Family Group of Henry Howland

HENRY HOWLAND   ( Henry, John, John, John ) was born November 25, 1604 in Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England, and died January 17, 1670/71 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 1. He married MARY ( ? NEWLAND ? 10, daughter of WILLIAM NEWLAND and AGNES GREENWAY ? ), Abt. 1623.

Notes for HENRY HOWLAND  

Time Line for Henry Howland ... developed from research data

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"Howland, Henry, born England; died Duxbury, Mass., Jan 17, 1671... Henry resided for a while in Plymouth, but became an early settler in Duxbury "by the bayside, near Love Brewster." He was a surveyor of highways, and was able to bear arms in 1643. As a Quaker he suffered the persecutions of the times. On April 2, 1659 Henry with 26 others bought of the Indians what is now Freetown, for a few old coats, rugs, iron pots, etc. including "one little kittle". In 1664 he purchased a large portion of land in Mattapoisett (Swansea). Henry was owner of the sixth lot in Freetown. However, his sons, John and Samuel, really became the actual settlers." 5

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"HENRY HOWLAND - A brother of 1620 Mayflower passenger, John Howland, Henry Howland was in Plymouth at least as early as 25 March 1633, when his name appears on the tax list, and he was also on the original freeman list. On 8 April 1633, Walter Harris had his indenture transferred to Henry Howland. On 5 January 1635/36 Henry became the constable of Duxbury. He was frequently a member of trial and grand juries. On 3 June 1657, he, John Tompson, Morris Truant, Ralph Allen, and Thomas Greenfield refused to serve on the grand jury. On 2 March 1657/58, the same day his brother Arthur was fined for permitting a Quaker meeting in his house and for resisting the constable of Marshfield in the execution of his office, Henry Howland was fined ten shillings for entertaining a meeting in his house contrary to court orders. On 7 June 1659 the court, referring to an order disenfranching Quakers and other offenders, gave notice to four men to appear in court the following August, and on 6 October 1659 Howland had his freeman status taken away from him. On 1 May 1660 Henry Howland was charged with entertaining another man's wife in his house after her husband had complained to him, and for permitting a Quaker meeting in his house and entertaining a foreign Quaker. He stiffly denied the first charge, and the court noted that the evidence 'did not appeer to make it out,' but he was convicted on the Quaker charges. On the 2nd of March 1657/58 he was fined for entertaining a meeting of Quakers in his home. On the 6th of Oct 1659 he and his brother-in-law, William Newland, were were sentenced "to bee defranchised of their freedom of this corpation". 4

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He made his will 28 November 1670, and he named his wife Mary (her surname is not known; they were possibly married in England), his sons Zoeth, Joseph, John, and Samuel, and his daughters Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, and Abigail.   Will was probated on March 8, 1670/71. 8

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Henry Howland January 14, 1670/1671
Plymouth Colony Wills, vol. III, p. 27
THE INVENTORY OF HENRY HOWLAND (note: Probate)

A true Inventory of the estate viz: of the goods and Chattles of Henery Howland of Duxborrow: late deceased exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the eight of March 1670; on the oath of Ioseph Howland the sonne of the said Henery Howland

• Impr: To 4 oxen att 18 00 00
• Item To two steers 06 00 00
• Item To 3 Cowes 09 00 00
• Item To 5 heiffers 13 00 00
• Item To 1 old mare att Ponagansett 02 00 00
• Item To 1 younge mare and a Colt att Ponagansett 03 10 00
• Item To 1 horse att home and a smale mule 06 00 00
• Item To 10 swine 04 00 00
• Item To Cart plow & plow Irons with 2 Cheines 2 boxes & yoakes 02 10 00
• Item To goods in the new Rome as 2 beds 1 feather bed and a flocke bed with the Couerings 06 00 00
• Item to six paire of sheets 05 00 00
• Item To 1 Chest 1 Table 3 Chaires and stooles 01 00 00
• Item To his wearing Clothes with his purse 10 04 00
• Item To new cloth with silke and buttons (that was to make him a Coate) 02 10 06
• Item To 23 yards of New Cloth of theire owne makeing 05 15 00
• Item To one bed in the middle Rome 05 00 00
• Item To 3 beds aboue in the Chambers 10 10 00
• Item To one warming pan 00 04 00
• Item To 2 old Chestes & 2 old boxes 00 12 00
• Item To Table linnine 02 10 00
• Item To pewter and some earthen potts & Cups & other smale things 01 05 00
• Item To brasse and Iron 03 00 00
• Item To earthen and wooden thinges 01 05 00
• Item To 2 guns with one old Rapier 02 15 00
• Item To 10 barrells of Sider 04 00 00
• Item To 15 bushells of Mault 16 bushells of Indian Corne fiue bushells of wheate and 7 bushells of peases 07 14 06
• Item To meat as beife porke bacon 03 00 00
• Item To 1 old Cannooe & axes wedges old barrells hogsheds and other smale lumber as hoes sythes &c: 02 00 00
• Item to a bridle saddle and a pannell 00 12 00
• Item To a fier shouell Tonges gridjron Chaffing dish and one smoothing Iron 00 12 00
• Item To bookes 00 10 00
• Item To about 20 pound of feathers 01 00 00

