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Descendants of John Howland

Generation No. 4


4. SR. JOHN (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER)4 HOWLAND (HENRY3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born Abt. 1599 in Fenstanton, Huntingdon, England51, and died Bet. February 23 - 24, 1672/73 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts52,53. He married ELIZABETH TILLEY54 Abt. 162454.

Notes for SR. JOHN (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOWLAND:
Caleb Johnson on his Mayflower Web Pages, at http://members.aol.com/calebj/ on Dec. 22, 1999 gives argument for the birth date of John Howland:
"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 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 Howland's 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 were 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. "

also: "John Howland is an ancestor to President George Bush, and to First Lady Edith
(Carrow) Roosevelt (Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt)."

also: "John Howland came on the Mayflower as a servant to John Carver. He is best
remembered for having fallen off the Mayflower during a mighty storm, as recorded by
Bradford:

In sundry of these storms the winds were so fierce and the seas so high, as they could
not bear a know of sail, but were forced to hull for divers days together. And in one of
them, as they thus lay at hull in a mighty storm, a lusty young man called John Howland,
coming upon some occasion above the gratings was, with a seele of the ship, thrown into
the sea; but it pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung
overboard and ran out at length. Yet he held his hold (though he was sundry fathoms
under water) till he was hauled up by the same rope to the brim of the water, and then
with boat hook and other means got into the ship again and his life saved. And though he
was something ill with it, yet he lived many years after and became a profitable member
both in church and commonwealth. "

More About SR. JOHN (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOWLAND:
Date born 2: 1602, Of, Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England55
Ancestry File No.: 8WRK-5P
Baptism: January 16, 1602/03, Holy Trinity, Ely, Cambridge, England56
Burial: Burial Hill, Rocky Hook, Plymouth, Massachusetts57
Immigrated: 1620, On the Mayflower58

More About JOHN HOWLAND and ELIZABETH TILLEY:
Marriage: Abt. 162459
     
Child of JOHN HOWLAND and ELIZABETH TILLEY is:
  i.   ELIZABETH5 HOWLAND, m. JOHN BURSLEY, December 1673, Barnstable, , Mass.60.
  More About JOHN BURSLEY:
Baptism: April 11, 1652, Barnstable, , Mass.61

  More About JOHN BURSLEY and ELIZABETH HOWLAND:
Marriage: December 1673, Barnstable, , Mass.62



5. ARTHUR4 HOWLAND (HENRY3, JOHN2, JOHN1)63 was born Abt. 1605 in Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridge, England64, and died October 30, 1675 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass65. He married MARGARET WALKER66 1626 in Plymouth/, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA67. She was born 1605 in Of, Fenstanton, Huntingdon, England68, and died October 23, 1683 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass69.

Notes for ARTHUR HOWLAND:
SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Publication -- No. 8, COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN MASSACHUSETTS. THE ROCKWELL AND CMURCHILL PRESS, BOSTON:

"HOWLAND, ARTHUR, 1587-1675, Marshfield, Plymouth Colony. Served in Lieutenant
Nathaniel Thomas' Company from Marshfield, 1642.
Howland, Charles W.
Howland, Daniel W. "

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Familytreemaker CD207 Local and Family Histories, MA, 1620-1930, History of the Town of Duxbury, General History (Civil & Military) says while discussing the persecution of the Quakers by Plymouth Colony:

"In 1657 Mr. Arthur Howland was likewise presented to the Court for the same proceedings [entertaining Quakers]; but refusing to give bonds, was committed and fined L4; and also for resisting the constable on his arrest was fined L5. And again shortly afterwards he presented a paper to the Court concerning the Quakers, full of abuse towards the government, for which he was apprehended, but on consideration of his age and infirmities he was suffered to go with a promise of furutre good behavior."

