Mary TAPP

Mary married Lieut. William FOWLER about 1645. William (son of William FOWLER and Sarah ?) was born in England; died in 1683 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John FOWLER was born on 5 Mar 1649.

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He was of Milford 1639, one of "the seven pillars" at the founding of the Milford Church in New Haven, Aug. 22, 1639, and Peter Prudden was ordained its first minister April 18, 1640 by a committee of three, of whom Edmund Tapp was one. Mather says he was an Assistant of the colony. He was one of four Judges of Milford chosen at the beginning of the settlement. (Atwater's New Haven p. 157.) In 1643 and 1644, he was one of the two Magistrates for Milford. (New Haven Colonial Records, I, pp. 112 and 129.) In 1649, he was chosen on a committee to set the boundary line between New Haven and Branford, p. 492, vol. 1, N.H. col Rec.)

Feb 5, 1639/40 a committee was appointed by the Court to "assist Mr. Ling to ripen Goodman Taps business against the next court concerning his demaund of certaine monyes weh he disbursed for bringing cattell from the Bay, appertaying to divers persons." (N.H. Col. Rec., I, p. 28) "Herfordshire Emigrants in 1636........."Benington--Edmund Tapps 2.0.0. gone into New England (S.P Dom. vol. 376 of Charles I, No. 106)" This under heading of "a retorne for arrears of shepp mony in the Countie of Hertfe for yeare 1636." (N.E. Reg., 54, p. 352) Emigrants from Herts. "Edmund Tapps of Bennington, went to New England, and appeared with the others at Milford in 1639." Bennington is eight miles northwest of Ware. (N.E. Reg., 57, p. 298; Savage, 4, p. 253.)

Edmund married Ann ?. Ann died in Aug 1673. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]