 6. Joseph Stowers, b. 21 Feb 1633, Charlestown, Ma [natural] |
| | 7. Abigail Stowers, b. 27 Jun 1636 [natural] |
| | 8. Elizabeth Stowers, b. Abt 1614, d. Aft 27 Nov 1672 (Age > 58 years) [natural] |
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| Last Modified |
2 Jul 2018 |
| Family ID |
F129 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- From The Great Migration Begins:
MIGRATION: 1629
FIRST RESIDENCE: Charlestown
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Boston church as member #70, which would be in the winter of 1630-1 [BChR 13]. On 14 October 1632 "Nicholis Stowers and his wife" were dismissed to the new church at Charlestown [BChR 16], and on 2 November 1632 Nicholas and Amy Stowers were among those who founded that church [ChChR 7]. (Since Nicholas Stowers apparently married Amy in England, and since there is no record of her admission to Boston church, the Boston church record is defective, either in omitting her admission, or in designating her as a member when her husband was dismissed.)
FREEMAN: 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:366].
OFFICES: Coroner's jury on body of William Bateman, 18 September 1630 [MBCR 1:78]. Trial jury concerning death of Austen Bratcher, 28 September 1630 [MBCR 1:77]. Charlestown constable, 9 May 1639 [MBCR 1:255].
In his will, dated 16 May 1646 but with no probate clause, Nicholas Stower of Charlestown "being sick in body" bequeathed to "my beloved wife Amy Stower my dwelling house with the barn and all other housing ... with the two acres of ground by it & all my ground arable or other that is within the neck of Charlestowne also a hay lot lying on Mistick Side near north the spring next our sister Rand's, also half of the hay of the other hay lots on Mistick Side, likewise four cow commons on the stinted common without the neck, also three of the acres of planting ground on Mistick Side that is broken up & it is now sown with English corn ... she to have the use of all the aforenamed, likewise she to have use of the cart & plow & its furniture & she to have my two best working oxen, & she to have all the English corn & Indian corn that is on the ground on Mistick Side, only excepted that which my son Richard is to have of the same crop"; "when my wife is deceased, then my will is that my son Joseph Stower shall have the above specified house, barn & other housing with the two acres of ground ... & all the other ground within the neck with that hay lot on Misticke Side by the north spring, with the four cows commons without the neck on the stinted common ... he shall abide with his mother to do her service while she lives or at least till he be twenty & one year old ... out of his portion there be deducted the legacies after specified unto his two sisters Jone & Abigaill, two cows to Abigail & one cow to Jone to be paid to them at the decease of my wife"; to "my wife Amy Stower all my household stuff ... excepted a great Bible to my daughter Farr which she is to have at present & the great brass pan which my daughter Farr is to have after my wife's decease"; "my wife shall have the two best of cows, the best of the three steers ... with the two best working oxen forever"; to "my son Richard Stower my two oxen the next to the best pair, & the two of the three steers, and the two cows commons on the stinted common without the neck & all the arable ground on Mistick Side ... all the hay lots on Mistick Side ... also my looms and their furniture" and part of the harvest; to "my daughter Jone Stower one cow" now and "at my wife's decease another good cow out of Joseph's portion"; to "my daughter Abigail Stower after my wife's decease two good cows to be paid to her out of Joseph's portion"; to "my daughter Farre a great Bible and two weanling steer calves to be hers presently & the great brass pan"; "my beloved wife Amy Stower" executrix; "my two loved brethren Thomas Lyne & Robert Hale" overseers [SPR 1:40-41].
The inventory of "Amy Stower, widow of Nicholas Stower, late deceased" taken 1 July 1646, was certainly misnamed, and must have been that of Nicholas. It totalled £165 14s. 6d., including "four acres of upland on the hill £16"; "fifteen acres of upland on Mistick Side £20" [SPR Case #42].
On 16 March 1668 "John Burrage and John Knight joined with Richard and Joseph [Stowers] ... in asking that their brother Samuel Hayward be appointed administrator" [Pope 438, apparently citing Middlesex Court Records]. (This would have followed the death of Amy, widow of Nicholas Stowers, and is the only evidence for the existence of a daughter Sarah, who is not named in her father's will.)
BIRTH: By about 1585 based on the age of his eldest child.
DEATH: Charlestown 17 May 1646 [Wyman 911, citing unknown source]. (He was certainly alive on 16 May 1646 when he made his will and dead by 1 July 1646 when his inventory was taken.)
MARRIAGE: By 1630 (and earlier if she is mother of all the children) Amy _____; she died at Charlestown 2 or 27 February 1667/8 [ChVR 1:57].
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| Sources |
- [S243] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33.
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