LOW, John

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• Name	LOW, John
  Birth	Aug 1620	Bury, Lancashire, England
  Christening	Aug 1620	Saint Mary, Bury, Lancashire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Mar 1676	Nine Men's Misery, Cumberland, Rhode Island, United States
  Burial	Apr 1676	Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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  Family	HOWLAND, Elizabeth ,   b. 17 May 1655, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 17 Dec 1686, Shewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States (Age 31 years)
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  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Elizabeth Howland. Born ca 1633. Elizabeth died on 12 Oct 1678 in Marshfield, MA. Elizabeth first married John Low (1536) , son of Thomas Low (633) (ca 1602-8 Sep 1677) & Susannah [Low]. Born ca 1630. John died on 26 Mar 1676 in Rehoboth, MA. John twice cited for drunkeness. In the Fines of March Court 1671 he is cited, "John Loe for profaining the Lord's Day" fined 2:0:0. John died in battle in King Phillip's War at Pawtucket Falls in an Indian ambush on Captain Michael Pierce's company in which 52 English and 11 friendly Indians were slain. Their children include: Elizabeth Low (ca 1655-) Arthur Low (Nov 1665-) Margaret Low (ca 1666-) Hannah Low (15 Jul 1670-) Job Low (ca 1676/7-aft 1759) Child: Daniel Low (bef Jun 1678-) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_038.html On 3 June 1673, Joseph Rose of Marshfield "being groundedly suspected to have had to much familiarity with the wife of John Loe in a dishonest way," was put under bond of L20 to refrain from her company. "Elizabeth Loe, being a single woman," had an illegitimate child before 5 June 1678, when she was sentenced by the court to be whipped. This child was, in all probability, Daniel Low. When they moved to Maine in 1699, the brothers Job and Daniel were several times mentioned in that order, the natural inference being that Job was the elder. Therefore it is probable that Job, whatever his actual paternity, was born either before John Low's death or posthumously, and he must therefore be considered legitimate. Father: Arthur HOWLAND b: ABT 1590 in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England Mother: Margaret http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sanford-shulsen&id=I5149 Elizabeth was the daughter of Arthur Howland (brother of John who was on the Mayflower) and his wife Mary. Proof of that can be found in Arthur's will which states: Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Low the sum of ten pounds to be payed her by the heires executors administrators or assigns of my said wife Immediately after her decease. Proof that she was not the daughter of John Howland and Mary Lee can be found in the will of Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland wherein she refers to her granddaughter Elizabeth Bursley: Item I give unto my Grand Daughter Elizabeth Bursley one paire of sheets and one paire of Pillowbeeres Elizabeth Bursley was the eldest daughter of John Howland and Mary Lee and married John Bursley in December 1673. http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/howland/1541/ Another ancestor John Low was killed in this battle. LK7C-TN2 Another account of Michael Pierce's battle with the Indians was abstracted from Narratives of the Indian Wars 1675-1699 edited by Charles H. Lincoln, Ph.D: Sunday the 26th of March was sadly remarkable to us for the Tidings of a very deplorable Disaster brought unto Boston about 5 a Cloak that Afternoon, by a Post from Dedham, viz., that Captain Pierce (of) Scituate, in Plimmouth Colony, having Intelligence in his Garrison at Seaconicke, that a Party of the Enemy lay near Mr. Blackstones, went forth with 63 English and twenty of the Cape Indians, (who had all along continued faithful, and joyned with them;) and upon their March, discovered rambling in an obscure woody Place, four or five Indians, who, in getting away from us, halted, as if they had been lame or wounded. But our Men had pursued them but a little Way into the Woods, before they found them to be only Decoys to draw them into their Ambuscade: for on a Sudden, they discovered about 500 Indians, who in very good order, furiously attacked them, being as readily received by ours. So that the Fight began to be very fierce and dubious, and our Men had made the Enemy begin to retreat but so slowly that it scarce deserved that Name, when a fresh Company of about 400 Indians came in; so that the English and their few Indian Friends were quite surrounded, and beset on every Side. Yet they made a brave Resistance, for about two Hours: during all that Time they did great Execution upon the Enemy, whom they kept at a Distance, and themselves in Order. For Captain Pierce cast his 63 English and 20 Indians into a Ring, and fought Back to Back, and were double-double Distance, all in a Ring, whilst the Indians were as thick as they could stand, thirty deep. Overpowered with those numbers, the said Captain, and 55 of his English and ten of their Indian Friends were slain upon the Place; which, in such a Cause, and upon such Disadvantages, may certainly be stiled "The Bed of Honour." However, they sold their worthy Lives at a gallant Rate; it being affirmed by those few that (not without wonderful Difficulty, and many Wounds,) made their Escape, that the Indians lost as many Fighting Men, (not counting Women and Children,) in this Engagement, as were killed at the Battle in the Swamp, near Narraganset, mentioned in our last Letter, which were generally computed to be above three Hundred. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=waltnkimsnuggle&id=P4064 Michael PIERCE was born about 1615 in England, and emigrated to America in about 1645. He was possibly the brother of Captain William Pierce of London. He settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1646, and moved to Scituate, Mass. the following year. His first wife was Persis, daughter or Anthony Eames of Hingham. She died in 1662 and he married Anna James who is named in his will. He was commissioned a Captain by the Colony Court in 1669. He was killed during King Phillip's War, a bloody conflict between the English colonists and the Narragansett Indians which began in 1675. John Low, died on Thursday, 26 March 1676 at Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, being killed by Indians having been ambushed with Capt. Pierce's company during the King Philip's War. Davis, Walter Goodwin. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966). Volume II.Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995). :http://www.theroyfamily.com/gen/roy/p243.htm#i24244 "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" by Clarence A. Torrey: LOW, John (-1676) & [Elizabeth HOWLAND], dau Arthur; by1665?, by 1670; Marshfield {Howland 38; Pratt (1948) 15; Spear Anc. 95, 107; MD 3:180; Thomas: Marshfield 177;Hanover Hist. (1910) 320; Latham 33; GDMNH 445;Bassett-Preston 154} "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" by James Savage: JOHN, Marshfield, whose f. is not nam. by Miss Thomas, m.Elizabeth d. of Arthur Howland, had Arthur, b. 1665; and Hannah, 1670; and he was k. by the Indians. 1676 at Rehoboth. HR Letter from Rev. Noah Newman, the minister of Rehoboth, to the Rev. John Cotton of Plymouth. The original letter is still preserved in the library of the American Antiquarian Society, at Worcester, Mass. Rehoboth 27 (of the first) 76 Reverand and dear Sir, I received yours dated the 20th of this instant wherein you gave me a doleful relation of what had happened with you,and what a distressing Sabbath you had passed. I have now according to the words of your own letter an opportunity to retaliate your account with a relation of what yesterday happened to the great saddening of our hearts, filling us with an aweful expectation of what further evils it may be ante-cedaneous to, both respecting ourselves and you. Upon the 25th of this instant Capt. Pierce went forth with a small party of his men and Indians with him, and upon discovering the enemy fought him, without damage to himself, and judged that he had considerably damnified them. Yet he,being of no great force, chose rather to retreat and go out the next morning with a recruit of men; And accordingly he did, taking pilots from us, that were acquainted with the ground. But it pleased the Sovereign God so to order it that they were enclosed with a great multitude of the enemy,which hath slain fifty-two of our English men and eleven Indians. The account of their names is as follows. From Scituate 18 of whom 15 were slain viz: Capt. Pierce ( Captain Michael Pierce b. abt 1615 also our ancestor LZZ3-2JL ), Samuel Russell, Benjamin Chittenden, John Lothrope, Gershom Dodson, Samuel Pratt, Thomas Savery, Joseph Wade, William Wilcome, Jeremiah Barstowe, John Ensign, Joseph Cowen, Joseph Perry ,John Rowse. Marshfield 9 slain: Thomas Little, John Eams, Joseph White, John Burrows, Joseph Philips, Samuel Bump, (John Low , ) More ..., John Brance. Duxbury, 4 slain: John Sprague, Benjamin Soal, Thomas Hunt, Joshua Fobes. Sandwich, 5 slain: Benjamin Nye, Daniel Bessey, Caleb Blake, Job Gibbs, Stephen Wing. Barnstable, 6 slain: Lieut. Fuller, John Lewis, Eleazer Clapp , Samuel Linnet, Samuel Childs, Samuel Bereman. Yarmouth, 5 slain; John Matthews, John Gage, William Gage, Henry Gage, Henry Gold. Eastham, 4 slain: Joseph Nessefield, John Walker, John M...[torn off], John Fitz, Jr., John Miller, Jr. Thomas Man is just returned with a sore wound. Thus sir you have a sad account of the continuance of God's displeasure against us; Yet still I desire steadfastly to look unto him, who is not only able but willing to save all such as are fit for his salvation. It is a day of the wicked's tryumph, but the sure word of God tells us his tryumphing is brief. O that we may not lengthen it out by our sins. The Lord help us to joyne issue in our prayers, instantly and earnestly, for the healing and helping ofur Land. Our Extremity is God's opportunity. Thus with our dearest respects to you and Mrs. Cotton, and such sorrowful friends as are with you, I remain Your ever assured friend, NOAH NEWMAN http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sloan1944&id=I20196 Marriage 1 Elizabeth HOWLAND b: 17 MAY 1655 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, United States•Married: ABT 1675 in Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, United States