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Persoonlijke gegevens John How 

• Alternatieve naam: John Howe of Sudbury & Marlborough
• Hij is geboren op 20 november 1620 in Hadnall, Shropshire, England.
• Beroepen:
• Glover, Taven owner, land owner.
• in het jaar 1661 Opened a tavern.
• Woonachtig in het jaar 1639: .
• (Award/Distinction 2) : First white settler of Marlborough.
• (FindaGrave) : 62463847.
• (Award/Distinction) in het jaar 1639: One of the original grantors of Sudbury.
• (Freeman) op 13 mei 1640: Admitted as a Freeman "of the colony of the Mass Bay in New England".
• (Award/Distinction) in het jaar 1657: One of the petitioners from Marlborough of 1657.
• (Migrated 2) in het jaar 1657: ToMarlborough.
• (Award/Distinction 2) in het jaar 1662: By appointment of the Mass gov t, he and Edmund Rice laid out the Framingham lands to Gov Danfort.
• (Death Alt.) op 28 mei 1680: Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
• Hij is overleden op 10 juli 1678 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, hij was toen 57 jaar oud.
• Een kind van John Howe
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van John How

Hij is getrouwd met Mary Martha Jones.

Zij zijn getrouwd voor 1640 te Sudbury, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, United States.

Introduction to the architecture of Marlborough
http://historicmarlborough.org/Architecture.html
Population and Settlement

Fewer than fifty families from branches of the Natick and Wamesit tribes settled at Eliot's 1654 Praying Town, which was located in the northeast quadrant of present-day Marlborough.  The first Englishman to move here is believed to have been John Howe, who arrived early in 1658.  The rest of the first group of settlers to come from Sudbury, numbering 15 to 20 families, began to arrive by the next year.  In 1660, the Marlborough Plantation was incorporated as the town of Marlborough, with 38 house-lots granted to its proprietors.  The first eleven houses were arranged in a small nucleated settlement flanking the Connecticut Path between Ockoocangansett and Fairmount Hills. Among the first orders of business in the new town was the building of a meetinghouse, which was constructed by 1662-63 at the southwest corner of the Indian Planting Field, apparently because that location, as was required in the siting of meetinghouses, was the geographical center of the town.  The Rev. William Brinsmead (Brimsmead) was chosen as the town minister, and shortly thereafter, possibly during the first year, approximately two acres of land on Spring Hill were designated as a burial ground.  Over the next fifteen years the settlement became more dispersed, with settlers establishing outlying farms and mills at locations some distance from the center where the soil was good or water power from the streams could be utilized. Partly because of legal restrictions placed on any new settlers, initial population growth was slow.  By 1670 there were about forty English families here, numbering about 210 people.   Five years later, however, during King Philip's War, most of the settlers left Marlborough, some never to return.

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Picture taken by John Buczek 2000
John Howe House
Marlborough John Howe Homestead
Massachusetts Historical Commission
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Additional information by Anne Forbes, consultant to Marlborough Historical Commission, 7/6/95:

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION.
Even if this house does not contain the pre-1660 cabin of first settler John Howe, (an architectural inspection of the interior would be necessary to tell whether it might,) it was undoubtedly enlarged and updated many times during its long history. Today, it is a typical 2 1/2-story, 5- by 2-bay, center-chimney colonial farmhouse embellished with later details. A long one-story ell extending to the west has a two-car garage inserted at the outer end. The ell also has the other main alteration--the installation of casement windows on the facade.

The other windows are presently 6-over-6-sash, with molded surrounds; they probably replaced 2over-2-sash sometime after 1927. The main entry has a mid-nineteenth-century four-panel door with applied moldings in an earlier, Federal period surround of flat pilasters, narrow divided 2/3length sidelights, and a high frieze with overhanging lintel. Another four-paneled door is located in the ell facade. At the main roofline is a molded, boxed cornice with a complex bed molding, characteristic of the Federal period. The house has narrow corner boards, and is presently clad in wood shingles. The roof is asphalt shingle, the foundation is granite block.

