Lieut. Thomas Mower, II, Rev. War Vet.

Lt. Thomas Mower, II was Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Ancestor #A082455

His father, "THOMAS [3rd gen Mower] died in Lynn [MA] about 1730, a man of middle life. From records it appears that Mary, his widow, m. 21 Feb. 1730-1, Joseph Towne of Topsfield, Essex County, Mass., taking with her, the two younger children, Abigail and Thomas. Here the boy Thomas [4th gen Mower] grew to manhood. m. Mary Kenney, daughter of Josiah and Deborah Kenney of Topsfield, 5 May 1752, and had eleven children. Mary (Mower) Towne died about 1850."

The younger "Thomas bought land in Topsfield in 1751, presumably for his home; was styled "Cordwain- er." In 1778, he bought of Richard Peabody in Boxford, land in Jaffrey, N. H., lots 11 and 12, tenth range, and brought thither his large family to the wilderness home. The hills and mountains about were covered with a heavy forest and abounded in wild animals, but Thomas' seemed to be equal to the situation and took up the work of clearing the forest with much energy. Selectman, 1781. He died 15 Feb. 1788, aged 62, and his grave is in the old Jaffrey graveyard. His widow died 15 Feb. 1816, Æ. 86."

"Children of Thomas and Mary Kenney Mower:

I. Mary, b. 30 Jan. 1753, m. Joel Wright, 28 May 1801

II. Abigail, b. 18 Nov. 1754

III. Hannah, b. 7 Oct. 1756, m. David Chadwick, of Jaffrey, 6 ch, d. 11 Jly. 1830, Æ. 73

IV. Elizabeth, b. 13 Nov. 1758, m. David Towne in 1788

V. Lois, b. 24 Feb. 1761, m. Samuel Jaquith in 1789, 7 ch.

VI. Deborah, b. 22 Dec. 1762, m. Hezekiah Chaplin June 1788

VII. (Lieut.) Thomas, b. 9 Jan. 1765

VIII. Josiah, b. 18 Sept. 1768, d. 24 Nov. 1768, in infancy

IX. (Col.) Josiah b. 27 Nov. 1769 d. 5 May 1852, aged 82

X. Sarah b. 5 Jly. 1772 m. David Gilmore of Jaffrey, 18 May 1794, 4 ch, d. 8 June 1805, aged 34

XI. Olive, b. 1775

"Lieut. Thomas Mower [5th gen] m. Phebe Thomas, daughter of Lieut. Nathaniel and Esther (Perkins) Thomas of Rindge, 3 Sept. 1792. Removed to Barre, Vt., before 1810. Served in the war of 1812 and was in the battle of Plattsburg. His wife died in Barre, 19 Apr. 1810. Five children.

"Col. Josiah Mower m. Rebecca Cutter, daughter of John and Rebecca (Browning) Cutter of New Eps wich, N. H., in 1794, who died 22 Sept. 1867, Æ. 93. Capt. in the Militia and Col. of the 12th N. H. Regiment, 1814 to 1820. Six children.*

"A grandson of Josiah [5th gen Mower] , Nahum W. Mower [7th gen], of East Jaffrey, N. H., a gentleman of well-known social and business standing, has taken considerable interest in the past history of the family and has secured much valuable, interesting and important information; and in 1904 published his family line."

Mower family history; a genealogical record of the Maine branch of this family, together with other branches of the family tree by Mower, Walter L. (Walter Lindley), b. 1866 https://archive.org/details/mowerfamilyhisto00mowe/page/n25/mode/2up

"Lieut. Thomas Mower [4th gen Mower], son of Thomas [3rd gen] and Mary (Lewis) Mower, born in Boston, Aug. 27, 1726. Married May 5, 1752, Mary, dau. of Josiah and Deborah Kenney, born in Topsfield, Mass., Dec. 15, 1729. He was taken to Topsfield when about five years old, his mother having married Joseph Towne of that place for her second husband. She died before 1750, when Joseph Towne sold his land to his son, "Thomas Mower consenting." He bought land in Tops field in 1751, being then styled "Cordwainer." He seems to have bought and sold several times, buying as late as 1777. He seems to have been restless and was probably too energetic to rest content in an old settled community like Topsfield. Between 1762 and 1765, he was in Wenham. In 1778, being then styled "Yeoman," and of Topsfield, he bought of Richard Peabody of Boxford, Gent., all his lands in Jaffrey, being lots 11 and 12, in the tenth range, and other scattered parcels, and brought his family here. Probably the first house built in Jaffrey was that built by Richard Peabody on this land at his attempted settlement in 1752, whence he was driven by fear of the Indians. On no other hypothesis can we account for the extreme price paid by Thomas Mower for his holdings. In 1780, a pew-owner in the first Meeting House, contented in his situation, with many of his old Topsfield, Ipswich and Boxford friends and acquaintances settled about him, he disposes of the last of his lands in Topsfield, satisfied to spend his surplus energy in developing into fruitfulness the immediate wilderness about him. The town historian records his killing of a wolf in the barn cellar, the mountain being then forested to the summit and infested with wild animals. He was on two committees to procure preaching, and was selectman in 1781. He obtained his title of Lieutenant from the Jaffrey military company, it is supposed. He died Oct. 9, 1788, aged 62, and his gravestone stands in the old graveyard at Jaffrey Centre, His widow died Feb. 15, 1816, aged 86. Children, all recorded in Topsfield."

Richard Mower of Lynn and some of his descendants by Smith, Edward Leodore; Mower, Nahum W., 1828-; Mower, Earl A. Mrs https://archive.org/details/richardmowerofly00smit/page/n5/mode/2up