When Johannah Mowry was born in 1678, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Nathaniel Mowry, was 34 and her mother, Johannah Inman, was 31. She married Walter Phetteplace on 4 August 1709, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1750, in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, at the age of 72.
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On July 17, 1723, twenty-eight pirates are hung in Newport, Rhode Island.
English: probably from a variant of the Anglo-Norman French personal name Mory, a short form of Amaury (see Amery , Morey ).
History: Roger Mowry (c. 1612–66) emigrated from England to MA before 1634, when he married Mary Johnson in Roxbury, Suffolk County, MA.
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