Nathaniel Cowdrey

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Pedigree
ChartsAncestors of Edward Ambrose Cooke
Nathaniel Cowdrey, son of Deacon William Cowdrey and Joanna Licence, was born in 1630.1 He died at Reading, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, 16 June 1690.2,3

Nathaniel married (1) Elizabeth (…), whose parents are not known (or are untraced), at Reading, 22 November 1652;4,3,5 he married (2) Mary Bachelder, whose ancestry is unknown or not traced here, at Reading, 22 November 1660.4,3,5

On 22 Jan 1655/6, he deposed that he was about 26 years old. (Middlesex County Court Records).

In 1687, the town of Reading chose Nathaniel to be Town Clerk in place of his father who had just died. Nathaniel settled on Cowdery's Hill, so named for him. He was a deacon in the First Congregational Church of Reading.

His estate was valued at 85-16-00.3,1

Family 1

Elizabeth (…) d. 9 Oct 1659
Children
  • Samuel Cowdrey+6,3 b. 16 May 1657, d. aft. 1695
  • Elizabeth Cowdrey6,3 b. 13 Aug 1659, d. 28 Oct 1659

Family 2

Mary Bachelder b. 1635, d. 27 Feb 1729
Children
  • Nathaniel Cowdrey6,3 b. 18 Aug 1661, d. 1690
  • Rebecca Cowdrey6,3 b. 25 Oct 1663
  • William Cowdrey6,3 b. 13 Mar 1666, d. 19 Dec 1726
  • Mary Cowdrey6,3 b. 7 Aug 1668
  • Joanna Cowdrey6,3 b. 23 Apr 1673, d. Jul 1736
  • Susannah Cowdrey6 b. 1 May 1676
  • Mathias Cowdrey6,3 b. 11 Apr 1679
This person was last edited on13 Dec 2017

Citations

  1. [S33] Clarence Almon Torrey, "Marriages in England of Early American Immigrants," The American Genealogist 10 (July 1933): 14-15, at 14, further cited as Torrey, "Marriages in England."
  2. [S347] Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Reading Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1912), 508, further cited as Reading Vital Records.
  3. [S15] Mary Bryant Alverson Mehling, Cowdrey-Cowdery-Cowdray Genealogy: William Cowdrey of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1630 and His Descendants ([New York, New York]: Frank Allaben Genealogical Co., 1905), 49-52, further cited as Mehling, Cowdrey Family.
  4. [S347] Baldwin, Reading Vital Records, 312.
  5. [S1872] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 385, further cited as Torrey, New England Marriages (2011).
  6. [S347] Baldwin, Reading Vital Records, 57.