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The Descendants of Nathaniel Mowry
of Rhode Island

By WILLIAM A. MOWRY

Boston

THE EVERETT PRESS

1900

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INTRODUCTION.

It is now twenty years since the genealogy of the de-
scendants of Nathaniel Mowry was published. A few
errors in the book have been found, and many additional
facts have transpired which ought to be added to it. Many
items of information, heretofore unknown to the writer,
have been found, and some deaths have occurred which
should be inserted. Since the book was published, that inde-
fatigable genealogist, Mr. John O. Austin, of Providence,
R. I., has discovered clear evidence that Nathaniel and
John Mowry were sons of Roger Mowry, who came
to this country in 1631. The evidence of this connec-
tion is given on page nine of the little pamphlet
entitled " The Mowry Family Monument," which is pre-
sented in connection with this supplement. The family
record, as it now appears, is as follows : —

ROGER MOWRY, born doubtless in England, married
Mary, the eldest daughter of John Johnson, of Roxbury.
Some have thought that she was his second wife, and that
his first wife's name was Bethiah. It is very clear, how-
ever, that this is not true. The statement seems to have
no foundation whatever.

His eighth child, Mehitable, married Eldad Kingsley,
and the account which the Kingsleys give of their ancestry

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says that Eldad Kingsley, of Rehoboth, Mass., married, May
9, 1662, " Mehitable, daughter of Roger and Bethiah
Mowry." This statement is from Mr. H. S. Ruggles, of
Wakefield, Mass., a lineal descendant of the eighth gen-
eration from Mehitable and Eldad Kingsley. This record
is clearly an error. The probability is that whoever had
the record made trusted to memory and gave the name
Bethiah as the mother of Mehitable instead of her sister.
That Mary was the only wife of Roger is made clear from
the records of the First Church in Salem. These records
show that in 1636, second day of the second month, was
baptized " Jonathan, son of Roger and Mary Mowry."

Roger Mowry died in Providence, R. I., Jan. 5, 1666.
His widow, Mary, afterward married John Kingsley, of
Rehoboth, Mass. She died in January, 1679, and was
buried at Rehoboth, Jan. 29, 1679.

It is known that Roger Mowry was in Boston in May,.
1631 ; that he and Roger Williams applied together to be
admitted freemen ; that neither of them remained in Boston
to accept freemanship ; that subsequently they were both
residents of Plymouth, after that at Salem, and then at
Providence, where they both died. It is not known at
what date Roger Mowry left Plymouth for Salem, or when
he removed from Salem to Providence. Nathaniel Felton,
of Salem, made a deposition Sept. 18, 1700, in which
he declared that Roger Mowry had sold his land in the
woods [that is, his farm in Danvers] to Emanuel Down-
ing, and that he had removed from Salem "before the
year 1644." This may be a mistake, because the Essex
County Court papers. Vol. I, page 67, show that a

BOGER MOWRY. 5

warrant was issued to the constables to summon " Roger
Mowiy " and John Elderkin as witnesses in a case before
the court the twenty-ninth day of the tenth month, 1644.
It would seem a proper inference to draw from this sum-
mons that at that time Roger Mowry was a resident of Sa-
lem. A singular difficulty appears in connection with the
baptism of Roger's son Benjamin. The records of the First
Church at Salem show that Roger's son Jonathan was
baptized April 2, 1637 ; his daughter Bethia (recorded
as Appia), June 17, 1638 ; his daughter Mary, Jan. 16,
1640 ; his daughter Elizabeth, Jan. 20, 1643 ; and his son
Benjamin, May 20, 1649. These are all given as the
children of Roger and Mary.

On the other hand, a record in Providence states that,
Aug. 6, 1658, Roger Mowry testified that his son Ben-
jamin was born in Providence May 8, 1649 ; his son
Thomas, July 19, 1652 ; and his daughter Hannah, Sept.
28, 1656. The question arises how it could be that
Benjamin, born in Providence the eighth of May, could
be baptized in Salem twelve days later. At that time the
journey from Providence to Salem would have been too
dilhcult for the mother to take her son twelve days of age
from Providence to Salem to be baptized. Two explana-
tions of this may be given.

1. It might be that Roger did not intend to say that
the child was born in Providence., but only that he was
born at that date. The town clerk in taking it down may
have inadvertently added that he was born in Providence,
especially as the others were.

2. It might be that at tliis time (1649), when many

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members of the Salem church had migrated to Provi-
dence, the minister made a journey to that town, looking
up the absent members of his flock, and finding the child
Benjamin, baptized him and entered it upon the records
upon his return to Salem.

Until July, 1900, the oldest house in the city of Provi-
dence was the one built by Roger Mowry in 1653, or possi-
bly a little earlier. The original house had been remodelled
and enlarged, and was for a long time known as the
Olney House. It was located in the northern part of the
city, on Abbott Street, not far from North Main Street,
and near the North Burial-ground. Professor Isham, of
Brown University, has lately published a volume on the
architecture of the earlier houses of Providence and New-
port. In this book he clearly proves that the house in
question was built by Roger Mowry at or near the date
above mentioned.

The main room, which was supposed to have constituted
the original house, was about fifteen feet square and but
little more than six feet from floor to ceiling. The sum-
mer beam across the middle of the room, after the ancient
fashion, was of white oak, beautifully hewed, the corners
chamfered, and not a score of the axe visible in the sur-
face. The old chimney, originally outside of the house,
was built of stone, and its fireplace was just ten feet wide.
This stone chimney was a fine piece of masonwork. The
mortar was made of shell lime, closely resembling that
used in the old stone mill at Newport. This house was
the home of Roger Mowry until his death. On Sept.
5, 1671, his widow, Mary, "sold to Stephen Paine, of

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Rehoboth, the dwelling, outhousing, three house lots,
and comraoning." In this house town meetings were
sometimes held, and there is .a tradition that Roger
Williams, on occasion, held prayer meetings in it.
It was the only house lately standing in the city of Provi-
dence which dated back to the days of Roger Williams.
On May 25, 1655, Roger Mowry and Richard Pray
were appointed by the Commissioners (or General Assem-
bly, as afterward called), to keep "houses of entertain-
ment" in Providence. This "house of entertainment"
kept by Mowry was the veritable house recently standing
on Abbott Street. Henry C. Dorr has said that at that early
period the number of inhabitants at the " North End," so-
called, was greater than the number living further south-
ward and nearer what is now the centre of the city. In
the Providence Records, under the date of Jan. 27, 1657,
it is stated that " Roger Mowry was allowed Is. 6d. for this
dales fireing and house roome." This was probably for a
town meeting. In 1658 Roger Mowry was a " Commis-
sioner," or member of the General Court. His name
appears as such in the records of a meeting of said court
held at Warwick Nov. 2, 1658. (See " R. I. Colonial Rec-
ords," Vol. I., p. 394.) The following account of this old
house was published in the Providence Journal July 15,
1900. A few days later the house was demolished.

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Must It Go?

Oldest House in the State — About Two Hundred and
Fifty Years Old — About To Be Torn Down. Roger
MowRY Kept Tavern, Town Council Met, and Roger
Williams Held Prayer Meetings in It. It Is Located
on Abbott Street, near North Burial-ground.

The disturbing news reached the Historical Society a
few days ago that the very oldest house in Rhode Island
was about to be demolished. The house in question
stands on Abbott Street, near the North Burial-ground,
and is known popularly as the Abbott or Whipple House.
Its present owner, who has lived in the building till re-
cently, announces his intention to construct a modern
dwelling on the site of the historic house, although he
informed the society's representative last week that he
would be willing to sell the estate and build elsewhere.
When the representative of the Historical Society called
he found many of the blinds and doors already taken down
preparatory to the general demolition, but he prevailed
upon the proprietor to stay operations until the public
could be informed of the facts. Some one interested in
the preservation of early landmarks, it was thought, might
come forward even at this late day, and rescue the most
ancient residence in the State.

Good authorities assert that the Abbott Street frame
building is the only surviving house in these plantations
belonging to the earliest period of Rhode Island history.
Only about fifteen years ago it had a senior in the Arthur
Fenner House, the date of the original construction of
which was undoubtedly a few years earlier. These two
venerable structures alone remained at that time of the
many that were first built soon after the advent of Roger
Williams. Now the place on Abbott Street is the only
local representative of the style of architecture in vogue

ROGER MOWRY. 9

when the founder of the plantations was alive, and the
antiquarians interested feel tliat it should be preserved.

They cite the case of the famous Hancock House in
Boston, which, despite its early associations and pro-
nounced historic value, was torn down. When Boston
awoke to a realizing sense of what had occurred there
was a feeling of genuine sorrow, and it is safe to say that
many thousands of dollars could have been secured to
purchase the old property if the right soi-t of attempt
had been made early enough.

Providence is not as deeply concerned in matters of
historic interest as Boston, and if the latter city permitted
a cherished landmark to go by the board for want of a few
thousand dollars it is not considered very probable that
the local house can be saved. However, the officers of
the Historical Society hope that something may be done,
now that the matter has been brought to public attention.

In their " Early Rhode Island Houses," Messrs. Ishara
and Brown refer to the dwelling as the " Roger Mo wry
House," and the reason given for this designation lies in
the fact that it once belonged to Roger Mo wry — the
Roger Mowry whose tavern played an important part in
the affairs of the early colony.

The exact date of its building is, of course, unknown ;
but tradition, available documents, and the testimony of
the house itself, the latter proof being obtained by an
architectural analj^sis, seem to indicate that it was erected
as early as 1653.

Since that date it has been altered, enlarged, and im-
proved, like all old homesteads of its class, and its present
appearance no doubt resembles the original house but
slightly. The passer-by would receive no impression as
to its age. The original building is believed to have con-
tained on the first floor — the house was a stor}^ and a half

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in height — a single large " fire room," and in this section
of the present structure the framing is almost all intact.
Here there was a huge fireplace. To quote from the work
above mentioned : —

" The present arrangements of the room would not lead
the visitor to suspect the size or even the existence of the
old stone fireplace. There is a fireboard behind the stove,
and on each side of the fireboard a closet. Opening one
of the closet doors, however, will reveal the stone cavern
wherein, when the Town Council met, Roger Mowry
burnt the logs of ' this dales fireing,' for which and for the
' house roome,' we read, the Town Treasurer was ordered,
on Jan. 27, 165T, to pay him one shilling and sixpence."

The structure as it stands to-day is considerably larger
and in various respects more pretentious than the house of
Roger Mowry's days ; still the original house is practi-
cally intact, and to the antiquarian it ma'tters little if
additions have been added thereto. It now remains to be
seen if there is sufficient interest in the community to
keep from destruction the last remaining bit of earliest
Rhode Island architecture.

The following article appeared in the Salem Register a
few years ago. It purports to be a colloquy between two
Salem men in the year 1700. It is evidently written with
the intention of bringing to light some facts and historical
records concerning Roger Mowry which could best be set
.forth under this guise of a long-ago colloquy.

roger mowry. 11

Roger Mo wry of Salem, 1636.

A Colloquy Between Yeoman John Woodbury and Good-
man Nathaniel Felton, in Salem, Mass., a.d. 1700, loi'H
Month, 29th Day.

In the Real Estate Records, in Salem, Book 15, pages 5 and
6, is the following entry : "The Deposition of Nathaniel Fel-
ton, aged 85 years, who testifieth and saith that soon after
Roger Morrey removed from Salem, which was before the year
1644, I, this deponent, then heard yt the said Morrey had sold
his land in ye woods unto Mr. Emanuel Downing, and I do
further testify yt a parcel of upland and swamp and meadow
land being a part of and belonging to the said Morrey 's land
lyeth at ye westerly end of Mr. Downing 's farm, lying in ye
township of Salem, about 3 miles westerly from ye town,"
etc., etc., 1700, Jan. 28.

" Good morrow, Goodman Felton. So ye was up afore
the court yesterday."

" Yes, I made an affidavy about the woodland of my
former neighbor, Roger Mawrey. You don't remember
him. He left Salem before you were born. Your father
would remember him, though."

" I have heard tell of him — a friend of Williams, the
here tick, I believe."

" Yes, he was a friend of Roger Williams, and I have
heard it said a relative also."

" Well, Neighbor Felton, what do you remember about
yeoman Mawrey ? Did you know him well ? "

"I remember seeing him now and then. He was an
earnest man, religious in his way, a stickler for churchly
rites. His wife. Mistress Mary, he married from the Bay
Colony. She was a daughter of one Mr. John Johnson,
of Roxbury. She was a woman of strong character, and
much beloved by her neighbors."

" You testified yesterday that Roger Mawrey removed

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from Salem before 1644. Are you positive about that ?
Where did he remove to ? "

" Yes, I well remember that he left here about 1643,
but where he went to I cannot now rightly say. He had
relatives in Roxbury. Rev. Mr. Heath, the minister there,
was a kinsman of Mary, the wife of Roger. Sometime
later he lived in Providence, joined again to his kinsman
Roger Williams, who was banished from Salem. Whether
he went directly there from Salem, I am not certified.
He may have sojourned a few years with his kinsfolk in
Roxbury. I have heard it said that neighbor Mawrey was
a leading man in the Providence Plantations, and that he
kept a public house for many years.

" A good story is told of a constable who was sent by
the Bay Colony to arrest a man at Pawtuxet. He found
his man, placed him under arrest, and carried him to
Providence. There he stopped for the night at Pray's
tavern, intending to continue his way the next morning
to Boston.

" In the evening, however, the liberty -loving citizens
of Providence had congregated at Mawrey's tavern and
were discussing the right of a Massachusetts officer to
arrest a man in the Plantations and carry him away to the
Bay Colony. These men sent a committee over to Pray's
to demand of the constable his authority. He refused to
hold any parley with them. Not to be thwarted, they
called together the town council and this body sent to the
constable demanding to know by what right he held a
Rhode Island man prisoner. He replied, by the authority
of the general court of the Bay Colony. They peremp-
torily told him they did not recognize that authority
within the limits of the Plantations. The result was, the
man was set at liberty, and the officer returned to the Bay
empty-handed."

ROGER MO WRY. 18

" What do you know about Mawrey as a citizen in Sa-
lem and a church-member ? "

" Well, neighbor, I remember he and liis wife were
members of the First Church, and tlieir children were
baptized by the minister. I cannot tell the dates and
names, but the church clerk will give them to you."

[Note by the Editor. — This record is as follows : —

(1) 1636. 2. 2. Baptized — Jonathan, son of Roger and
Mary Mawrey.

(2) 1638. 17. 4. Appia, daughter of same.

(3) 1639. 16. 11. Mary, daughter of same.

(4) 1642. 27. 1. Eliza (or Elizabeth), daughter of same.

(5) 1649. 20. 3. Benjamin, son of same.]

" The Salem people were sorry to have Mawrey leave
their town, but he had from the first sympathized with
Williams, and he could not rest satisfied till he had joined
him in his new Plantations. He had lived with Williams
in Boston, in Plymouth, and in Salem. He then went to
Providence, and they both died there."

[Note by the Editor. — A singular puzzle is found in re-
gard to the baptism of Benjamin. Roger Mowry, in town
meeting, in Providence, Aug. 6, 1657, " testify eth " and put
upon the record the birth of three of his children, as follows :

"Born in Providence — born May 8, 1649, Benjamin
Moorie ; born July 19, 1652, Thomas ; born Sept. 28, 1656,
Hannah."

Now, if Benjamin was born in Providence May 8, 1649,
how could he be baptized in Salem on the twentieth of the
same month and year ?

It may perhaps be supposed that the pastor of the First
Church in Salem at that time. Rev. Edward Norris, having a
number of the members of his church living in Providence,
made a visit to that town, and while there baptized the "little
Benjamin," recording the same upon the church book after
his return.

The Editor further would add that Mr. William A. Mowry,

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Superiotendent of Schools in this city, his children and grand-
child, are of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh generations, de-
scendants of this Roger Mowry and his wife, Mary.]

" Well, Neighbor Felton, I am raucli obleeged to ye for
the information ye have given me. I have heard much of
this Roger and of the other Roger, and when I found ye
were at the court yester-morn giving your affidavy, I
thought to get the story from your own lips. I bid ye
good day, Neighbor Felton."

" Good day to ye, Goodman Woodbury."

When Roger Mowry arrived in this country, early in
the year 1631, he was evidently a young man, then un-
married. He died in 1666 ; and although we do not know
bis age, it is quite clear that he was not more than about
60 years old.

It may be interesting to note the age attained by some
of his descendants. Taking, then, a single line, father
and son, from Roger downward to the writer, we have
ages given as follows : —

Roger Mowry lived to be about the age of 60 years.

His son, Nathaniel, lived to the age of 73 years.

His son, Joseph, lived to about the age of 73 years.

His son, Daniel, lived to about the age of 90 years.

His son, Joseph, lived to the age of 41 years.

His son, Richard, lived to the age of 85 years.

His son, Gideon, lived to the age of 87 1-2 years.

His son, Jonathan, lived to the age of 32 years.

His only son, the present writer, is now past 70. The
average age of these nine men, representing nine genera-
tions, is 68 years.

ROGER MO WRY. 15

Another record in the vifcil statistics of this family
shows the following : —

Roger Mowry had twelve children, and only one died
before maturity.

Nathaniel had eleven children, and all lived to mature
years.

Joseph had five children, and all lived to maturity.

Daniel had six children, and only one died before
maturity.

Joseph had eight children, and all lived to mature years.

Richard had six children, and all lived to be married.

Gideon had nine children, and all lived to mature yeare
and were married.

Jonathan' had three children, and all lived to maturity.

The present writer has three children, and all lived to
maturity. Hence it appears that in nine generations,
covering a period of 270 years, in this direct line, there
were sixty-three children, and all but two lived to ma-
turity. This may be considered a remarkable record,
which illustrates what is clearly apparent, — that this fam-
ily has had wonderful vital energy.

CHILDREN OF ROGER MOWRY.

1. Roger, b. (date not known) ; died young.

2. Jonathan, b. 1637; married (1), July 8, 1659,
Mary Foster, widow of Richard, and daughter of Robert
and Mary (Warren) Bartlett ; married (2) Hannah .

3. Bethia, b. 1638 ; married, Sept. 30, 1662, George
Palmer.

4. Mary, b. 1640.

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5. Elizabeth, b. 1643.

6. Nathaniel, b. 1644; married, in 1666, Joanna
Inman, daughter of Edward Inman. He died March 24,

1718. She died in the same year.

7. John, b. 1645 (?) ; married Mary . He

died July 7, 1690. She died 1690 (?).

8. Mehitable, b. probably 1646 ; married (1), 1662,
Eldad Kingsley, of Rehoboth, Mass., son of John
Kingsley. He was born in 1638, and died Aug. 28, 1679.
She married (2) Timothy Brooks.

9. Joseph, b. 1647 ; married Mary Wilbur. He died
May 27, 1716. She died April 17, 1720.

10. Benjamin, b. May 8, 1649; married Martha
Potter, widow of Ichabod, and daughter of Thomas and
Martha Hazard.

11. Thomas, b. July 19, 1652 ; married, Sept. 6, 1673,
Susanna Newell, daughter of Abraham and Susanna

(Rand) Newell. She was born March 30, 1656. He
died Dec. 25, 1717.

12. Hannah, b. Sept. 28, 1656 ; married, Dec. 3,
1674, Benjamin Sherman, son of Philip and Sarah (Od-
ding) Sherman. He was born in 1650, and died Sept. 24,

1719. She died 1718.

THIRD GENERATION.

GEANDCHILDEEN OF ROGER MOWRY.

Children of Jonathan, who was the son of Roger : —
1. JONATHAN, son of Jonathan, married Hannah
Bourne. He died in Plymouth in 1733. His will was

NATHANIEL MOWRY. 17

proved April 26, 1733. The inventory of the estate
amounted to .£354, lOs.; viz., cattle and swine, £21, lOs.;
furniture, X30, Is., 6d.; real estate, X278.

CHILDREN.

Benjamin, b. 1690.
Maria, b. 1692.
Mary, b. 1694.
Thankful, b. 1696.
Jonathan, b. 1699.
Reliance, b. 1702.
Cornelius, b. 1706.
Silas.
Joseph.

2. JOHN, son of Jonathan, date of birth and death
unknown.

3. HANNAH, daughter of Jonathan, married

Bumpas.

Nathaniel Mowry.

Next in order would be the children of Nathaniel and
Joanna. These are all given in the Nathaniel book.
Some additional items may be here inserted.

Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel (see p. 53, Nathaniel
book), married Richard Phillips, son of Michael and Bar-
bara Phillips. He was born in 1667, and died Dec. 13,

1747.

children.
John, Richard,

William, Mercy,

Ruth.

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THE MOWBY FAMILY.

Joanna, daughter of Nathaniel (see p. 53), married,
Aug. 4, 1709, Walter Phetteplace, son of Philip. She
died in 1750. He died Dec. 29, 1753.

