Descendants
His eldest surviving son Samuel Nowell (1634–1688) graduated from Harvard College in 1653, and was chaplain under General Josiah Winslow in King Philip's War.
The founder of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, was a descendant of Nowell
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