HOWLAND, Henry b. 1604 Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England d. 17 Jan 1671 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

1604 - 1671 (67 years)

Name	HOWLAND, Henry
Birth	1604	Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England
Christening	25 Nov 1604	Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England
Gender	Male
Death	17 Jan 1671	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Burial	18 Jan 1671	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
WAC	27 Feb 1895	SLAKE
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Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

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	NEWLAND, Mary Ann , b. 1606, England England
Family ID	F26341	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

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HENRY HOWLAND, Excerpts from biographical sketch from outstanding historical series, "The Great Migration Begins...," compiled by Robert Charles Anderston
ORIGIN: Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Duxbury 1636
FREEMAN: In the "1633" list of Plymouth freemen Henry Howland appears immediately before those admitted on 1 January 1632/3 [ PCR 1:4]. In the 6 March 1636/7 list of Plymouth Colony freemen [PCR 1:52]. In the Duxbury section of the 1639 and 1658 lists of Plymouth freemen (with his name erased from the 1658 list) [PCR 8:174, 198]. (See COMMENTS for disenfranchisement in 1659.)
EDUCATION: He signed his will. His inventory included "books" valued at 10s.
OFFICES: Grand jury, 7 June 1645, 4 June 1650, 2 October 1650, 7 June 1653, 3 June 1657 (refused to serve) [PCR 2:84, 155, 162-63, 3:32, 115]. Petit jury, 7 March 1636, 2 October 1637, 2 January 1637/8, 4 June 1639, 3 September 1639, 7 July 1646, 6-7 June 1649, 29 October 1649, 10 June 1650, 7 October 1651, 4 June 1652, 5 March 1655/6, 5 October 1656 [PCR 2:140, 160, 7:5, 7, 12, 13, 42, 46, 56, 60, 77, 81].
Duxbury highway surveyor, 3 June 1656, 3 June 1668 [PCR 3:100, 4:181].
ESTATE: In the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 assessed 9s., and in the list of 27 March 1634 18s. [PCR 1:11, 28].
On 27 July 1640 William Renolds acknowledged the sale to Henry Howland of Duxbury of five acres of upland in Duxbury and one acre of marsh meadow lying at the east end thereof, with all rights [PCR 12:60-61]. On 6 June 1650 Henry Howland granted to Experience Mitchell and his heirs access to a spring on the border of his property [ MD 1:97-98, citing PCLR 2:1:9].
In his will, dated 28 November 1670 and proved 8 March 1670/1, Henry Howland 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"; "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 [MD 19:32-33, citing PCPR 3:1:26].
The inventory of Henry Howland of Duxbury was taken 14 January 1670/1 and totalled £141 4s., with no real estate included [MD 19:33, citing PCPR 3:1:27].
In her will, dated 8 May 1674 and proved first 26 April 1674 and second 8 April 1675, Mary Howland "sometimes the wife of Hennery Howland now deceased" bequeathed to "my daughter Abigaill Young" £1; to "my son Zoeth Howland" £1; to "my son John Howland my house at Ponagansett"; to "my daughter Mary Cudworth" £1; to "my son Samuel Howland" £1; to "my daughter Sarah Denis" £1; to "my daughter Elizabeth Allin" £1; and to "my son Joseph Howland" the residue [PCPR 3:2:10].
BIRTH: Probably Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, by about 1603 (based on estimated date of marriage), son of Henry Howland [ TAG 14:214-15].
DEATH: Duxbury 1 January 1670/1 [ NGSQ 75:113, endnote 3].
