Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Capt. John Fowle (7256) & Elizabeth Prescott
19988. Elizabeth Fowle. Born on 19 Sep 1698 in Woburn, MA.124 Elizabeth died in Woburn, MA 4 Mar 169[8/]9.124 Buried in First Burial Ground of Woburn.144

Headstone:144
“Elizabeth Fowl, daughter of John and Elizabeth Fowl, aged 5 months, died March 4, 1698-9”
19989. Cornet John Fowle. Born on 7 Jan 1700 in Woburn, MA.124 John died in Woburn, MA in 1745.124
On 21 Feb 1723 when John was 23, he married Ruth Simonds (8453) , daughter of James Simonds (2947) (1 Nov 1658-13 Sep 1717) & Susanna Blodgett (17 Feb 1664/5-9 Feb 1715), in Woburn, MA.124 Born on 12 Dec 1699 in Woburn, MA.124 At the age of 4, Ruth was baptized in Lexington, MA, on 1 Jun 1704.282 Ruth died in Woburn, MA, on 20 May 1753; she was 53.124

Children of John and Ruth (Simonds) Fowle, born at Woburn:
    i. Ruth Fowle, b. 17 Apr 1725;
    ii. Jonathan Fowle, b. 7 Sep 1726; and
    iii. Ruth Fowle, b. 13 Sep 1741.124
19990. Elizabeth Fowle. Born on 16 Dec 1701 in Woburn, MA.124 Elizabeth died in Woburn, MA, on 28 Aug 1782; she was 80.256 She died unmarried.
19991. Dorothy Fowle. Born on 9 Aug 1703 in Woburn, MA.124 Dorothy died in Woburn, MA, on 28 May 1704.124 Buried in First Burial Ground of Woburn.144

Headstone:144
“Dority, ye daughter of John & Elizabeth Fowl, aged 9 months, died May ye 28th, 1704”
19992. Dorothy Fowle. Born on 14 Mar 1705 in Woburn, MA.124 Dorothy died in Woburn, MA, on 14 Sep 1732; she was 27.124 She died unmarried.
19993. Rebecca Fowle. Born on 21 Nov 1706 in Woburn, MA.124 Rebecca died by 6 Nov 1782.256

Rebecca first married Phineas Richardson, second Ebenezer Richardson. She was the second cousin once removed of Phineas and second cousin twice removed of Ebenezer; all three were descendants of Thomas and Katherine Richardson.
On 9 May 1728 when Rebecca was 21, she first married Lieut. Phineas Richardson (22230) , son of Nathaniel Richardson (8308) (2 Jan 1651-4 Dec 1714) & Mary (-22 Dec 1719), in Woburn, MA.124 Born in Feb 1694 in Woburn, MA.124 Phineas died in Woburn, MA on 11 Apr 1738.279
Their children include:
39365i.
James Richardson (30 Apr 1729-1 Oct 1773)
39366ii.
William Richardson (17 Feb 1731/2-aft 1783)
39367iii.
Dorothy Richardson (31 Mar 1733-aft 1783)
39368iv.
Phineas Richardson (9 Jan 1735/6-bef Jul 1777)
Rebecca second married Ebenezer Richardson (43351) , son of Timothy Richardson (41985) (24 Jul 1687-29 Jun 1735) & Abigail Johnson (23561) (ca 1697-Jan 1771). Born on 31 Mar 1718 in Woburn, MA.124

Ebenezer first married Rebecca Richardson, second Rebecca’s sister Kezia (Richardson) Henshaw, widow of Thomas Henshaw.

