"… Joan Stowe, daughter of John and Joan (Baker) Stowe, of Biddenden, co. Kent. She was baptized at Biddenden 7 August 1575, and died at Halifax, where she was buried 9 July 1630. She was a sister of John Stowe of Biddenden, who settled at Roxbury, Mass., and she was connected by marriage with Hopestill Foster, Dr. Comfort and Dr. Thomas Starr, Thomas Betts, and other New England settlers who came from Kent. … Her will, dated 21 June 1630, and proved at York 28 April 1631, is given in full in L. E. Prudden, Peter Prudden. pp. 111-3."
