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Stricker Family Tree - Roger Mowry, Providence Innkeeper

Roger Mowry - Innkeeper
Family Connection - 10th great-grandfather of Roy Ellsworth Stricker



Mowry Family Monument, North Smithfield, Rhode Island


Memorial to Roger Mowry

Roger Mowry was born in England in about 1610. In 1630, he migrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and settled in Salem. His job in Salem was to be the "neat herd" - the person who herded all the cattle kept in town to pastures outside of town to graze each day. He was made Freeman on May 18, 1631. In 1636 he was granted forty acres of land in Salem. He was granted another fifty acres in August 1637. 

By 1637, Roger married Mary Johnson, daughter of John Johnson. They had eleven children:

            Jonathan        b. 1637 in Salem            d. 1708
            Bethiah          b. 1638 in Salem            d. 1686
            Mary              b. 1639 in Salem            d. unknown
            Elizabeth        b. 1642 in Salem            d. 1690
            Nathaniel        b. 1643 in Salem            d. 1718
            Mehitable       b. 1644 in Salem            d. 1730
            John               b. 1646  in Salem            d. 1690
            Joseph            b. 1647 in Salem             d. 1716
            Benjamin        b. 1649 in Salem            d. 1719
            Thomas           b. 1652 in Providence    d. 1717
            Hannah           b. 1656 in Providence     d. 1718

While in Salem, Roger Mowry became friends with Roger Williams, so when Roger and his followers left Salem to found the town of Providence in 1644 , Roger Mowry and his family moved to Providence in 1652. 

Roger Mowry built a house and tavern in Providence in May 1655. Known as the Mowry Tavern, it was built on Abbot Street, adjacent to the North Burial Grounds. The building was remodeled several times throughout it's history, until it was demolished in 1900 to build a triple-decker building. 

 
Mowry House and Tavern

The Mowry Tavern was one of only five Providence buildings to survive the burning of Providence in King Phillip's War, after Roger Mowry's death. 

Roger Mowry was a Constable in Providence, and served on multiple juries. He died in Providence on January 5, 1667. When the town records were reviewed in 1677 after the town was burned, no will or inventory of Roger Mowry's estate was found. No burial location is known. 

Roger Mowry > Mehitable Mowry > Elizabeth Kingsley > Samuel Palmer, Jr. > Aaron Palmer > Mary Palmer > Aaron Palmer Grover > William Grover > Eugene Aaron Grover > Lillian May Grover > Gertrude Myra Newland > Roy Ellsworth Stricker    Charts S-Main and S-D




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