• Born April 25, 1762 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
• Parents were CORNELIUS STOWELL and SERVILLA GOLDING.
• Married BETSEY JENNISON on July 10, 1810.

1. ELIZABETH STOWELL, born May 12, 1790 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

2. ISRAEL JENNISON STOWELL, born May 9, 1792 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts; died in 1796.

3. MARY STOWELL, born July 30, 1796 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Married IDAAC ADAMS on October 30, 1822 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

4. ABIGAIL ADELINE STOWELL, born March 15, 1799 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

5. CAROLINE STOWELL, born July 10, 1801 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

6. FRANCES STOWELL, born January 8, 1805 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

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Cornelius Stowell, who came here soon after the town was organized, married Sevilla, sister of the second Capt. Palmer Goulding, and located near him, on the west corner of Park and Orange streets, residing on the very spot still occupied by his granddaughters. Cornelius Stowell was a clothier by trade, and started more than a century ago that business in Worcester, in all its branches, his shop being on the opposite corner of Orange street, in the building afterwards owned and occupied as a dwelling by the late Willard Brown, now standing on the west side of Washington street, to which place it was removed when Mr. Brown erected his new dwelling upon its site, now occupied by his son. Cornelius Stowell afterwards took his sons, Peter and Ebenezer, into partnership with him, about 1790, when they began the business of manufacturing woolen goods, and printing calicos, making a specialty of weaving carpets, dyeing and dressing wollen goods at the same time. They had two fulling mills, and dyed fine scarlet and deep blue colors in the best manner. They also built shearing machines. At one time they had six looms of their own invention and construction in operation. The quality of their work may be judged by the fact that they made the first carpets used in the present State House in Boston. Peter's brother, Abel, the old clockmaker of the last century, who made the present clocks in the Old South Church tower and in the old Worcester Bank, had his residence and shop on the west corner of Park and Salem streets. Peter and Abel Stowell married sisters, daughters of Capt. Israel Jennison, and the latter sons William married a daughter of Cornelius Stowell. The house occupied by Abel Stowell was afterwards owned and occupied by the late William Harrington as a hotel from about 1820 to 1836 when Mr. Harrington, who married a daughter of Peter Stowell, built his new residence on Portland street, where he afterwards resided. The hotel occupied by Mr. Harrington was continued a short time by N. R. Tilton and others, and then occupied as a dwelling, other structures having long since occupied its site.

Cornelius Stowell was born in Watertown, Sept. 13, 1724, being the youngest son of Samuel Stowell, clothier, who married in Watertown, in 1714, Sarah ____, had three sons and six daughters, and died March 12, 1748, in that part of Watertown now Waltham. Cornelius, who came to Worcester several years previous, was married here March 22, 1749, at the age of 25. He died here Jan. 3, 1804, aged 79, and his widow Sevilla June 7, 1812, aged 82. They had six sons and five daughters, born between 1751 and 1774, of whom Peter, who married Betsey, daughter of Capt. Israel Jennison, died July 10, 1810, aged 48; and Abel, who married Relief, sister of his brother's wife, died Aug. 3, 1818, aged 66. Ebenezer, born in 1768, after being in company in business here for several years with his father and brother Peter, removed to Sheldon, Vt., where he died Jan. 14, 1849,a ged 81, having never married. Another brother, Thomas, born in 1756, who married Anna Stone from Newton, resoded on the old Stowell homestead at Northville, which has since been in possession of the family for three generations, now owned and occupied by his grandson Frederick T. Stowell. Thomas, who haad three sons, Thomas, Samuel, and William, died in 1799, aged 43.

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In addition to what is stated on page 53 of the descendants of Cornelius Stowell, his daughter Mary married John Adams of Boston; and his granddaughter Eliza, daughter of Peter Stowell, married Thomas Howe, of Worcester, father of George S. and Albert J. Howe, wholesale druggists. The latter's sister Eliza married Wm. A. Smith, and their sister Mary married Wm. A. Noyes, of the former firm of Noyes & Long of Worcester.