This house was also the first tavern in Marlborough for there is a petition for renewal of his license in 1670. His son John Howe Jr. was killed by the Indians near Sudbury in 1675, and John Jr.'s daughter Elizabeth was taken captive by the Indians in Lancaster, from the house of her brother-in-law Peter Joslin in 1692, she being the only survivor was later ransomed by the government after nearly four years of captivity.

Probably because John Howe's son, John Howe, Jr. (b. 1640), was also a tavern-keeper, (his tavern was on the eastern section of the Boston Post Road,) there has been some confusion as to whether or not this house stands on the site of the first house built in Marlborough. If Charles Hudson is to be believed, this building does indeed stand on or near that site, and certainly occupies part of John Howe's farm. Whether it contains any part of that first cabin of ca. 1657, however, is unknown, although it is quite likely that it does incorporate a house of some sort that he occupied before he died in 1689. Hudson, writing in 1862 and referring to landmarks of his own time, says that the home of John Howe, who is generally acknowledged to have been the first settler in what was to be incorporated in 1660 as the town of Marlborough, was located "100 rods from the Spring Hill meeting house, a little east of the present road from Spring Hill to Feltonville" on the property "recently occupied by the late Edward Rice." (Hudson, 381). Pacing 100 rods north of the meeting house would apparently place either the cabin or a slightly later John Howe House squarely on this property. "E. Rice" is shown as one of its owners on the maps of 1830 and 1835.

Deed research will be necessary to reveal the exact line of ownership of the house. It shows first on maps as having belonged sometime before 1803 to Francis Howe (1750-1833). Francis Howe, who married Mary Hapgood in 1773, was a direct descendant of one of John Howe's younger sons, Col. Thomas Howe (1656-1733), who was also a tavern-keeper, and it is possible that Col. Thomas, rather than John Howe, Jr., inherited their father's house and continued to keep the tavern here at this location.

If he did carry on the house, tavern business, and farm, then the property may have passed by way of his son and grandson (also both Thomas Howe) to Francis, who was the third Thomas's son.
Also, if Col. Thomas was the owner of this house in 1711, then it is likely that this was the building referred to as "Capt. Howe's garrison", one of 26 houses designated at that time as places of refuge in the event of an Indian attack.

By 1803 the house was owned by Joseph Brigham, possibly a cousin of Francis Howe through his mother, Dorothy Brigham. This may have been Joseph Brigham, Esq., the first "settled" lawyer in Marlborough, who was also Justice of the Peace in 1804. By 1830, the property had apparently come under the ownership of members of the other Howe family in Marlborough, the line of original settler Abraham Howe. The owner in that year was the "Widow J. Howe", with Edward Rice. It is likely that this refers to Mrs. Jerusha (Gates) Howe, widow of Joel, and her brother-inlaw, Edward Rice.

The house is next shown on maps, in 1853 and 1856, as belonging to W.H. and M.E. Howe. Two of Jerusha Howe's children (possibly twins, as they were baptized on the same day in 1823), were William Henry and Mary (Mariah) Elizabeth Howe. Jerusha died in 1847, and from the initials on the maps, it appears that William Henry and Mary Elizabeth inherited this property jointly. By 1875 the property is shown under the name of W.H. Howe alone. Farmer Ephraim Howe, who made his home on Bolton Street, was apparently the next owner, by 1889. By that year he had begun the subdivision of part his own fifty acres, as well as the thirty-three acres of William H. Howe's former property. In all, he laid out 69 small lots fronting on Bolton, Union, and the new State Street. Fowler Street itself, where 19 lots were laid out south and west of the farmhouse, was to be extended to Bolton. Early in this century the property was acquired by Charles Nourse. He died sometime before 1927, when it was owned by his heirs.

