10th Great Grandparents
Mack-Smith Branch
Henry Rowley
Henry Rowley was born circa 1598 in England.
Henry is believed to have arrived in Massachuttes Bay Colony sometime between 1630-32 with his wife and children, and first settling in Sciuate, Massachusetts.
He married Sarah Palmer, whose father and brother came to the colonies in 1621 on the ship Speedwell.
Henry Rowley married second, Ann Blossom, widow wife of Thomas Blossom (1580-1633) who traveled on the Speedwell with Sarah's father. Thomas Blossom's sister was Sarah Palmer's mother.
I descend from his first marriage with Sarah Palmer. After she died in 1632, their younger children may have been sent live with Sarah's father, William Palmer, Sr.. I say this because in 1637 William bequeaths part of his property to Rebecca and Moses Rowley, grandchildren, then provides a guardian to raise Moses.
Henry Rowley was a freeman in 1639, and removed to Barnstable with his second wife in 1640. He died in Barnstable around befre the probate of his will on 15 Jul 1673.
Rebecca, depends on migration date (1631-1710) mentioned in William Palmer's will.
Henry Rowley died 15 Jul 1673 in Falmough, Barnstable County, MA on or about 15 Jul 1673.
Fiske, John and James Grant Wilson. Appletons; Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1886-1900. Vol 1, page 269
Anderson, Robert Charles. New England, The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1632. Vol 3 P-W. Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1996-2001. Pages 1602-1604.
Deyo, Simeon L. History of Barnstable County, Massachusettes, 1620-1637-1686-1890. New Yourk: Blake, 1890. Pages 308, also see index.
Green, Richard Henry. The New York genealogical and biographical record. New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1906. Pages 57-58.
Home W. Brainard, "Henry Rowley and Some of His Descendants." Article in The New York genealogical and biographical record; Green, Henry. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1906. Pages 57-59.
Pope, Charles Henry. The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents. Boston, C.H. Pope, 1900. Page 393.
Children of Henry Rowley and Sarah Palmer
Joseph, born in England (1623-1655)
Sarah, born in England (1625-1710)
Henry, born in England (1626-Unk)
Moses, born in England (1627-1705) ~ m. Elizabeth Fuller
Rebecca Rowley, birth depends on migration date. She is mentioned in William Palmer Sr. will.
Moses Rowley
Moses Rowley was born in London, England circa 1627. His mother Sarah Palmer died when he was about five years of age. I believe the Rowley family came to the Colonies as part of the followers of John Lothrop in the Winthrop fleet circa 1630; however, Sarah's father, William Palmer, was at Plymouth as early as 1621 and her mother, Frances Blossom, in 1623.
Moses and his sister Rebecca are specifically mentioned in William Palmer's will, which makes me assume that William raised the two youngest Rowley children in his household. Also, his will provides for conservatorship of Moses after his death in 1637.
Moses married on 22 Apr 1652 to Elizabeth Fuller. Elizabeth was the daughter of Dr Matthew Fuller of Barnstable, who came with wife and family to Plymouth Colony circa 1640. FamilySearch documents state she was born at Plymouth, but more likely in England.
Moses and Elizabeth had twelve children, all in Barnstable. Sometime before his death in 1705, the family moves to Haddam, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
* My personal speculation is that the Rowley family moved to Connecticut as early as 1683. [In 1635, John Winthrop Jr. was surveying the Connecticut area for colonization. Connecticut and New York had previously, had been a Dutch settlement. Ancestors on the Lambson branches like the Starks, Walworths, and Matsons settled in Groton and Fisher's Island; the Olmstead and Loomis in Hartford].
Fuller, William Hyslop. Fuller genealogy, Vol III: Some descendants of Captain Mathew Fuller, John Fuller of Newton, John Fuller of Lynn, John Fuller of Ipswicch, and Robert fuller of Dorchester and Dedham, with supplements to Vol I and II. Palmer, Mass.: C.B. Fiske & Co. 1908. Pages 11-12.
Children of Moses Rowley and Elizabeth Fuller
Cahterine (1652-1683)
Mary (1653-1704)
Moses Jr (1654-1735)
Child (stillbirth 1656)
Mehitabel Rowley (1660-1759) ~ m. "Little" John Fuller
Shubael (1660-1714) * twin of Mehitabel
Sarah (1662-1705)
Nathan (1664-1742)
Aaron (1666-1743)
John (1667-1705)
Matthew (1669-1717)
Daniel (1671-1682)
Descendants of Henry Rowley and Sarah Palmer
Moses Rowley ~ m. Elizabeth Fuller * Matthew Fuller's daughter
Mehitable Rowley ~ m. John Fuller * Samuel Fuller's son
Lydia Fuller ~ m. Daniel Gates Jr
Lydia Matilda Gates ~ m. Solomon Mack
Lucy Mack ~ m. Joseph Smith Sr
Hyrum Smith ~ m. Mary Fielding Smith
Joseph Fielding Smith ~ m. Edna Lambson
Edna Melissa Smith ~ m. John Fife Bowman
John Hyrum Bowman ~ m. Rosetta Ellen Jackson
* For privacy reasons, I have not listed my children, parents, siblings, or cousins
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