CHLLDBEN.

Jonathan, Benjamin,

Job, Sarah,

Philip, Mercy.

Patience, daughter of Nathaniel (see p. 53), married
Joseph Smith, son of Edward and Anphillis (Angell)
Smith. She died 1734. He was born Oct. 12, 1680, and
died Feb. 17, 1734.

CHILDREN.

Jacob, b. May 3, 1706, Jethro,

Susanna, b. May 26, 1708, Rebecca,

Joseph, b. Feb. 4, 1710, Bathsheba,

Abigail, b. March, 1712, Dinah,

Samuel, b. Dec, 1713, Elnathan.

Mercy, daughter of Nathaniel (see p. 54), married (1)
Edward Smith, brother of Joseph above. He died Nov.
9, 1726. Married (2), Nov. 26, 1741, William Hall.

CHILDREN.

Edward,

Rachel,

Alice,

Amey,

Martha,

Mary,

Mercy,

Freelove,

Sarah,

Abraham.

Anne,

Experience, daughter of Nathaniel (see p. 54), married
John Malavery, son of John and Elizabeth Malavery.
She died in 1718. He died Sept. 18, 1718.

JOSEPH MOWRY. 19

CHILDREN.

John, Nathaniel.

Martha, daughter of Nathaniel, raamed. May 8, 1718,
John Smith, son of Benjamin and Mercy (Angell) Smith.
She died in 1775. He was born Dec. 8, 1694, and died
March 28, 1778.

CHILDREN.

John,

Esther,

Rufus,

Anna,

Martha.

MARY, daughter of Joseph (who was the son of Roger),
born Oct. 17, 1672; married, Aug. 23, 1689, Daniel
Coggeshall, son of Joshua and Joan (West) Coggeshall.
He was born in April, 1665, and died May 17, 1717.

CHILDREN.

Joshua, b. Jan. 3, 1691, Daniel, b. Aug. 20, 1704,

Wait, b. Dec. 14, 1692, Phebe, b. Nov. 11, 1706,

Mary, b. Sept. 6, 1694, Joseph, b. June 3, 1709,

Anna, b. June 14, 1701, Peleg, b. April 20, 1712.

ROGER, son of Benjamin (who was the son of Roger),
died in Kings Town, R. I. Not married.

JOSEPH, son of Benjamin (who was the son of Roger),

married Sarah . He died in 1718. She died the same

year.

CHILDREN.

Mary, b. Oct. 18, 1704, Benjamin, b. May 2, 1710,
Robert, b. Aug. 31, 1706, Roger, b. July 2, 1712,
Joseph, b. Aug. 24, 1708, Martha, b. Dec. 5, 1714,
Sarah, b. Aug. 31, 1717.

20 THE MOWEY FAMILY.

BENJAMIN, son of Benjamin (who was tlie son of
Roger), died in 1719, Kings Town, R. I.

JOHN, son of Benjamin (who was the son of Roger),

married Mary . He died in 1718. She died in 1724,

in Kings Town, R. I.

CHILDREK.

John, Abigail,

Jonathan, and three other daughters.

THOMAS, son of Thomas (who was the son of Roger),
b. May 15, 1678.

ABIGAIL, daughter of Thomas (who was the son of
Roger), b. April 4, 1680. Died in infancy.

ABIGAIL, daughter of Thomas (who was the son of
Roger), b. March 31, 1681 ; married Timothy Harris,
April 2, 1697.

CHILDREN.

Abigail, b. June 1, 1704 ; married, March 3, 1726, Sam-
uel Newell.

Timothy, b. April 28, 1706 ; married (1) Hannah Win-
chester, (2) Elizabeth Stevens.

John, b. March 23, 1709; married (1) Mary Winches-
ter, (2) Esther Metcalf.

Joseph, b. Feb. 15, 1711; married Rebecca Adams.

MARY, daughter of Thomas (who was the son of
Roger), b. Aug. 11, 1683 ; married, Nov. 26, 1711, Charles
Watson.

SUSANNA, daughter of Thomas (who was the son of

JOHN MOWRY. 21

Roger), b. April 27, 1685 ; married, Jan. 16, 1705, Jonah
(or Joshua) Kingsbury.

JOHN, son of Thomas (who was the son of Roger), b.
July 13, 1687.

ELIZABETH, daughter of Thomas (who was the son
of Roger), b. Dec. 14, 1689; married, Dec. 27, 1710,
Israel Leavitt. She died Nov. 23, 1712.

NATHANIEL, son of Thomas (who was the son of
Roger), b. May 28, 1694. He died Jan. 9, 1717 or 1718.

MEHITABLE, daughter of Thomas (who was the son
of Roger), b. July 20, 1698; married, Sept. 13,1718,
Noah Kingsbury.

THOMAS, his family, and his descendants spell their
name MOREY.

Thomas Morey settled and reared his family on the
farm lately owned and occupied by Capt. William Win-
chester. It lies on the upper road leading from Jamaica
Plain to Dedham, and continued in the possession of the
Morey family until nearly the year 1800.

JOHN, his son, who inherited the farm, was a man of
substance and respectability. His name stands third on
the list of the seventeen male members who organized the
Second Church in Roxbury, now West Roxbury. On Nov.
2, 1712, he presented the church with a silver christening
basin, and, on the organization of the Third Religious So-
ciety (at Jamaica Plain), within whose territory limits he
fell, he presented it with a clock, which, inscribed with
the name of the donor, is still used by that society. The

22 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

writer of this has seen that clock, or " dial time-piece,"
which is now in the chapel of the Unitarian Church.

His wife's name was Harriet, and they had five children.

Susanna, b. Oct. 7, 1731 ; married, March 12, 1752,
Robert Pierpont.

Elizabeth, b. Nov. 5, 1733.

John, baptized Jan. 29, 1738 ; married, Sept. 9, 1768,
Mary Cheney.

Mary, baptized Sept. 30, 1739.

Abigail, baptized Aug. 30, 1741 ; died Dec. 24, 1741.

JOHN, son of John and Harriet, married Mary .

They had four children.

John, baptized Aug. 20, 1769.

Hannah, baptized June 30, 1771.

Ebenezer C, baptized March 6, 1774.

Susanna C, baptized Oct. 27, 1776, married Aaron
Davis Weld, and died Oct. 23, 1816. No children.

JOHN, son of John and Mary, sold the farm in West
Roxbury and purchased another in Middleboro, to which
place he moved, and where he died.

A story is told of Samuel Newell, who married Abigail,
the eldest child of Timothy and Abigail (Morey) Harris.
He lived in Dudley, Mass., and they had no children.
Samuel Newell set out on the journey of life with very
small means, but being a man of sagacity and persever-
ance, he became, in process of time, one of the wealthiest
farmers of his day. He had some peculiarities, one of
which was a determination to keep free from all obliga-

JOHN MO WRY. 23

tions to his neighbors. If he was in want of a tool, but
for one occasion even, and knew that his neighbor would
willingly lend it to him, he would not borrow it nor ac-
cept the use of it if offered him ; but would rather go to
them that sell, and buy. He carried his independence so
far that he would not carry his grain to a neighboring
mill for grinding ; but he had a small brook running
through his own farm, and, by raising a dam to collect
water enough, he would grind a half-bushel at a time, and
then wait for the pond to fill and grind another half-
bushel. He had a singular fancy in regard to the buttons
on his garments, for he used silver coins without altera-
tion, except the addition of an eye to allow of their being
sewed to the cloth. Whole dollars were used on his over-
coat, halves on his dress coat, and so diminishing to nine-
pences or fourpence-ha'penny pieces on his waistcoat.

The above account of Thomas Morey and his descend-
ants is compiled from a pamphlet published in Boston in
1861, entitled, " Robert Harris and His Descendants, with
Notices of the Morey and Metcalf Families ; compiled by
Luther M. Harris, M.D.," and Austin's " Genealogical
Dictionary of Rhode Island."

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

Descendants of Nathaniel Mowby.

Page 30.

The Providence Records, p. 444, state that John Mowry,
Jr., married Elizabeth Clark March 29, 1699, and not
March 24, as in the text.

Page 50,
Fourth line from top: The date 1764 should be 1746.

Page 53.
9. Walter Phetteplace, and not Walter R. Phetteplace.

Page 55.
15. URIAH MOWRY married Urania Paine, daugh-
ter of John Paine, of Providence, at one time of Rehoboth.

28. NATHAN MOWRY died Dec. 24, 1749.

Page 57.

19. ELISHA MOWRY died July 28, 1790.

children.

38. Israel, b. Jan. 1, 1744.

39. Waitee (see 58), b. April 13, 1746.

41. Esek, b. March 8, 1748 ; d. Jan. 24, 1750.
45. Esek, b. 1750.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 26

43. Amasa, b. May 9, 1752 ; d. Dec. 17, 1753.

44. Sarah, b. June 4, 1754.
42. Abiel, b. Sept. 8, 1756.
40. Uriah, b. Oct. 8, 1758.

46. Henry.

47. Jeremiah.

48. Patience, b. 1767.

Page 66.
27. CHILDREN OF MARTHA AND PRESERVED HARRIS.

Israel, Jesse,

Rufus, Nathaniel,

Nathan, Lydia.

Preserved Harris died April 27, 1744.

Page 67.

Add to the children of (31) GIDEON MOWRY : —

93. Martha.

32. Wanton Mowry died May 20, 1766. His wife,
Dinah, was administratrix. Dinah was the daughter of
Jonathan Harris, who married Anne Mowry, widow of
Lawyer Joseph and the mother of Richard. Dinah prob-
ably married Newell after the death of Wanton.

Page 77.
110. Should be AZAEL and not Ariel.

Page 78.
CHILDREN OF URIAH MOWRY.

127. Uriah, b. April 30, 1791 ; d. Nov. 25, 1836.

26 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

Page III.

58. JOHN and WAITE MOWRY.

CHILDBElfr.

183. Nathaniel, b. May 27, 1765.
Lucretia, b. June 28, 1767.

185. Joseph, b. Oct. 14, 1770.

186. John, b. May 20, 1773.
Elsey, died young.

190. Amasa, b. April 4, 1778.

187. Jeremiah, b. Dec. 14, 1780.

184. Eliakim, b. May 21, 1783.

188. Israel, b. Oct. 28, 1785.

189. Welcome, b. Nov. 23, 1787.

The above record of the children of John and Waite is
taken from the fly-leaf of an old family Bible which be-
longed to Nathaniel Mowry.

The following account of the descendants of Israel
Mowry, mentioned above, is received from Eliza R. Ballou,
his granddaughter.

188. ISRAEL married (1) Paine.

CHILDREN.

1. Name not known. 2. Israel.

Married (2), in 1806, Rebecca Brown, daughter of
Israel Brown, of Burrillville, R. I. She was born March
23, 1780, and died Nov. 9, 1877, in her ninety-eighth
year. She had a great memory and was a very devout
woman. She was a member of the Society of Friends. At
the age of ninety-three she had four new teeth and could

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 27

read without glasses. A year later, her hair, which for
many years had been gray, turned dark again.

CHILDREN.

3. Daughter, died young.

4. Jesse Taft, b. May, 1814.

5. Waity.

6. Amasa, died young.

7. Elizabeth, b. March 26, 1823.

8. Julia Ann.

9. Laura Ann.

10. Hiram Allen, died young.

4. JESSE TAFT, born May, 1814 ; died, Nov. 22,
1870; married, in 1849, Harriet Collis, whose maiden
name was Hale.

CHILD.

11. Erwin Jesse, b. 1850.

5. WAITY, daughter of Israel, married William
Arnold.

CHILDREN.

12. Mary Elizabeth, 13. Laura,

14. William.

7. ELIZABETH, b. March 26, 1823; married (1),
Nov. 2, 1842, Elijah Smith, of Smithfield, R. I. She died

Sept. 18, 1880.

CHILDREN.

15. Son, died young.

16. Eliza Rebecca, b. June 28, 1845.

17. Mary Mercy, b. Nov. 25, 1848.

28 THE MOWEY FAMILY.

18. Emma Waity, b. Nov. 17, 1850 ; died March

11, 1860.

19. Ephraim, b. Oct. 2, 1852.

20. Jencks Brown, b. Marcb 10, 1856.

Married (2) James Nickson, of Glasgow, Scotland. No
children. Married (3) Lafayette Newton. No children.

8. JULIA ANN married William Goldthwait, son of
Peletiah, of Smithfield, R. I. She died June 15, 1876 —
killed by the cars, at Albion.

CHILDREN.

21. Julia Etta, 25. Maria Jane,

22. Rebecca Brown, 26. Alwilda Ann,

23. William Mo wry, 27. Varina Davis,

24. John, 28. Adelbert -Stanley.

9. LAURA ANN married (1) Mason Lee.

CHILD.

29. Mason Mo wry.
Married (2) Otis Mowry.

CHILDREN.

30. Charles S., b. May 14, 1857 ; not married.

31. Child, died young.

32. Child, died young.

Mason Mowry Lee was adopted by his stepfather, Oti&
Mowry.

GRANDCHILDREN OF ISRAEL MOWRY.

11. IRWIN JESSE, son of Jesse, b. 1850 ; married.
Mary .

ADDITIONS AND CORKECTION8. 29

CHILDREN.

33. Minnie, died young.

34. John J., b. July, 1879.

12. MARY ELIZABETH, daughter of Waity and
William Arnold, married Orin Cook, Cumberland, R. I.

CHILDREN.

35. Daughter, died young.

36. George, b. October, 1864.

13. LAURA, daughter of Waity and William Arnold,
married, in 1867, William Hutchinson.

CHILDREN.

37. Emma, died young.

38. Evie.

16. ELIZA REBECCA, b. June 28, 1845 ; married.
May 12, 1867, Luke Phillips Ballou, son of Dennis, of
Smithfield, R. I.

CHILDREN.

39. George Smith, b. March 3, 1871 ; married

Margaret Allen.

40. Elizabeth Mabel, b. Oct. 16, 1879; married

Lewis Whipple FoUett, son of Whipple M.

17. MARY MERCY, b. Nov. 25, 1848; married,
March 20, 1869, George Currier, son of George, of New
Hampshire. She died May 28, 1871.

CHILD.

41. Son, died young.

30 THE MOWKY FAMILY.

19. EPHRAIM, son of Elizabeth and Elijah, b. Oct.
2, 1852; married, Jan. 10, 187T, Julia Etta Buffum,
daughter of Daniel Buffum, of Cumberland, R. I. No
children.

20. JENCKS BROWN, b. March 10, 1856 ; married,
Sept. 13, 1881, Katharine Wall, daughter of Watson, of
New Jersey.

CHILDREN.

42. Wilson Elijah, b. Jan. 4, 1883.

43. Mary Genevieve, b. Sept. 14, 1887.

44. Lena Frances, b. June 28, 1892.

45. Jencks Brown Vincent, b. July 18, 1894.

46. Katharine Louise, b. Oct. 25, 1897.

From the family Bible of Jesse Jencks the following
record is taken : — ,

Jesse Jencks, b. Sept. 15, 1764 ; died Feb. 17, 1859.
Lucretia Mowry, b. June 28, 1767 ; died April 6, 1846.
They were married May 6, 1788.

CHILDREN.

Mowry, b. Feb. 16, 1789; died June 2, 1878.
Waity, b. April 23, 1791 ; died Jan. 17, 1850.
Haverill, b. March 8, 1793 ; died Sept. 15, 1853.
Welcome, b. Dec. 25, 1795 ; died March 4, 1882.
Cynthia, b. April 20, 1797 ; died Sept. 11, 1879.
Patience, b. June 16, 1799; died January, 1879.
Elisha, b. March 2, 1801 ; died Dec. 29, 1871.
Huldah, b. June 19, 1804 ; died May 30, 1881.
Jesse A., b. Dec. 24, 1807.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 31

Page 113.

68. EARLE MOWRY, son of John, of North Kings-
town, b. April 25, 1762 ; married (1), in September, 1782,
Polly Gorton, daughter of William, Jr., of Warwick.

Page 123.

236. Anne Mowry died March 1, 1884, nearly 95
years old.

237. Nancy died June 16, 1827, aged 31 years, 4
months, 16 days.

238. Sayles Mowry died Nov. 18, 1874, in his 82d
year. Phebe, his wife, died Sept. 5, 1880, in her 83d
year.

239. Charles S. Mowry died July 28, 1821, in the
26th year of his age.

240. Stephen Mowry died Feb. 11, 1867, aged 68
years, 11 months, 27 days.

242. Thomas J. Mowry died Jan. 29, 1888, aged
nearly 84 years.

243. Smith Phillips died Jan. 22, 1884, in the 77th
year of his age. Huldah, his wife, died March 31, 1874,
in the 65th year of her age.

244. Mary Mowry, died June 13, 1885, in the 72d
year of her age.

Page 126.

87. JESSE MOWRY, son of Gideon. Query — Was
it he who married Jane Burlingame, March 7, 1793, of
Gloucester ?

32 THE MOWEY FAMILY.

Page 128.

101. CALEB MOWRY married Nancy Mowry, daugh-
ter of David. She was born Oct. 29, 17 T5, and died Nov.
13, 1860, aged 85 years.

Page 130.

Ephraim Coe died April 8, 1863, in his 76th year.

Page 133.
Among the children of Sarah and Samuel Taft is Susan.
The record of her birth and death is as follows : —
Susan, b. Sept. 12, 1805; died April 13, 1806.

Page 134.

Children of Israel Mowry, Jr. (120). This record
should be added : —

Barbara B. married Samuel Colburn Dec. 3, 1840. She
died June 23, 1843.

Betsey C. married William Brackett May 30, 1841.

Ezra W. married Ann E. Aldrich June, 1846.

Ann A. married Horatio F. Bowen May 28, 1846.

125. CYNTHIA MOWRY married Ephraim Paine.
Her daughter, Waity M., married Anthony Mowry (517).

127. URIAH MOWRY, Jr., son of Uriah, born April
30, 1791, in Burrillville ; married (1) Ruth Bowen,
daughter of Elihu and Martha Bowen. She was born
Dec. 23, 1792, and died Jan. 11, 1821.

CHILDKEN".

324. Alfred Bowen, b. Sept. 29, 1812; died Feb.

1, 1880.
Maria, b. Feb. 2, 1814; died May 26, 1817.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 33

Married (2) Freelove Smith, daughter of Obed and
Lydia Smith, of Gloucester.

CHILDREN.

Elpha, b. Feb. 18, 1823.
Elbridge Smith, b. May 10, 1825.
Lydia, b. May 14, 1827.

Page 137.

142. LIAMI MOWRY probably should be Lavinia.

Page 138.

147. HENRY MOWRY, Jr., died in Mendon, Mass.,
Nov. 20, 1878.

Page 139.

Should read " Welcome A. Comstock, son of Ariock "
(not Isaac).

Same page, add the following : Metcalf Comstock
died Oct. 3, 1899.

Same page. No. 152 : Tyler Mowry married (2) Polly
Chase, widow of George. No children.

Page 140.
153. JOB MOWRY married Hannah Smith Jan. 1,

1772.

Page 148.

160. AUGUSTUS MOWRY. The following record
of Augustus Mowry and his family was given me by Rev.
Mortimer Blake, D.D., of Taunton, Mass., who was the
grandson of Augustus. His mother was Laura.

34 THE MOW It V FAMILY.

REGISTER OF AUGUHTUS MOWRY'S FAMILY.

He was born Aug. 4, 1761, and married, in the year
1780, to Chloe Fiske. She was born Feb. G, 1768, and by
her he had the following children : —

Infant son, b. Oct. 31, 1780; died Nov. 14, 1780.
Nancy, b. Oct. 31, 1781 ; died June 7, 1798.
Feritryna, b. July 12, 1784 ; died Nov. 8, 1787.
Martha, b. June 1, 1786 ; died Aug. 4, 1790.
Whipple, b. July 28, 1788; died Oct. 8, 1788.
Whipple, b. April 6, 1790 ; died May 31, 1804.
Alpha, b. March 10,1792; died April 20, 1868.
Laura, b. May 2, 1794 ; died Oct. 2, 1867.
Rowe Bradley, b. May 14, 1796 ; died Jan. 4, 1862.
Hansi, b. June 14, 1798 ; died April 25,. 1824.
Aldus Augustus, b. May 31, 1801 ; died Jan. 30, 1812.
Orlando, b. May 6, 1803 ; died Sept. 17, 1847.
Mercillo, b. April 21, 1805 ; died May, 1876.

Mr. Augustus Mowry died March 22, 1825, aged 63
years, 7 months.

Mrs. Chloe Mowry died Sept. 3, 1851, aged 88 years, 7
months.

Notes. — ALPHA married a Nickerson in Canada
and had a daughter, Eliza, who married a Scott, and lives
in Smithtown, P. Q., and a son, Jolm, who is now in
Santa Rosa Valley, Cal.

LAURA, as you know, is my mother.

