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Samuel Cowles II   Sex: Male
Birth Date 1661 MAR 17 Kensington Conn
Death Date  1748 OCT 14 Farmingham Conn 
Father Samuel Sr Cowles   Born: 1639 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut Died: 1692 APR 17 
Mother Abigail Stanley  Born: 1639 Died: 1734 
Samuel Cowles
Notes:		 SAMUEL COWLES, son of Samuel2 (2), b. March 17, 1661-2, at Farmington, Conn.; d. Oct. 14, 1748 at his sons at Kensington, Conn. ; m. May 12, 1685, . in Farmington, Conn., Rachel, dau. of Thomas and Sarah (Hart) Porter of Farmington, Conn. Sarah Hart was a daughter of Deacon Stephen Hart of Farmington. The name of Rachel · does not appear in ihe list of Thomas Porters children in the Stephen Hart-geneal_~gy. nor in his will or that of Stephen Hart, but Rev. W. S. Porter says she was a daughter of Thomas Porter and granddaughter of Deacon Stephen Hart, a fact proven beyond a doubt by the follo\Ying entry in the Farmington, Conn. Land Records, Vol. 2, p. 328: "Rachell Porter, daughter of Thomas Porter was Baptized Desem.  
Notes: the twenty and six one thousand, six hundreth, fifty and eight." There was no other Thomas Porter there of marriageable age at that time. She died Oct. 4, I 7 43, at Kensington, Conn. In the Gay and Shepard Collections at the Conn. Hist. Soc. Library her parentage, baptism, marriage and death appear as recorded herein. Thomas Porters seven daughters were all living when he made his will in 16c)o-1, but the only one mentioned in it was Dorothy Porter. All the others, then being married, perhaps had received their portions of his estate, or were not mentioned for ·reasons now unknown. Mr. Samuel Cowles inherited the ~rt. of his fathers home lot known as the Pitkin place, and later on the Dr. Carrington place, which he gave to his son Thomas Cowles and removed to Kensington in the town of Farmington, Conn., before 1716 (Porter MS.). It may have been much earlier as he and his brothers, Isaac and Caleb, signed a petition Oct. 11, 1705, for authority for the settlement of an Ecclesiastical Society at a place called the "Great Swamp." The authority was granted and the Parish (Kensington), proceeded to build a meeting house, date unknown, on "Christian Lane," just south of the Middletown Railroad. The church was organized Dec. 101 1712, of which he was a deacon (Porter MS.), but the latter statement is not supported by the church records. The cemetery is on "Christian Lane" a few rods north of the above mentioned railroad, but if any members of the Cowles family were buried there, their graves are unmarked. A huge boulder placed there by the Daughters of the American Revolution bears the name of Cowles among the other founders of the Parish of Kensington. They also erected a monument on the site of the original church. Mr. Samuel Cowles was appointed townsman of Farmington, May, 1702, by the General Assembly of Conn., for one year. "He was a man of small size, rather spare, eyes brown, hair of a light cast, legs small and trim ; with a tum peculiar to the Cowles family, reserved in conversation, steady in mind and of a mild disposition, and not easily provoked to a passion." He and his wife joined the Farmington Church, May 25, 16c)o. He and his mother were named as executors of his fathers will dated Farmington, Conn., April 15, 1691, which provided that, in addition to land already given him, he should have a double portion of all of his fathers real estate.  
Spouse: Rachel Porter   Sex: Female
Birth Date 1658  
Death Date 1743  
Father Thomas Porter Born: Died:
Mother Sarah Hart Born:
Rachel Porter Notes:  
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6 Children Mother Spouse Grand Children
1 Thomas Cowles
b.1685
d.1748 		Rachel Porter Martha Judd
1 Josiah Cowles b.1716
2 Thomas Cowles b.1719
3 Zachariah Cowles b.1723
2 Ruth Cowles
b.1688 NOV 11
d. 		Rachel Porter
3 Rachel Cowles
b.1690
d. 		Rachel Porter
4 Samuel Cowles Captain
b.1692 MAY 16
d.1777 		Rachel Porter Sarah Wadsworth
1 Mercy Cowles
2 James Cowles b.1719
3 Samuel Cowles b.1724
4 Sarah Cowles b.1726
5 Asahel Cowles b.1728
5 John Cowles
b.1694 AUG 24
d. 		Rachel Porter Mary Porter
1 Mary Cowles b.1722
2 Rachel Cowles b.1723
3 Mary Cowles b.1725
4 Anna Cowles b.1728
5 John Cowles b.1730
6 Noah Cowles b.1733
7 David Cowles b.1735
6 Esther Cowles
b.1697
d. 		Rachel Porter
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Samuel Cowles Sr
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b.1639 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
d.1692
See Notes		 John Cowles
Cowles in America No.1
b.1597 Gloucestershire, England
d.1675
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Hannah ?
b.1617
d.1684
  
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Abigail Stanley
b.1639
d.1734
 
2 persons 4 persons 8 persons 16 persons 32 persons 64 Persons 128 persons 256 persons 512 persons 1024 persons -

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