"On June 4, 1655, Henry Fowler was 'warned of court to answer for his marriage without due publishment.' His explanation of his inability to obtain a license on account of 'ye division of ye towne' in regard to some of the town business, won for him a remission of the fine, but for both him and the townsmen a rebuke from Roger Williams; the one for marrying without a license and the other for having so violent a quarrel over town affairs. He married Rebecca, daughter of Abraham Newell of Roxbury, Mass., who probably accompanied the Foote family to Providence, as she was married in the Foote home. The Roxbury land records show that the Newell family owned land next to that of the Footes at Roxbury. It may be, and could be, that Rebecca Newell went to live for a time with the Foote family at Providence, and that she was married from the Foote home, and not her own, for that reason."
