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Note H1062
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[Robert Ruhl and Mary Farrier 20081222.GED]
[clairemf2.ged]
1930 Census:Southeast,Putnam,New York
Jessie Bailey 64
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Note H1063
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[Robert Ruhl and Mary Farrier 20081222.GED]
[clairemf2.ged]
1880 Census: Southeast,Putnam,New York
W. Henry Fowler 39
George Anna 37
Jessee E 14
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Note H1064
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Taxed in 1792-1804. Jacob Fowle and family were warned out of Quincy in 1792. "The first of the Fowle family, as I always heard it, came from England and was wrecked on Cape Cod. He drifted up as far as Quincy. He was a shoemaker for many years with Adam Curtis, an extra fine workman." - Reminiscences of John Crane (1896).
infant child -, died May 18,1807 at Quincy.
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[Robert Ruhl and Mary Farrier 20081222.GED]
Jacob Fowles Jr. taxed in Quincy 1801-1807
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Note H1066
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[Robert Ruhl and Mary Farrier 20081222.GED]
4th cousins once removed
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Note H1067
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[Robert Ruhl and Mary Farrier 20081222.GED]
died aged 69 years 5 months 5 days. (Birth date calculated)
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Note H1068
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[Robert Ruhl and Mary Farrier 20081222.GED]
died age 81, gs.
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[Robert Ruhl and Mary Farrier 20081222.GED]
Sources:
Abbrev: Obituary
Title: Obituary
Text: Obituary
Abbrev: Naomi Ruth Haldeman Martin
Title: Naomi Ruth Haldeman Martin
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Note H1070
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[Robert Ruhl and Mary Farrier 20081222.GED]
Both Edmond and his brother
William, with their respective wives, were beneficiaries in the wills of,
respectively, their father-in-law John Hodsoll and his son of the same
name, the said wives being co-heirs to their brother.
In January, 1633-4, Edmond, on behalf of himself and his five living
children, brought suit in Chancery Court against his brother William and
others in regard to the disposition of certain lands and tenements
formerly belonging to John Hodsoll, his father-in-law. The depositions
taken, give evidence among other things, of the dates of baptism of four
of the six children of Edmond at Billingshurst, the register of which was
then existent though not now to be found; that he then owned lands in
both Pulborough and Billingshurst; that he must have removed in
1619-20 to Billingshurst for a period of seven or eight years; and that
he was a man of good credit and repute in the community. By Sept, 1627,
he had evidently returned to Pulborough where his youngest child was
baptized on 2 Sept 1629, and buried ten days later and where he buried
his wife on Apr 12 following.
He, with his four children, ... in company with several other individuals
of the same family name, whose relationship is not yet established
engaged passage for New England on the 'Abigail,' Robert Hackwell,
Master, early in July 1635 and arrived in Oct following. It is said that
'he was a man of consideration in England and brought with him much
valuable plate.' He settled first at Lynn, in Massachusetts Bay Colony,
for a short time. During his residence there he presented to the Colony
twenty corslets or suits of plate armor. These he doubtless brought over
in view of the Indian menace. For some reason he and others of Lynn
wished to remove to Cape Cod and asked Plymouth Colony for a grant of
land there. On 3 Apr 1637 it was ordered 'that these ten men of Saugus'
(Lynn), including Edmond, 'shall have liberty to view a place to sitt
downe & have sufficient lands for three score famylies ...'. The present
location of Sandwich was chosen and a number of men, many of whom
had families, removed there from Lynn in, or perhaps even before, 1637.
Certain conditions were to be met before an absolute deed would be
given to them by the Colony and in 1647 this document was made out to
Edmond as agent, who in turn devised the lands to the town and to its
various proprietors on their repayment to him of money invested and
their promise to complete the requirements, the matter not being closed
until 1651. As a consequence of this agency he is called 'the original
proprietor of Sandwich.'
The status of Edmond may be inferred from the fact that of the
fifty-eight men who became entitled to shares in the divisions of lands
at Sandwich, his portion was much the largest and his name was
ordinarily preceded by the title 'Mr.' or followed by that of 'Gent.' He
was called a freeman of Plymouth Colony on 7 Mar 1636-7, although he
was not 'sworn and admitted' as such until 2 Jan 1637-8, so his removal
to Sandwich undoubtedly preceded these dates.
The Massachusetts men who were the first settlers of this town were
Puritans rather than Pilgrims, many of them were merchants and some
were well-to-do. They were 'friends of good order' and good government
and were a religious people but free in a remarkable degree 'from the
acerbities of polemic strife' existing in some parts of the Bay Colony.
They started a church as early as 1638, of which Edmond was a member
and a deacon. Evidence that they, as a group, were less intolerant than
most church bodies of Puritan origin of their day is seen in the fact that
their neighborhood later became the earliest stronghold of Quakerism in
Plymouth Colony. The Sandwich Monthly Meeting, established in 1660,
was the first organized Meeting of New England and even antedated most
of those in England. Some of the earlier adherents of this faith seem to
have really craved and invited difficulty with, and persecution by the
authorities, but the majority, who are said to have asked only freedom to
worship as they chose, soon gained the good will of their neighbors, who
often shielded them from the law and thus sometimes incurred penalties
on their own behalf.
