Roger Mowry (Mowery) and Mary JOHNSON
Husband Roger Mowry (Mowery)
Born: Abt 1612 - England Christened: Died: 5 Jan 1667 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts or Providence, Providence, RI Buried: AFN: 8LBG-P3
Father: Thomas Mowry (1578- ) Mother: Elizabeth (Abt 1588- )
Father: Thomas Mowry (1578- ) Mother: Elizabeth (Abt 1588- )
Marriage: By 1637 - Roxbury, Massachusetts
Wife Mary JOHNSON 1
Born: Christened: 31 Jul 1614 - Ware, Hertfordshire, England Died: 29 Jan 1679 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Buried: 29 Jan 1679 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts AFN: 1LSB-DX0
Father: John JOHNSON (1588-1659) 1 Mother: Mary Heath (1600-1655)
Other Spouse: John Kingsley (1614-1679) - 14 Jan 1673 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
Children
1 F Mehitable Mowry
Born: Abt 1646 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Edward (Eldad) KIngsley (1638-1679) Marr: 9 May 1662 - Providence, Rhode IslandSpouse: Timothy Brooks ( - ) Marr: by 1685
2 M Jonathan Mowry (Mowery)
Born: Christened: 2 Apr 1637 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Died: Buried:Spouse: Mary (Bartlett) Foster ( - ) Marr: 8 Jul 1659 - Plymouth, MassachusettsSpouse: Hannah (Pincen) (Young) Witherell ( - ) Marr: Abt 1694
3 F Bethiah Appia Mowry (Mowery)
Born: Christened: 17 Jun 1638 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Died: Buried:Spouse: George Palmer ( - ) Marr: 30 Sep 1662
4 F Mary Mowry (Mowery)
Born: Christened: 16 Jan 1639 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Died: Buried:
5 F Elizabeth Mowry (Mowery)
Born: Christened: 27 Mar 1642 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Died: Buried:
6 M Nathaniel Mowry (Mowery)
Born: Abt 1643 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Joanna Inman ( - ) Marr: 28 Aug 1666 - Providence, Rhode Island
7 M John Mowry (Mowery)
Born: Abt 1646 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Mary ( - ) Marr: by abt 1674
8 M Joseph Mowry (Mowery)
Born: Abt 1647 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Mary Wilbur ( - ) Marr: by 1672
9 M Benjamin Mowry (Mowery)
Born: 8 May 1649 Christened: 20 May 1649 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Died: Buried:Spouse: Martha (Hazard) Potter ( - ) Marr: Abt 1676
10 M Thomas Mowry (Mowery)
Born: 19 Jul 1652 - Providence, Rhode Island Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Susanna Newell ( - ) Marr: 6 Sep 1673 - Roxbury, Massachusetts
11 F Hannah Mowry (Mowery)
Born: 28 Sep 1656 - Providence, Rhode Island Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Benjamin Sherman ( - ) Marr: 3 Dec 1674 - Portsmouth
12 M Roger Mowry (Mowery)
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
13 F Mehitable Mowry
Born: Abt 1646 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Edward (Eldad) KIngsley (1638-1670) Marr: 9 May 1662 - Providence, RI
14 M Thomas Mowry (Mowery)
Born: 19 Jul 1652 - Providence, Providence, RI Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Also Morey.
Sources: Supplement to "The Descendants of Nathaniel Mowry of Rhode Island" by Wm. A. Mowry. Boston, 1900. p. 3. She first married Roger Mowry. Died on 5 Mar 1666. Died Jan 5, 1666 G2.
From John Johnson Genealogy:
Roger Mowry was a friend of Roger Williams. They removed with him to Rhode Island, where Mowry held many important positions. He was a Representative to the General Court in 1658 from Providence.
Member of 1st Church, Salem, Mass.
Roger arrived in Boston from England early in 1631.
