Individual Details
John Howland
(Abt 1592 - 23 Feb 1672/73)
Sailed from Plymouth, England 6 September 1620 on the Mayflower as a servant of John Carver. Swept overboard but rescued on the passage from England.
RESIDENCE: Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England; one year in Amsterdam, Holland; Leyden, Holland; Plymouth, Massachusetts (manservant in the household of Gov. Carver); Duxbury, Massachusetts; along the Kennebec River in Maine; Plymouth, Massachusetts, lived near "Rocky Nook." John bought land at Rocky Nook, Plymouth Colony (now Kingston, Massachusetts) in 1639 and lived there the rest of his life. He also was granted land in Yarmouth in 1639 and in Barnstable in 1657.
OCCUPATION: He for a time operated a trading post for the Plymouth Colony along the Kennebec River in Maine.
RESIDENCE: Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England; one year in Amsterdam, Holland; Leyden, Holland; Plymouth, Massachusetts (manservant in the household of Gov. Carver); Duxbury, Massachusetts; along the Kennebec River in Maine; Plymouth, Massachusetts, lived near "Rocky Nook." John bought land at Rocky Nook, Plymouth Colony (now Kingston, Massachusetts) in 1639 and lived there the rest of his life. He also was granted land in Yarmouth in 1639 and in Barnstable in 1657.
OCCUPATION: He for a time operated a trading post for the Plymouth Colony along the Kennebec River in Maine.
Events
Families
Spouse | Elizabeth Tilley ( - 1687) |
Child | Desire Howland (1624 - 1683) |
Child | John Howland (1626 - 1699) |
Child | Hope Howland (1629 - 1683) |
Child | Elizabeth Howland (1631 - 1683) |
Child | Lydia Howland (1633 - ) |
Child | Hannah Howland (1637 - ) |
Child | Joseph Howland (1640 - 1703) |
Child | Jabez Howland (1644 - 1712) |
Child | Ruth Howland (1646 - 1687) |
Child | Isaac Howland (1649 - 1723) |
Father | Henry Howland ( - 1635) |
Mother | Margaret ? ( - ) |
Sibling | Humphrey Howland ( - 1646) |
Sibling | George Howland ( - 1643) |
Sibling | Arthur Howland ( - ) |
Sibling | Henry Howland ( - ) |
Sibling | Margaret Howland ( - ) |
Notes
Death
DEATH: Died at Rocky Nook, now a part of Kingston, Plymouth, MassachusettsEndnotes
1. New England Families, Rhode Island Edition 1925 (1925).
2. Vernon Heaton, The Mayflower (New York, New York: Mayflower Books, 1980).