R. BRADLEY'S family I think you have. They are
mostly in Rhode Island; e. //., Angeline married Charles

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 35

Hames, and is now a widow in Central Falls. Laura mar-
ried a Hines, and is a widow in Providence. Irene married
Perry Sweet, and lives at 44 Harvard St., Providence.
Oscarine married George Gooding, who is in the Enamel
Works, Dean St., Providence. Mortimer is at Central
Falls. Josephine married an Edmonds, carriage-maker in
Providence. Augustus died in the army ; was in Rhode
Island Artillery.

HANSI married Duty Cook and left three children.
Alma married a Green, and resides at 244 Charles St.,
Providence. Mowry lives in Holyoke, Mass. Eunice
married Charles Payson, machinist, and lives in same house
with her sister.

ORLANDO went to Canada and died there. Had
several children scattered in that country.

MERCILLO, also of Canada, left four boys : Bradley,
in Lindsay ; Aldus, in Ashburnham ; Richard and John,
in Smithtown, Peterboro, P. Q. A daughter, Eliza, mar-
ried, and lives in Green Bay, Wis.

A family liberally scattered. . (Signed) M. Blake.

It is understood that Augustus and Chloe early went to
Canada, and that he lived and died in Toronto, Ont.

161. DANIEL MOWRY, Jr.

Among his children was (371) Samuel, b. May 16,
1775; died at Charleston, S. C, Oct. 30, 1799.

Page 155.
164. MARY MOWRY married Dr. John Wilkinson,
of Scituate, R. I.

36 THE MOWBY FAMILY.

CHILD.

Amey, b. Dec. 4, 1780 ; married John Harris.

John and Amey had a son, William Harris. William
Harris was the father of Hon. William Torrey Harris,
LL.D., U. S. Commissioner of Education, one of the most
noted thinkers and writers along the lines of philosophy
and education this century has produced. He is, without
doubt, the foremost exponent of Hegel's philosophy in
this country. His fame is world wide.

Page 163.

178. RUTH MOWRY married, Dec. 12, 1810, John
Thayer.

CHILDREN.

Mowry R., b. April 27, 1811 ; married Harriet Morse,
May 1, 1838.

Stephen D., b. Dec. 26, 1813 ; married Lucy E. Nichols.

Aurilla, b. Aug. 9, 1816 , married Mowry Richardson,
Dec. 13, 1834.

Page 164.

424. Morton, b. March 16, 1823 ; died Feb. 13, 1899.
Not married.

Page 166.

183. NATHANIEL MOWRY, son of John, b. May
27, 1765 ; married Huldah Caroline Jencks, sister of Jesse
Jencks. They settled in Adams, Mass.

CHILDBBK.

Daniel, Almira,

Shubael, Diana,

Samuel, Jencks,

Ahab, Nathan.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 37

DANIEL MOWRY, son of Nathaniel, married (1)
about 1834, Ruth Marble, of Adams, Mass.

CHILDREN.

Liscom, b. Oct. 14, 1835, in Adams, Mass.
Mason, b. Nov. 13, 1836.

Ruth died about December, 1837. Daniel married (2)
Mrs. Mary A. Southwick.

CHILDREN.

Huldah Caroline, Jerome B.,

Charles H., b. June 6, 1845.

Daniel died in Stamford, Vt., Dec. 23, 1875, aged 70
years.

Huldah died March 31, 1847.

Jerome died Dec. 13, 1848.

Charles H. is now living in North Adams, Mass.

Mason married and had two children. He died March
3, 1865.

LISCOM MOWRY, son of Daniel, b. Oct. 14, 1835 ;
married, March 4, 1856, Mary Ann Gray, of Adams, Mass.

CHILDREN.

Nellie F., b. in North Adams, Mass.

Frank L., b. in North Adams, Mass., Dec. 20, 1859.

FRANK L. MOWRY, son of Liscom, b. Dec. ^0, 1859 ;
married, June 1, 1893, Marion L. Fisher, of Minneapolis,
Minn.

38 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

CHILDEBN.

Wallace Gray, b. July 8, 1894.

Robert F., b. Aug. 16, 1895; died July 7, 1896.

Howard F., b. June 29, 1897.

SHUBAEL MOWRY lived in Ashtabula, O., and bad
a large family, which are now scattered.

SAMUEL MOWRY lived and died in Saybrook, O.

AHAB MOWRY, b. in Adams, Mass., Nov. 8, 1791 ;
married Phebe Briggs. She was born July 24, 1797.
Ahab died March 27, 1863, aged 72 years. Phebe died
Aug. 23, 1865, aged 68 years.

CHILDREN.

Rhoba, b. April 9,1819.

Harriet, b. Aug. 27, 1821.

Phebe, b. Oct. 18, 1824; died May 3, 1892, in her
68th year.

Albert, b. Oct. 22, 1826 ; died March 20, 1893.

Elijah, b. May 6, 1829 ; died Dec. 29, 1869, in his 40th
year.

Waity, b. April 27, 1831.

Mariah, b. April 16, 1833.

184. ELIAKIM MOWRY, son of John, b. May 21,
1783 ; married (1) Dec. 23, 1802, Lydia Paine, daughter
of Benoni.

CHILDREN.

445. Lavina, b. Feb. 28, 1803.
443. Elisha, b. June 11, 1804 ; died April 2, 1884.
A son, b. Nov. 23, 1805 ; died.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 39

446. Arinda, b. Nov. 14, 1806 ; died.
A son, b. Feb. 15, 1808 ; died.

447. Lucretia, b. July 24, 1810; died June 21,

1893.
A son,b. Sept. 7, 1812 ; died.

He had no daughter Eliza.

Lydia died Sept. 7, 1812.

Eliakim married (2), Nov. 12, 1818, Nancy Mowry,
widow of Caleb. No children. He died in 1845.

Observe that several errors in the body of the book
(page 166) are here corrected.

Page i68.

479. PATIENCE MOWRY, daughter of Amasa, b.
June 23, 1800 ; married Arnold Newell, son of Benjamin
and Leah Newell. He was born Nov. 8, 1792. She died
Dec. 23, 1855. He died Sept. 10, 1854.

CHILDREN.

Lydia (not married), died Sept. 5, 1846, aged about 21
years.

Amasa (not married), died Oct. 12, 1846, aged about
19 years.

Mary (not married), died Oct. 7, 1854, aged about 30
years.

Thomas A., b. March 16, 1832.

Phila, b. Feb. 27, 1842.

Thomas A. married Mary C. Enches. She was born
Feb. 18, 1842. No children. He died April 9, 1900.

Phila married Henry M. Angell, born March 19, 1840.

40 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

CHILD.

Gilbert R., b. Oct. 14, 1 871 ; married Nellie Houston,
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1874.

190. AMASA MOWRY, son of John, married Anna
Hamilton, April 24, 1800, She was the daughter of Fran-
cis Hamilton.

Page 170.

481. Abner Ballon, b. Sept. 22, 1814 ; died May 14,
1832 ; not married.

482. William Bainbridge, b. March 9, 1816; died
March 4, 1851.

483. Content Ballon, b. June 22, 1817 ; died Nov. 30,
1852 ; not married.

484. John Orde, b. Feb. 24, 1820 ; died May 10, 1891.

Page 172.
517. Anthony married Waitee M. Paine, daughter of
Ephraim (125).

CHILDREN.

Hobart Bushnell, b. in Killingly, Conn., Feb. 11, 1836.

Gillespie Birney, b. Oct. 19, 1842 or '43, near Chester
Centre, Mass.

Francis Baxter, b. Jan. 22, 1844 or '45, near Chester
Centre, Mass.

The family moved from Chester, Mass., to West Meri-
den. Conn., in 1850, where Waitee died, and Anthony
married a widow Lester; thence moved to New Haven.
A letter from Hobart Bushnell Mo wry, giving this in-
formation, was received from North Bloomfield, Cal., Aug.
26, 1883.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 41

Page 178.

228. MARY ELIZABETH (MOWRY) MASTERS
died Nov. 11, 1882.

Page 182.

To the children of Sullivan Thayer and his wife, Ruth,
add the following : —

George Flagg, b. March, 1834 ; died Feb. 22, 1855.
Harriet L., b. Aug. 2, 1839.
Mary Jane, b. Aug. 22, 1841.
Herbert M., b. Feb. 6, 1843.

The above is taken from Emerson's " History of Doug-
las " (p. 176).

Page 183.

590. Charles, b. Sept. 9, 1855 ; married, September,
1876, Jessie Mitchell, of Worcester.

Page 186.

264. SMITH RAY MOWRY died in Woonsocket,
Sept. 29, 1884. His widow, Adela, died in Woonsocket,
Dec. 21, 1899.

The two obituary notices below are from the Woon-
socket Reporter.

SMITH RAY MOWRY.

Smith Ray Mowry died of consumption Sept. 29, 1884,
aged 76 years, 6 weeks, and 6 days. He moved into
Woonsocket about twelve years ago from the adjoining
town of North Smithfield, building the residence where he
passed the remainder of his days. North Smithfield peo-
ple, since his removal to Woonsocket, continued to regard
him still as one of their own number, and both towns recog-

42 THE MOWKY FAMILY.

nize in his death the loss of a most intelligent and faithful
citizen. In old Smithfield he held many prominent offices,
and he verified the definition of his Christian name. His
kind, cheerful, social, and hospitable disposition drew all
to him. His lonely widow, just as she felt the need of an
earthly arm to sustain her in her declining years, has the
sympathy of all ; but there is the consolation of the
thought, " Behold, the Lord of the vineyard hath called
him to come up higher." Of his last words these were
certainly comforting : " My lamp is trimmed and burning."
How the beloved daughter and two sons will miss the
fatherly voice ! How the many neighbors, friends, and
kindred mourn to think that no more on earth can they
depend on him for cheerful associations ; for wherever we
met him, whether on the street, at home or abroad, he
was always looking upon the bright side of life. But
looking through the mist of death, we can have this happy
thought : we can " follow the Lamb of God, who taketh
away the sins of the world," and there join with him in
praises within the " gates of pearl," treading the golden
streets of the celestial city of the New Jerusalem. There
we can join Smith Ray Mowry in the many mansions pre-
pared before the foundation of the world through the love
of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. * * *

North Smithfield, R. /., Oct. 12, 1884.

MRS. ADELA B. MOWEY.

Mrs. Adela B. Mowry, widow of the late Smith Ray
Mowry, died at her late home, 92 Asylum Street, Thurs-
day evening, Dec. 21, 1899, death resulting directly from
a cold which she contracted some days ago. This cold,
combined with the effects of a fall down stairs on Thanks-
giving day, made it impossible for her to survive.

Mrs. Mowry was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 43

Ballou and was one of a family of six children, two of
whom survive her. The children's names were George,
Charles, William, Sarah, and Calista. Two of these sur-
vive their mother, — William, who lives in the West, and
Calista, widow of James Taft, of Burrillville. Mrs.
Mowry was born in Burrillville, May 29, 1809, she thus
being in the 91st year of her age.

Mrs. Mowry was married three times, the first time to
Olney Ballou, the second time to his brother, Warren
Ballou. Two children resulted from the first marriage,
William R. and Edward J. William R. survives her. By
the second marriage was one son, Alexander D. Her
third husband was Smith Ray Mowry, who has been dead
fifteen years.

Mrs. Mowry was a very energetic and bright woman,
and retained her faculties to a remarkable degree, she be-
ing in full possession of them until within a few hours of
her death. She attended the country school of Smithfield,
but after she left school she was a persistent reader of
the best literature. Mrs. Mowry was a member of no
church, but when she was able and attended any she went
to the Friends'. She was highly esteemed by all her
friends and neighbors for the example of Christian living
set by her.

Page igo.

286. WILLIAM MOWRY married Lucy Congdon.

CHILDREN.

632. Delia Anne.

633. Anne, should be omitted.

287. URIAH MOWRY, Jr. This name should be
omitted from this place, as his record is given on page 134,
No. 127.

44 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

295. DUTY MOWRY died in Woonsocket, R. I.,
May 26, 1880, in his 83d year. His first wife was Hannah
Sayles, daughter of Gideon and not Stephen. His name
should be spelled Duty and not Dutee.

Page igi.

297. BARNEY MOWRY married (1) Jan. 21, 1828.
He died Nov. 12, 1891, in his 88th year. His first wife,
Phila, died Nov. 25, 1839. His second wife, Uranah,
daughter of Paoli and Martha Steere, died July 21, 1865.

298. MARTHA MOWRY married Jesse Paine.

CHILD.

Laura, married (1) Edwin Bushee, not Burlingame.

Page 194.
[Corrected from pages 322 and 323.]

306. ZEBINA MOWRY, son of Elisha, b. Oct. 26,
1804; married (1), at Madison, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1827,
Sarah Lewis. She died at Milford, Mich., March 7, 1845.

CHILDKEN.

(1) Henry B., b. March 21, 1828, at Madison, N. Y. ;
married at Milford, Mich., Feb. 13, 1855, Mary S. White.

THEIE, CHILDEEN.

Marion M., b. May 28, 1856, at Milford, Mich.
Cordelia L., b. July 2, 1860.

(2) Emily A., b. Feb. 13, 1833, at Madison, N. Y. ;
married Sardis Fletcher Hubbell, at Milford, Mich., Aug.
22, 1848.

(3) Ann Maria, b. June 26, 1837, at Morrisville, N. Y.,

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 45

(4) Mary M., b. Nov. 14, 1843,at Milford,Mich. ; died
Dec. 2, 1853, at the same place.

Married (2), at Milford, Mich., Dec. 18, 1845, Mary
Ann Thompson.

307. HETHCOTT M. MOWRY, b. Nov. 6, 1806;
married at Madison, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1833, Harriet A.
Jackson.

CHILDREN.

James Rodney, b. April 10, 1836 ; married at Ann Ar-
bor, Oct. 2, 18 — ?, Harriet Benham.

Mary B., b. Feb. 6, 1842, at Ann Arbor ; married Geo.
O. Ide, at Ann Arbor, May 8, 18—?

[For 308, 309, and 310. see pages 333 and 334.]
Page 196.

318. BAINBRIDGE MOWRY was killed by a train
of cars at South Walpole, Mass., Oct. 11, 1893, aged 75
years. He had been very deaf for many years and could
not hear the coming train.

Page 199.

680. THEODORE TYLER died Aug. 6, 1884, near
Manville, R. I.

343. FRANCES EMILY MOWRY married Arnold
Ballou and not Willard Ballou.

• Page 200.

687. NELSON H. MOWRY, b. May 20, 1808. The
words " not married " should be erased.

Page 214.

Lucy Saben, b. April 1, 1824; died Jan. 4, 1890.

46 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

Page 243,

443. ELISHA MOWRY, son of Eliakim, married (1),

April, 1831, Eliza Mowry, daughter of Arnold (descended

from John).

CHILDKEN.

Lydia Amey, died aged seven years.

Lucy Amanda, married March 9, 1856, Edwin A.
Mowry. She died April 19, 1876, aged 42 years, 11
months, 6 days.

Elisha Arnold, married Hannah Smith, daughter of
Elisha.

Mercy Jane, died aged three years.

Eliza Melissa, died aged three months.

Married (2), Dec. 9, 1855, Fanny M. Pratt, daughter
of Phineas and Lydia (Chase) Pratt, of Sandgate, Vt.
She was born March 24, 182-?

CHILDREN.

Oscar Vernon, b. April 25, 1857.

Leland Francis, b. Jan. 3, 1859.

Elmer Ellsworth, b. Sept. 27, 1864; died Aug. 6, 1884.

Leland and Oscar are married and have families.

OSCAR VERNON MOWRY, son of Elisha and Fanny
(Pratt) Mowry, b. April 25, 1857 ; married (1), April,
1876, Mrs. Annie (O'Brian) Ward.

CHILDREN.

Emma Eliza, b. 1879.
Henry, b. 1880 ; died 1895.
Mary Ann, b. 1883.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 47

There were three other children that died without jjeing
named.

Annie died in August, 1891. Oscar married for his sec-
ond wife, Mamie Lockwood. No children.

LELAND FRANCIS MOWRY, son of Elisha and
Fanny (Pratt) Mowry, b. Jan. 3, 1859; married, Nov. 26,
1893, Mary Grady Thomas.

CHILDREN.

Victoria Estella, b. Sept. 12, 1894.
Isabella Francis, b. Feb. 10, 1896.
Nellie Gladys, b. Sept. 1, 1897.

Waity Harris had one child " which is dead." This is ''
incorrect. She is still living, not married, Janette E.
Mowry.

Page 244.

459. JENCKS MOWRY died in Providence, June 9,
1898, at the age of 83 years. The following sketch of
Mr. Mowry's life and work is taken from the Manual of
the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction : —

" Jencks Mowry was born March 31, 1815, in Smith-
field, R. I. His childhood and youth were spent at home
on the farm, and, as circumstances permitted, he attended
school, which was intermittently maintained in his neigh-
borhood. The only studies pursued in the school were
reading, writing, and arithmetic, and for the last Jencks
early showed an unusual fondness, rarely requiring the
assistance of his teacher to work out the sums in DaboU's
Arithmetic, the text-book then in use. At the age of six-
teen he taught the school in his district for the winter

48 THE MOWEY FAMILY.

term, and the next fall he had saved sufficient money to
attend, for one term, the academy at Old Bank village, of
which Mr. Bushee was the principal. Here his awkward
manners and suit of homespun, woven by his sisters, of
wool from his father's sheep, amused his more fortunate
schoolmates, but served to cultivate in him an independ-
ence which characterized him in after-life.

"Leaving the academy at the expiration of the term,
he again engaged in teaching, and continued teaching
winters and working on the farm summers till the fall of
1838, when he entered the academy at Fruit Hill, then
under the management of the Hon. Amos Perry, the pres-
ent secretary of the Rhode Island Historical Society. He
remained here but six weeks, when he read an advertise-
ment for a teacher to take the school at Old Warwick. He
immediately started for Old Warwick on foot, arrived
there, met the trustees, passed a satisfactory examination,
— an important part of which was to make a good quill
pen, — and the next Monday morning began the school.
From that time till the fall of 1864, with the intermission
of a single term, he taught in public schools at Old War-
wick and in North Providence. From 1864 to within a
few years of his death he was principal of a private school
at Mount Pleasant; and, even after discontinuing his
school, he continued teaching at his home till within a
few weeks of his death. He died June 9, 1898, having
lived eighty-three years, more than sixty-five of which
were spent in teaching. For several winters Jencks
Mowry was principal of evening schools in this city, and
among the changes which he advocated at that time was a
classification of the pupils with reference to their attain-
ments in arithmetic. He also maintained that the evening
school as well as the day school should be a place for
work and not for amusement, and only those pupils should

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 49

be allowed to attend who should be regular in their at-
tendance and animated by a desire to leain.

" Mr. Mowiy's methods of instruction were his own.
Early in his teaching he became convinced that the
methods then in favor were not productive of the best
attainable results, and, ignorant of the doctrines of Pesta-
lozzi and other educational reformers and pedagogical
philosophers, he worked out his own methods and put
them to the test. At a teachers' institute, after he had
conducted an exercise in arithmetic, Lowell Mason, of
Boston, said to him, ' Mr. Mowry, you are fifty years in
advance of your time.' That was about fifty years ago. He
despised shams in education and elsewhere, and could not
tolerate educational quacks. A prominent school man of
Providence, a former pupil of Mr. Mowry, says, ' The
prime characteristics of Mr. Mowry's teaching were love
of the work, earnestness, untiring effort, quickness to per-
ceive the difficulty confronting the pupil, the logical rela-
tions between the successive steps of his teaching any
subject, and the faculty he possessed of holding the atten-
tion of a class, however large, during the recitation. His
methods were peculiar, and seldom used by others, except
his former pupils. He revelled in logic, continually asked
" Why ? " and delighted in the certain conclusions of
mathematics. Though his reputation as a teacher of
arithmetic was greatest, to an old pupil the work in Eng-
lish grammar, viewed by the light of experience, was
equally good. There was little disorderly conduct in his
school, and the moral influence he exerted over pupils
whom other teachers had found difficult to manage speed-
ily wrought in them an ambition to learn and to do faith-
ful work.' "

Mr. Mowry left a widow, two sons, — Joseph E. Mowry,
principal of the Federal Street grammar school, Provi-

50 THE MO WRY FAMILY.

dence, and Raymond G. Mowry, a well-known lawyer of
Providence, — and four daughters, — Fanny W., wife of
JohnB. Branchi, vice-president of the Providence Washing-
ton Insurance Company ; Hannah D. Mowry, formerly a
teacher in the Woonsocket High School, and for many
years a teacher in the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, who died
July 26, 1899 (a sketch of her work appears below) ;
Jane A., wife of Rev. Thomas Anderson, pastor of the
Central Baptist Church, Providence ; and Abby J., who
married A. P. Woodward, of Danielsonville, Conn.