From The Richardson Memorial, pages 242–244:279
    That Ebenezer Richardson married this Rebecca Fowle, daugher of John and Elizabeth (Prescott) Fowle, of Woburn, though much older than himself, is rendered certain by a law-suit. (See court files.) She died about 1783. [?]
    On the twenty-second day of February, 1770, this man, then residing in Boston, made himself unpleasantly notorious. The British Parliament, in June, 1767, passed an act imposing duties
on glass, paper, painters’ colors, and tea, imported into the colonies. As Englishmen in England paid no duty on these articles, it was thought that Englishmen in America were entitled to the same privilege. The act being therefore regarded as a direct invasion of the liberties of the colonies, the merchants of Boston, in the October following, entered into an agreement not to import or sell any of the above-named articles. In this measure they were sustained by the citizens of Boston in town-meeting assembled. The movement had the sympathy and encouragement of the province in general, and of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, and the other colonies. They also had encouragement and sympathy from several of the leading statesmen in England.
    A strict adherence to the non-importation agreement was considered essential to the liberties of America ; but there were four merchants of Boston, who, after entering into it, determined no longer to abide by it. For this conduct, they were, at a town-meeting held October, 1769, by name declared enemies to their country, and as deserving to be treated as such. Their names are still on the Boston records as infamous. Thus they found themselves exposed, in no ordinary degree, to the public scorn. Even the boys in the streets, as they passed their doors, pointed at them with words of contempt. Their names were John Bernard, Theophilus Lillie, John Mein, James McMasters & Co. I regret to say two women, Anne and Elizabeth Cummings, were involved in the same infamy. John Bernard was a son of Francis Bernard, the late governor. Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson, sons of the lieutenant governor, were also of the number. To give the greater effect to this proscription, posts were by the boys planted before their doors, with a hand affixed pointing at them in derision.
    One of these men, Theophilus Lillie, having been thus assailed, Ebenezer Richardson, a neighbor and confederate of his, endeavored to persuade a teamster, who was passings to drive his cart against the post to break it down; the teamster refused. A crowd soon gathered; the boys chased Richardson to his house — it was at the north end of Boston, not fjir off^ bricks and stones were thrown at the windows. Richardson, provoked, fired at random into the crowd of boys, dangerously wounding one of them, Samuel Gore, and mortally wounding another, Christopher Schneider, a poor German boy, eleven or twelve years of age, who died the next morning. This was on Feb. 22, 1770.
    The excitement was intense. The funeral of the boy was attended by “all the friends of liberty;” the coffin was covered with appropriate inscriptions; five hundred children, in couples, walked in front of the bier; six of the boy’s playmates held thepall; his relatives followed; after them came thirteen hundred inhabitants on foot; chaises and chariots closed the procession. Boston seldom, if ever, witnessed a more impressive spectacle. The first blood had been shed; the first martyr to libeity had fallen. Thoughtful persons asked, “Where will this end?”
    The affray at John Gray’s ropewalk, March 2d, on Atkinson Street, soon followed, and the “Boston Massacre,” March 5, 1770, soon added to the general excitement, and prepared the people for a forcible and bloody resistance of the wrongs they were suffering.
    Richardson, on the 20th of April following, was tried on a charge of murder. A verdict of guilty was rendered. It was murder and nothing else. Richardson, though provoked, was not at all endangered. The chief justice, Thomas Hutchinson, refused to pronounce sentence, being strongly committed to the oppressive measures of the British ministry. Richardson, after lying in prison two years, was, on application to the king, pardoned and set at liberty.
    To reward Richardson for the service he had thus rendered to the minions of arbitrary power, one of the ships from London brought to him in April, 1773, an appointment as an officer of the customs in Philadelphia.
    Richardson’s business in Boston, at least a part of it, was to give information to the board of customs, of merchants or others who imported or sold articles on which duties had been imposed by Act of Parliament. Consequently he and his like were extremely obnoxious to the people. It was therefore prudent for him, after his release from prison, to get out of the way as soon as possible ; for there was an intention to give him a coat of tar and feathers. Happily his case, so far as I know, is wholly singular in the Richardson family.

Their children include:
39369i.
Rebecca Richardson (4 Aug 1741-)
39370ii.
Lucy Richardson (18 Jan 1744-)
39371iii.
Ebenezer Richardson (16 Jun 1746-1808)
19994. Abigail Fowle. Born on 15 Dec 1707 in Woburn, MA.124
19995. Hannah Fowle. Born 30 Aug 1710[09] in Woburn, MA.124 Hannah died in Woburn, MA on 3 Oct 1710.124 Buried in First Burial Ground of Woburn.144