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Howland, Franklyn. History of the Town of Acushnet. Published by the author. Massachusetts. 1907.
Page 303 HOWLAND FAMILY

"Henry1 and his brother Arthur1[brothers of John of the Mayflower] were at Plymouth as early as 1624 and soon after became firm adherents of the principles of the Quaker sect. Most of their descendants for many generations have been members of the Friends' society and those who were not themselves members could name Quaker ancestry. No religious denomination has had more Howland members than the Friends. . . . Hunter an eminent English writer says: "The Pilgrims, too, came of an excellent stock. The soundest if not the noblest blood flowed in their veins." None took a more active, conscientious part in the early civil and religious life of our country than Arthur, Henry and John Howland. Their posterity has been large and many of them have been found in what is now New Bedford, Dartmouth, Westport, Fairhaven and Acushnet. This locality has been called the "Mecca of the Howlands." In 1884 there were ninety-six Howland names in the New Bedford city directory. In the extensive knowledge of the Howland race gained by the research necessary in writing their genealogy the writer has been gratified to note the freedom of their characters from crime and moral degradation. They seem to have been as a people, thrifty, economical and good managers of finance. They are found in the governor's chair, on the judge's
bench, in the United States Senate, and well represented elsewhere in the higher walks in life."

also: "In 1657 Mr. Arthur Howland was likewise presented to the Corut for the same proceedings [entertaining Quakers at his house]; but refusing to give bonds, was committed and fined L4; and also for resisting the constable on his arrest was fined L5. And again shortly afterwards he presented a paper to the Court concerning the Quakers, full of abuse towards the government, for which he was apprehended, but on consideration of his age and infirmities he was suffered to go with a promise of future good behavior."


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The Tombstone Transcription Project of Rootsweb.com lists at
WINSLOW CEMETERY
WINSLOW CEMETERY ROAD, MARSHFIELD, MASS

"THERE IS A LARGE MONUMENT DEDICATED TO EARLY SETTLERS
OF GREEN HARBOR MASSACHUSETTS
(unsure if they are buried here)
Resolved WHITE and wife Judith PEREGRINE
and wife Sarah Gilbert BROOKS
and wife Elizabeth
Edward BOMPASSE and wife Hannah
John BARKER and wife Anna
Anthony SNOW and wife Abigail
John ROUSE and wife Annis
Joseph BEALES and wife Rachel
James PITNEY and wife Sarah
John BRANCH and wife Mary
Arthur HOWLAND and wife Margaret
Samuel BAKER and wife Ellen
John FOSTER and wife Mary
Samuel SPRAGUE and wife Sarah
John PHILLIPS and wife Grace
William SHIRTLEY and wife Elizabeth
Timothy WILLIAMSON Mary
WilliamSHERMAN and wife Prudence
John ADAMS and wife Jane
Thomas BOURN and wife Elizabeth

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Caleb Johnson on his Mayflower Web Pages, at http://members.aol.com/calebj/ on Dec. 22, 1999 says:
"Winston Churchill is descended from John Howland's brother Arthur. "

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The Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia at "http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-plymouth?specfile=/web/data/users/fennell/fennell.o2w&act=surround&offset=1905048&tag=Arthur+Howland+Biography&query=Thomas+Prence" on Dec. 26, 2000 states:

Arthur Howland

1643:

June 6: Records 2:57

John Walker, "sonn in law of Arthur Howland," is ordered before the court to answer charges of "lying wth a bitch." Howlands connection is not clear, unless he is the "said maties".

1644:

November 5: Records 2:77 and 8:38

Howland files a suit against Robert Mendame for 6L. Mendame's wife had brought goods from England for Howland, but sold them and used the money. Mendame had recently sold a parcel of land, eight upland acres and two meadow, to William Hiller for a cow worth six pounds. The cow was given to Howland by the court, who apparently specified that this would be acceptable. Mendame was permitted to bring suit for one year to contest this. John Barnes was party for the plantiff.

1647:

?? Records 12:151

William Paddy, acting for Edmond Freeman sr., sells a tract of land on the north side of the south river to Howland. The land was half of a three hundred acre tract (or was the 1/2 of the tract three hundred acres?), sold for 21 pounds, and had once been granted to Miles Standish and John Alden.

1650:

August 7: Records 8:49

Complained against Walyer Baker and was awarded one pound ten shillings. Somehow this involved getting a suit of clothes from Mr. Floyd of Scitutae, on the warrent of Mr. Hatherly, "provided hee pay....for the making of them."

