John Lowell was born 17 June 1743 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States to John Lowell (1704-1767) and Sarah Champney (1704-1756) and died 6 May 1802 Roxbury, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States of unspecified causes. He married Sarah Higginson (1744-1772) 1767 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. He married Susanna Cabot (1754-1777) 31 May 1774 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. He married Rebecca Russell (1747-1816) 25 December 1778 in Massachusetts, United States.
Hon John Lowell II "The Old Judge" was an American lawyer, selectman, jurist, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation. He was a federal judge appointed to the Massachusetts District by Pres Washington.
Known within his family as “The Old Judge,” distinguishing him from the proliferation of Johns, John Lowell is considered to be the patriarch of the Boston Lowells. He, with each of his three wives, established three distinct lines of the Lowell clan that, in turn, propagated celebrated poets, authors, jurists, educators, merchants, bankers, national heroes, activists, innovators and philanthropists. John Lowell, his descendants, and many other well established New England families defined American life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Marriage and Family
2nd Marriage:
- Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817) - Boston businessman, namesake of city Lowell, Massachusetts, founder of Boston's first textile mill, the Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham, Massachusetts.
- Susan Cabot Lowell (1776-1816) -
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Ann Cabot Lowell (1768-1810) | |||
| John Lowell (1769-1840) | 6 August 1769 Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States | 12 March 1840 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | Rebecca Amory (1771-1842) |
| Sarah Champney Lowell (1771-1851) | |||
| Charles Lowell (1772-) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817) | 7 April 1775 Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States | 10 August 1817 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | Hannah Gardner Jackson (1776-1815) |
| Susan Cabot Lowell (1776-1816) | 26 December 1776 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States | 26 February 1816 | Benjamin Gorham (1775-1855) |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Rebecca Russell Lowell (1779-1853) | 17 May 1779 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States | 11 May 1853 Massachusetts, United States | Samuel Pickering Gardner (1767-1843) |
| Charles Russell Lowell (1782-1861) | 15 August 1782 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States | 20 January 1861 Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States | Harriet Bracket Spence (1783-1850) |
| Elizabeth Cutts Lowell (1783-1864) | |||
| Mary Lowell (1786-1789) | |||
Siblings
References
- John Lowell - disambiguation
- Lowell in Massachusetts -
- Amory Family (Boston) -
- John Amory Lowell (1799-1881)/immigrant_ancestors - early Colonial New England immigrant ancestors
Residences
Footnotes (including sources)
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