Mr. Mowry was buried in the family burial-lot upon the
old farm in Smithfield.

795. JOSEPH E. MOWRY, son of Jencks.

CHILDEEX.

Harold Jencks, b. Aug. 13, 1877.
Helen Sayles, b. Dec. 20, 1879.
Ethel, b. Feb. 15, 1883.

797. HANNAH D. MOWRY, daughter of Jencks.

In colonial days Rhode Island was not famed for pro-
ducing school-teachers. Indeed, there was no public-
school system worthy of the name in the State until 1800,
and in most parts of the State the school system dates
from 1828. In the first half of the nineteenth century it
was a common thing for a young man or a young woman
who wished to teach school and could not get a certificate
of qualification in Massachusetts or Connecticut to go over
to Rhode Island to teach. There, either no certificate was
required, or the examination was so simple that any one

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 51

could get the requisite certificate. Indeed, within the
last half of the century a large proportion of the better
class of teachers in Rhode Island were natives of Massa-
chusetts. Something like twenty-five years ago a company
of the leading educators of Rhode Island had met one
evening, when one of the number had the curiosity to
inquire as to the birthplace of each one present. It was
found that from the entire company of perhaps fifteen
persons, one was born in Rhode Island, one in Vermont,
and all the rest in Massachusetts. Brown University has
had, up to the present time, nine presidents. Of these,
one was born in New Hampshire, one in New Jersey, and
all the rest in Massachusetts.

But within the past fifty years, and especially the last
twenty-five years of this century, the tables have been
turned. Massachusetts has lately gone to Rhode Island
for two college presidents. Rhode Island has produced
many eminent educators.

Jencks Mowry, the brief account of whose life and work
has been given above, is an illustration of a strong Rhode
Island teacher who began his work as an instructor long
before the middle of this century. He was a native and
a typical Rhode Islander. His daughter Hannah is
another noble instance of a Rhode Island teacher who
was largely self-educated and who attained high and
noble rank in her profession. Her elementary education
was received wholly in the school taught by her father.
She was a pupil in the Providence High School for about
two years prior to the fall of 1866. At this time, when

52 THE MO WRY FAMILY.

she was only seventeen years of age, she took charge of
the school in Old Warwick. This was an ungraded
school of from forty to fifty pupils. Perhaps it ought to
be mentioned that even prior to this she had assisted her
father in a public evening school which he taught.

Her first teaching in day school was successful, and she
afterward taught at Hills Grove, at Manville, and at North
Providence. Her school in North Providence was on
Smith's Hill, and she had the lowest primary grade.
While in this school she was invited by the school com-
mittee of the town of Woonsocket to take a position as
teacher in their High School. This new position she filled
with great success, although obliged to do much careful
study in preparing the work for her classes. Later, the
school committee of the city of Fall River called her to a
position in the High School of that city. She accepted the
appointment. She had supposed that she was to teach the
same branches as she had taught in Woonsocket, namely,
English and the mathematics, but on. entering upon her
duties she found she was expected to teach French, of
which at that time she knew but little. With character-
istic energy and determination, however, she set about
preparing for her new work. The vacation that intervened
was spent with an educated French family in Quebec, and
then she began her duties in Fall River. Here she contin-
ued as teacher of French and occasionally of mathematics
until the winter of 1890 ; but meantime, in order to better
prepare herself for a teacher of the French language, she
spent a summer vacation in Paris, and after that every

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 53

year she took a trip to Europe. Indeed, with but two
omissions, this was the case from that time until her death.
Sometimes she had under her charge parties for European
travel, and at other times she went for her own personal
study and recreation. She visited nearly all the countries
and noted places of Europe from the Straits of Gibraltar
to North Cape, and from the Seine to the Danube.

In the summer of 1890, while conducting a party in
Russia, she met the elder Mr. Pratt, founder of Pratt In-
stitute. Her engaging manners, her energy, and her ex-
ecutive ability so impressed this gentleman that after his
return to this country he offered her a position at Pratt
Institute. Notwithstanding the efforts of the Fall River
school committee to retain her services, and the many
strong friendships she had formed in that citj^ she re-
signed her position, and in the winter of 1890 began her
work at Pratt Institute. Here for eight years she taught
with great success, winning golden opinions, and attaching
to herself many friends among the instructors and pupils
of the Institute and the citizens of Brooklyn. In the
winter of 1898 her failing health compelled her to leave
her position and return to her old home in Providence.
There she died, July 26, 1899. Until the very last she
had expected to resume her labors at the Institute. Her
whole life, in school and out, was characterized by energy,
perseverance, determination ; and these, with the warmest
sympathy for pupils and friends and a most cheerful dis-
position, commanded the respect of pupils and the love
of all.

54 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

799. Jane A. Mowry married (1) Mortimer Hartwell.

CHILDREN.

John, Everett,

Madolin, died young, Mortimer Arthur.

Married (2) Eev. Thomas Anderson, D.D., pastor of
the Central Baptist Church, Providence, R. I., and Secre-
tary of the Corporation of Brown University.

801. Abby J. Mowry, daughter of Jencks, married
A. P. Woodward, of Danielsonville, Conn.

Page 245.

463. Arad Lapham family.

Mowry Lapham married and had children. He was a
manufacturer in Millbury, Mass. He also had a brother,
Smith, who was associated with him in that business.

George Lapham married, had a family, and lived in
Woonsocket.

Lydia married Ferdinand Andrews. They had two
daughters. They lived in Washington, D. C.

465. LYDIA MOWRY, daughter of John, married
Otis Brown, ofBurrillville.

CHILDREN.

William, married Penelope Scott. They had four chil-
dren, — Otis and Mary and two who died young.

Lavinia, married George Brown. They had two children.

Julia, married Dr. Moses W. Small, dentist.

Smith, married Sarah A. Darling.

Susan, married Francis S. Weeks. He died Dec. 26,
1898, aged 76 years. They had three children.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 55

Page 247.

474. Julia A. Goldthwait died June 15, 1876, aged
52 years, 9 months, 27 days.

806. Sarah married Asa Burdick.

807. Stephen W. Mowry, b. Feb. 20, 1828 ; died Aug.
21, 1888. M. Jennie, his daughter, wife of James H.
Briggs, died Oct. 14, 1891. She had one child, infant.

808. Edwin A. Mowry, b. Sept. 20, 1829; married,
March 9, 1856, Lucy A. Mowry, daughter of Elisha. She
died April 19, 1876, aged nearly 43 years.

CHILDREN.

Edwin A., b. June 11, 1857 ; not married.
Ellen F., b. Nov. 7, 1858.
Sarah E., b. Jan. 6, 1865.

809. This reads "Franklin died young." This record
is not correct. Franklin S. married Sarah Harris and died
July 5, 1871, in the 37th year of his age. Sarah, his wife,
died June 16, 1871, in the 29th year of her age.

810. Lydia H. died May 24, 1851, aged 19 years.

Page 248,

482. WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE MOWHY.

CHILDREN.

811. Arnold Jencks, b. April 19, 1846 ; died Nov.

26, 1865.

812. Anson Byron, b. July 31, 1849 ; died Nov. 29,

1865.

484. John Orde Mowry died May 10, 1891.

56 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

AMONG HIS CHILDREN.

816. Emma Ballou, b. June 23, 1855 ; died April
24, 1887.

817. Jennie Louisa, b. May 1, 1860 ; died April

28, 1882.

Page 256.

590. CHARLES MOWRY, b. Sept. 9, 1855 ; married,
September, 1876, Jessie Mitchell, of Worcester.

CHILDREN.

Blanche, b. October, 1877.
Son, b. 1879 ; died.
Son, b. 1881; died.

Page 257.

638. ALFRED BOWEN MOWRY,' son of Uriah, Jr. ;
married Louisa .

CHILDREN.

William Francis, b. Aug. 3, 1838 ; died June 5, 1872.
Ruth, b. May 17, 1836, now living (1892) in Provi-
dence, R. I.

641. ORIN PRATT MOWRY died Aug. 1, 1895.

642. ALBERT MOWRY died April 3, 1893.

883. BERTHA V. MOWRY married, June 30, 1884,
Oscar J. Morse, son of Jacob.

CHILDREN.

Eleanor Louisa, b. April 8, 1889 ; died May 21, 1889.
Richmond Oscar, b. March 1, 1892 ; died April 27, 1893.
Mildred, b. June 7, 1894.
Harold Winthrop, b. Oct. 22, 1895.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 57

643. ARLON MOWRY, son of Barney, b. Feb. 23,
1833 ; married Harriet Whitman, daughter of Isaac. She
was born Jan. 1, 1837, and died Jan. 2, 1865.

CHILDREN.

884. Emma Lillian, b. April 27, 1858 ; married, 1886,
Stephen E. Batcheller.

THEIR CHILDREN.

Byron B., b. Aug. 1, 1887.

Estene E., b. Sept. 16, 1890.

Merton L., b. May 3, 1893. )

-^ i twins.

Mertina L., b. May 3, 1893. )

Leland E., b. April 14, 1896.

Stephen W., b. May 9, 1898.

885. EUGENE C, b. Aug. 12, 1860 ; married, 1889,
Daisy B. Underwood.

THEIR CHILDREN.

Wilfred L., b. Oct. 3, 1890 ; died Dec. 30, 1891.
Maude Blanche, b. Dec. 29, 1897.

886. WILFRED L., b. Nov. 15, 1862 ; died Nov. 17,
1866.

887. HARRIET W., b. Sept. 16, 1864 ; married, 1891,
Albert Crowell. No children.

Page 258.

644. STAFFORD MOWRY, son of Barney, b. April
14, 1835 ; married Maria H. Brown, daughter of Daniel,
of Thompson, Conn. She was born Dec. 14, 1830. He
died March 27, 1889, at Hampton, Va.

58 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

CHILDEEN.

888. Ermina P., b. May 12, 1858; married, 1885,
Wm. K. West, Toledo, O. William K. West was born in
Ohio, July 31, 1848 ; died March 9, 1896.

THEIE CHILDREN.

Henry West, b. June 2, 1886.
Myra, b. Aug. 13, 1891.

645. ATWELL MOWRY died Sept. 1, 1882.

CHILDKElSr.

891. Viola I., b. April 26, 185T ; married Walter
B. Mann. No children.

648. JESSE MOWRY, son of George A., b. Feb. 3,
1831 ; married, Jan. 10, 1856, Eliza Stickell, Bureau Co.,
111. Eliza Stickell was born April 1, 1837.

CHILDEEN.

David C, b. March 1, 1857.
Alice S., b. March 12, 1859.
Cornelius, b. March 15, 1861.
Lyman W., b. June 14, 1863.
Delbert, b. April 16, 1866.
Hattie A., b. Nov. 10, 1869.
Aner E., b. Jan. 3, 1873.
Sylvia Dell, b. Aug. 4, 1875.
Leroy J., b. Jan. 18, 1883.

Jesse Mo wry is a farmer. In 1888 he moved to Tracy,
Minn., and in 1895, to Greenfield, lo.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 59

DAVID C. MOWRY, son of Jesse, b. March 1, 1857 ;
married, March 30, 1882, Lucy M. Brown. Lucy M.
Brown was born Dec. 21, 1862. They live at Geneva, Neb.

CHILDREN.

Genevia Illy, b. Dec. 29, 1882.
Vernie Jane, b. Oct. 28, 1884.
Jesse Cleo, b. Dec. 29, 1886.
James B., b. Dec. 8, 1888.
Martha Eliza, b. June 9, 1893.
Herbert Artemus, b. April 24, 1900.

ALICE S. MOWRY, daughter of Jesse, b. March 12,
1859; married, Jan. 12, 1881, John T. Thompson. They
live at Walnut Grove, Minn.

CHLLDEEN.

Eber D.

Floyd Elmer, b. June 24, 1883.
Glen wood, b. Dec. 9, 18 — .
Sylvia Dell, b. Aug. 8, 18—.
Hattie May, b. May 27, 18—.

CORNELIUS MOWRY, son of Jesse, b. March 15,
1861 ; married, April 20, 1887, Carrie V. Fripelett. He
died Oct. 19, 1893, at Tracy, Minn. Carrie V. Fripelett
was born in June, 1863.

CHILDREN.

Mildred A., b. Dec. 13, 1890.
Cornelia E., b. May 22, 1894.

LYMAN W. MOWRY, son of Jesse, b. June 14, 1863 ;
married, Jan. 3, 1895, Eleanor B. Thayer. They live at

60 THE MOWKY FAMILY.

Slayton, Minn. She was born in South Lima, N. Y.,
March 31, 1869.

CHILDREN.

Frank L., b. Oct. 3, 1895.
Russell Thayer, b. Aug. 31, 1897.

DELBERT MOWRY, son of Jesse, b. April 16, 1866;
married (1), Aug. 24, 1887, Eva Y. Cornish. She died
July 10, 1888. Married (2) Ada M. Jontz. Delbert
Mowry is a grain merchant and lives in Wyanet, 111. Ada
was born Jan. 7, 1868, in Wyanet, 111.

CHILDRBF.

Claude M., b. Dec. 14, 1890.
Allen, b. April 8, 1892.

HATTIE A. MOWRY, daughter of Jesse, b. Nov. 10,
1869; married, Sept. 26,1894, J. W. McNay. They live
at Greenfield, lo.

CHILDREN.

Jessie Eleanor, b. Sept. 22, 1895.
Leola Mary, b. Jan. 17, 1898.
Neva Althea, b. March 19, 1900.

ANER E. MOWRY, daughter of Jesse, b. Jan. 3, 1873 ;
married, Sept. 6, 1899, Asa Wood. They live at Passo, Mo.

LEROY J. MOWRY, son of Jesse, b. Jan. 18, 1883.

649. THOMAS MOWRY, son of George Aldrich
Mowry, b. Jan. 19, 1833 ; married, Jan. 25, 1855, Sarah
E. Sapp. She was born Jan. 20, 1837, and is still living.
He died in Wyanet, 111., June 2, 1899.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 61

CHILDREN.

Charles Wilbert, b. Feb. 29, 1856 ; died Sept. 3, 1856.

Isaac Leonard, b. Nov. 29, 1857.

Elsie Fidelia, b. April 17, 1860.

Edward Eugene, b. March 1, 1861 ; died Oct. 13, 1872.

Florence May, b. May 19, 1862.

Clara Belle, b. May 28, 1867.

Mary, b. Oct. 17, 1869.

Nancy Effie, b. March 9, 1872 ; died Dec. 31, 1875.

Sarah Elizabeth, b. May 10, 1874 ; died Dec. 11, 1878.

Jennie Idella, b. Dec. 16, 1876 ; died Dec. 16, 1878.

Thomas Welcome, b. Feb. 8, 1882.

Thomas Mowry was born in Steuben County, N. Y.
When he was eight years of age his father moved to Bu-
reau County, 111., and later, to Putnam County, on the
other side of the Illinois River. There he remained for
ten years, and recrossed the river into Bureau County,
where the father spent the remainder of his life. Before
Thomas Mowry married he travelled a great deal through
the South, and in 1863 he and his wife took their three
children with them and started, in company with twelve
other teams, to drive overland to California. He remained
in the Sacramento Valley nearly a year, and then, on ac-
count of the health of his wife, returned to Illinois. In
1880 they moved to Seward County, Neb., where they
remained for more than fourteen years. In the winter of
1894-95, they returned to Wyanet, 111., where they have
since lived. Thomas Mowry was an honest and upright
man, respected and honored by every one who knSw him,

62 THE MOWEY FAMILY.

and it was a common saying among his acquaintances that
his word was as good as his bond. He was always a farmer,
and for the last fifteen years of his life he lived in a vil-
lage, but still looked after his farm and took as active an
interest as when he lived upon it.

ISAAC LEONARD MOWRY, son of Thomas, b. Nov.
29,1857; married, March 8, 1882, Amanda Culver.

CHILDBEN.

William E., b. Jan. 10, 1883.

Bertha M., b. Aug. 5, 1884 ; died Aug. 29, 1885.

Thomas L., b. Jan. 17, 1886.

Grover C, b. Feb. 9, 1887.

Fred B., b. Feb. 28, 1889.

Gertrude B., b. Sept. 23, 1890.

Sarah E., b. Oct. 7, 1892.

Clifford L., b. April 28, 1894.

Robert Ray, b. Feb. 15, 1896.

Pearl L., b. April 15, 1899.

ELSIE FIDELIA MOWRY, daughter of Thomas, was
born April 17, 1860 ; married, Jan. 24, 1881, William O.
Postlethwaite.

CHILDREN.

T. Leslie, b. Jan. 19,1882.

William W., b. Sept. 24, 1883.

Gilbert G., b. April 5, 1885.

Dora M., b. April 27, 1887 ; died Aug. 4, 1888.

Myrtle B., b. Jan. 9, 1889.

Ross C, b. Oct. 23, 1890.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 68

Frank L., b. March 25, 1893 ; died Oct. 15, 1896.
Verne, b. Nov. 29, 1894; died Jan. 11, 1895.
Glen D., b. Sept. 17, 1897.
Forest D., b. Oct. 7, 1899.

FLORENCE MAY MOWRY, daughter of Thomas, b.
May 19, 1862 ; married, Dec. 25, 1878, James O'Neal.

CHILDREN.

Thomas L., b. April 6, 1880 ; died July 22, 1880.
Sarah F., b. May 16, 1881 ; died Feb. 28, 1884.
Edward L., b. Nov. 3, 1883 i died Oct. 8, 1887.
Bessie, b. Nov. 5, 1885 ; died Dec. 7, 1887.
J. Herbert, b. Feb. 8, 1888.
Marguerite F., b. Sept. 29, 1891.
Earl E., b. Nov. 12, 1897.

CLARA BELLE MOWRY, daughter of Thomas, b.
May 28, 1867 ; married, Jan. 16, 1889, Edward Cook.

CHILDREN.

Adah B., b. Nov. 23, 1889.
Sarah E., b. March 27, 1891.
Mamie M., b. Nov. 20, 1892 ; died Sept. 25, 1893.
Edward Cook died March 13, 1894, and his widow
Clara married, Jan. 27, 1897, Walter Draper.

CHILDREN.

Marie F., b. Nov. 21, 1897.
Mildred L., b. Aug. 4, 1899.

650. GEORGE MOWRY, son of George A., b. April
7, 1835, in Bath, Steuben County, N. Y. ; married, Aug.
22, 1858, Aner Sapp.

64 THE MOWEY FAMILY.

He was a soldier in the Civil War, and belonged to
Company D, Seventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. He en-
listed in August, 1861, and was honorably discharged in
November, 1865. He owns a home in Wyanet, Bureau
County, 111.

Aner Sapp was born March 19, 1839, near Wyanet, 111.

CHILDREN.

Charles Frederick, b. Aug. 22, 1859, in Wyanet, 111.
George Ephraim, b. Aug. 20, 1861, in Wyanet.
Samuel Franklin, b. Nov. 10, 1864, in Wyanet.
William Herman, b. Nov. 4, 1866, in Neosha Falls, 111.
Birdie Mary Rosalea, b. Dec. 15, 1868, in Neosha Falls.
Baby boy, b. Aug. 8, 1870, in Radical, Kan.
Ernest Andrew, b. Aug. 18, 1871, in Radical.
Major Thomas, b. July 24, 1873, in Wyanet.
Baby boy, b. Aug. 15, 1875, in Radical.
Mae Belle, b. Sept. 19, 1876, in Radical.
Minniebelle Elizabeth, b. Sept. 14, 1878, in Independ-
ence, Kan.

George Aner, b. Aug. 4, 1881, in Wyanet.
Robert Raymond, b. July 5, 1883, in Wyanet.

DEATHS.

Charles Frederick, died July 1, 1861, of brain fever, in
Colorado, coming home from Pike's Peak.

George Ephraim, died Jan. 15, 1872, in Radical, of
dropsy.

Baby boy, died Aug. 8, 1870, in Radical.

Ernest Andrew, died Sept. 7, 1872, in Wyanet, of
congestive chill.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 65

Baby boy, died Aug. 15, 1875, in Radical.
Robert Raymond, died Dec. 6, 1899, in Wyanet; acci-
dentally shot himself.

SAMUEL FRANKLIN MOWRY, son of George, b.
Nov. 10, 1864, in Wyanet, Bureau County, 111. ; married,
Nov. 20, 1895, Mary Elizabeth Stattor, of Galesburg, 111.
He owns a home in Galesburg. Mary Elizabeth Stattor
was born Aug. 20, 1871, in Tarabertsonville, N. J.

CHILD. (Adopted.)
Lester James, b. March 11, 1898, in Galesburg, 111.

WILLIAM HERMAN MOWRY, son of George, b.
Nov. 4, 1866, in Neosha Falls, Woodson County, Kan. ;
married, Sept. 15, 1892, Edna Maud Dart. He owns a
home in Wyanet. Edna Maud Dart was born Sept. 15,
1873, in Wyanet.

CHILD.

