Samuel Cowdrey

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ChartsAncestors of Edward Ambrose Cooke
Samuel Cowdrey, son of Nathaniel Cowdrey and Elizabeth (…), was born at Reading, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, 16 May 1657.1,2 He died after 1695, when his last child was born.2

Samuel married Elizabeth (…), whose ancestry is unknown (or not traced here), at Reading, 28 April 1685.3,4,5

Samuel was a Selectman. His property was taxed in 1688 and the tax was abated in 1692.2

Family

Elizabeth (…)
Children
  • Ruth Cowdrey1,2 b. 11 Jun 1687
  • Mary Cowdrey2,1 b. 1 Apr 1689
  • Nathaniel Cowdrey2 b. 20 Nov 1691, d. 23 Apr 1751
  • Martha Cowdrey2 b. 1693
  • Samuel Cowdrey+6 b. 1695, d. aft. 1729
This person was last edited on23 Nov 2014

Citations

  1. [S347] Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Reading Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1912), 57, further cited as Reading Vital Records.
  2. [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), 55, further cited as Mehling, Cowdrey Family.
  3. [S347] Baldwin, Reading Vital Records, 312.
  4. [S15] Mehling, Cowdrey Family, 49.
  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. [S15] Mehling, Cowdrey Family, 68-69.