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Family of Henry * DOW and Margaret COLE

Husband: Henry * DOW (1606-1659)
Wife: Margaret COLE (1610-1676)
Children: Daniel DOW (1641- )
Mary DOW (1643- )
Hannah DOW (c. 1645- )
Thomas DOW (1653- )
Jeremiah DOW (1657- )
Marriage 1641 Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US1

Husband: Henry * DOW

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Henry * DOW

Name: Henry * DOW
Sex: Male
Father: Henry * DOW (1550-1613)
Mother: Elizabeth * MARCH (1573-1614)
Birth 6 Oct 1606 Runham, Norfolk, England2
Immigration 1637 (age 30-31) to Boston, Middlesex, MA, US3
Residence 1638 (age 31-32) Massachusetts Bay Colony, MA, US4
Will 16 Feb 1659 (age 52)
The Last will & testament of Henery Dow Senr of Hampton Beinge Sick & weeke of Body butt firme of understanding and memory Itt I Give and bequeth unto Margrett my loving wife my House lott being by Estamation ten Acres more or less & Six acres of fresh meddow att the springs & one sheare of the lower Cowes Comon ; Three of my Cowes : & the Dwelling House upon the lott above sd : and att my Househould stuff Excepting whatt shall be other waies Disposed of Itt I Give and bequeath unto my sonn Henry Dow all the planting Ground thatt is in my Hands in the East field, and my seaventeen acres of Salt marsh and . . . one sheare of the Cow comon and a sheare of the ox Comon and all my Cattell Excepting the three Cowes above

Itt to my Sonn Henery, one fether bed wch Hee useth to ly upon and all the Bed Cloathes thereunto Belonging and the middelmost Iron Pott : and I Due by these presents make and appoint my sonn Henery my sole Exequetor to this last will and testamentt Itt I Doe Give and Bequeath unto my sonn Joseph the some of thirty pounds to bee payd when Hee shall Arive to the age of twenty and one yeers. Itt I Doe Give and Bequeath unto my sonn Danill and to my Daughters mary and Hannah five pounds apeece to be payd to them when they shall Arive to the age of twenty and one years Itt : I Give unto my sonn Thomas & my sonn Jeremiah five pounds a peece to bee payd to them att the age of one & twenty yeeres And after my wives Decease the House & House lott and the six acres of medow to Returne Into the Hands of my Excequetors ; In Cause thatt Hee please to Resigne up the House and fifty Rods of ground which was sometime posesed by Thomas Sleeper Into the Hands of my sonn Joseph and Pay unto my five yongest Children above sayd five and twenty pounds thatt is to say five pounds a peece : to bee Payd five pounds to the eldest the yeere after my wives Decease and so five pounds a yeere to the next yonger untill the some of five pounds bee payd to the . . .fter and still with this proviso thatt in Cause my sone Henery bee nott willing to leave the place wheare Thomas Sleeper lived & to take the lands above sayd After my wives Decease upon the Conditions above named then the sd House & House lot with the Six acres of medow are to Returne to my sonn Joseph who upon the takeing possesion of them is to undertake for the paying of the twenty five pounds above sd to my five yongest Children according to the times above mentioned : Itt I Give unto my wife two of the best of my swine & so much of the Corne in the House as may maintaine Her & my Children untill Harvest & all the Crop on the House lott att Harvest & the Corne till Harvest to bee twenty bushels To this my last will & testament I sett my Hand & Seale ye 16 : 2 mo 1659

Henrye dow

Wittnes:
Robert Page
His X marke
Samll Dalton

[Proved Oct. 4, 1659.]
[Essex County, Mass., Probate Files, and Norfolk County, Mass., Deeds, vol. 1, p. 85.]
Occupation husbandman
Death 25 Apr 1659 (age 52) Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US5,6
Probate 4 Aug 1659

Wife: Margaret COLE

Name: Margaret COLE
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1610
Death 1 Mar 1676 (age 65-66) Ipwsich, Essex, MA, US

Child 1: Daniel DOW

Name: Daniel DOW
Sex: Male
Birth 22 Sep 1641

Child 2: Mary DOW

Name: Mary DOW
Sex: Female
Birth 14 Jul 1643

Child 3: Hannah DOW

Name: Hannah DOW
Sex: Female
Birth 1645 (est)

Child 4: Thomas DOW

Name: Thomas DOW
Sex: Male
Birth 28 Apr 1653

Child 5: Jeremiah DOW

Name: Jeremiah DOW
Sex: Male
Birth 6 Sep 1657

Note on Husband: Henry * DOW

husbandman, of Ormsby England ae 29, with wide Joane ae 30, 4 ch and servant Anne Maning, ae 17, passed exam to go to N.E. April 11, 1637. Settled at Watertown; from May 2, 1638. Wife Jone, bur 20 (4) 1640. Rem to Hampton; juryman 1648; sold land 18 (3) 1649; deputy 1655. Gave land 3 (8) 1649 to Thomas Nudd, sone of his former wife by her first husband. He m. about 1642 Margaret Cole, q.v. Ch. Henry (deposed in 1669, ae about 35). Thomas d at Wat.bur. July 10 1641, Joseph b 20 (1) 1638; Daniel b 22(7) 1641; Mary b. 14 (7) 1643; Thomas b at Hampton April 28, 1653; Jeremiah b. Sept. 6 1657 and Hannah.

He d. 21(2) 1659. Will dated 16 (2) prob 4(8)1659, beq to wide Margaret, sones Henry, Jospeh, Danile, Thomas, Jeremiah, daus Mary and Hannah. Hannah m. Jonas Gregory of Ipswich.

The widow m. Oct 23, 1661 Richard Kimball of Ipswich.7

Sources

1"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).
2Edmund West, "Family Data Collection - Births" (Provo, UT 2001).
3"Passenger and Immigrations Lists Index 1500-1900".
4"MA Census, 1790-1890".
5"NH Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949".
6"NH Death and Disinterment Records 1754-1947".
7Charles Henry Pope, "Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650" (Genealogical Publishing Co, 1998).