Joseph Fowler

• BIRTH 1626 Wiltshire, England
• DEATH 19 May 1676 (aged 49–50) Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
• BURIAL Falls Fight Gravesite, Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 39217270 Photos by Jeff Hampton

Biography

Joseph Fowler was the son of Phillip Fowler and the husband of Martha Kimball. He was born on 9/16/1626 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and baptized 9/17/1626 St. Mary's Parish, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. He emigrated with his family on the Mary and John 1634. In 1647, he worked with his father, Philip Fowler, for two days, at the watch house in Ipswich, for which he received three shilling of the town. He later is shown working as a husbandman.

After becoming a resident of Northampton , then Ipswich and finally as an early settler of Wenham, Massachusetts he served in King Philip's War and was killed by Indigenous Indian warriors on 5/19/1676 in the Battle of Turner's Falls while serving under Captain William Turner near Deerfield, Massachusetts. There is no individual grave marker.

Essex Court Records==, Sept. 1647:

"We present Joseph FOWLER, Thomas COOKE, Thomas SCOTT, and two of ye sons of Richard KIMBALL, for goeing into ye woods, shouting and singing, taking fire and liquors with them, all being at unseasonable time in ye night, ocasioning yr. wives and some other to go out to them." Joseph FOWLER, Thomas SCOTT, John KEMBALL and Thomas KEMBALL for their presentment, had a legal admonition. The case is discussed at Stories from Ipswich online in "Drunkards, liars, a hog, a dog, a witch, 'disorderly person' and the innkeeper" :

" . . . [T]he real trouble-makers in town [were] Joseph Muzzy, Mark Symonds, Thomas Cooke, Thomas Scott, and especially Joseph Fowler. These young men got into trouble for their open defiance of the Church, which in early Ipswich was the seat of absolute power. Thomas Cooke refused to learn Rev. Norton’s catechism, and Thomas Scott landed in court for accusing the Reverend of “teaching what is false,”and saying that if he had children he would not allow anyone to “play them as fools” by baptising them.

Joseph Fowler [was seen as] “a lawless and defiant disturber of the public peace.” Those are the words of Thomas Franklin Waters in Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Waters noted that Joseph Fowler was sentenced to pay a considerable fine, or sit in the stocks on lecture day, for saying there were seven or eight liars in the church and asking why they were not cast out, and for saying “if one would lye soundly he was fit for the church.”

Joseph Fowler was problematic even in his military training, which was a requirement of all young men in those early days. Waters wrote that “More than once, irrepressible Joseph Fowler was disrespectful to the haughty (General) Denison, and for each offense in 1647 and in 1648, he was summoned to the head of the company, and then and there made humble acknowledgment in such terms as the Major required.”

In 1649 Joseph Fowler was admonished for drinking in the woods with his cousin and the brothers of his wife Martha Kimball . . . Joseph Fowler’s father Philip, having enough of his son, took Joseph’s child Phillip and adopted him in 1651 . . . Joseph Fowler and Thomas Scott died May 19, 1676 in Deerfield, Mass during King Phillip’s war, killed by the Indians on their return from the Turner Falls Fight."

In the 1649 incident, the young men probably met to celebrate the twenty-first birthday of Thomas SCOTT, who was Joseph FOWLER's cousin and the son of Thomas, a merchant, who came in the "Elizabeth," 1634, from Ipswich, England, to Ipswich, New England. Tom Scott afterwards married Margaret, the sister of Rev. William HUDDARD, the historian of the Indians wars, and had one child, Thomas, who was killed by the Indians at Squakeheage, 8 Sept 1675. The widow married second, Ezekiel ROGERS, H.C., 1659, nephew of the Rev. Ezekiel, of Rowley, who disinherited young Thomas, as he persisted in wearing his hair long, contrary to the Reverend's wish.

The KIMBALLs were brothers-in-law to Joseph FOWLER, and cousins to SCOTT. John Kimball, then 18, married, and died in Ipswich, leaving numerous descendants. Thomas Kimball was then age 16; he married, and settle in Bradford, where he was slain by Indians, 3 May 1676, leaving son Richard, a captain in active service against the Indians in 1724. (See KIMBALL's letter in Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 52, p. 45).

In 1650 (10th, December) he gave in his testimony in case of Joseph FOWLER, plaintiff, vs. SIMONDS, defendant.

Deed of 1650

"Know all men by these presents, that I, Joseph FOWLER of Ipswich, in the county of Essex, in New England, husbandman, doe sell unto Richard KEMBALL, sen'r of ye same towne, wheelwright, my father-in-law, such land & cattell as followeth, viz.:---one cow & one yearling, 40 acres of ground joyning to Richard JACOB, on ye one side, & Thomas BYSHOP & Jobe BYSHOP, on the other, 34 acres of it I enjoyne myselfe to fence in, of upland & meadow, which the said Richard is to have of the said Joseph, for such goods as I have received of him for satisfaction therof. In wittnesse wherof, I have hereunto sett my hand, the 12th of January 1650.

