Individual Details

Marriage

The children in the Sharon town records; Film #005464249, image 19; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G999-2HVF?i=18&cc=1987653&cat=333734

Probate

here is his will 1816 – children Josiah, Simeon,James, Samuel, Patience, and Hannah – he is living with a woman Mary Davis whogets the bulk of the estatehttps://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9084/images/007714790_00738?usePUB=true&pId=1158731

Property

Deed index starts here – 1:49, 3:349, 5:20, 4:278.6:78, 6:129, 7:94 – don’t see any deeds involving Josiahhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL1-537J-N?i=77&cat=46183deed bookshttps://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/46183?availability=Family%20History%20Library1:49https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL1-5376-S?i=185&cat=461833:349https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL1-537W-4?i=478&cat=461834:278https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL1-53QR-T?i=730&cat=461835:20https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL1-5915-D?i=21&cat=461836:78https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL1-5SMH-Z?i=298&cat=461836:129https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL1-5SMQ-N?i=323&cat=461837:94https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL1-5SF4-T?i=63&cat=46183 On 8 March 1774, JonathanHow of Sharon for payment of ten pounds purchased 40 acres in Sharon fromSimeon How (likely Jonathan’s brother) of Sharon. A separate transaction on thesame date, also for payment of ten pounds, conveys from Simeon to Jonathan therights to the 40 acres on which Jonathan is currently living and improving. On11 June 1800, for payment of ten dollars, Jonathan purchased another parcelfrom Simeon. On 11 June 1800, Jonathan How sold what seems the same parcel to theheirs of Silas Leonard for payment of ten dollars.[1]  On 5 December 1806,Jonathan How of Sharon, in consideration of five hundred dollars, conveyed toSamuel How of Sharon the whole of the farm on which Jonathan now residesconsisting of 100 acres of the first hundred-acre lot in the right of James Howand a 40 acres that was originally the right of Timothy Spaulding. On 13 March1807, Samuel How and his father Jonathan How entered an agreement in which for onebarley corn per year, Jonathan How leases one-half the farm he deed to Samuelduring the term of Jonathan’s natural life. On 6 May 1814, Jonathan Howconveyed four acres to Daniel How for payment of thirty dollars.[2] [1] VermontLand Records, Town of Sharon, 1:49, 3:349, 4:278, 5:20[2] VermontLand Records, Time of Sharon, 6:78, 6:129, 7:94

Biography

Howe genealogy just gives three of the sonshttps://archive.org/details/howegenealogiest00howe/page/438/mode/2up?q=campbell https://archive.org/details/howegenealogiest00howe/page/438/mode/2upChildren followed-up start herehttps://archive.org/details/howegenealogiest00howe/page/460/mode/2up