Fowler Family Tree

I've been following back Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew's family history in these past few posts, for a few reasons.  The vast majority of her ancestors were living in the North Shore region of Massachusetts, settling in the Ipswich area after immigrating to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  I'm living in this very area right now, so it has been absolutely fascinating to be able to locate the houses they once built and raised their families in, the cemeteries were they were laid to rest, and the roads they once traveled upon.

Many of these family lines - the Howes, the Perleys, the Fowlers, the Putnams - have already been already been throughly researched and well documented by other descendants, and I've been lucky enough to stumble across their published genealogies while doing my own research.

And ever since attending Salem State College, I've been fascinated by the witch trials of 1692.  As  surnames that I knew were connected to the witch trials began showing up in my research into our own family history, I wanted to dig deeper and figure out what kind of ties we had to this historical event.

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As I documented in my earlier post on our Chase ancestors, Grampy's grandmother, Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew's parents were Charles Frederick Chase and Mary Ricker.  Charle's mother was Mary Thayer Fowler.  She was born in 1829, and passed away in 1857 at the age of 30.  Her parents were John Page Fowler and Lydia S. Brown.  Lydia was born to John Brown and Mary Mitchell on July 27, 1807.  After John passed away, she eventually remarried.  Her second husband was John S. Morse of Amesbury, MA.  Lydia passed away on April 6th (or 10th), 1864, in Amesbury MA.

John Page Fowler was born on April 25, 1801, to John and Martha (Page) Fowler, in Danvers, MA.  He married Lydia Brown on June 24th, 1828, and they had at least four children together.  John was recorded as being a "master mariner" (the captain of a merchant ship), and died on Jan 11th, 1840, in the Gulf of Mexico.

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John Page Fower's parents were John Fowler and Martha Page.  Martha was born to Jeremiah and Martha (Crosby) Page on Oct 15th, 1780, in Danvers.

John Fowler was born in Danvers on Sept 15th, 1778.  He attended Philips Academy in Andover, and later Dr. Manasseh Cutler's School in Hamilton, MA, where he studied surveying.  I have not yet been able to verify his date of death, although one very unclear record states that either he or his wife Martha may have passed away on March 13th, 1827.

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John Fowler's parents were Samuel Fowler and Sarah Putnam.  Sarah was born in Danvers, MA, on Sept 14th, 1755, to Deacon Archelaus and Mehitable Putnam.  I can follow this Putnam line further back to more ancestors who were connected to the 1692 witch hysteria in Salem, as well as those who first immigrated to the New World from Great Britain, and will be happy to follow that line back in a future post.

Samuel Fowler was born in Ipswich, Ma, on Jan 9th, in either 1748 or 1749 (record unclear).   He left Ipswich in 1765 and became one of the settlers of the Danvers New Mills, later called Danversport. Samuel was a shipwright, and assisted in the building of many vessels, including those of which he was a part owner, and was a merchant and trader of goods imported from the West Indies.  On March 4th, 1773, Samuel married Sarah Putnam, and they had six children together (two of which died before their first birthdays). Samuel was a private in Capt. Jeremiah Page's 3rd militia company, and responded to the Lexington Alarm on April 19, 1775.  Capt. Page's minutemen were unable to reach Lexington or Concord in time to participate in the battle there, but joined the action at the Battle of Menotomy (the area now known as Arlington), at Jason Russell's Homestead. Samuel was one of the survivors of that battle, and died years later, on April 20th, 1813, in Danvers, MA.

Samuel Fowler was with Capt. Jeremiah Page's 3rd militia company, which joined the
Lexington Alarm in Menotomy, and participated in the battle at Jason Russell's house.

Detail of painting by Ruth L. Berry: “The Fight at the Jason Russell House"

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Samuel Fowler's parents were Joseph Fowler, Jr. and Mary Prince.  Mary was born on June 6th, 1772, in Ipswich, MA, to Johnathan and Hannah (Rogers) Prince.  Mary passed away on July 26th, 1771.

