Henry Dow (1674 - 1739)

Born 6 Nov 1674 in Hampton, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Muzzey) Dow — married 7 Dec 1694 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Descendants

Died 22 Jan 1739 at age 64 in Seabrook, Rockingham, New Hampshire

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Biography

Henry was a Friend (Quaker)

Henry was born in New Hampshire in 1674, the son of Joseph Dow and Mary (Sanborn) Dow.^[1] He was a Quaker.

Hampton Friends Meeting

Located in Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH, the Hampton Monthly Meeting of Friends was set off in 1701 from Piscataqua Monthly Meeting (Dover, NH). It became Seabrook Monthly Meeting in 1792 and Amesbury Monthly Meeting in 1883. Weare Monthly Meeting was set off in 1795. Since 1799, the meeting house has been located in Amesbury. Quarterly Meetings were held by the New England Yearly Meeting from 1701-1705 and held by the Salem Quarterly Meeting from 1705 forward. Hampton held a Preparatory Meeting from 1701-1778, when it became Seabrook P.M. unti9l 1842.^[2][3]

The Friends were first persecuted in New England. April 14, 1674 at the Salisbury Court (MA) 13 people from Hampton were "convicted before this court for ye breach of ye law called Quakers meeting, and were all admonished & so upon paying ye fees of ye court are discharged for ye present." (Norfolk County Court Records) Although there isn't easy access to the Friends Meeting records, it appears Abraham must have been a Quaker. The History of Hampton records,

"The earliest record of the Friends' Society in Hampton, now Seabrook, begins in the year 1701. Their first "Meeting" was established, however, about 1699; and their "Quarterly Meeting," as early as 1697, perhaps earlier. At a meeting held at Hampton, in 1701, the Quakers decided to build a meeting-house. The sum of sixty-six pounds, four shillings was raised, mostly by subscription, to defray the expenses, one man paying thirty pounds.

"Thereupon, Thomas Chase, of Hampton, in consideration of love and good-will, conveyed to Joseph Chase, Abraham Green, John Stanyan and Joseph Dow, Sen., all of Hampton, aforesaid, in the name and behalf of all those christian people, called Quakers, living in Hampton, aforesaid, "to Seat a Meeting-house thereon." The deed was dated 21st 6 mo: 1701. And here, on these premises, in the autumn of that same year, the society built their meeting-house, which still exists, in a good state of preservation, though removed to another locality and for another purpose, in 1888. The frame, as originally constructed, was twenty-six and one half feet wide, thirty-two feet long, and eight feet stud."^[4]

During 1701, John Collins, Henry, Jeremiah and Joseph Dow Jr. were all known members of the Quaker Society, living in the part of Seabrook over which, at that time, the town of Salisbury exercised the right of jurisdiction and taxation. "And this year, Isaac Morrill, Jr., constable for the year 1700, took from Jeremiah Dow a quart pot, a pair of fire-tongs, a tray and a cake of tallow, to satisfy the Hireling Minister, Caleb Cushing, for preaching." The same day he took a gun from Richard Smith, "to pay the priest for preaching in Salisbury." A few years later they were exempted from paying the minister's rate.^[5]

The meeting house was used by Friends of Hampton, NH, Amesbury and Salisbury, MA for their weekly meetings until the Amesbury Meeting House was built in 1705. The monthly meetings were held there until May 18, 1710 when it was held at Amesbury. For the next 60 years it was held alternately at Amesbury and Hampton, the later going by the name Hampton Falls in 1719 and Seabrook in 1768. The first marriage recorded was in 1705, held at the home of Thomas Barnard, where the meeting was held for the occasion of joining John Peaslee and Mary Martin, witnessed by 47 Friends.^[4]

Marriage

He married Mary Mussey 7 Dec 1694 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire.^[6]

Family

Mary & Henry Dow's children, born Hampton, New Hampshire:

1. Joanna/Johannah Dow, born Oct 6, 1696^[7]

• Fact: Residence (1674) Massachusetts, United States
• Fact: Burial Seabrook,, New Hampshire

Sources

1. ↑ New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLL2-GF4 : 10 March 2018), Henery Dow, 06 Sep 1674; citing Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,498.
2. ↑ Friends Meeting
3. ↑ [https://neym.org/sites/default/files/2019-05/GuideToRecordsRSOF_1997.pdf Guide to the Records of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in New England], New England Quakers Pg 53.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} History of the town of Hampton, New Hampshire From its settlement in 1638, to the autumn of 1892. Dow, Joseph, 1807-1889. [from old catalog]; Dow, Lucy Ellen, [from old catalog] ed. 1893 Salem, Mass., Printed by the Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co. Pg. 393
5. ↑ Dow, Pg 394.
6. ↑ New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLXW-6SJ : 4 November 2017), Henry Dow and Mary Mussy, 07 Dec 1694; citing , Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,986.
7. ↑ "New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDND-S77 : 18 January 2020), Henry Dow in entry for Johannah Dow, 1696.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 28 April 2018, 22:57), entry for Henry Dow(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZLM-LTL); contributed by various users.
• Thornton, Wingate. Inscriptions from Grave-Stones in Seabrook, N.H., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1873) Vol. 27, Page 60
• Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004)
• Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=15949597&pid=365274589