Nathaniel Gowing, Sr.

BORN- LYNN END, MA. DIED- LYNN END, MA. - FREEMAN IN READING 1691. BUILT HOUSE KNOWN AS "WILLOW CASTLE" OR "WELLMAN HOUSE" IN LYNNFIELD NEAR THE MEETING HOUSE. OATH OF FIDELITY 1677. OATH OF ALLEGIANCE 1678. ASSESSED IN LYNN 1729. ON THE BOARD OF THE SECOND CHURCH OF LYNN AT LYNN END. A HAND WRITTEN PETITION TO THE COURT IN NATHANIEL'S OWN HAND, (SIGNED NATHANIEL GOWING), FOR MARTHA'S PORTION OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN PROCTOR (KILLED IN THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS), IS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VA. LIBRARY. THE FACT THAT NATHANIEL SPELLED HIS NAME GOW-ING IS WORTH NOTE.

source- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-salemname?specfile=/tex...

"(Order of Nathaniel Gowing -- Case of John Proctor )

Wherefore inasmuch as I the subscriber Married with Martha Procter one of the daughters of John Procter late of Salem deced doe Request the Gentlemen of the committee to Deliver what part and proportion May belong to Me on behalfe of my said wife, unto Capt. Ebenezar Bancroft of Lynn and his Receipt shall be your full discharge.

from your Serv't.

• Nathanell Gowing

17110121 Jan'ry 21st 1711.

( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 68 ) "

source- Records of ye towne meetings of Lyn

7 march, 1692

"Nathanell Gowing and Samuall Parkers ware chose to see all swine in ye town bee sufficently yoked and ringed according to ye ordor of ye town and ye selectmen to give them there ordors and penalthy not exceeding twenty shillings a pees."