Person:Samuel Fowler (6)

Samuel Fowler Not a Son of Philip Fowler of Ipswich

"Many secondary [sources give] this immigrant (Philip Fowler) a son Samuel. No record of Samuel Fowler is found prior to 9 April 1667, when he and Sgt. John Hoyt "were freed from all trainings, allowing ten groats per annum to the military company of Salisbury" [EQC 3:407). All records for this Samuel place him in Salisbury, and none connect him with the family of Philip Fowler. In his will of 17 August 1665, "Samuell Winsley" of Salisbury included bequests to "my cousin Sam[uel) Fowler's son Samuell" and "unto his daughters Mary & Sary Fowler" (EPR 2:82-83]. Of these children, Mary married in 1677 and Samuel married in 1684, suggesting that the children of Samuel Fowler were born in the late 1650s, and further suggesting that Samuel was born about 1630. This Winsley connection has been interpreted to mean that Philip Fowler's first wife was sister of Samuel Winsley, but this has no foundation, and in fact there is no reason to connect Samuel Fowler with Philip in any way."^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. (Providence, RI, 1897-1919)
   1:162.

   Samuel Fowler (Philip¹), of Portsmouth and Salisbury, "shipwright," b. ab. 1618; m. 1st, -----; 2d, after 1673, Wid. Margaret (Norman) Morgan, He was called "cosen " by Samuel² Winsley (Sam. ¹), and the … children, except Wm., are named in the will of Sam.² in 1665. He was of S. in 1668 and 1680; bought Lewis Hulett's common right in S. 1668-9. He was brought before the court in April, 1675, for "breach of the Sabbath in traveling;" may have been a Friend. He d. Jan., 1710-1 [S].

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Philip Fowler, 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)
   2:564.