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Abigail STANLEY

Female - 1736


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  1. 1.  Abigail STANLEY was born in Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1736 in Farmington, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

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

    Abigail married Samuel COWLES on 14 Jan 1660/1. Samuel (son of John COWLES and Hannah ?) was born in 1639 in prob. Hartford, Connecticut; died on 17 Apr 1691 in Farmington, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Deacon Samuel COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Mar 1661 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 14 Oct 1748 in Kensington, Connecticut.
    2. 3. Abigail COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Jan 1663 in Farmington, Connecticut; died after 1718.
    3. 4. Hannah COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 10 Dec 1664 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 05 Sep 1701.
    4. 5. Timothy COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 4 Nov 1666 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 30 Aug 1736 in East Hartford, Connecticut.
    5. 6. Sarah COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Dec 1668 in Farmington, Connecticut; died after Aug 1733.
    6. 7. John COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 28 Jan 1670/1 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 10 Oct 1748 in Farmington, Connecticut.
    7. 8. Nathaniel COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Feb 1672/3 in Farmington, Connecticut; died in 1729 in Southington, Connecticut.
    8. 9. Capt Isaac COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 28 Mar 1675 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 7 Feb 1756 in Farmington, Connecticut.
    9. 10. Joseph COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 18 Jan 1677/8 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 30 Nov 1760 in Wallingford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; was buried in Old Graveyard, Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut.
    10. 11. Elizabeth COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Mar 1679/80 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 8 Nov 1727.
    11. 12. Caleb COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Jun 1682 in Farmington, Connecticut; was christened on 25 Jun 1682 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 15 Nov 1725 in Kensington, Connecticut.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Deacon Samuel COWLES Descendancy chart to this point (1.Abigail1) was born on 17 Mar 1661 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 14 Oct 1748 in Kensington, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    Name:
    He resided on the southerly side of the old homestead at Farmington; removed to Kensington, 1716; was Deacon of the church there. He inherited the Pitkin place in Farmington subsequently known as the Dr. Carrington place, which he gave to his son, Thomas. He is said to have been a rather small size, spare, brown eyes, light hair, reserved in conversation, steady in mind, of mild disposition, not easily provoked.

    Samuel married Rachel PORTER on 17 Nov 1685. Rachel (daughter of Deacon Thomas PORTER and Sarah HART) was christened on 26 Dec 1658; died on 4 Oct 1743. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 13. Capt Samuel COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 6 May 1692 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 9 Jul 1777.
    2. 14. Esther/Hester COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 18 May 1697 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 22 Jul 1776.

  2. 3.  Abigail COWLES Descendancy chart to this point (1.Abigail1) was born on 1 Jan 1663 in Farmington, Connecticut; died after 1718.

    Abigail married Thomas PORTER in May 1678. Thomas was born on 29 Oct 1650; died on 19 Dec 1718. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 4.  Hannah COWLES Descendancy chart to this point (1.Abigail1) was born on 10 Dec 1664 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 05 Sep 1701.

    Hannah married Hekeziah PORTER on 20 May 1686. Hekeziah (son of Samuel PORTER and Hannah STANLEY) was born on 07 Jan 1665 in Windsor, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 03 Jan 1752 in East Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 15. Timothy PORTER  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 12 Apr 1689.
    2. 16. James PORTER  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Feb 1696.

  4. 5.  Timothy COWLES Descendancy chart to this point (1.Abigail1) was born on 4 Nov 1666 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 30 Aug 1736 in East Hartford, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    Name:
    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.

    Timothy married Hannah PITKIN on 1 Jan 1689/90. Hannah (daughter of William PITKIN and Hannah GOODWIN) was born in 1666; died in 1737. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 17. William COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 01 Sep 1690 in East Hartford, Connecticut; died on 12 Apr 1771 in East Hartford, Connecticut.
    2. 18. Hannah COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1693 in East Hartford, Connecticut; died on 19 Feb 1777 in Hatfield, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts; was buried in The Hill Cemetery, Hatfield, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts.
    3. 19. Joseph COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 13 Jan 1695 in East Hartford, Connecticut; was christened on 13 Jan 1694/5 in East Hartford, Connecticut; died on 20 Feb 175 in East Hartford, Connecticut.
    4. 20. Elizabeth COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1697 in East Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 20 May 1782 in Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut.
    5. 21. Abigail COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 03 Mar 1700 in East Hartford, Connecticut; was christened on 3 Mar 1700 in East Hartford, Connecticut; died after 31 Mar 1728.
    6. 22. Martha COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 19 May 1704 in East Hartford, Connecticut; was christened on 19 May 1704 in East Hartford, Connecticut; died after 31 Mar 1728.

