Bronxville DAR Set to Explore History of Founding Families for 350th with Public Lecture - 'The Fowlers: A Living Legacy'

The following press release is from the Anne Hutchinson-Bronxville Chapter National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR):

In celebration of the Town’s 350th Anniversary, the Anne Hutchinson-Bronxville Chapter National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) is hosting a lecture on The Legacy of the Fowlers - one of the town’s most prominent founding families - at the Bronxville Public Library, 201 Pondfield Road in Bronxville at 11:30AM on Friday, October 24th.

Inspired by the fact that Anne Hutchinson-Bronxville Chapter DAR Member Virginia Kathryn Hefti is a direct descendant of Henry Fowler - the progenitor of this historic American family - the chapter has invited Eastchester Town Historian, Richard Forliano, to give a talk on Hefti’s ancestors as a means of exploring the broader history of the town’s founding 350 years ago.

In addition to signing the Eastchester Covenant in 1665, Fowler - a prosperous English settler - helped to inform the town’s political and social evolution in myriad ways. Anne Hutchinson-Bronxville Chapter DAR Member Virginia Kathryn Hefti - the living legacy of this significant chapter in American history - will be introduced along with other descendants at theOctober 24th lecture.

The lecture, The Fowlers: A Living Legacy, is free and open to the public.

Photo: Standing before the Bronxville Public Library are: Left, Anne Hutchinson-Bronxville Chapter DAR Member and Founder-Descendant Virginia Kathryn Hefti and Eastchester Town Historian Richard Forliano. Photo courtesy of the Anne Hutchinson-Bronxville Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.