HOWLAND, Arthur

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• Name	HOWLAND, Arthur
  Birth	1591	Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England
  Christening	16 Jan 1602	Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Oct 1675	Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  Burial	30 Nov 1675	Mansfield, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
  WAC	17 Jan 1934	LOGAN
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  Person ID	I53488	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Father	HOWLAND, Henry ,   b. Abt 1574, Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, Englandd. 17 May 1635, Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England (Age 61 years)
  Mother	AIRES, Anne Margaret ,   b. 1567, Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, Englandd. 30 Jul 1629, Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	26 Apr 1600	Ely, Cambridgeshire, England   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F15242	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	REID, Margaret ,   b. 1593, England Englandd. 22 Jan 1683, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F26340	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Arthur Howland, the oldest of three brothers came to New Plymouth about1623/4 with his brother Henry, where he lived a few years and then becamea landholder and resident of Marshfield, Massachusetts. In 1640 he wasgranted fifty acres of land "and some meadow" at the North River. On the2nd of July, 1638, three hundred acres of upland, in what is nowMarshfield, was granted to Capt. Miles Standish and Mr. John Alden, lyingon the north side of South River, bounded on the east by Beaver Pond, andon the west by a brook. On the 14th of March 1644/5, this tract was soldto Edmund Freeman for 71 pounds, 10 shillings. Three hundred acres ofthis place aftwards came into the possession of William Partridge, whoconveyed it, in 1647, to Arthur Howland for 21 pounds sterling; 13 poundsin money and the balance on "corne and cattle," the ordinary pay of thecountry. Arthur Howland lived and died on this Marshfield estate, and fivegenerations lived and are buried there. Arthur was a man of firmness, of uprightness, full of Christian zeal,and though not actively interested in the civil affairs of the colony,was greatly respected for his wealth of character. He accepted at an early day the doctrines of the Society of Friends, and amidst the persecutions of them in the 17th century, was an earnest, faithful defender of their faith. His house at Marshfield, it appears, was the headquarters of the persecuted Friends, and he courageously "entertayned the forraigne Quakers who were goeing too & frow in some of the townes of the govment, producing great disturbance." On Monday 21 Dec. 1657 thetown constable, John Phillips, tried to arrest him and Robert Huchin, a foreign Quaker (that is, not of the town), but Arthur Howland, then aged about 70, threw Phillips out of his house. Surrendering the next day, he refused to post bond and was imprisoned. While in jail he wrote a letter to the General Court, which met 2 March 1658 and held that the letter,"on the pusing therof, appeered to be full of factiouse, seditious,slanderouse passages, to be of dangerouse consequence," so that he was sentenced by the Court to pay 5 pounds for risisting the constable and to post a surety bond for his future good behavior. He refused to post his bond, and to pay 4 pounds fine instead, so stayed in jail until 1 June 1658 when he was released, "considering his age and infeirmities," by the court, of which his brother John Howland was amember. He and his wife were fined 10/- for absenting themselves from worship in 1658, and in 1669 he was prosecuted for not paying his share of the minister's rate. His will, dated 3 July 1675, was proved 7 March 1675/6. WinstonChurchill was a descendant, in the 10th generation. Arthur was living in Marshfield, Mass. by 1643. He was granted 50 acres of land and some meadow at North River in 1640. He bought an additional three hundred acres of land for 21 pounds sterling, 13 pounds in money and the balance in corn and cattle. 22 Dec 1657 – Arthur, his brother Henry and Henry’s son Zoeth were called before the Plymouth court to answer for entertaining a Quaker, and suffering and inviting sundry to hear said Quaker. They were fined for using thier homes for Quaker meetings.’ The families of Arthur Howland and his brother Henry, were two Plymouth families most identified as practicing Quakers. The families ceased attending Plymouth religious services and allowed their homes for the conduct of Quaker meetings. Throughout his life, Arthur’s brother John HOWLAND (also our ancestor) remained faithful to Separatist belief and practice, but his compassion for Quakers is not known. 1659 – Arthur Jr.’s freeman status was revoked and in 1684 he was imprisoned in Plymouth. 