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  • Name: Henry DOW
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 5 Mar 1670/1 in Haverhill, Massachusetts b
  • Death: Abt 1742 d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas DOW Birth: Abt 1640 in Newbury, Massachusetts Death: 21 Jun 1676 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
  • Mother:
  • Dorcas KIMBALL Birth: Abt 1650 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: After 1676

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. (Unk) DOW Birth: 13 Oct 1693 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 13 Oct 1693 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
  2. Martha DOW Birth: Oct 1694 in Haverhill, Massachusetts Death: 15 Mar 1696/7
  3. Martha DOW Birth: Abt 1697 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
  4. (Unk) DOW Birth: 1700 in Amesbury, Massachusetts
  5. Elizabeth DOW Birth: 12 Oct 1702 in Amesbury, Massachusetts Death: Before 1758 in Kingston, New Hampshire
  6. Thomas DOW Birth: 3 May 1704 in Amesbury, Massachusetts Death: 4 May 1731
  7. Isaac DOW Birth: 27 Jan 1707 in Amesbury, Massachusetts
  8. Joseph DOW Birth: 29 Aug 1709 in Amesbury, Massachusetts
  9. Jerusha DOW Birth: 17 Jul 1713 in Amesbury, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, Concord, NH: Rumsford Press, 1938. NEHGS CS71/P643/1938. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/29865. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p[0-9]*].
  2. Hoyt, David W, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1982. Available at http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal01hoyt, http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal02hoyt, and http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal03hoyt. Volume 1 also available at http://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hoyt S&A p[0-9]*].
  3. Kimball, Judith A, History of the Kimball Family in America, Kittery, Maine: Kimball Family Association, 1988. NEHGS CS71/K49/1988. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/637844. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: KimballJA KIMBALL p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Hoyt S&A p137, KimballJA KIMBALL p25]
5 Mar 1670 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p258],
place:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p258, Hoyt S&A p137, KimballJA KIMBALL p25],
parents:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p258, Hoyt S&A p137, KimballJA KIMBALL p25]
Sources for death Information
date:
between 10 Apr 1740 and 9 Mar 1744 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p259]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth COLBY
date:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p259, Hoyt S&A p137, KimballJA KIMBALL p25],
place:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p259, Hoyt S&A p137],
child:
[Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p253, Holman PILLSBURY p260, Holman PILLSBURY p261]
Research Notes:
probably grew up with family of John Hazeltine, although nothing shows such to be the case [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p259]

received the balance of his father's estate from his uncle Henry Kimball, and his wife also had land from her father's estate [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p259]

on death of his uncle John, and his only child, Henry was an heir to further property in Haverhill [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p259]

Sep 11 1694: I Henry Dow of Haverhill ... Yeoman ye Son of Thomas Dow of said Haverhill Deced in Consideration of Ten pounds ... secured to me by bill of Ephraim Roberts of ye same place ... do ... sell unto him, ye Said Ephraim Roberts of Haverhill abovesd Cooper an Estate of Inheritance in Reversion which was my Grandfather Thomas Dows of Haverhill Deceased and by him willed to my Uncle John Dow Deceased and so by right falling to my father Thomas Dow deceased Now to me ye only Surviving Son of ye said Thomas Dow Deceased. [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p259]

Sep 3 1695: I Henry Dow of haverhill ... planter have this day received of my unckle Henry Kimball of ye same place Administratr to ye Estate of my father Thomas Dow late of Haverhill Deceased Two third parts of a certaine parcel of land formerly belonging to my abovesd father ... in sd Haverhill ... doe acknowledge myselfe ... payed all my right that I should or ought to Have of my Said father Tho Dows Estate ... this third Day of September 1695. [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p260]

abt 1700: moved from Haverhill to Amesbury [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p259]

Jul 24 1721: sold to Joseph Bradley of Haverhill, land in haverhill "it formerly being my Father Thomas Dows; formerly of Haverhill & now Deceased," a part of Hoghill meadow [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p260]

Apr 1 1732: Jonathan Davis and Martha Davis Wife of sd Jonathan Davis of Almsbury for 60 pounds paid by "our two Brethren Isaac Dow & Joseph Dow of Almsbury ..." confirm unto them all right & title to all Real estate of "our Father Henry Dow and Elizabeth ... of Almsbury aforesd which was Bequeathed to the sd Elizabeth Dow by her Father Isaac Coleby Deceased [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p260]

Dec 31 1735: I Joseph Dow of the Town of Almsbury ... Joyner ... for ... Three Hundred & Five Pounds money to me ... paid by Richard Kelly of ye Town ... afsd Cordwainer ... sell ... unto Him ... One messuage of Tract of Land ... in ... Almsbury ... if Being at ye Northwesterly End of the Land whereon my Hond Father & mother Henry & Elizabeth Dow now lives & of the Rights of my Two Sisters Martha Davis & Elizabeth Rowand & my Own Rights in sd Land [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p260]

Mar 9 1744: I Joseph Dow of Kingstown ... Newhampshire ... For ... Five Hundred Pounds old Tenour to me ... paid by my Brother Isaac Dow of Almsbury in the County of Essex ... Cordwainer ... Do ... sell ... unto him ... Twenty Acres of land lying & being in Almsbury aforsd being part of the Homestead Living of Henry Dow late of Almsbury Deceased ... [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p260]



Pedigree of Henry DOW
          /-----Thomas DOW
 /-----Thomas DOW
|         \-----Phebe (DOW)
Henry DOW
|                  /-----Richard KIMBALL
|         /-----Henry KIMBALL
|        |         \-----Ursula SCOTT
 \-----Dorcas KIMBALL
         |                                    /-----Jasper RIDDLESDALE
         |                           /-----Henry RIDDLESDALE
         |                          |         \-----Elizabeth (RIDDLESDALE)
         |                  /-----John RIDDLESDALE
         |                 |         \-----Joan (RIDDLESDALE)
         |         /-----Edward RIDDLESDALE
         |        |         \-----Dorcas (RIDDLESDALE)
          \-----Mary RIDDLESDALE
                   \-----Mary (RIDDLESDALE)



Descendants of Henry DOW
1. Henry DOW m. Elizabeth COLBY
m. Elizabeth COLBY father: Isaac COLBY mother: Martha PARRATT

2nd generation

6. Elizabeth DOW m1. Andrew ROWAN m2. Aaron STEVENS
m. Andrew ROWAN
m. Aaron STEVENS

3rd generation

11. Margaret ROWAN m. Thomas WADLEIGH
m. Thomas WADLEIGH

4th generation

12. Benjamin WADLEIGH m. Hannah KEYSER
m. Hannah KEYSER

5th generation

13. Susan WADLEIGH m. John Captain PILLSBURY
m. John Captain PILLSBURY father: Micajah PILLSBURY mother: Sarah SARGENT