Individual Details
Nehemiah Howe
(13 Jan 1721 - Apr 1777)
About 1771 he went with Ethan Allen (ages 50, 47) from New Marlborough, Massachusetts to Vermont and settled in Poultney, before organization of the town in 1775. He was the village miller. After the town was organized he filled the offices of selectman, surveyor of highways and was appointed on various town committees. Nehemiah was a neighbor to Heber, Ethan Allen's brother.
Nehemiah very active in the Revolution until he died. He was a delegate to the Dorset Convention, July 24, 1776, and a later convention 25 Sept., 1776, at which he was appointed a member of the Board of War of western Vermont. He was a member of the Committee of safety. The Eagle tavern where Green Mountain boys met was on his property. Some of his descendants still have possession of a deed made to him by General Allen at Ticonderoga, and with two of his sons, was with General Stark at the battle of Bennington.
Nehemiah and son-in-law Isaac Ashley, (Olive's husband) died soon after they nursed a sick soldier.
Nehemiah How (1721-77) was a member of Committee of Safety of New Hampshire grants, 1777. He was born in Marlborough, Mass.; died in Poultney, Vt.
(fromThe National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 57 page 161)
Events
| Birth | 13 Jan 1721 | Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, British America |  | ||
| Marriage | 4 Mar 1746/47 | Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, British America - Beulah "Betsey" Wheeler | | ||
| Death | Apr 1777 | East Poultney, British America | | ||
| Burial | Ward Cemetery, Poultney, Rutland, Vermont, United States |  |
Families
| Spouse | Beulah "Betsey" Wheeler (1723 - 1799) |
| Child | Abner Howe (1747 - 1785) |
| Child | Olive Howe (1750 - 1825) |
| Child | Phoebe (Phebe) Howe (1752 - 1758) |
| Child | Beulah Howe (1754 - ) |
| Child | Peter Howe (1756 - 1842) |
| Child | Candis Howe (1758 - ) |
| Child | Phebe Howe (1761 - 1833) |
| Child | John Howe (1763 - 1834) |
| Child | Joel Howe (1765 - ) |
| Father | Peter Howe (1695 - 1778) |
| Mother | Grace Barrett Bush (1696 - 1770) |
| Sibling | Ezra Howe (1719 - 1789) |
| Sibling | Keziah Howe (1723 - ) |
| Sibling | Ebenezar Howe (1725 - 1725) |
| Sibling | Mary Howe (1726 - 1813) |
| Sibling | Rebecca Howe (1728 - 1804) |
| Sibling | Peter Howe (1730 - 1731) |
| Sibling | Rhoda Howe (1733 - ) |
| Sibling | Ruth Howe (1736 - 1810) |
Notes
Burial
No gravestone. "The small 'Ward' Cemetery on Finel Hollow road, is located on the old Nehemiah How homestead. Nehemiah died in 1777 and it is supposed that he and his wife Betsey . . . are buried here, but no stones mark the spot . . . There are numerous slate slabs which probably mark graves."[Source: Margaret R. Jenks: Poultney Cemetery Inscriptions, p. 72]
Endnotes
1. Charles Hudson, History of the town of Marlborough, Middlesex county, Massachusetts: from its first settlement in 1657 to 1861; with a brief sketch of the town of Northborough, a genealogy of the families in Marlborough to 1800, and an account of the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the town. (Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin & Son, 1862), 385; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 4 November 2009.
2. Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, 1875 -, The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America. (Boston, 1914, 1257 pp), p 1092.
3. Charles Hudson, History of the town of Marlborough, Middlesex county, Massachusetts: from its first settlement in 1657 to 1861; with a brief sketch of the town of Northborough, a genealogy of the families in Marlborough to 1800, and an account of the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the town. (Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin & Son, 1862), 385; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 4 November 2009.
4. David Pane-Joyce, compiler, Pane-Joyce Genealogy Web Page (