Headstone:144
“Hannah Fowle, daughter of John & Elizabeth Fowle, aged 1 month & 3 dayes, died October 3rd, 1710”
19996. James Fowle. Born on 16 Jul 1710 in Woburn, MA.124 James died in Woburn, MA, on 16 Aug 1779; he was 69.
On 22 Oct 1741 when James was 31, he married Susanna Wyman (22557) , daughter of Ens. Samuel Wyman (41979) (7 Feb 1689/90-18 Dec 1743) & Susanna Simonds (8449) (2 May 1689-24 Nov 1752), in Woburn, MA.124 Born 14 Feb 1714/5 in Woburn, MA. Susanna died in Woburn, MA on 11 Nov 1767.124 Buried in First Burial Ground of Woburn.144 "Here lyes ye Body of Mrs. Susanna Fowle, Wife to James Fowle, Esq'r, who departed this life Nov'br the 11th, 1767, Aged 53 Years".

Children of James and Susanna (Wyman) Fowle, born at Woburn:124
    i. James Fowle, b. 25 May 1743; and
    ii. Susanna Fowle, b. 12 Nov 1748.
19997. Jonathan Fowle. Born on 29 Aug 1712 in Woburn, MA.124 Jonathan died in Woburn, MA, on 21 Nov 1714; he was 2.124 Buried in First Burial Ground of Woburn.144

Headstone:144
“Jonathan Fowle, son of John and Elizabeth Fowle, aged 2 years, 2 months, and 19 days, died November 12th, 1714”
19998. Mary Fowle. Born on 14 Dec 1713 in Woburn, MA.124
19999. Hannah Fowle. Born on 10 Aug 1715 in Woburn, MA.124 Hannah died bef 14 Aug 1747.
On 27 Apr 1740 when Hannah was 24, she married Ebenezer Wild, son of Allen Wild & Eliza Wood, in Boston, MA. Born on 3 Jul 1718 in Boston, MA.
Their children include:
39372i.
Hannah Wild (ca 1745-24 Nov 1778)
20000. Ruth Fowle. Born on 9 Feb 1717 in Woburn, MA.124 Ruth died in Woburn, MA, on 18 Feb 1721; she was 4.124
20001. Kezia Fowle. Born on 22 Sep 1718 in Woburn, MA.124

Kezia first married Thomas Henshaw, second Ebenezer Richardson as his second wife.
On 25 Jan 1741 when Kezia was 22, she first married Thomas Henshaw (46860) , son of Thomas Henshaw (17 Dec 1680-11 Sep 1726) & Mary Brooks (28425) (1 Apr 1688-aft Sep 1726), in Boston, MA. Born in Sep 1713 in Woburn, MA. Thomas died bef 1753.
On 15 May 1754 when Kezia was 35, she second married Ebenezer Richardson (43351) , son of Timothy Richardson (41985) (24 Jul 1687-29 Jun 1735) & Abigail Johnson (23561) (ca 1697-Jan 1771), in Boston, MA. Born on 31 Mar 1718 in Woburn, MA.124

Ebenezer first married Rebecca Richardson, second Rebecca’s sister Kezia (Richardson) Henshaw, widow of Thomas Henshaw.

