Ancestral Glimpses » Arthur Howland (± 1600-1675)

Personal data Arthur Howland 

• He was born about 1600 in Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, ENGLAND.
• Alternative: He was born about 1610 in Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, ENGLAND.
• Profession: planter.
• Religion: Quaker.

  Arthur accepted the doctrines of the Society of Friends and was fined many times for "Pmiting of a Quaker's meeting in his house." He refused to pay the fines and was committed to jail. He and his wife were fined ten shillings for absenting themselves from "publicke worship" in 1658, but "in respect with his age and low condition" of health, he was acquitted. Arthur was called before the Plymouth court on 22 Dec 1657 'to answer for entertaining a Quaker, and suffering and inviting sundry to hear said Quaker.' In 1669, he was arrested for neglecting to pay his minister-tax; due to his advanced age and low estate he was excused from paying. (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jtrue/Howland.htm#Arthur)

• He died on October 30, 1675 in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
• He is buried on October 30, 1675 in Winslow Cemetery, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten.
• Will on July 3, 1674 naar Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.

  Will: Last Will and Testament of Arthur Howland deceased exhibited to the Court holden att Plymouth the seaventh of March Ann Dom. 1675 and ordered by the said Court here to be Recorded: "In the name of God amen: I Arthur Howland, of Marshfield in the collonie of new Plymouth in New England, yeoman, being weake of body but of sound and perfet memory, praised be Almighty God for the same, Knowing the uncertainty of [man's life] this short life and being desirous to settle that outward estate that the Lord hath lent mee, I doe make this my last will and testament in maner and form following: That is to say, first and principally, I Comend my soule to Almighty God my Creator, expecting to receive full pardon of all my sinnes, and salvation by Jesus Christ my Redeemer, and my body to the earth To be bur. in decent maner as to my executrix, hereafter named, shall be thought meet and Convenient, and as concerning such worldly estate which the Lord hath lent mee, my will and meaning is the same shall be Imployed and bestowed as hereafter in and by this my will is expressed.
  
  Imprimus: I doe revoak, Renounce all and make void all [former] wills by mee formerly made and declare and appoint this to be my last Will and Testament.
  
  Item: I will that all the debts that I justly owe any maner of person or persons whatsoever, shall be well and truely payed or ordained to be payed in Convenient time after my decease by my executrix hereafter named, except only the debt, thirty shillings, which I owe to Edward Wanton, which said debt I will that the same be payed by Timothy Williamson in maner [and time] hereafter expressed.
  
  Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Arthur Howland, his heires and assignes for ever, fifty acres of upland and alsoe meddow sufficient to keep six head of Cattle which said Land is now in the tenure and occupation of my said son Arthur, and lyeth next unto John Moshers land, and Runneth fron the boundary marke that the Jury made, which the land of the mee the said Arthur Howland and the said John Mosher To the Ridge Northeast and southwest.
  
  Item: I give and bequeath unto my grand-child Assadiah Smith the full sume of five pounds to be payed to her by the heires, executors, and administrators or assigns of my deare wife Margarett Howland Imediately after her decease.
  
  Item: I Give and bequeath unto the three brothers of the said Assadiah the sume of five pounds to be equally divided betwixt them and to be payed unto them by the heires, executors, Administrators and assignes of my said wife Imediately after her decease and incase any of the said Children die before by said Wiffe, my will is that the said sume shalbe equally devided betwixt the survivers of thern.
  
  Item: I give and bequeath unto my dau. Mary Williamson the sume of ten pounds To be payed to her by the heires, executors, Administrators or assignes of my said wife imediately after her decease.
  
  Item: 1 Give and bequeath unto my dau. Martha, Damon the sume of ten pounds To be payed unto her by the heires, executors, administrators or assignes of my said wife Imediately after her decease.
  
  Item: I give and bequeath unto my dau. Elizabeth Low the sume of ten Pounds to be payed To her by the heires, executors, administrators or assignes of my said wife Imediately after her decease.
  
  Item: I Give and bequeath unto my wife's Grand-child Mary Walker the full sume of ten pounds to be payed unto her by the heires, executors, Administrators or assignes of my said wife Imediately after her decease.
  
