General Notes

1  BIRT
2  DATE 1638
2  PLAC Hartford, Hartford, CT



New Englan Families and Genealogical Memorial: Vol IV


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ABIGAIL STANLEY.
(1 TIMOTHY.)
Third child of Timothy and Elizabeth Stanley, the emigrants, born at Hartford (???); married, June 14, 1660, Samuel, son of John Cowles, of Farmington. His name, it is said, was altered on the records from Cole to Cowles, to distinguish it from the family of another John Cole, who subsequently came to Farmington, sometimes called "John Cole, the carpenter," whose descendants in Kensington still bear the name of Cole. Samuel Cowles was a man of energy and enterprise, a leading citizen of the town. He died April 17, 1691; his wife in 1734, at a great age.

           Their children were:


    15  SAMUEL COWLES, b. March 17, 1662; m., May 12, 1685,
           Rachel Porter; d. April 17, 1718.
    16  ABIGAIL COWLES, b. Jan., 1663; m. Thomas Porter, son of
           Robert, ancestor of Pres. Noah Porter, of Yale Coll.
    17  HANNAH COWLES, b. Dec., 1664; probably was the first
           wife of her second cousin Hezekiah Porter, of East
           Hartford.
    18  TIMOTHY COWLES, b. Nov. 4, 1666; m. Hannah, daughter
           of William Pitkin. Was a deacon in East Hartford.
    19  SARAH COWLES, b. Dec. 25, 1668; m., Dec. 18, 1689,
           Stephen Hart.
    20  JOHN COWLES, b. Jan. 28, 1671; m. Elizabeth Chappell.
    21  NATHANIEL COWLES, b. Feb. 11, 1673; m., 1st, Phebe
           Woodruff; 2d, Mary, daughter of Benjamin Andrus.
    22  ISAAC COWLES, b. March 28, 1675; m., Nov. 1, 1709,
           Sarah Andrus, of New Haven.
    23  JOSEPH COWLES, b. June 18, 1677; m. Abigail, daughter
           of Samuel Royce.
    24  ELIZABETH COWLES, b. March 17, 1680; m. Dr. Thomas
           Thompson.
    25  CALEB COWLES, b. June, 1682; m., Aug. 8, 1710, Abigail
           Woodford. Was an original member of the church
           in Kensington.


Isaac, Samuel, Nathaniel, and Caleb Cowles, and John Cole, were of the petitioners for a church at Great Swamp (Kensington).