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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 113

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] and emigrated to America about 1650. He d. aet. 100, leaving Moses, and a younger son who d. s. p. »t. 104. Moses, the eldest, had also two sons, viz. APPENDIX. 519 Moses and Matthew. The latter was a military officer of some distinction. Previous to the Revolutionary war he removed from Bedford to Eastchester> where he d. from the bite of a fox, aet. 56. He left four sons, I. Stephen. II. Aaron. III. Rev. Ezra of Bedford, b. 20th May, 1743, d. Oct. 15, 1840. IV. James of Bedford. Rev. Ezra had, 1. James, M. D., of the New York University, who has Hosea, M. D., of Somers, Elias, Jabez, Husted, C. Hor-ton, and Ezra James. 2. Hosea. 3. Tyler of Peekskill, Arms, arg. three bars, gamelles, gu, on a canton az. a lion passant guardant, or. Crest, an eagle's head erased, holding in his beak a snake. Fowler of East and Westchester. All of this name in Connecticut and New York are supposed to have originated from William Fowler of New Haven, who was elected a magistrate in 1637, and was one of the first settlers of Milfurd, 1639. John Fowler was living at Guilford, Conn, in 1650. Benjainin Fowler, of Westchester, removed to Philipse's Manor, b. 1715, mar. Sarah Vincent. Their children were, I. Anthony, mar. Elizabeth Taylor, and had, 1. Benjamin. 2. Abraham. 3. Anthony. 4. Nathaniel. 5. Sarah. II. Vincent, mar. 1st, Dorothy Valentine, 2nd, Mrs. Merritt, and left, 1. Ann. 2. Abraham. 3. Rebecca. 4. Benjamin. 5. Mary. 6. Sarah. III. Fred-erick, whose da. Jane mar. Jeremiah Dobbs. IV.