1623 Henry Howland, son of Henry Howland of Fenny Stanton, was apprenticed to Humphrey Howland of the Drapers' Company of London on 1 October 1623. [1]
1633 Henry Howland was among "The Names of the Freemen of the Incorporacon of Plymouth in New England, An: 1633" listed at the beginning of of the first volume of Court Orders of the Colony of New Plymouth. His name appears immediately before those admitted on 1 January 1632/3. [2]
1636/7 Henry Howland was on the list of freeman made "Att the General Court holden at New Plymouth, for the whole Government, the vijth day of March. 1636, in the xijth Yeare of the Raigne of our Soueraign Lord, Charles ..." [3]
c 1638 A complaint that Samuel Howland made in Freetown on 8 July 1707 suggests that he was born about 1638. The complaint stated that he had been chosen constable, but he was "near 70 years old and ... unfit to ride or travel on foot." [4]
c 1645 Sarah Howland "was born about 1645 and died at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, on 2 8m [October] 1712, aged about sixty-seven years." [5]
1650 On 10 June, Mr John Howland was appointed to a committee with full power to determine and conclude a controversy concerning lands called Shawwamett and Pautuxet and protection of the English and Indians. In a report to Governor Bradford, signed also by Henry Howland, the committee recommended that Plymouth Colony relinquish and yield up unto the governor of Massachusetts those lands. "According to our order, wee have found out and marked a new way from Joaneses River to the Massachusetts Path through John Rogers his ground, and are all agreed the said way by us marked out to bee most convenient and least prejudicial." [6]
1659 On 7 June, Henry Howland of Duxburrow was named as a Quaker encourager of such and lost the freedom of the corporation (of Plymouth Colony) and was disenfranchised and was ordered to appear in August to be convicted and censured. [7]
1670 Henry Howland dated wrote his will on November 28. He bequeathed "all my housing both dwelling house and barn, with all my lands both upland and meadow ... within the township of Duxburrow ... unto my son Joseph Howland only during my wife's life she shall have and enjoy the new room to herself for her own use" ... to "my son Joseph Howland four oxen and two heifers and one horse with all the tackling ... also a bed with things belonging thereunto, as also my fowling piece" ... to "my son Joseph Howland out of the forementioned houses and lands and cattle shall pay or cause to be paid unto my son Zoeth Howland £20 ... as also 12d. apiece to all his brothers and sisters and their children now surviving" ... to "my daughter Sarah two heifers and two steers and one mare now running at Ponaganset, as also one bed and bedding thereunto belonging" ... to "my son John one musket" ... to "my daughter Elizabeth one cow" ... "my old mare now running at Ponagansett unto my son Samuell Howland" ... to "my son Joseph Howland two acres of meadowland ... at ... Gurnett's Nose marsh" ... to "my daughter Mary 10s." ... to "my daughter Abigaill 10s. to be paid by my son Joseph who is to sell a barrel of cider and to pay it out of that"; to "my two sons John and Samuell each of them a barrel of cider" ... to "my loving wife Mary Howland" residue." [8]
1670/71 Henry Howland died on January 1 in Duxbury. [9]
1670/71 The Inventory of Henry Howland's estate was taken on January 14. It included "books" valued at 10s. Henry Howland's will was proved on March 8. [10]
1674 Mary Howland dated her will on May 8. She described herself as "sometimes the wife of Hennery Howland now deceased" and bequeathed £1 to "my daughter Abigaill Young" ... £1 to "my son Zoeth Howland" ... to "my son John Howland my house at Ponagansett"... £1 to "my daughter Mary Cudworth" ... £1 to "my son Samuel Howland" ... £1 "my daughter Sarah Denis" ... £1 to "my daughter Elizabeth Allin" ... and the residue to "my son Joseph Howland." [11]
[1] Clarence Almon Torrey, "The Howland Ancestry," The American Genealogist 14 (1937-1938), 214-215, at 214, [AmericanAncestors].
[2] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, Vol. 1, Court Orders. 1633-1640 (Boston: William White, 1855), 4, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[3] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, Vol. 1, Court Orders. 1633-1640 (Boston: William White, 1855), 52, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[4] Robert S. Wakefield and Robert M. Sherman, "Henry Howland of Duxbury, Massachusetts, 1633," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 75 (1987), 105-116, 216-225, and 278-288, at 112.
[5] Robert S. Wakefield and Robert M. Sherman, "Henry Howland of Duxbury, Massachusetts, 1633," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 75 (1987), 105-116, 216-225, and 278-288, at 216.
[6] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, Vol. 2, Court Orders. 1641-1651 (Boston: William White, 1855), 160, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[7] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, Vol. 3, Court Orders. 1651-1661 (Boston: William White, 1855), 167, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[8] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1017, citing MD 19:32-33, citing PCPR 3:1:26, [AmericanAncestors].
[9] Robert S. Wakefield and Robert M. Sherman, "Henry Howland of Duxbury, Massachusetts, 1633," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 75 (1987), 105-116, 216-225, and 278-288, at 105.
[10] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1017, citing MD 19:33, citing PCPR 3:1:27, [AmericanAncestors].
[11] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 1017, citing PCPR 3:2:10, [AmericanAncestors].