The "Olney House" with its fire place measuring ten feet inside, on Abbott Street near Main N. in Providence, Rhode Island, was built by Roger Mowry in 1653. He and Roger Williams applied at the same time, May 18, 1631, to Boston for the privilege of Freeman -- both went to Plymouth, then to Salem, then to Providence, where they lived side by side. "He sold his land in ye woods into Emanuel Downing -- and I do further testify ye a parcel of upland and swamp and meadow land being apart of and belonging to the said Mowry's land lying in ye township of Salem, about 3 miles westerly from ye town" etc.... 1700, Jan. 28. His wife, Mistress Mary Johnson, was a woman of strong character and much loved by her neighbors. Rev. Heath in Roxbury was a kinsman of Mary. Sources: Boston & Eastern Mass., Vol IV, p. 2090. "Descendants of John Mowry of Rhode Island," by William A. Mowry, 1909, Chapter I, p. 19, etc. "History of Woodstock," Vol. VII, p. 148, etc., by Bowen, 1943.
From The Great Migration Begins, newenglandancestors.org
Migrated 1630. First lived in Salem. Moved to Lynn by 1646, and to Providence by 1652.
He was a Neat herd at Salem, 1636-41, an innkeeper at Providence by 1655. In 1657 the Rhode Island Treasurer was ordered to pay Roger "Moorie" 1s 6d out of the treasury "for this day's firing & house room".
He was in the list of Salem church members compiled in late 1636, annotated "removed". He was a freeman on 18 May 1631 as Roger Mawry.
He could sign his name, and his wife made her mark.
He served on the Essex petit jury (from Salem), 26 Jan 1641/2, and as Providence constable in 1655. One of six men chosen to hear cases in Providence in 1662. In later life he was frequently a Providence juryman.
In the Salem land grant in 1636, Roger Morie received 40 (or 50) acres "next to Mr. Cole". On 14 Aug 1637, he requsted a "spot of ground by Estye's". He was granted 3/4 of an acre of marsh on 25 Dec 1637, with a household of five. He had 50 acres laid out 20 Feb 1637 and on Jul 20 1638 he was granted a strip of meadow of 2 1/2 acres and 1 1/2 acres of upland.
Land was laid out in Providence to Roger Mowry in early 1656 at his request. ON 27 Aug 1656 he had a house lot laid out to him upon the hill against Robert William's meadow. On 15 Jan 1658 he bought a house and four acres from Robert Colwell and sold it to Thomas Olney Sr of Providence 19 Mar 1658/9. On 7 Apr 1660 was granted six acres of land and thre acres of meadow in exchange for land that he had been previously granted. On 12 Jun 1660 he sold ninety acres of land a mile outside of Providence to John Acres of Dorchester. On 23 Nov 1660 Henry Neale of Braintree, carpenter, sold Mowry everthing he had in Providence, including his house, which had been purchased from Daniel Comstock on 3 Feb 1661/2. Mowry sold the right of commonage that came with this land to William Carpenter. On 4 May 1651 Samuel Comstock's widow, Anne Smith of Providence, sold Mowry four acres in the row of houses in the north part of Providence, next to a prcel already owned by Mowry. Mowry sold Robert Colwell's right of commage to William Carpenter of Pautuxett on 22 Dec 1662. In the Division on the East Side of the Seven Mile Line, Roger Mowry drew lot # 74 on 19 Feb 1665/6.
On 3 Jun 1685 Timothy Brookes reveals that "for & in satisfaction of a certain sum of money which the said Roger Maurey promised unto the said Eldad Kinsley in marriage with his said daughter Mehitabell for part of her portion. Mowry did.. give.. .unto the said Eldad Kinsley a certain quantity of land containing by estimation twelve acres".
Although Roger Mowry had made her his executrix, the widow Mary ultimately refused administration of his insolvent estate. She later accepted administration, but neither will nor inventory survive and were missing as early as 1677 when a review of town books which had survived King Philip's war revealed that the administration papers and bond were missing. She may have been an ineffective administratrix, fo rson JOnathan claimed before a Providence town meeting that he had taken possesson of twelve acres of upland that had been his father's right, being the "son and heir apparent".