  Item. I Give and bequeath unto my Grandchild Timothy Williamson, his heires and assignes for ever, after my said wife's decease a Piece of meddow in the Township of Marshfeild aforesaid Containing f[ive?] acres be the Same more or lesse that lyetb between a Certaine Creek that comes out of the River there and a Great Rocke that stands in the Marrsh, hee paying unto Edward Wanton, his executors or assignes, for the term of three years next after hee comes to enjoy the said meddow the sume of ten shillings per annum.
  
  Item: I Give and bequeath the full Remainder of Reall and personall estate whatsoever it is or whatsoever it may he found unto my deare and well-beloved wife Margarett Howland and to her heires, Executors, Administrators and assignes for ever, And doe hereby Nominate, Constitute and appoint my said wife the sole executrix of this my last will and testament, In Witnes whereof whereof I, the said Arthur Howland, have hereunto sett my hand and seale the third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy and foure, Ann. Regni Regis, Caroli Secundi nunc Anglia.
  
  Arthur Howland senior
  Signed, sealed and published by Arthur Howland
  And a seale as his last will and Testament in the presence of us
  And was att the time of the ensealing
  Edward Pelhams acknowledged before
  Resolved White* Josiah Winslow Govnor.
  
  Memorandum that before the signeing of this will by the Testator hee Revoaked the bequest of five acres more or lesse of Meddow above mentioned, Intended to have been Given to his Grand-child Timothy Williamson.”
  
  McCracken, George E., "The Will of Arthur Howland, Senior of Marshfield", NEHGR v. 104 (Jul 1950), p. 221.

• A child of Henry Howland and Anne Margaret Aires
• This information was last updated on December 27, 2017.

Household of Arthur Howland

He is married to Margaret Reed Walker.

They got married on June 6, 1643 at probably ENGLAND.

Arthur Howland had md. the "widow Margaret Reed," who outlived him. Arthur died and was bur. on his farm at Marshfield, 30 Oct 1675. His second child was Deborah, who md. John Smith, Jr., of Plymouth, and from whom Phebe Howland, through the Russells, descended.

Noted events in their marriage were:
• Marriage: he md. the "widow Margaret Reed".[1675]
1675 Henry Howland Crapo, for William Wallace Crapo The Second of the Name; These Memorabilia of His Forebears are Writ Down by his Paternal Uncle Henry Howland Crapo MCMXII, Henry and Arthur Howland; Came over prior to 1621 or 1623; Chapter IV.
Repository: Ancestry OnLine, www.ancestry.com .
1688 Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony Its History & People 1620-1691 (Ancestry Publishing; P. O. Box 476; Salt Lake City, UT 84110; Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 86-72003; Copyright 1896 by Ancestry Incorporated), Biographical Sketches Howland, Arthur; p. 310. Repository: P. Kristine Hurd, P. O. Box 2703, Westport, WA 98595, (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX) , <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcmanigle/Index.html>.

Child(ren):

1. Mary Howland  ± 1629-1690 
2. Deborah Howland  < 1630-1674 
3. Martha Howland  ± 1639-1732 
4. Elizabeth Howland  < 1647-1725
5. Arthur Howland  < 1647-1726 

Notes about Arthur Howland

Arthur Howland
ABT 1600 - 30 Oct 1675
BIRTH: abt. 1600, Fenstanton, Huntingdon, England
DEATH: 30 Oct 1675, Marshfield, Plymouth, MA
Father: Henry Howland
Mother: Anne Margaret Aires

Family 1 : Margaret REED
MARRIAGE: 1626
+Deborah Howland
Elizabeth Howland
Mary Howland
Martha Howland
Arthur Howland
[3766] Arthur and Henry, Jr came to Plymouth several years after John. They settled at Marshfield in 1647.
Both were Quakers, the sect that originated in 1647 in England.

The Pilgrim John Howland Society
http://www.pilgrimjohnHowlandsociety.org/

Howland, William, The Howlands in America, (Detroit, MI: The Pilgrim John Howland Society, 1939)

Crapo, Henry Howland, Certain Comeoverers, (New Bedford, Mass.: E. Anthony & Sons, 1912); p. 152.
"Arthur Howland, who came over with his brother Henry, settled in Marshfield. Three hundred acres of upland in Marshfield were granted 2 Jul 1638, to Capt. Myles Standish and Mr. John Alden, "lying on the north side of South River, bounded on the east by Beaver Pond, and on the west by a brook," which later for a consideration of £21 sterling was conveyed to Arthur Howland.
In 1640, fifty acres additional was granted to him. On this farm he lived and died, as did five generations of his descendants...Arthur Howland had md. the "widow Margaret Reed," who outlived him. Arthur died and was bur. on his farm at Marshfield, 30 Oct 1675. His second child was Deborah, who md. John Smith, Jr., of Plymouth, and from whom Phebe Howland, through the Russells, descended."

Winsor, Justin, History of Duxbury, (Boston, MA: 1849); p. 270.
"Arthur, M[arshfield], 1643; md. Margaret; owned land near Thos. Chillingworth; 1669, considering his age and low condition, the Court freed him from paying the minister's fee; her will, dated Jan 1683, mentions grand-son (son-in-law, say Col. Rec.) John Walker.
Their children were Arthur (6), and Deborah, who md. John Smith, Jr. of Plymouth, 4 Jan 1648 (and had Hazadiah 1649, John 1651, Josiah 1652, Eleazer 1654, and Hezekiah 1655)."

Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, (Pub. Boston: 1860-1862), Vol. 2, pp. 478-480.
Oddly, Savage doesn't think Arthur and John are related.

New England Marriages Prior to 1700
Clarence A. Torrey, (as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"Howland, Arthur ( - 1675) & 1/wf _____ _____; by 1636?
Howland, Arthur ( - 1675) & 2/wf Margaret [WALKER] ( - 1683), wid; by 6 Jun 1643; Marshfield"
[In Arthur Howland's will he refers to his wife's grand-child named Walker.]

See the Thomas Cook & Henry Howland families at:
Pane-Joyce Genealogy
David E. Pane-Joyce
http://babbage.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/
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Howland, Arthur 1688
Born: 1605, Fenstanton, Huntington, England 917
Marriage: [--?--], Margaret
Died: 30 Oct 1675, Marshfield, Massachusetts 1675

Noted events in his life were:
• History: Plymouth Colony. 1688 Howland, ARTHUR - A brother of 1620 Mayflower passenger John Howland, q.v., Arthur Howland arrived in Plymouth much later. The first mention of him in New England records is in Lechford's Notebook, pp. 297-99, where he is described in 1640 as a Duxbury planter. Robert S. Wakefield and Robert M. Sherman, "Arthur Howland of Plymouth, Mass. 1640, and his Wife Margaret (_____) Walker, and Their Children," NGSQ 71:84, give a comprehensive presentation of his family, including his children Deborah, Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, and Arthur, together with what is known about the grand-children. It was son Arthur who md. Elizabeth Prence and acquired a somewhat reluctant father-in-law, Gov. Thomas Prence. Arthur, Sr. is mentioned in Plymouth Records as a Quaker. He was bur. at Marshfield 30 Oct 1675. See also George E. McCracken, "The Will of Arthur Howland, Senior, of Marshfield," NEHGR 104:221.
Arthur md. Margaret [--?--]. (Margaret [--?--] died after 1675.)

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Family of Henry Howland (478) & Margaret Aires

1510. George Howland.

1511. Arthur Howland. Born ca. 1600 in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire. Arthur died in Oct 1675 in Marshfield, MA. Bur. on 30 Oct 1675 in Marshfield, MA.20 <../rr_src/src001.htm> Occupation: Yeoman. Religion: Quaker.

Arthur was of Marshfield by 1643. He was granted 50 acres of land and some meadow at North River in 1640. He bought an additional three hundred acres of land for 21 pounds sterling, 13 pounds in money and the balance in corn and cattle. Arthur was called before the Plymouth court on 22 Dec 1657 ‘to answer for entertaining a Quaker, and suffering and inviting sundry to hear said Quaker.’ In 1669, he was arrested for neglecting to pay his minister-tax; due to his advanced age and low estate he was excused from paying.

Arthur md. Margaret [Reed]. Margaret died in Jan 1683 in Marshfield, MA. Bur. on 22 Jan 1683 in Marshfield, MA.20 <../rr_src/src001.htm>

Margaret, widow Reed.