MARRIAGE: By about 1628 Mary _____ (assuming that she was the mother of all his children). "Mary Howland who had been the wife of Hennery" died at Duxbury 16 June 1674. (The claim that Mary was a Newland is unsupported [NGSQ 75:105].)
CHILDREN:
i ABIGAIL, b. say 1628; m. Plymouth 13 December 1648 John Young [PCR 8:5].
ii ZOETH, b. say 1631; m. by 1657 Abigail _____ (eldest child b. 5 October 1657 [ RIVR 7:64]). (The marriage date is published as "Dec. 1656," with the bride's surname not given [RIVR 7:21]; this may be a marriage record created by calculation, and the original should be examined.)
iii SAMUEL, b. about 1638 (described as "near 70 years old" in 8 July 1707 [NGSQ 75:112, citing Bristol County Court of General Sessions 1702-1714:121]); m. by about 1673 Mary Sampson, daughter of Abraham Sampson (eldest child b. about 1673 [NGSQ 75:112]) [TAG 15:165-67].
iv JOHN, b. say 1641; m. Duxbury 29 January 1684/5 Mary Walker; d. Freetown before 8 August 1687 ([ BrPR 1:2]). (His wife was apparently dead, as administration was granted to his brother Samuel; his inventory included £3 10s. in "women's apparel".)
v MARY, b. say 1643; m. by 1665 James Cudworth (eldest child b. Scituate 3 June 1665 [NGSQ 75:110, citing records of Pembroke Monthly Meeting).
vi SARAH, b. about 1645 (d. Portsmouth 2 October 1712, aged about sixty-seven years [NGSQ 75:216]); m. Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 19 November 1672 Robert Dennis [NGSQ 75:216].
vii ELIZABETH, b. say 1647; m. by about 1669 Jedidiah Allen (eldest child b. 30 August 1669 or 1670 [NGSQ 75:111, citing Sandwich Monthly Meeting]).
viii JOSEPH, b. say 1649 (evidently not a minor when his father wrote his will); m. Hampton 4 May 1683 Rebecca Hussey [NGSQ 75:217, citing Salem Monthly Meeting 3:1].
ASSOCIATIONS: Brother of JOHN HOWLAND and Arthur Howland.
COMMENTS: On 22 December 1657 Henry Howland, for entertaining Quaker meetings at his house, was summoned to appear at the next court [PCR 3:126]. On 2 March 1657/8 he was fined 10s. for entertaining a meeting at his house contrary to the order of the court [PCR 3:129].
On 7 June 1659 "Henry Howland of Duxburrow" as a Quaker "or manifest encourager of such" is on a list to lose freemanship and is ordered to appear in August to be convicted and censured [PCR 3:167]. At court 6 October 1659 Henry Howland was disenfranchised for being an "abettor and entertainer of Quakers" [PCR 3:176].
On 1 May 1660 he was accused of entertaining another man's wife in his house after complaint was made to him by the husband, and for permitting a Quaker meeting in his house, and for entertaining a foreign Quaker contrary to the order of the court. The first charge he "stiffly denied" but he was convicted of the other two and fined [PCR 3:186]. He was twice fined on 2 October 1660 for entertaining Quaker meetings [PCR 3:201].
We differ slightly from Wakefield and Sherman [NGSQ 75:107] in the birth sequence and estimate of birth dates for the children of Henry Howland. The assumption has been made that all the sons were of age when the father made his will, but this makes some of them older than the norm when they marry. Even this arrangement leaves an apparent gap of about seven years between the first two children (Abigail and Zoeth) and the remaining six. These first two children may well have been born in England, and there is the possibility that they were by an earlier wife and not by Mary.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: The parentage and parish of origin of the three Howland brothers was reported in 1938 by Clarence A. Torrey [TAG 14:214-15]. A definitive article on what is known to date about Henry Howland was published in 1987 by Robert S. Wakefield and Robert M. Sherman [NGSQ 75:105-16, 216-225].

