Person:Nicholas Stowers (1)

Living in Charlestown in 1629 and was made freeman in 1631, having been one of the earliest settlers on the peninsula there. He sailed in the fleet with Francis Higginson, in the Talbot, as did George Farr. source: "Nicholas Hutchins of Lynn and Groton" by Marvin Clayton Hutchins.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Stowers, Nicholas, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   3:1779-82.

   ORIGIN: Unknown.
   MIGRATION: 1629.
   CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Boston church as member #70, which would be 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].
   DEATH: Charlestown 17 May 1646 [Wyman 911, citing an 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.)

2. ↑ Nicholas Stowers, in 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)
   4:219-220.

   Nicholas Stowers, Charlestown 1629, one of the eleven earliest sett. in that penins. came prob. in the fleet with Higginson to Salem, and went with the Spragues, as the compilat. of the rec. of C. made in 1664 calls the date 1628, but clearly meaning 1629; in 1630 he was on the inq. 28 Sept. on the body of Austen Bratcher, that charg. Walter Palmer with the manslaught. of wh. he was acquit. by the jury; freem. 18 May next, stands No. 70 on the list of Boston ch. and with w. was among found. of that in C. 35 in all, 2 Nov. 1632, and had, by w. Amy, Joseph, b. 21, bapt. 23 Feb. 1633; Abigail, 27, bapt. 28 June 1636; and John, wh. d. 15 Aug. 1638, perhaps few hours old. But he had other ch. Richard, Jane, and a d. m. Starr, as Frothingham reads the will, but Farr, acc. Geneal. Reg. III. 180, perhaps all three, certain. the first and last b. in Eng. Unless the orig. will can be seen, that is not likely, we must decide by our contemp. rec. in wh. Farr is plain; but I have gr. delight in find. that George F. of Lynn was a passeng. from Eng. at the same time with S. and it is quite prob. they were in the same ship, and their ch wd. thus bec. acquaint. besides that the fathers, six yrs. aft. arr. were made freem. on the same day; was appoint. constable 1639, and d. 17 May 1646. His will was made the day bef. His wid. d. soon, at least her inv. was of 1 July aft. Yet in the list of inhabs. wh. drew sh. in wood and commons on Mystick side, 1658, her name is ent. but prob. this was only as the mo. of heirs entitled.

3. ↑ Great Migration Begins cites Suffolk County Massachusetts Probate Records, 1:40-41.
4. ↑ Great Migration Begins cites Suffolk County Massachusetts Probate Records, Case #42.
5. ↑ Inventory totaled £165 14s. 6d., including "four acres of upland on the hill £16;" "fifteen acres of upland on Mistick Side £20" citing Suffolk County Massachusetts Probate Records, Case #42.