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liverpool annie
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Re: Blowers
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 08 April 08 04:26 BST (UK) » |
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Hi Tim and welcome to RootsChat ! 
I'm not related I'm afraid ..... but I'd love to try and help you if I can ..... what makes you think that they came from Suffolk or even England ? 
I did find this snippet regarding Rhode Island .....
1675-1676 - King Philip's War erupts in New England between colonists and Native Americans as a result of tensions over colonist's expansionist activities. The bloody war rages up and down the Connecticut River valley in Massachusetts and in the Plymouth and Rhode Island colonies, eventually resulting in 600 English colonials being killed and 3,000 Native Americans, including women and children on both sides. King Philip (the colonist's nickname for Metacomet, chief of the Wampanoags) is hunted down and killed on August 12, 1676, in a swamp in Rhode Island, ending the war in southern New England and ending the independent power of Native Americans there. In New Hampshire and Maine, the Saco Indians continue to raid settlements for another year and a half
Annie 
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Re: Blowers
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 08 April 08 07:32 BST (UK) » |
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Hi Annie,
Thanks for the welcome and reply! Well, what first directed me to Suffolk was the origin of the surname "Blowers" which all signs point to East Anglia. I say Suffolk only because of some old papers from "The American Genealogist" that suggest a possible connection and others, but I have yet to find it. Also in some old memoirs from a distant relative it reveals his lineage up to Alexander Blowers and also state this,
"He was a British Sailor, and as we all believe, of the old Saxon line. How long he
followd the seas is unknown,--he settled in Vermont
when the colonies were new"
as well as some other information.
It is also speculated that he served on "Sloop Queen of Hungary" as Boatswain in 1744 in the war against France. I say speculated because of a written error as he is listed as Alexander "Blowey" and upon seeing the signature I have to agree, though many others before me have came to this conclusion as well.
So it seems I have hit a road block. I have a colonial record from 1676-1706 that stated a single Mary Blower to be summoned to appear in court in 1688, to answer to a presentment for "having a child born of her body". So as you can see it seems logical to connect Mary Blower as mother to Alexander Blowers, hmm....
Well, must run, thanks!!!!
Tim Blowers II
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