Charles Franklin, b. Nov. 28, 1895, in Wyanet.

BIRDIE MARY ROSALEA MOWRY, daughter of
George, b. Dec. 15, 1868, in Neosha Falls, Woodson
County, Kan. ; married, March 26, 1889, Robert Lincoln
Kline. He owns a farm in Ipava, 111. Robert Lincoln
Kline was born Aug. 7, 1865, in Ipava.

CHILDREN.

Ethel Luetta, b. Dec. 28, 1889, in Ipava.
George Lawrence, b. Feb. 11, 1891, in Ipava ; died
Feb. 22, 1891.

Edna Ray, b. Feb. 25, 1892, in Ipava.
Author Dean, b. May 12, 1897, in Ipava.

66 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

Page 191.

The following various records have been received from
the descendants of George A. Mowry (301).

652. WELCOME MOWRY, son of George A., b.
April 3, 1842 ; married, Sept. 5, 1866, Lucina Sapp.

CHILDREN.

Lorena C, b. Dec. 18, 1868.
Burdette F., b. April 22, 1870.
Alzada B., b. Oct. 10, 1873.

LORENA C. MOWRY, daughter of Welcome, married,
Sept. 18, 1890, C. L. Kinner.

CHILDREN.

Karl, b. June 22, 1892.
Bernice, b. Sept. 21, 1893.

BURDETTE F. MOWRY, son of Welcome, married,
Feb. 17, 1892, Emma Morgan.

CHILDREN.

Margarite, b. Aug. 22, 1894.
Mary Lucina, b. July 22, 1896.

The following account of Welcome Mowry is taken
from a book recently published, entitled " Progressive
Men of Iowa."

" Mowry, Welcome, member of the State Board of
Railroad Commissioners, makes his home, on his 700-acre
farm in Tama County, where he has lived since 1867.
His parents were George A. and Nancy (Jack) Mowry, and
he was born in Putnam County, 111., April 3, 1842. His

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 67

father was born in Rhode Island and his motlier in Mary-
land. They were both members of the Society of Friends,
and Mr. Mowry often preached for them. They came to
Bureau County, 111., in 1841, and later went to Putnam
County to educate their children, and then returned to
Bureau County, where Mr. Mowry died, in 1889. Their
son, Welcome, was educated in the common schools and
attended Dover Academy. At the age of seventeen he be-
gan supporting himself, working on a farm at ten dollars
per month. In the spring of 1861 he made his first effort
to enlist in the Union army at Wyanet, 111., and went
with his company to Springfield ; but as the quota of Illi-
nois on the first call had been filled, he returned home
after about a month. In August of that year he enlisted
under C. S. Merriman and went with his company to Fort
Leavenworth, which became Company D of the Seventh
Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. They spent the first winter in
Missouri keeping down the guerrillas, and in the spring
of 1862 went to Tennessee, spending the next two and a
half years in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. They
participated in the battles of Corinth, Coffeyville, Tupelo,
and the soldier of whom we write was under fire, in addi-
tion to the above, at luka, Coldwater, Abbeyville, Holly
Springs, Oxford, Water Valley, and Jackson, Tenn., and
at Rippey, Miss. While following Price through Missis-
sippi, he, with four others, was sent to reconnoitre Price's
position. It was a perilous undertaking in the night,
wading streams and taking all hazards. They ran upon
the enemy's camp guard and then fell back. The enemy,
not knowing the size of the force opposing them, soon
evacuated the town. This is probably the only instance
where five men started a whole army. ' He was frequently
on duty as scout or courier in hazardous enterprises,' says
one of his commanders, 'where his unflinching bravery.

68 THE MOWKY FAMILY.

quick intelligence, and sound judgment were signally dis-
played, winning for him the praise of commanding officers.
He was our ideal of a soldier.' Being honorably discharged
at St. Louis, Sept. 27, 1864, he returned home and went
to school for a short time, but re-enlisted Feb. 13, 1865, in
Company F, One Hundred Fifty-first Illinois Volunteer
Infantry, and on account of previous service was made
drill sergeant, and in a competitive drill was placed in
command of the headquarters guard of General Judea,
which he held, under Generals Judea and H. F. Sickles,
until the close of his enlistment. He was discharged the
last time in February, 1866, and returned at once to Wya-
net. 111., and resumed peaceful pursuits. He was married
Sept. 5, 1866, 'to Miss Lucina Sapp, daughter of Heze-
kiah and Mary J. (Bosket) Sapp, who were both natives of
Delaware. They have three children, Lorena C., born
Dec. 18, 1868, Burdette F., born April 22, 1870, and
Alzada B., born Oct. 10, 1873. In the following spring
the young couple started in a covered wagon for Iowa, and
settled in Oneida township, Tama County, on the same
farm where they now reside. He commenced with eighty
acres, and now has 700 acres of Iowa's most productive
soil. Although the land is gently rolling, he has laid over
four miles of tiling under it.

" Colonel Mo wry has always been an active Republican,
casting his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and
has never missed an election since he came to Iowa. He
was justice of the peace for ten years. In 1873 he was
placed on the Republican ticket for supervisor, but the
anti-monopoly movement was then at its height and he
was defeated by thirty-seven votes in the county. In 1875
he began taking part in speaking campaigns, and in every
year since then he has stumped either the county, the dis-
trict, or the State. In 1883 he was elected to represent

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 69

his county in tlie Legislature, and took an active part in
the business of the session. Believing that laws were too
often changed, he spent more time in defeating what he
considered bad measures than he did in securing the en-
actment of new laws. He, however, secured the passage
of the measure to reduce the penalty on delinquent taxes
to one per cent a month. He took the ground that if the
State did not allow an individual to collect more than six
per cent interest, the State should be satisfied with twelve.
He received special credit from the farmers for the defeat
of the bill to abolish independent and subdistricts in the
country, making no change in the school laws applying to
cities and towns. This bill was championed by State
Superintendent Akers and Senator L. R. Bolter, and sup-
ported by the representatives of the cities. In 1892, when
the Fifth Congressional District was Democratic, Colonel
Mowry was urged to become a candidate for Congress, but
was defeated in the convention by R. G. Cousins, the
present member. Colonel Mowry immediately took the
stump for his successful rival, and worked for Mr. Cousins
until he was elected. In 1896, without being a candidate.
Colonel Mowry was unanimously selected Republican can-
didate for presidential elector in the Fifth District, and
made twenty-five speeches throughout the State in that
campaign. He was elected by the largest vote of any
elector, except Major Conger, elector at large. Colonel
Mowry's long service to the Republican party and his emi-
nent business qualifications were recognized by the party
in 1898, when he was nominated for railroad commissioner
by the Republican State Convention in Dubuque. He re-
ceived on the first ballot 242^ more votes than his
strongest competitor and more than one hundred majority
over all. He was elected by 62,883 plurality. He is now
filling the office with the good sense and industry that

70 THE MO WHY FAMILY.

have brought him such a large measure of success in all
that he has undertaken in life."

655. NANCY MOWRY, daughter of George A., b.
Dec. 27, 1846; married, March 19, 1865, Webster W.
Moses. He was born Oct. 9, 1838, at Wellington, Me.

CHILDREN.

Edwin Ralph, b. Sept. 26, 1866; died Sept. 29, 1866.

Eugene Wilfred, b. Oct. 10, 1867.

Annelia Lois, b. Dec. 9, 1869 ; died May 29, 1880.

Jessie M., b. Nov. 5, 1875.

Robert Shepherd, b. April 16, 1878 ; died June 1, 1880.

Webster Lloyd, b. Feb. 11, 1881.

Francis Willard, b. Sept. 4, 1890.

Page 261.

680. THEODORE TYLER MOWRY, son of Jackson
P., b. March 28, 1853; married, Aug. 17, 1881, Anna
Pamelia Chase, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth
(Nye) Chase. Theodore died Aug. 6, 1884.

CHILDEEN.

Theodore Chase, b. May 22, 1882.
Wendell Southwick, b. June 16, 1884.

Page 266.

695. Dea. Samuel Mowry died in Greenville, Conn.,
March 11, 1879.

Page 268.
EECOKD.

Copied, Aug. 2, 1885, from an old Bible now in posses-
sion of Mrs. Ruth W. Inman, Burrillville, R. I., formerly

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 71

owned by Hannah B. Mowrj, and evidently once the
family Bible of Preserved Brayton, of Rehoboth, Mass. : —

" Patience Brayton, the wife of Preserved Brayton, de-
parted this life the 30th day of the 7th month, 1794, in
the 61st year of her age.

Preserved Brayton and Patience Greene were married
the 18th day of the 5th month, 1758.

David Brayton, b. 22d day, 5th month, 1759.

Hannah "

30th

9th «

1760.

Stephen "

26th

9th

1762.

Mary "

3d

4th

1764.

Content "

19th

2nd "

1766.

Patience "

13th

11th "

1773.

Preserved Brayton and Hannah* his wife were married
the 7th day of the 8th month, 1798.

Hannah Brayton,f dau. of Preserved Brayton and Han-
nah his wife, was born the 27th day, 8th month, 1800.

Preserved Brayton died the 24th day, 9th month, 1814.
Entered his 80th year one month.

Hannah Brayton, his wife, died 28th day, 4th month,
1816, aged 59 years, 9 months and 21 days."

Page 269.

Note at bottom of page, third line.

She was born Nov. 18, 1733, instead of 1773.

* This Hannah was a widow (Bowdish] . Her maiden name was Slade.
t This Hannah married Jonathan Mowry (701) , of Uxbridge, Mass.

72 THE MO WRY FAMILY.

Page 271.

702. LUCETTA (MO WRY) CHASE died in Nut-
ley, N. J., Sept. 6, 1892, in her 90th year.

703. ISABELLA (MOWRY) GASKILL died May
15, 1894, in Uxbridge, Mass.

Page 273.

704. PHEBE (MOWRY) PITTS died in Bolton,
Mass., June 12, 1892, after an illness of about three days,
of pneumonia. Funeral from Friends' Meeting-House,
Uxbridge, June 16. She was in her 84th year.

Page 275.

922. Richard D. Mowry, Jr., died in San Francisco,
Oct. 16, 1879.

Page 276.

708. SUSAN LYDIA (MOWRY) PITTS died in
Antioch, Cal., March 10, 1897.

Page 277.

Leander H. Sawyer died in Oakland, Cal., Dec. 10, 1897.

Page 278.

713. LAMECH C. MOWRY died Aug. 29, 1880, in
his 74th year.

Page 279.

720. JABEZ W. MOWRY died suddenly from heart
failure, Oct. 13, 1898, aged 74 years.

937. Roger Williams Mowry, b. March 26, 1860 ; died
April 28, 1882, in Smithfield, R. I.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 78

c^.vvv^ Page 307,

917. Ruth Wheeler In man died in Burrillville, April
12, 1900. The following notice of her life and character
is from the Pascoag Herald^ of April 20, 1900 : —

Mrs. Ruth W. Inman.

Died at her home on Mt. Pleasant, in the easterly part
of Burrillville, on Thursday, April 12, 1900, Mrs. Ruth
Wheeler (Mowry) Inman, aged 77 years and 10 months.

Mrs. Inman was born in Uxbridge, Mass., June 6, 1822.
She was the oldest child of Jonathan and Hannah (Bray-
ton) Mowry. She had but one sister and one brother.
Her sister Emeline died in 1859, and her only brother,
William A. Mowry, survives her. She was a descendant
of Roger Mowry, who came from England in 1631, and
died in Providence in 1666. Roger Mowry, as early as
1653, built the house which is now standing in the north-
erly part of Providence, on Abbott Street, known as the
Olney house. It is the only house now remaining in that
city dating back to the days of Roger Williams.

She was married to George Inman in 1841. He was a
lineal descendant of that Edward Inman who, with John
Mowry, son of Roger, bought, in 1666, two thousand acres
of land from William Minnion, the Indian chief of the
Nipmucks. A little later Edward Inman and John Mowry
associated with them John's brother, Nathanjel Mowry,
John Steere, and Thomas Walling, and bought land, until,
in 1685, they owned 3,500 acres, lying from Woonsocket
southward and from near the present line between North
Smithfield and Burrillville on the west to near the cities
of Pawtucket and Central Falls on the east.

Nathaniel Mowry married, in 1666, Johanna, daughter
of Edward Inman, so that the blood of the two families
has intermingled for nearly two and a half centuries.

74 THE MOWKY FAMILY.

Mrs. Inman was the mother of ten children, seven sons
and three daughters, all of whom, with the exception of
one son, are now living.

Her funeral was solemnized on Monday, April 16, at
her late residence, on the old farm which has been in pos-
session of the Inman family for several generations. A
large concourse of friends and relatives were in attendance,
coming from Boston, Providence, New York, and Ohio.
Very many citizens of the town showed their respect for
the deceased by their presence.

Mrs. Inman was a woman of unusual ability, energy,
and enterprise. Both she and her husband were fond of
company, and ever dispensed a royal hospitality. Their
home was always attractive to their hosts of friends,
who on visiting them were sure of a cordial reception
and an enjoyable occasion. She was whole-souled, broad-
minded, generous, with large sympathies. Her friends
were legion. She made friends everywhere and always
held their friendship.

Mrs. Inman was interested in many moral and religious
questions, but for many years she gave much time and
thought to the work of the " White Ribbon Society," the
W. C. T. U. She was at one time president of the Bur-
rill ville Union and was prominent in W. C. T. U. conven-
tions both within and without the State of Rhode Island.
She professed her faith in Christ, and became a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church at a very early age, and
remained active in that communion to the day of her
death. She was a member beloved of the Glendale church,
and by the members of that church she will be greatly
missed. She was a kind neighbor, having the respect and
love of all who lived near her. She was specially success-
ful in bringing up and giving a proper training to her ten
children. Her oldest child was but little more than twenty

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 75

years of age when the youngest was born. What a task
for a mother, what a care, and what a responsibility, to
bring up in the right way, and to train successfully, ten
children ! Hers was a typical family, and her children
and grandchildren have uniformly risen up and called her
blessed. She has left nine living children, fourteen grand-
children, and two great-grandchildren. Her two oldest
sons are contractors for building water and gas works, re-
siding in New York City. One son resides in Westerly,
R. I., and is engaged in mercantile business, one is
connected with the water department in the city of Provi-
dence, one is superintendent of the water works in Massi-
lon, O., and the other holds a similar position in Warren,
O. Two daughters and their families reside in Providence,
and the third in South Weymouth, Mass.

Her sickness, congestion of the lungs, was but for a few
days. Calmly and peacefully she breathed out her soul at
the last, with a full and trusting faith in the Saviour,
whom she accepted in her early youth. Her last words
and her last thoughts were not for herself, but for others.
To the very last she had a kind and loving word for those
near her and others away. She has gone like a shock of
corn, fully ripe, to the garner. The young may die, the
old must.

" Leaves have their time to fall,

And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath,
And stars to set, but all.
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death."

Page 283.

734. ALBERT ERASTUS MO WRY died in Boston.

After his death a meeting was called of the metal deal-
ers of Boston, and the following resolution, with others,
was adopted : —

76 THE MOWEY FAMILY.

" Resolved : That we have always found in Albert
E. Mowry a man correct in his business associations, hold-
ing his word equal to his bond, prompt to correct an error
if convinced of his mistake, affable in all his daily rela-
tions, making many warm friends and losing none from
his own intentional act, one whom it has been a pleasure
to know and associate with, and whose loss will not be
easily forgotten."

Page 284.

738. ELISHA CAPRON MOWRY. His wife, Han-
nah Richardson Mowry, died March 17, 1882, at Provi-
dence, aged 33 years.

CHILDREN.

951a. Sarah Ross, b. June 14, 1877.

951b. Albert Erastus, b. April 30, 1880.

951c. Elisha Capron, Jr., b. March 8, 1882.
He married (2), Sept. 18, 1884, Harriet Marble Page,
daughter of James H. and Maria (Dunn) Marble. She
was born April 23, 1858. Her child by previous mar-
riage was adopted by Elisha C. and took the name.

951d. Daza Page Mowry, b. Oct. 2, 1879.
The sudden death of Elisha C. Mowry brought sadness
and grief to a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.
He was a lineal descendant of Thomas Harris, who came
to Providence, R. I., with Roger Williams ; of Richard
Scott, also one of the original founders ; of Joseph Jencks,
who came to Lynn, Mass., in the very early days of that
settlement ; of Roger Mowry, through his son Nathaniel ;
and of Banfield Capron, who came to this country about
1675.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 77

In addition to the record of his life as given on page
285 of the Nathaniel Mowry book, it may be stated that
he served as alderman in the city of Providence from 1878
to 1880, when he declined a re-nomination to that office.
That year he was elected State Senator for tlie city of
Providence, and the same year was the Democratic candi-
date for mayor of the city, but, his party being largely in
the minority, he was not elected to that office. During
the last twenty years Mr. Mowry has had a large and
lucrative practice as an attorney and counselor. He has
made a specialty of equity, real estate, and patent law.
He was a man of broad intelligence, large general culture,
and sound judgment. He was a member, and for many
years was warden, of the Church of the Redeemer (Epis-
copal), with which he united in 1861, just as he graduated
from Brown University. He leaves a widow and nine
children, five sons and four daughters. His widow, a most
estimable lady, was the daughter of James H. and Maria
Marble.

Page 292.

749. CHARLES EDWARD MOWRY died Nov. 7,
1878, in San Francisco, Cal., aged 50 years.

Page 298.

The two families following (813 and 816) should be
inserted on page 298 before the family (825).

813. WILLIAM JOHN MOWRY, son of John, b. in
Smithfield, July 19, 1849 ; married, Sept. 25, 1873, Sarah
Frances Passmore, daughter of John.

78 THE MOWRY FAMILY.

CHILDEEK.

951e. Florence Passmore, b. July 27, 1874.
951f . Susan Darling, b. Aug. 18, 1878.
951g. Jobn Nelson, b. Sept. 10, 1880.

816. EMMA BALLOU MOWRY, daughter of John,
b. June 23, 1855 ; married Jerome Hendrick.

CHILDREN.

Edith Joline, b. May 1, 1875.

Laster Carlton, b. June 23, 1877 ; died April 14,

1880.
Alice Mabel, b. June 12, 1879.
Chester Earl, b. June 18, 1884.

Page 302.

882a. WILLIAM FRANCIS MOWRY, son of Alfred
Bowen, married Frances D. Willard, daughter of John and
Frances, of Industry, Me.

CHILD.

1001a. Adelbert Franklin, b. Feb. 26, 1865.

882b. RUTH MOWRY, daughter of Alfred Bowen,

married Greene. They had one child, a daughter,

who married Albert Heise, who was at one time the leader
of Reeves's Orchestra, Providence, R. I. *

899. DARWIN RUSH MOWRY died April 18, 1889.

Page 303.

903. ASHA ANNIE ELIZABETH (MOWRY)
BRANCH, daughter of Dr. Samuel, died in Providence,
Sept. 25, 1898.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 79

Page 306.

909. JOHN S. MOWRY.

CHILDREN.

1021. John S., b. in Greenville, Conn., Nov. 7, 1866.

1022. S. Jared, b. in Greenville, June 27, 1868.
1022a. Jessie, b. April 14, 1870; died July 25, 1871.

1023. Hallie B., b. in Preston, Conn., Dec. 16, 1872.

1024. Grace E., b. in Preston, Oct. 20, 1874.
1024a. Oliver Griswold, b. April 11, 1878.

Page 307.

Further record of the children of Ruth Wheeler and
George Inman.

Ruth W. Inman (the mother) died April 12, 1900,
aged nearly 78 years.

GEORGE BUFFUM married Ellen Rebecca Kent, at
Providence, R. I., March 7, 1867.

WILLARD FREDERICK, married (1), July 8, 1868,
Ruth Ann Bradford, of Smithfield, R. I.

THEIR CHILDREN.

Frederick May, b. May 4, 1869.

Caroline Winslow, b. July 30, 1871 ; died Aug. 20,
1891.
Ruth A. died in Providence, Nov. 9, 1877, aged 30
j'-ears. He married (2), Dec. 17, 1878, Harriet A. Pierce,
of Walpole, N. H.

CHILD.

Eva Jessie, b. July 14, 1880.
He married (3) Irene Morehouse, 1890.

80 THE MOWEY FAMIIiY.

EUGENE FERDINAND married, Sept. 26, 1872,
Sarah Frances Taylor.

CHILD.

Ruth Ella, b. Oct. 9, 1877.

ARTHUR IRVING married (1), Oct. 31, 1877, Eu-
phemia Reid, of Providence, R. I.

CHILDEEN.

Annie Reid, b. July 15, 1880.
Robert Wheeler, b. April 7, 1885.

Euphemia died in Providence, Oct. 19, 1888, aged 40
years.

He married (2), Jan. 1, 1891, Carrie Alice Knowlton.

ELIZA ANN married, Oct. 14, 1874, George Russell
Loud, of Providence.

