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John Howland Family

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Elizabeth's Will

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John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol 1
Documented Descendants through His First Child Desire Howland and Her Husband Captain John Gorham
By Elizabeth Pearson White
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John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 2, The First Five Generations: Documented Descendants through his second child John Howland
By Elizabeth Pearson White
The second volume in the Howland series lives up to the first volume in quality documentation and writing. Contains an every name index listing 9,144 persons.
Picton Press. 1993. Index. 512pp

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John Howland was of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England, son of Henry and Margaret ______ Howland.  His birth is estimated to be about 1592-99.  He died Plymouth, 23 February, 1672/3.  He married Plymouth by about 1624 Elizabeth Tilley, bp. Henlow, Huntindonshire, England, daughter of John Tilley.  She died Swansea 22 Dec 1687, and also left a will.

Bradford's passenger list: "His servant John Howland maried the doughter of
John Tillie, Elizabeth, and they are both now living; and have .10. children
now all living and their eldest doughter."

In Bradford's accounting of the voyage, he mentions the near-death of John Howland when he is swept overboard during a severe storm and barely "caught hold" of the "topsail halyards" being dragged fathoms under water till he was dragged up by that same rope and by means of a boat hook managed to get into the ship again.

Their children were:

Desire, m. John Gorham

John, m. Mary Lee

Hope, m. John Chipman

Elizabeth, m. 1st Ephraim Hicks, 2nd, John Dickerson

Lydia, m. James Brown

Hannah, m. Jonathan Bosworth

Joseph, m. Elizabeth Southworth

Jabez, m. Bethiah Thatcher

Ruth, m. Thomas Cushman

Isaac, m. Elizabeth Vaughn