JOHN MOWER, SR.

1709-1803 - Lynn, Essex co., MA

(Fourth Generation - Mower Family)

FATHER	MOTHER
CAPTAIN RICHARD MOWER	THANKFULL SEAVER

BIRTH & DEATH	John was born on 17 October 1709 in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[33]. John died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 20 December 1803; he was 94.
MARRIAGE #1	On 10 August 1732 when John was 22, he first married Mary BURRILL, daughter of The Honorable Ebeneezer BURRILL Esq. & Martha FARRINGTON, in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[1,36]. They are in the Lynn marriage records as "Burriall, Mary and John Mower" and also as "Mower, John and Mary Burriall".

5.	i.	John MOWER	Please see his own page.
	ii.	Mary MOWER	Mary was born on 16 July 1735 in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[33]. In 1767 when Mary was 31, she married Nathan GIFFORD.
	iii.	Ebeneezer MOWER	Ebeneezer was born on 1 March 1737 in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[33].
	iv.	Richard MOWER	Richard was born on 17 March 1738 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[33].

MARRIAGE #2

On 24 May 1739 when John was 29, he second married Elizabeth COLLINS, in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[1,34].

CHILDREN		i.	Thankful MOWER	Thankful was born on 2 April 1740 in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[32].
	4.	ii.	Rebekah MOWER	Rebekah was born on 8 January 1742 in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[33]. On 1 January 1765 when Rebekah was 22, she married Benjamin MAYHEW of Boston^[3], in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[3].
		iii.	Elizabeth MOWER	Elizabeth was born on 26 December 1744 in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[33]. Elizabeth married Daniel MEARS.
		iv.	Susannah MOWER	Susannah was born on 16 July 1748 in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[32]. On 21 May 1770 when Susannah was 21, she married John MILLAGE, in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[3]. The Church record says his last name is "Smellage". If so, how unfortunate.

GENERATION

G6 (Great-great-great-great-great-great) Grandfather

FAMILY NUMBER

504

SOURCES

1. Lynn Historic Society Genealogies, [LHSG], VI, #20.

2. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

3. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:258.

4. Ibid. I:267 [Ct. R.].

5. Ibid. I:255 [Ct. R.].

6. The Probate Records of Essex County, [Essex Prob or EPR], I:305.

7. Coldham, Peter Wilson, The Complete Book Of Emigrants, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing co., Inc., 1987), [Coldham], 149.

8. Hotten, John Camden, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality., (London 1874; rpt. Baltimore 1974), [Hotten], 93.

9. Smith, Edward L., Richard Mower of Lynn, (East Jaffrey, N.H.: The Monadnock Press, 1904), [Mower (1904)], 3.

10. The Essex Antiquarian, (13 vols.)(n.p., 1897-1909), [EssexAnt], 4:159; 11:19.

11. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 43:287.

12. Conant, Frederick Odell, A History and Genealogy of the Conant Family in England and America, Thirteen Generations, 1520 to 1887, (n.p., privately printed, 1887), [Conant], 163.

13. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:258 [Ct. R].

14. The Essex Antiquarian, (13 vols.)(n.p., 1897-1909), [EssexAnt], 4:159.

15. The Genealogical Magazine, (Salem, Mass.: Salem Press, 1890+), [GenMag or Putnam's Mag.], 1:52.

16. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 54:224.

17. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], I:259.

18. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 42:134.

19. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:254 [Ct. R.].

20. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686; 5 volumes in 6, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed. (Boston: 1853-1854), [MCBR], Volume 5.

21. DeForest, Louis Effingham, Our Colonial and Continental Ancestors: The Ancestry of Mr. and Mrs. Louis William Dommerich, (New York, N.Y.: The DeForest Publ. Co., 1930), [DommerichChart], 43.

22. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:246.

23. Reading, Middlesex co., MA Vital Records, 147.

24. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:540 [G.R. 1].

25. Ibid. I:267.

26. Ibid. I:266.

27. Ibid. I:269 [Ct. R.].

28. Ibid. II:540 [P.R. 5].

29. ??????, ³First Book of Intentions of Marriage in the City of Lynn², Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, [EIHC-LynnInt], 16:71ff.

30. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:538 [P.R. 5].

31. Roxbury Land and Church Records, Sixth Report of the Boston Record Commissioners, (Boston: 1884), pp. 74-191, [RChR], C.R. 1.

32. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], I:270.

33. Ibid. I:269.

34. Ibid. II:257.

35. Ibid. I:90.

36. Ibid. II:78 and II:257.

37. Ibid. II:540 [G.R. 1 and P.R. 5].

38. Ibid. II:540.

39. Ibid. II:257 [P.R. 125] (three entries on this same page).

40. Ibid. I:269 [C.R. 1].

41. Ibid. II:540 [C.R. 1].

42. Ibid. II:540 [P.R. 6 and C.R. 1].

43. Ibid. II:257 [C.R. 1].

44. Ibid. II:258 [C.R. 1].

45. Ibid. I:270 [P. R. 6].

46. Ibid.

47. Newburyport, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [NewburyportVR], I:422.

48. Commonwealth of MA Vital Records, [MAVR], Death Records 1890, Volume 409, Page 337, #760.

49. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:85 and II:257.


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