Caleb TOWLE

Male 1661 - 1677  (16 years)


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  • Name Caleb TOWLE 
    Born 17 May 1661  Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    _UID 0526A9118A9545E1BA16498B2734A27641E8 
    Died 13 Jun 1677  Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Buried Pine Grove Cemetery, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • killed by Indians

      "On the 16th of April, 1677, the house of John Kenniston was burned, and himself killed within the limits of the present town of Greeland, which borders on North Hampton, then part of Hampton. About two months later the enemy appeared in Hampton and killed four men in that part of the town called North Hill (now North Hampton). These were: Edward Colcord, Jr., Abraham Perkins, Jr., Benjamin Hilliard and Caleb Towle. Perkins had a wife and three daughters. The others were unmarried. Colcord's age was 25; Perkins' 37; Hilliard's 24; Towle's 16." The Hampton VRs recorded "slaine by ye Barborus Heathen..." p.221 [3, 4]
    Person ID I8230  Master File
    Last Modified 20 Jul 2013 

    Father Philip TOWLE,   b. Abt 1616, Crediton, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Dec 1696, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years) 
    Mother Isabella AUSTIN,   b. Abt 1633, Colchester, Essexshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Dec 1719, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 86 years) 
    Married 19 Nov 1657  Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Source: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

      Name: Philip Towle
      Gender: Male
      Birth Year: 1616
      Spouse Name: Isabella Austin
      Spouse Birth Year: 1633
      Marriage Year: 1657
      Number Pages: 1

      Source: New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1985; Reprinted 1997, page 749.

      Source: Vital Records of Hampton New Hampshire to the End of the Year 1900,George Freeman Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1992, Vol 1, p. 73.

      Source: Philip Towle, Hampton, New Hampshire His English Origins and Some American Descendants, William H. Jones, Heritage Books, Inc., p.123: "Philip Towle married, Nov. 19, 1657, Isabella, daughter of Francis and Isabella (Bland) Austin of Colchester, England, and Hampton, NH, and granddaughter of John and Joanna Bland of Edgartown, England"

    Family ID F4864  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S47] Vital Records of Hampton New Hampshire to the End of the Year 1900, George Freeman Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1992), Vol 1, p. 92-94..

    2. [S53] Vital Records of Hampton New Hampshire to the End of the Year 1900, George Freeman Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1992), Vol 1, p. 118..

    3. [S46] Entertaining Satan-Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England-, John Putnam Demos, (Oxford University Press ), Chapter 10.

    4. [S50] History of the Town of Hampton New Hampshire, Joseph Dow, (Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co., Salem, MA, 1894), p. 1000.