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THE STERLING GENEALOGY
y e first Church in Saybrook." She was b. Jan. 15, 1747, dau. of
Capt. Jabez and Anna (Lord) Stow, widow of Moses Dudley. 1
She d. of consumption, Apr. 12, 1794, and was buried in the
Sterling City cemetery. The inscription on her headstone is:
1 Ancestry of Anna Stow
John Stow, b. in Harkhursh, Eng.; m. there Elizabeth Wetherbee. Came to
America with his wife and six children, according to Winthrop, in one of six ships
which arrived at Boston, May 17, 1634. He was a freeman at Roxbury, Mass., Sept. 3,
1634, and a representative at two courts in 1639. His wife d. or was buried Aug. 21,
1638 ; he d. Oct. 26, 1643, and by Eliot's record described as " an old Kentish Man."
Their eldest son, Thomas Stow, b. in England in 1617 ; m. Dec. 4, 1639, at Roxbury,
Mass., Mary Gragg or Griggs. Moved in 1648 or earlier to Concord freeman there
;
1653;' moved to Middletown, Conn., about 1654. Mary d. Aug. 21, 1680; he d.
probably early in 1684, as his inventory is of Feb. 23. The eldest of seven children
was John Stow, b. Feb. 3, 1641 ; m. Nov. 13, 1688, Mary Wetmore, b. in 1649. John
was a soldier in the Indian wars; he d. Oct. 18, 1688. The fourth of ten children was
Nathaniel, b. Feb. 22, 1675; m. 1702-03, Sarah Sumner, b. Dec. 29, 1685. He d. in
1727; she d. in 1759. One of nine children was Jabez Stow, b. in 1716; m. Anna
Lord, b. 1724, dau. of Lieut. Samuel, b. in 1697, and Hannah (Watrous) Lord. Jabez
lived at Savbrook, Conn.
His dau. Anna, b. Jan. 15, 1747, m. 1st, Moses Dudley, b. May 30, 1745, son of
Moses and Anne (Bushnell) Dudley of Saybrook, Conn. Moses Dudley, Jr., was a
soldier in the War of the Revolution : he d. at Fort Independence, opposite Ticonderoga,
Nov. 14, 1776. Their children were William Stow, John, Fanny, Anne, and
Jabez. Mrs. Anna (Stow) Dudley m. 2d, Samuel Sterling.
Mary Wetmore, b. in 1649, was the dau. of Thomas Wetmore, b. in England in
1615, who came to New England in 1635 and settled at WT
ethersfield and later removed
to Hartford. He d. Dec. 11, 1681 ; m. 1st, Dec. 11, 1645, Sarah, dau. of John
and Ann (Willocke) Hall, who d. Dec. 7, 1664-65, leaving thirteen children of whom
Mary was the third; m. 2d, Jan. 3, 1667, Mary, dau. of Richard Piatt of Milford, wid.
of a Mr. Atconson or Atchinson; she d. June 1, 1669, leaving one child. Thomas
m. 3d, Oct. 8, 1673, Katharine (Leet) Robards, who had three children and d. Oct. 13,
1693.
William Sumner, son of Roger Sumner, came to Dorchester, Mass., with his wife
Mary; he was made a freeman in 1637; was for twelve years a Deputy to the General
Court, and a selectman twenty-three years. His wife d. June 7, 1676 ; his will was
probated Mar. 24, 1691-92. William Sumner, b. in England about 1605, said to
have come from Burcester in Oxfordshire. The name was originally spelled Somner
or Sommoner, from the office of summoning parties into ecclesiastical and other
courts.
William Sumner's son William, b. in England, m. Elizabeth Clement, b. in England,
dau. of Augustus Clement, who came from Southampton in Apr., 1635, with
his wife Elizabeth.
William Sumner, Jr., was a mariner, d. May 13, 1675. Their son William, b.
Feb. 9, 1656, settled with wife Hannah in Middletown, Conn., previous to Oct. 6, 1687.
He was a Deputy to the General Court, 1701-02; d. July 20, 1703.
The third of five children was Sarah, b. Dec. 29, 1685, who m. Nathaniel Stow.
(Savage's Gene. Dictionary; Hist, of the Dudley Family, Dean Dudley;
Wetmore Gene., James C. Wetmore, 1861; Sumner Gene., William H.
Sumner, 1854.)