Richard Mowry became an Uxbridge farmer, in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States who "successfully built and marketed equipment to manufacture woolen, linen or cotton cloth", from around the time of the Revolution.
13 Facts About Richard Mowry
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Richard Mowry was born as a fifth generation descendant into a family that was prominent during the 17th and 18th century in southern New England: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
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Richard Mowry's family had a deed from the Native Americans dating from 1666.
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Nathaniel and John Mowry appear to be the first Mowry settlers in the Providence township around 1671.
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Richard Mowry's father died when Mowry was 16, and he learned to be a carpenter at Scituate, Rhode Island.
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Richard Mowry married Phebe Smith of Glocester, who died the following year.
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Richard Mowry married again in 1802, to Isabel Chacc, and had two other children by his third marriage.
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In 1771 at the age of 22 or 23, Richard Mowry began to attend Friends Meetings in Rhode Island.
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Richard Mowry lived in South Uxbridge for the next 60 years.
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Richard Mowry recorded extensive travels in New England and Central New York, and visited over 88 Quaker meetings, possibly marketing his inventions for cider or cloth.
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The reference notes that Richard Mowry was a Quaker preacher and that this tradition and practice shaped early Quaker City and its families.
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Richard Mowry was a carriage builder and a cider press builder, being an expert with "large wooden screws".
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Richard Mowry died at age 86, on January 24,1835, and is buried at the Friends Meeting House Cemetery.