Rachel Stowell1

b. 10 September 1689, d. 16 January 1748/49
Rachel Stowell|b. 10 Sep 1689\nd. 16 Jan 1748/49|p7192.htm|Samuel Stowell|b. 18 May 1655\nd. 21 Sep 1695|p7128.htm|Rachel Gill|b. 3 Oct 1661\nd. 5 Apr 1715|p7133.htm|Samuel Stowell|d. 9 Nov 1683|p7104.htm|Mary Farrow|b. 22 Sep 1633|p7103.htm|Thomas Gill|||Hannah Otis|||

1st cousin 6 times removed of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
1st cousin 8 times removed of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     Rachel Stowell was born on 10 September 1689 in Hingham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.1 She was the daughter of Samuel Stowell and Rachel Gill.1 She was baptized on 27 October 1689 in Hingham.2 She died on 16 January 1748/49 in Hingham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at age 59.1,3 Her estate was probated on 7 September 1749.4
     
     In her will of 16 November 1740, Rachel calls herself spinster, brother William Executor, gives to brother William and cousins (meaning nephews) Samuel Stowell, Jr., and Joseph Stowell.3 She never married.1

Citations

  1. [S712] George Lincoln, History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, 3 volumes (1893; reprint Somersworth, New Hampshire: n.pub., 1982), 3:217.
  2. [S761] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 148 vols., 1847-1994) 121:275, "Rachel Stowell bap 27."
  3. [S716] William Henry Harrison Stowell, Stowell Genealogy; A Record of the Descendants of Samuel Stowell of Hingham, Mass (Rutland: The Tuttle Company, 1922), 21.
  4. [S716] William Henry Harrison Stowell, Stowell Genealogy, 21, citing Suffolk Probate (gives year as 1748).