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Descendants of John Howland

Generation No. 1

1. JOHN⁴ HOWLAND (HENRY³, JOHN², JOHN¹) was born 1592 in Scrooby, Essex/Ferstanton, Huntingshire, England, and died 23 February 1671/72 in Rocky Nook, Kingston, Massachusetts. He married ELIZABETH TILLEY 25 March 1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, daughter of JOHN TILLEY and JOAN HURST. She was born 30 August 1607 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England, and died 21 December 1687 in Swansea, Massachusetts.

Notes for JOHN HOWLAND:
BORN: About 1599*, Fenstanton, Huntindon, England, son of Henry and Margaret(---) Howland
DIED: 23 or 24 February 1673/3, Rocky Nook, Kingston, MA. (The Plymouth Colony Court Records say he died on 23 February 1672, The Plymouth Church Records say he died 24 February).
MARRIED: Elizabeth Tilley, daughter of John and Joan (Hurst)(Rogers) Tilley of the Mayflower, about 1624.
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* The traditional date that has been ascribed to John Howland's birth is "about 1592", and this has never really been questioned. However, a birth about 1599 is clearly a better estimate for the following reasons:

      * John Howland is called a "manservant" in William Bradford's passenger list. Servants were contracted out until the age of 25.             Thus, Howland must have been under 25 in 1620, meaning he would have had to have been born after 1595. Since Howland             signed the Mayflower Compact, he must have been born sometime before 1600 to have been legally old enough to sign.
      * John Howlands wife was born in 1607, and it is most unlikely that he, at the age of 32, married a 17 year old girl as his first             wife. Most men married about age 25, and since his marriage occurred about 1624, this would place his likely birth at 1599.
      * John Howland's last child was born in 1649. If the 1592 date was accepted, he would have fathered a child at the age of 57, a             most unlikely circumstance.
      * William Bradford writes in that John Howland was a "lusty young man" in 1620. It is unlikely that Bradford would call a 28-year       old a "young man". The only other person Bradford called a "young man"in 1620 was John Alden, who was born in 1599.
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John Howland 1592-1672 of London, "a plaine-hearted Christian--evidently inherited Carver's estate and immediately bought his freedom; Married Elizabeth Tiley c.1624; Purchaser, 1626 Undertaker, 1627-41; asst. Govenor, 1633-35 and probably 1629-32; in charge of Kennebec trading post at time of Hocking murder, 1634; apparently held somewhat to blame, for never again in trusted with public office; died Swansea; 9 children.
Sources:
"Saints & Strangers"
"John Howland of the Mayflower"
"Mayflower Quarterly"
"Singers of the Mayflower Compact"
Died: February 23, 1672
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      Gov. Bradford's account: "In a mightie storme a lustie young man called John Howland, coming upon some occasion above ye gratting, was with seele of the ship throwne into ye se; but it pleased God yt ye caught hould of ye top saile halliards which hunge overboard, and rane out at lenght; yet he held his hould till he was held up by ye same rope to ye brine of ye water, and then with a boat hooke and other means got into ye ship again and his life was saved; and though he was something ill with it, yet he lived many years after, and became a profitable member both in Church and commone wealth."
      John was the 13th signer of thee MAyflower Compact, and on 6 December was one of the ten chosen to explore the shores of Massachusetts to find a permanent settlement, while thed others remained on the Mayflower. He was one of Gov. Carver's family, the first governor. Both Carver and his wife were among the 50 pilgrims who died during the first few mmonths.
      About 1626, John Howland married Elizabeth Tilley, 18. She had come with herf parents, who were also victims of the first winter, and was left an orphan. The Pilgrim trip was financed by the Merchant Adventures of England who hoped to be paidd back in furs and ginseng root. In 1626, John was one of those (including Bradford, Brewster, Stanish, etc.) who assumed the colony's debt. At least as early as 1633-1635, he was an assistant or member of the Governor's council, and from 1641-1670 was frenquently a deputy or representative to the General Court. In 1634 he commanded the Pilgrim's Trading Post at Kennebeck, Maine. John and Elizabeth had 10 children, Issac Howland was the fifth, and 8 lived to adulthood and married
      The Plymouth Colony Vital Records recorded: "The 23rd of February 1672 Mr. John Howland, senir of the Town of Plymouth Deceased; he was a Godly man and an ancient proffessor in the wayes of Christ. Hee lived untill he attained above eighty yeares in the world; hee was one of the first Comers into this land and proved a useful instrument of Good in his place and was the last man that was left of those that Came over in the Shipp Called the Mayflower, that lived in Plymouth..."

