Amy (Parsons) Cowels (1750 - 1777)

Ancestors

Wife of Moses Cowles — married 18 Oct 1770 (to 22 Jan 1777) in Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Died 22 Jan 1777 at age 26 in Belchertown, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Amy was the daughter of Nathan Parsons of Belchertown, Ma. In October 1776, while Moses was away in the army, their house burned and their three children, the eldest five years old, died. The mother was never well thereafter, and she and her newborn infant died soon afterward.

Sources

• Parsons, Gerald James, The Parsons family: The English ancestry and descendants to the sixth generation of Cornet Joseph Parsons (1620-1683), Springfield, Massachusetts, 1636, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1654 – January 1, 2002
• Hodge, Harriet Woodbury, C.G. A Hand Family, Some Ancestors and Descendants of Lemuel Hand, 1725-1802 and his wife Hannah Thomas, 1728-ca. 1818 of Connecticut and New York. pg. 111. Lib. Congress 81-82589, Harriet W. Hodge, Publisher, 321 Hawthorn Avenue, Glencoe, IL 60022 (now Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. 585 Alpha Drive, Suite 103, Pittsburgh PA 15238) (1981, 132 pages, out of print, copy held by Bill McKeeman).
• Family Search sources