John Fowler, Jr.

Not the same as John Fowler, Sr. or as John Fowler

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fowler-2097

This John Fowler appears to be the son of another John Fowler, although some of the facts could apply to either generation of John, about whom a few facts can be established:[1]

John Fowler was a Private in the Bladen Foot regiment 1754-5, The French and Indian Wars.

Clerk of the Sessions Court (The Cape Fear Route); a role his brother, Daniel Fowler, also took up, and who was granted land in Duplin (and later) Sampson County, again in 1753

In 1774, a John Fowler received a Colonial land grant on the Mill Prong of Raft Swamp, west of Lumberton, land which he sold in 1785 to Samuel Crouch.
In a 1781 @ 200 acres west of the South River, John Fowler, Planter, deeded land to Chrisopher Sutton.

At some point, the region between Smith's Crossroads and Murphytown was called Fowler's Landing, on the Bladen side (near the 1781 site).[1]

Birth in Bladen County

John Fowler was born about 1739 in Bladen County, (southeastern) North Carolina.[1]

Marriage and Children

About the children of John Fowler and Hannah (Sutton) Fowler, daughter of Christopher Sutton (1724-1790) of Perquimans, who married about 1765:[1]

1. Samuel Fowler (1766-1812) - Fowler (1989, p. 59-61)]: John and his wife Hannah Sutton are named as the parents of Samuel Fowler on a FindAGrave (1788) memorial (please see Research Notes). Samuel had married Mary and moved to Caldwell County, Kentucky by 1810. His son, Samuel Fowler Jr married Jane (Bratton) Fowler (born 1797) and they were present in the Trigg County (redistricted) census of 1820[1]
2. Elizabeth Fowler (born 1768), who married Thomas Frazier 21 Dec 1786; about 1850 her husband had died and she moved to live near siblings Hardy Fowler and Martha Fowler in Weakley County, Tennessee. She is recorded in the 1860 census as 90 and as Elizabeth Fowler.
3. William Fowler (born 1771-about 1817), wife Elizabeth
4. James Fowler (born 1774), moved to Tennessee by 1806
5. Beamon Fowler (born 1782), who married Mary (born 1799), moved to Trigg County about 1820
6. Martha Fowler (born 1784), present in the 1850 and 1860 census in Weakley County, died unmarried
7. Hardy Fowler (born 1788), present in the 1850 and 1860 census in Weakley County, died unmarried

Research Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fowler-742

WIkiTree informant Richard Fowler, in a 21 Jul 2014 email, said the John Fowler who married Elizabeth Rackley didn't marry Hannah Sutton. Hannah was married to John's cousin, also a John Fowler. Therefore, Hannah Sutton is being detached as his wife (especially because she is already attached to his apparent cousin, as his wife). Note this information from Richard Fowler:

• About thirty-five years ago when I submitted the DAR application for my sister...I forwarded absolute proof that the Revolutionary Patriot John Fowler, had never been married to Hannah Sutton.
• I then received a communication from DAR that my research was correct, that those descendants of Hannah Sutton Fowler, and the other John Fowler, who were in DAR would not be removed, but that the future applications would be denied.

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fowler-2097

It is worth repeating that John Fowler also had a cousin, John Fowler Sr. (1747-1844), who lived in the same multi-county region, during the same period, who also had military servicer. Fowler (1989) has done extensive analysis of census, land, tax, family and identifiable errors that other trees have perpetuated (including DAR records) that previously made it difficult to place John correctly.[1] This was also at a time when records lacked detail or other anchor data, such as naming who else was part of a household in a census, but at least 1790 and 1800 had sufficient age cohort counts by gender to match the expected household

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References

• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LYCW-TRY
• Fowler, Richard Gildart. A history of the Fowler family of southeastern North Carolina. 1989, p. 60. Norman, Oklahoma & Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. < Archive.Org >