4x great grandfather Samuel Stow is my only direct ancestor to move out of New England. He was born 17Apr 1742 in Grafton Ma. to Thomas Stow and Anne Wetherbee. He married Abigail Dana in Dedham, Ma on 26Feb 1767.
At some point Samuel and Abigail settled in Sherborn, Ma where seven children were born:
Anne 17Aug 1770
Samuel 25Jun 1772
Melvin 6Jul 1774
Sally 28Oct 1777
Andrew Newell, 13May 1780
Polly 12Dec 1784
Walter 27Oct 1788
I'm descended from their son Melvin.
As I said earlier, Samuel moved out of New England. His daughter Sally, also know as Sarah, had married Hezekiah Morse and was living in Oxford, New York. I've also found other Stows who lived in that area. After his wife Abigail's death, Samuel moved west to join his daughter's family at age 72. I found this entry in Henry Judson Galpin's The Annals of Oxford, New York:
SAMUEL STOW, born April 17, 1742, came to Oxford in I819, to reside with his daughter, Mrs. Hezekiah Morse, and died January 21, 1835. He was a sergeantmajor during the war of the Revolution, and in 1832 was granted a pension of $40 per year.-p546
Annals of Oxford, New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Early Pioneers, Self published, Oxford, N.Y. 1906
I found Samuel Stow's Revolutionary War pension file and wrote about it here five years ago. I'll
repost those two posts next.
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