CHILDKEN.

Mabel Alice, b. July 12, 1875.
Harry Bertram, b. July 21, 1877.
Bessie Vining, b. Oct. 3, 1880.

AUGUSTUS WASHINGTON married, Dec. 28, 1880,
Evelyn E. Steere, daughter of Mo wry and Ellen M.
Steere. She was born July 13, 1854.

CHILD.

Amey Goodwyn, b. May 24, 1882.

WALTER SAMUEL married, Jan. 29, 1884, Belle L.
Richardson, at Waverley, N. Y. He died in Randolph,
Mass., Nov. 1, 1887, after a short illness of typhoid fever.
No children.

ADDITIONS AND CORKECTIONS. 81

MARY ALBERTA married, July 4, 1878, P. Webster
Loud, of South Weymouth, Mass.

CHILDREN.

Edward Inman, b. Sept. 1, 1881.
Augustus Inman, b. April, 1887.

ALICE WOOD married, July 12, 1891, George Ernest
Litchfield, son of Anderson and Sarah (Taylor) Litch-
field, all of Providence.

CHILD.

Ernest Inman, b. June 16, 1898, in Providence.

CHARLIE ELMER married, Jan. 1, 1890, Carrie E.
Phillips.

CHILDREN.

George Elmer, b. May 8, 1895.
Edith Julia, b. July 8, 1899.

Page 310.

1029. ARTHUR MAY MOWRY, b. Jan. 19, 1862;
married Blanche Swett, daughter of Henry A. and Mary
M. Swett, of Gloucester, Mass., July 5, 1888 ; died at his
father's house in Hyde Park, Mass., June 19, 1900, aged
38 years.

Arthur May Mowry was prepared for college in the
school of which his father was senior principal. He grad-
uated from Brown University in 1883, at the age of 21.
He taught in High Schools and Academies in the follow-
ing places : Barre, Vt. ; Woonsocket, R. I. ; South Wil-
liamstown, Gloucester, and Salem, Mass. In the latter
city he was for six years at the head of the Department

82 THE MOWEY FAMILY.

of Science. He resigned this position to pursue his studies
as a graduate student in Harvard University. From Har-
vard he received the degree of Master of Arts, and during
his three years of study there he mastered most of the
courses given in that University in Historical and Political
Science, both undergraduate and graduate. The subject
which he took for a thesis upon entering upon this grad-
uate work he afterward expanded into a large volume
which is soon to be published by Longmans, Green & Co.,
in the Harvard Historical Series. The book is entitled
" The Constitutional Struggle in Rhode Island." It is
now in the hands of the committee on publication. His
intentions were to devote one year more to this line of
study, when he would have received from Harvard the
degree of Ph.D. ; but his health failed and he went to
Southern California to regain it. For four years he made
a heroic fight for his life, but he could not prevail over
the insidious disease tuberculosis. During his residence
upon the Pacific coast his mind was very active, and jointly
with his father he wrote and published two books, entitled
" First Steps in the History of Our Country " and " Ameri-
can Inventions and Inventors." While at Harvard, he,
with his father, had written and published a work of three
hundred and more pages, entitled " A History of the
United States." By himself he also wrote and nearly
finished a text-book for the schools, entitled " First Steps
in the History of England." As a scholar he was broad
and accurate, as a thinker he was methodical and original,
as a writer he was terse, clear, and critical. He made
friends everywhere, and he secured from all the highest

ADDITIONS AND CORHECTIONS. 83

respect for his ability and his character. He left multi-
tudes of friends, both East and West, who sincerely mourn
his early death.

1030. RUTH EMELINE MOWRY, b. June 16, 1867 ;
married, Oct. 30, 1889, Edward Waters Brown, of North-
bridge, Mass., son of George R. and Emily C. Brown.

CHILDREN.

Mabel Mowry, b. in Boston, Mass., May 25, 1891.
Bancroft Huntington, b. in Hyde Park, Mass., Nov. 11,
1894.

Page 312.

919. WILLIAM A. MOWRY, the editor of this vol-
ume, has had a busy life, somewhat varied since the volume
was published twenty-two years ago. He continued at
the head of the private school which he had established in
Providence until the summer of 1884. In the year 1874,
he and his associate, Mr. Charles B. Goff, built a school-
house to accommodate their pupils. This building was
situated on Snow Street, in the central part of Provi-
dence, in a very desirable location. It was more than
ninety feet square, and consisted of three stories. It was
a handsome and expensive building of brick, elegantly
finished, with all the modern improvements, and admirably
adapted to school purposes. It has often been called the
best lighted, heated, and ventilated schoolhouse in New
England. For about twenty years the first floor was occu-
pied by the Providence Public Library and the two upper
stories by the school. The school has had between three
and four thousand different pupils, about five hundred of

84 THE MOWEY FAMILY.

whom have graduated and received the school diploma.
Nearly five hundred of its pupils have subsequently taken
a college course. At one time eight persons in the faculty
of Brown University were graduates of this school.

In 1884 Mr. Mowry sold his interest in the school and
removed to Boston. He became managing editor of the
New England Journal of Education, and was one of three
equal owners and proprietors in the New England Pub-
lishing Co. Subsequently he sold his stock in this com
pany, and purchased from it the magazine Education,
which he edited and published for a series of years. In
1891, and for several years subsequently, he was Superin-
tendent of the schools of Salem, Mass. He resigned this
position in 1894 and removed to Hyde Park, Mass., where
he now resides. During the past six years he has divided
his time between lecturing, principally at teachers' insti-
tutes, and writing, in which business he is now engaged.
It has been estimated that he has given 1,600 different
lectures to an aggregate of 80,000 different persons, most
of them school teachers. Within the last six years he has
lectured in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and California. He has
published from his pen the following books : " The De-
scendants of Nathaniel Mowry, of Rhode Island," " Rich-
ard Mowry of Uxbridge, His Ancestors and Descendants,"
" Talks with My Boys," " Studies in Civil Government,"
" The Elements of Civil Government," " History of Ux-
bridge Academy," and in connection with his son, Arthur
May Mowry, he was co-author of a " History of the United

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 85

States," " First Steps in the History of Our Country," and
" American Inventions and Inventors." He has now in
press, which will soon be issued, " Dr. Marcus Whitman
and the Early Days of Oregon," and " The Territorial
Growth of the United States." Besides these volumes
Mr. Mowry has published many pamphlets, addresses, and
magazine and newspaper articles.

During the last fourteen years he has been President of
the Marthas Vineyard Summer Institute, where each
summer have gathered for instruction from four hundred
to six hundred teachers, representing forty different States.
During the last few years it has come to be generally ad-
mitted and understood that this is a school of the highest
rank, doing the most thorough and the best professional
and scholastic work for practical teachers.

He served for six years as a member of the School
Board of Providence, R. I., and for three years as member
of the Boston School Board. In 1882 he received the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Bates College, Lew-
iston. Me. He has been President of the Rhode Island
Institute of Instruction, the American Institute of In-
struction, of the Department of Higher Education in the
National Educational Association, of the Congregational
Club of Providence, R. I., of the Massachusetts Council
of the American Institute of Civics, and for many years
he has been a member of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the National Council of Educa-
tion, the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, and
the American Historical Association.

The above facts concerning Mr. Mowry's later life have

86 THE MO WRY FAMILY.

been compiled from the reports of the American Histor-
ical Association ; a book prepared under the supervision of
John C. Rand, published in Boston, 1890, entitled " One
of a Thousand," being a series of biographical sketches of
one thousand representative men resident in the Common-
wealth of Massachusetts ; and other sources.

Page 314.

1001a. ADELBERT FRANKLIN MOWRY, son of

William Francis, b. Feb. 26, 1865 ; married Isabelle A.
DeLand, daughter of William and Eliza DeLand. She
was born in Holyoke, Mass., May 12, 1865.

CHILDBElsr.

1045. Raymond Mayo, b. Nov. 12, 1889.

1046. Earle William, b. Aug. 17, 1891.

INDEX.

I. Names of all Mowrys in this Supplement.

[The figures refer to the page in the Supplement; w. wife, s. son, d. daughter.]

Abby J., d. of Jencks 50

Abiel, s. of Elisha 25

Abigail, d. of Thomas 20

Abigail, d. of John 20

Abigail, d. of Thomas 20

Abigail, d. of John 22

Abner Ballou, s. of Amasa 40
Adelbert Franklin, s. of

William Francis 78, 86

Ahab, s. of Nathaniel 3fl, 38
Albert, s. of Ahab 38

Albert Erastus, s. of Harris J. 75
Albert Erastus. s.of Elisha C. 76
Albert, s. of Barney 56

Aldus Augustus, s. of

Augustus 34

Aldus, s. of Mercillo 35

Alfred Bowen, s. of Uriah 32, 56
Alice S., d. of Jesse 58, 59

Allen, s. of Delbert 60

Alma, d. of Hansi 35

Almira, d. of Nathaniel 36

Alpha, d. of Augustus 34

Alzada B., d. of Welcome 66
Amasa, s. of Elisha 25

Amasa, s. of Israel 27

Amasa, s. of John 40

Amasa, s. of John 26

Aner E., d. of Jesse 58, 60

Angeline, d. of Rowe

Bradley 35

Ann Maria, d. of Zebina 44

Ann A. , d. of Israel 32

Anne, d. of William 43

Anne, d. of Aaron 31

Anson Byron, s. of WilliamB. 55
Anthony, s. of Job 32, 40

Arinda, d. of Eliakim 39

Arlon, s. of Barney 57

Arnold Jencks, s. of Wil-
liam B. 55

Arthur May, s. of William A . 81
Asha Annie Elizabeth, d. of

Dr. Samuel 78

Atwell, s. of Barney 58

Augustus, s. of Joseph 33

Augustus, s. of Rowe Bradley 35
Azael, s. of Israel 25

Bainbridge, s. of Caleb 45

Barney, s. of Caleb 44

Barbara B., d. of Israel 32

Benjamin, s. of Benjamin 20
Benjamin, s. of Joseph 19

Benjamin, s. of Roger 5, 13, 16
Benjamin, s. of Jonathan 17
Bertha M., d. of Isaac L. 62

Bertha V., d. of Orin Pratt 56
Bethia, d. of Roger 3, 15

Betsey C. , d. of Israel 32

Birdie May Rosalea, d. of

George 64, 65

Blanche, d. of Charles 56

Bradley, s. of Mercillo 35

Burdette F., s. of Welcome 66

Caleb, s. of Jonathan 32

Charles, s. of Aaron 41

Charles, s. of Charles 56
Charles Edward, s. of

Charles C. 77
Charles Franklin, s. of

William H. 65
Charles Frederick, s. of

George 64

Charles H., s. of Daniel 37

Charles S. , s. of Aaron 31

Charles S., s. of Otis 28
Charles Wilbei't, s. of

Thomas 61
Clara Belle, d. of Thomas 61, 63

Claude M. , s. of Delbert 60

88

THE MOWBY FAMILY.

Clifford L., s. of Isaac L. 62

Content Ballou, d. of Amasa 40
Cordelia L., d. of Henry 44

Cornelia E., d. of Cornelius 59
Cornelius, s. of Jesse 58, 59

Cornelius, s. of Jonathan 17
Cynthia, d. of Uriah 32

Daniel, s. of Joseph 14

Daniel, s. of Nathaniel 36

Daniel, Jr., s. of Daniel 35

Darwin Rush, s. of Daniel 78
David C, s. of Jesse 58, 59

Daza Page, d. of Elisha C. 76
Delbert, s. of Jesse 5, 8, 60

Delia Ann, d. of William 43
Diana, d, of Nathaniel 36

Duty, s. of Caleb 44

Earle William, s. of

Adelbert P. 86

Earle, s. of John 31

Ebenezer C. , s. of John 22

Edward Eugene, s. of Thomas 61
Edwin A., s. of Elisha 46

Edwin A., s. of Edwin 55

Edwin A., s. of Stephen 55

Elbridge Smith, s. of Uriah 33
Eliakim, s. of John 26

Eliakim, s. of John 38

Elijah, s. of Ahab 38

Elisha, s. of Henry 24

Elisha, s. of Eliakim 38, 46

Elisha Arnold, s. of Elisha 46
Elisha Capron, s. of Harris J. 76
Elisha Capron, s. of Elisha C. 76
Eliza, d. of Arnold 46

Eliza, d. of Mercillo 35

Eliza Melissa, d. of Elisha 46
Elizabeth, d. of Thomas 21

Elizabeth, d. of John 22

Elizabeth, d. of Israel 27

Elizabeth, d. of Roger 5, 13, 16
Ellen P., d. of Edwin 55

Elmer Ellsworth, s. of Elisha 46
Elpha, d. of Uriah 33

Elsey, d. of John 26

Elsie Pidelia, d. of Thomas

61,62
Emily, d. of Zebina 44

Emma Ballou, d. of John 78
Emma Ballou, d. of John

Orde 56

Emma Eliza, d. of Oscar

Vernon 46

Emma Lillian, d. of Arlon 57
Ermina P., d. of Stafford 58
Ernest Andrew, s. of George 64
Erwin Jesse, s. of Jesse 27, 28
Esek, s. of Elisha 24

Esek, s. of Elisha 24

Ethel, d. of Joseph 50

Eunice, d. of Hansi 35

Eugene C, s. of Arlon 57

Experience, d. of Nathaniel 18
Ezra W., s. of Israel 32

Fanny W. , d. of Jencks 50

Peritryna, d. of Augustus 34
Florence May, d. of Thomas

61,63
Florence Passmore, d. of

William John 78

Francis Baxter, s. of Anthony

40
Francis Emily, d. of Tyler 45
Frank L., s. of Liscom 37

Frank L., s. of Lyman 60

Franklin S. , s. of Stephen 55
Fred B., s. of Isaac L. 62

Genevia Illy, d. of David 59

George, s. of George A. 63

George A., s. of Robert 66

George Aner, s. of George 64
George Ephraim, s.of George 64

Gertrude B., d. of Isaac L. 62

Gideon, s. of Richard 14

Gideon, s. of Uriah 25
Gillespie Birney, s. of

Anthony 40

Grace E., d. of John S. 79

Grover C, s. of Isaal L. 62

Hallie B., d. of John S. 79

Hannah, d. of Roger 5, 16

Hannah, d. of Jonathan 17

Hannah, d. of John 22

Hannah B., w. of Jonathan 71
Hannah D., d. of Jencks 50

Hansi, s. of Augustus 34, 35

Harold Jencks, s. of Joseph 50
Harriet W., d. of Arlon 57

Harriet, d. of Ahab 38

Hattie A., d. of Jesse 58, 60

Helen Sayles, d. of Joseph 50
Henry, s. of Oscar Vernon 46
Henry B., s. of Zebina 44

Henry, s. of Elisha 25

Henry, s. of Henry 33

INDEX.

89

Herbert Artcmus, s. of David 59

Hethcott M., s. of Elisha 45

Hiram Allen, s. of Israel 27
Hobart Bushnell, s. of

Anthony 40

Howard P., s. of Frank 38
Huldah Caroline, d. of Daniel 37

Irene, d. of Rowe Bradley 35
Isaac Leonard, s. of

Thomas 61, 62

Isabella, d. of Gideon 72
Isabella Frances, d. of

Leland Francis 47

Israel, s. of Israel 26

Israel, s. of John 26

Israel, s. of Israel 32

Israel, s. of Elisha 24

Jabez W., s. of Ruben 72

James B., s. of David 59
James Rodney, s. of

Hethcott M. 45
Jane A., d. of Jencks 50, 54

Jencks, s. of Nathaniel 36

Jencks, s. of Joseph 47
Jennie Louisa, d. of John

Orde 56

Jennie Idella, d. of Thomas 61

Jeremiah, s. of Elisha 25

Jeremiah, s. of John 26

Jerome B., s. of Daniel 37

Jesse Cleo, s. of David 59

Jesse, s. of Israel 27

Jesse, s. of Gideon 31

Jesse, s. of George A. 58

Jessie, d. of John S. 79

Joanna, d. of Nathaniel 18

Job, s. of Lawyer Joseph 33

John, s. of Roger 16

John, s. of Jonathan 17

John, s. of Benjamin 20

John, s. of John 20

John, s. of Thomas 21

John, s. of John 22

John, s. of John 22

John, Jr., s. of Nathaniel 24

John, s. of Joseph 26

John, s. of John 26

John, s. of Mercillo 35

John J., s. of Erwin Jesse 29
John Nelson, s. of William

John 78

John Orde, s. of Amasa 40

John Oi-de, s. of Eliezer 55

John S., s. of John S. 79
John S., s. of Dea. Samuel 79
Jonathan, s. of Roger

5, 13, 15, 16

Jonathan, s. of Gideon 14

Jonathan, s. of Jonathan 16

Jonathan, s. of Jonathan 17

Jonathan, s. of John 20

Joseph, s. of Nathaniel 14

Joseph, s. of Daniel 14

Joseph, s. of Roger 16

Joseph, s. of Jonathan 17

Joseph, s. of Joseph 19

Joseph, 8. of John 26

Joseph, s. of Benjamin 19

Joseph E. , s. of Jencks 50
Josephine, d. of Rowe

Bradley 35
Julia Ann, d. of Israel 27, 28

Lamech C., s. of Reuben 72

Laura, d. of Rowe Bradley 35
Laura, d. of Augustus 34

Laura Ann, d. of Israel 27, 28
Lavina, d. of Eliakim 38

Lavina, d. of Abiel 33

Leland Francis, s. of Elisha

46,47
Leroy J., s. of Jesse 58, 60

Lester James, s. of Samuel F. 65
Liami, d. of Abiel 33

Liscom, s. of Daniel 37

Lorena C. , d. of Welcome 66
Lucetta, d. of Gideon 72

Lucretia, d. of John 26

Lucretia, d. of Eliakim 39

Lucretia, w. of Jesse Jencks 30
Lucy Amanda, d. of Elisha

46, 55
Lydia Amey, d. of Elisha 46
Lydia, d. of John 54

Lydia, d. of Uriah 33

Lydia H., d. of Stephen 35

Lyman W., s. of Jesse 58, 59

Mae Belle, d. of George 64

Major Thomas, s. of George 64

Mariah, d. of Ahab 38

Margarite, d. of Burdette F. 66

Maria, d. of Uriah 32

Maria, d. of Jonathan 17

Marion M., d. of Henry 44

Martha, d. of Joseph 19

Martha, d. of Nathaniel 19

Martha, d. of Gideon 25

90

THE MOWKY FAMILY.

Martha, d. of Augustus 34

Martha, d. of Robert 44

Martha Eliza, d. of David 50

Mary, d . of Jonathan 17

Mary, d. of Joseph 19
Mary, d. of Roger 5, 13, 15
Mary Elizabeth, d, of

William 41

Mary, d. of Thomas 20

Marv, d. of Aaron 31

Mary, d. of John 22

Mary, d. of Judge Daniel 35

Mary, d. of Thomas 61
Mary Ann, d. of Oscar

Vernon 46

Mary B., d. of Hethcott M. 45

Mary Lucina, d. of Burdette 66

Mary M., d. of Zebina 45

Mason, s. of Daniel 37

Maude Blanche, d. of Eugene 57
Mahitable, d. of Roger 3, 16

Mehitable, d. of Thomas 21

Mercillo, d. of Augustus 34, 35

Mercy, d. of Nathaniel 18

Mercy Jane, d. of Elisha 46

Mildred A., d. of Cornelius 59

Minnie, d. of Irwin Jesse 29
Minniebelle Elizabeth, d. of

George 64

M. Jennie, d. of Stephen 55
Mortimer, s. of Rowe

Bradley 35

Morton, s. of Jeremiah 36

Nancy, w. of Russell 31

Nancy, d. of Augustus 34

Nancy, d. of George A, 70

Nancy, d. of David 32

Nancy Effie, d. of Thomas 61

Nathan, s. of Uriah 24

Nathan, s. of Nathaniel 36
Nathaniel, s. of Roger 14, 16

Nathaniel, s. of Thomas 21

Nathaniel, s. of John 26

Nathaniel, s. of John 36

Nellie F. , d. of Liscom 37
Nellie Gladys, d. of

Leland F. 47

Nelson H., s. of Nathaniel 45

Oliver Griswold, s. of John S. 79
Orin Pratt, s. of Barney 56

Orlando, s. of Augustus 34, 35
Oscar Vernon, s. of Elisha 46
Oscarine, d. of Rowe Bradley 35
Otis, s. of David 28

Patience, d. of Nathaniel 18

Patience, d. of Elisha 25

Patience, d. of Amasa 39

Pearl L. , d. of Isaac L, 62

Phebe, w. of Sayles 31

Phebe, d. of Gideon 72

Phebe, d, of Ahab 38

Raymond G., s. of Jencks 50
Raymond Mayo, s. of

Adelbert F. 86

Reliance, d. of Jonathan 17

Rhoda, d. of Ahab 38

Richard, s. of Joseph 14

Richard, s. of Mercillo 35
Richard D., Jr., s. of

Richard D. 72

Robert, s. of Joseph 19

Robert F. , s. of Frank 38

Robert Ray, s. of Isaac L. 62
Robert Richmond, s. of

George 64
Roger, who came from

England 3, 14

Roger, s. of Benjamin 19

Roger, s. of Joseph 19
Roger Williams, s. of Jabez 72
Rowe Bradley, s. of Augustus 34
Russell Thayer, s. of

Lyman W. 60

Ruth, d. of Jeremiah 36

Ruth, d. of Alfred Bowen 56, 78
Ruth Wheeler, d. of

Jonathan 73, 79
Ruth Emeline, d. of

William A. 83

Samuel, s. of Daniel
Samuel, s. of Nathaniel
Samuel, s. of Havilah
Samuel Franklin, s. of

George
Sarah, d. of Nathaniel
Sarah, d. of Joseph
Sarah, d. of Elisha
Sarah, d. of Stephen
Sarah E., d. of Edwin
Sarah E., d. of Isaac L.
Sarah Elizabeth, d. of

Thomas
Sarah Ross, d, of Elisha
Sayles, s. of Aaron
Shubael, s. of Nathaniel
Silas, s. of Jonathan
S. Jared, s. of John S.

