Deacon Samuel Stow

Samuel Stow was a deacon, a shoemaker, and Lieut. in training band. He gave the half of his "homelott " to his son Jerediah, "to be taken off the north side, makeing a crooked line between that north part and that on the south part so as to leave out the tan house and tan vats." To his son Jonathan he gave half the homelott, "to be taken on the south side, with all the buildings thereon (except one-third of the barn), with the tan house and tan vats; also the cyder mill and press . . . all my husbandry tools; also all my tanning and shoemaker's tools" Jonathan was to pay all his father's debts and funeral charges and "also to make up to his two sisters, Abigail and Lucia, what shall be wanting of £110 after my wife has spared what she can out of the utensils of the house; and further, that he shall find his mother her firewood during her widowhood." The widow had been given the west part of the house. Reference is made to " Woolph (Wolf) Pitt Hill," which is the hill opposite the new cemetery. He provides for his daughters, Esther Ranney, Bethia Morton, Abigail Shaler and Lucy Warren, and for his granddaughter, Submit, only heir of his son Samuel, deceased. He d. Sept. 28, 1740. Widow d. July 21, 1750.

Source: Middletown Upper Houses - The Stow Family, by Charles Collard Adams. New York: Grafton Press, 1908. transcribed by Coralynn Brown