Percival Lowle

Born: 1571 Kingston Seymour, Someerset, England
Married: ?
Died: January 8, 1664/5 Newbury, Massachusetts
Father: Richard Lowle
Mother: Christian Percival
Wife: Rebecca b.1575 Notes:
Children:
Richard Lowle b. 1602
-Percival was a very distinguished and successful man in England.
His ancestry has been traced to King Edward I of England and earlier. He
lived in Kingston-Seymour, Clevedon, Portbury, and Bristol. In 1597 he
was assessor in Kingston-Seymour. He appears with coat of arms in the
Herald's Visitation of Somersetshire. In Bristol, he ran a large
mercantile business named " Percival Lowle and Co.". He was admitted
tenants of eight acres of land in Portbury, and was churchwarden there in
1613, and then baliff in 1621.
He immigrated later in life, in 1639, aboard the ship "Jonathan".
He arrived later than many other settlers, and did not receive any land
grants in the new world, but he did purchase his own land. Upon the death
of John Winthrop, he wrote a long poem, which survives. He was a learned
and well educated man. He lived to be 93 years old.
Sources
-New England Genealogical and Historical Register
-Royal Descents of 600 immigrants, Gary Boyd Roberts
-Magna Carta Ancestry, Douglas Richardson
-Visitation
of Somerset, King's Heralds
-"The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of American from 1639-1899"
-Research of Brandon Fradd
-"Plantagenet Ancestry"- Richardson
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