Taken and aprised the 14 day of the 11th month 1670) by Constant Southworth, Samuell Nash, Iohn Soule;

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Franklyn Howland; A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur , Henry , and John Howland, and their Descendants; Printed by E. Anthony & Sons, Printers and Publishers in New Bedford, Mass.; pg.63
"He arrived in Plymouth, Ma. in 1623 on the Anne, sister ship of the Mayflower. His brother John arrived on Dec 26, 1620. He was known to be one of the largest land holders in Duxbury and a member of the Freeman (Quakers). He had been apprenticed to his brother Humphrey at the Drapers Co. in London, England before his emigration to America."

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Excerpted and Reprint from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, "Mayflower Source Record", (Genealogical Publicating Co, Inc Baltimore 1986), pg 30, Extracted forom the early probate Records of Bristol County, with note from the Registry of Deeds and Town Records.
"Samuel, John and Zoeth, were the sons of Henry Howland, of Duxbury, said Henry being one of the 26 origional proprietors of Freetown. Henry Howland died in 1670, and Mary his wife died June 16, 1674."

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"Henry, Daxbury, brother of 1st John and 1st Arthur, appeared as early as 1633, and m. Mary Newland, and had Joseph, m. Rebecca, d. of John Huzzy of Hampton; Zoeth; John, m. Mary Walker; Samuel removed to Freetown; Sarah, m. Robert Dennis of Newport; Elizabeth; Mary, m. James Cudworth; Abigail, m. John Young." 10

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The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: Biographical, by the American Historical Society, Inc., 1920. For an unknown reason there are several copies of the book with the same title page, but with different contents. From pages 118-20 of one edition. Henry Howland, the founder, appeared early in Plymouth Colony, being first of record in 1624. He was made a freeman in 1633; was an early settler in Duxbury, Mass., and was there chosen constable in 1635; owned land in Dartmouth in 1652; was one of the twenty-seven purchasers of what is now Freetown, Mass., and finally ended his days in the Duxbury homestead. He married Mary Newland, and reared a large family, this branch tracing through Zoeth, their second son.

Notes for MARY (? NEWLAND ?):  

Duxbury Deaths: Mary, wid. Hennery (Hoowland), Aug. 16, 1674. 24

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From the book, "SEVENTEENTH CENTURY COLONIAL ANCESTORS of Members of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century" compiled by Mary Louise M. Hutton, pg.133: Howland, Henry (_-1671) Mass.; m. Mary Newland; juror; landowner.

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Robert S. Wakefield and Robert M. Sherman,
"Henry Howland of Duxbury, Mass, 1633."
National Genealogical Society Quarterly (June 1987): 75:105

Neither Wakefield & Sherman in the NGSQ articles on Henry Howland and his descendants nor Robert Charles Anderson in his "The Great Migration Begins" accept Mary Newland as proven to be the wife of Henry Howland.
- Although she is often called Mary Newland, no evidence has been found to verify this claim.

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Wakefield published an article on Henry Howland in the National Genealogical Quarterly ca. 1998 which stated that Henry did not marry Mary Newland, and that she married someone else. Henry married a Mary, last name unknown. It is believed that Henry married in England prior to coming to the colony. He first shows up in Plymouth records in 1634. Henry is the son of Henry of Fen Stanton, England. We know this from the will of his brother, Humphrey a draper in London. Humphery mentions his brother John, Arthur and Henry in his will. Humphery's will was discovered in 1955, and is the cite to the relationship of the three.

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A Brief Genealogical and Bio. Hist. of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland; Franklyn Howland; New Bedford, MA, 1885.

p.18:   Will of Humphrey Howland, made 28 May 1646, names brothers George of East, London, and Arthur, John, and Henry.

p. 67:   Will of Henry Howland; son John Howland; son Joseph Howland; son Zoeth Howland; Dau. Sarah; "my" Elizabeth; son Samuel Howland; Dau. Mary; Dau. Abigail; Made 28 Nov. 1670; Signed Henery Howland; Wit: Samuel Nash, John Sprague; Will exhibited to the court at Plymouth 8 March 1671 on the oaths of Samuel Nash and John Sprague.

p. 68:   Henry marr. Mary Newland. Where and when she was born does not appear.
Will of Mary Howland sometimes the wife of Hennery Howland now dec'd; dau. Abigail Young; son Zoith Howland; son John Howland; dau. Mary Cudworth; son Samuel Howland; dau. Sarah Denis; dau. Elizabeth Allin; son Joseph Howland;
Made 8th day 3rd month, 1674;
Mark (M) of Mary Howland;
Wit: Ralph Allin, John Sprague;
John Sprague attested to will on 26th 2nd month 1674;
John Allin and Ralph Allin attested to will on 8 April 1675.

