Samuel Cowdery
Born: May 16, 1657 Reading, Massachusetts
Married: April 28, 1685, Reading, Massachusetts
Died:Aft. 1694
Father: Nathaniel Cowdery b.1639
Mother: Elizabeth ? d.1659
Wife: Elizabeth ?
Children:
Ruth Cowdery b.1687
Mary Cowdery b.1689
Nathaniel Cowdery b.1691
Martha Cowdery b.1693
Samuel Cowdery b.1695
Notes:
-Many Sources say that his wife's name was Elizabeth Parker, but this is the name of his brother's wife. They could no have married the same person because the two Elizabeths had children concurrently. The original source of this error seems to be Eaton's History of Reading.
-Samuel was taxed in 1688. He was a Selectman.
-Also spelled Samuel Cowdrey
-His wife's maiden name does not appear in the original marriage
records of Reading, PA.
Sources:
-Birth Source: Vital Records of Reading, "1657 COWDRY,Samuell, s. of Nathan[i]ell, May 16, 1657. Birth Reading"
-Marriage Source: Vital Records of Reading: "1685 COWDRY, Samuell and Elizebeth ----, Apr. 28, 1685. Marriage, Reading"
-Cowdrey-Cowdery-Cowdray genealogy : William Cowdery of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1630, and his descendants
unknown: F. Allaben Genealogical Co., c1911, 465 pgs.
-Genealogical and family history of western New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912, 1708 pgs.