| BIRTH & DEATH | John was born on 10 February 1733 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[1,33] and died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 20 December 1803; he was 70[1,38]. |
| CHURCH MEMBERSHIP | He and Hannah were Quakers and she was buried in the Friends' Burial Ground. |
| MARRIAGE #1 | On 11 January 1795 when John was 21, he first married Hannah WOODMAN, daughter of John WOODMAN Jr. & Hannah2 SCALES, in Lynn, Essex co., MA[46]. Their marriage was recorded in the Bible of John Norwood, 369 Summer Street [P.R. 125], where her maiden name is mistakenly listed as "Mower". |
| CHILDREN | 7. | i. | Hannah MOWER | Please see her own page. |
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ii. | [unnamed child] MOWER | [unnamed child] who died on 30d:3m:1798 in Lynn, Essex co., MA. This child's death is listed in P.R. 125 [John Norwood's Bible] as "John Mower's Child Died 3 mo 30 1798" There is no other mention of this child. |
| MARRIAGE #2 | On 14d:9m:1803 when John was 29, he second married Sarah BREED, daughter of James BREED Jr. & Hannah [surname not known], in Lynn, Essex co., MA[1,43]. Their marriage is recorded as "daughter of James, Jr. and Hannah, dec." in the C.R. 1 [The Salem Monthly Meeting Society of Friends Records]. |
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i. | Lydia MOWER | Lydia was born on 14 June 1804. |
| 4. | ii. | Louisa MOWER | Louisa was born on 20 June 1807 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[33]. On 1 June 1826 when Louisa was 18, she married Lycander CHASE, in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Mower, Loisa"[34]. | |
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iii. | Amos Edwin MOWER | Amos Edwin was born on 30 August 1810. | |
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iv. | Nathan MOWER | Nathan was born on 1 March 1818 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[33]. On 9 August 1840 when Nathan was 22, he married Catharine SILSBEE, in Lynn, Essex co., MA[3]. | |
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v. | Samuel Carter MOWER | Samuel Carter was born on 11 May 1823 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[32]. A duplicate record exists in C.R. 1 as "Mower Samuel, s. John and Sarah, 11:5m:1823". Samuel Carter became a Cordwainer[3]. On 4 May 1845 when Samuel Carter was 21, he married J. Hurd PIKE, daughter of Noah PIKE & Abigail [surname not known], in Lynn, Essex co., MA[3]. Samuel was 22 and J. Hurd was 21. |
| GENERATION | G4 (Great-great-great-great) Grandfather |
| FAMILY NUMBER | 126 |
| 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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