John Fowler (1783)

Born 1783 in Pennsylvania, USA

Descendants

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Biography

• Ancestor of noted musician & actor Harry Connick, Jr.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis." Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. PBS. 25 March 2012.

Possible Ancestry

Ancestry has these as his parents:

Captain John Fowler 1756 - 1840 Born in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States in 1756 .

Millicent Wills 1760 - 1833 Born in Virginia, USA in 1760

https://www.ancestry.com.au/genealogy/records/john-captain-fowler-24-6cjpl?geo_a=r&o_iid=41016&o_lid=41016&o_sch=Web+Property

If this can be substantiated, then there is a wealth of information on this man and wife.

Background Fowler was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, on April 27, 1756, to John and Judith (Hudson) Fowler.

Education He attended the common schools. Fowler studied at William and Mary College in 1780. He was a member of the Williamsburg Lodge Freemasons.

Career Fowler was also an early settler of and civic leader in Lexington, Kentucky. He fought in the American Revolutionary War, joining Captain Patterson"s company in 1777 as a first lieutenant and rising to the rank of captain in 1783. In 1783, Fowler moved to Lexington, Kentucky.

In October 1786, by act of the Virginia General Assembly, Fowler was appointed to serve as one of the trustees of the new city of Frankfort, Kentucky.

In June 1787, Fowler joined Captain James Brown"s company of Kentucky volunteers, which fought Indians. In 1787, Fowler was part of the Danville convention of 1787 (Kentucky"s third statehood convention), representing Fayette County, then part of Virginia but later part of Kentucky.

The same year, Fowler was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. On 1788, Fowler was Fayette County to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, which ratified the United States Constitution.

In 1788, Fowler, along with Richard Clough Anderson and Green Clay, established Lexington Freemason Lodge Number.

1. From 1787 to 1794, Fowler served as an ensign in the Lexington Light Infantry, and fought against Indians. Fowler was the treasurer of Transylvania Seminary from 1789 to 1793.

He was "gentleman justice" for Woodford County, Kentucky from May 5, 1789 to 1794.

Parents:

From 1792 to 1794, Fowler served as clerk of the court of oyer and terminer, and clerk to the directors of public buildings. In the 1794 elections, Fowler was a candidate for United States. Senate from Kentucky, but was eliminated on the first ballot in the Kentucky Legislature. Humphrey Marshall received eighteen votes, John Breckinridge sixteen, Fowler eight, and incumbent John Edwards seven.

(On the second ballot, Marshall defeated Breckinridge 28-22).

Fowler was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1797. He was reelected several times—he served in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth congresses—and served a total of ten years, leaving office in 1807.

Fowler also served as the fourth postmaster of Lexington, from 1814 to 1822. Fowler had large land holdings in Virginia and Kentucky.

He was one of the founders of the Kentucky Agricultural Society.

Sometime before 1800, Fowler established "Fowler"s Gardens" on three hundred acres near Lexington. This large tract of land on the eastern edge of Lexington opened as a park in 1817, and the area was used for fairs, picnics, barbeques, political gatherings, and other events. Fowler married Millicent Wills of Virginia sometime before 1789, and they had five children.

Millicent Wills Fowler predeceased him in July 1833.

Fowler died in Lexington on August 22, 1840. He is buried in the Old Episcopal Cemetery in Lexington. John Fowler and Judith Hobson

Husband: John Fowler Born: 1696 at: Henrico Co., VA Married: ABT 1727 at: VA Died: AFT FEB 1785 at: Dinwiddie Co., VA Father: Godfrey Fowler Mother: Susannah Archer Other Spouses: Elizabeth Sears

Wife: Judith Hobson Born: ABT 1710 at: Henrico Co., VA Died: at: Father: Matthew Hobson Mother: Tabitha Other Spouses:

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~fowler/genealogy/combined/fam01361.htm

And his parents are:

Husband: Godfrey Fowler Born: ABT 1670 at: Henrico Co., VA Married: at: Henrico Co., VA Died: ABT MAY 1747 at: Henrico Co., VA Father: John William Fowler Mother: Mary M. Archer Other Spouses:

Wife: Susannah Archer Born: ABT 1674 at: England Died: at: Father: Mother: Other Spouses:

CHILDREN Name: John Fowler Born: 1696 at: Henrico Co., VA Married: ABT 1727 at: VA Died: AFT FEB 1785 at: Dinwiddie Co., VA Spouses: Judith Hobson Elizabeth Sears

and his parents are:

Husband: John William Fowler Born: 1638 at: Malsborough, Wiltshire, England Married: ABT 1862 at: VA Died: 1683 at: Henrico Co., VA Father: Christopher Fowler

Mother: Elizabeth Burgess Other Spouses:

Wife: Mary M. Archer Born: 1626 at: England Died: at: Father: Mother: Other Spouses:

and his parents are:

Husband: Christopher Fowler Born: 1611 at: Marlboruogh, Wiltshire, England Married: at: England Died: 1676 at: England Father: Mother: Other Spouses:

NOTES

Wife: Elizabeth Burgess Born: 1611 at: Wiltshire, England Died: at: Father: Daniel Burgess 1559-1674

Mother: Catherine Other Spouses:

The Wikipedia site says they have 5 children but doesn't name them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fowler_(politician)

COnfusingly, this site says they had no children:

https://bransoncook.systemaxonline.com/gedcoms/john_fowler1/pafg02.htm