1651:

October 7: Record 2:174

"Wee further present Arthur Howland, of the town of Marshfield, for not frequenting the publicke assemblyes on the Lords daies."

1654:

June 6: Records 3:49

Howland on the Grand Enquest.

June 20: Records 3:62

Howland had apparently been involved in land disputes with Thomas Doged, concerning the land he had bought from Mr. Freeman. "For the ending of controversies," the court assigned Captain Standish, Mr. Alden, Phillip Delanoy, and Experience Mitchell to visit the site and set the bounds "according to the originall grant." Also see below - May 1, 1655.

1655:

May 1: Records 3:76

Those assigned on June 20, 1654 to lay out the bounds of Howland's lands reported that they had done so. This entry implies that either Standish and Alden or else Dellanoy and Michell had perviously owned the land, for it is described as "sometimes theires in the town of Marshfeild." The court additionally notes that the land is owned by the "successors of Thomas Chillingsworth" as well as by Howland.

October 4: Records 3:90

The court orders Howland and Thomas Doged to hire a surveyor, splitting the costs between them, to bound the disputed land along the lines specified by Standish and Alden.

1656:

May 6: Records 3:97

Thomas Doged appeals to the court once again to make a final settlement on the land purchased from Edmond Freeman by Arthur Howland and Thomas Chillingsworth (decesed). A 12 man jury was to be empaneled at the next court for this purpose; the land lay at the South River in the township of Marshfeild.

June 3: Records 3:102

John Alden empanels a jury to meet at Howland's house on June 18th to settle the land dispute. The jury consisted of Anthony Eames, Tho Bird, Josepth Andrews, Leiftenant Torry, Ensigne Williams, Serjeant Johnson, Christopher Wadsworth, Gorg Soule, Constant Southworth, Gorge Russell, John Russell, and John Hallott.

July 3: Records 3:104

An agreement was finally reached between Howland and Doggett (Doged). It is not clear who was considered in the right in the dispute, if either was; the agreement simply lays out the boundary of the marsh and the uplands.

1657:

December 22: Records 3:124-5

On December 19th, William Collyare alerted Captain Josias Winslow that a Quaker named Robert Huchin had "procured various psons to give meeting to him," against the order of the court. Winslow had heard of an intended meeting at Arthur Howland's home in Marshfeild on Sunday the 20th, and sent constable John Philips to arrest Huchin there. Somebody alerted Huchin and he was not found. On Monday the 21st, Winslow ordered Philips to demand that Howland appear at John Alden's home with Huchin and two of John Roger's sons (Josepth and another). When Philips tried to arrest Huchin, "the said Robert Huchin was opposed and hindered by the same Arthur Howland" so that the constable could not remove him.

More specifically: Phillips arrived to summon Howland to "answare for harboring a Quaker, and suffering and inviting sundry to hear the said Quaker." Seeing Huchin there, he tried to drag him from the house, at which time Howland threw Phillips out the door. Phillipes got ready to charge them, as well as Roger's sons, and Howland said that if he did he would "get either a sword or a gun in the belly of him." Joseph Rogers refused to help Phillipes. When Phillipes returned, Huchin was gone.

Samuell Hunt appeared before the court, saying the Zoeth Howland had said that the devil could preach as good a sermon as the ministers. John Hunt and Tho Delano confirmed this.

Arthur Howland was sentenced to give bond for appearance at court in March. He refused, and was turned over to the chief marshall. Zoeth, Henry, and John (Jr.) Howland were all summoned as well. The second was accused of holding Quaker meetings; the third, of informing Arthur of Phillipes approach.

1657-8:

March 2: Records 3:129

For holding the meetings in his home and inviting others to attend, Howland is sentenced to "find surties for his good behavior," or else be fined four punds. In the margin it notes that he refuses to find surties or to "enter bonds for his good behavior" and must thus pay the fine. Additionally, he is fined five pounds for abusing and threatening a constable. Finally, for "presenting a writing into the Court, which....appeered to bee of dangerous consequence,.....and for makeing knowne the said writing to others," he was sentenced to find surties for his behavior (see below).

1658:

June 1: Records 3:139

Concerning the writing mentioned above, "full of factiouse, seditious, and slanderouse passages," Howland asks pardon of the Court and help from God to not "offend in like manor any more." The court, "considering his age and infermities" agrees but stipulates that on a second offense his prior actions will be taken into account.