35

36,38

70

64, 65
17
19
25
55
55
62

61

). 76
31

36,38
17
79

INDEX.

91

Smith Ray, s. of Stephen 41

Stafford, a. of Barney 57

Stephen, s. of Aaron 31

Stephen W., s. of Stephen 55
Susan Daiiing, d. of

William J. 78

Susan Lydia, d. of Gideon 72

Susanna C, d. of John 22

Susanna, d. of Tliomas 20

Susanna, d. of John 22

Sylvia Dell, d. of Jesse 58

Thankful, d. of Jonathan l'''
Theodore Tyler, s. of Jackson 70
Theodore Chase, s. of

Theodore Tyler 70
Thomas, s. of Roger 5, 16, 21

Thomas, s. of Thomas 20

Thomas J., s. of Aaron 31

Thomas, s. of George A. 60

Thomas L., s. of Isaac L. 62
Thomas Welcome, s. of

Thomas 61

Tyler, s. of Jeremiah 33

Uriah, s. of Henry 24

Uriah, s. of Uriah 25

Uriah, s. of Gideon 25

Uriah, s. of Elisha 25

Uriah, s. of Uriah 32

Uriah, Jr., s. of Uriah 43

Vernie Jane, d. of David
Victoria Estella, d. of

Leland Francis
Viola I., d. of Atwell

Waite, d. of Elisha
Waite, d. of Elisha
Waity, d. of Ahab
Waity, d. of Israel
Wallace Gray, s. of Frank
Wanton, s. of Uriah
Welcome, s. of John
Welcome, s. of George A,
Wendell Southwick, s. of

Theodore Tyler
Whipple, s. of Augustus
William, s. of Uriah
Wilfred L,, s. of Eugene
Wilfred L., s. of Arlon
William A., s. of Jonathan
William Bainbridge, s. of

Amasa
William Bainbridge, s. of

Eliezer
William E., s. of Isaac L.
William Francis, s. of

Alfred B.
William Herman, s. of

George
William John, s. of John

Zebina, s. of Elisha

59

47
58

24
26
38
27
38
25
26
66

70
34
43
57
57
83

40

55
62

56, 78

64, 65

77

44

II. Names of all persons not Mowrys in this Supplement.

[The figures denote the page.]

Adams, Rebecca
Aldrich, Ann E.
Allen, Margaret
Andrews, Ferdinand
Anderson, Rev. Thomas
Angell, Gilbert R.
Angell, Henry M.
Arnold, William
Arnold, Laura
Arnold, Mary Elizabeth
Austin, John O.

Ballou, Adela B.
Ballou, Arnold
Ballou, Eliza R.

20

Ballou, Elizabeth Mabel

29

32

Ballou, George Smith

29

29

Ballou, Luke Phillips

29

54

Batcheller, Byron B.

57

54

Batcheller, Estene E.

57

40

Batcheller, Leland E.

57

39

Batcheller, Mertina L.

57

27

Batcheller, Merton L.

57

27, 29

Batcheller, Stephen E.

57

27, 29

Batcheller,' Stephen W.

57

3

Blake, Rev. Mortimer

33

Bourne, Hannah

16

42

Bowen, Horatio F.

32

45

Bowen, Ruth

32

26

Brackett, William

32

92

THE MOWEY FAMILY.

Bradford, Ruth Ann 79

Branch, John B. 50

Bray ton, Content 71

Brayton, David 71

Brayton, Hannah 71

Brayton, Mary 71

Brayton, Patience 71

Brayton, Preserved 71

Brayton, Stephen 71

Brig-gs, James H. 55

Briggs, Phebe 38

Brooks, Timothy 16
Brown, Bancroft Huntington 83

Brown, Edward Waters 83

Brown, George 54

Brown, Lavina 54

Brown, Lucy M. 59

Brown, Mabel Mowry 83

Brown, Maria H. 57

Brown, Mary 54

Brown, Otis 54

Brown, Rebecca 26

Brown, Susan 54

Brown, William 54

Buffum, Julia Etta 30

Bumpas, 17

Burdick, Asa 55

Burlingame, Jane 31

Bushee, Edwin 44

Capron, Banfield 76

Chase, Anna Pamelia 70

Chase, Polly 33

Cheney, Mary 22

Coe, Ephraim 32

Coggeshall, Anna 19

Coggeshall, Daniel 19

Coggeshall, Joseph 19

Coggeshall, Joshua 19

Coggeshall, Mary 19

Coggeshall, Peleg 19

Coggeshall, Phebe 19

Coggeshall, Wait 19

Comstock, Metcalf 33

Comstock, Welcome A. 33

Cook, Ada B. 63

Cook, Duty 35

Cook, Edward 63

Cook, George B. 29

Cook, Mamie M. 63

Cook, Mowry 35

Cook, Orin 29

Cook, Sarah E. 63

Colburn, Samuel 32

Collis, Harriet 27

Cornish, Eva Y. 60

Crowell, Albert 57

Culver, Amanda 62

Currier, George 29

Dart, Edna Maud 65

DeLand, Isabelle A. 86

Downing, Emanuel 4, 11

Draper, Marie F. 63

Draper, Mildred L. 63

Draper, Walter 63

Edmunds, 35

Enches, Mary C, 39

Felton, Nathaniel 4, 11

Fisher, Marion L. 37

Piske, Chloe 34

Follett, Lewis Whipple 29

Poster, Mary 15

Fripelett, Carrie V. 59

Goldthwait, Alwilda Ann 28

Goldthwait, John 28

Goldthwait, Julia A. 28, 55

Goldthwait, Julia Etta 28

Goldthwait, Maria Jane 28
Goldthwait, Rebecca Brown 28
Goldthwait, William Mowry 28

Goldthwait, William 28
Goldthwait, Varina Davis 28

Gooding, George

35

Gortner, Polly

31

Gray, Mary Ann

37

Green,

35

Greene,

78

Greene, Patience

71

Hall, Abraham

18

Hall, Alice

18

Hall, Amey

18

Hall, Anne

18

Hall, Edward

' 18

Hall, Freelove

18

Hall, Martha

18

Hall, Mary

18

Hall, Mercy

18

Hall, Rachel

18

Hall, Sarah

18

Hall, William

18

Hames, Charles

35

Hamilton, Anna

40

Harris, Abigail

20,22

Harris, Dinah

25

Harris, Israel

25

INDEX.

98

Harris, Jesse 25

Harris, John 20

Harris, John l}f)

Harris, Jonathan 25

Harris, Joseph 20

Harris, Martha 25

Harris, Nathan 25

Harris, Lydia 25

Harris, Preserved 25

Harris, Rufus 25

Harris, Sarah 55

Harris, Thomas 76

Harris, Timothy 20

Harris, Waity 47

Harris, William 36

Harris, William Torrey 36

Hartwell, Everett 54

Hart well, John 54

Hartwell, Madolin 54

Hartwell, Mortimer A. 54

Hazard, Thomas 16

Heath, Rev. Mr. 12

Heise, Albert 78

Hendrick, Alice Mabel 78

Hendrick, Chester Earl 78

Hendrick, Edith Joline 78

Hendrick, Jerome 78

Hendrick, Laster Carlton 78

Hines, 35

Houston, Nellie 40

Hubbell, Sardis Fletcher 44

Hutchinson, Emma 29

Hutchinson, Evie 29

Hutchinson, William 29

Inman, Alice Wood 81
Inman, Amey Goodwin 80
Inman, Annie Reid 80
Inman, Arthur Irving' 80
Inman, Augustus Wash-
ington 80
Inman, Caroline Winslow 79
Inman, Charlie Elmer 81
Inman, Edith Julia 81
Inman, Eliza Ann 80
Inman, Eugene Ferdinand 80
Inman, Eva Jessie 79
Inman, Frederick May 79
Inman, George 73
Inman, George Buffum 79
Inman, George Elmer 81
Inman, Joanna 16
Inman, John 16
Inman, Mary Alberta 81
Inman, Robert Wheeler 80

Inman, Ruth Ella 80

Inman, Samuel Walter 80

Inman, Willard Frederick 79

Jackson, Harriet A.

45

Jencks, Elisha

30

.lencks, Haverill

30

Jencks, Huldah

30

Jencks, Huldah Caroline

36

Jencks, Jesse

30

Jencks, Jesse A.

30

Jencks, Mowry

30

Jencks, Patience

30

Jencks, Waity

30

Jencks, Welcome

30

Johnson, Mary

3

Johnson, John

3

Jontz, Ada M.

60

Kingsbury, Jonah (or

Joshua)

21

Kingsbury, Noah

21

Kingsley, Eldad

3,16

Kingsley, John

3

Kinner, C. L.

66

Kinner, Bernice

66

Kinner, Karl

66

Kline, Author Dean

65

Kline, Edna Ray

65

Kline, Ethel Lucetta

65

Kline, George Lawrence

65

Kline, Robert Lincoln

65

Knowlton, Carrie Alice

80

Lapham, Arad

54

Lapham, George

54

Lapham, Lydia

54

Lapham, Mowry

54

Leavitt, Israel

21

Lee, Mason Mowry

28

Lester, Mrs.

40

Lewis, Sarah

44

Litchfield, Ernest Inman

81

Litchfield, George Ernest

81

Lockwood, Mamie

47

Loud, Augustus Inman

81

Loud, Bessie Vining

80

Loud, Edward Inman

81

Loud, George Russell

80

Loud, Harry Bertram

80

Loud, Mabel Alice

80

Loud, Webster

81

Malavery, John

18

Malavery, John

19

94

THE MOWEY FAMILY.

Malavery, Nathaniel

19

Mann, Walter B.

58

Marble, Ruth

37

March, Elizabeth Clark

24

McNay, Jessie Eleanor

60

McNay, J. W.

60

McNay, Leola Mary

60

McNay, Neva Althea

60

Metcalf, Esther

20

Mitchell, Jessie

41

Mitchell, Jessie

56

Morehouse, Irene

79

Morgan, Emma

66

Morse, Eleanor Louise

56

Morse, Harold Winthrop

66

Morse, Harriet

36

Morse, Mildred

56

Morse, Oscar J.

56

Morse, Richmond Oscar

56

Moses, Annelia Lois

70

Moses, Edwin Ralph

70

Moses, Eugene Wilfred

70

Moses, Francis Willard

70

Moses, Jessie M.

70

Moses, Robert Sheperd

70

Moses, Webster Lloyd

70

Moses, Webster W.

70

Newell, Amasa

39

Newell, Arnold

39

Newell, Lydia

39

Newell, Mary

39

Newell, Phila

39

Newell, Samuel

20

Newell, Samuel

22

Newell, Susanna

16

Newell, Thomas A.

39

Newton, Lafayette

28

Nichols, Lucy E.

36

Nickson, James

28

Nickerson, - — -

34

Nickerson, Eliza

34

Nickerson, John

34

O'Neal, Bessie

63

O'Neal, Earle

63

O'Neal, Edward L.

63

O'Neal, James

63

O'Neal, J. Herbert

63

O'Neal, Marguerite

63

O'Neal, Sarah F.

63

O'Neal, Thomas L.

63

Paine,

26

Paine, Ephraim

32

Paine, Jesse 44

Paine, John 24

Paine, Laura 44

Paine, Lydia 38

Paine, Stephen 6

Paine, Urania 24

Paine, Waity M. 32

Paine, Waitee M. 40

Page, Harriet Marble 76

Passmore, Sarah Frances 77

Phetteplace, Benjamin 18

Phetteplace, Job 18

Phetteplace, Jonathan 18

Phetteplace, Mercy 18

Phetteplace, Phillip 18

Phetteplace, Sarah 18

Phetteplace, Walter 18

Phetteplace, Walter 24

Phillips, Huldah 31

Phillips, John 17

Phillips, Mercy 17

Phillips, Richard 17

Phillips, Richard 17

Phillips, Smith 31

Phillips, William 17

Phillips, Ruth 17

Pierce, Harriet A. 79

Postlethwaite, Dora M. 62

Postlethwaite, Forest D. 63

Postlethwaite, Frank L. 63

Postlethwaite, Gilbert G. 62

Postlethwaite, Glen 63

Postlethwaite, Myrtle B. 62

Postlethwaite, {loss C. 62

Postlethwaite, T. Leslie 62

Postlethwaite, William O. 62

Postlethwaite, Verne 63

Potter, Martha 16

Pratt, Fanny M. 46

Reid, Euphemia 80

Richardson, Belle L. 80

Richardson, Hannah 76

Richardson, Mowry 36

Ruggles, H. S. 3

Saben, Lucy 45

Sapp, Aner 63

Sapp, Lucina 66

Sapp, Sarah E. -60

Sawyer, Leander 72

Sayles, Hannah 44

Scott, Penelope 54

Sherman, Benjamin 16

Small, Dr. Moses W. 54

INDEX.

95

Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
cent
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith:
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith
Smith!
Smith
Smith

Abigail

Anna

Bathsheba

Dinah

Edward

Elijah

Eliza Rebecca

Emma Waity

Elnathan

Ephraim

Esther

Freelove

Hannah

Hannah

Jacob

Jencks Brown

Jencks Brown Vin

Jethro

John

John

Joseph

Joseph

Katharine Louise

Lena Frances

Martha

Mary Genevieve

Mary Mercy

Rebecca

Rufus

Samuel

Susanna

Wilson Elijah
Southwick, Mary A.
Stanley, Adelbert
Stattor, Mary Elizabeth
Steere, Evelyn E.
Stephens, Elizabeth
Stickell, Eliza
Swett, Blanche
Sweet, Perry

Taft, Jesse

18
19

18
18
18
27

27, 29
28
18

28, 30
19
33
33
46
18

28, 30

30
18
19
19
18
18
30
30
19
30
27, 29
18
19
18
18
30
37
28
65
80
20
58
81
35

27

Taft, Samuel 32

Taft, Sarah 32

Taft, Susan 32

Taylor, Sarah Frances 80

Thayer, Aurilla 36

Thayer, Eleanor B. 59

Thayer, George Flagg 41

Thayer, Harriet L. 41

Thayer, Herbert M. 41

Thayer, John 36

Thayer, Mary Jane 41

Thayer, Mowry R. 36

Thayer, Stephen D. 36

Thayer, Sullivan 41

Thomas, Mary Grady 47

Thompson, Eber D. 59

Thompson, Floyd Elmer 59

Thompson, Glenwood 59

Thompson, Hattie May 59

Thompson, John T. 59

Thompson, Mary Ann 45

Thompson, Sylvia Dell 59

Underwood, Daisy B. 57

Wall, Katharine 30
Ward, Mrs. Annie (O'Brien) 46

Watson, Charles 20

Weeks, Francis S. 54

Weld, Aaron Davis 22

West, Henry 58

West, Myra 58

West, William K. 58

White, Mary S. 44

Whitman, Harriet 57

Wilbur, Mary 16

Wilkinson, Amey 36

Wilkinson, Dr. John 35

Willard, Frances D. 78

Winchester, Hannah 20

Winchester, Mary 20

Wood, Asa 60

Woodbury, John 11

Woodward, A. P. 54

THE

MOWRY FAMILY MONUMENT

NEAR WOONSOCKET, R.I.

erected by
Hon. ARLON MOWRY

Boston

THE EVERETT PRESS

1901

Reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register
for April, 1898, with additions. '

A UNIQUE FAMILY MONUMENT.

By William A. Mowry, Ph.D., Hyde Park, Mass.

Within the cemetery near Woonsocket, R. I., opposite the
Friends' Meeting-House, and near the main entrance, has lately
been erected a unique monument to one branch of the Mowry
family in America, including nine generations. Excellent half-
tone cuts showing this monument and the inscriptions upon its
four sides, from photographs by Merrill, the photographic artist
in Woonsocket, are inserted in this pamphlet.

The monument is beautiful in design, of excellent propor-
tions, every way attractive and imposing, and, standing as it
does directly by the side of the thoroughfare, near the principal
entrance of the cemetery, cannot fail to attract the special at-
tention of all passers-by. It is made of white bronze, in color
resembling granite ; is five feet and a half square at the base,
and sixteen feet high. It is surmounted by a figure of Hope,
with one hand upon the anchor, and a face, exquisite in ex-
pression, turned upward. This monument was erected solely
at the expense of Hon. Arlon Mowry, now of Providence, but a
native and former resident of old Smithfield, later North
Smithfield.

Mr. Mowry has been a successful business man, is now
president of one of the banks in Woonsocket, and has served
his town and State in various public offices. He has been a
member of the General Assembly and has served as State Sen-
ator. He has shown great interest in historical and genealogical
matters, and his loyalty to the family whose name he bears has
impelled him to the erection of this unique monument.

Upon the panels and plinths of the four sides are placed the
inscriptions, which include the entire genealogy of one direct

4 THE MOWKY MONUMENT.

line of nine generations of Mowrys in this country, beginning
with Roger Mowry, one of the early settlers of Boston, and end-
ing with the children of Arlon, including their husbands and
wives.

These inscriptions include, as will be seen by reading them,
a great amount of information respecting this line of descend-
ants from the patriarch Roger. They give the names of more
than one hundred persons, and the entire inscriptions embrace
over one thousand words in telling the story.

The following are the inscriptions upon the four sides of this
monument : —

[north side. — FRONT.]

ERECTED

A. D. 1896.

By

Hon. Arlon Mowry

To the Memory of "

ROGER MOWRY

And

Eight Generations

Of His Descendants

Through HisSon

Nathaniel.

MOWRY.

Roger Mowry registered in Boston, Mass., after his arrival from
England, May 18, 1631. He lived in Plymouth for several years,
and later in Salem from about 1635 to 1649. He then removed to
Providence, R. I., where he resided till his death, Jan. 5, 1666.

He married Mary, daughter of John Johnson, of Roxbury, Mass.
She died January, 1679.

Children.

Roger, died young. . John, born about 1645.

Jonathan, born in 1637. Mehitable, born about 1646.

Bethiah, born in 1638. Joseph, born in 1647.

Mary, born in 1640. Benjamin, born in 1649.

Elizabeth, born in 1643. Thomas, born in 1652.

NATHANIEL, born in 1644. Hannah, born in 1656.

THE MOWBY MONUMENT.

[west side.]

NATHANIEL MOWRY.

Son of Roger,

born in 1644, married

in 1666 Johannah,

daughter of Edward Inman

of Providence,

(later Smithfield) one of

the first settlers in

Rhode Island.

Nathaniel died in Providence

Mar. 24, 1718.

Johannah survived him.

CHIL.DREN.

Nathaniel, Sarah,

John, Mary,

HENRY, Johannah,

Joseph, Patience,

Martha, Marcy,

Experience.

HENRY MOWRY, son of Nathaniel, born about 1670, married
1st, in 1701, Mary, daughter of Isaac and Mary Bull, of Newport.
Married, 2d, in 1726, Hannah Mowry, widow of John Mowry, 2d, of
Smithfield. Her maiden name was Packard. Mary died about
1725. Henry died in Smithfield Sept. 23, 1759. Hannah survived
him.

Children.

Mary, born Sept. 28, 1702. Jeremiah, born Apr. 7, 1711.

URIAH, born Aug. 15, 1705. Sarah, born Apr. 5, 1717.
Jonathan, born June 1, 1708. Elisha.
Phebe.

URIAH MOWRY, son of Henry, born Aug. 15, 1705, married, 1st,
about 1724, Urania, daughter of John Paine, of Providence. She
was born July 4, 1706. Married, 2d, in 1773, Hannah, widow of Wil-
liam Arnold, of Providence. She was daughter of Job Whipple.
Urania died Mar. 8, 1772. Uriah died in Smithfield Mar. 6, 1792.
Hannah survived him.