Edmond evidently felt this tolerance for though he was actively
interested in church affairs, as is evidenced by his signing about 1655-6
a call to a pastor, giving at that time L1 yearly thereafter toward the
pastor's salary, yet he and his wife were indicted on 7 Oct 1651 for
absence from public worship contrary to the order of June 6 preceding,
which absence was a method then frequently employed to show
disapproval of the policy of the authorities against the Quakers. He is
generally recognized as disfavoring the current 'ecclesiastical censures
and legislative coercion'; of sympathizing with the Quakers, some say
even to the point of considering personal alliance with them; and of
having views too liberal for the times. The stringency of the laws
provided that freemen who became Quakers, or who encouraged such by
attending their meetings, by entertaining them or by any other means,
should lose their citizenship and various men were so penalized. Many
more were fined and Captain Cudworth of Scituate was even deprived of
his military command because of his sympathies. He made the statement
too, that in 1658 'almost the whole town of Sandwich is adhering to
them.'
Edmond, who had been a Magistrate or assistant to the Governor for
several years, was permanently dropped at the election in 1646, some
say as a result of his general theological tolerance. Public opinion in
this section in favor of the Friends became so marked, and protection of
them from many harshnesses was so frequent, that the Plymouth
government about 1657-8 appointed one George Barlow as a state
marshal for this locality to collect the fines from and inflict the
punishments upon these passive offenders 'and their encouragers,' but
his great unfairness only increased the resentment of fair-minded
people. While the most extreme penalties such as cutting off of ears and
hanging were not resorted to in Sandwich, the local persecutions
included whipping, imprisonment which carried with it a fee for
committal, as well as a second one for discharge, and heavy fines for the
non-payment of which the offender's cattle or goods were distrained at
a preposterously low valuation and with an admitted intent to confiscate
the most needed articles rather than such as could be more easily
spared. At one court in 1661 fines amounting to L150, for attendance at
Quaker meetings and for refusal to take the oath of fidelity, were laid on
certain Sandwich men in such respective amounts as L24, L46 and L20,
the last-named fine being assessed against a poor weaver whose entire
holdings were of less than L10 valuation. One list of fines imposed upon
nineteen Friends in and near Sandwich for this period showed a total of
L660 of which over L89 was distrained from Edward Perry, called 'son'
by Edmond Freeman. Knowing the disapprobation of the Freeman family
for these measures, Marshal Barlow had the audacity to call upon Edmond
for 'aid' in his duties Prompt and indignant refusal of such assistance
caused Barlow to enter a complaint at court, and consistency caused the
authorities to lay a fine of ten shillings on Freeman. Another intimate
phase of the question is seen in the fact that this Edward Perry married,
about 1653, Mary (---), but was so imbued with Quaker ideas that he
persistently and repeatedly declined the services of Thomas Tupper, who
was a constituted authority to perform marriages. The result was that
the matter was brought before the General Court on 7 Mar 1653-4, and
Edward Perry was fined L5. Governor Thomas Prence (who would have
been doubly interested in that he was father-in-law to John Freeman)
was directed to see this marriage 'ratifyed as hee goeth home,' and
Thomas Tupper for not forcibly performing the ceremony 'was required
henceforth to desist, and is not intrusted with that business any more.'
Evidence that even the Governor's persuasive powers lacked potency in
this matter is seen in the Court record of 6 June 1654 when Edward
Perry 'for refusing to have his marriage rattifyed before Mr. Prence ... is
fined five pounds for this psent Court and soe five pounds for every
Generall Court that shall bee during the time of his said neglect for the
future.' Knowledge of the outcome of this conflict would be interesting,
but is not found.
In 1643 Edmond and his two sons Edmond and John were among those
'able to bear arms' in Sandwich. The former served on the grand jury in
1636 and 1647, as Assistant continuously from 1640 to 1646 and as a
Representative in the latter year. As Assistant he and his associates
held court for the three townships, Yarmouth, Barnstable and Sandwich,
'for small causes.' In 1641 he with Governor Winslow and Myles
Standish dealt true justice in ruling that a certain man should pay for a
deer which his son had bought of an Indian long before, and that another
man should pay two shillings for mending a hole which he had shot in the
same Indian's kettle. The attitude of Edmond toward the natives is
further shown in a case where he addressed several notes to the General
Court about 1655 relative to 'spoyle done in the Indians corn by horses'
and about suitable recompense therefor.
Suggestions of some of the unpleasant duties devolving upon the
Assistants is seen in rulings whereby Edmond, in that capacity, was
required by the General Court in Sept 1641 to inflict punishment upon
'Mr. Crowes mayde servant for pilfering goods in his house' and to
oversee the whipping of certain offenders.
