Mary (Robe) Fowler (1692 - 1773)

Born 13 Nov 1692 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Wife of John Terry — married 4 Aug 1714 (to 1725) in Simsbury

Descendants

Died 9 May 1773 at age 80 in Hartford, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Mary Robe was born in 1692 in Hartford, to Andrew Robe and Abigail (Unknown) (Curtice) Robe.^[1]

Mary and John Terry (or Tierry) also of Simsbury, married on August 4, 1714.^[2] The couple had several children including John Terry, Jr., Stephen Terry, Solomon Terry, and Mary Terry.^[3] Her sons John and Stephen kept the first Terry Family account book, which provides insight into the relationships between the inhabitants of early Simsbury.^[3]

John passed away in 1725 and then Mary remarried, to John Fowler, on February 11, 1730/31.^[4]

Mary, along with her sisters Amy and Elizabeth and half-brother Andrew, were named in her father's will in 1735.

Named in Father's 1735 Will

Andrew Robe Senior of Simsbury, Connecticut

Will written: 26 August 1729

Inventory taken: 27 November 1735

Will Proven: 28 November 1735

Wife Sarah

Son Andrew Robe

Daughters: Mary, Elizabeth and Amy

A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records

Mary passed away in 1773 at age 81.

Sources

1. ↑ Historical Catalogue of the First Church of Hartford. 1663-1885 (Hartford: First Church of Christ in Hartford 1885). pp. 169-170. Copy available at https://archive.org/details/historicalcatalo00hart/page/n381/mode/2up?q=%22Andrew%22. (Lisiting members of the First Church of Christ in Hartford and listing the birth of Mary Robey, daughter of Andrew Robey, in Hartford on 13 Nov 1692.)
2. ↑ Bates, A.C. Simsbury Connecticut Births Marriages and Deaths, Transcribed from the Town Records (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. Hartford 1898), p. 36. Copy available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002003207306;view=1up;seq=46
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Simsbury Genealogical and Historical Research Library, Volume 9 Issue 4, The Terry Family Account Book at pp.1-4 (2002). Copy available at: https://simsburyfreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2002-03-Winter-Volume-9-Issue-4.pdf
4. ↑ Bates, A.C. Simsbury Connecticut Births Marriages and Deaths, Transcribed from the Town Records (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. Hartford 1898), p. 125. Copy available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002003207306;view=1up;seq=135.

See also:

• https://archive.org/details/historicalcatal00goog/page/n199?q=%22andrew+roby%22 (Church record of baptism on 13 Nov 1692)
• Terry, S. Notes of Terry Families, in the United States of America (Hartford, Conn., 1887) Page 250