Birth by about 1610 based on date of freemanship.
Death: Providence, 5 Jan 1666/7.
Marriage by 1637, Mary Johnson, daughter of John Johnson. She married (2) Rehoboth, 14 Jan 1673, John Kingsley, and was buried at Rehoboth 6 Jan 1678/9.
Hannah Mowry and Elizabeth Mowry were members of teh Salem church in teh 1640's and may have been connected in some way to Roger Mowry. Alternatively their surnames may have been variants of "Moore" or "More".
In a warrant to the constable of Lynn, dated 29 Dec 1648, one of the witnesses was "Roger Morey".
Mention is made of where Roger Morey's old house stood i 1649, perhaps referring to his remove from Salem to Lynn. A flawed reading of records in the case in which Mrs. Lydia Bankers sued Mowry for debt in June of 1650 resulted in teh erroneous conclusion that Lydia was the daughter of John Johnson of Roxbury.
John Clawson, a servant of Roger Williams, is said to have complained of some men "such as Roger Mowry" according to the deposition of Edward Inman on the occasoin of Clawson's violent death.
Roger was adminstrator of the estate of William Robinson of Providence in October 1657.
Great Migraton Begins, NEHGR, does not have firstborn son Roger. John Johnson Genealogy lists Roger, but gives no date of birth andno other information.
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General Notes (Wife)
Her name also Morey.
Lived in Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
From: Martha Matthews
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001
Mary Johnson Mowry married John kinglsey after the death of Roger
Mowry. So here is some facts on him which pertains to her. The following
is some material I have assembled on John Kingsley and family. I found
recently that his grave eventually was moved to Seekonk. MA. I know
where it is but have not had the time to go and look at it. There is a
mention of him in the recent book. "King Phillip's War."
She second married Timothy Brooks.
3. Mary Johnson (John1). Born England. Died on Jan 5, 1678/9. Buried on Jan 29, 1678/9.
Sources: Supplement to "The Descendants of Nathaniel Mowry of Rhode Island" by Wm. A. Mowry. Boston, 1900. p. 3.
She first married Roger Mowry. Died on 5 Mar 1666.
Died Jan 5, 1666 G2.
Roger Mowry was a friend of Roger Williams. They removed with him to Rhode Island, where Mowry held many important positions. He was a Representative to the General Court in 1658 from Providence.
Member of 1st Church, Salem, Mass.
Roger arrived in Boston from England early in 1631.
The "Olney House" with its fire place measuring ten feet inside, on Abbott Street near Main N. in Providence, Rhode Island, was built by Roger Mowry in 1653. He and Roger Williams applied at the same time, May 18, 1631, to Boston for the privilege of Freeman -- both went to Plymouth, then to Salem, then to Providence, where they lived side by side. "He sold his land in ye woods into Emanuel Downing -- and I do further testify ye a parcel of upland and swamp and meadow land being apart of and belonging to the said Mowry's land lying in ye township of Salem, about 3 miles westerly from ye town" etc.... 1700, Jan. 28. His wife, Mistress Mary Johnson, was a woman of strong character and much loved by her neighbors. Rev. Heath in Roxbury was a kinsman of Mary.
Sources: Boston & Eastern Mass., Vol IV, p. 2090.
"Descendants of John Mowry of Rhode Island," by William A. Mowry, 1909, Chapter I, p. 19, etc.
"History of Woodstock," Vol. VII, p. 148, etc., by Bowen, 1943.
"Ancestry of Robert Roy and Family", at http://www.genealogy.theroyfamily.com/p2261.htm, which is well researched, has an additional firstborn son, Roger Mowry, who is not listed by Great Migration begins (NEHGS web site).
She second married John Kingsley.
Died Jan 5, 1666 G2.
1 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM) (July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996).
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