Henry HOWLAND

Male Abt 1603 - 1671  (68 years)


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  • Name 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]
    Birth Abt 1603  Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Gender Male 
    Death 1 Jan 1670/1  Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Person ID I30003  Main Tree
    Last Modified 13 May 2021 

    Father Henry HOWLAND,   b. 1564, Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 May 1635, Fen Stanto, Hunts, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother Margaret ?,   b. 1567, Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jul 1629, Fenny, Stanton, Hunts, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 26 Apr 1600  Ely, Cambridge, Eng., (st. Mary) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F05335  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary,   b. England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jun 1674, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1628  [4
    Children 
     1. Abigail HOWLAND,   b. 1628, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
    +2. Zoeth HOWLAND,   b. 1631, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jan 1676, Killed by the Indians at Pocassett in the middle of King Philip's War Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years)  [Birth]
    +3. Samuel HOWLAND,   b. poss. 1640, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1716 (Age 76 years)  [Birth]
     4. John HOWLAND,   b. 1641   d. Bef 8 Aug 1687, Freetown, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years)  [Birth]
     5. Mary HOWLAND,   b. 1643  [Birth]
     6. Sarah HOWLAND,   b. Abt 1645, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Oct 1712, Portsmouth, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)  [Birth]
     7. Elizabeth HOWLAND,   b. 1647, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1712 (Age 66 years)  [Birth]
     8. Joseph HOWLAND,   b. 1649, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jun 1692 (Age 43 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F10205  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 May 2021 

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  • Sources 
    1. [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).

    2. [S5366] Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, "Little Compton Families" Vol. I, Little Compton, Rhode Island.

    3. [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.

    4. [S3569] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration - Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. II.

    5. [S02580] Lineages of Members of the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims.