The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: ...
New England Historic Genealogical Society
John Fowler . . . 1538, on whose soule . . . Here lieth Alis Fowler the wyf of Robert Fowler esquire, who died . . . . 1540 Behold ... one-fifth of all the ministers in the Presbyterian and Congregational churches in the land are of ministerial descent.