I feal to mourn over the sins of thy professed children, how is thy cause in this place dishonered by such as profess to be thine in this place. Oh Lord may all in this place who profess to be thine be careful to depart from all eniquity and walk in obediance to thy commands that they may lead them who are yet blinded in sin to the saviour of Sinners. Oh let this be a day of thy power upon the impenitent in this place and may be brought to feal the truth when it is set before them and may satan yet be defeated of his pray and no longer hold the impenitent in his chain but let arrows from thy quiver fly thick this afternoon to the hearts of thy enemies and bring them to bow in submission to thy will. Thou art able and will it not please the to bind the strong man and then spoil his goods enter in, oh thou blessed spirit, this afternoon to many hearts and may the jeneral inquiry be what shall I do to be saved and may the cloud which apears to gather blackness over this place be a cloud of mercy and fill this place with thy glory.

In the name of God Amen I, Lydia S. Rowlee, of the town of Groton in the County of Tompkins and State of New York, of the age of sixty years and being of sound mind and memory do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner following, that is to say,

First, I do give and bequeath to my niece, Charlotte Underwood, wife of Alfred Underwood, the sum of four hundred and seventy dollars; to my nephew, Charles S. Rowlee, the sum of six hundred dollars; to my niece, Louis K. Horton, wife of William Horton, the sum of fifty dollars; to my niece, Elizabeth Kelly, wife of Joseph Kelly, the sum of fifty dollars; to the American Home Missionary Society, the sum of fifty dollars.

Which said several legacies or sums of money I direct and order to be paid to the said respective legatees within one year after my decease.

Second, I give and devise to the Trustees of the Congregational Society in Peruville, all my right and interest in the meeting house belonging to said society situate in said village and to their successors in office forever; and lastly I do give and bequeath all the rest residue and remainder of my personal estate, goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever, to my niece, Charlotte Underwood, wife of Alfred Underwood. I do also nominate and appoint my friend Reuben Darling, Executor of this my last will and testament, revoking all former wills by me made.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

LYDIA S. ROWLEE.

The above instrument consisting of one sheet, was at the date thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Lydia S. Rowlee as and for her last will and testament in presence of us, who at her request and in her presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.

PHILANDER CORNELL, Residing in Groton, Tompkins Co.
ISAAC UNDERWOOD, Residing in Groton, Tompkins Co.

ANCESTRY OF LIEUT. HEMAN ROWLEE

The following notes on the early generations of the Rowlee (Rowley) family in America are largely taken from Prof. Homer G. Brainard's articles in the New York Gen. and Biog. Record.

1. Henry Rowley was an early planter at Plymouth, Mass. In the first tax rating for the Plymouth Colony in 1632-33, occurs the following entries:

It

It is possible that he was one of the company that came over from Leyden to Plymouth in 1630. It has also been conjectured that he came in the Charles with Mr. Hatherly, in 1632. It is probable that he came from the vicinity of Shrewsbury, England, since the family name is common in the records there. is near the Wales border and some traditions call the family Welch, while others call it English. It is probable that he was married when he came over, and that his children were born before that time. It has been declared that his first wife was Sarah, daughter of William Palmer, Senior, of Duxbury. The latter came over in the Fortune in 1621, and his wife, Frances, came in the Anne in 1623. In his will, dated 1637, William Palmer names "Moyses Rowley (son of Henry) whom I love," and provides for his bringing up, but does not state what relation Moses was to himself. Henry Rowley m. (2) Oct. 17, 1633, Anne, widow of Deacon Thomas Blossom, who embarked in the Speedwell at Leyden in 1620, but being obliged to return to Leyden, came over to Plymouth in 1629, where he d. previous to March, 1632-3. Henry and Anne Rowley removed to Scituate in 1634, the year he was elected freeman. Both were members of Rev. John Lothrop's church at Scituate in 1634-5, and removed with him to Barnstable in 1638. In the memoran

dum containing the membership of Lothrop's church occurs the following: "Goodman Rowleyes house a small plain palesade House in 1634; a new house on his lott in 1636.” He was a deputy from Barnstable to the General Court in Plymouth at least once.

