Saturday, July 11, 2015

Surname Saturday -- HOWLAND (England to Plymouth Colony)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1133 who is Abigail HOWLAND (1629-1692) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this HOWLAND family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

34. Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35. Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)


70.  Thomas Dill (1758-1836)
71.  Hannah Horton (1761-1797)

140.  Thomas Dill (1708-1761)
141.  Mehitable Brown (1714-1758)

282.  Samuel Brown (1686-1739)
283.  Ruth Young (1688-1768)

566.  John Young (1649-1718)
567.  Ruth Cole (1651-1731)

1132.  John Young, born about 1624 in England; died 28 January 1691 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He married 13 December 1648 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
1133.  Abigail Howland, born about 1629 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died 07 April 1692 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of John Young and Abigail Howland are:
*  John Young (1649-1718), married 1671 Ruth Cole (1651-1731)
*  Joseph Young (1651-1652).
*  Joseph Young (1654-1722), married 1678 Sarah Davis (1660-????).
*  Nathaniel Young (1656-1706), married 1680 Mercy Davis (1662-1753).
*  Mary Young (1658-1719), married 1677 Daniel Smith (1647-1716).
*  Abigail Young (1660-1715), married 1683 Stephen Twining (1659-1720).
*  David Young (1662-1745), married 1687 Anne Doane (1666-1758).
*  Lydia Young (1664-1719), married 1686 John Murdock (1660-1756).
*  Robert Young (1667-1742), married 1694 Joanna Hicks (1665-????).
*  Henry Young (1669-1670).
*  Henry Young (1672-1706), married 1695 Sarah Snow (1673-1746).

2266.  Henry Howland, born before 25 November 1604 in Fenstanton, Huntingtonshire, England; died 17 January 1671 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.  He married before 1630 in probably England.
2267.  Mary, born about 1605 in Huntingdonshire, England; died 16 August 1674 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Henry Howland and Mary are:
*  Abigail Howland (1629-1692), married 1648 John Young (1624-1691).
*  John Howland (1634-1687).
*  Zoeth Howland (1636-1676), married 1656 Abigail LNU (1634-1708).
*  Mary Howland (1637-1674), married 1665 James Cudworth (1635-1697.
*  Samuel Howland (1640-1716), married 1681 Mary Samson (1650-1714).
*  Sarah Howland (1642-1712), married 1672 Robert Dennis (1642-1691).
*  Elizabeth Howland (1644-1712), married 1668 Jedidiah Allen (1647-1712).
*  Joseph Howland (1653-1692), married 1683 Rebecca Hussey (1662-1739).

Information about the Henry Howland family was obtained from:

 1)  Robert S. Wakefield, FASG and Robert M. Sherman, FASG, "Henry Howland of Duxbury, Massachusetts, 1633, His Children and Grandchildren,"  National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 75, Number 2 (June 1987), page 105ff,

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1 comment:

Heather Wilkinson Rojo said...

Triple cousin connection! I descend twice from Arthur's brother John Howland the Mayflower passenger, and once from Arthur, too.