Benjamin (Mowry) Morey (1649 - aft. 1719)

Born 8 May 1649 in Providence, Rhode Island

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Died after 1719 after age 69 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Benjamin Mowry, son of Roger Mowry and wife Mary, whose birth was registered in Providence, 8 May 1649^[1] Benjamin Maury, son of Roger was baptized 20:3m:1649 (20 May 1649) at Salem, Massachusetts.^[2] He may actually have been born in Lynn, where the family lived at the time of his birth.

On 6 September 1687, he is cited on Gov. Andros' tax roll at Rochester (renamed later to Kingstown), Rhode Island owing a “pole” (poll) tax of 1s, and a property tax of 2s 2d, which places him as an adult resident and property landholder in Kingstown, RI on this date. ^[3] This tax roll identifies a sum total of 136 heads of house living in the roughly 22.5 square mile area associated with Kingstown, RI on this date in 1687; one consequence of this sparse population is that he would have been well acquainted with many, if not all, of the individuals identified on this list. Therefore, this tax list is a defacto definition of the people who were available to be his friends, neighbors, and allies; it would be essential to cultivate strong working relationships with these neighbors in order to survive on this frontier landscape. This cross reference tool provides hot links to peruse most of the 136 Wikitree families identified in this tax roll; families who were very frequently interconnected, or became interconnected, by marriage, over the course of their lives and throughout the ensuing generations, further binding a network of neighbors into extended families. ^[4] His widowed sister, Bethiah (Mowry) Palmer (bef.1638-aft.1686) was also living in Kingstown, RI as late as 30 Nov 1686, when she sold a mill site she owned to Thomas Mumford, Peleg Mumford, John Sheldon, and Samuel Meade.

He passed away after 1719.

Sources

1. ↑ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014), Originally Published as: Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850: First Series: births, marriages and deaths: a family register for the people, by James N. Arnold. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company. p. 234 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB532/i/14342/1-234/260631178
2. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850. Salem Vol 2 p. 67 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7792/67/140893851
3. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, Vol. II, Niles - Wilson; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore 1989. RI Taxes under Gov. Andros pages 592- 594.
4. ↑ Randolph Beebe; Cross Reference: Gov. Andros 1687 Rochester RI Tax Register to Wikitree profile; Wikitree Free Space Profiles, 2024.

• Descendants of Roger Mowry
• Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016), (Orig. Pub. by Frank J. Doherty, Pleasant Valley, NY. Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th Century Settlers in the Patent, ten volumes. 1990–2003). Vol. 9, pp. 178-179.
• The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Page 1314.
• Arnold, James Newell. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., Providence, R.I., 1892) Vol. 2 Providence County, Part 1 Providence - Births, Page 234.