 Bef 1609 - 1702 (> 92 years)
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| Name |
John Tower [1] |
| Born |
Bef 14 May 1609 |
Hingham, Norfolk, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
13 Feb 1701/02 |
Hingham, Ma [2] |
| Person ID |
I737 |
Paul's Tree |
| Last Modified |
2 Jul 2018 |
| Family |
Margaret Ibrook, b. Bef 3 Sep 1620, Southwold, Suffolk, Eng. , d. 15 May 1700 (Age > 79 years) |
| Married |
13 Feb 1639 |
Charlestown, Middlesex Co., MA |
| Children |
| | 1. John Tower, b. Bef 13 Dec 1639, Hingham, Ma , d. 30 Aug 1693, Braintree, MA (Age > 53 years) [natural] |
| | 2. Jonathan Tower, b. Bef 1 Aug 1641, Hingham, Ma [natural] |
| | 3. Ibrook Tower, b. Bef 7 Feb 1644, Hingham, Ma , d. 22 Nov 1732, Cohasset, MA (Age > 88 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Jeremiah Tower, b. Bef 9 Mar 1645, Hingham, Ma , d. Bef 1677 (Age < 31 years) [natural] |
| | 5. Elizabeth Tower, b. 4 Jun 1648, Hingham, Ma [natural] |
| | 6. Sarah Tower, b. Bef 16 Jul 1650, Hingham, Ma [natural] |
| | 7. Hannah Tower, b. Bef 17 Jul 1652, Hingham, Ma [natural] |
| | 8. Benjamin Tower, b. Bef 5 Nov 1654, Hingham, Ma , d. 24 Mar 1722, Hingham, Ma (Age > 67 years) [natural] |
| | 9. Jemima Tower, b. 25 Apr 1660, Hingham, Ma [natural] |
| | 10. Samuel Tower, b. 26 Jan 1662, Hingham, Ma , d. 21 Mar 1724, Hingham, Ma (Age 62 years) [natural] |
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| Last Modified |
2 Jul 2018 |
| Family ID |
F454 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - Bef 14 May 1609 - Hingham, Norfolk, England |
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| Notes |
- From "History of the Town of Hingham, Mass" by George Lincoln 1982:
"John, s. of Robert and Dorothy (Damon) Tower, and bt. in Hing., Eng., May 17, 1609, became a resident of out Hing. 1637. He was made freeman 13 March, 1638-39. In his deposition concerning the highway near the residences of John Foulsham and Mathew Hawke, 9 Jan 1676-77 and recorded in the selectman's first book of records, his age is given at "about 69 years". The year of his birth, therefore, was not far from 1608, which concides very nearly with the date of his baptism. Upon his arival in Hing., he had a grant of three acres of land for a house-lot on Bachelor (Main) St., nearly opp. what is now Water St. He also had other lands granted to him at subsequent dates. In 1654, his name appears amoung others from Hing. upon the rec's of Lancaster, Mass. It is doubtful, however, whether he ever resided there. His home place, which has been held in the family name through sucessive generations, and is still recognised as "the old Tower estate," was on Main St., next south of the garrison house, near Tower's Bridge, So. Hing. Sept. 6, 1657, he purchased of William Cockraine, Jr., Att'y, land at Great Lots; also at Cooper's Island, in the sec. pre. Apr. 18, 1661, he brought of Edward Wilder, "planter," dw-house, orchard, etc., with five acres of land which was given by the town of Hing. to Martha Wilder, the mother of Edward; also a lot of three acres and another lot of four acres which the said Edward had previously purchased of Samuel Ward. Also, three acres of salt-marsh lying in the Conahasset marshes. In 1645 he was one of the seven men "chosen out of the body of the town, as well non-freeman as freeman," to order the prudential affairs of the town. "Farmer;" or, as he is called in conveyances "planter." Fence-viewer 1669, etc."
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| Sources |
- [S24] "History of the Town of Hingham, Mass" George Lincoln 1982.
- [S597] Genealogies of the families of Braintree, Mass., 1640-1850 : including the modern towns of Randolph & Holbrook and the city of Quincy, after the separation from Braintree in 1792-3.
- [S181] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, Walter Goodwin Davis, 1916-1963, v3 p480.
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