Children.

Martha, born Apr. 1, 1726. Wanton, born Aug. 7, 1739.

Nathan, born June 10, 1729. JONATHAN, born Mar. 10, 1742.

Stephen, born Dec. 13, 1731. Marv, born Oct. 30, 1745.

Philip, born Feb. 17, 1734. Elizabeth, born Oct. 30, 1748.

Gideon, born July 18, 1736.
And others, Jonathan being the seventh son.

THE MOWKY MONUMENT.

[south side.]

JONATHAN MOWRY,

son of Uriah,

born Mar. 10, 1742,

married in 1769, Deborah,

daughter of

Jabez and Mary Wing.

Jonathan died in Smithfield,

Mar. 25, 1814.

Deborah died July 13, 1825.

He was a noted doctor. He and his wife were
both members of the Society of Friends and were
preachers of note in that religious body.

Children.

Rebecca, born Feb. 9, 1770. Abigail, born Mar. 30, 1780.

CALEB, born Mar. 5, 1771. Dorcas, born May 6, 1782.

Anna, born Feb. 4, 1773. Urania, born June 21, 1785.

Robert, born Dec. 2, 1774. Peleg, born Feb. 2, 1788.

Martha, born June 7, 1777. Deborah, bornOct. 6, 1789.

CALEB MOWRY, son of Jonathan, born Mar. 5, 1771, married
in 1795, Nancy, daughter of David Mowry, Nancy, born Oct. 29,
1775. Caleb died in Smithfield Mar. 31, 1814. Nancy married, 2d,
in 1818, Eliakim Mowry. Eliakim died in Smithfield in 1845. Nancy
died Nov. 13, 1860.

Children.

Jesse, born June 4, 1796, died young.

Duty, born Feb. 14, 1798. His monument in this cemetery.

Urania, born May 22, 1800, married in 1824.

Charles Bow en, born Sept. 16, 1800.

BARNEY, born May 3, 1804.

BARNEY MOWRY, son of Caleb, born May 3, 1804, married,
1st, in 1828, Phila, daughter of Amasa and Anna Mowry, of Smith-
field, who were married Apr. 24, 1800. Phila was born in 1806.
Anna was the daughter of Francis Hamilton. Married, 2d, in 1846,
Urania, daughter of Paoli and Martha Steere, of Smithfield. She
was born July 29, 1821. Phila died Nov. 25, 1839. Urania died July
21, 1865. Barney died in North Smithfield Nov. 12, 1891.

Children op Barney and Phila.

Orrin P., born May 24, 1829, died in North Smithfield Aug. 1,

1895.
Albert, born Mar. 9, 1831, died in North Smithfield Apr. 3, 1893.
ARLON, born Feb, 23, 1833. Burial in Middletown, R. I.
Stafford, born Apr. 14, 1835, died in Hampton, Va., Mar. 27, 1889.

He was Quarter-Master in the 3d R. I. Cavalry, in the Civil War.
Atwell, born Nov. 18, 1836, died in Butte, Mont., Sept. 1, 1882.
Child of Barney and Urania. Erwin A., born Dec. 8, 1847.

THE MOWRY MONUMENT. 7

[east side.]

ARLON MOWRY,

who

erected this monument,

the third son of Barney,

born Feb. 23, 1833,

married in 1857 Harriet,

daughter of Isaac and Susan

(Borden) Wightman.

This name is spelled both Wightman and Whitman
by members of the same family.

Isaac was born in Newport, R. I., June 22, 1803, and
died in North Smithfield Feb. 15, 1882,

Susan was born in Fall River, Mass., Sept. 22, 1800,
and died May 14, 1884.

Children of
Isaac and Susan Wightman.

Ruth R., born Sept. 16, 1832.

Harriet, born Jan. 1, 1837, died Jan. 2, 1865.

Children of Arlon and Harriet Mowry.
These are of the ninth generation in this country.

Emma L., born Apr. 27, 1868, married, in 1886, Stephen E. Batch-
eller. He was born May 29, 1858, son of Alexander and Kezia
(Wallin) Batcheller. Alexander was a physician in practice in
Burrillville, R. I., and later in Cedar Falls, la.

Eugene C, born Aug. 12, 1860, married, in 1889, Daisy B. Under-
wood. She was born Jan. 12, 1867, daughter of William H. and
Ellen (Ansell) Underwood, of Cambridge, Mass. Eugene is a phy-
sician in practice in the city of New York.

Wilfred L., born Nov. 15,' 1862, died Nov. 17, 1866.

Harriet W., born Sept. 15, 1864, married in 1891, Albert E.
Crowell. He was born Mar. 24, 1863, son of Nathaniel and Ellen
M. (Macomber) Crowell, of Providence, R. I.

For further information concerning the descendants of Roger
Mowry, see a volume entitled " The Descendants of Nathaniel
Mowry of Rhode Island," by William A. Mowry, A.M., Ph.D.,
copies of which are in the Providence Public Library, the Har-

8 THE MOWRY MONUMENT.

ris Institute Library, and the Library of the Society of Friends
in Woonsocket.

It is doubtful if another monument similar to this in design
and scope can be found in the whole country. It places the
genealogy of this one family for nearly three centuries in the
most compact form and in a public place, where it will be read
not only by the members of this family, but by thousands who
otherwise would be entirely ignorant of the early history of the
family in America.

The earliest mention of Roger Mowry in this country is found
in the Boston records, as follows : —

" Eighteen May, 1631, names of such as desire to be made
ffreemen, [among them] Roger Mawry, Roger Williams."
Neither of these two Rogers remained in Boston to accept the
duties and privileges of " ffreemen " in that colony. But, soon
after, we find them both citizens of Plymouth ; later both be-
came citizens of Salem, and finally they lived, side by side in
Providence. Roger Mowry was in Salem from 1636 to 1649.
He and his wife Mary were members of the church at Salem.
The Suffolk records (vol. iii., p. 374) show that his wife was
" the eldest daughter of John Johnson, late of Roxbury." In
1637 "he had fifty acres laid out" to him two miles or more
from the settlement at Salem toward what was afterwards
known as Salem Village. He built his house on the lot which
is now the corner of Essex and Flint Streets, adjoining the
Bowditch School. Indeed, this house-lot ran from what is now
Essex Street northward to the river, and included the land upon
which now stand the Bowditch School and the Catholic Church.

The records of the church in Salem show that his oldest son,
Jonathan, was baptized April 2, 1637, and other children as
follows: Bethia, 1638, June 17; Mary, 1640, June 16; Eliza-
beth, 1643, January 20 ; Benjamin, 1649, May 20 ; between
Elizabeth and Benjamin were four other children, as given on
the north side of the monument, and no record is found of their
baptism. In August, 1658, in open Town Meeting, at Provi-
dence, Roger Mowry testified that his three youngest children,

Wfmmme&mmmmsm'^

THE MOWRY MONUMENT. 9

Benjamin, Thomas, and Hannah, were born in Providence. It
is supposed that the Salem pastor, when on a visit in 1649 to
the members of his church then residing in Providence, found
the infant Benjamin, baptized him there and entered the record
upon the Salem Church book on his return home. The original
records of that period of the Salem Church have been lost,
although some of them were copied and kept in a later book
which has been preserved. The above facts are gleaned from
that book.

When the book, " The Descendants of Nathaniel Mowry of
Rhode Island," referred to above, was published, in 1878, it was
not known that Nathaniel and John, as well as Joseph of Ports-
mouth and of Conanicut, were sons of Roger. The facts were
discovered by Mr. John O. Austin, of Providence, and the evi-
dence is clearly given by him in his " Genealogical Dictionary
of Rhode Island," from probate records.

By this it appears that John Mowry died July 7, 1690, and
his brother Nathaniel was appointed administrator upon his
estate Oct. 3, 1690. Soon after that date he rendered a partial
account, and among his payments was twelve shillings " paid to
my brother Joseph Mowry of Conanicut." This shows that
Joseph was brother to Nathaniel and John. But it was not yet
known who this Joseph was.

Joseph died May 27, 1716. His wife Mary was executrix,
under his will, which was proved and allowed May 31, 1716.
By this will Joseph gave a small legacy to his " brother Benja-
min," and another legacy to his nephew " Joseph Mowry, son
of Benjamin." It was previously clear that Benjamin was the
son of Roger, both from the church records of Salem and
Roger's deposition in Town Meeting in Providence as to the
birth of his children. Now if Joseph was brother to Benjamin
he was son of Roger. Then if Nathaniel was brother to Joseph
they were all sons of Roger. This evidence is very simple and
very clear. The records of the Society of Friends, in comment-
ing upon the death of Mary Mowry, widow of Joseph, state that
" she was a valuable minister and celebrated doctress, and in
great repute in the Society and with people generally."

10 THE MOWEY MONUMENT.

Joseph was evidently a man of superior intelligence, pos-
sessed of considerable wealth, and much respected by the people
of the colony. He was constable, and served the town of Ports-
mouth as deputy to the General Assembly in the years 1686,
1698, 1699, 1701-3-5-8 and '11. He was one of forty-eight
persons to whom was granted five thousand acres of land to be
called East Greenwich. This was in 1677, and two years later
he had fifty acres laid out. Thus we have traced several of the
early branches of the family.

Roger Mowry was admitted freeman in Providence in 1655.
He built a house about 1653, a portion of which is now stand-
ing, newer parts having been built to it from time to time dur-
ing these intervening centuries. This house is on Abbott Street,
near North Main Street, not far from the North Burial-ground.
It has been known for many years as the oldest house in the
city, and has been called the Olney House.

Professor Isham, of Brown University, has lately proven by
real estate records that this house was built by Roger Mowry,
as mentioned above. For a series of years he kept a " tavern "
in the town of Providence. About the same time Richard Pray
was licensed to keep a public house also. It would seem that
the liberty-loving people of the town were accustomed to
frequent the house kept by Mowry.

A story is told of a Massachusetts constable who had arrested
a man at Pawtuxet and was carrying him to Massachusetts.
He stopped with his prisoner over night at Pray's Tavern.
During the evening some citizens of the town gathered at
Mowry's Tavern, discussed the matter, decided that a Massa-
chusetts constable had no right to arrest a man in their colony
and carry him to the Bay Colony. They, therefore, suddenly
summoned a meeting of the town council at Mowry's Tavern.
The members of the council soon gathered and sent a messen-
ger to the Massachusetts officer, demanding by what authority
he held his prisoner. Some controversy ensued between the
parties, but the result was that the officer did not carry his
prisoner to Boston, but he was released.

THE MOWIIY MONUMENT. 11

Roger's son Thomas, who was born in Providence in 1652,
settled in Roxbuiy, where, in 1673, he married Susanna Newell.
This Thomas had a daughter Abigail, l)orn in 1681. In Rox-
bury one of the leading families in that early time was the
Harris family. Robert Harris was one of the first settlers there,
and his son Timothy was born in 1650, and did not marry until
he was nearly forty-seven years old. When he was about tliirty
years of age, one day he rapped at the door of neighbor Mowry
(Thomas), and as no one answered the summons he pulled the
latch-string and walked in. Mrs. Mowry, being out at the time,
had left her babe, Abigail, asleep in the cradle. The noise of
Timothy's entering awakened the child, who immediately be-
gan to cry. While Timothy was trying to pacify the little one,
Mrs. Mowry came in, and, amused at the old bachelor's atten-
tion to her babe, lifted up her hands, and exclaimed, " Good
heart, old bachelor, I have some hopes of you yet." Looking
up at her, Timothy immediately replied : "And well you may,
good wife, for I propose to wait for this damsel until she be
grown, and ask her for my wife."

He kept his promise, and on the second of April, 1697, Tim-
othy Harris, then in his forty-seventh year, was married to
Abigail Mowry, who was at that time sixteen years and three
days old. They had four children ; and Timothy lived to be
eighty years of age, and his wife died in her eighty-seventh
year.

Abigail had a brother John who inherited the farm from his
father, and was a man of property and high standing in the
community. He was one of seventeen male members who or-
ganized the second church in Roxbury, now West Roxbury.
This was in 1712. He presented the church with a silver chris-
tening basin, and when the third church was established, now
the Unitarian Church, at Jamaica Plain, he presented it with a
clock, which is still used, — a round, gilded, dial clock, at the
present time in the chapel of that church.

The descendants of Roger Mowry are scattered in large num-
bers all over the country. His two sons, Nathaniel and John,

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were among the early settlers of northern Rhode Island, and at
one time they were half owners, with three other partners, Ed-
ward Inman, Thomas Wallin, and John Steer, of thirty-five
hundred acres of land, running from the Blackstone River, near
Pawtucket, westward to the Connecticut line, and including
the vicinity of what is now the city of Woonsocket. To com-
memorate the descendants of Nathaniel, in only one direct line,
that of Hon. Arion Mowry, this monument is erected.

The original spelling of the name is still a subject of conjec-
ture. In the early Colonial times it was variously spelled, but
much of this variety was doubtless due to the carelessness of
the times in regard to spelling, and of the clerks who frequently
wrote the name as it sounded when pronounced in their hear-
ing. The signature of Nathaniel, in 1711, was spelled Nathan-
iel Mowrey, and in Salem the prevailing spelhng of Roger's
name was Mowry. The spelling, however, gradually settled
into two forms, so that to-day, with almost entire uniformity,
the descendants of Jonathan and Thomas spell the name Morey.
I have been unable to trace any descendants of Benjamin. At
one time it was thought that Roger came from Wales, and if
so the name may have been Mawry, which would mean the
"hill men," or the highlanders, from Mawr, a hill.

From what part of the old country Roger Mowry came is
still uncertain, as well as the tradition that he was a relation of
Roger Williams. It is stated that there are families in England
to-day spelling their name Morey, and also others who spell it
Mowry. A few years ago a stationer lived in Bristol, England,
who spelled his name Morey.

The history of the family in America is an interesting one,
and every way honorable to those who bear the name.

Most of the facts in this brief article have never before been
brought together, but are culled from reliable sources after
much research.

Twenty years ago a volume of three hundred and forty pages,
entitled " The Descendants of Nathaniel Mowry of Rhode
Island," and another volume of two hundred and forty pages,

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entitled " Richard Mowry of Uxbridge, Mass., His Ancestors
and His Descendants," were published, having been prepared
by the writer of this article. No genealogy of any other branch
of the family has yet appeared, but in some directions wide re-
search has already been made and much labor bestowed upon
the subject, so that it is hoped the records of other branches of
this great family will before long be rescued from oblivion and
placed in proper form before the public.

When the Nathaniel Mowry book was published, twenty
years ago, as has already been stated, it was not known that
Nathaniel and John Mowry were the sons of Roger. As John's
name first appears with the name of Edward Inman, and Na-
thaniel's name appears later, it was naturally supposed that
John was the older brother.

In Savage's " Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers
of New England," it is stated that a John Mowry came over
in the ship Blessing in 1635. The supposition, therefore, would
be natural that this John of Rhode Island was the John who
came over in the Blessing. Subsequent investigations, however,
proved that this supposition was entirely erroneous, and that
Nathaniel was the older of the two.

Roger Mowry died in 1666. At that time his son Nathaniel
was twenty-two, and John twenty-one years of age. Young as
they were, we find them starting off into the wilderness of
northern Rhode Island, bargaining with William Minnion — a
petty Nipmuck chief, subject to the Narragansetts — for a large
tract of land. Subsequently this land was divided into shares
among the several proprietors owning it. The land was par-
celled off into tracts of three hundred acres, including upland
and swamps, and with each of these tracts were set apart six
acres of meadow-land. The five proprietors then drew lots for
the division of the land. The land being thus divided, each
proprietor proceeded to locate upon his own premises as a home-
stead. John Mowry's home from that time till his death was
on Sayles's Hill — as it has been known in later days, but in
those earlier days for one hundred years it was called Mowry's

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Hill. John and his wife both died of smallpox in 1690. As
we have already seen, his brother Nathaniel administered upon
his estate.

It was not absolutely certain where the homestead of Na-
thaniel was, but it is supposed to have been on what is now
known as Iron Mine Hill. Nathaniel died in 1718. By his will
he appointed his son Joseph executor. He gave to his son Na-
thaniel one hundred acres at Wansecutt Hill; to his son John
forty acres ; to his son Henry fifty acres, " to be taken off on
the north side of my homestead upon Wesquotomsit Hill ; " to
his son Joseph the " remainder part of my homestead, including
dwelling-house, orchard, and one hundred and ten acres of
land," this bequest being larger than the others, he says, be-
cause he had received money from Joseph.

Joseph, the executor of his father's estate, was called Captain
Joseph, and he rendered his account to the town council in
1791. This Captain Joseph was one of the leading men of the
colony during his lifetime. His home was near the summit of
a prominent hill, about a mile westward from the village of
Stillwater, a large, square, two-story house, which is still stand-
ing and in excellent condition. It was built by him in the year
1708. The tradition in the family is that at the time this house
was built it was the largest house in the colony. Here Captain
Joseph died in 1746. A full account of this house is given in
the Nathaniel Mo wry book, beginning on page 40.

His brother Henry was doubtless older than Joseph, and was
probably born about the year 1672. Henry's home was on the
northerly side of Sayles's Hill, at or near the place lately known
as the Tyler Mowry place. Very little more is known of Henry
than is given in the Mowry book, beginning on page 32. He
was evidently a man of prominence and of great activity. He
held the important office of constable at a time when that office
required considerable activity.

It will be noticed that the dates of the birth of the children
of Nathaniel are not given. While the family lived within the
bounderies of the town of Providence, yet they were about

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twelve miles from the principal settlement. Being so far away
from the seat of government, the records of the family do not
seem to have been kept. After that generation, however, the
records were very carefully kept and are quite full. Henry was
married, in 1701, to Mary, the daughter of Isaac and Mary Bull,
of Newport. This family was one of the prominent families of
that settlement. His wife died in 1725, having borne him seven
children. He was afterwards married to Hannah, the widow of
John Mowry, 2d. Henry lived to a great age, being at the time
of his death between eighty-five and ninety years old. His
oldest son was Uriah, who married, about 1724, Urania, the
daughter of John Paine, of Providence. She bore him at least
ten children, and died in her sixty-sixth year. Uriah married
again when he was sixty-eight years of age. His second wife
was Hannah, the widow of William Arnold, of Providence.
She was the daughter of Job Whipple, of Providence. Uriah
also lived to a ripe old age, being in his eighty-seventh year
when he died.

Uriah's seventh son was Jonathan Mowry, who was for many
years a well-known doctor. He married Deborah, the daughter
of Jabez Wing. It is a notable circumstance that in addition to
the fact that Jonathan was a doctor, he and his wife were both
preachers among the Friends or Quakers. He was seventy-two
at the time of his death, and although we do not know the date
of his wife's birth, we do know that she lived fifty-six years
after their marriage. Her death occurred eleven years after
that of her husband.

It cannot escape the notice of all that generation after gen-
eration these were large families. Roger, the first ancestor in
this country, had twelve children; his son, Nathaniel, had
eleven ; Nathaniel's son, Henry, seven ; Henry's son, Uriah,
ten at least ; Uriah's son, Jonathan, had ten children ; Jona-
than's son, Caleb, had five ; Caleb's son, Barney, six ; and Bar-
ney's son, Arlon, four, — eight generations and sixty-three
persons.

Let me give another series of facts to show the strength and

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vitality of this race. Of the twelve children of Roger, the first
generation in this country, all but one, the oldest, lived to ma-
turity. In the next generation, all of the eleven children of
Nathaniel lived to maturity, and all were married. Following
the line which leads to the writer, Captain Joseph had five chil-
dren, all of whom lived to maturity. Then his son. Captain
Daniel, had six children, only one of whom died in child-
hood.

The next generation was Lawyer Joseph, who had eight
children, and all of them lived to be married. The generation
following was Preacher Richard, who had six children, all of
whom were married. Gideon was the son of Richard, and he
had nine children, all of whom were married. Then came his
son, Jonathan, who had three children, all of whom lived to
mature years, two being married and one unmarried. Of the
two who were married, the writer has three children, all living,
and his sister is the mother of ten children, all married, and all
but one living at the present time, the oldest being fifty-five,
and the youngest more than thirty-three years of age. Here,
therefore, is the record of one branch of the family in one
straight line, from the writer of this, and his children, back to
the year 1631, a period of two hundred and sixty-seven years,
with the record of the death of only two children prior to ma-
turity, and including an aggregate of seventy-three persons.
Seventy-one of these lived to maturity.

The race as a whole have manifested the same stalwart phys-
ical strength, and have quite uniformly shown commendable
industry and enterprise, with a large degree of intellectual and
moral worth. The family may be called a fair specimen of New
England yeomanry.

Of the descendants of Nathaniel and John, very many are
still inhabitants of northern Rhode Island and southeastern
Massachusetts. But their descendants are also found to-day in
the British Provinces, all of the New England States, New York
and Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin, California, and doubtless other States.

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