Thomas Dow (1743 - 1822)

Born 1743 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Barker) Dow — married 28 Feb 1767 in Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 13 Mar 1822 at about age 79 in Yorkshire, Cattaraugus, New York, United States

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Biography

Thomas Dow is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A033973.

Corporal Thomas Dow served with Minutemen, Militia during the American Revolution.

Minuteman and Patriot

Thomas Dow was born in Amesbury, MA on 11 April 1743. He was the son of Isaac and Martha Hanniford Dow. Thomas was a successful blacksmith who trained in Salem, MA. He married Mary Barker on 28 Feb 1767 in Methuen. On 30 Oct 1775, Thomas and Mary Dow purchased a 50-acre property in Methuen from John and Elizabeth Bodwell and built their home. Thomas served as a minuteman, and he is on the muster roll of those who responded to the alarm of the 19th of April in 1775. It is written that he served as a Corporal. He was listed twice in the muster rolls in 1776 and likely returned home in 1777. Thomas and Mary Dow sold their farm and shop and 51 acres to David Sawyer on December 1786. He resettled in Danville, VT where he built a blacksmith shop and a public house and served in the Legislature. In his later years, Dow moved to Yorkshire, NY where he died on 15 Mar 1822.

1796, Sept. Aaron Hartshorn and Thomas Dow, for and in consideration of £30, deeded to the County a parcel of land containing 4 acres, situated in Danville Green Village, to have and to hold the same so long as the Public Buildings should remain at Danville. from Vermont Historical Magazine, p. 319

From The Dows of Yorkshire by Judith Luedmann, Eastchester, NY "Thomas Dow and Mary Barker

Descended from Henry Dow of Hampton, NH, the original immigrant in 1637 from Norfolk, England, through Thomas, John, and Isaac. Thomas was baptized 11 Sept 1743 in the Second Congregational Church of Amesbury, Mass. as "s.Isaac." This is a most important record, for errors have been made in his published history and his place of birth mistakenly set down as Haverhill, but that town's Vital Records show no Thomas Dow born there in 1743; one of the name was born there in1669, and another, baptized in 1756 was the son of Stephen. It is surprising that this mistake has been so widespread when Amesbury had its own records. Thomas is listed on page 337.

As a boy Thomas was apprenticed to a shipsmith, brazier and blacksmith of Salem, Mass. although his father had brought the family to Sandown, NH about 1760 and died there in 1784.

On June 9 1767 Thomas Dow maried Mary Barker and left Salem for good; the young couple settled in Methuen, Mass, near the New Hampshire border, a town founded by Mary's great-grandfather, Stephen Barker. Here he set up a blacksmith shop of his own.

He was a Minute-Man in the Revolution; his service is cited in "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War." (Service 4 1/2 days.)

Thomas' permanent return home was probably in 1777. After hostilities were over he stayed in Methuen only a few years before moving to Vermont, to a site now Danville, and built a new smithy. The first settler is on record as arriving in 1792, but Town Records show that Thomas Dow bought land there in 1787, when he sold land in 1798, the deed referred to him as a blacksmith.

Thomas and Mary Dow; their daughter Martha and her husband, Isaac Williams, Isaac Jr., Albert and Proctor Williams, their sons, and John Brown, all from the State of Vermont, settled in the northeast part of Lot I, Township 7, Range 5, or Yorkshire, in 1810 or 1811.

Thomas kept a blacksmith's account book, first entry was in 1805, the last in Feb 1822, a month before he died (March 13, 1822 at 79). Mary Barker Dow died 16 August 1823." They are buried in the Arcade Rural Cemetery, Arcade, Wyoming County, New York. Find A Grave Memorial 74828668 With photo and NSDAR memorial .

In that account book are Ain and Edward Bomp, Abner, Edward, and Lael Bompom (must all be Bumps.)

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1743

SDATE 1 JUL 1743

Place: Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Bapt. Thomas, s. Isaac, bp. Sept. 11, 1743. PR1

Death

Death:

Date: 1822

SDATE 1 JUL 1822

Place: Yorkshire, Cattaraugus, New York, USA

He is buried 13 March 1822 • Near Weedsport, NY Among those who marched from Metheun, Mass,, on the Alarm of April 19, 1775* was Corporal Thomas Dow, buried in Arcade- Rural Cemetery,, He saw service for four and a half days under Major Samuel Bodwello. Dow was a son of Isaac Dow and Martha Hanniford.

Research Notes

There is a petition to save the old Thomas Dow home more recently known as The Sweetheart Inn in Methuen, Mass. The history of the Thomas Dow who lived there is given here. [1]

Ancestral File Number

Ancestral File Number: 1K2J-01S

Sources

• [2]

• The Dows of Yorkshire by Judith Luedmann, Eastchester, NY

• Source: S1 Abbreviation: Ancestral File (R) Title: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998) Repository: #R1 Repository: #R1
• Repository: R1 Name: Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA Address 1: 35 N West Temple Street Address 2: Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Claire Smith for creating WikiTree profile Dow-744 through the import of smithwiki.ged on Jul 1, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Claire and others.

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