1658-9:

March 1: Records 7:95

John Smith Jr., Arthur Howland and his wife Henry Howland and his wife, Zoeth Howland and his wife, John Soule and Goodwife Soule (wife of George, not John), Willam Parker and his wife, and miss Cudworth, are fined ten shillings each for not attending meetings.

1660:

June 8: Records 7:99

Howland and his wife fined one pound ten shillings.

June 13: Records 7:100

Fined 4 pounds.

1666-7:

March 5: Records 4:141

Howland Jr. was fined five pounds for persisting in proposing to Elizabeth Prence against her will.

At the same court, acknowledges owing the king 50 pounds (could this be 5?).

1667:

July 2: Records 4:159

Howland Jr. promises the court he will never again pursue Elizabeth Prence.

1669:

December 8: Records 5:29

Howland called to court along with Phillip Leanard, Willam Norkett, and William Hinksman to answer for "neglect of paying theire rate to the minnestry." Howland was accquitted, "in respect unto his age and low condition." The others were expected to pay.

1676:

June 7: Records 5:196

Howland served on the grand inquest.

1676-7:

March 6: Records 5:224

Howland served on a jury which handled the indictment of the Indians Timothy Jacked (or Canjunke),
Nassamaquat, and Pompacanshe. They were accused of murdering John Knowles, John Tisdall (senior), and Samuell Atkins. The former two were thought to be likely guilty, the third probably innocent. "There not appering further evidence against them to cleare up the case", all three were sent from the colony - the first two due to probable guilt, the third for being a prisoner of war.

At the same court, an Indian named Mamanuett claimed that he and his men had "continewed faitfull" to the English during the "late troubles." They were therefor allowed to return and claim their land that had not been disposed of.

1677:

July 3: Records 3:237

Letters of administration are granted to Howland and to Martha Daman for the administration of the estate of her late husband, John.

1682:

October 31: Records 8:255 and 6:98

Sat on jury, which convicted "Sam the Indian" of raping Sarah Freeman. Banished and whipped rather than killed, for "yett considereing he was but an Indian, and therefore in an incapacity to know the horibleness of the wickedness of this abominable act."

Records 6:97

Made the guardian of Caleb Williamson, of Marshfeild.

1684:

October 28: Records 8:282

Complained against by William Nicarson for not paying him two pairs of cart wheels and ten shillings. Case withdrawn.

More About ARTHUR HOWLAND:
Ancestry File No.: K7HC-XX or MFHZ-MC
Baptism 1: January 16, 1601/02, Holy Trinity, Ely, Cambridge, England70
Baptism 2: Of Marshfield, , England71
Burial: October 30, 1675, Mansfield, Plymouth, MA72
Immigrated: Bef. 1640, to Plymouth, , Mass. from England73

More About MARGARET WALKER:
Ancestry File No.: 1RMZ-HZ5 or 8NT7-D8
Burial: January 22, 1682/83, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts (time from death to burial is too long)74

More About ARTHUR HOWLAND and MARGARET WALKER:
Marriage: 1626, Plymouth/, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA75
     
Children of ARTHUR HOWLAND and MARGARET WALKER are:
  i.   DEBORAH5 HOWLAND, b. 1627, Of Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England76; d. October 16, 1665, , Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts77.
  More About DEBORAH HOWLAND:
Ancestry File No.: 8Q4P-HN
  ii.   MARY HOWLAND78, b. 1629, Of Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England79; d. August 26, 1690, Marshfield, Plymouth, MA80; m. (1) TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON81, June 6, 1653, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA82,83,84,85; b. Abt. 162186; d. August 6, 1676, King Philips War87; m. (2) ROBERT SANFORD, January 22, 1678/79, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA88.
  Notes for MARY HOWLAND:
*** SEE WILLIAMSON FAMILY FOR CONTINUATION OF THIS LINE ***

  More About MARY HOWLAND:
Date born 2: Abt. 1634, Plymouth', 'Massachusetts89
Ancestry File No.: J8JV-6C
Burial: August 26, 1690, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts90
Occupation 1: October 30, 1678, Licensed as Innkeeper, Marshfield91
Occupation 2: October 20, 1681, LICENSED TO RETAIL SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS: Beer, Wine and Liquors91

  Notes for TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON:
The Tombstone Transcription Project of Rootsweb.com lists at
WINSLOW CEMETERY
WINSLOW CEMETERY ROAD, MARSHFIELD, MASS

"THERE IS A LARGE MONUMENT DEDICATED TO EARLY SETTLERS
OF GREEN HARBOR MASSACHUSETTS
(unsure if they are buried here)
Resolved WHITE and wife Judith PEREGRINE
and wife Sarah Gilbert BROOKS
and wife Elizabeth
Edward BOMPASSE and wife Hannah
John BARKER and wife Anna
Anthony SNOW and wife Abigail
John ROUSE and wife Annis
Joseph BEALES and wife Rachel
James PITNEY and wife Sarah
John BRANCH and wife Mary
Arthur HOWLAND and wife Margaret
Samuel BAKER and wife Ellen
John FOSTER and wife Mary
Samuel SPRAGUE and wife Sarah
John PHILLIPS and wife Grace
William SHIRTLEY and wife Elizabeth
Timothy WILLIAMSON Mary
WilliamSHERMAN and wife Prudence
John ADAMS and wife Jane
Thomas BOURN and wife Elizabeth
Robert WATERMAN and wife Elizabeth
Robert CARVER and wife Christian
Rev Edward BUCKLEY
John COURUSSE and wife Desire
John DINCLEY and wife Sarah
Thomas LITTLE and wife Ann
William FOORO and wife Anna
John LOW and wife Elizabeth
Thomas CHILLINGWORTH Joane



  More About TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON:
Ancestry File No.: JZDZ-4G or N7ZW-VC or W9KB-97 or 1QZG-G8J
Burial: August 6, 1676, Cedar Grove Cem., Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts92
Occupation 1: March 4, 1673/74, Licensed as Innkeeper , Marshfield93
Occupation 2: 1655, & 1673 Listed as: SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAY, Marshfield93
Occupation 3: 1656, CONSTABLE, Marshfield93
Occupation 4: March 4, 1673/74, LICENSED TO RETAIL SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS: Beer, Wine and Liquors: Beer93

  More About TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON and MARY HOWLAND:
Marriage 1: June 6, 1653, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA94,95,96,97
Marriage 2: Abt. July 1654, ', 'Massachusetts98
Marriage 3: June 6, 1676, Marshfield', Of, Plymouth, 'Massachusetts99

  More About ROBERT SANFORD:
Ancestry File No.: R2JQ-BB or P4CB-SM or 1QZG-GBX

  More About ROBERT SANFORD and MARY HOWLAND:
Marriage: January 22, 1678/79, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA100
  iii.   MARTHA HOWLAND, b. December 19, 1632, , Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut101; d. December 19, 1732, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts102.
  Notes for MARTHA HOWLAND:
!!! A centurian???

  More About MARTHA HOWLAND:
Ancestry File No.: 8W8K-R8
  iv.   JR ARTHUR HOWLAND103, b. 1640, Of, Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England104; d. 1711, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts105; m. ELIZABETH PRENCE106, December 9, 1667, Marshfield, , Mass.107,108,109,110; b. Abt. 1647111.
  More About JR ARTHUR HOWLAND:
Ancestry File No.: J8JV-8P

  More About ARTHUR HOWLAND and ELIZABETH PRENCE:
Marriage: December 9, 1667, Marshfield, , Mass.112,113,114,115
  v.   ELIZABETH HOWLAND, b. May 17, 1655, Estimate, Duxbury, Plymouth, Mssc116; d. December 17, 1686, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey117.
  More About ELIZABETH HOWLAND:
Date born 2: 1640, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts118
Date born 3: Abt. 1646, Of Plymouth, Plymouth, MA119
Died 2: Aft. 1670120
Died 3: October 12, 1683121
Ancestry File No. 1: V36M-DD or 8WJK-04
Ancestry File No. 2: 1KP7-NNW
Baptism: November 28, 1670, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts122


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