John Dow
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John Dow (bef. 1754 - 1835)

John Dow
Born before in South Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshiremap
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Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Died after age 80 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United Statesmap
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Biography

Daughters of the American Revolution
John Dow is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A033922.
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John Dow is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 149791
Rank: Corporal
1776 Project
Corporal John Dow served with Capt. Nathaniel Fales' Company, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

DOW, John Cpl, MA r Deer Island b 1754 Capt Fale's co d 1835 m Betsey 1S; 13 S; CL-4, 1: 200 Soldiers Sailors and Patriots of the Revolutionary War_Maine page 212.[1]

NOTE: Revolutionary War, Cpl. in Capt. Fales Co., MA. Settled on Shamm Island in Penobscot Bay and some years later induced six other families to join him.

Nathan Dow settled on the lot of land adjoining that of Mr. Caleb Haskell on the southwest, and a part of his farm bordered upon the Northwest Harbor, and embraced what is now known as Dow's Point, on the northeast side of the entrance to the harbor. He was the second person who permanently settled in that part of the island, Mr. John Pressey having taken up a lot on the southwest side of the entrance, opposite the land occupied by Mr. Dow. He came in the fall of 1767, and, I presume, came from the town of Brunswick, Maine, or that vicinity, as he was a neighbor of Mr. Theophilus Eaton, who came here from that place, then better known as New Meadows River, which runs up into that town. He died here, leaving two sons, John and Nathan Dow, and two daughters, who were married. The elder, Diana, was the wife of Mr. Jonathan Eaton, who will be noticed, and who came with Mr. Dow. The other was the wife of Mr. Josiah Crockett, who was well known here in his time.

"Mr. John Dow, his son, married a daughter of Mr. Thomas Saunders, and was the father of the late Mr. Thomas Dow; Mr. Stephen Dow, who was drowned over fifty years ago; Mr. Samuel Dow, who settled on Mount Desert Island; Ephraim Dow, who removed there about forty years ago; and Mr. William T. Dow, who removed from here to Tinker's Island." page 74 History of Deer Isle

The daughters were the wives of Mr. William Staples , a son of a man of the same name [should be son of John Staples] who was said to have been impressed on board a British ship-of-war during the Revolution. Another was the wife of the late Joseph C. Stinson, Esq.; another married Captain John Kempton, of Isle au Haut, and another Captain Jacob Carlton, who for many years resided in the same place, and afterward removed to Winterport, where he died. Captain Carlton represented this town in the Legislature in 1838. Of Nathan Dow, 2d, I knew but little. He left three sons: one, the present Mr. Nathan Dow, who is now (1881) aged eighty-nine years; Joshua and Ephraim Dow, who have been dead some years. The land of Mr. Nathan Dow was mostly occupied by his son Nathan after his decease, and after the decease of his son his three sons above named came into possession, but a part of it is now owned by the heirs of the late Martin V. B. Green, and the residue by the descendants of the original owner.

John Dow bapt. Nov. 10, 1754 Salisbury, MA; s/o Nathan and Sarah (Flanders) Dow d. Nov. 1835 Deer Isle, ME m.Deer Isle, ME Elizabeth "Betsy" "Betty" Saunders b. c1752 d/o Thomas Saunders bapt. as adult in Apr. 16, 1786 Deer Isle d. Feb. 6, 1835 Deer Isle, ME CHILDREN included:

Mary "Molly" Dow b. Oct. 20, 1789 Deer Isle, ME chr.May 23, 1790 Deer Isle, ME m. Joseph Colby Stinson who was b.1782 Susannah Dow b. May 9, 1778 Deer Isle, ME d.1858 Clifton, ME m. Dec. 7, 1796 Deer Isle William Staples son of John Staples and Hannah Smith (and brother [Uncle] of John Staples who married sister Anna) Thomas Saunders Dow b.April 2, 1779 d.Dec. 16, 1866 Ephraim Dow b.Feb. 2 or 12, 1781/2 r.Mt. Desert, d.May 25, 1875 bur.Tremont Stephen Dow b.Aug. 14, 1784 d.Nov. 1833 Drowned Samuel Dow Anna Dow b.Apr. 13, 1792 m. Oct. 21, 1810 John Staples [John Staples Jr.] as his 3rd wife [not a 3rd wife, as John Staples Sr. died 1807] Hannah Dow b.Aug. 11, 1795 r.Isle au Haut, ME Elizabeth Dow b.Nov. 23, 1798 r.D.I. and Winterport, ME William Thurston Dow b.May 31, 1801 d.Apr. 26, 1863 bur.No. Brooklin, ME


John Dow; baptized 10 Nov 1754 at South Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire; m. Elizabeth Saunders, daughter of Thomas Saunders and Hepsibah Chase; d. Nov 1835 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; he was buried at Somes Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine.

