Howland Family

Generation 1

Henry Howland was born 1564 at Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England and died 17 May 1635 at Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England.  He married Margaret.  He married second to Alice Aires.  He had the following children:
  1. Arthur Howland
  2. Humphrey Howland
  3. John Howland
  4. Simon Howland
  5. George Howland
  6. Henry Howland
  7. Margaret Howland

Generation 2

John Howland was a passenger on the Mayflower and a signer of the Mayflower Compact.  He was born 1592 at Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England and died 23 February 1672/3 at Rocky Nook Farm, Plymouth (now Kingston), Plymouth Colony (now Plymouth Co., MA).  He married fellow Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley c25 March 1623 at Plymouth, Plymouth Colony (now Plymouth Co., MA).  She was born c30 August 1607 at Henlow, Bedforshire, England and died 21 December 1687 in the part of Swansea, Bristol Co., MA that is now located in East Providence, RI.  For further information see the Tilley Family.  They had the following children:
  1. Desire Howland
  2. John Howland
  3. Hope Howland
  4. Elizabeth Howland
  5. Lydia Howland
  6. Hannah Howland
  7. Joseph Howland
  8. Jabez Howland
  9. Ruth Howland
  10. Isaac Howland

Generation 3

Desire Howland was born c1623-1625 at Plymouth, Plymouth Colony (now Plymouth Co., MA) and died 13 October 1683 at Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (now Barnstable Co., MA).  She married John Gorham c1643 at Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (now Barnstable Co., MA).  He was born c28 January 1620/1 at Benefield, Northamptonshire, England and died c5 February 1675/6 at Swansea, Plymouth Colony (now Bristol Co., MA).  For further information see the Gorham Family.  They had the following children:
  1. Desire Gorham
  2. Temperance Gorham
  3. Elizabeth Gorham
  4. James Gorham
  5. John Gorham
  6. Joseph Gorham
  7. Jabez Gorham
  8. Mercy Gorham
  9. Lydia Gorham
  10. Hannah Gorham
  11. Shubael Gorham

Sources

New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1985

Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Melinda Lutz Sanborn, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1991

Pedigree chart prepared by Don G. Olmstead

Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England by John Farmer, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1994

The Family of John Howland Mayflower Passenger Five Generations by Mrs. Curtis W. (Mardenna J.) Hunter,  Indianapolis, IN 1970

Families of the Pilgrims:  John Howland by Hubert Kinney Shaw,  Massachusetts Society of Maylfower Descendants, Boston 1955

John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume 1:  The First Five Generations Through his first child Desire Howland and her husband Captain John Gorham by Elizabeth Pearson White, Picton Press, Camden, ME 1990

Mayflower Increasings For Three Generations by Susan E. Roser, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore, MD 1989

A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland by Franklyn Howland, New Bedford, MA 1885

Saints and Strangers by George F. Willison, Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA 1981 ed.

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7 May 1999