Timothy COWLES

1666 - 1736  (69 years)

• Name	Timothy COWLES  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  	Timothy m. January 1, 1689/90, Hannah, born 1666 or 1667' d. 1737; daughter of Hon. William and Hannah (Goodwin) Pitkin of East Hartford, Conn. Hannah Goodwin was daughter of Ozias Goodwin, one of the first settlers in East Hartford. Hon. William Pitkin was one of the original settlers and large landholders in East Hartford; principal attorney of the colony; treasurer 1676; assistant 1690, until his death Dec. 16, 1694. His grandson, William Pitkin, son of William and Elizabeth (Stanley) Pitkin, was a great grandson of John Cowles. he was judge of the Superior Court; Deputy or Lieutenant Governor, 1754-1766, and governor of the Colony of Connecticut, 1766-1769, the date of his death. After his marriage Timothy Cowles removed to East Hartford, where he first appears in the records in 1695. He owned a three mile lot east and west from the conn. River easterly, part of which was taken in the highway laid out from Richard Gilman's north of Gilman's Brook easterly in 1734. He lived jut south of Gilman's Brook on the East side of Main street before 1700, on the site occupied in 1879 by Mr. I. Carney. On Dec. 27, 1687 the town of Farmington granted to Timothy Cowles a four-acre lot, lying on the south side of Samuel Cowles senior's four acre lot "provided that he do come and inhabit in the town," from which it appears that he was not then a resident of Farmington. He was a collector of the 3rd Ecclesiastical Society of Hartford in 1701, and deacon in 1718. Chosen at a Town Meeting, Hartford, Dec. 25, 1701, surveyor for the East Side; Dec. 17, 1706, constable for the year ensuing; constable, Dec. 18, 1711; grand jury man, Dec. 15, 1713; selectman, Dec. 18, 1716, for the year ensuing. In his will on file in the State Library at Hartford, dated march 31, 1728, his wife is not mentioned, indicating that she was not then living. They were admitted to full communion in the First Church at Hartford, Aug. 11, 1695. [1]
  Birth	4 Nov 1666	Farmington, Connecticut   [1, 2, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Aug 1736	East Hartford, Connecticut   [1, 2, 4]
  Person ID	I13364	Main Tree
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Samuel COWLES,   b. 1639, prob. Hartford, Connecticut d. 17 Apr 1691, Farmington, Connecticut (Age 52 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Abigail STANLEY,   b. Hartford, Connecticut d. 1736, Farmington, Connecticut
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	14 Jan 1660/1  [1, 4]
  Family ID	F33915	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah PITKIN,   b. 1666   d. 1737 (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	1 Jan 1689/90  [1, 2, 4]
  Children	+ 1. William COWLES,   b. 01 Sep 1690, East Hartford, Connecticut d. 12 Apr 1771, East Hartford, Connecticut (Age 80 years)  [Birth] + 2. Hannah COWLES,   b. 1693, East Hartford, Connecticut d. 19 Feb 1777, Hatfield, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts (Age 84 years)  [Birth] + 3. Joseph COWLES,   b. 13 Jan 1695, East Hartford, Connecticut d. 20 Feb 175, East Hartford, Connecticut  [Birth]   4. Elizabeth COWLES,   b. 1697, East Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut d. 20 May 1782, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 85 years)  [Birth]   5. Abigail COWLES,   b. 03 Mar 1700, East Hartford, Connecticut d. Aft 31 Mar 1728 (Age 28 years)  [Birth]   6. Martha COWLES,   b. 19 May 1704, East Hartford, Connecticut d. Aft 31 Mar 1728 (Age 23 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F19536	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2020

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 4 Nov 1666 - Farmington, Connecticut Death - 30 Aug 1736 - East Hartford, Connecticut  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S12064] Colonel Calvin Duvall Cowles, Genealogy of the Cowles Families in America Vol.I . [S02944] A.P. Pitkin, Pitkin Family of America - A Genealogy of the Des. of William Pitkin, (Name: Name: Hartford, Conn. 1887;;). [S02352] James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, (Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc;;). [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking.