He was the son of Andrew Fowler, a lineal descendant of John Fowler one of the original planters of Guilford, Conn., in 1639 or 1640, by his wife Martha Stone, and was born at Guilford, 10th of June, 1760. He graduated A.B. at Yale in 1783, and received his A.M. degree in i793-c In 1784, he had charge of a school at New Rochelle, and the year following was chosen the first delegate from the parish to the Diocesan Convention. To his exertions, under God, the church in this county is justly indebted; for at the close of the Revolutionary war, he collected the dispersed congregations at Rye, White Plains, New Rochelle and Yonkers, in the capacity of a lay reader. In 1788, he was recommended to the Bishop for holy

a Vestry minutes, April 25, 1807. b Religious Soc. Lib. A. 26

c "Andrew Fowler born in Guilford Aug., 1T2S, and died Oct., 1S15. Martha Stone, born Aug., 1737, died 1794. Child, Rev. Andrew Fowler, born in Guilford, June 10, 1760, died Dec 2!), 1S50, iu Charleston, S. C. The eldest of twelve children. Rec. of Guilford, Conn.

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orders, and was ordained Deacon by Bishop Provoost. in the month of June, 1789, and Priest on the iSthday of the same month, 1790. He commenced his labors as a preacher of the gospel over the united parishes of Brookhaven, Huntington and Oyster Bay, L. I. He remained there but two years, when he was called, as we have seen, to the rectorship of this parish. Upon the 7th of August, 1792, the vestry agreed with the Rev. Andrew Fowler, to officiate as rector, and to pay him for his services the sum of ^70." They also agreed "to put him in possession of the glebe farm, from the first day of May next."