William Cowdery
Deacon
Born: About 1602 England
Married:
Died:November 10, 1687 Reading, Massachusetts
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Wife: Joanna ?
Children:
Nathaniel Cowdery b.1639
Notes:
Genealogical History of Reading: "This year [1687] Deacon Wm. Cowdery died, aged 85. He was one of the very earliest settlers of the town, and one of its most useful and estimable citizens. He was Town Clerk from the settlement of the place as long as he lived ; and although for the, last few years of his life he was too feeble to perform the duties of the office, the town would not elect a successor, but chose a Town Clerk, pro tempore, for six years. He was always one of the Select-men, and generally chairman and often a Representative to General Court, and wrote nearly all the wills of his fellow citizens made during the time"
Sources:
-Cowdrey-Cowdery-Cowdray genealogy : William Cowdery of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1630, and his descendants
unknown: F. Allaben Genealogical Co., c1911, 465 pgs.
-Death Source: Reading Vital Records: William Cowdry "an aged man".