Henry Howland and his two brothers, John and Arthur, were the first Howlands in America. All three were in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, members of the band of Puritans who then removed to Holland due to religious intolerance. Brother John Howland was the first to arrive aboard the Mayflower in 1620. When Henry (and Arthur) arrived is not known, but it was likely in the period 1631-32, as Henry Howland was admitted freeman of Plymouth colony before January 1632/33.

COMMENTS: On 22 December 1657 Henry Howland, for entertaining Quaker meetings at his house, was summoned to appear at the next court [ PCR (p18752,140,168); 3:126]. On 2 March 1657/8 he was fined 10s. for entertaining a meeting at his house contrary to the order of the court [ PCR (p18752,140,168); 3:129].

On 7 June 1659 "Henry Howland of Duxburrow" as a Quaker "or manifest encourager of such" is on a list to lose freemanship and is ordered to appear in August to be convicted and censured [ PCR (p18752,140,168); 3:167]. At court 6 October 1659 Henry Howland was disenfranchised for being an "abettor and entertainer of Quakers" [ PCR (p18752,140,168); 3:176].

On 1 May 1660 he was accused of entertaining another man's wife in his house after complaint was made to him by the husband, and for permitting a Quaker meeting in his house, and for entertaining a foreign Quaker contrary to the order of the court. The first charge he "stiffly denied" but he was convicted of the other two and fined [ PCR (p18752,140,168); 3:186]. He was twice fined on 2 October 1660 for entertaining Quaker meetings [ PCR (p18752,140,168); 3:201]. [2]

Sources
[SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (*********************** jhowell@jhowell.com).

[S946] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Robert Charles Anderson, (New England Historic Genealogical Society), **************************************************************************************** (Reliability: 0).

Henry Howland, the pioneer, with his brother, Arthur, came to this country in either The Fortune 1621 or The Ann 1623. Their brother had preceded them to Plymouth as one of the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620. The origin of this family is believed to be Essec County, England. There was another brother, Humphrey Howland, a draper, of the parish of St. Swithin, London, whose will proved July 10, 1646, left certain legacies to his three brothers - Arthur, John and Henry in New England. Still another brother, George, was of St. Dunstan's parish in the East.

The first mention made of Henry Howland is in the allotment of cattle in Plymouth in 1624, when he appears as owner of the "black cow." In 1633 his name is found in the list of freemen, and in the same year he indentured a servant - Walter Harris. In 1634 he was taxed eighteen shillings, as against nine shillings the year previous. He was amongst the earliest settlers of Duxbury, where in 1635 he was chosen constable, and was described as "one of the substantial landholders and freemen."
In 1640 he purchased five acres of upland and an acre of marsh meadow in Duxbury, the price paid being "twelve bushels of Indian Corne." For several years he was a surveyor of highways in the town, and for nine years served on the grand jury. But in 1657 he reused to serve longer on the grand jury inquest, the apparent reason being that he had turned Quaker and could not conscientiously perform the duties required of him.
Thereafter he was an object of persecution by the authorities of the Colony. In October 1657, he was 'summoned to appear at the next March Court to answer for entertaining Quakers meetings at his House.' He was fined ten shillings. In March 1657, his wife, their son Zoeth, and the latter's wife and Arthur Howland and wife, with others, were fined ten shillings each for 'frequently absenting themselves from the publicke worship of God.' In 1659 Henry Howland was convicted and fined for a similar offense. Once, on refusing to pay his fine, his house and lands were seized by the marshal.
In 1652 Henry Howland was among the original purchasers of Dartmouth, where his son Zoeth and four of his six grandsons were destined to become settlers. He was the owner of half a share, or one sixty-eighth of the purchase, which was acquired from the Indians. Subsequently, with twenty-six others he bought the land known as Assonet including the present town of Freetown, Massachusetts, and here his son Samuel settled.
In 1664 he bought a large tract of land at Swansea. It is probable that he lived for a time at Apponegansett, on his share of the Dartmouth purchase, as his will of 1670 gave to two of his children his horses and cattle "noe running" there; and his wife's will - four years later - made this bequest: Unto my son John Howland, my house at Apponegansett. His old homestead at Duxbury was left to his son Joseph, excepting the new room which was reserved for the widow of the testator.

The first mention made of Henry Howland in New England is 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. I of the court records of New Plymouth, is found in a list of freemen, under date of 1633, the name of "Henery Howland".

According to William Howland in "The Howlands in America", all the Howlands in America can trace their ancestral lineage to the three sons of Henry and Margaret (Aires) Howland of Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England. John Howland, who came to this country on the Mayflower in 1620. Henry and Arthur followed, it is believed they arrived together on the Anne in 1623 1.

Henry Howland left England in 1623, a Separatist bound for Plymouth Plantation. In Plymouth Plantation, his family and he eventually turned to the gentle faith of the Society of Friends. The families of Arthur and Henry Howland, 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.

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.

The HOWLAND family was granted it's Coat of Arms in 1584 by Queen Elizabeth, beginning with Bishop Howland.

John, Henry, and Arthur Howland apparently came to the colony throught the powerful influence of the Company of Drapers in London, with whom their brother Humphrey was associated. John came on the Mayflower as indenture to John Carver. Arthur and Henry are believe to have come to america probably before 1624.John held the original faith of the puritans during his life, and was a consistent member of the Orthodox church until the time of his death.
Arthur and Henry were members of the Society of Friends and most of their descendants. First mention in purchasing a black cow in America. The family was great respectability, and as a people thrifty, economical and good managers of finance.Henry was constable in Duxbury and repeated on jury duty. Non have a better record for integrity, thrigt, uprightness and unmixed faith in the Divine One, than Henry Howland.

Sources

[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).