Joseph was born in Ipswich, MA, on Oct 9th, 1715.  He married Mary Prince in 1739.  They had at ten children together, four of whom died in childhood.  In 1745, during King George's War, Joseph traveled to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, with hundreds of other Colonial soldiers, and participated in the siege and capture of Louisburg.

After his wife Mary passed away on July 26, 1771, Joseph quickly remarried.  On Nov 29th of the same year, he married the widow Esther Huse.  They had three children together, one of whom died in early infancy.  Esther passed away on Jan 31st, 1807, in Ipswich MA.  Joseph passed away the very next day, and they were laid to rest together in the same grave.

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The parents of Joseph Fowler Jr. were Joseph Fowler, Sr. and Sarah Bartlett.  Sarah was born in Newbury, MA on Nov. 27th, 1687, to John and Mary (Rust) Bartlett.  Sarah and Joseph married in December of 1707, and had six children together, before she passed away sometime before August of 1722.

Joseph was born on August 7th, 1683, in Ipswich, MA.  He was a carpenter, and was later involved as a backer in the Land Bank scheme of 1740-41.  He purchased property on High Street in Ipswich, and that house is still standing today.

More information about Joseph Fowler
and the Joseph Fowler house at 100 High Street, in Ipswich MA

After his wife Sarah's death, he remarried on August 22nd, 1722, to the widow Mary Trask, in Salem, MA.  Mary passed away in Ipswich on August 23, 1728.  He remarried again, on Dec. 31, 1728, to the widow Abigail Perley.  She died on Aug 8th, 1730.  He married again for the fourth time, on Oct. 31, 1730, to the widow Hannah Sedan.

Joseph passed away in Ipswich on December 28, 1745.

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Joseph Fowler, Sr.'s parents were Philip Fowler and Elizabeth Herrick.  Elizabeth was born in Salem, MA, in 1647. Her parents, Henry Herrick and Editha Laskin immigrated to Salem from England in 1629, as part of the Puritan Great Migration.  They were some of the founders of the First Congregational Church of Salem, and later moved to Beverly, MA, where they were again founders of a church in their new community.  However, Henry and Editha may have been more liberal than most Puritans of the era, for they were fined a few shillings for “comforting an excommunicated person.”

While their daughter Elizabeth (our direct ancestor) was not personally involved in the Salem Witch Trials, three of her siblings were.  Her brother Ephraim's son John was married to Bethia Solart, who was Sarah (Solart) Poole Good's sister.  Sarah Good was one of the first to be accused and condemned as a witch.  Elizabeth's brother Henry Herrick testified against Sarah Good, and also served as a juror during the trials.  Shortly after the trials were halted, Henry, along with the other members of the Jury, signed a statement which stated that they had been “sadly deluded and mistaken...and distressed in our minds and do therefore humbly beg forgiveness.” And another brother, Joseph Herrick, was a constable of Salem Towne, and arrested many of the accused witches.  He was initially involved in the hysteria, and even served as a witness against Sarah Good, but soon spoke out against the trials.

Philip Fowler was born on Dec. 25, 1648, in Ipswich, MA.  He was adopted by his grandfather in 1651, when he was around age three, "as his sonne."  He is was a "husbandman" (small farmer with both crops and livestock), surveyor, and attorney.  Philip married Elizabeth Herrick in Beverly, MA, on Jan 20th, in either 1672 or 1673, and they had eight children together.  He was strongly opposed to the Salem Witch Trials, and vocal in his support of many of the accused.  He was witness to John Proctor's will (Proctor was one of the nineteen people who were executed as witches in 1692), and after the trials were stopped, he was employed as an attorney by Salem Village in their lawsuit against Samuel Parrish.  Philip died on Nov 16th, 1715, and was laid to rest in Ipswich's Old Burying Ground, where his gravestone still stands today.

