NameHenry ROWLEY
Birth1598, Bennington, Hertfordshire, England [524]
Immigration1632, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
Move1634, Scituate, Plymouth, MA
Freeman1 Jan 1634/5, Scituate, Plymouth, MA
Move1638, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA
Deathbef Jul 1673, Falmouth, Barnstable Co, MA [501]
Death MemoFreeman list 26 May 1670
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Other spousesAnne Elsdon [Blossom]
Marriageabt 1620, London, England [524]
SpouseSarah PALMER
Birthabt 1606, England [524]
DeathSummer 1632, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA [524]
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FatherWilliam Palmer (~1581-<1637)
MotherFrances Blossom (1585-<1637)
Children
Birth11 Aug 1625, England [1001]
Deathbef 15 Sep 1705, Falmouth, Barnstable Co, MA
Death Memonot in husband’s will
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Marriage11 Apr 1646, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA [565]
Birthabt 1632, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
Death1705, East Haddam, Middlesex, CT [500]
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Marriage22 Apr 1652, Barnstable, Barnstable, MA [565]
Notes for Henry ROWLEY
First found when taxed 9s. in the Plymouth Court Records on 24 Mar 1633, indicating he arrived at Plymouth in 1632. He was taxed 18s. the following year. By the following September (1634), when Rev. John Lathrop arrived in Scituate, Goodman Rowley already had a house. Henry became one of the first members of Lathrop’s church (on 8 Jan 1634/5 - the week after he was admitted as a freeman) and was known as “deacon.” On 1 January 1637/8 Henry Rowley was one of the freemen of Scituate who complained that their proportions of land were too small to subsist upon and with the others received upland, neck, and meadow between the North & South Rivers [ PCR 1:72]

Henry and his wife Anne later accompanied Latrop to Barnstable in 1640. He was twice Barnstable constable in 1641, Deputy for Barnstable to General Court, 29 August 1643, surveyor of highways in 1646, 1647 and 1653. He appears in the Barnstable section of 1643 Plymouth list of men able to bear arms.

Henry eventually moved to West Barnstable with his step-son Peter Blossom and later to Falmouth. He last appears on a list of freeman on 28 May 1670, in the Barnstable section. The inventory of estate of "henery Rowley of Sacconesset" exhibited in Court, July 1673. Included in the estate was a debt of £29 to Jonathan Hatch, his son-in-law, for land sold to Henry. (http://www.wmn.net/rowleytw/index.html, Great Mig [501])

Henry was probably the son or grandson of Henricus Rowley of Bennington (1545-1605). This family had several members named Moyses (Moses), which was the name of Henry’s oldest son. [524]

Savage’s: ROWLEY, HENRY, Plymouth 16312, perhaps came in the Charles, with Hatherly, was of Scituate 1634, with his w. partook in gather. of first ch. there, 8 Jan. 1635, and rem. to Barnstable with Lathrop 1639, m. 17 Oct. 1633, Ann, wid. of Thomas Blossom, prob. as his sec. w. for I suppose Sarah, wh. m. 11 Apr. 1646, Jonathan Hatch, was his d.
Notes for Sarah PALMER
One story of Sarah: Sarah was the daughter of William’s first wife, who died before 1620. After her death, Sarah eloped with Henry Rowley when she was only 14, “incurring the wrath of her father”. William and Frances may have been planning to accompany her father on the Speedwell in 1620, but instead delayed their departure. William was still upset over 10 years later when he made his will and left out Henry (Sarah was dead) and their children except for Moses. [524]

Another theory: As Sarah Palmer was expecting when she and husband Henry Rowley came to America, they brought along a young nanny named Mary Trine. (This later became a wife of Robert Paddock.) After Henry Rowley md. Ann (Elsdon/Helsdon/Heilsdon) Blossom, Mary Trine moved into the William Palmer household as a maid servant and got into trouble w/a man servant of William Palmer, Sr. in 1633.

It does make sense that Sarah was expecting in the summer of 1632 -- Moses Rowley was an heir in his grandfather Palmer’s will. He was granted a cow out of the estate on March 7, 1653/54, an occasion which may correspond with his 21st birthday.
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