John Fowler

Citations

1. [S22] Norman Davis, Westchester Patriarchs, A Genealogical Dictionary of Westchester Co., N.Y., p. 88.
2. [S66] Christine Cecilia Fowler, The History of the Fowlers, Page 47 - no.18. Capt John' Fowler (Henry`, Henry) son of Henry Fowler and his wife Abigail Hoyt, was born about 1689" at Eastchester, and died there between 1768 and Aug. 31, 1768, the dates on which he deeded land to his sons and the probating of his will." (From Jan. 1937). The manuscript copy of "St. Paul's Churchyard Ins." in the library of the N. Y. Hist. Soc. gives the date of John Fowler's birth as about 1689. The published estimate of the date of his birth, according to the census of 1710, is 1693 (DOC. HIST. OF N. Y., III, 947).
   He married Elizabeth Lyon," dau. of Thomas and
   Lyon of Greenwich, Conn., and lived at Eastchester. She was b. about 1717, and was living in 1769 when her son John deeded to her the home in Eastchester. (Additional from January 1937, p. 21) John Fowler, Esq., was elected to various offices in the town of Eastchester including that of Captain of the local militia, and to the county offices of Supervisor ("in the room of Benjamin Drake, dec'd") in 1741 (serving through 1755) ; Assessor, and Justice (until his death). He leased land in the Southern Precinct (Now Putnam Co.) of Dutchess Co., and was taxed there on his movable estate in 1749 through 1753. This land was later (from 1754 through 1776) occupied by his neighbor's son Daniel Crawford (Dutchess Co., Supervisors. Records searched by Mr. Woods) Daniel Crawford was the second husband of John Fowler's dau. Elizabeth - she m. Solomon' Fowler (Moses', Esq., Henry') and (2) Daniel Crawford (ABS. OF N. Y. WILLS, VIII, 218). In 1760 John Fowler, Esq., of Eastchester deeded land to his son John Fowler, Jr. then of Philipsburg, and in 1763 (not "1768" as before stated) to his son Andrew Fowler of Eastchester (Deeds H. 103) (October 1927 again) John Fowler was listed with his father's family at Eastchester on the Census of 1698;" and again in 1710, age 17.° He served on the grand jury in 1712; was Constable for Eastchester in 1718 and 1719, and Assessor in 1722; and served as Captain in the Militia." In his father's will,' dated 1730, John Fowler received all his father's lands in Eastchester "not already disposed of." In 1726, William Fowler, yeoman, of Eastchester (son of William Fowler' weaver and Judith who moved from Flushing to Eastchester) sold a parcel of land which he had purchased from John Fowler; and James Morgan and John Ward, brothers in law to John Fowler sold land in Eastchester bounded by land of John Fowler.' John Fowler Esq. served as Supervisor for Eastchester from 1740 through 1755.° In 1743 there is a record that he served as juror in the Court of Common Pleas. In 1748 he brought suit against William Pell, and in 1751 John Fowler, Esq., was a witness in the suit brought by the executors of the estate of William Crawford against the executors of the estate of his brother Edmund Fowler.' In 1750 John Fowler and his brother-in law John Ward made changes in one of the roads laid out in Eastchester. In Nov. 1755, John Fowler, Esq. was appointed Assistant Judge in the Court of Common Pleas for the county' and served in that capacity until his death. In 1759.