Individual Details
John Mower
(Abt 1650 - 22 Oct 1694)
Events
| Birth | Abt 1650 | Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Marriage | 21 Jul 1673 | Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts - Susannah Marshall | | ||
| Death | 22 Oct 1694 | Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts | | ||
| Bio Note | 2004 | a biographical sketch of John Mower was included in Early Lynn Families |  | | |
| Military | during King Philip's War, being one of the first soldiers from Lynn in the Narragansett Fort fight. | |
Families
| Spouse | Susannah Marshall (1651 - 1727) |
| Child | Thomas Mower (1674 - ) |
| Child | Richard Mower (1675 - 1680) |
| Child | John Mower (1678 - 1687) |
| Child | Richard Mower (1680 - 1766) |
| Child | Susannah Mower (1684 - 1770) |
| Child | John Mower (1687 - 1688) |
| Child | Mary Mower (1689 - ) |
| Father | Richard Mower (1595 - 1668) |
| Mother | Alice (1620 - 1661) |
| Sibling | Samuel Mower (1642 - 1694) |
| Sibling | Thomas Mower (1648 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Mower (1661 - ) |
Notes
Bio Note
John Mower was born, probably at Lynn, between 1648 and 1651 and died at Lynn, 22 October 1674. He married there, 21 July 1673, Susannah Marshall, who was born at Reading, 2 April 1652 and died at Lynn, 2 May 1727. She was the daughter of Captain Thomas and Rebecca (----) Marshall. John gave his age as 33 in three depositions dated 1681, 1682 and 1684. John and Richard Mower were listed (with other Lynn men) as owing 8 shillings in the will of Thomas Coldham, dated 10 March 1672. On the 24th of August 1676, John was assigned wages of 1 pound 10 shillings for the Narragansett Fort fight in King Philip's War. More than 40 years later, son Richard Mower was given land in Amherst, New Hampshire. On 26 February 1677, at a general meeting, John and Samuel Mower took the Oath of Fidelity. They were made Freemen on 18 April 1691. John was named Executor of his father's will on 19 November 1688. He was given 2/3rds of his father's estate; his brother Samuel was 1/3rd. But the division was not made in John and Samuel's lifetime. John's son Richard and Samuel's son Ephraim finally recorded the division at Salem in 1708. John Mower died intestate, and administration was granted to his widow Susannah 5 March 1695, with John Burrill and John Lewis as witnesses (Essex County Probate 18663). The inventory of his estate 15 November 1694, totaled 149 pounds and included "housing and land" 119 pounds 8 shillings.Endnotes
1. Walter L. Mower, Mower Family History: A Genealogical Record of the Maine Branch of This Family together with Other Branches of the Family Tree (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923), 4.
2. Marcia Wilson Wiswall Lindberg, Early Lynn Families Including Lynnfield, Nahant, Saugus and Swampscott: A Genealogical Study From the Earliest Settlers Through the Revolutionary War (Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company, 2004), 545.
3. Walter L. Mower, Mower Family History: A Genealogical Record of the Maine Branch of This Family together with Other Branches of the Family Tree (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923), 4.
4. Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts To The End Of The Year 1849: Volume II - Marriages and Deaths (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1906), 254.
5. Walter L. Mower, Mower Family History: A Genealogical Record of the Maine Branch of This Family together with Other Branches of the Family Tree (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923), 4.
6. Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts To The End Of The Year 1849: Volume II - Marriages and Deaths (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1906), 538.
7. Marcia Wilson Wiswall Lindberg, Early Lynn Families Including Lynnfield, Nahant, Saugus and Swampscott: A Genealogical Study From the Earliest Settlers Through the Revolutionary War (Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company, 2004), 545.
8. Walter L. Mower, Mower Family History: A Genealogical Record of the Maine Branch of This Family together with Other Branches of the Family Tree (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923), 4.