p. 69 - 76:   Family information:
Henry and wife Mary probably died at the old Duxbury homestead; Henry on 17,1,1671 and Mary on 17,6,1674;
Children:
Joseph, b. in Duxbury, d. 15,6,1691, m. 4,3,1683 Rebecca, dau. of John Huzzey of Hampton, NH. Rebecca m. 2nd, 6,3,1695 Samuel Collins. Zoeth, b. in Duxbury, d. 31,1,1676, killed by Indians, m. 10th month 1656 to wife Abigall. Abigail m. 2d, 2,12,1678 to Richard Kirby, Jr. John, Davis' Plymouth says this John m. Mary Walker. My belief is he never married. Samuel, b. in Duxbury, d. 1716, wife's name was Mary. Sarah, m. 16,11,1672 Robert Dennis of Portsmouth, RI Elizabeth, m. Jedediah Allen in 1691. He was probably son of George Allen. Mary, m. James Cudworth of Duxbury Abigail, m. John Young 2,9,1678; He was probably son of John Young who "was maried unto ... 13 Dec 1648".

Children of HENRY HOWLAND and MARY (? NEWLAND ?):

1. SAMUEL HOWLAND 2, b. Abt. 1646 3, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 3; d. May 07, 1716, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts; m. (1) MARY SAMPSON , Bef. June 02, 1681; m. (2) MARY MERRIHEW 6 23, July 17, 1708.
    
2. ZOETH HOWLAND 20, b. January 31, 1635/36, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusettes; d. January 01, 1675/76, Puncatest, Newport, Rhode Island; m. ABIGAIL, October 10, 1656, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusettes 21.
    
3. ELIZABETH HOWLAND 22, b. 1647, Duxbury, Plymouth, Mass; d. Aft. September 15, 1711, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, NJ; m. JEDEDIAH ALLEN, 1668, Sandwich, Barnstable, Mass.
    
4. SARAH HOWLAND 9, b. Abt. 1650, Duxborough, Plymouth, MA; d. October 02, 1712, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island; m. ROBERT DENNIS 10, November 16, 1672, Duxborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

   Notes for SARAH HOWLAND:

   Josiah Vining b. 12/8/1729 Abington, Plymouth, MA (The Vining Families, Chap. 3) - d. 1774 - m. 1/31/1750 (William Dawes Family/Henry A. Holland 1878) Pembrooke, , MA Hannah Abigail Dawes (Pembrooke,MA Vital Records,) (Daughter of Samuel Dawes & Sarah Howland; Sarah's father was Henry Howland, brother of John Howland who came over on the Mayflower; (Ref. Hazel Spencer Howard)) (The Vining Families, Chap. 3) b.1729 East Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA - Josiah & Hannah had 6 children. (The Vining Families, Chap. 3) They removed to Norton, MA where they spent several years.

5. JOSEPH HOWLAND 11, b. Abt. 1635, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. June 15, 1692; m. REBECCA HUZZEY 12, May 04, 1683, Hampton, NH.
    
6. JOHN HOWLAND 13, b. November 16, 1633, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. August 18, 1687, Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts; m. MARY WALKER 14 15, January 12, 1684/85, Duxbury, Plymouth, Mass.
    
7. MARY HOWLAND 16, b. Abt. 1640, Duxburrow,; d. Aft. November 04, 1699, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; m. JAMES CUDWORTH, Bef. 1665, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

   Notes for MARY HOWLAND:

   "Capt. James, the oldest son [of General James Cudworth], had lands in Freetown, in his father's right, and my have resided there for a time, but most of his children are recorded in Scituate. They were mary born 1667, Sarah 1669, Capt. James 1670, who deceased at Freetown, 1729, Joanna 1671, (wife of Zachary Colman 1696), Elizabeth 1672, Abigail 1674, John 1677. John (last named) settled in Scituate, and left sons John born 1706, James 1715, both of whom left sons.
   "Capt. James, sen. decesaed before 1699. His widow Mary deceased 1699, leaving legacies 'to sons James and John, and daughters Mary, Sarah, Joanna Colman, and Eliz. and Abigail.'
   "John (born 1706, above named) married Mary Briggs, 1731, his sons were John, jr. and Capt. Joseph. John, jr. married Elizabeth Clap 1772, and had sons John, Job, Charles, Abiel, Arvin. This family resided on Hooppole neck. Capt. Joseph married Elizabeth Souther 1775, and has sons Elijah of Scituate and Peter of Boston" 7

8. ABIGAIL HOWLAND 17, b. 1629, England; d. April 07, 1692, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts 18; m. JOHN YOUNG 14, December 13, 1648, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts 19.
    

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