| BIRTH & DEATH | Richard was born on 22 August 1680 as "Moore, Richard" in Lynn, Essex co., MA[26]. Richard2 died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 10 February 1766 as "Mower, Richard, Capt., 'old'"; he was 85[28]. |
| RESIDENCE & SERVICE | Per his father's grant for serving in King Philip's War, Captain Richard was one of the early proprietors of Narragansett No. 3 or "Souhegan West" - what is now Amherst, Hillsborough co., NH. This territory was then part of Massachusetts. He was one of a company of three to manage the Proprietary and regulate allotments to the several claimants. His own property here was "Lott 21". |
| MILITARY SERVICE & OCCUPATION | By virtue of his title as "Captain", Richard was clearly a longstanding member of the militia. He also served as Schoolmaster in Lynn, Essex co., MA in 1738. |
| LEGAL MENTION & WILL |
Richard was a humble petitioner along with 31 others of "Severall of the Inhabitants of Boston,
Lynn and Malden, being a new neighborhood although in three Townes and three Countyes, etc. for a
road to connect them with mills, shops, etc. more conveniently."
Richard's will was proved on 7 April 1766[1]. |
| MARRIAGE | On 29 March 1705 when Richard2 was 24, he married Thankfull SEAVER, daughter of Shubael SEAVER & Hannah WILSON, in Lynn, Essex co., MA[1,3,29]. An intention was also filed on 24 June 1704 in Lynn, Essex co., MA as "Richard Mower of Lynn & Thankful Sever of Roxbury (Seaver?)." In the Lynn marriage records, they are listed as "Mowre, Richard and Thankfull Sever [of Roxbury int]". |
| CHILDREN |
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i. | Thankful MOWER | Thankful was born on 27 January 1705/6 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[32]. On 7 January 1727/8 when Thankful was 20, she married James PICKERING, in Lynn, Essex co., MA[3]. She can be found in the Lynn marriage records under "Mower, Thanckfull". |
| 4. | ii. | John MOWER | Please see his own page. | |
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iii. | Ezra MOWER | Ezra was born on 19 May 1714 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[33]. On 20 October 1743 when Ezra was 29, he married Lydia BURRILL, daughter of Honorable Ebeneezer BURRILL Esq. & Martha FARRINGTON, in Lynn, Essex co., MA[34]. | |
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iv. | Richard MOWER | Richard was born on 24 December 1718 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[33] and died circa 1758; he was 39. Richard was a member of the Harvard class of 1738. Richard married Lois [surname not known]. |
| GENERATION | G7 (Great-great-great-great-great-great-great) Grandfather |
| FAMILY NUMBER | 1008 |
| 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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