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Stephen Stow

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Kate Upton — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 358 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Stow 
  • Mother:
  • Esther Mould   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 May 1726 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Feb 1777 
  • Death Location:
  • Milford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Milford Cemetery, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Freelove Baldwin
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1753 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Esther Stow (Ahnentafel No:179 )

  • Notes: 

  • In 1853 a memorial marker for Stephen Stow was placed in the Milford Cemetery and has the following inscription:

    To administer to the want and soothe the miseries of these sick and dying soldiers, was a work of extreme self denial and danger; as many of them were suffering from loathsome and contagious maladies.

    Stephen Stow voluntarily left his family to relieve these suffering men, he contracted disease from them, died, and was buried with them. He had already given four sons to serve in the War for Independence. To commemorate this self sacrificing devotion to his country, and to humanity, the Legislature of Connecticut resolved that his name should be inscribed upon this monument.

• Sources for Stephen Stow

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Middletown, p. 440, Birth record for Stephen Stowe.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Milford, p. 144, Death record for Stephen Slow [sic].
  • ³ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A110930.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/12/2014).
  • ⁵ Abbott, Susan Woodruff, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. (1979), 18-19, 713-714.
  • ⁶ Root, Mary Philotheta, ed., Chapter Sketches, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution: Patron Saints, New Haven, Connecticut: Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution (1901), 339-341.

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