Esther Stow

Samuel4 Stow (Thomas, Thomas, John ), bapt. Oct., 1681; m. Feb. 8, 1704-5, Esther Mould, of New London, dau. of Hugh Mould and Martha Coit. A sister of Esther m. William2 Savage. Two other sisters m. Daniel and Joseph White. The mother of these four girls m. Capt. Nathaniel White for his second wife and she is buried next to Esther, while he is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Middletown, by the side of his first wife, there being no cemetery in Upper Houses at his death in 1711.

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. Of their Children:

• Esther, b. Feb. 20, 1705-6; m. Daniels Ranney. (See the Ranney Family.)
• Martha, b. Aug. 30, 1712 ; m. Nathaniel Eells. He m. (2) Alice White.
• Jonathan5, b. June 27, 1719.
• Abigail5, b. Nov., 1721; m. Capt. Reuben Shailer.

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

Children:

1. Esther Ranney (born Stow)
2. Samuel Stow
3. Bethiah Martin (born Stow)
4. Martha Eels (born Stow),
5. Jedediah Stow
6. Isaac Stow
7. Jonathan Stow
8. Abigail Shailer (born Stow)
9. Lucia Stow
10. Stephen Stow