From The Richardson Memorial, pages 242–244:279
    That Ebenezer Richardson married this Rebecca Fowle, daugher of John and Elizabeth (Prescott) Fowle, of Woburn, though much older than himself, is rendered certain by a law-suit. (See court files.) She died about 1783. [?]
    On the twenty-second day of February, 1770, this man, then residing in Boston, made himself unpleasantly notorious. The British Parliament, in June, 1767, passed an act imposing duties
on glass, paper, painters’ colors, and tea, imported into the colonies. As Englishmen in England paid no duty on these articles, it was thought that Englishmen in America were entitled to the same privilege. The act being therefore regarded as a direct invasion of the liberties of the colonies, the merchants of Boston, in the October following, entered into an agreement not to import or sell any of the above-named articles. In this measure they were sustained by the citizens of Boston in town-meeting assembled. The movement had the sympathy and encouragement of the province in general, and of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, and the other colonies. They also had encouragement and sympathy from several of the leading statesmen in England.
    A strict adherence to the non-importation agreement was considered essential to the liberties of America ; but there were four merchants of Boston, who, after entering into it, determined no longer to abide by it. For this conduct, they were, at a town-meeting held October, 1769, by name declared enemies to their country, and as deserving to be treated as such. Their names are still on the Boston records as infamous. Thus they found themselves exposed, in no ordinary degree, to the public scorn. Even the boys in the streets, as they passed their doors, pointed at them with words of contempt. Their names were John Bernard, Theophilus Lillie, John Mein, James McMasters & Co. I regret to say two women, Anne and Elizabeth Cummings, were involved in the same infamy. John Bernard was a son of Francis Bernard, the late governor. Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson, sons of the lieutenant governor, were also of the number. To give the greater effect to this proscription, posts were by the boys planted before their doors, with a hand affixed pointing at them in derision.
    One of these men, Theophilus Lillie, having been thus assailed, Ebenezer Richardson, a neighbor and confederate of his, endeavored to persuade a teamster, who was passings to drive his cart against the post to break it down; the teamster refused. A crowd soon gathered; the boys chased Richardson to his house — it was at the north end of Boston, not fjir off^ bricks and stones were thrown at the windows. Richardson, provoked, fired at random into the crowd of boys, dangerously wounding one of them, Samuel Gore, and mortally wounding another, Christopher Schneider, a poor German boy, eleven or twelve years of age, who died the next morning. This was on Feb. 22, 1770.
    The excitement was intense. The funeral of the boy was attended by “all the friends of liberty;” the coffin was covered with appropriate inscriptions; five hundred children, in couples, walked in front of the bier; six of the boy’s playmates held thepall; his relatives followed; after them came thirteen hundred inhabitants on foot; chaises and chariots closed the procession. Boston seldom, if ever, witnessed a more impressive spectacle. The first blood had been shed; the first martyr to libeity had fallen. Thoughtful persons asked, “Where will this end?”
    The affray at John Gray’s ropewalk, March 2d, on Atkinson Street, soon followed, and the “Boston Massacre,” March 5, 1770, soon added to the general excitement, and prepared the people for a forcible and bloody resistance of the wrongs they were suffering.
    Richardson, on the 20th of April following, was tried on a charge of murder. A verdict of guilty was rendered. It was murder and nothing else. Richardson, though provoked, was not at all endangered. The chief justice, Thomas Hutchinson, refused to pronounce sentence, being strongly committed to the oppressive measures of the British ministry. Richardson, after lying in prison two years, was, on application to the king, pardoned and set at liberty.
    To reward Richardson for the service he had thus rendered to the minions of arbitrary power, one of the ships from London brought to him in April, 1773, an appointment as an officer of the customs in Philadelphia.
    Richardson’s business in Boston, at least a part of it, was to give information to the board of customs, of merchants or others who imported or sold articles on which duties had been imposed by Act of Parliament. Consequently he and his like were extremely obnoxious to the people. It was therefore prudent for him, after his release from prison, to get out of the way as soon as possible ; for there was an intention to give him a coat of tar and feathers. Happily his case, so far as I know, is wholly singular in the Richardson family.

20002. Lucy Fowle. Born on 28 Jul 1720 in Woburn, MA.124
On 3 Feb 1738 when Lucy was 17, she married Henry Gardner, son of Henry Gardner (12 Feb 1658-20 Feb 1712/3) & Elizabeth Lane (3 Feb 1661-3 Jun 1703), in Boston, MA. Born on 2 Aug 1698 in Woburn, MA.124 Henry died in Woburn, MA, on 16 Dec 1763; he was 65. Buried in First Burial Ground of Woburn.144 "Here lyes buried the body of Mr. Henry Gardner, who departed this life, December ye 16th, 1763, aged 66 years".
Their children include:
39373i.
Samuel Gardner (3 Feb 1740-)
39374ii.
Sarah Gardner (6 Apr 1743-28 Nov 1830)
39375iii.
John Gardner (3 Mar 1744-)
39376iv.
James Gardner (24 Oct 1749-)
39377v.
Lucy Gardner (16 Nov 1751-)
20003. Ruth Fowle. Born on 10 Apr 1722 in Woburn, MA.124 Ruth died in Woburn, MA, on 8 May 1738; she was 16.124
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