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• Name: Stephen DOW
• Sex: M
• Birth: 29 Mar 1642 in Newbury, Massachusetts ^b
• Death: 3 Jul 1717 in Haverhill, Massachusetts ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Thomas DOW Birth: Abt 1615 in England Death: 31 May 1654 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
Mother:

• Phebe (DOW) Death: 3 Nov 1672 in Salisbury, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage:

• Ann STORIE on 16 Sep 1663 at Haverhill, Massachusetts .^m1
  
• Ann STORIE Death: 3 Feb 1714/5 in Haverhill, Massachusetts

Children:

1. Ruhamah DOW Birth: 24 Feb 1663 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
2. Samuel DOW Birth: 22 Jan 1665 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
3. Hannah DOW Birth: 1 Jul 1668 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
4. Stephen DOW Birth: 18 Sep 1670 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
5. Martha DOW Birth: 1 Apr 1673 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
6. John DOW Birth: 13 Jul 1675 in Haverhill, Massachusetts

Marriage:

• Joanna HUTCHINS on 17 Feb 1715/6 at Haverhill, Massachusetts .^m2
  
• Joanna HUTCHINS Death: 29 Oct 1734 in Haverhill, Massachusetts

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Cutter NE p79, DowRP DOW p550, Holman PILLSBURY p258, Hoyt S&A p136, Sav-age DOW Thomas],

place:

[Ref: Cutter NE p79, DowRP DOW p550, Holman PILLSBURY p258, Hoyt S&A p136],

parents:

Thomas DOW & Phebe ___ [Ref: Cutter NE p79, DowRP DOW p550, Hammatt Ipswich p80, Holman PILLSBURY p258, Hoyt S&A p136, Sav-age DOW Thomas],

father:

[Ref: Sav-age DOW John]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Cutter NE p79, Hoyt S&A p137],

place:

[Ref: Cutter NE p79, Hoyt S&A p137]

Sources with Information about marriage to Ann STORIE

date:

[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p258, Hoyt S&A p136],

place:

[Ref: Hoyt S&A p137],

names:

Stephen DOW & Ann STORIE/STACY [Ref: Delorey DAVIS p10],

child:

[Ref: Cutter NE p79, Delorey DAVIS p10]

Sources with Information about marriage to Joanna HUTCHINS

date:

[Ref: Hoyt S&A p136],

place:

[Ref: Hoyt S&A p136],

names:

[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p258]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

date:

7 Feb 1715/6 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p258]

Research Notes:
before 1654: placed by father in the family of Thomas Davis, arranging with Davis, thouth no apprenticeship papers seem to actually to have been made out, that Stephen should be taught to read and write and the trade of stone mason. After his father died, Stephen's mother tried to get him back, and the case came into court. There are many curious old depositions repeating the same testimony and from them it is easy to see that Stephen was valuable to the Davis family for, although they tried to prove him a burden, they did not wish to let him go.
Suit of Thomas David vs Benjamin Swett for taking away plaintiff's servant, Stephen Dow. The Court ordered that the boy be returned to plaintiff. The Plaintiff confessed that he was to teach Stephen to read, to write, and the trade of a stone mason, according to the capacity of the boy and the employment of the place where he lived, March 1657.
Bartholomew Heth, aged forty-one years, deposed that Steven Dow was a very poor and weak creature to look upon and of a very low stature according to the age he was said to be when he came to live with Thomas Davis; that the said Davis never corrected him; that the provisions in his house were as good as that of men of his estate; that the boy ate the same kind of food as his master, and that he had clothing to keep him warm, etc.
John Williams, Sr, testified much the same.
John Bartlett testified that Thomas Dowe, father of Steven Dowe, on his return from Haverhill, told deponent that he had left the boy with the plaintiff until he was eighteen years old, to teach him to read and write and the trade of a stone mason. At another time, the father said he would never bind his son to Davis, because the latter was employed so much with other business, that he could not teach him the trade, and also because of the child lying abroad some nights. Dow went to Haverhill to take his son but the terms were so high he could not consider them.
Richard Littlehale and his wife Mary testified that they saw at Thomas Davis's the kind and tender usage of the boy, like parents. When the boy first went there about eight and a half years ago, he was a poor helpless child of small stature.
Thomas Ayer deposed that a little while before Thomas Dow died, the latter was at work with deponent and they had some conversation about his son dwelling at Thomas Davis's. He said he had not bound him to Davis.
Robert Haseltine deposed that he saw Benjamin Swett bring Steven Dow in deponent's canoe over the river to Haverhill. He asked said Swett where they were going and the latter answered, "I am going to carry him to ye right owner." Swett helped the boy on his horse and went away.
Various others, including Judith, wife of Samuel Gild, and Samuel Gild; Joanna, wife of George Corliss; James Davis, Sr, and Ephraim Davis, deposed as to his being a weakly child, poorly clothed and likely to be a burden. Judith was a daughter-in-law of James Davis.
Steven Swett deposed that at the ordinary in Newbury he heard Benjamin Swett demand of Thomas Davis whether he would deliver the boy to his mother, in whose behalf Swett had demanded him before at Haverhill. Benjamin Swett said to Goodman Davis, "You promised mee at Haverhill that you would send doune the boy to his mother at your Return from Newberry in case you proved not your title to him, which you have not yet done; Will you not stand to your promise." Davis replied that he would not. Sworn 31 Mar 1657
Phoebe Dowe, the mother of the boy, testified that Thomas Davis was to teach him the trade of a stone mason, etc. Stephen returned to her house and there was willing to abide, but said Davis pulled him away with violence and to their great grief she and her son were separated. [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p255]

1668: freeman of Haverhill [Ref: Sav-age DOW Stephen]



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 /-----Thomas DOW
Stephen DOW
 \-----Phebe (DOW)



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