Eighth Generation

63. Mary STOWE was born on 6 February 1642 in Middlesex County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.⁴⁵

Mary STOWE and Sgt. Samuel FLETCHER were married on 9 March 1684.¹¹⁵ Sgt. Samuel FLETCHER was born (date unknown).

Mary STOWE and John SPAULDING were married.¹¹⁵ John SPAULDING, son of Edward SPAULDING and Mercy Mary ADAMS, was born on 1 December 1721 in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.¹¹⁵ He has Ancestral File Number 83QN-5C.

Mary STOWE and Reverend John COTTON were married before 1667.¹¹⁵ 1. www.my-ged.com/db/page/howery2/17213. Reverend John COTTON^32,148 graduated before 1667 at Harvard College.¹⁴⁸ In 1667 he was in Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁴⁸ "Minimal from the beginning, the religious distinction between the "Pilgrims" and the "Puritans" quickly became inconsequential, especially when in 1667 John Cotton, a Harvard-trained minister from Massachusetts Bay, became the pastor at Plymouth. Instead of serving as religious designations, the terms "Puritan" and "Pilgrim" came to signify two different groups of settlers, with the perpetually underfunded Pilgrims and their associates arriving in Plymouth between 1620 and 1630, and the more well-to-do and ambitious Puritans arriving in Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut after 1629."

. 1. Data from Eileen Rich Vanderpool, deceased, currently held by daughter Kathleen Vanderpool Dawson.