Their children include:
5493i. Deborah Howland <../rr03/rr03_188.htm> (ca. 1630 - 16 Oct 1665)
5494ii. Arthur Howland <../rr03/rr03_188.htm> (- bef. 15 Dec 1726)
5495iii. Mary Howland <../rr03/rr03_188.htm> (ca. 1634 - 26 Aug 1690)
5496iv. Martha Howland <../rr03/rr03_188.htm> (ca. 1638 - 19 Dec 1732)
5497v. Elizabeth Howland <../rr03/rr03_188.htm> (ca. 1633 - 12 Oct 1678)

1512. Margaret Howland. Born ca. 1601 in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire. Margaret died bef. 13 Apr 1655.

On 26 Apr 1623 Margaret md. Richard Phillips in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire. Born ca. 1593 in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire.

Their children include:
5498i. Thomas Phillips <../rr03/rr03_189.htm> (ca. Sep 1623 - )
5499ii. Savage Phillips <../rr03/rr03_189.htm> (ca. Apr 1625 - )
5500iii. Margaret Phillips <../rr03/rr03_189.htm> (ca. Jun 1627 - )
5501iv. William Phillips <../rr03/rr03_189.htm> (ca. Aug 1629 - )
5502v. Ann Phillips <../rr03/rr03_189.htm> (ca. Feb 1632 - )
5503vi. Henry Phillips <../rr03/rr03_189.htm> (ca. Oct 1635 - )

1513. John Howland. Born ca. 1602 in Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Eng. John was bapt. in Ely, Cambridge, England, on 16 Jan 1603. John died on 23 Feb 1672 in Plymouth, MA. “The 23th of February 1672 Mr John Howland senir of the Towne of Plymouth Deceased: he was a Godly man and an ancient professor in the waves of Christ hee lived untill hee attained above eighty yeares in the world, hee was one of the first Comers into this land and proved a usefull Instrument of Good in his place & was the last man that was left of those that Came over in the shipp Called the Mayflower, that lived in Plymouth hee was with honor Intered att the Towne of Plymouth on the 25 of February 1672”. Bur. on 25 Feb 1672 in Plymouth, MA.

John came to New England on the Mayflower in 1620.

ca. 1624 John md. Elizabeth Tilley, dau. of John Tilley (ca. 1571 - 1620) & Joan Hurst ( - 1621), in Plymouth, MA. Born ca. 1607 in Henlow, Bedfordshire. Elizabeth was bapt. in Henlow, Bedfordshire, on 30 Aug 1607. Elizabeth died on 22 Dec 1687 in Swansea, MA.

Their children include:
5504i. Desire Howland (ca. 1624 - 13 Oct 1683)
5505ii. John Howland (24 Apr 1627 - ca. 1702)
5506iii. Hope Howland (30 Aug 1629 - 8 Jan 1683)
5507iv. Elizabeth Howland (ca. 1631 - Dec 1691)
5508v. Lydia Howland (ca. 1633 - 11 Jan 1709-10)
5509vi. Hannah Howland (ca. 1637 - )
5510vii. Joseph Howland (ca. 1640 - 1704)
5511viii. Jabez Howland (ca. 1644 - 7 Apr 1708)
5512ix. Ruth Howland (ca. 1646 - 27 May 1672)
5513x. Isaac Howland (15 Nov 1649 - 29 Oct 1727)

1514. Humphrey Howland. Humphrey died on 10 Jul 1646 in St. Swithin Parish, London.

Humphrey md. Margaret Calvert.

1515. Henry Howland. Born ca. 1600/1605 in prob Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Eng. Henry died on 1 Jan 1670-71 in Duxbury, MA. Occupation: yeoman. Religion: Quaker.

Henry was in Duxbury 1633. He was a grantee of Bridgewater in 1645, but did not remove there. Freeman Mar 1636. Henry was fined on 1 May 1660, and again on 2 Oct 1660, for having entertained Quakers in his house.

Abt. 1628 Henry md. Mary [Howland] in England? Mary died on 16 Aug 1674 in Duxbury, MA.

Anderson says, “the claim that Mary was a Newland is unsupported.”

