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Abt 1603 - 1671 (68 years)
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Henry HOWLAND [2, 3, 4] |
- The youngest (at least the last mentioned in the will of Humphrey) of the Howlands who have been heretofore referred to as arriving at Plymouth probably before 1625, was without doubt Henry. It is on record that he was a brother of Arthur, and they all doubtless held the same family relationship to each other.....
Search has been made in vain for his name on records of departures from England and arrivals in this country. The first mention made of him in New England is that in the allotment of cattle to the different families in Plymouth in 1624, he appears as the owner of the "black cow." On the first page of Vol. 1 of the curt records of new Plymouth, is found in a list of freemen, under date of 1633, the name of "Henery Howland." On the 25th of March of the ame year he is taxed "s.9 for the publike vse,......rated in corne at vi s p bushell." His thrift is shown in the fact that on the 27th of March, 1634, he is on the tax list for 18s.
He appears in Duxbury among its earliest settlers, some of the first inhabitants of Plymouth locating themselves there across the harbor, on the north side of the bay. here he is referred to as living "by the bay side, near Love Brewster's" and the record reads that he was "one of the substantial landholders and freemen."
The old records of Plymouth colony say that "Att a Courte held ye 5 of Jan., An 1635." Henry Howland was chosen "cunstable for Duxberry.".....
In 1640 he purchases five acres of upland and one acre of marsh meadow in Duxbury, the price which he paid being "Twelve bushells of Indian Corne." For several years he was surveyor of highways in the town. In 1643 he was on a list of freemen of Duxbury, and of men able to bear arms. He served on the "Grand Inquest" (grand jury) in 1636, '38, '39, '40, '49, '51, '52, '53, '56.
He was evidently placed on the next grand jury, for his name appears in 1657, June 3d, on a list of tose who refused "to serve on the Grand Enquest". The apparent reason for this is that he had joined the Friends' sect, which was just beginning to spread in America, and the duties were such that he could not conscientiously perform them...
At the court of October, 1657, Henry "was summonsed to appear at the next March Court to answare for intertaining Quakers meetings in his house." he appeared at the court referred to, and was fined 10s....
Toward the latter part of his life he became a large possessor of real estate. In 1652 he was associated with others in a large tract of land in Dartmouth. On the 2d of April, 1659, together with twenty-six others, he bought of Wamsutta and Pattapanum what was then called Assonet and is now Freetown. They gave 20 coats, 2 rugs, 2 iron pots, 2 kettles and one little kettle, 8 pairs shoes, 6 pairs stockings, 1 dozen hats, 2 dozen hatchets, and 2 yards broadcloth. At the division, in 1660, of "yeffreeman's land att Taunton River," which was this purchase, he received for his share the sixth lot. This was afterwards inherited by his son Samuel. He was one of the grantees of Bridgewater, but probably never lived there. In 1664 he bought a large tract of land in Mettapoisett (Swanzey). [1]
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Birth |
Abt 1603 |
Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire [4, 5] |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1 Jan 1670/1 |
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts [2, 3, 4] |
Person ID |
I30003 |
Main Tree |
Last Modified |
13 May 2021 |
Father |
Henry HOWLAND, b. 1564, Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England d. 17 May 1635, Fen Stanto, Hunts, England, Great Britain (Age 71 years) |
Relationship |
Birth |
Mother |
Margaret ?, b. 1567, Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England d. 30 Jul 1629, Fenny, Stanton, Hunts, England (Age 62 years) |
Relationship |
Birth |
Marriage |
26 Apr 1600 |
Ely, Cambridge, Eng., (st. Mary) |
Family ID |
F05335 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Mary, b. England d. 16 Jun 1674, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
Marriage |
Abt 1628 [4] |
Children |
| 1. Abigail HOWLAND, b. 1628, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts [Birth] |
+ | 2. Zoeth HOWLAND, b. 1631, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts d. 21 Jan 1676, Killed by the Indians at Pocassett in the middle of King Philip's War (Age 45 years) [Birth] |
+ | 3. Samuel HOWLAND, b. poss. 1640, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts d. 1716 (Age 76 years) [Birth] |
| 4. John HOWLAND, b. 1641 d. Bef 8 Aug 1687, Freetown, Massachusetts (Age 46 years) [Birth] |
| 5. Mary HOWLAND, b. 1643 [Birth] |
| 6. Sarah HOWLAND, b. Abt 1645, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts d. 2 Oct 1712, Portsmouth, Rhode Island (Age 67 years) [Birth] |
| 7. Elizabeth HOWLAND, b. 1647, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts d. Aft 1712 (Age 66 years) [Birth] |
| 8. Joseph HOWLAND, b. 1649, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts d. 15 Jun 1692 (Age 43 years) [Birth] |
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Family ID |
F10205 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
13 May 2021 |
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| Death - 1 Jan 1670/1 - Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
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Sources |
- [S5459] Franklyn Howland, "A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland, and their Descendants, of the United States and Canada", (Franklyn Howard - New Bedford, Mass, - 1885).
- [S5366] Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, "Little Compton Families" Vol. I, Little Compton, Rhode Island.
- [S10118] William M. Emery and William W. Crapo, The Howland Heirs being the Story of a Family and a fortune and the Inheritance of a Trust.
- [S3569] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration - Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. II.
- [S02580] Lineages of Members of the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims.
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