Increase Nowell

Increase Nowell

He was a member of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and came over as secretary to Governor Winthrop in 1630 in the "Arbella." He settled in Charlestown and with his wife joined the first church there July, 1630, and the re-orgnized church in 1632. He was elected ruling elder July 27, 1639: assistant to the governor deputy to the General Court: secretary of the colony: elected to many positions of trust and responsibility in the town.

from: link Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Vol. 4 by William Richard Cutter

Children:

1. Increase 11/19/1630, died young
2. Abigail 4/27/1632, d. 1634
3. Samuel bapt. 1634
4. Eliezer 1636 died 1636
5. Mehitable 1638
6. Increase bapt 5/23/1640
7. Mary 5/26/1643
8. Alexander

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Increase Nowell, (1590[1]–1655), was a colonial administrator, original patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Company, founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and first ruling elder of the First Church in Charlestown.

He was baptized in 1593 at Sheldon, Warwickshire, on the estate bought in 1575 by his grandfather Laurence Nowell. He married at Holy Trinity, Minories, London.

He was named within The Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company and in 1629 was created assistant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony being re-elected annually up until 1654.

He was an eminent member of the Puritan Great Migration of the 1630s. As a result of the Cambridge Agreement, emigrating shareholders bought out those not emigrating thus allowing the proposed colony autonomy from London. Nowell had dealings with transatlantic merchants and as the Winthrop Fleet was being assembled, he was recommended as good counsel concerning buying a ship [2]

In 1630 Nowell sailed with John Winthrop as a part of the original Puritan expedition to Massachusetts. Soon after arriving in the New World, Nowell became one of the original settlers of Charlestown, one of Massachusetts' earliest Puritan communities.

He was first ruling elder of the First Church in Charlestown, now The First Congregational Society of Charlestown, which was founded in November 1632 with Nowell named first on the covenant of the original members. The original meetinghouse is believed to have been in the vicinity today’s Thompson Square. Nowell conducted marriages but declined further ecclesiastical office. In 1637 John Harvard, benefactor of Harvard University was appointed minister for the church. Also in 1637, during the Antinomian Controversy, he was one of the magistrates during the trial of Anne Hutchinson, and with all the other magistrates voted for her banishment from the colony.[3]

Nowell worked as a lay magistrate, military commissioner and colonial secretary (1636–50). On his death, his estate was valued at £592. In 1656 the General Court, sensible of the low condition of the family, initially granted 2,000 acres (8.1 km2), with a further 3,200-acre (13 km2) grant later [4]

from "Increase Nowell", in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

Increase Nowell b. by 1603 [estimate based on marriage], d. Charlestown 1 Nov 1655 [so stated by inventory of his estate], m. London 8 Jul 1628 Parnell (Gray) Parker.

From Appleton, William S. Early Wills Illustrating the Ancestry of Harriot Coffin: with Genealogical and Biographical Notes. (Boston: Press of D. Clapp & Son, 1893), p. 29, 73-75.

Will of "Increase Nowell of Charlestowne in New England planter", dated 23 of the 4th Month [June] 1655, proved 25 Dec 1655, mentions "my mother Coitmore ... if living", son Increase, son Alexander, son Samuell, daughters Mehetabell & Mary [all except Samuel appear to be under age]; bequeasts to "Mr Zachary Sims o[u]r Pastor of Charlestowne", "Mr John Wilson Pastor of Boston", "Mr John Green ruling Elder in Charlestowne", Ralph Mousall, Robert Hale. Wife Parnell Nowell and son Samuel named executors, Ralph Mousall and Robert Hale overseers.

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Source

1. Randy A West, The "Cousin" relationship between Rev. Francis1 Higginson of Salem, Massachusetts, and Increase1 Nowell of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.), Vol 90 No 1 Whole # 357 p 71-76, Jan 2018:

Summary of the connection:

Rev Francis1 Higginson, bp. 6 Aug 1587 Cleabroke (aka Claybrooke, Leicestershire), d Salem, Mass., 6 Aug. 1630; m St. Peter, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 8 Jan. 1615/6, Anne Herbert, Immigrated 1629; son of Vicar JohnA Higginson b 1543 buried there 19 Feb 1623/4 and his 2nd wife Elizabeth ____ buried 19 Jun 1635, JohnA Higginson whose will dated 4 Dec 1623 proved 2 Apr 1624... etc. Note below Francis1 Higginson had a sister Elizabeth Higginson who married Edward Andrews.

Increase1 Nowell, bp. Sheldon, Warwickshire, 19 Aug. 1593, d Charlestown, Mass., 1 Nov. 1655; m. Holy Trinity Minories, London, 8 Jul 1628, Parnell (Gray) Parker; immigrated 1630. He was son of AlexanderA Nowell and SarahA Smyth. The will of SarahA Smyth dated 1 Mar 1644 proved 18 Jun 1651, etc. Sarah Smyth was bp 27 Feb 1574/5 Sheldon, Warwickshire (daughter of John Smyth) and was buried Claybrooke 12 Mar 1644/5. AlexanderA Nowell was buried Sheldon, 27 Sep 1596. They were married 7 Feb 1591/2. She married 2nd William Perkins by 1605 who was buried Claybrooke, 24 Mar 1608/9. She married 3rd 22 Sep 1610 Claybrooke to Richard Perkins who was buried 2 Oct 1619.

Bartholomew Perkins chr. 21 Mar 1605/6 in Sheldon, Warwickshire, England son of William Perkins and Sarah Smyth above and half-brother of Increase1 Nowell married Ann Andrews daughter of Elizabeth Higginson sister of Rev Francis1 Higginson. Ann Andrews was chr. 11 Feb 1612/3 Claybrooke, Leicestershire, England daughter of Edward Andrews and Elizabeth Higginson. Elizabeth Higginson sister of Francis Higginson was born say 1583 in Claybrooke, Leicestershire, England. They were both children of John and Elizabeth (____) Higginson. Elizabeth Higginson married 5 Jan 1606/7 in Claybrooke, Leicestershire, England to Edward Andrews.

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