1669 – Arthur was arrested for neglecting to pay his minister-tax; due to his advanced age and low estate he was excused from paying. Will: Last Will and Testament of Arthur Howland deceased exhibited to the Court holden att Plymouth the seaventh of March Ann Dom. 1675 and ordered by the said Court here to be Recorded: In the name of God amen: I Arthur Howland, of marshfield in the collonie of new Plymouth in New England, yeoman, being weake of body but of sound and perfet memory, praised be Almighty God for the same, Knowing the uncertainty of [man’s life] this short life and being desirous to settle that outward estate that the Lord hath lent mee, I doe make this my last will and testament in maner and form following: That is to say, first and principally, I Comend my soule to Almighty God my Creator, expecting to receive full pardon of all my sinnes, and salvation by Jesus Christ my Redeemer, and my body to the earth To be buried in decent maner as to my executrix, hereafter named, shalbe thought meet and Convenient, and as concerning such worldly estate which the Lord hath lent mee, my will and meaning is the same shalbe Imployed and bestowed as hereafter in and by this my will is expressed. Imprimus: I doe revoak, Renounce all and make void all [former] wills by mee formerly made and declare and appoint this to be my last Will and Testament. Item: I will that all the debts that I justly owe any maner of person or persons whatsoever, shalbe well and truely payed or ordained to be payed in Convenient time after my decease by my executrix hereafter named, except only the debt, thirty shillings, which I owe to Edward Wanton, which said debt I will that the same be payed by Timothy Williamson in maner [and time] hereafter expressed. Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Arthur Howland, his heires and assignes for ever, fifty acres of upland and alsoe meddow sufficient to keep six head of Cattle which said Land is now in the tenure and occupation of my said son Arthur, and lyeth next unto John Moshers land, and Runneth fron the boundary marke that the Jury made, which the land of the mee the said Arthur Howland and the said John Mosher To the Ridge Northeast and southwest. Item: I give and bequeath unto my grandchild Assadiah Smith the full sume of five pounds to be payed to her by the heires, executors, and administrators or assigns of my deare wife margarett Howland Imediately after her decease. Item: I Givc and bequeath unto the three brothers of the said Assadiah the sume of five pounds to be equally divided betwixt them and to be payed unto them by the heires, executors, Administrators and assignes of my said wife Imediately after her decease and incase any of the said Children die before by said Wiffe, my will is that the said sume shalbe equally devided betwixt the survivers of thern. Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Williamson the sume of ten pounds To be payed to her by the heires, executors, Administrators or assignes of my said wife imediately after her decease. Item: I Give and bequeath unto my daughter Martha, Damon the sume of ten pounds To be payed unto her by the heires, executors, administrators or assignes of my said wife Imediately after her decease. Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth LOW the sume of ten Pounds to be payed To her by the heires, executors, administrators or assignes of my said wile Irnediately after her decease. Item: I Give and bequeath unto my wifes Grandchild Mary Walker the full sume of ten poonds to be payed unto her by the heires, executors, Administrators or assignes of my said wife Imediately after her decease. Item. I Give and bequeath unto my Grandchild Timothy Williamson, his heires and assignes for ever, after my said wifes decease a Piece of meddow in the Township of Marshfeild aforesaid Containing f[ive?] acres be the Same more or lesse that lyetb between a Certaine Creek that comes out of the River there and a Great Rocke that stands in the Marrsh, hee paying unto Edward Wanton, his executors or assignes, for the term of three years next after hee comes to enjoy the said meddow the sume of ten shillings per annum. Item: I Give and bequeath the full Remainder of Reall and personall estate whatsoever it is or whatsoever it may he found unto my deare and welbeloved wife Margarett Howland and to her heires, Executors, Administrators and assignes for ever, And doe hereby Nominate, Constitute and appoint my said wife the sole executrix of this my last will and testament, In Witnes whereof whereof I, the said Arthur Howland, have hereunto sett my hand and seale the third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy and foure, Ann. Regni Regis, Caroli Secundi nunc Anglia. Arthur Howland senior Signed, sealed and published by Arthur Howland And a seale as his last will and Testament in the presence of us And was att the time of the ensealing Edward Pelhams acknowledged before Resolved White* Josiah Winslow Govnor. Arthur's brother came over on the Mayflower. (John Howland) Arthur Howland was the eldest of his father's ten children and