John Goodman Howe House

On this plantation lied the first white inhabitant of Marlboro, John Howe of Sudburv was one of the petitioners in 1657 for the new grant, and was the son of John Howe supposed to be the John Howe Esq. who came from Warwickshire, England, and who was a descendant of John Howe, the son of John of Hodinhull and connected with the family of Sir Charles Howe of Lancaster in the reign of Charles first. John Howe with his wife Mary resided first in Watertown and afterwards in Sudbury  where he was in 1639. He was admitted freeman in 1640 and he and his wife both died in Marlboro 1687. John came to Marlboro about 1657 and on the above spot of land not far from the Aaron Stevens Homestead a little to the east of the Indian Planting Field, he built him a cabin which has been enlarged or rebuilt and occupied by his descendants for many generations. His proximity to the Indian Plantation brought him in direct contact with the natives, but by his kindness he gained the confidence and good will of his savage neighbors who accordingly not only respected his rights but in many cases made him Judge in cases of difficulties among themselves.

One day two Indians got into a dispute, when a pumpkin vine sprang on the land of one Indian and the fruit ripened upon the premises of the other. Each claimed the property but decided to go to John as Umpire. "Pale face Chief  him tell where sun fruit go ; white face chief, him know a heap, him tell." Quickly John calls for a knife and severing the fruit gives half to each. "Pale face Chief him big man; Chief, him know, him tell; him very big Chief." And John went up a notch still higher in the good opinion of his red faced neighbors.

Nor was a sense of his justice and impartiality confided in by Indians alone. When in 1662 Thosmas Danforth Esq. made a demand upon the colony for a further compensation for his services the Court ordered that he "shall have granted him so much land as Goodman Rice and Goodman Howe of Marlboro shall judge to be worth ten pounds; and they are empowered to bound the same to him."

Goodman Howe seems to have inherited some of that fine trait of character of the ancestral scholar and chaplain of Cromwell, who one day when the eloquent preacher was soliciting aid or patronage for some person whom he thought deserving, turned sharply and queeried "John Howe you are always asking something for some poor fellow, why do you never ask anything for Yourself ?" John Howe at Sudbury was Selectman and appointed "to see to the restraining of youth on the Lord's Day." As time went on he opened the first public house in Marlboro, and if that be true then this Homestead was an Inn or Tavern, and about 1670 we find his petition for a renewal of his license and he speaks as tho he had been in the business for some time. At the time he was licensed "to keep a house of entertainment" there were but two houses between his tavern and Worcester. At this, Ordinary, his grandson, David Howe who afterwards in 1700 built and kept the Red Horse Tavern at Sudbury to distinguish it from the Marlboro "Black Horse Inn," may have been favorably struck with the occupation of an Innholder which in early days was considered quite a distinguished occupation. the landlord  being the great man of the town and Esquire. Selectman and local Magistrate.

Everything was posted at the tavern which became the general place for news, and distances were computed from tavern to tavern.

The descendants of John Howe were numerous. In his will proved in 1689 he gave Thomas "the horse he troops on" and he mentions among the others John Howe, Jr. a son of his son John who was married to Elizabeth Ward and killed by the Indians in the east part of Marlboro, near Sudbury and as the Probate Record says "his housings were burned by the Indians." They say the latter kept a tavern on the Munroe Wilson place and that he was killed aid his buildings burned the day before Capt. Wardsworth was kil1ed at Sudbury. His daughter Elizabeth or Mary came near sharing her father's fate, for in 1692 she was in Lancaster at the house of Peter Joslin who married her sister, when the Indians attacked the house, murdered the family and carried her into captivity.

For several years the name How, as formerly written, has been the prevailing name in numbers in this town. In 1762 there has been the prevailing name in numbers in this town. In 1762 there were 18 persons by the name of Howe taxed in the southern part of  Marlboro. In 1770 twenty Howes were taxed. In 1798 thirty-one Howes were taxed. In 1826 there were 28 of the name on the list of voters and in 1840 the Howe voters were 42. Over one hundred years ago Marlboro ,was said to be the hive of the Howes and more than one hundred and fifty families by that name had then resided here.