HERE LYES INTARRED
WHAT WAS MORTALL
OF Mr PHILIP FOWLER
WHO DIED NOVEMBER
Ye 16th 1715 AGED 67
WANTING 39 DAYS

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Philip Fowler's parents were Joseph Fowler and Martha Kimball.  Martha was born in Rattlesden, Suffolk County, England, about 1629.  Her parents were Richard Kimball, who was a wheelwright, and Ursula Scott.  In 1634, at age 5, she immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with parents and siblings on the ship "Elizabeth" (their surname was recorded on the passenger list as "Kembell").    The crossing took almost three months and they landed in Boston.  They settled first in Watertown, before eventually relocating to Ipswich.   

One of Elizabeth's siblings, Thomas Kimball, was killed while protecting his family in an attack on his home by three Native Americans on May 3rd, 1676.  Thomas' wife and five of his children were abducted, but were released 41 days later when Chief Wanalancet of the Penacook Indians interceded and ordered that the family be freed.  

Joseph Fowler was an incredibly interesting ancestor to learn about.  He was born around 1629 in England, and immigrated to the New World in 1633 with his parents and siblings on the ship "Mary and John."

According to court records, Joseph was a rebellious troublemaker in his deeply Puritan community.  In 1647, Joseph was sentenced to either pay a considerable fine or sit in the stocks for a day, for saying there were liars in the church and wondering they were not cast out, “and if one would lye soundly he was fit for the church.” In the Essex Court records of July of 1649 is the following: “We present Joseph Fowler, Thomas Cooke, Thomas Scott, and two of ye sons of Richard Kimball, for goeing into ye woods, shouting and singing, taking fire and liquors with them, all being at unseasonable time in ye night, ocasioning yr. wives and some other to go out to them.” The sons of Richard Kimball were Thomas and John, and all of these men had probably met to celebrate the twenty-first birthday of Thomas Scott, who was Joseph Fowler’s cousin.  In 1651, his father Phillip took Joseph’s child 2 or 3 year old son Philip away from Joseph and adopted him in 1651.  

Joseph participated in the the Battle of Turner's Falls (also known as the Peskeompscut massacre), which took place on May 19, 1676, during King Philip's War.  He was one of the thirteen soldiers under the command of Captain Turner who were slain in the garrison near Deerfield, MA, by Native American warriors, during their retreat from this fight.   

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Joseph's parents were Philip Fowler and Mary Winsley or Winslow.  Philip was born around 1591 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.  He immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633/4 on ship "Mary and John" with his wife and five children (his sixth child Thomas, was born in Ipswich around 1636), and received a grant of land on High Street in Ipswich, MA, and he lived there until his death on June 24, 1674.  He was a "clothworker" (weaver), and took the Freeman's Oath in September of 1634 (in the Mass Bay Colony, man had to be a Puritan to become a freeman; and only then could become a member of the church, own land, become a member of the governing body, and have the right to vote).  In 1651 he adopted his grandson Philip Fowler (b. 25 Dec 1648) and raised him as his own son.  His wife Mary passed away on August 30, 1659.  He remarried, in either 1659 or 1660, to the widow Mary Norton.  

Philip died on June 24, 1679, in Ipswich, MA.  One court record of his death states: "during his long life, we find no record that a descendant would regret to see."

Two Sides of the Salem Witch Trials: Accused & Accusers

One thing I've been especially interested in while tracing our family history has been the maternal lines, because they're so much more difficult to follow back.  Traditionally, women have taken the surnames of their husbands, and in early records are often denied even their given name and are simply recorded as "wife of X."  While researching Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew's ancestors, I was able to get back to her ancestors who first immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony...and along the way discovered connections to the Salem Witch Trials, as both accused and of accusers.

Martha Luella Chase's parents were Mary Abby Ricker and Charles Frederick Chase.
Mary Ricker was born in Bradford, MA on May 1st, 1850, and passed away in Ipswich MA on Feb 3rd 1904.