In 1650 Henry Rowley removed, with his step-son, Peter Blossom, to West Barnstable, and later to Falmouth. Henry Rowley d. in 1673. Inventory of the estate of "henery Rowley of Saconesset," exhibited in Court, July, 1673, on oath of Moses Rowley. "Item: a debt of twenty-nine pounds due from Jonathan Hatch upon the repurchase of a parsell of land which the said Hatch sold to said Henery Rowley with that limitation provided." Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. III, part 2, p. 93. Children :

2

i. Moses, b.
ii. Joseph, b.‒‒‒‒
Barbadoes.

; m. Elizabeth Fuller.

; living at Barnstable, 1655; said to have gone to

iii. Sarah, b.‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒; m. April 11, 1646, Jonathan Hatch, of Barnstable and Falmouth, b. about 1626, d. Dec., 1710, aged about 84 years. He settled in Succonnessett (Falmouth) in 1661.

2. Moses Rowley (Henry'), b. probably before 1630 in England; d. 1705, at (East) Haddam, Conn.; m. April 22, 1652, at Barnstable, Elizabeth', dau. of Capt. Matthew Fuller. She survived her husband and d. in (East) Haddam or Colchester after 1714. The earliest mention of Moses Rowley is found in the will of William Palmer, the elder, of Duxbury, dated Nov. 7, 1637, which is recorded in Vol. I, fol. 28, of Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, and has been printed. (See Mayflower Descendant for July 1900, p. 147). "I would have myne Execut's as in conscience they are pswaded out of the remaynder of my estate deale wth Rebecca my Grandchild and Moyses Rowly whom I love but not so as to put it into their father or mother's hands but preserve it for them till they come to years of discretion also I would have yeong Rowly to be placed wth mr. Partridge that hee might be brought up in the feare of God, and to that end if his father suffer it I give mr. Partridge five pounds." March 7, 1653-4, Moses Rowley was allowed a cow out of the estate of William Palmer, deceased, of Plymouth (Records of Plymouth Colony, Vol. III, p. 45.)

In 1657 he took the freeman's oath at Barnstable. In 1681

he was a constable, and was occupying lands at Succonessett (Falmouth). He was a deputy to the General Court in 1692, under the new charter according to Savage, and yet he must at that time have been thinking of removal, for according to East Haddam Deeds, Vol. I, p. 554, Moses Rowley, Senior, "late of Saquanesset, now of Machimodus in Haddam," bought 60 acres of land of Jonathan Gilbert, originally laid out to John Henderson of Haddam, deceased. The date of this deed is May 3, 1692, and there is another deed dated October 4, 1693, which names Moses Rowley. An agreement of the heirs of James Bates of Haddam, dated Feb. 1691-2, refers to "mony in moses rowlyes and John Ackley's hands, to be reserved to pay debts with." These records indicate that he removed to Haddam as early as 1691. That his wife Elizabeth disapproved of the removal is clear, for in 1714 she made a deed in which she declared that she had been left without support and dependent upon the bounty of her sons, John Fuller and Moses Rowley, and conveyed to them all her right of dower to lands in Falmouth, which her husband had sold to the Parkers without her consent. His will is dated Aug. 16, 1704, on file at Hartford, Conn., and reads as follows:

"The Last Will and Testament of Moses Rowley Sen of east Haddam in the county of Hartford in Colleny of Connecticut in new Ingland Wittneseth."

"In the name of god. Amen. Whereas I Moses Rowlee being weak of body but through gods good hand upon me at this present writing in perfect memory and understanding doe make and ordain this as my last will and testament.'

"Imprimus: I doe give and bequeath my soul unto god in the name, meritts and mediation of the lord Jesus Christ in whose Righteousness I hope to be accepted with the father."

And my body to Christian burial as my executors shall see meet, hoping for a glorious Resurrection at the last and great day."

"As for the portion of this worlds goods that god (hath) given and continued to me my will is that my Just Debts being paid the Remainder to be disposed of as followeth as for the Rest of my children I have done what hath been with me and now I have not expectation of being any more capable to help myself wherefore I do give and bequeath my land unto my sonn