Massachusetts Historical Commission
80 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

Additional information by Anne Forbes, consultant to Marlborough Historical Commission, 7/6/95:

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION.
Even if this house does not contain the pre-1660 cabin of first settler John Howe, (an architectural inspection of the interior would be necessary to tell whether it might,) it was undoubtedly enlarged and updated many times during its long history. Today, it is a typical 2 1/2-story, 5- by 2-bay, center-chimney colonial farmhouse embellished with later details. A long one-story ell extending to the west has a two-car garage inserted at the outer end. The ell also has the other main alteration--the installation of casement windows on the facade.

The other windows are presently 6-over-6-sash, with molded surrounds; they probably replaced 2over-2-sash sometime after 1927. The main entry has a mid-nineteenth-century four-panel door with applied moldings in an earlier, Federal period surround of flat pilasters, narrow divided 2/3 length sidelights, and a high frieze with overhanging lintel. Another four-paneled door is located in the ell facade. At the main roofline is a molded, boxed cornice with a complex bed molding, characteristic of the Federal period. The house has narrow corner boards, and is presently clad in wood shingles. The roof is asphalt shingle, the foundation is granite block.
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Kind(eren):

1. John Howe  1640-1676
2. Samuel Howe  1642-1713 
3. Sarah Howe  1644-1707
4. Isaac Howe  1648-1724
5. Josiah Howe  ± 1650-< 1710
6. Mary Howe  1653-1684 
7. Mary Howe  1654-????
8. Thomas Howe  1656-1733 
9. Daniel Howe  1658-1661
10. Alexander Howe  1661-1662
11. Eleazer Howe  1662-1737

Notities over John How

Preface to Howe Genealogies by Daniel Wait Howe (seems to be the definitve source)
http://members.aol.com/ArletaHowe/Howe.html
"In England the names How, Howe and Howes seem originally to have been synonymous. In Lower's Patronymica Britannica or Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom, giving the origin and definition of family names, is the following: 'How, Howe, Howes. In the South a small round hill; in the North, a hollow place or plain. The mediaeval form is At How, generally synonymous with hill. A-Sax Hou, a mountain,' page 164."

Most of the Howes in America today are descendants of JOHN of Sudbury and Marlborough, Abraham of Roxbury, ABRAHAM of Watertown and Marlborough, Edward of Lynn and James of Roxbury and Ipswich; all of whom were in Massachusetts soon after the arrival of Governor John Winthrop in 1630. All of them were Englishmen and Puritans. None of the five emigrant ancestors were related to one-another, except that Abraham of Roxbury and James of Roxbury and Ipswich were brothers. Nothing is known about circumstances of sailing except that Edward of Lynn came over in the Truelove in 1635. Besides the five main lines above mentioned, the work contains an appendix of fragmentary lines not yet connected.
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http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/howe/2002-04/1020184573

Howe genealogies
The Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, MA
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Descendants of John How
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~historyofmarlborough/
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~ DESCENDANTS of JOHN HOWE ~
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The HOWES were among the very first settlers of Marlborough, and have been, in every period of her history, one of the most. numerous families furnishing vast numbers of emigrants for other and more western towns.

1 John HOWE, of Sud., was one of the petitioners in 1657, for the grant which constituted Marl. He was the son of John Howe, supposed to be the John Howe, Esq., who came from Warwickshire in Eng., and who was a descendant of John Howe, himself the son of John of Hodinhull, and connected with the family of Sir Charles Howe of Lancaster, in the reign of Charles I.

