Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Nathaniel DOWSE | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NATHANIEL3 DOWSE (JONATHAN2, LAWRENCE1), born in Charlestown, Mass., baptised there, 6 Feb. 1715, died, probably in Charlestown, about 1783. He married (published in Charlestown, 11 Jan. 1746) MARGARET TEMPLE. Nathaniel Dowse was a sea-captain, having his residence in Charlestown where he was a parishioner of the First Church in 1763. His father and his brother Samuel both made him bequests of land in Charlestown, but like most sea-faring men he was probably a poor busines man, for he appears to have so mishandled his property that he left an insolvent estate. He also suffered a property loss when Charlestown was burned by the British, 17 June 1775, for which he afterwards sought redress in the courts, estimating his losses at �600. In 1759, for some reason his children went to Concord and were warned* from town: "Allowed Caution of Concord against Samuel Dowse, Nathaniel, Pascal, Robert, and Edward, who came from Charlestown about 3 mos. preceding 21 Feb. 1759." (Middlesex Co., Court of Sessions, 1748-61, p. 526.) His wife may have gone there with the children, while he was at sea. I Joseph Dowse of Salem . . . Esqr In Consideration of four hundred pounds paid me by my Brother Nathaniel Dowse of Charlestown . . . Mariner . . . confirm unto the said Nathaniel . . . part of a Dwelling and other Buildings . . . part of the real Estate of our Brother Samuel Dowse late of Charlestown . . . Merchant decd . . . which he bequeathed [ref 79:164] to me in his last Will, Jane Dowse releases her dower, 10 Sept. 1773. Wit: Ann Hubbard, Jonathan Dowse (Middlesex County, Deeds, 75:103). Nathaniel Dowse died insolvent and intestate. Nathaniel Dowse, merchant, with Joseph Cordis, merchant and Samuel Nicholson, Esq. as sureties, all of Charlestown, was appointed administrator of the estate of Nathaniel Dowse late of Charlestown, deceased, intestate, 3 Feb. 1783. The inventory of his estate, made 7 May 1783, amounted to �234. The estate owed among others, Pascal Dowse of Boston and Nathaniel Dowse of Medford. At the public sale of his effects, 7 Oct. 1783, they bought his clothing. These two sons received in the settlement about fifty per cent of what was owed them. CHILDREN born in Boston or Charlestown, baptised in Trinity Church, Boston 1748-56: Nathaniel, Catherine, Mehitable, Pascal, Samuel, Robert, Edward, Mary. [ref 79:165] *The custom of warning was one by which the town tried to protect itself against possible town charges. If anyone came into a town who was not vouched for or bonded by someone, the town issued a formal notice that the person was not accepted as an inhabitant; then, if later they became impoverished, their support fell on the town from which they came and not on the town to which they had moved. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Margaret TEMPLE | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MARGARET TEMPLE, born 1724, died in 1771, aged forty-seven years, being buried from Christ's Church, Boston, 18 June 1771, daughter of Hon. ROBERT and MEHITABLE (NELSON) TEMPLE of Boston and granddaughter of THOMAS TEMPLE of Stantonbury, Bucks, England. [ref 79:164] In 1887, there was in the possession of Robert C. Winthrop of Boston, a portrait of a young lady dressed in green silk trimmed with lace, seated on a garden bank with flowers in her hand. It was painted by Jonathan B. Blackburn who was in Boston, 1750-1765, and represents a daughter of Hon. Robert Temple. Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., stated that he was not sure that it was Margaret (Temple) Dowse, but at the time it came into the possession of his father, who was a grand nephew of hers, about forty years before, tradition associated it with her name. There is no reason to doubt but what it was a portrait of her, left by her father on his hasty departure from Boston at the outbreak of the War. [ref 79:165] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 18 Jun 1771 buried Christ's Church, Boston MA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
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