|
|
Facts and Events
| Name |
John Stowe |
| Alt Name[1] |
John Stow |
| Gender |
Male |
| Christening[1] |
14 Jan 1581/82 |
Biddenden, Kent, England |
| Marriage |
13 Sep 1608 |
Biddenden, Kent, Englandto Elizabeth Bigge |
| Emigration[1] |
1634 |
|
| Residence[1] |
1634 |
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Other[1] |
3 Sep 1634 |
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay. |
| Alt Death[3][5] |
26 Oct 1643 |
|
| Residence[1] |
Bef 1648 |
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesCiting SLR 1:199. |
| Death[1] |
Aft 6 May 1652 |
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (probably) |
John emigrated in 1634 with his wife, and six children.[6] The Roxbury Church records contain the notation, "“John Stow he arrived at New England the 17th of the 3rd month [May] anno 1634. He brought his wife & 6 children: Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Nathaniel, Samuel, Thankfull."
They settled in Boston for a time and in 1638 he became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He was twice elected to the General Assembly from Roxbury and his name appears frequently in other records. His homestead was near the “present” (1933) corner of Cedar and Highland Streets, between Roxbury Crossing and Eliot Square. In a list from the 1630s, he’s listed with 253 acres, the 8th largest landowner.
In 1642, his brother-in-law John’s will was proven, naming his 4 sons, and dividing his land between John’s 6 children and Hopestill Foster. The cousins were later in court over the matter, signing an agreement in 1653 to settle.
After selling his property in 1648 and moved to Concord. He sold property there in 1652 and is likely buried on his son Thomas’s property in Concord.[3]
Ancestor of Winston Churchill through his mother.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 John Stow, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
6:559-65.
"ORIGIN: Biddenden, Kent.
MIGRATION: 1634 (based on admission to Roxbury church in 1634 [RChR 80])."
"CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: 'John Stow' and 'Elizabeth Stow the wife of John Stow' were admitted to Roxbury church in 1634 as members #103 and #104 ('John Stow he arrived at New England the 17th of the 3rd month [May] anno 1634. He brought his wife & 6 children: Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Nathaniel, Samuel, Thankfull. Elizabeth Stow the wife of John Stow, she was a very godly matron, a blessing not only to her family but to all the church & when she had led a Christian conversation a few years among us, she died & left a good savor behind her' [RChR 80]).
FREEMAN: 3 September 1634 (fourth in a sequence of seven Roxbury men) [MBCR 1:369]."
"BIRTH: Baptized Biddenden, Kent, 14 January 1581/2, son of John Stow [NEHGR 70:347].
DEATH: After 6 May 1652 (deed acknowledgement [SPR 1:199])."
- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
4:216-217.
"John (Stow), Roxbury, came 1634, arr. says the ch. rec. 17 May, in one of those six sh. that came in, as Winthrop tells, in the wk. of the Gen. Ct.'s meeting, brot. w. Eliz. and six ch. Thomas, Eliz., John, Nathaniel, Samuel, H. C. 1645, and Thankful; was freem. 3 Sept. foll. and his w. d. or was bur. 21 Aug. 1638; was rep. at two Courts in 1639, and d. 26 Oct. 1643, by Eliot's rec. descr. as 'an old Kentish man.' His d. Eliz. m. 4 Dec. 1639, Henry Archer; on the same day her br. Thomas m. and Thankful m. John Pierpont. I suppose, aft. the d. of f. the residue of the fam. rem. to sev. towns, but princip. to Concord and Middletown."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cooke, Raeola Ford. John Stow/Stowe of Massachusetts and his Descendants of Middletown, Conn. (Twin Falls, Idaho: R.F. Cooke, 1986).
- Wiester, Aber Stowe. Genealogy of the Stow (Stowe) family in America. (Baltimore, Maryland: Mrs. A.S. Wiester, 1933).
- ↑ Great Migration, supra. "Savage stated that this immigrant “died 26 October 1643, by Eliot’s record described as ‘an old Kentish man’ ” [Savage 4:217]. The full entry from Eliot, dated 26 October 1643 is “Goodman Stone, an old Kentish man died, he was not of the Church, yet on his sick bed some had some hopes of him” [RChR 171]. Savage (or one of his correspondents) read “Stowe” for “Stone.” That this record was not intended for John Stow is made certain by the statement that the decedent was not a member of Roxbury church, which John Stow certainly was [RChR 80]."
- ↑ At least one source that has been often repeated states that John and his family embarked on the Elizabeth on April 9, 1634 with his mother-in-law Rachel Bigge, her daughter Patience Foster, and Patience’s daugther Hopestill. However, Rachel, Patience, and Hopestill sailed on the Elizabeth in 1635. See, e.g. [1]. There was a John "Stone" on that ship who could have been "Stowe." But there were no other Stone/Stowes, and the Roxbury Church records specify that John and his wife joined the church in 1634.
|
|
