ROWLEY, Sarah

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• Name	ROWLEY, Sarah
  Birth	11 Aug 1625	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Dec 1710	Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
  Death	17 Dec 1710	Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
  WAC	19 Mar 1886
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  Person ID	I28179	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	ROWLEY, Captain Henry R. ,   b. 1595, Parham, Sussex, England Parham, Sussex, Englandd. 15 Jul 1673, Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 78 years)
  Mother	PALMER, Sarah ,   b. Abt 1604, England Englandd. 17 Oct 1633, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	1624	London, Middlesex, England   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F15217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	HATCH, Jonathan ,   b. 7 Sep 1625, Aller, Dorsetshire, England Aller, Dorsetshire, Englandd. 10 Dec 1710, Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	11 Apr 1646	England
  Family ID	F15594	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  When Sarah Rowley was born in 1630 in Nottinghamshire, England, her father, Henry, was 32, and her mother, "Ann, was 21. She married Jonathan Hatch on April 11, 1646, in Barnstable, Massachusetts. They had 13 children in 21 years. She died on December 17, 1710, in Falmouth, Massachusetts, having lived a long life of 80 years, and was buried there. [From: Revised by C.F. Swift, Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, being a Reprint of the Amos Otis Papers: Originally Published in the Barnstable Patriot, Volume I (Barnstable, Massachusetts: F.B. & F.P. Goss, Publishers and Printers [The Patriot Press], 1888), 7, 76, 166, 211, 333, 335, 450, 464; digital images, openlibrary.org, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028819212#page/n7/mode/2up : accessed] [p.5, Barnstable's Beginnings] One of the first settlers of Barnstable was Mr. Allyn. He was the most wealthy among the first settlers, and was probably engaged in trade, making several trips between America and England. "The records of the laying out of the lands in Barnstable in 1639 are lost." The records, according to tradition, were carried to Plymouth, long ago, and lost by fire. "The entries made of the lands of Mr. Allyn furnish the best information were have on the subject. The house lots contained from six to twelve acres, and were all laid out on the north side of the highway west of Rendezvous Lane. In 1654, Mr. Allen owned six of the original house lots, namely: [The lots are described] [p.7, Henry Rowley, one of the first settlers of Barnstable] "Mr. Allyn's lots, with the lots named in the note, constituted the central portion of the village as originally laid out." "On the east of Rendezvous Lane, Mr. John Lothrop, John Hall, Henry Rowley, Isaac Wells, John Smith, Geo. Lewis, Edward Fittsrandle, (Lot on west side of the road to Hyannis) Bernard Lumbard, Roger Goodspeed, (Henry Cobb, Thomas Huckins, John Scudder, Samuel Mayo,) Nathaniel Bacon, Richard Foxwell, Thomas Dimmock." [This gives some idea of the closest neighbors of Henry Rowley, and where he lived.] [p.75, Henry Rowley married Anna, the widow of Deacon Thomas Blossom] "Deacon Thomas Blossom, one of the Pilgrims, and the ancestor of the Blossom family of Barnstable, came from Leyden to Plymouth, England; but being on board the Speedwell, did not obtain a passage in the Mayflower from England in 1620." "He came over in 1629." "he was first deacon of the Church in Plymouth, and his letter to Gove. Bradford gives evidence that he was a well educated and a pious man. He died in Plymouth in the year 1632." "Anna, the widow of Dea. Thomas Blossom, married Henry Rowley, Oct. 17, 1633. They were members of Mr. Lothrop's Church at its organization, Jan'ry 8, 1634-5, and removed with him to Barnstable in 1639." [p.76, Henry Rowley was a neighbor to Peter Blossom.] Deacon Thomas Blossom had a brother, Peter Blossom, who came to America with him. Peter Blossom's farm shared a border with the farm of Henry Rowley. [p. 165, Henry Rowley bought a house from Henry Cobb.] Elder Henry Cobb lived in Scituate in 1633. "According to the Rev. Mr. Lothrop's records, Goodman Cobb's dwelling house in Scituate, was constructed before September 1634, and was the seventh built in that town by the English. He afterwards sold this house to Henry Rowley . . ." "On the 23d of November, 1634, Goodman Cobb and other members of the church at Plymouth '"were dismissed from their membershipp in case they joyned in a body att Scituate."' On the 8th of January following, Mr. Lothrop makes the following entry in his records : ' "Wee had a day of humiliation and then att night joyned in covenannt togeather, so many of us as had beene in Covenannt before ; to witt, Mr. Gilson and his wife, Goodman Anniball and his wife, Goodman Rowley and his wife, Goodman Cob and his wife, Goodman Turner, Edward Foster, myselfe, Goodman Foxwell and Samuel House."' The two last named may have been a part of the company who arrived in the Griffin with Mr. Lothrop ; but the others had been in the Colony several years. It is probable that many of them had been members of the Congregational Church in London, and that this meeting was a reunion under their old Pastor of those who had before been '"in convenannt togeather."' Goodman Cobb was a leading and influential member, and for forty-four years was either the senior deacon, or a ruling elder of the church." "When it was proposed that the church remove to Sippican, now Rochester, Dea. Cobb was one of the committee to whom the Colony Court in 1638 granted the lands for a township ; and when it was afterwards decided to remove to Mattakeese, now Barnstable, he was a member of the committee having charge of the selecting of a suitable location for the settlement." [p.249, Henry Rowley sold his estate to Increase Clap.] "Increase Clap's house was on the south side of the road a little east of Dexter's lane. He purchased his estate probably of the Rowleys, when they removed to Falmouth, who were early settlers in that neighborhood, and was a proprietor of the common lands 'in Rowley's right.'" [p. 332-333, Henry Rowley moved from Barnstable to Scituate.] Henry Rowley is found in a list of the 45 "Townsmen of Barnstable Jan. 1643-4." Henry is "32. Henry Rowley, Scituate, 1639." [p. 335, Henry Rowley was a neighbor of Reverend John Lothrop in Barnstable.] In Barnstable, around 1643, "The Rev. John Lothrop's first house stood near the Eldridge hotel. On the east of this lot seven Scituate men settled, namely, Henry Rowley, on the same lot . . ." [p. 464, Henry Rowley's daughter, Sarah Rowley, married Jonathan Hatch.] "Jonathan Hatch married April 11, 1646, Sarah Rowley, daughter of Henry Rowley, by his first wife--a daughter of William Palmer, Sen." In GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES., Volume II. [P. 211, Henry Rowley purchased the first home of Reverend John Lothrop.] In Barnstable, "Mr. Lothrop's first house was, a two story frame house, built in the ancient style, and about 22 feet by 26 on the ground. It was taken down in 1824. It had been enlarged and remodeled at least twice, a room had been added on the west, and a leantoe[sic] on the rear. The frame was of large timber and covered with inch and a quarter planks ; but the walls not being plastered, or mulched, and the roof being covered with thatch, Mr. Lothrop had good reasons for complaining that it was "open and cold." After he built his new house it was occupied several years by tenants. Henry Rowley appears to have been the occupant immediately after Mr. Lothrop."

  
  

• Sources

  [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), downloaded 19 Oct 2009 (Reliability: 3). [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), downloaded 29 Oct 2009 (Reliability: 3).