Mary's parents were Eliza Pallacier Harriman and William H. Ricker.
Eliza was born in Bradford, MA on March 10th, and passed away in Groveland on April 16th, 1885.

Eliza's parents were Sarah Brocklebank and Enoch Harriman, Jr.
Sarah Brocklebank was born in Rowley, MA on Oct 4th, 1774, and passed away in Bradford on June 7th, 1860.

Sarah Brocklebank's parents were Sarah Fowler and John Brocklebank.
Sarah Fowler was born in Ipswich, MA on Nov 3rd, 1745, and passed away in Rowley MA on  June 2nd, 1823.  (We're connected to the Fowler family through another line, as well, which I'll delve into more in a later post.  Many of same surnames and families kept popping up as I researched our Puritan New England genealogy!).

Sarah Fowler's parents were Mercy Howe and John Fowler.
Mercy was born in Ipswich MA on March 3rd, 1714 and passed away in Ipswich on Oct 24th, 1773.  Mercy and John are buried in the Old Linebrook Cemetery in Ipswich.  (source)

Mercy Howe's parents were Abraham Howe, Jr. and Hephzibah Andrews.
Abraham Jr. was born on June 27th, 1686, in Ipswich, MA, and passed away on March 6th, 1770.  Both Abraham Jr and Hephzibah are buried in the Old Linebrook Cemetery in Ipswich, where their gravestones can still be found today.

Link to source, including a transcription
of the inscription on the stone.  

Link to source, with transcription
of the gravestone inscription.  

Abraham Howe, Jr.'s parents were Abraham Howe, Sr. and Sarah Peabody. 

Abraham Sr. was born in Ipswich on March 28th, 1649, and passed away on Jan 21st, 1718, 

also in Ipswich.  Abraham Sr. was a weaver, as his father James had been.

Abraham Howe, Sr.'s parents were James Howe and Elizabeth Dane.  James was born in May of 1598 in Hatfield, Broad Oak, Essex, England, and passed away on May 12, 1702 in Ipswich, MA -- having lived during three different centuries.   

James and Elizabeth immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.  They settled first in Roxbury, then moved to Salem, before eventually settling permanently in Ipswich.  James was a weaver, and also served as a constable.  "James lived at 'Ipswich Farms,' south of the Rowley-Ipswich boundary line, where he built two houses, the second of which had a front door driven full of nails to prevent the Indians from cutting through."  (source)

James and Elizabeth (Dane) Howe had at least five children together, including our direct ancestor, Abraham Sr.  Abraham's brother, James (b. March 23, either 1632 or 1633) married Elizabeth Jackson, and settled in the Linebrook Parish area of Ipswich, MA.

Elizabeth (Jackson) Howe was one of those accused, tried, convicted, and executed during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.  On June 30th, Elizabeth was one of five women arraigned in the first Salem witch trial. When asked how she plead to the charges made against her, Elizabeth Howe response was, “If it was the last moment I was to live, God knows I am innocent of any thing of this nature”. One of the witnesses who testified against Elizabeth was Abraham and James' other brother, John.

Elizabeth Howe’s brother-in-law John testified that he told Elizabeth that “if she would confess” he would accompany her to Salem, but she had refused. He recounted that the next day at sunset his sow leaped up three or four feet high. gave one squeak and fell dead. He cut off the ear of the sow and the hand he used to do this became numb, and thus concluded “I suspected no person other than my said sister Elizabeth Howe." It has been speculated that because James and Elizabeth had no sons, John may have hoped that he would someday inherit his brother’s estate. (source).

However, other family members (including her father-in-law, James Howe) and neighbors served as witnesses and signed petitions in support and defense of her, to no avail.  On July 19, 1692 Elizabeth (Jackson) Howe, Rebecca (Towne) Nurse, Sarah (Solart) Poole Good, Sarah (Averill) Wildes and Susannah (North) Martin were hanged on Gallows Hill in Salem Towne and buried in a nearby crevice.

