Eighth Generation

66. Mary STOWE was born on 6 February 1643 in Middlesex County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.⁴⁹

Mary STOWE and Sergeant Samuel FLETCHER Sr. were married in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^5,123 Sergeant Samuel FLETCHER Sr.⁵, son of Robert FLETCHER and Sarah Rose WHEELER, was born in 1632 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachuetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁵ He died on 9 December 1697 at the age of 65 in Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁵ He was buried.⁵

Mary STOWE and John SPAULDING were married on 18 November 1700 in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁵ John SPAULDING^159,160, son of Edward SPAULDING and Rachel UNKNOWN (SPAULDING), was born about 1641 in Of Chelmsford Center, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died in 1721 at the age of 80. He has Ancestral File Number 1RHB-4KQ.

Mary STOWE and Reverend John COTTON were married about 1665.¹²³ 1. www.my-ged.com/db/page/howery2/17213. Reverend John COTTON^36,161 was described as in 1667 in Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁶¹ "Minimal from the beginning, the religious distinction between the 'Pilgrims' and the 'Puritans' quickly became inconsequential, especially when in 1667 John Cotton, a Harvard-trained minister from Massachusetts Bay, became the pastor at Plymouth.

Instead of serving as religious designations, the terms 'Puritan' and 'Pilgrim' came to signify two different groups of settlers, with the perpetually underfunded Pilgrims and their associates arriving in Plymouth between 1620 and 1630, and the more well-to-do and ambitious Puritans arriving in Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut after 1629." (Data from Eileen Rich Vanderpool, deceased, currently held by daughter Kathleen Vanderpool Dawson.)