John Stow (1667) / Mary (Wetmore) Stow

Name: John Stow

Birth: February 3, 1640/1, Braintree, Mass. (Vital Records of Braintree, Massachusetts)

Emigration: Born in Massachusetts Bay Colony; to Middletown 1667. (HMC)

Death: October 18, 1688, Middletown, Conn. (BCVR)

Occupation & Public Service: Unknown

Marriage: m. Mary Wetmore, November 13, 1668, Middletown, Conn. (b. abt. 1649, Hartford, Conn.; d. unknown) She was the daughter of Thomas Wetmore and Sarah (Hall) Wetmore of Hartford and Middletown, Conn. (SMFSD In-Depth First Settler Profile: Thomas Wetmore)

Children: 10 children between 1669-1688. (BCVR) (MLR) (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).