The importance to the community of the whaling industry is seen in
certain early legislation. There seems to have been somewhat of
conflict between the Colony, which demanded a portion of the oil as the
right of the Crown and appointed agents to receive it 'for the country,'
and the town, which claimed similar rights and promised a division of
the proceeds 'equally to every inhabitant,' with a double share to the
Indian or white man who spied and reported a floating or stranded whale.
In 1652 the town appointed a committee of six, including Edmond, to
'take care of all the (oil-yielding) fish that Indians shall cut up within
the limits of the town, so as to provide safety for it and ... dispose of the
fish for the town's use,' also to provide laborers and equipment to try
out the blubber of any such as are reported and to dispose of the
proceeds 'to the town's use, to be divided equally.'
In spite of the evident good standing of Edmond in the community, he
occasionally offended in small matters and he was promptly taken to
task, as when in 1638 he and others were fined ten shillings apiece for
'being defective in armes'; that same year he was one of several who
were presented 'for keeping swine unringed'; in 1641 he was before the
Court for lending a gun to an Indian and in 1646 he was one of the
Council of War to cooperate with Massachusetts Bay Colony in mutual
protection against the Indians; and he was often on committees to view
land, divide and assign such, and to run bounds. He acquired much
property both by grant and by purchase.
He made one sale of land in 1648 for the sum of L75 sterling 'to bee
payed ... in Corn or Cattell.' Side lights are thrown on local customs and
conduct by such items as that a neighbor girl, who had 'uttered speeches
against' Edmond in 1655, was sentenced to be whipped; Thomas Tupper
signed a document in 1656 to 'forever acquitt' Edmond 'of all manor
accoumpts, speciallities, and demaunds, from the begining of the world
to this prsent day' and Edmond himself, with two others as agents for
the town, in 1673 complained against Samuel Fuller for unjust entry on
the land two years before and for cutting down a certain young tree. That
Edmond was a man of large business interests, a merchant in Sandwich
and also the representative of a group of London investors in the new
world is proved by various recorded documents. Several of these suggest
that he dealt in clothing, for in 1639 he made a trip to England and while
there bought a consignment of 'hats and beavers' to the amount of over
L52 from Arthur Mansfield, haberdasher of London, signing an agreement,
dated 20 July 1639, to pay for them 'six months after the said hatts
shall be safely landed in New England.' They were shipped in the
'Planter' and Edmond himself returned to his home during 1649 on the
'Champion.' This bill was paid in 1640 but his failure to receive the
receipted note caused him to have all pertinent correspondence recorded.
Evidence is also seen of a considerable investment in New England by
three merchants of London, including John Beauchamp, brother-in-law of
Edmond, who on 11 July 1639, evidently during the latter's visit there,
gave him a power of attorney. Their business covered a partnership in
the beaver trade in Plymouth Colony with the use of certain vessels for
the transport of it, and included as partners the following New England
men: William Bradford; Edward Winslow, Thomas Prence, Myles
Standish, John Alden, John Howland, Isaac Allerton and the heirs of
William Brewster. The task assigned Edmond was to make collections of
accounts due in New England, or to accept land in lieu of money, to make
good Beauchamp's investment of L400 with perhaps similar amounts due
to the two other London men. Accounts with the Indians had been poorly
kept, returns were scanty and finally by or before 1645 after 'divers
differrences,' the various Plymouth debtors to this group each deeded
property to cover their obligations and received their releases from
Edmond. Following this he made sale of much of this property for
Beauchamp. As late a 1682 his interest in church affairs is seen when
he and Ezra Perry, senior, were appointed to arrange for the minister's
salary.
When his wife died 14 Feb 1675-6, she was buried on the hill of Freeman
farm 'about one and one-fourth miles west of the town hall' (1875),
which spot thus became the oldest known burial ground of that locality.
We are told that at that time his sons hauled from a distant field a rock
which in shape resembled a pillion, as a monument for her grave; at his
request they brought another which he imagined simulated a saddle and
placed it beside where his own grave would presently be, and enclosed
this spot, containing also two oak trees, with a massive circular wall.
'Within the memory of persons yet living (1875) the remains of those
ancient trees were standing and the last vestiges of the wall were
removed ... but neither the two graves nor the two monuments placed
over them have ever been disturbed.'
Certain discrepancy is found between the approximated age of Edmond at
emigration and at death as compared with his lately established
baptismal date but the consensus of evidence justifies the conclusions
as stated. The estate he left amounted to L190 but he had deeded most
of his property to his descendants during his life. His will dated 21 June
1682, was probated 2 Nov, following, and named his three 'sons' Edmond
and John Freeman and Edward Perry, as his executors, reaffirmed all
prior conveyances and divided such lands as he then possessed. It is
interesting to note that his personal estate included 'One Dixionary & gt.
Bible L1-15-0,' the former volume being a rare possession in the
colonies in that early day."