The Lowells
Subtitle: And Their Seven Worlds
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1946
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Copyright date: 1946
Subjects: Lowell family; New England -- History
First sentence: In the Month of August, 1638, just three troubled centuries before Neville Chamberlain flew to Munich to pluck the flower safety from the nettle danger and secure peace for our time, Percival Lowle, a solid citizen of Bristol, 'the Venice of the West,' found himself in great disturbance of mind.
Description: John Lowell (1743-1802) was a descendant of Percival Lowle/Lowel/ Lowell (1571-1664) who, with his wife, Rebecca, and family left London in 1639. John married Sarah Higginson (d. 1772) in 1767. In 1774, he married Susan Cabot who died in 1777; and in 1778, he married Russell Tyng who died in 1816. He had nineteen children.