Desire Howland

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1623, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Alternate birth: Abt 1625, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Alternate birth: Abt 1626, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Desire married Capt. John Gorham before 1644 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. John (son of John Gorham) died before 5 Feb 1676; was buried on 5 Feb 1676 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Temperance Gorham was born on 5 May 1646 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 12 Mar 1745 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Ancient Cemetery, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
2. Joseph Gorham was born on 16 Feb 1654 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 9 Jul 1726 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
3. Mercy Gorham was born on 20 Jan 1658 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 24 Sep 1725 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1599, Fenstanton, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620.

"It has been traditionally reported that John Howland was born about 1592, based on his reported age at death in the Plymouth church records. However, ages at death were often overstated, and that is clearly the case here. John Howland came as a servant for John Carver, which means he was under 25 years old at the time (i.e. he was born after 1595). William Bradford, in the falling-overboard incident, refers to Howland as a 'lusty young man,' a term that would not likely have applied to a 28-year old given that Bradford himself was only 30. Bradford did call 21-year old John Alden a 'young man' though. Howland's wife Elizabeth was born in 1607: a 32-year old marrying a 17-year old is a relatively unlikely circumstance. Howland's last child was born in 1649: a 57-year old Howland would be an unlikely father. All these taken together demonstrate that Howland's age was likely overstated by at least 5 years. Since he signed the Mayflower Compact, we can assume he was probably at least 18 to 21 years old in 1620." [Caleb Johnson]

It's worth noting that the entries for John Howland in Anderson's The Great Migration Begins (1995) and The Pilgrim Migration (2004) give John Howland's birth as about 1592, but in 2020's The Mayflower Migration Anderson shifts it to "by 1599".

Some of the notable descendants of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley listed in The Mayflower 500 by Gary Boyd Roberts (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020):

Louis Auchincloss
Humphrey Bogart
William Jennings Bryan
The Bush presidents
Chevy Chase
Glenn Close
William Sloane Coffin
Cecil B. DeMille
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sam Ervin
Timothy Geithner
John Lithgow
Christopher Lloyd
The Henry Cabot Lodges
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Seth Low
William H. Macy
Harriet Monroe
Sarah Palin
George Plimpton
Ezra Pound
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
James S. Sherman
Joseph Smith
Benjamin Spock
James Taylor
Lowell Weicker
Bill Weld

Not listed, but a descendant through daughter Desire Howland's marriage to Capt. John Gorham: Benjamin Butler, Union general (1818-1893).

John Howland (~1599-1673) = Elizabeth Tilley (1607-1687)
John Howland (1627-1699) = Mary Lee (1630-1693)
Hannah Howland (1661-1710) = Jonathan Crocker (1662-~1746)
Hannah Crocker (1688-1751) = Shubael Fuller (1684-1748)
Lydia Fuller (1709-1778) = Daniel Gates (1706-1776)
Lydia Gates (1732-1817) = Solomon Mack (1732-1820)
Lucy Mack (1775-1856) = Joseph Smith (1771-1840)
Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844)

John married Elizabeth Tilley before 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of John Tilley and Joan Hurst) was born before 30 Aug 1607; was christened on 30 Aug 1607 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England; died on 21 Dec 1687 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts; was buried in Little Neck Cemetery, East Riverside, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 21 Dec 1687, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: 22 Dec 1687, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: 21 Feb 1688, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 1575

Henry married Margaret before 1591. Margaret was born before 1575; died before 31 Jul 1629; was buried on 31 Jul 1629 in Fenstanton, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1620 and 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620. Ancestral Lines (citation details below): "He was one of ten men (with his brother Edward) in the first encounter with the Indians on 8 Dec. 1620, and was sixteenth of forty-one signers of the Mayflower Compact. More than half of the 101 passengers died during the first winter from a disease possibly similar to scurvy, and he and his wife were among the dead. Their only child in Plymouth was taken into the household of Governor John Carver, which upon his death became the household of John¹ Howland."

John married Joan Hurst on 20 Sep 1596 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. Joan (daughter of William Hurst and Rose Marshe) was born before 13 Mar 1568; was christened on 13 Mar 1568 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England; died in 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1620 and 1621, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated on the Mayflower, 1620.

Robert married Elizabeth about 1570. Elizabeth died before 27 Mar 1614; was buried on 27 Mar 1614 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was previously married to a man surnamed Farr.

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• Alternate death: Aft 3 Jun 1570, Henlow, Bedfordshire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 1571

William married Rose Marshe on 15 Jun 1560 in Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, England. Rose (daughter of John Marshe and Joan) was born after 1537; died before 23 Jul 1601; was buried on 23 Jul 1601 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1538