Witnesses.

JOSEPH FOWLER.

WILLIAM CHAUNDLER (his brother-in-law)

JOHN KIMBALL (his wife's brother) &

WILLIAM SMITH.

This writing & deed was acknowledge 21: January : 1651, before me. Samuel SYMONDS."

In 1651 "Phillip FOWLER the elder, of Ipswich, did come fore me, and in the presence of Joseph his sonne & Martha his wife, & with thier full & free consent, did adopt as his sonne Phillip, the sonne of the s'd Joseph & Martha, to be as his sonne. Samuel SYMONDS."

There is on date to the above paper, but it is recorded between papers dated 18 August 1651 and Feb. 1651/52. It is probable that after this period he resided with his father-in-law, Richard KIMBALL.

In 1651/52 (25th March) when at Goodman GROSS' house, gave in his testimony in the case of BRADSTREET & MUZZY, at Ipswich Court.

In 1651 (3d, June) John BROADSTREET, Joseph FOWLER, Thomas SCOTT and Richard BETTS, were present to court and discharged.

In 1653 "Richard KEMBALL. sen'r, & Joseph FOWLER, both of Ipswich, wheelwright & husbandman, in the county of Essex, in New England, do bind ourselves, heirs & executors, to Humphry BRADSTREETE of Rowley, in the same county, in the full & just sume of fifty pounds, for to secure the said Humohrey, his heirs, executors & administrators, from all charges & incumbrances touching the horse that the s'd Humphry BRADSTREETE, hath sould me, and recovered from Zacheus GOULD, in December 1649, witness our hand. Richard KIMBALL (the marke of). Joseph FOWLER. Signed, sealed & del'd in the presence of these, 3 of the 01 month, dat. 1653, witnes Matha WILLOMS. John BRADSTREETE."

In 1658/59 (14 March) he witness an agreement of George NORTON and Roger PRESTON.

In 1660 (27 Nov.) he witnessed the will of Robert GARETT of Boston, and he deposed in regard to it, 1 Aug. 1668.

In 1669/70 (7 MARCH) he witnessed a receipt of Andrew PEETERS and John BROWNE, to Goodman CALDWELL, for rent of land.

Parents
Philip Fowler 1591–1679
Mary Fowler 1592–1659

Spouse
Martha Kimball Fowler 1629–1677

Siblings
John Fowler 1611–1651
Margery Fowler Osgood Rowell Coleman Osborne 1615–1701
Mary Fowler Chandler 1617–1666
Hester Fowler Bird Rolfe Collins 1621 – unknown
Philip Fowler 1623–1629

Children
Joseph Fowler abt 1647 - Ukn m. Elizabeth Hutton.
Philip Fowler 12/25/1648 - 1715 m. Elizabeth Herrick. He was adopted by his grandfather, Philip Fowler, 1651.
John Fowler abt 1655; m. 2nd, Hannah Scott.
Mary Fowler m. John Breen or Briers, Jan 20, 1673-4.

References

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39217270/joseph-fowler

[2] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~colby/colbyfam/b453.html#P...

[3] History of the Kimball Family in America, Part I, by Leonard Allison Morrison, A. M., page 34

[4] The Fowler Family: A Genealogical Memoir, Ten Generations: 1590-1882, (Garnier & Company, Charleston, SC., 1883); (2) Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages prior to 1700, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1985, Fifth printing, 1994) by Matthew Adams Stickney,

[5] The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, Volume 4, 1881, which is online.

[6] Martha KIMBALL Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700 Volume: Volume 1, Page(s): 571 FOWLER, Joseph (1622-1676) & Martha [KIMBALL] (1629-); by 1647; Salisbury {Salisbury 163; Cushing (ms) 271; Pillsbury Anc. 72; Davis: Anc. of Phoebe Tilton 113; Fowler 28-31; Driver 369; Kimball 33; Hamlin 1:275; Noyes-Gilman 419; Essex Ant. 9:129; EIHC 1

Additional Data

Parents: Philip FOWLER and Mary WINSLOW.

Spouse: Martha KIMBALL. Joseph FOWLER and Martha KIMBALL were married before 1647 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Joseph FOWLER Jr., Philip FOWLER Jr., John FOWLER, Mary FOWLER.
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• The Mary & John left Southampton or London, England abt Mar 24/26, 1634 with her Master, Robert Sayres, arriving in New England.
• http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/maryjohn2.htm
• Fowler Phillip (from Marlborough, Wiltshire, bound for Ipswitch and Salisbury. Ref: Banks Mss. 36 pg 179)
• Fowler Mrs. Mary
  • Mary Fowler (+)
  • Samuel Fowler (+)
  • Hester Fowler (+)
  • ' Joseph Fowler (+)
  • Thomas Fowler (+)