Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for John DOWSE | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - JOHN, Charlestown 1674, b. 1650, s. of Lawrence, freem. 1676, m. 31 Oct. 1672. Relief, d. of John Holland of Dorchester, had John, John, again, Relief, and Nathaniel; and after his d. 28 Nov. 1677, the wid. m. 9 Mar. 1681, Timothy Foster of Dorchester [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - JOHN2 DOWSE (LAWRENCE1), born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1649 (deposed, aged 22, 8 Nov. 1671), died in Charlestown, 28 Nov. 1677, of smallpox. He married in Dorchester, Mass., 31 Aug. [ref 79:112] 1672, RELIEF HOLLAND, baptised in Dorchester, 16 May 1650, died there, 7 July 1743, aged 93, daughter of JOHN and JUDITH HOLLAND. She married secondly, in Dorchester, 9 Mar. 1680-81, TIMOTHY FOSTER. She married thirdly in Dorchester, 9 Mar. 1691-2, HENRY LEADBETTER. John Dowse was a shoemaker and possibly was plying his trade in Dorchester before his marriage but after that event he made his home in Charlestown. With his wife, he was admitted to the church there: 16 May 1675, John Dowse and Relief Dowse (his wife; her father mr. Holland Sometime of Dorchester) and Mary Dowse (the daughter of our brother Sejant Dowse) Dismissed to the 2d ch: in Boston (blotted) 1691. John Dowse lived only five years after his marriage but during those five years his wife, Relief, had four children, the last posthumous. He was one of two men appointed "to look after the boys" in the church, his term to begin 23 Mar. 1674. He served in King Philip's War under Capt. John Cutler, receiving fourteen shillings pay, his name also appearing as Douss in an assignment of wages dated, 24 Aug. 1676 (Bodge's King Philip's War, 286, 374). Administration on his estate was granted to Releefe Dowse, his widow, and to Laur. Dowse, 2 Apr. 1678. Children: John, John, Relief, Nathaniel. [ref 79:113] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - An Inventory of the Estate left by John Dowse of Charlestone, Deceased, as it was taken by the parties undernamed March 25, 1678. In Pewter � 2 0 0 In Brass & Iron � 5 10 0 In Tinware & Earthenware � 0 6 0 In Linnen � 9 13 6 In Wearing Apparrell � 8 0 0 The Dwellinghouse & ground � 120 0 0 In Leather, Lasts & working Geare apprized by Sam. Carter Senr, Tho: Lord and Peter Foule � 13 2 11, � 158--12--0 A Court Cupboard & Chest of Drawers � 2 5 0 Wicker Ware, Chaires & Cradle � 16 0 One Chest � 14 In Bookes � 8 Two pair of Cotton Blankets � 1 15 0 One flock-bed, two Ruggs, blankets, pillowes, boulster & 3 bedsteds � 5 One feather bed & furniture � 8(???) One fouling piece, one Musket one Cutlash & Ammunition � 2 3 Twenty One pound of flax & hemp � 1 1 Ten pound Woollin Yarne � 1 0 0 Seventeene pound Woolin Yarne � 1 14 0 Sheeps-Wooll & Charcoale � 0 9 0 Tables & Lumbar � 1 10 0, �26-- 5--0 Totall � 184--17--5 pr LAUR. HAMMOND JACOB GREENE JR. At a County Court held at Cambr. Apr. 2th 1678 Releife Dowse the relict widow of the above named John Dowse deced, is granted administration on the estate of her abovesd husband Deced, as also Laur: Dowse her father and they being Sworn do Say that this is a true Inventory of his estate. (Middlesex Co., Probate, 6392, vol. 5, p. 65.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Relief HOLLAND | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - daughter of John HOLLAND and Judith - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Relief, baptized May 16, 1650, daughter of John Holland. [ref 29:641] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From the will of John Holland, made 16 Dec. 1651, filed Sept. 1652, it is evident that since he was a man of property, Relief must have been heiress to considerable wealth. He left a double portion of one-half his estate to his son John and the rest to be divided amongst his children, excepting that Mr. Mather was to have a silver cup of the value of forty shillings gs. He mentions only one of his children by name -- John. His wife, who had received one-half the estate, married secondly a Mr. Kimwright and went to Cambridge Village. The inventory of his estate mentions debts in Virginia, Library, musket, swords, tobacco, property in the Barbadoes, Ship, plate, pewter, etc. Relief must have been a fairly well-to-do young widow, and, since only one of her children, her daughter Relief, reached maturity, the latter must have also had a fair portion. It does not appear that Relief had any children by Henry Leadbetter although she was only forty-one when she married him, but she had children by John Dowse and Timothy Foster; Foster had some by his first wife, and so did Henry Leadbetter. At the time of her third marriage, Foster's eldest child by his first wife was twenty-seven and his youngest sixteen, while Leadbetter's youngest [ref 79:114] was thirteen. It is probable that there were some of each family in the same household. Upon her second marriage, Relief went back to Dorchester to live, taking with her her two surviving Dowse children. About ten years later, her only son by Dowse was drowned being then a lad of thirteen years. That her relations with the Dowses in Charlestown remained pleasant is shown by her choice of Nathaniel Dowse, her brother-in-law, for one of the Trustees in her marriage agreement with Henry Leadbetter in 1691. Lawrence Dowse in his will, made the same year, rather strangely omits to mention either her or her daughter. The daughter, Relief, then the wife of Michael Gill, petitions in 1735, almost forty-five years after the death of Lawrence, for a share of some of his property. (p. 105.) Children by Timothy Foster: Timothy, Edward, Prudence, Thomas, Elizabeth. [ref 79:115] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - married(2) Timothy FOSTER married(3) Henry LEADBETTER - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
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