Their children include:
5514i. Abigail Howland (ca. 1628 - 7 Apr 1692)
5515ii.Zoeth Howland (ca. 1631 - 13 Mar 1676)
5516iii.Samuel Howland (ca. 1638 - bef. 18 Apr 1716)
5517iv.John Howland (ca. 1641 - bef. 8 Aug 1687)
5518v. Mary Howland (ca. 1643 - bef. 5 Jan 1699)
5519vi.Sarah Howland (ca. 1645 - 2 Oct 1712)
5520vii. (ca. 1647 - aft. 15 Sep 1711)
5521viii. (ca. 1649 - 15 Aug 1672)
Source: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr01/rr01_491.htm

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Arthur Howland, the oldest of the three brothers, we believe came to Plymouth with his brother, Henry, where he was a planter, yeoman, freeman, and Quaker. He was of Marshfield, MA by 1643, having been granted fifty acres of land and some meadow there at North River in 1640. He bought an additional three hundred acres of land for 21 pounds sterling, 13 pounds in money and the balance in corn and cattle and spent the rest of his life in Marshfield.
Arthur accepted the doctrines of the Society of Friends and was fined many times for "Permitting of a Quaker's meeting in his house." He refused to pay the fines and was committed to jail. He and his wife were fined ten shillings for absenting themselves from "publicke worship" in 1658, but "in respect with his age and low condition" of health, he was acquitted.
Arthur was called before the Plymouth court on 22 Dec 1657 'to answer for entertaining a Quaker, and suffering and inviting sundry to hear said Quaker.' In 1669, he was arrested for neglecting to pay his minister-tax; due to his advanced age and low estate he was excused from paying. (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jtrue/Howland.htm#Arthur)
(http://www.rootsweb.com/~macmarsh/richards/ch07.html)
Notwithstanding, our forefathers have the name of being very strict in their religious observances and in their punishments of crime, they were mild and liberal in comparison to some of their neighboring colonies and in other states. Massachusetts Bay (Gov. Winthrop's) Colony, around Boston and vicinity, made thirteen crimes punishable by death. Virginia Colony, seventeen and in the latter colony, a man for believing and advocating Unitarianism was punishable by death, and the same penalty was enforced upon Unitarians in England in King James's time; and even later in the days of Queen Elizabeth, pious men were hanged for advocating Congregationalism (Orthodoxy). Maryland punished believers and advocates in Unitarianism with death. Though our forefathers' faith was good and strong, they laid down no formal creed to guide them. The Old Colony had but five classes of crime to be punished by death, and only two were ever enforced. Our Forefathers, unlike the Puritans of Boston, Salem, etc., never hung a witch. The Quakers, if non-residents, were treated rather harshly.
Arthur Howland, a resident of Marshfield, was liberal in his views, and sympathized with the Quakers. About the year, 1657, according to Goodwin, author of the Pilgrim Republic, "John Philips, the constable going to Arthur Howland's house in Marshfield to leave a summons, saw a non-resident Quaker preacher, Robert Tuchin, and arrested him. Howland interferred and ejected the constable from his house declaring, as the latter certified, that he would have "a sword or gun in the belly of him." Two sons of John Rogers (of the Mayflower) refused to aid the constable. When the official returned with a poss‚, Tuchin had escaped. Howland was forthwith taken to Alden's house and tried before Collier, Alden and Josiah Winslow, who ordered him to give bons to the Gerneral Court; he refusing to furnish bail, they put him in charge of the Colony's Marshal, Lieutenant Nash, who lived near. He was eventually fined £5 for resisting the officer. Soon after, he sent the court an indignant protest against Anti-Quaker measures, and was then arrested for contempt. The court decided that as his estate would not bear further fines, and he was too old and infirm to be whipped, he be released in acknowledgment of error, which was done."
Attendance at church was made compulsory in the Colony. "Arthur Howland and wife of Marshfield, who at divers times seem to have caused the officers of the Colony some uneasiness were fined for not attending public worship, and he was also arrested for neglecting his minister's tax; in respect to his age, however, he was excused till further notice.
Source: Richards, Lysander Salmon, History of Marshfield [Mass.], (Plymouth: The Memorial Press, 1901], p. 36.

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