Thomas Fowler

Bef 1636 - 1727  (> 91 years)

• Name	Thomas Fowler  [1]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1636	Marlborough, Wiltshire, England   [2, 3]
  Birth	Bef 9 Aug 1636  [4, 5]
  Baptism	9 Aug 1636	St. Mary the Virgin, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England   [4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Oct 1727	Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [6, 7, 8, 9]
  Person ID	I6064	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	William Fowler,   b. Bef 29 May 1605   d. Aft 16 Dec 1668, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England (Age > 63 years)
  Mother	Jane Wilshire   d. Bef 27 Sep 1643
  Marriage	20 Apr 1625	St. Mary the Virgin, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England   [4]
  Family ID	F3475	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Jordan,   b. 14 Mar 1638, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts d. 15 Jun 1716, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	23 Apr 1660	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 8, 10]
  Children	+ 1. Hannah Fowler,   b. 7 Jan 1661, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts d. Between 24 Feb 1736 and 26 Dec 1743 (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F3463	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Dec 2016

  
  

• Notes

  As Laura K. Pettingell documented in 1967 (citation details below), Thomas Fowler was not a son of emigrant Philip Fowler as shown in many sources, but rather his nephew. On 30 Sep 1656, John Coggswell Sr. and Phillip Fowler consented to an assignment by John of servant Thomas Fowler, "to his uncle Phillip Fowler." Depositions show that in his boyhood he lived in Marlborough, Wiltshire. In 1662 he testified that he was then about 26, and in 1676 he was described as "aged abourt forty years." Additionally, on 16 Apr 1659, Ann Sawars testified that this Thomas Fowler was countryman to Anthony Morse (1607-1686, also an ancestor of TNH), who married Ann Cox at St. Mary the Virgin in Marlborough, Wiltshire on 2 May 1629 and who arrived in New England in 1635 on the James, settling at Newbury. All of these combine to make it very probable that he was the Thomas Fowler baptized in Marlborough on 9 Aug 1636.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S617] Laura K. Pettingell, "Notes and Corrections: Thomas Fowler of Amesbury." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 121:312, October 1967. [S630] Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury by Mary Lovering Holman. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1938., date only. [S7868] England, Wiltshire, Church Records, 1518-1990, on familysearch.org. [S4678] Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812, on ancestry.com. [S617] Laura K. Pettingell, "Notes and Corrections: Thomas Fowler of Amesbury." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 121:312, October 1967., place only. [S526] The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, With Some Related Families of Adjoining Towns and of York County, Maine, by David W. Hoyt. Providence, Rhode Island, 1897-1916., date only. [S1413] The Fowler Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Philip and Mary Fowler, of Ipswich, Mass. by Matthew A. Stickney. Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Press, 1883. [S630] Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury by Mary Lovering Holman. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1938. [S526] The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, With Some Related Families of Adjoining Towns and of York County, Maine, by David W. Hoyt. Providence, Rhode Island, 1897-1916.