                  Howland was the 13th signer of Mayflower Compact, 11 Nov 1620, Cape Cod Bay:
                                    THE COMPACT
                        Signed in the cabin of the 'Mayflower", Nav. 21st, New Style, 1620
      "In the name of Gad, amen, we whose names are underwritten, the loyall subjucts of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc and the Ireland King, defender of the faith, &c., haveing undertaken, for the glorie of God, and the advancements of the Christain Faith, and honor our king and countrie, a voyage to plant the first colonie in the northerne part of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly and mutualy in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civill body politick, for our better ordering and preservation and futherence of the ends aforesaid; and by vertue hereof to enacte, constitute and frame such as equqll laws, orderances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the general good of the colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cap-Codd the 11 of November in the year of the raigne of our soveraigne lord, King James of England, Franc and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth ANo Dom 1620."
      John Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, William Brewster, Isaac Allerton, Myles Standish, John Alden, Samuel Fuller, Christpher Martin, Wiliam Mullins, William White, Richard Warren, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Edward Tilley, John Tilley, Frances Cooke, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Tinker, John Ridgdale, Edward Fuller, John Turner, Frances Eaton, James Chulton, John Crackston, John Billington, Moses Fletcher, John Goodman, Degory Priest, Thomas Williams, Gilbert Winslow, Edmund Margeson, Peter Brown, Richard Britteridge, George Soule, Richard Clarke, Richard Gardiner, John Allerton, Thomas English, Edward Dotey, Edward Lister
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More About JOHN HOWLAND:
Burial: 25 February 1671/72, Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Immigration: 26 December 1620, Plymouth, Massachusetts on "Mayflower"

More About ELIZABETH TILLEY:
Baptism: 30 August 1607, Henlow

Children of JOHN HOWLAND and ELIZABETH TILLEY are:

2.	i.	HOPE⁵ HOWLAND, b. 30 August 1629, Plymouth, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts; d. 08 January 1682/83, Barnstable, Mass.
3.	ii.	DESIRE HOWLAND, b. 13 October 1623, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. 11 October 1683, Barnstable, Mass.
4.	iii.	JOHN JR HOWLAND, b. 24 April 1627, Plymouth; d. April 1702, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
	iv.	LYDIA HOWLAND, b. February 1632/33, 1633-Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. 11 January 1709/10, 1710-Massachusetts; m. JAMES BROWN, Abt. 1654, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. 29 October 1710.

Notes for JAMES BROWN:
JAMES BROWNE, son of John Browne was born in 1623, died October 29,1710. He was in Taunton, Massachusetts in 1643 with his father and went with him to Swansea. He is said to have been a Baptist preacher and was chosen assistant in 1665. He Married Lydia Howland, daughter of John Howland who came over on the "Mayflower", children James(2), Dorothy and Jabez
"Northern Pennsylvania"

	v.		ELIZABETH HOWLAND, b. 1634, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. December 1691, OysterBay, Long Island, New York; m. (1) EPHRAIM HICKS, 13 September 1649, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. Unknown; m. (2) JOHN DICKENSON, 10 July 1651, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. Unknown.
	vi.		RUTH HOWLAND, b. 16 September 1637, Kingston, MA; d. 16 October 1679; m. THOMAS CUSHMAN, 17 November 1664, Plymouth, Massachusetts; b. 16 September 1637; d. 23 August 1726.

Notes for RUTH HOWLAND:
another source says she was born in Scituate, Plymouth, Mass.

5.	vii.	JOSEPH HOWLAND, b. Abt. 1640, Rocky Nook, Kingston, Massachusetts; d. 17 January 1702/03, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
6.	viii.	HANNAH HOWLAND, b. 1640, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. 06 July 1681, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts.
7.	ix.	JABEZ HOWLAND, b. 1644, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. 07 April 1708, Bristol, Rhode Island.
8.	x.	ISSAC HOWLAND, b. 15 November 1649, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. 09 March 1723/24, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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