Hi All, I just came across this record for John Stovers at the Ancestry.com genealogical search site, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire database. While working on the paper I searched for the identity of Dorothy Stovers/Stowers listed as grandaughter of Samuel Blanchard of Andover, in his will. I found that a Mary Blanchard had married John Stowers and am certain that this Samuel's daughter. Mary had apparently died before her father and brother Joshua of Charlestown was Dorothy's guardian. Essex County Records; 2612 303-199. (Under 19 in grandfather Samuel Blanchard's will.) Legacy paid in 1716 in Admin. of Joshua Blanchard's Estate; Middlesex County Records 1904 pg. 176. I had found in the Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, MA an identity for this John Stowers that would have made him about 10 years Mary's junior. While this was not impossible it seemed improbable. The following better explains this union. (I have not yet determined the meaning of the (#) throughout this work, does anyone know?) Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire page 666 Stover,found in several co. Suffolk parishes. See Hist. of York, ii: 20. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire page 667 John,butcher, York, Saco, Boston, presumably illeg. son of (5) whose w. in 1655 accus. him of having a bastard at Tom Crockett's. In 1748, (2) depos. that there was ano. John in York older than his br., who as long as he could rememb. called deponent's fa. 'uncle.' Rachel Carlisle depos. he liv. on S. W. side of York river. Presum. east in 1674, List 15 (2). In settlem. of John Lawes' (Lavers 3) est., the ho. and land were set off to him, appar. as cred.; called L.'s assignee in 1679. York gr. 1680, which heirs q.c. in 1747 (orig. deed in SJC 63476). Of York, he bot at Saco Falls in 1681; ack. judgm. to George Norton in 1683; of Saco in 1684 ack. debt to Wm. Vaughan and sold York land to Thomas Wise; of Boston in 1691 sued Wise. List 33. He m. 2d (int. Boston 13 Aug. 1696) Mary Blanchard of Charlestown; (2) often saw him in Boston and said he had 3 daus., forgetting the 2d wife's ch. The oldest dau. claimed the Saco land which was sold in 1719 by ch: Elizabeth Lash, wid. (m. Robert L., surely s. of (1) and d. 12 Oct. 1727, ag. 58). Mary Pitts, [p.667] wid. (Mary -Stafford- m. Thomas P. in Boston 18 Dec. 1702). Grace Rowles, wid., but ack. as -Lawless-; she was Grace -Jepson-, wid., in 1747 (in Boston, Grace -Stanford- m. Robert Rowles 1706, Grace R. m. Wm. Mingham 1712, Grace M. m. John -Gibson- 1720). Dorothy (by 2d w.), b. 23 Mar. 1699, m. 1st in 1725 John Lawrence of Charlest. and Boston, m. 2d Thomas Wharton; wid. 1739-1747+. Ano. Dorothy, b. 16 Oct. 1697, d.y. Sherry John STOWERS bef 1645 b MA/ME? 1998 03 14 Mary 1659 b Andover MA 1998 03 14 Dorothy STOWERS 1699 b MA/ME? 1998 03 14