Known children of John Dow and Elizabeth "Betty" Saunders all b. at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, were as follows:
  • i. Susannah Dow; b. 9 May 1778; or b. 9 May 1779[2] at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. William Staples, son of John Staples and Hannah Smith, 7 Dec 1796 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine.
  • ii. Thomas Saunders Dow; b. 2 Apr 1779[3]; m. Elizabeth Haskell, daughter of Abijah Wheeler Haskell and Sarah Cole, 17 Feb 1803; d. 16 Dec 1866 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, at age 87.
  • iii. Ephraim Dow; b. 12 Feb 1782[4]; m. Rebecca McMullen, daughter of Archibald McMullin and Sarah Robbins, 1807; d. 25 May 1872 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, at age 90; he was buried 28 May 1872 at Somes Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine.
  • iv. Stephen Dow; b. 14 Aug 1784[5]; m. Sarah Sellers, daughter of William Sellers and Tabitha Banks, 1808 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. Nov 1833 at age 49.
  • v. Samuel Dow; b. 11 May 1787[6]; or b. 31 May 1788 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. Mary Stewart, daughter of Charles Stewart and Mary Newbury Robbins; d. 31 Oct 1861 at age 74; he was buried at Seal Cove Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine.
  • vi. Mary/Molly J. Dow; b. 20 Oct 1789[7]; m. Joseph Colby Stinson, son of Thomas Stinson and Eunice Colby, 5 Jul 1809 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine.
  • vii. Anna Dow; b. 13 Apr 1792[8]; m. John Staples [Jr.] 12 Jul 1810 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine.
  • viii. Hannah Dow; b. 11 Aug 1795[9]; m. John Kempton.
  • ix. Elizabeth Dow; b. 23 Nov 1798[10]; m. Jacob Carlton, son of Jonathan Carlton and Huldah Low, 3 Sep 1816 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. 26 May 1852 at age 53.
  • x. Susannah Dow; b. 09 May 1799[11] or 9 May 1800.
  • xi. William Thurston Dow; b. 31 May 1801[12]; baptized 9 May 1802; m. Abigail T. Dawes 3 Apr 1823 at Hancock, Maine; d. 26 Apr 1863 at Brooklin, Hancock, Maine, at age 61; he was buried at Mount Ephraim Cemetery, Brooklin, Hancock, Maine, Æ 61y 11m.

Sources

  1. Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Sep 26, 2021), "Record of DOW, JOHN", Ancestor # A033922.
  2. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4WQ-68P : 10 February 2018), John Dow in entry for Susannah , 09 May 1779; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
  3. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4W7-3BL : 10 February 2018), John Dow in entry for Thomas Saunders , 22 Apr 1779; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
  4. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4WQ-B7J : 10 February 2018), John Dow in entry for Ephraim , 12 Feb 1782; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
  5. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4W7-3BF : 10 February 2018), John Dow in entry for Stephen , 14 Aug 1784; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
  6. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4W7-3BV : 10 February 2018), John Dow in entry for Samuel , 11 May 1787; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
  7. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4WQ-68T : 10 February 2018), John Dow in entry for Molly , 20 Oct 1789; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
  8. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4WQ-6QH : 10 February 2018), John Dow in entry for Anna , 13 Apr 1792; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
  9. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4WQ-6QX : 10 February 2018), John Dow in entry for Hannah , 11 Aug 1795; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
  10. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4WQ-6Q8 : 10 February 2018), John Dow in entry for Elisebeth , 23 Nov 1798; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
  11. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4WQ-6Q2 : 10 February 2018), John Dow in entry for Susannah , 09 May 1799; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
  12. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4W7-9MX : 10 February 2018), John Dow in entry for William Thursten , 31 May 1801; citing ; FHL microfilm 10,836.
  • Hosmer, George. An Historical Sketch of the Town of Deer Isle, Maine (Stanley and Usher, Boston, 1886) Page 74
  • http://helenesgenes.com/Dow.html
  • Dunbar, Edith. The Flanders Family from Europe to America (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, VT, 1935) Page 91
  • Payroll: Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War (Massachusetts and Rhode Island). Vol. 37, Sea coast defense, Penobscot Expedition 1775-1781. A Pay Roll of Capt. Nathaniel Fales and his Company in the State pay on the Expedition to Penobscot from the 6th of July 1779 to the 26th of August following. Film #008092198. Image 171-72 of 628.
  • Muster roll: Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War (Massachusetts and Rhode Island). Vol. 37, Sea coast defense, Penobscot Expedition 1775-1781. A Pay Roll of Capt. Nathaniel Fales and his Company in the State pay on the Expedition to Penobscot from the 6th of July 1779 to the 26th of August following. Film #008092198. Image 118 of 628.




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