Mural in Ipswich, featuring Elizabeth (Jackson) Howe

These two articles are both excellent summaries of the circumstances surrounding Elizabeth's arrest and trial.

* Elizabeth Howe: Innocent Mother or Horse Witch?

* Stories from Ipswich: The Witchcraft Trial of Elizabeth Howe

This website has transcriptions of Elizabeth Howe's arrest warrant, court proceedings, indictment, along with statements from both the witnesses against her and in support of her.

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Unlike many of the other women accused as witches, Elizabeth was not known to have a harsh tongue. In fact, from the statements made in her support by family members and neighbors, it seems that she was considered to be a sweet, kind grandmother who doted on her children and grandchildren.  Elizabeth's husband James went blind when he was about 50 years old, and Elizabeth had to take over the running of the household and farm as a result. By all accounts, it appears that they continued a loving relationship and their farm remained successful. However, the perception that she was in charge could have caused discomfort in this deeply Puritan society.  Another strong motivator for being charged with witchcraft during this time period was being and independent woman, especially one who owned property.  Because James and Elizabeth had only girls, she was likely to inherit her husband's estate, which may have inspired her brother-in-law to stand as a witness against her. 

Elizabeth Howe's original accusers were the Perely family of Ipswich, Massachusetts.  Samuel and Ruth (Trumbell) Perley had a ten year old daughter, Hannah, whom they had claimed was being afflicted by Elizabeth when she fell ill in 1682. Because of this accusation, Elizabeth was denied membership at the Ipswich church.  They also had other accusations against Elizabeth, including that the sudden illness and death of the family's cow was her doing, claiming that the cow suddenly went mad and ran into a pond, drowning herself.  

Samuel Perley was born around 1640 in Ipswich, MA. On 15 Jul 1664, he married Ruth Trumble (b. Apr 23, 1645), who was the daughter of John Trumble and Elinor Chandler.  Samuel and Ruth were also farmers, and were neighbors of James and Elizabeth Howe.  They had six children, including Hannah, who passed away in 1685 from "fits" and whom they believed had been bewitched by Elizabeth Howe.  Their eldest daughter, Sarah, was born on Jun 7th, 1665.

Sarah Perley married Captain Joseph Andrews, on 1 Feb 1st 1681, in Topsfield, MA.  She died on Jan 15th, in either 1693 or 1694, in Oxford, MA, at age 28.  Joseph Andrews was a house carpenter. He was also very active in town affairs, and served as assessor, town surveyor, selectman, constable, on a committee to select a site for the church, as well as the church building committee. Joseph was outspoken in his opposition to the 1692 witch hunt, and signed a petition in support of John and Elizabeth Proctor, who were both accused of witchcraft.

Joseph and Sarah Andrews had eight children together, including Hephzibah Andrews, who was born in 1693.  Just shy of twenty years after her grandparents, the Perleys, accused Elizabeth Howe of witchcraft, sending her to her death, Hephzibah married Abraham Howe, Jr, who was Elizabeth's nephew.

Chase Family Tree

In this post, I'm going to focus on Jeremiah Thomas McGlew's wife, Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew, and the Chase family tree.   

Click HERE for a larger image of this chart.

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Martha Luella Chase was born in Groveland MA, on July 26, 1874.  Her parents were Charles Chase and Mary (or Abby) Ricker Chase.  She seems to have gone by her middle name, Luella, throughout her life, often being named in various public records as "M. Luella Chase."  

Luella married Jeremiah McGlew in December of 1889.   Their marriage record states her age as 18, but according to her birth certificate, she would have actually been 15 when she wed (and Jeremiah would have been thirty).  They went on to have nine children together, including Winfred McGlew, our direct ancestor.  