John Howe resided first perhaps at Watertown, and afterwards at Sudury, where he was in 1639. He was admitted freeman in 1640. He died at Marlborough 1687, and his wife Mary died about the same time. In 1642 he was selectman in Sudbury, and in 1655 was appointed by the pastor and selectmen "to see to the restraining of youth on the Lord's day." According to tradition, he was the first white inhabitant who settled on the new grant. He came to Marl. about 1657, and built himself a cabin a little to the east of the Indian Planting Field, where his descendants lived for many generations. His place was situated some 100 rods from Spring Hill Meeting House, a little to the east of the present road from Spring Hill to Feltonville recently occupied by the late Edward Rice. His proximity to the Indian Plantation brought him in direct contact with the natives; but by his kindness, he gained the confidence and good will of his savage neighbors, who accordingly, not only respected his rights, but in many cases made him the umpire in cases of difficulties among themselves. In a case where a pumpkin vine sprang up within the premises of one Indian, and the fruit ripened upon the premises of another, the dispute which arose between them as to the ownership of the pumpkin, was referred to him ; and inspired with the wisdom of a second Solomon, he called for a knife, and severed the fruit, giving a moiety to each. This struck the parties as the perfection of justice, and fixed the impartiality of the judge on an immutable basis.

Nor was a sense of his justice and impartiality confided in by the Indians alone. When in 1662, Thomas Danforth, Esq., made a demand upon the Colony for a further compensation for his services, the Court ordered that he "shall have granted him so much land as old Goodman Rice and Goodman Howe, of Marlborough, shall judge to be worth ten pounds; and they are impowered to bound the same to him."
John Howe opened the first public house in the place. About 1670, we find his petition for a renewal of his license, and he speaks as though he had been some time engaged in the business.

The descendants of John Howe were very numerous ; though a portion of the Howes of Marlborough were of another family. John Howe's will, proved 1689, mentions wife Mary, sons Samuel, Isaac, Josiah, Thomas, and Eleazer, and dau. Sarah Ward, Mary Wetherby, and John IIowe, Jr., a son of son John, deceased. His property was inventoried at. £511. He gave Thomas "the horse he troops on."

1 - 2 John (How), b. 1640; m. Jan. 22, 1662, Elizabeth Ward. He was killed by the Indians.
1 - 3 Samuel, b. Oct. 20, 1642 ; m. June 5, 1693, Martha Bent, in Sud., where he resided and had a numerous family, some of whom were afterwards in Marlborough.
1 - 4 Sarah, b. Sept. 25, 1644 ; m. June, 1667, Samuel Ward.
1 - 5 Almy, b. June 18, 16,46; d. young.
1 - 6 Isaac, b. Aug. 8, 1648 ; m. June 17, 1671, Frances Woods.
1 - 7 Josiah., b._____; m. March 18, 1671, Mary Haynes, of Sud.
1 - 8 Mary, b. June 18, 1654; m. Sept. 18, 1672, John Wetherby.
1 - 9 Thomas, b. .tune 12, 1656: in. 1st, Sarah Hosmer, and 2d, Mrs. Mary Baron.
1 - 10 Daniel, b. June 3, 1658 ; d. 1661.
1 - 11 Alexander, b. Dec. 29, 1661; d. the January following.
1 - 12 Eleazer, b. Jan. 18, 1662; m. 1683, Hannah Howe, dau. of Abraham.

1 - 2 John HOWE (How) m. Jan 22, 1662, Elizabeth Ward . He resided in Marlborough, where the births of three of his children are recorded. He probably had other children born earlier. He was killed by the Indians in Sudbury, April 20, 1676. The Probate Records say his "housings destroyed by the Indians."

2 - 13 John, b. Sept. 9, 1671 ; m. Rebecca ____.
2 - 14 David, b. April 9, 1674 ; d. the same year.
2 - 15 Elizabeth, b. July 16, 1675; m. June 23, 1699, Thomas Keyes. In 1692 she was in Lancaster at the house of Peter Joslin, who Married her sister, when the Indians attacked the house, murdered the family, and carried her into captivity, where she remained three or four years, when she was ransomed by the Government, and restored to her friends. When she was captured, she was about to be married; her intended, considering her lost to him forever, resolved never to marry; but on her return repented of his folly. They moved to Shrewsbury, where he d. 1742. She d. Aug. 18, 1764, aged 89. It is said that she never fully recovered from the fright of her capture.

1 - 6 Isaac HOWE m. Jan 17, 1671, Frances Woods. She d. May 14, 1718, and he m. Dec. 2, 1718, Susanna Sibley, of Sutton. He d. Dec. 9, 1724, aged 77. By his will, dated June 20, 1723, he gave his homestead to his son John.

1 - 16 Elizabeth, b. Jan. 17, 1673.
1 - 17 Sarah b. Jan. 28, 1675.
1 - 18 Mary, b. Feb. 13, 1677 ; m. 17 06, Jonathan Wilder.
1 - 19 John, b. Oct. 1680; d. in early infancy.
1 - 20 John, b. Sept. 16, 1682 ; m. Nov. 3, 1703, Deliverance Rice, of Sud.
1 - 21 Bethiah, b. Aug. 24, 1684 ; m. 1714, Benjamin Garfield.
1 - 22 Hannah, b. June 17, 1688 ; m. John Amsden.
1 -23 Thankful, b. June 22, 1691; m. 1711, James Cady.

1 - 7 Josiah  HOWE m. March 18, 1672, Mary Haynes, of Sud. His estate was settled, 1711. His widow m. John Prescott. He was in Marlborough 1675, and rallied with others to defend the inhabitants at the opening of Philip's war.

7 - 24 Mary, b. 1672; d. young.
7 - 25 Mary, b. May 4, 1674; d. young.
7 - 26 Joseah, b. 1678; m. June 14, 1706, Sarah Bigelow.
7 - 27 Daniel, b. May 5, 1681 ; settled in Shrewsbury.
7 - 28 Ruth, b. Jan. 6, 1684; m. ______  Bowker.

1 - 9 Thomas HOWE, m. June 8, 1681, Sarah Homer, who d. April 7, 1724, and he m. Dec. 24, 1724, Mrs. Mary Baron. He d. Feb. 16, 1733, aged 77.

9 - 29 Tabita, b. May 29, 1684; m. April 2, 1713, James Eager.
9 - 30 James b. June 22, 1685; m. about 1710, Margaret Gates.
9 - 31 Jonathan, b. April 23, 1687; m. April 5, 1711, Lydia Brigham.
9 - 32 Prudence, b. Aug. 27, 1689; m. Jan. 5, 1715, Abraham William
9 - 33 Thomas, b. June 16, 1692; m. Rebecca  Perkins.
9 - 31 Sarah, b. Aug. 16, 1697.

1 - 12 Eleazer HOWE, m. Hannah Howe, dau. of Abraham and Hannah (Ward) Howe. He was a man of property, and the silver mentioned in his will, shows that he abounded somewhat in an article, not common in his day. She d. June 24, 1735, aged 72; and he d. March 17, 1737, aged 75. He was honored with the command of a Company, when such a trust was committed to the most able and reliable men. He gave by will a silver spoon to son Gershom, and a silver tankard to son Ephraim. Also a silver spoon each to dau. Martha Bartlett and Hannah Beaman. He also mentions dau. Elizabeth Witherbee.

12 - 35 Martha, b. Sept. 4, 1686 ; m. Dec. 6, 1716, Daniel Bartlett.
12 - 36 Deborah, b. July 0, 1688; m. June 30, 1710, Benjamin Bailey.
12 - 37 Eleazer, b. July 3, 1692; d. July 27, 1692. Twin of Hannah
12 - 38 Hannah, b. July 3, 1692; d. July 27, 1692. Twin of Eleazer
12 - 39 Gershom, b. Sept. 8, 1694; m. Dec. 6, 1721, Hannah Bowker.
12 - 40 Ephraim, b. March 30, 1699 ; m. Jan. 8, 1723, Elizabeth Rice.
12 - 41 Eleazer, b. Dec. 15, 1707 ; m. 1732, Hepzibah Barrett.
12 - 42 Hannah, b. ____; m. May 2, 1726, Eleazer Beaman.

