by Phyllis Emery Skeats Copyright 2000
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The following is a survey of some of the early families in Hatley Village who arrived prior to 1900. Although some of these families did not actually live in the village, they were pioneers in the Township of Hatley who would have shared in the life of East Hatley, also known as Charleston in 1818, later to become the Village of Hatley. The name is also recorded as Hatley Borough in some documents. These inhabitants would have done their business, shopping, socializing and church going as well as participating in social happenings in the village.
The sources used for this survey include family genealogies, the St. Francis District vital statistics (1815-1879), vital statistics from the Stanstead Journal and the Sherbrooke Daily Record, B. F. Hubbard's Forests and Clearings, The Story of Hatley by Maude Gage Pellerin, Men of Today In the Eastern Townships, Planters of the Commonwealth by Charles E. Banks, and oral information from descendants still living in the area.
Not intended to be a complete genealogy of the following families, this survey deals with several members of some of the families who lived in the village of Hatley, and surrounding areas, in most cases commencing in the early to mid 1800s. In the case of some of the early families, there was not enough information available to include them in this book.
ROWELL
Valentine Rowell, born in England in 1616, was the progenitor of the Rowell families in America. He sailed from Atherstone, England to Salisbury, Massachusetts in 1635 at the age of 19 years on the Susan and Ellen with his father Thomas [1590-1662] and his mother Margaret [Osgood]. In 1643 he married Johanna [Joanna] Pinder [Pinter], who was born in 1621 in England.
Their descendant, Thomas Rowell was born in Goffstown, New Hampshire in 1765, the son of Abraham Rowell [1743-1815] and Elizabeth Eastman [1743-1842]. He married Lydia Hawes [born 1769] of Fishersfield [Newbury] New Hampshire. Thomas' siblings were:
Jonathan [born 1766]
Sally [n.d.] m. Thomas Messer
Jacob [born 1768]
Abraham [born 1770]
Betsey [born 1773] m. Samuel Kendrick
Isaac [born 1774]
Moses [born 1776]
Sarah [born 1778] m. Jamsin Eaton
Samuel [born 1780]
Polly [n.d.] m. Silas Parker
Molly [born 1782] m. Whitcher Sargent
Hannah [born 1784] m. Benjamin Colby
Nancy [born 1786] m. Gore Rowell
Thomas and Lucy (Lydia) removed from Sutton, New Hampshire and settled in Hatley Township in 1802, where they lived in a home on the property which was eventually owned by Perley Young of Hatley Village. They were parents to nine children, several born in Sutton, New Hampshire, who married into several Hatley families:
1. Elizabeth [Betsey] [born 1787(9)] married Joseph Bean
2. Lydia [born 1790] married William Harvey
3. Polly [1794] who died
4. Thomas (born 1796] married Lydia Leavitt [8 children born in Stanstead]
5. Mary [born 1798(9)] married Lemuel Fish [9 children born in Hatley]
6. Nathan [born 1801] married Anna Leavitt [known as Annie]
7. Lucy [born 1803] married John Leavitt [10 children born in Compton]
8. Kendrick (born 1806] married 1st Sarah Hawes [Jones] and 2nd Pluma Rowell
9. Phebe [born 1809] married Luke Wadleigh
Kendrick Rowell [1806-1871] and his second wife Pluma [1800-1878], Mary [1799-1884] and Nathan [1801-1877] are all buried in the Old North Church Cemetery. Thomas Rowell Sr. died in 1833 and is also buried in the Old North Church Cemetery as is Lydia, who died in 1856.
Nathan Rowell, son of Thomas and Lucy, was born in Sutton, New Hampshire in 1801. He married Anna Leavitt [born 1812]; they settled in Hatley. Their children were:
Wiear [Wire] [born 1834] married Thursey [Thirza] Ayers
Abbie married a Mr. Perkins
Thomas [born 1836, died 1847]
Thomas 2nd [born 1848] married 1st Jane Jennie Whitcomb and 2nd Mrs. Susie E. Robinson
Phoebe [born 1839] married Charles Peck
Laura [born 1844] married Horace Abbott
Eva [born 1854] married John Atkinson
Wiear Rowell [1834-1911], Thursey Ayers [1829-1899], Thomas Rowell [1836-1847], Phoebe Rowell [1839-1919], and Eva Rowell [1854-1920] are all buried in the Old north Church Cemetery.
Thomas Rowell (2nd) was born in 1848, the son of Nathan Rowell and his wife Anne Leavitt. he married 1st Jane [Jennie] Whitcomb. They had three children: Albert Eugene, Arthur and Cora. Jennie died in 1915; Thomas remarried in 1916 to Mrs. Susie Robinson of Ayer's Cliff. Thomas spent most of his life in Hatley, where he was born. In the early 1900s, he moved to Sherbrooke. In his obituary in the Sherbrooke Daily Record in 1918 it was recorded: "The late Thomas Rowell, who was 70 years of age, was born in Hatley and spent the greater part of his life in that vicinity. Thirteen years ago he came to Sherbrooke and inaugurated a very successful business …upright and honest in business he was respected and esteemed by all who knew him, while his social and family relations were ever kindly, sympathetic and affectionate."
Albert Eugene Rowell, son of Thomas Rowell, "was born in Hatley, Que., 1875, son of Thomas and Jennie [Jane Whitcomb] Rowell. His grandfather was Nathan Rowell [Anna [Annie] Leavitt] who came from New Bedford, Mass., and settled in Hatley. Albert was educated at East Hatley and attended a business college in Belleville, Ontario. He began a business at Lynn, Mass., and in 1903, in partnership with his father, he purchased a business in Sherbrooke from C.H. Fletcher, consisting of a wholesale biscuit and confectionery manufactory. He was active in Sherbrooke life, including the Christian Science and Sherbrooke Curling associations. He married Josephine Todd, daughter of Silas Todd, Compton, in 1899. They had two children, Alberta Josephine and Gerald Eugene [Men of Today in the Eastern Townships]."
Nathan died in 1877: "In Hatley, July 21, 1877, Mr. Nathan Rowell, aged 76 yrs., 4 mos. 17 das. He was a resident of Hatley for 75 years [Stanstead Journal]." Nathan is buried in the Old North Church Cemetery as is Anna, who died in 1897: "At Suffield, Que. December 25, 1893, Annie Leavitt, widow of the late Nathan Rowell, aged 81 years [Stanstead Journal]."A possible descendant, Herbert Rowell, lives in Bury, Quebec. He is the son of John Wesley Rowell and Inez Waldron. Herbert married Nina Parsons; they are parents to the following five children: Allan Herbert [born 1949] married Nancy Baldwin; Nelson Leslie [born 1949]; Caroline Anne [born 1954] married David Baldwin; Brian John [born 1962] married Melanie Alden; and Robin George (born 1964, died 1984].
Mary Rowell, daughter of Thomas and Lucy Rowell, born in 1798[9], married Lemuel Fish [born 1794]; they settled in Hatley where they raised their children:
Sally [born 1818] married Nathan EmeryMary died in 1884 and is buried in the Old North Church Cemetery as is her husband, who died in 1873: "At Hatley September 27, 1873, Mr. Lemuel Fish, in his 80th year. Mr. Fish was the first white child that ever came into Hatley and has resided there nearly 78 years [Stanstead Journal]."
Joseph [born 1820] married Elizabeth Paradis
Leonard [born 1824] married Cynthia Elliott
Lydia [born 1827]
Thomas [born 1829, died 1832]
Thomas 2nd [born 1833] married Ida Bachelder
Nathan [born 1836] married Mary Sheldon
Kendrick [born 1841] married Lizzie Morse
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