While searching for information on Luella, I stumbled across a community cookbook called The Rowley Cook Book: True and Tried Recipes, which was published in 1922 and consisted of recipes contributed by women of Rowley, MA and "Arranged by the Historical Society for the benefit of restoring the Platts-Bradstreet House."  Luella's contributions to this cookbook were: 

PLAIN MOLASSES COOKIES — 1-2 cup sugar , 1-2 cup shortening, 1 cup molasses , 1 teaspoon salt, 2-3 cup cold water, 2 rounding teaspoons soda, 1 teaspoon ginger.  Mix sugar, molasses and shortening, add water, then 2 cups of flour sifted with soda, salt and ginger. Add enough more flour to roll. — Mrs Luella McGlew 

APPLE CUSTARD — Peel and core as many apples as will set in a dish you are going to use.  Fill the holes where the cores were with sugar and pour over them a custard made a bit sweeter than usual and bake. — Mrs Luella McGlew

BEEF WITH TOMATO — Select 2 1-2 lbs of beef solid meat ,wash well and place in baking dish. Sprinkle Well with salt and pepper, also a dash of cayenne. Cut up 2 medium sized onions, add to meat, and lastly add 1 large can of tomatoes. Cover dish and bake in moderate oven for 3 hours. Take from oven, place meat on large platter and add to it tomato gravy, also 1 package of elbow macaroni which has been boiled tender and pour over meat. — Mrs Luella McGlew

On the 1930 census, Luella's occupation was listed as "laundress."  She passed away on October 3, 1937, in Rowley MA.

Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew
photo shared by Ruth McGlew

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Luella's mother, Mary A. Ricker (it appears that the A stands for Abby), was born in either 1850 or 1851 in Groveland, MA to William and Eliza Ricker.  She passed away on Feb. 3, 1904 from "general debility" in Ipswich, MA.  In following her maternal line back, I was able to reach the late 1600s and discovered that our family has ties to the Salem Witch Trials, as both the accused and as the accusers (I'll delve more into that lineage in a later post).

Luella's father, Charles Frederick Chase, was born in Haverhill MA on January 2, 1853, to John and Martha Thayer (Fowler) Chase.  John was a shoemaker by trade (on the 1880 United States Federal Census his occupations listed as "works in shoe fact.), and married Mary on Dec. 3, 1873.   He died in Rowley, MA from "pulmonary tuberculosis."

I was also able to follow Martha's family back on her paternal side to when her ancestors immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  The Fowlers, Herricks, and Kimballs were founding families in the North Shore area of Massachusetts, and have ties to the Salem Witch Trials as well as the King Philip's War.  I'll follow up on those lines back in later posts.  

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Charles' father, John Chase, was also listed as a shoemaker.  Her was born aprox. 1826 to Frederick and Mary (Stinson) Chase.  John married Martha Fowler (b. April 7, 1829 to John Fowler and Lydia Brown) in Haverhill, MA, on June 7, 1849.  He passed away only four years later, on August 12, 1853, leaving her a widow with two young children at the age of 24.  Martha remarried on Dec. 27, 1857, to widower John Bradley.  Tragically, she died from consumption only two years later, at the age of 30.  I have located a Charles F. Chase, age 12, living with a Putnam family in Danvers MA on the Massachusetts 1865 State Census. Andrew Merriam Putnam's wife, Sarah (Fowler) Putnam, was Martha's sister.  My assumption is that he, and possibly his older brother Henry, went to live with his aunt and uncle after his mother's death.

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Frederick Chase (John's father) was born on Dec. 10, 1800 in Haverhill, MA, to John and Betsey (Kelley) Chase.  He married Mary Stinson (born on April 13, 1804, in Goffstown, NH, to Samuel Stinson and Abigail Potter) on December 13, 1823.  Frederick is listed on the census as being a farmer.  Frederick and Mary had six children together.  He passed away in Haverhill on Jan 10, 1867, and Mary lived until June 8, 1874.

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I have been unable to trace back the Chase family line any further - there are at least two different John Chases living in Massachusetts during the correct time period, and I have not yet been able to pinpoint which is "our" John Chase.  If I have a breakthrough at any point I'll be sure to update this post.