spent the first half of his life in Fen Stanton, the village of his birth. Like his father, he was a yeoman. He took to wife on Margaret Reed Walker of the same village, a widow with a year-old-son. They became the parent of three girls and a boy. Ultimately Arthur was drawn to follow his brother John to the Plymouth Colony. The date of Arthur Howland's arrival in American cannot be accurately ascertained. The book PASSENGERS TO AMERICA lists an Arthur Howland as coming American in 1638 on the ship "Lyon". But the date apparently is in error as the ship was wrecked in late 1632. WINTHROP'S JOURNAL, referring to the "Lyon", stated: "She arrived September 16, 1632 with 123 passengers, 50 of them children, after an ocean voyage of eight weeks." Howland could have been among them. The "Lyon" later was lost off the coast of Virginia where she went after stopping in Massachusetts and before returning to Plymouth Colony, was lost but her master William Peirce and his crew were saved. A letter from Captain Peirce written December 25, 1632 said in part: "Dear friends, you may know that your beaver and the books of your accounts are swallowed up in the sea. Your letters remain with me and shall be delivered if God bring me home. But what should I more say; we have lost our outward estates, yet a happy loss if our souls may gain." Several other references note the arrival of Arthur and his brother Henry in Plymouth as 1623 or 1624. Thus, the dates are indeterminate but not the fact of their arrival during the early years of the colony. As an increasing number of immigrants began arriving, the Pilgrim colony found it necessary to establish other settlements to accommodate them. The first was Duxbury, about nine miles to the north of Plymouth (Standish and Alden among others went there about 1632), followed by Marshfield that was another five miles north of Duxbury. Other settlements followed: Scituate was further north still and other were established on the Cape itself, including Barnstable, Sandwich and Yarmouth. Only one was located inland and at some distance from Plymouth -- Taunton, which was situated in western Massachusetts on Narragansett Bay. Henry Howland settled in Duxbury; Arthur and Margaret Howland moved to Marshfield with their family where they lived out their years. In addition to dealing with the challenges of a new land, Arthur and his brother Henry were to face adversity of an unexpected sort. Both had become members of the religious Society of Friends and the meetings of the small group were held in Arthur's house in Marshfield. The Mayflower Pilgrims, who sought religious freedom for themselves, were not tolerant of this other belief in their midst. The Quakers would not pay tithes to the Pilgrim's puritan church, nor would they yield to any law contrary to their conscience. Arthur, particularly, adamantly resisted the tyranny of the established church. As a result, the majority colonists were bitter toward the Quakers and adopted stringent laws punishing their refusal to make contributions and for holding meetings of another faith. As with many other New England colonies, heavy fines were assess for "concealing or entertain Quakers or other blasphemous heretics." Arthur was arrested for his actions in 1657 and, refusing to pay bond, was sent to prison. While in prison he sent a letter to the General Court held in 1658 that the Court found to be "full of fractious, seditious, slanderous passages of dangerous consequences." He was fined, refused to pay and was sent back to prison. One member of the Court was his brother John, a situation not conductive to familial harmony. The difficulties persisted off and on for the remainder of his life. Despite the significant travails which had assaulted them over the years, both Arthur and Margaret Howland lived to be quite old. Each was about 87 when the end came on the very same -- both died October 30, 1675. (Taken from: A Family History, by Donovan Faust) http://www.werelate.org/w/index.php?title=Person:Arthur_Howland_%281%29&action=edit ---------------- Children of Arthur and Margaret: Name Born Married Departed 1. Deborah Howland ca. 1627 England John Smith 4 JAN 1648/49 Plymouth, Mass. 16 OCT 1665 Dartmouth, Mass. 2. Mary Howland 1629 Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England Timothy Williamson 6 JUN 1653 Plymouth 26 AUG 1690 Marshfield, Mass 3. Martha Howland 19 DEC 1632 John Damon 1659 . Peter Bacon 9 Feb 1671 in Hingham, Plymouth, Mass 4. Arthur Howland ca. 1633 England Elizabeth Prence (Daughter of Gov. Thomas PRENCE) 12 SEP 1667 2 APR 1697 Marshfield 5. Elizabeth HOWLAND ca. 1634 in England John LOW ca. 1660 Marshfield 12 Oct 1683 http://minerdescent.com/2010/05/31/arthur-howland/

  
  

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  [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), downloaded 1 Jul 2006 (Reliability: 3). [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 1553475 for batch 8923430, sheet 08, downloaded 1 Jul 2006 (Reliability: 3).