2 - 13 John  HOWE m. Rebecca _____. She d. Sept. 22, 1731, and he m. June 18, 1740, Ruth Eager. His will in 1752 mentions all his children. Inventory, 1754, £535.

13 - 43 Peter, b. May 8, 1695 ; m. Dec. 4, 1718. Grace Bush.
13 - 44 John, b. July 16, 1697; m. 1724, Thankful Bigelow.
13 - 45 Sarah, b. July 12, 1699; m. Pelatiah Rice (Father's Will, 1752.)
13 - 46 Ebenezer, b. May 1, 1701 ; d. in the army.
13 - 47 Rebecca, b. March 19, 1703; m. 1728, John Bigelow.
13 - 48 Mary, b. July 24, 1705 ; d. 1724.
13 - 49 Hannah, b. Nov. 20, 1706; m. Jacob Rice.
13 - 50 Seth, b. April 1:3, 1708 ; m. Mary Morse.
13 - 51 Elizabeth, b. Sept. 13, 1710; m. July 31, 1732, Matthias Howe.
13 - 52 Eunice, h. July 22, 1712; in. John Sherman, of Grafon.
13 - 53 Dorothy, b. Jan. 31,1715 ; m. Feb. 4, 1735, Joseph Perry.

6 - 20 John HOWE, m. Nov. 3, 1703, Deliverance Rice, of Sud., dau. Of John and Tabitha (Stone) Rice. He d. May 19, 1754, aged 74.

20 - 54 Jesseniah, b. May 30, 1704 ; m. Damaris Eager
20 - 55 Matthias b. Oct. 20, 1706; m. Feb. 4, 1732, Elizabeth Howe.
20 - 56 Isaac, b. Feb. 8, 1708; m. April 21, 1735, Prudence Howe.
20 - 57 Benjamin, b. Dec. 14, 1710; m. Feb. 4, 1732, Lucy Amsden.
20 - 58 Tabitha, b. July 27, 1712; m. June 11, 17351, Hezekiah Maynard.
20 - 59 Patience, b. March 28, 1714.
20 - 60 Paul, b. June 18, 1715 ; settled at Paxton.
20 - 61 Mary, b. Nov. 22, 1710.
20 - 62 Francis, b. June 16, 1721 ; settled at Rutland; m. Lydia Davis.
20 - 63 Abigail, b. Aug. 8, 1723.

7 - 26 Josiah HOWE, m. June 14, 1700, Sarah Bigelow. She d. and he m. Nov. 22, 1713, Mary Marble. He d. Sept. 20, 1766, aged 78.

26 - 64 Phinehas, b. Dec. 4, 1707 ; m. Abigail Bennett; resided at Shrewsbury.
26 - 65 Abraham, b. April 6, 1709.
26 - 66 Rachel, b. Nov. 23, 1710.
26 - 67 Sarah, b. Dec. 24, 1714.
26 - 68 Mar y, 22, May 22, 1716.
26 - 69 Josiah, b. ]Dec. 22, 1720; m. 1711, Mary Goodale.
26 - 70 Jacob, b. Nov. 25, 1724; m. 1712, Ruth Swinerton, of Salem.

9 - 30 James HOWE m. about 1710, Margaret Gates.

30 - 71 James, b. Jan. 4, 1712.
30 - 72 Abisha, b. Aug. 8, 1713 ; d. March 10, 1714.
30 - 73 Thankful, b. July 31, 1715.
30 - 74 Margaret, b. Oct. 13, 1717.
30 - 75 Sybel, b. March 23, 1720.
30 - 76 Submit, b. July 23, 1722.

9 - 31 Jonathan HOWE m. April 11, 17 11, Lydia Brigham, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth (Howe) Brigham. He d. June 22, 1738, in his 52d year......  (Cont.)

