Arthur Howland

- Aft 1711

• Name	Arthur Howland  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1711	Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I3915	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Arthur Howland,   b. of Fenstanton, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England d. Bef 30 Oct 1675
  Mother	Margaret   d. Bef 22 Jan 1683, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Bef 6 Jun 1643  [3]
  Family ID	F479	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Prence,   b. Abt 1647   d. Aft 1711, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 65 years)
  Marriage	9 Dec 1667	Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F2739	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2016

  
  

• Notes

  "On 5 March 1666/67, the General Court, presided over by Gov. Thomas Prence, fined Arthur Howland, Jr. £5 for 'inveigling of [Gov. Prence's daughter] Mistris Elizabeth Prence and makeing motion of marriage to her, and procecuting the same contrary to her parrents liking, and without theire consent, and directly contrary to theire mind and will.' He was also ordered to find sureties for his future good behavior, and 'in speciall that hee desist from the use of any meanes to obtaine or retaine her affections as aforsaid.' On 2 July 1667 Arthur Howland, Jr. 'did sollemly and seriously engage before this Court, that he will wholly desist and never apply himself for the future, as formerly he hath done, to Mistris Elizabeth Prence in reference unto marriage.' In spite of his pledge not to speak of marriage to Elizabeth Prence again, on 9 December 1667 Arthur Howland, Jr. married Elizabeth Prence, and thus the governor acquired Quaker in-laws. Many of the other Howlands continued their Quaker ways in the new town of Dartmouth, but Arthur Howland, Jr. remained in Marshfield, and on 5 June 1671 he was made constable of Marshfield, where presumably his duties could have included seeing that Quakers fully complied with the law." [Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620-1691 by Eugene Aubrey Stratton. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [S639] John Howland of the Mayflower and Descendants, by Dave and Gretchen Mills. [S940] The Ancestry of Annis Spear, 1775-1858, of Litchfield, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945. [S639] John Howland of the Mayflower and Descendants, by Dave and Gretchen Mills., date only. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S989] Kimball G. Everingham's Genealogical Database.