John Cowen Jr. (1662 - 1729)

Born 10 Jul 1662 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

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Died 18 Dec 1729 at age 67 in Plymouth Colony

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John was born 10 Jul 1662 in Scituate, Massachusetts.^[1]

05 March 1724/5 deed: Massachusetts: Plymouth County Registry of Deeds: John Cowing/Israel Cowing 1727, Book 22, Page 172.

"To All people to whom those presents shall come John Cowing of the Town of Rochester in the County of Plymouth within the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, Yeoman sendeth greeting. Know ye that I the seller John Cowing for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred pounds of currant money of New England to me in land well truly paid at and before the unsealing and delivery hereof by Israel Cowing of Rochester aforesaid, in the County and Province aforesaid singleman...the receipt whereof I do acknowledge myself these with fully satisfied contented paid and thereof offering part and parcel thereof do acquit exonerate and discharge to Israel Cowing his heirs executor administer every one of them forever. Have given, granted, bargained, sold aliened, entrusted and confirm unto him the buyer Israel Cowing his heirs and asigns forever the Northerly end of my Homestead whereupon my now dwelling house standeth with part of my meadow ground and grounds as followeth beginning at a red oak sapling on the west side of ye road that leadeth to Mattapoisett adjoyning to ye land of Joshua Cowing towards the north with a range of white oak trees marked and bounded with ye Joshua Cowings land with it cometh to Mattapoisett river and bounded ye river towards the West down stream until it cometh to ye land of Caleb Cowing and then East by ye Caleb Cowings land towards South to the aforesaid way and bounded by the way towards ye East about on hundred and twenty eight rods to the first mentioned red oak sapling with the two acres of the two hundred acre grant belonging to Benjamin Fosters share. At first to have add and to hold all the above land with all singular the appurtenances, rights, privileges thereunto belonging or in any way appertaining unto him the buyer Israel Cowing his heirs asigns and to his and them alone propertys benefit forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto let my hand and seal this fifth day of March anno domini...one thousand seven hundred and twenty four/five, 1724/5."

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of -----------------

Note that before signing I do receive four rods in breadth for a way to walk ye cows from ye river to ye highway --------

John Cowing (Seal) Caleb Cowing & Mary Cowing

Plymouth County, 08 Day of February 1727/8. "Then the within named John Cowing personally approved and acknowledged within written justment (sic) to be his actual deed - before me - Sir Edward Winslow, Justice of ye peace - Signed Feb 16, 1728/8, Record & Exam - Josiah Cotton. Reg. 2-" On 11 September 1727, "John Cowing of Province-Town," as administrator, sold the house and land of Josiah Hatch, at Rochester, and acknowledged the deed the next day.

At the General Session Court, Plymouth, September 1729, Samuel Clark, "Keeper of his Majesty's Gaol (jail) in Plymouth," stated that "John Cowing a poor Indigent Person was Imprisoned for Debt and had layn there for Eight Months past and had Nothing to Subsist him Self There." The Court order his children, John Cowing of Provincetown, and Joshua, Caleb & Israel Cowing, all of Rochester, to show cause why they should not support their father. In December 1729, John Cowing requested the he be given the oath "for the Releif and Release of Poor Prisoners for Debt...by the said Law appointed." Cowing acknowledged that he had "Conveyed a Grate part of his Estate to and among his Children and acknowledged before the Court that the Debt for which he is Imprisoned was Contracted before the Conveyance of the said Estate and Could Not Give any Satisfactory accompt to the said Court how he was paid for the Same by his said Sons...which in the opinion of the Court amounts to legall Evidence... that the said John Cowing conveyed his estate with a Design to Defraud his Creditors." Therefore, the Court denied the oath by Law for Poor Prisoners for debt.^[2] John Cowing served, after 1697, on the Board of Selectmen for the old town.

Sources

1. ↑ Vital records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (1909). Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, at the charge of the Eddy Town-Record Fund. Vol. I, p.98
2. ↑ Mattapoisett and Old Rochester, Page 113 - Year 1907.

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