Nicholas Stowers

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events. ⁴⁴⁶
Nicholas Stowers was made a freeman of Charlestown, Massacusetts, 18 May 1631. Among he offices Nicholas held were he was a Charlestown constable, 9 May 1639, he serve on juries & he was chosen Charlestown cowherd, December 1633.

Nicholas Stowers received Mystic Side allotments of twenty-five, sixty and five acres, 23 April 1638. In the 1638 Charlestown Book of Possessions "Nicolas Stower" held twelve parcels: one homestead of two acres in South Field "with one dwelling house and other out houses upon it"; three acres and a half arable land in East Field; five milch cow commons; two acres arable in Line Field; five acres woodland in Mystic Field; three acres meadow; one acre and a half meadow in Mystic Field; one half acre of meadow in Mystic Field (bought of Mrs. Ann Higginson); two acres meadow in Mystic Field; one acre meadow "lying on north side of Gibbines feilde or south meade"; twenty-five acres woodland in Mystic Field; and sixty acres land in Rock Field.

Nicholas Stower had a will dated 16 May 1646. He mentions his wife as "my beloved wife Amy Stowers" in this will. He also mentioned his sons Joseph and Richard and his daughters Jone, Abigaill and his "daughter Farr." An inventory was taken 1 Jul 1646, so Nicholas must have died sometimes between 16 May 1646 and 1 Jul 1646. Amy, his wife, died on either 2 or 27 Feb 1667/8. Their children were:

Elizabeth, b. abt 1610, m. by 1630, George Farr
Richard, abt. 1617; m Hannah Frost daughter of Henry Frost who died 3 Feb 1698/9
Joanna, b. abt. 1624; d. 25 Dec 1689, Charleston; m. by 1657, John Burrage.
Sarah, b. abt 1626; m. by 1646 Samuel Hayward.
Joseph, b. Charestown 21 Feb 1632/33, m. about 1661 Mary Blaisdell, daughter of Ralph Blaisdell.
Abigail, b. Charlestown 27 Jun 1636; m. by 1663 John Knight
John, d. Charlestown 15 Aug 1638

~The Great Migration Beginns: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, pp. 1779-1782

• Background Information. ¹³³⁷
Nicholas Stowers is listed as one of the first settlers of Charlestown, Massachusetts and as being from England. Nicholas and Amy Stowers were of the thirty-five persons who were dismissed from the Boston Church the 14th of the 8th month, 1632, and formed the First Church of Charleston.

~The Stowers Families of America, p. 17

Nicholas married Amy ⁴⁴⁶.^,1337 (Amy was born in England and died 2 or 27 Feb 1667(68) in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Suffolk, British American Colonies ⁴⁴⁶.)