Richard LOWELL & Margaret ---
Father: Richard LOWELL, b. 1602, Kingston Seymour Somerset England
Note: Information on Richard is taken from 'The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America' by Delmar R. Lowell, 1899, page 305. Richard married Margaret (last name unknown) in England. He and his wife accompanied his parents, Percival and Rebecca Lowell, on the trip from Bristol, England in the ship 'Jonathon,' arriving in Boston June 23, 1639 after a voyage of nine weeks. Richard's brother John and sister Joan and their families also made the trip. They settled in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He had a 'Freehold Right,' No. 63, in the upper common, Newbury (Essex County Probate Records, 19:27). His wife Margaret died in 1642 and Richard married another Margaret at some later time. She was living as his widow in 1856 (Essex CountyProbate Records, Mass., 5:142). On June 2, 1650 an effort was made to relieve him as overseer of an estate because he was 'sickly and unable to look after their interests.' A 1670 deed referred to him as a 'gentleman.' By 1674 he and his wife were members of the Newbury, Massachusetts church. He made out his will June 25, 1681, and died the following year. Ferris Greenslet, in 'The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds,' 1946, page 16, gives the value of Richard's estate as 671.15 pounds. It included housing, barn, and orchard valued at 100 pounds, 62 acres of 'Arable and Pasture, Salt Marsh and Meadow' valued at 184 pounds, and a long list of other items, among them linen, pewter, brass, and 'a booke called Mr. Hooker's politie,' which went to Anthony Somerby. Somerby had been in the Lowell party when it came from England.
Mother: Margaret —
Child:
- Percival LOWELL, b. 1639, Newsbury Essex MA