John Howland

Bef 1599 - 1673  (> 74 years)

• Name	John Howland  [1]
  Birth	Bef 1599	Fenstanton, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1599	Fenstanton, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England   [3]
  Death	23 Feb 1673	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Burial	25 Feb 1673	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [7]
  Person ID	I501	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Henry Howland,   b. Abt 1570   d. 17 May 1635, Fenstanton, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England (Age ~ 65 years)
  Mother	Margaret,   b. Bef 1575   d. Bef 31 Jul 1629 (Age < 54 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1591  [8]
  Family ID	F2010	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Tilley,   b. Bef 30 Aug 1607   d. 21 Dec 1687, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age > 80 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1624	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2, 5, 9, 10]
  Children	+ 1. Desire Howland,   b. Abt 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 13 Oct 1683, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age ~ 59 years) + 2. John Howland,   b. 24 Apr 1627   d. Aft 18 May 1699, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age > 72 years) + 3. Hope Howland,   b. 30 Aug 1629, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 8 Jan 1683, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 53 years)   4. Lydia Howland,   b. Abt 1633   bur. Little Neck Cemetery, East Riverside, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F1356	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2022

  
  

• Photos

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• 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)

  
  

• Sources

  [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982. [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S494] MayflowerHistory.com, by Caleb Johnson. [S940] The Ancestry of Annis Spear, 1775-1858, of Litchfield, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945., date only. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S3254] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 23, Part 1, John Howland: The First Four Generations of his Children Lydia, Hannah, Joseph, Jabez, Ruth, and Isaac by Ann Smith Lainhart and Robert S. Wakefield. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006. [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. [S212] The Slovak Yankee, by Martin Hollick. [S3254] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 23, Part 1, John Howland: The First Four Generations of his Children Lydia, Hannah, Joseph, Jabez, Ruth, and Isaac by Ann Smith Lainhart and Robert S. Wakefield. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006., says "before 25 Mar 1624". [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., says "in 1623".