Ambrose Fowler

Biography

There is considerable evidence that Ambrose Fowler was son of William fowler, the magistrate of New Haven. He appeared at Windsor as early as 1640, where he was one of rev. John Warham's church, who came fromdorchester, Mass., and located here in 1636. Mr. Fowler was one of acommittee in 1641, Hartford Colony, to settled the bounds of Uncoway and Poquonnuck. His name is often met with in records of that town. He sells land at Windsor, 1671, soon after which date he removed and settled with his children at Westfield, Mass. In 1675 theere is a notice of the burning of "Mr. Ambrose Fowler's house and barn" at Windsor.

He married at Windsor, Jane Alvord, ; and, per Westfield recods, she"Joan," d.(ied) 22 May, 1684, and he, 18 Oct 1704, He made his will 1692, proved 1706, in which he names seven children, all recorded at Windsor." Reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register ofJuly 1857 (with additions).

Family

Source: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Ambrose Fowler, (1857: Boston, H.W. Dutton and Son, printers), p. 8. (document attached)

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Sources

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74L-WX3 : 3 December 2014), Ambrous Fowler in entry for Ambrous Fowler, 08 May 1658; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
• A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Ambrose Fowler, (1857: Boston, H.W. Dutton and Son, printers), p. 8. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1219...
• Source:Fowler, Christine Cecilia, "The History of the Fowlers", Miller-Mac Printing Company Inc., Batavia, New York. 1950. p. 562.
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fowler-873