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Descendants of John HOWLAND
 
 1   John HOWLAND b: Abt. 1592 in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England   d: February 23, 1671/72 in Rocky Nook, Kingston, MA
..  +Elizabeth TILLEY b: Abt. 1607 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England  m: Abt. 1621 in Plymouth, MA d: December 31, 1687 in Swansea, MA
..... 2   Desire HOWLAND b: Abt. 1625 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA   d: October 13, 1683 in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA
.........  +Captain John GORHAM b: Bef. January 28, 1620/21 in Northampton, England Baptism: January 28, 1620/21 Benefield, Northamptonshire, England m: Abt. 1643 in Plymouth, MA d: February 1675/76 in Swansea, MA Burial: February 05, 1675/76 Swansea, MA
............ 3   Desire GORHAM b: April 02, 1644
............ 3   Temperance GORHAM b: May 05, 1646 in Marshfield, MA   d: March 12, 1714/15 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
................  +Edward STURGIS b: April 10, 1642 in Charlestown, MA  m: 1663 d: November 08, 1678 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
............  *2nd Husband of Temperance GORHAM:
................  +Thomas BAXTER b: Abt. 1653  m: January 27, 1679/80 d: June 22, 1713
................... 4   Thomas BAXTER b: 1685 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
.......................  +Hannah CROWE b: December 01, 1687 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA  m: Abt. 1709 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
.......................... 5   Thomas BAXTER b: December 19, 1710
.......................... 5   Cornelius BAXTER b: November 30, 1712 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA   d: 1796 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA
..............................  +Joanna MERCHANT b: Abt. 1725 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA  m: February 21, 1746/47 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA d: Aft. May 1772
.................................. 6   Martha BAXTER b: November 26, 1747
.................................. 6   Jerusha BAXTER b: December 15, 1749 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA   d: in Champion, Jefferson Co., NY
......................................  +Joseph STUDLEY III b: July 25, 1748 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA Baptism: November 27, 1763 West Yarmouth, Mass. m: February 15, 1770 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA d: August 1813 in Champion, Jefferson Co., NY
.................................. 6   Anna BAXTER b: October 25, 1752
.................................. 6   Moley BAXTER b: October 25, 1754
.................................. 6   Barnabas BAXTER b: January 13, 1758
.................................. 6   Cornelious BAXTER b: April 16, 1760
.................................. 6   Thankful BAXTER b: February 05, 1763
.................................. 6   Nathaniel BAXTER b: April 17, 1765
.................................. 6   David BAXTER b: April 15, 1767
.................................. 6   Marcy BAXTER b: December 22, 1772
.......................... 5   Leah BAXTER b: December 17, 1715
................... 4   Shubael BAXTER b: 1687
................... 4   John BAXTER b: Abt. 1689


Notes on John Howland

From the book Sons and Daughters of Pilgrims viewed on-line in Genealogy Library:
"I, Thomas William Bicknell, resident of Providence, R.I., born September 6, 1834; married September 5, 1860, Amelia Davie Blanding; hereby apply for membership in The Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims by right of descent from John Howland, born 1592, married 1621, died February 23, 1673. Service: Was made assistant to the Governor three times and a representative."
"...7. The said Ruth Howland was the daughter of John Howland, born 1592, died February 23, 1673, and his wife Elizabeth Tilley, died December 21, 1687; married 1621.
8. The said Elizabeth Tilley was the daughter of John Tilley.  Died soon after landing and left this one child Elizabeth. Mrs. Tilley came over in the "Mayflower"; as also did her daughter Elizabeth Tilley and John Howland. "

John Howland signed the Mayflower Compact.

From Carol Ann Waugh:
They [John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley] had the following children:

  i. Desire1
  ii. John1
  iii. Hope1
  iv. Elizabeth1,2
  v. Lydia2,1
  vi. Hannah1
  vii. Joseph1
  viii. Jabez1
  ix. Ruth1
  x. Isaac3 (1649-1724)

John died in Plymouth, Plymouth,MA on 23 Feb 1672/1673; he was 80.2 Buried on 25 Feb 1672. Christened in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England.4 Immigrated in 1620 to Plymouth, MA.



Notes on Elizabeth Tilley

Elizabeth was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 with her parents.  Her future husband, John Howland, was also on board.  Elizabeth died at the home of her daughter Lydia Browne.

Information from Carol Ann Waugh:
2. Elizabeth TILLEY.3,1,2 Born in 1606.2  Elizabeth died in Swansea, Plymouth, MA on 22 Dec 1687; she was 81.2,1 Christened on 30 Aug 1607 in Henlow, Huntingdonshire, England.1 Immigrated in 1620.   Ship:  Mayflower. Will Written: December 17, 1686.

Governor John Carver cared for Elizabeth after her parents died.2
ca 1624 when Elizabeth was 18, she married John HOWLAND1,3,2, son of Henry HOWLAND (-May 1635) & Alice AIRES, in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA.2 Born abt 1592 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England.2,4

Footnotes:
1. The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633,  Robert Charles Anderson, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1995.

2. Ancestral Lines, 144 Families in England, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Carl Boyer, 3rd, Newhall, California, 1975.

3. The American Genealogist, Vol. 23, pgs. 24-27.

4. Great Migration Newsletter, NEGHS, July-September, 1997, Vol 6, No. 3.



Link to Caleb Johnson's informative Mayflower Web Page


Link to educational Missouri Society of Mayflower Descendants page entitled The Pilgrims & Plymouth Colony: 1620:  Go


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