Joseph COWLES

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• Also Known As: Joseph Cole

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The graves of Joseph Cowles and his wife, Mindwell, are marked by stones in the Old Meeting House hIll Cemetery, Meriden. upon a monument in the Cemetery are the following inscriptions: "Erected by the Town of Meriden, 1857, in memory of the first settlers of the Town of Meriden who were buried within and near the enclosure, ad whose names are inscribed on this monument. The Meeting House in which they worshipped, and the first erected in the town, stood about fifty rods west of this monument." Among others the following names appear: Joseph Cowles, Nov. 30, 1760, aged 83; Mindwell Cowles, April 17, 1770, aged 89.

The following extract if taken from "A Century of Meriden, : published in 1906:

"The first of the Cowles family to live in Meriden was Joseph who came from Farmington and married Abigail, daughter of Samuel Royce on July 13, 1699. His father-in-law gave him a farm just south of Archer's corner in South Farms district, and in the year 1701, 107 acres up the hill on the old highway down which we fancy the good parson (Hall) descending after stopping, perhaps, to chat with some of the Cowles family, who were always prominent in church matters. It is difficult to believe that on the summit of this hill, called Ox Hill, there was once a colony of Cowleses and also Rices, for as far as the writer can discover, there is not the least remnant of the depression of a cellar to mark the site of a house anywhere in the vicinity, but there is no doubt that here they lived for several generations."

Mr Cowles was a weaver by trade, one of the leading citizens of the ton, and a deacon of the church.

Joseph married Abigail ROYCE on 13 Jul 1699 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Abigail (daughter of Ensign Samuel ROYCE, Sr. and Hannah CHURCHILL) was born on 24 Nov 1677 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 24 May 1714 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Samuel COWLES was born on 14 Mar 1712 in Meriden, Connecticut; died on 5 Oct 1798 in Norfolk or New Hartford, Connecticut.

Joseph married Anna PECK on 01 Apr 1715 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Anna was born in Mar 1686; died on 26 Feb 1716. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Mindwell ? on 29 May 1717 in Wallingford, Connecticut. Mindwell was born about 1681; died on 17 Apr 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of John and Hannah Cowles of Hartford, Conn.

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He was one of the eighty-four proprietors of Farmington in 1672; inherited his father's estate there and became one of the leading citizens. He was a man of energy, enterprise and possessed what passed for wealth at that time. Joined the church with his wife in 1690; was the progenitor of the Connecticut branch of the Cowles family as his brother John was of the Massachusetts branch.

Samuel married Abigail STANLEY on 14 Jan 1660/1. Abigail (daughter of Timothy STANLEY and Elizabeth ?) was born in Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1736 in Farmington, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Dau. of Timothy and Elizabeth Stanley of Hartford, Conn.