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Andy,
My great-grandmother Mary Ellen "Minnie" Odell is from this line. The original spelling of the family name -- which was still being used in her generation -- was the English Odell, not the entirely different Irish name O'Dell. For some unknown reason, more recent descendants started using the Irish name rather than the original English name. So, for the longest time, I thought my great-grandmother's people were from Ireland!
On your query: The only Vowles/Vowels/Fowels I have found in early Connecticut and then in Rye is Richard Vowles who showed up in Connecticut records in 1662:
Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776 on-line at: http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/default.cfm
Volume 01, Page 388 "Richard Vowles is made free of this Corporation and sworne to the office of a Constable for and within ye Plantat'n of Greenwich for ye yeare ensueing, and vntill a new be sworne." (October 9 1662)
Volume 01, Page 389 "Richard Vowles is admitted freeman and sworne to the office of a Constable for and within the Plantation of Greenwich for ye yeare ensueing, and vntill a new be sworne." (October 9 1662)
Volume 01, Page 413 "Rich: Vowels is appoynted Constable for the Town of Hastings, and Mr. Bud is to g[iue him his oath.]" (October 8, 1663)
Volume 02, Pages 24, 26 Richard Vowels is listed as a "deputy" at the General Session held at Hartford October 12, 1665. His vote on one issue is recorded.
Volume 02, Page 106: He is listed as deputy "Richard Fowels" at the Court of Election held at Hartford May 13, 1669.
Richard was listed as "of Ry" in a December 13, 1665, Greenwich land transaction(Genealogical And Family History Of Southern New York And The Hudson River Valley. A Record of the Achievements Of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building Of A Nation, New York Lewis Historical Publishing Co. 1913, Vol. 1 page 394).
Richard's son Jonathan was made a freeman of Rye in 1670:
Colonial Connecticut Records, Volume 02, Page 128 Court at Hartford held May 12, 1670, "among those propownded for freemen" "of Ry" " Jonath: Fowles. . . ."
Assuming Jonathan was at least 21 when he was made a freeman, he was born in the 1640s, as apparently was Sarah Vowles.
Janice
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