  5. 6.  Sarah COWLES Descendancy chart to this point (1.Abigail1) was born on 25 Dec 1668 in Farmington, Connecticut; died after Aug 1733.

    Sarah married Stephen HART on 18 Dec 1689. Stephen (son of Stephen HART and ? UNKNOWN) was born on 28 Feb 1662 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 18 Aug 1733. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 7.  John COWLES Descendancy chart to this point (1.Abigail1) was born on 28 Jan 1670/1 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 10 Oct 1748 in Farmington, Connecticut.

    Family/Spouse: Experience CHAPPELL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  7. 8.  Nathaniel COWLES Descendancy chart to this point (1.Abigail1) was born on 15 Feb 1672/3 in Farmington, Connecticut; died in 1729 in Southington, Connecticut.

    Nathaniel married Phebe WOODRUFF on 11 Feb 1696/7. Phebe was born in 1676 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 4 Feb 1711/2 in Farmington, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Nathaniel married Mary ANDREWS on 26 Feb 1713. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 9.  Capt Isaac COWLES Descendancy chart to this point (1.Abigail1) was born on 28 Mar 1675 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 7 Feb 1756 in Farmington, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    Name:
    Capt. Isaac Cowles lived in Farmington, on the north part of William Porter's house lot, being the southwest corner of William Whitman's lot, about 1850. He was appointed ensign, May 1717, lieutenant, May 1723, and Captain, May 1731, of the Second Company, or Trainband, in Farmington; he was clerk of the Company in 1714; collector of the minister's rate, 1698-1700; constable several years; representative in 1726, and often held important town offices. He was a man of great energy and enterprise and became an extensive landman of great energy and enterprise and became an extensive landholder. He was a tailor by trade. Will dated Oct. 20, 1740. Proved at Hartford, Ct., march 2, 1756. In 1763 the last five sons divided the estate amount themselves as sole heirs, amounting to about 2,500 pounds.

    Isaac married Mary ANDREWS on 2 Jan 1694. Mary (daughter of Daniel ANDREWS and Mary PECK) was born on 9 Dec 1674; died on 19 Jul 1708. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Isaac married Sarah ANDREWS on 1 Nov 1709. Sarah was born on 27 Oct 1676; died on 14 Jun 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Isaac married Elizabeth SMITH on 27 Dec 1715/6. Elizabeth was christened on 16 Feb 1689/90 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 16 Aug 1767. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  9. 10.  Joseph COWLES Descendancy chart to this point (1.Abigail1) was born on 18 Jan 1677/8 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 30 Nov 1760 in Wallingford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; was buried in Old Graveyard, Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Also Known As: Joseph Cole

    Notes:

    Name:
    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]

    Children:
    1. 23. Samuel COWLES  Descendancy chart to this point 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]


  10. 11.  Elizabeth COWLES Descendancy chart to this point (1.Abigail1) was born on 17 Mar 1679/80 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 8 Nov 1727.

    Elizabeth married Dr Thomas THOMSON on 15 Jan 1706/7. Thomas (son of John THOMSON and Mary STEELE) was born on 30 Jun 1674; died on 17 Jul 1748. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  11. 12.  Caleb COWLES Descendancy chart to this point (1.Abigail1) was born on 20 Jun 1682 in Farmington, Connecticut; was christened on 25 Jun 1682 in Farmington, Connecticut; died on 15 Nov 1725 in Kensington, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    Name:
    Caleb Cowles settled in Kensington, Conn., and was one of the members of the new Second Church Society of Farmington, at "Great Swamp," Kensington Parish, and a pillar and deacon of the church established there Dec. 10, 1712, on Christian Lane, just south of the Middletown railroad, the site of which is marked by a monument erected by the Daughters of the American revolution. The ancient cemetery is on Christian lane, a few rods north of the railroad,, but the Cowles graves, if any, are unmarked. However, a large granite boulder placed there by the D.A.R. bears the name of Cowles with those of the other original settlers.

    Caleb Cowles, together with his bothers, Samuel and Isaac and other persons, signed a petition to the General Assembly, Oct. 11, 1705, requesting a settlement of an Ecclesiastical Society at a place called the "Great Swamp" on account of the inconvenience of attending services at Farmington about six miles distant, indicating that they all then resided there, though this is not of record.

    Administration on the estate of Caleb Cowles of Kensington, was granted by the Probate Court at Hartford, Conn., jan. 4, 1725/6, to his widow, Abigail Cowles, Inventory: L529-17-1.

    The inventory of her estate amounting to L49-12-9 was taken Nov. 25, 1736.

    Caleb married Abigail WOODFORD on 8 Aug 1710. Abigail (daughter of Joseph WOODFORD and Rebecca NEWELL) was born in 1685 in Avon, Connecticut; was christened on 27 Dec 1685; died in 1736. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
  

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