Mary Howland

Bef 1635 - 1690  (> 54 years)

• Name	Mary Howland  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Bef 4 Dec 1635  [4]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	26 Aug 1690	Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Death	26 Sep 1690	Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I6436	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	Arthur Howland,   b. of Fenstanton, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, England d. Bef 30 Oct 1675
  Mother	(Unknown first wife of Arthur Howland)
  Family ID	F15564	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Timothy Williamson,   b. Abt 1621, England d. 6 Aug 1676, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 55 years)
  Marriage	6 Aug 1653	Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [6, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Williamson,   b. 7 Jul 1654, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. Between 1720 and 1726, Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F5706	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Many genealogists, including Walter Goodwin Davis, have noted that the first four children of Arthur Howland, including Mary, have to have been by a wife prior to Margaret. Janet Wolfe has brought to our attention that this first wife is likely to have been "Grace wife of Arthur Howland Lether dresser", buried in "the new church yard" of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, on 4 Dec 1635. After the death of her husband, Mary continued to operate his business, as seen in a license granted her on 30 Oct 1678 "to draw and sell beer, wine, and liquors."

  
  

• Sources

  [S479] Little Compton Families, from records compiled by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour. Little Compton, Rhode Island: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967. Fifth edition, Baltimore: Clearfield, 1997. [S940] The Ancestry of Annis Spear, 1775-1858, of Litchfield, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy. [S3732] The Josiah Closson Family of New England by William Gideon Closson. Flushing, New York, 1952., year only. [S3751] M. A. Thomas, "Marriages from the Early Records of Marshfield, Mass." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6:347, 1852., "says 6 June, 1653". [S940] The Ancestry of Annis Spear, 1775-1858, of Litchfield, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945., date only.