John Low (bef. 1633 - 1705)

Born before 2 Mar 1633 in Boxford, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Thorndike) Low — married 10 Dec 1661 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Dorcas (UNKNOWN) Low — married 1674 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Elizabeth (Spofford) Lowe — married 1695 in Ipswich, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 28 Jan 1705 after age 71 in Ipswich, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

John Low immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

This profile is part of the Chebacco Parish, Massachusetts One Place Study.

John was baptized on 2 Mar 1633/4, in Boxford, Suffolk, England;^[1] He was the son of Thomas Low and Margaret Todd.

He emigrated with his father from England to New England by 1640. The first record of his father's presence there is in the records of Ipswich on 6 April 1641, when he was granted ten acres adjacent to his previous ten acres.^[2] Anderson concludes in the Great Migration Directory from this record that they were present in New England by 1640.^[3]

John Lowe was married (first) December 10, 1661, Sarah Thorndike, daughter of John and Elizabeth Thorndike of Beverly. He married (second) Dorcas _____. He died intestate on January 28, 1705-6 ^[4]

Records

Marriage: LOW, John, and Sarah Thorndick, Dec. 10, 1661. CTR ^[5]

Births of Children (Ipswich):

1. LOW, John, s. John, Apr. 24, 1665. CTR ^[6]
2. LOW, Elizabeth, d. John, Oct. 18, 1667. CTR ^[7]
3. LOW, Margret, d. John, Jan. 26, 1669. CTR^[8]
4. LOW, Dorcas, d. John, ––– ––, 1674. CTR^[9]
5. LOW, Martha, d. John, Sept. ––, 1679. CTR^[10]
6. LOW, Joseph, s. John, May 18, 1681. CTR^[11]
7. LOW, Hannah, d. John and Dorcas, July 13, 1685.^[12]
8. LOW, Allice, d. John and Dorcas, Nov. 19, 1686. CTR^[13]

Research Notes

Following up on the comments, the evidence from the Ipswich records is circumstantially strong that Sarah (Thorndike) Low died some time after the birth of Margaret and that John Low married 2nd wife Dorcas before 1674. I found no records to indicate Dorcas' maiden name and I also have no corroboration of this profile's third wife, Elizabeth Spofford. ( Kyle Dane 19 December 2017.)

I have updated the death date per Cutter (above) and because the town records, in my experience, never list the death of a grown man as "John, son of Thomas", as the 1695 record does. It's much more likely that the John that died in 1695 was a young son of Thomas Low. Cutter appears to be referring to Probate records, as he indicates John died intestate. ( Dane-173 19 December 2017)

Thomas Low's will (Probate Records of Essex County, Vol III, Pp. 175-177, PB-17242), written April 30, 1677 and probated November 6th of that year, gave five pounds to each of his four firstborn grandchildren: Thomas Low, Margaret Davison, Sarah Low, and Sarah Safford. The other three being accounted for, we need to make room for a child Sarah Low here. (notes made by r Klop at 20:44, 4 May 2018.)

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism: "FreeReg UK Parish Register database"
   Suffolk; Boxford; St Mary; Parish Register; File line number: 392
   FreeReg Transcription (accessed 12 November 2022)
   John Lowe baptism on 2 Mar 1633/4, son of Thomas Lowe & Margarite, in Boxford, Suffolk, England.
2. ↑ Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton 1775-1847: Wife of Capt. Abel Lunt of Newburyport Massachussetts, (Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1947), 173-75; images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/ancestryofphoebe00davi : accessed 13 Nov 2022).
3. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, e-book edition, (Boston: NEHGS, 2015), loc. 4826, Low, Thomas.
4. ↑ New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 1; page 334; William Richard Cutter, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915
5. ↑ Ipswich Marriages; Page 290; Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts : to the end of the year 1849 by Ipswich (Mass.)
6. ↑ Ipswich Births; page 253; Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts : to the end of the year 1849 by Ipswich (Mass.)
7. ↑ Ipswich Births; page 252; Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts : to the end of the year 1849 by Ipswich (Mass.)
8. ↑ Ipswich Births; page 253;Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts : to the end of the year 1849 by Ipswich (Mass.)
9. ↑ Ipswich Births; page 252; Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts : to the end of the year 1849 by Ipswich (Mass.)
10. ↑ Ipswich Births; page 253; Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts : to the end of the year 1849 by Ipswich (Mass.)
11. ↑ Ipswich Births; page 253; Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts : to the end of the year 1849 by Ipswich (Mass.)
12. ↑ Ipswich Births; page 252; Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts : to the end of the year 1849 by Ipswich (Mass.)
13. ↑ Ipswich Births; page 251; Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts : to the end of the year 1849 by Ipswich (Mass.)

• Steward, Scott C., The Thorndikes of Aby in Greenfield, Lincolnshire and Essex County, Massachusetts, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2000) Vol. 154, Page 474.

• John Low, bapt. Boxford, Suffolk 2 Mar 1633, d. Chebacco [now Essex], Mass., 29 Nov 1695, son of Thomas and Margaret (Todd?) Low.

• Davis, Walter. The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847 (Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, 1947) Page 175-6.

• "John, possibly bapt. in Boxford, co. Suffolk, March 2, 1633/4..."

• Steele, Edward E., Descendants of Thomas Low, the Immigrant to Ipswich, Massachusetts, for Three Generations, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2020) Vol. 174, Page 350-1.