McGlew Family Tree

I'm still trying to figure out how to best share family tree charts online.  Click on the link under that image below, and it should bring you to an enlarged (and much more easily readable!) PDF chart of a portion of the McGlew/Chase branches of Grampy McGlew's parental family tree.  If this doesn't work, send me an email or Facebook message, and I can forward the file to you.  

Click HERE for a larger image of this chart.

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Grampy's father, Winfred Thomas McGlew, was born in Mar 26, 1890 to Jeremiah Thomas and Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew.  Uncle Charlie loaned me copies of some of his extensive research with me when I was originally working on my college assignment in 1997, and shared that Winfred had attended the Governor Dummer School, and later became a carpenter and supervisor for the contracting firm of Ashman Bro. Construction Company in Newburyport, MA.  He worked on the Water Street Fire Station in Haverhill, the wall at the entrance to the Riverview Cemetery in Groveland, and bridges on routes 1 and 1A.  

Winfred's first wife was named Helen Rogers, and they had three children together: Edith, Marion, and Winfred.  Helen passed away on Oct. 6, 1918 from influenza, during the Spanish Flu pandemic.  

Winfred eventually remarried, to Grace Gertrude Fairbanks, and they had four children together: Alice, Donald, Charles, and Winnifred, who was not yet born when Winfred passed away suddenly in June of 1929.

Winfred and Grace Gertrude (Fairbanks) McGlew
in Newburyport, MA
Photo shared by Ruth McGlew

Grace (holding Charles) and Winfred (with Donald)
Photo shared by Judy Dirks

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Jeremiah Thomas McGlew was born in Newburyport to Patrick and Winnefred (Brodick) McGlew on July 2, 1859.  He was named after a younger brother, also named Jeremiah, who was born in November of 1848 and passed away in January of 1855.  Jeremiah married Martha Luella Chase on Dec 2, 1889, and they went on to have nine children together.  Jeremiah was a farmer, and owned quite a bit of property in Rowley, MA.  He passed away in 1941.

Martha Luella (Chase) and Jeremiah McGlew
photo shared by Ruth McGlew

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Patrick McGlew was born  on March 17, 1821, in Stamullin Parish, Co. Meath, Ireland, to Hugh and Catherine McGlew.  He immigrated to America with his parents sometime between 1822 and 1824, arriving first in Salem MA before settling in Newburyport.  He married Winfred Brodick in 1842.  On the 1850 and 1855 censuses, Patrick is listed as being a blacksmith by trade.  

The Civil War broke out in April of 1861, and Patrick enlisted with the Union Army on November 8 of the same year, along with his two teenaged sons, Hugh (b. 1845) and Samuel (b. 1846).  Patrick served with the 4th Independent Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery.  His job title was an artificer, a non-commissioned officer or enlisted man who was a skilled craftsman or specialist of some kind, who was responsible for working on artillery in the field.  Patrick's division went with General Butler's expedition to New Orleans; however he became ill with dysentery, was discharged for disability on July 5, 1862, and passed away in New Orleans on July 23, 1862. 

U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865

Patrick McGlew is listed about 2/3 of the way down the page

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Hugh McGlew was born in Co. Meath, Ireland, on August 15, 1801.  He married Catherine (maiden name unknown) in Ireland, and later immigrated with his family to Massachusetts.  Hugh passed away on May 8, 1846 in Newburyport, MA, and he was buried in Newburyport's Highland Cemetery.  

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A Hugh McGlew played a role in establishing the first Catholic Church in Newburyport, MA.  While it's unconfirmed as to if this is our direct ancestor Hugh (b. 1801) or Patrick's brother Hugh, but with the dates given I'm thinking that it is a pretty safe bet that this is referring to Hugh Sr. (as his son - and Patrick's brother - would have been in his early 20s at most). 

  

Excerpt from the book
"Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts, Volume 2"
edited by Benjamin F. Arrington