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in our Database | |  | | |  | | Birth Date | 1597 Gloucestershire, England | | Death Date | 1675 SEP 15 Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony | | Father | ? Coles | Born: | | | Mother | | Born: | | | John Cowles
Notes: | Occupation: farmer, constable, surveyor, jurior, Farmer, Constable, Surveyor, Juror
| | Notes: | John Cowles, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, and was among the early settlers of Hartford, Connecticut . Not long after the year 1640 he located at Farmington, Connecticut, and in 1652 was one of those who organized the church there. He was born in the west of England, it is thought, about 1598 . He bought land on the corner at the north end of Farmington village, known afterward as the Dr. Thompson and Bodwell places. Selling this property, he bought three lots just south of the present meeting house and built a house there. He spelled his name Cowles in order to distinguish himself from another man named Cole of the same town, and from that time to the present the descendants of his eldest son Samuel have spelled the name Cowles and those of the youngest son John have, until the beginning of the nineteenth century, favored the spelling Cowls. He was a farmer. He was deputy to the general assembly from Farmington in 1653-54. In 1659 he was one of the signers who started the settlement at Hadley, Massachusetts, but was probably not there among the first, being a resident at Hadley in 1662. He was one of the twenty-five "engagers" in Hadley to establish themselves in Hatfield "across the river" before March, 1661. His record in Hatfield begins January 14, 1660-61, according to the records of that place, and he died there September, 1675, and was probably buried there. He was one of a committee that laid out a burying place for the town, February 14, 1669, and there was no other cemetery there until 1848. His widow Hannah, after his death, went to live with son-in-law, Caleb Stanley , of Hartford, where she died March 16, 1683, and she was buried there. Her will was dated October 27, 1680, and in it she states that her husbands last will was dated December 11, 1674. The homestead in Hatfield was in possession of descendants until April, 1898.
| |  | | Birth Date | 1617 | | Death Date | 1684 | | Father | | Born: | Died: | | Mother | | Born: | | | Hannah ? Notes: | | | Individual Notes: | | | | | 7 | Children | Birth Death | Mother | Spouse | Grand Children | 1  | Samuel Sr Cowles | b.1639 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
d.1692 APR 17 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut | Hannah ? | Abigail Stanley | | 1 II Samuel Cowles b.1661 | | | 2 Abigail Cowles b.1663 | | | 3 Hannah Cowles b.1664 | | | 4 Timothy Cowles Deacon b.1666 | | | 5 Sarah Cowles b.1668 | | | 6 John Cowles b.1670 | | | 7 Nathaniel Cowles b.1672 | | | 8 Isaac Cowles Captain b.1675 | | | 9 Joseph Cowles b.1677 | | | 10 Elizabeth Cowles b.1679 | | | 11 Caleb Cowles b.1682 | |
| 2  | John II Cowles | b.1641 FEB 02 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
d.1711 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut | Hannah ? | Deborah Bartlett | | 1 Hannah Cowles b.1668 | | | 2 Jonathan Cowles b.1670 | | | 3 Samuel Cowles b.1673 | | | 4 John Cowles b.1676 | | | 5 Abilgail Cowles b.1678 | | | 6 Sarah Cowles b.1681 | | | 7 Mary Cowles b.1683 | | | 8 Esther Cowles b.1686 | |
| 3  | Hannah Cowles | b.1645 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
d.1689 FEB 04 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut | Hannah ? | Caleb Stanley | | 1 Hanna Stanley b.1666 | | | 2 Elizabeth Stanley b.1669 | | | 3 Caleb Stanley b.1674 | |
| 4  | Elizabeth Cowles | b.1645 Farmington CT
d.1696 | Hannah ? | | | 5  | Sarah Cowles | b.1646 Farmingham
d.1676 | Hannah ? | | | 6  | Esther Cowles | b.1649
d.1691 | Hannah ? | | | 7  | Mary Cowles | b.1654
d.1699 | Hannah ? | | |
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