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Sowers, John Andrew, a German, married Sarah Langley, of Boston, about the year 1779, and subsequently settled on the St. Croix, near the site of the present town of St. Andrews. He shortly afterwards removed to St. John and in May, 1782, piloted to Fredericton (then St. Ann's Point) a British war vessel commanded by Capt. John Tilton, brother of the late Clayton Tilton of Musquash, who was great grandfather of Mrs. John Roberts of Wiggin's Cove. Mr. Sowers for many years afterwards exhibited the rich presents which he received from the British officers on that eventful voyage. He removed subsequently to the Grand Lake and settled on Fanjoy's Point and afterwards at Young's Cove, on the farm now owned by Andrew Lipsett, known till recently as the Tamlin Place. Here in the summer of 1820 a large bear entered his field and killed a sheep, when he was short at and wounded by Sowers. Following up the trail, accompanied by Richard Stilwell and Benjamin Ellsworth, Mr. Sowers was suddenly attacked by the bear, and while lying insensible beneath the brute's paws, was saved by the brave Stilwell, who rushed to the spot and struck the animal dead with the butt end of his musket. Mr. Sowers was by trade a ship carpenter. His children were: John, who married Miss Ellsworth; Sarah, who married Gershom Clark; ________, who married Andrew Miller; John and a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters. One son, James H. Sowers, is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Sunbury; the other, Hanford Sowers, is father-in-law of Walter Scott Butler, Esq., M.P.P. for Queen's.
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