Hannah (Guion) Fowler (1698 - 1773)

Born 1698 in Rye, Westchester, New York Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Fowler I — married 1717 in North Castle, Westchester, New York

Descendants

Died 1773 at about age 75 in French Village, Hampton, Kings, New Brunswick

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Biography

Hannah Guion was born about 1698 and lived at New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York. She is the daughter of Gregory Guion and his wife, Mary.

1710 Inhabitants of New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York^[1][2]

Name Aged
Guion, Ammon 20
Guion, Issaacc 25
Guion, Lewis Sr 56
Guion, Mary 54
Guion, Sussanna 25

Guyion, Gregory 44
Guyion, Gregory 07
Guyion, Hannah 12
Guyion, Hester 08
Guyion, Johanna 05
Guyion, Judy 11
Guyion, Mary 40

Hannah Guion, "daughter of Ammon Guion, Sr., of New Rochelle, New York and sister to Ammon Guion, Jr., of Rye (?)," married Joseph Fowler, son of Capt. Henry Fowler. Joseph was born Oct. 30, 1701 at Eastchester, New York and died at North Castle, New York between Dec. 14, 1773 and Sept. 3, 1784, the dates of making and of probating his will. In 1716, Joseph Fowler, aged about 16 years, accompanied his father’s family to Mamaroneck, New York. According to the terms of the will of Joseph Fowler 1773-1784, his lands were to be sold when his son James reached the age of 23, but the Revolution intervened between the making and probating of the will.

Children of Joseph Fowler and Hannah Guion

1. Ann, b. prob. at White Plains; d. Nov. 23, 1780; m. Nathaniel Merritt, son of John and Mary (Cornelius) Merritt of North Castle. Before the Revolution they lived on leased land at Peekskill. He was a Loyalist and a captain in the British army; went to Maugersville, New Brunswick and testified at St. John in 1787.
2. Joseph, b. June 14, 1729, probably at Rye; d. April 27, 1793; m. Hannah Owens; lived at Yorktown on leased Verplanck land.
3. Stephen, b. Dec. 4, 1733 probably at Rye; d. March 29, 1782 in New York City; m. (1) at Stamford, Conn, by the Rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church, March 28, 1758 to (his second cousin) Hannah Fowler dau. of Caleb Fowler Esq.; “both of North Castle.” She d. Dec. 13, 1772, and he m. (2) Elizabeth (Dickinson) Leggett, widow. Stephen Fowler was a Loyalist and forfeited his land in North Castle, which was near that of his first wife’s father.
4. Ammon, b. abt. 1736 at North Castle; d. 10th of 5th mo., 1809 at Bedford m. (1) Mary Weeden who was bapt. as “Mary Fowler, wife of Ammon” in the Stamford Conn, church with her son Weeden, May 26, 1761. He m. (2) Phoebe (Haight) Kipp, widow and lived on his father’s farm at North Castle, and at Bedford. Ammon Fowler was an American Patriot, but his son Weeden accompanied Ammon’s brothers Henry and James, to St. John, according to tradition. His lot at St. John adjoined theirs.
5. Susannah, m. July 23,1761“of North Castle”, to William Hunt “of Westchester”, in St. John’s Ep. Ch. at Stamford, Conn. They were Loyalists; lived at North Castle for a time.
6. Jean, unm. in 1773.
7. Charity, m.Carpenter, as mentioned in her father’s will of 1773.
8. Isaac, (“aged” in 1719) atNorthCastle; d.probably near Troy, N. Y.; lived at Yorktown until after 1800; purchased land at Troy, Rens. Co. in 1806.
9. Henry, b. March 28, 1756 at North Castle; d. Feb. 2, 1843 at Hampton (French Village), New Brunswick; m. Feb. 29, 1784 at Hampton, Betty Morehouse. He was a LoyalISt and went to New Brunswick at the close of the Revolution; lived for a time at St. John and was granted land at Hampton.
10. James, b. abt. 1758 at North Castle; d. before 1804 in Hampton (FrenchVillage), NewBrunswick; m. probably in White Plains, Rachel Hart, dau. of Monmouth Hart of that place. In his will, dated 1786, Monmouth Hart devised a sum of money to his dau., Rachel Fowler, “to be placed in her hands or her assigns, and no others.” James Fowler and his wife went to New Brunswick at the close of the Revolution; and James Fowler and his brother Henry and nephew Ammon Fowler had adjoining lots assigned them in St. John. In 1783 a tract of land at Hampton was granted to “James Fowler and others” and in 1803, after his decease, land was granted the widow, Rachel Fowler, and her sons Monmouth, Joseph and James H (art).

Sources

1. ↑ New Netherland and Beyond : Tax Lists, Inhabitants Documentary History of New York, E. B. O'Callaghan, (c)1849, Vol. III, pg 945-947. 1710 Inhabitants of New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York
2. ↑ Descendants of Louis Guion, Huguenot of La Rochelle, France, and New Rochelle, West Chester County, Province of New York : a Guion family album, 1654 to 1976 / compiled by J. Marshall Guion IV ; edited by Violet H. Guion. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066153396;view=2up;seq=8;skin=mobile

• Fowler, Christine Cecilia, 1875-. The history of the Fowlers / compiled and published by the author Christine Cecilia Fowler. Batavia, N.Y., 1950. Fowler/ Fowler/Guion

The History of the Fowlers by Christine Fowler 1950 states Hannah was the daughter of Ammon Guion of New Rochelle, Westchester, NY.

There may have been more than one Ammon, but I have been able to find only one - son of Louis Guion who came to New Rochelle NY from France in 1687. The Guion family were French Hugenots. A Hannah was not mentioned or recorded in the will of Louis Guion or Ammon or Daniel Lawson (who would have been a grandfather if she was a natural child of Ammon), but a Gregory Guion, brother of Louis, did have a daughter Hannah born in 1698. This is the most likely, as this was the only Hannah on record, and she was the right age to become a wife of Joseph Fowler as he was born in 1701.

• The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly-1931) - Extracts; Publication Place: New York; Publisher: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; Page Number: 238.
• History of French Village, First families of New Brunswick.

Acknowledgements

Sara V Mosher