9710 Individuals in our Database | | | | |  | | Birth Date | 1682 JUN 20 | | Death Date | 1725 NOV 15 | | Father | Samuel Sr Cowles | Born: 1639 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut | Died: 1692 APR 17 | | Mother | Abigail Stanley | Born: 1639 | Died: 1734 | | Caleb Cowles Notes: | CALEB• COWLES, son of Samuel2 (2), b. June 20, 1682; bapt. June 25, 1682, ("born about five days before") at Farmington, Conn.; d. Nov. 15, 1725, at Kensington, Conn.; m. Aug. 8, 1710, Abigail, b. 1685 in Avon, Conn., bapt. Dec. 27, 1685, d. 1736, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Newell) Woodford of Farmington, Conn. Rebecca Newell was a daughter of Thomas Newell ;of Farmington (Newell Gen.; Skilton Gen.; the Gay Collection, Conn. Hist. Soc. Library; Goodwin and Morgan Ancestral Lines) .. Caleb Cowles settled in Kensington, Conn., and was one of the members of the new Second Church Society of Farmington, at "Great Swamp," Kensington Parish, and a pillar and deacon of the church established there Dec. 10, 1712; on Christian Lane, just south of the Middletown railroad, the site of which is marked by a monument erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution. ·. The · ancient cemetery · is on Christian Lane, a few rods north of the railroad, but the Cowles graves, if any, are unmarked. However, a large granite boulder placed there by the D. A. R. bears the name cif Cowles with those of the other original settlers. ·.Caleb Cowles, together ·with his brothers, -samuel and· Isaac and other persons, signed a petition to the Genent Assembly, Oct. n, 1705, requesting a settlement of an Ecclesiastical Society at a
| | Notes: | place called the "Great Swamp" on· account of the inconvenience of attending services at Farmington about six miles distant, indicating that they all then resided there, hough this is not of record. (See Camps Hist. of New Bri,tain, Ct.) · Administration on the estate of Caleb Cowles of Kensington, was granted by the Probate Court at Hartford, Conn., Jan. 4, 1725-6, to his widow, Abigail Cowles, Inventory: £529-17-1. The inventory of her estate amounting to 49-1;2-:9 was taken Nov. 25, 1736.
| |  | | Abigail Woodford Notes: | daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Newell) Woodford of Farmington, Conn. Rebecca Newell was a daughter of Thomas Newell ;of Farmington (Newell Gen.; Skilton Gen.; the Gay Collection, Conn. Hist. Soc. Library; Goodwin and Morgan Ancestral Lines) . | | Individual Notes: | | | |
Ancestors Chart | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024 persons | - | Samuel Cowles Sr COLONIAL b.1639 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut d.1692 See Notes | John Cowles Cowles in America No.1 b.1597 Gloucestershire, England d.1675 See Notes | ? Coles
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hannah ? b.1617 d.1684 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024-persons | - | 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 | - | | | | |