Fowler, Benjamin Garrett

Montauk

Baptist

Montauk

Community leader and Baptist minister.

Benjamin Garrett Fowler was the son of David Fowler, Occom's brother-in-law, and Hannah Garrett. Benjamin Fowler became an elder of the Brothertown community, acting in the role of Baptist minister, and was instrumental in moving the community to Wisconsin in the 1820s.

Brooks, "The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan" (2006), p. 416; Cipolla, "Becoming Brothertown" (2013), p. 45; "Brothertown Indians and the Fowler Family," http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/a/x/Marilyn-J-Maxfield-king/GENE16-0006.html