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- 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.
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