Howe Genealogies only deals with the family of John of Sudbury & Marlborough
See Preface here    http://members.aol.com/ArletaHowe/Howe.html (No longer available)

HOWE GENEALOGIES
This Volume Contains the Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts.
To Our Graves We Walk In the Thick Foot-Prints of Departed Men         ;         ---Alex Smith.
BY  DANIEL WAIT HOWE INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
Author of "The Puritan Republic," "Civil War Times," "Political History of Secession."
Revised and Edited By GILMAN BIGELOW HOWE
Published in Accordance with the Will of Hon. Daniel Wait Howe
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF A SPECIAL COMMITTEE
By the NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY,
9 Ashburton Place, Boston, 1929, RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Haverhill, Mass, pp. iii-vii:PREFACE

Part of Preface to Howe Genealogies by Daniel Wait Howe
http://members.aol.com/ArletaHowe/Howe.html
"In England the names How, Howe and Howes seem originally to have been synonymous. In Lower's Patronymica Britannica or Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom, giving the origin and definition of family names, is the following: 'How, Howe, Howes. In the South a small round hill; in the North, a hollow place or plain. The mediaeval form is At How, generally synonymous with hill. A-Sax Hou, a mountain,' page 164."

Most of the Howes in America today are descendants of John of Sudbury and Marlborough, Abraham of Roxbury, Abraham of Watertown and Marlborough, Edward of Lynn and James of Roxbury and Ipswich; all of whom were in Massachusetts soon after the arrival of Governor John Winthrop in 1630. All of them were Englishmen and Puritans. None of the five emigrant ancestors were related to one-another, except that Abraham of Roxbury and James of Roxbury and Ipswich were brothers. Nothing is known about circumstances of sailing except that Edward of Lynn came over in the Truelove in 1635. Besides the five main lines above mentioned, the work contains an appendix of fragmentary lines not yet connected.

John Howe of Sudbury & Marlborough

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Lineage of John Howe

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Updated: Apr 23  2002
ID: I96852
Name: John HOW (HOWE)
Sex: M
Event: Ladbrooke, Warwicks, ENG 1
Immigration: 1640 Sudbury, MA 2
Event: 13 MAY 1640 MA
Note: /Howe/ 3 4
Immigration: 1656 Marlborough, Middlesex, MA 2
Will: 24 MAY 1680 Marlborough, Middlesex, MA 4
Death: 28 MAY 1680 in Marlborough, Middlesex, MA
Note: was 1678 Jul 10 per Savage, was 1687 per Hudson 5 2 6
Event: ?
Note: was L511 6
Probate: 15 JUN 1680 Middlesex Co, MA
Note: was 1689 per Hudson 4 6 7
Birth: 20 NOV 1620 in Hadnall, Shropshire, England
Occupation: glover
Note:
He received a grant of a house lot in Sudbury in 1639 and shared in the three divisions of meadow land in 1639-40.  He was appointed in 1655 to keep order among the youth during worship. He, along with other residents of Sudbury, presented a petition to the General Court for land to set out as farms for their posterity.  They were granted an area six miles square on 1656 May 14.  In the division of 1660, when the new plantation had been formed as Marlborough, lots were assigned to two of his sons, John and Samuel. Also, a lot went to Abraham Howe, not necessarily a relative. He was assigned a house lot of 30 acres in Marlborough in 1660. He was licensed to keep a house of entertainment in 1661 Sep. He is reputed to have been the first white settler in Marlborough. He built a cabin east of the Indian planting field, near the site of the Spring Hill meeting house. He opened the first tavern in town, well before 1670. He acquired the reputation of good judgment, and stories are told, such as one in which he was asked to judge on the disputed ownership of a pumpkin. He split the pumpkin with a knife and gave half to each party.  He served as selectman of Marlborough 1661-1664.  In 1664, he signed the counter-petition to the General Court to allow Marlborough to resolve its own disputes.  He was assigned to the garrison at William Kerly's in 1675 Oct 1.
Will: mentions wife Mary, sons Samuel, Isaac, Thomas, and Eleazar, daughters Sarah Ward and Mary Witherby, and grandson John son of John, also son Josiah.
Change Date: 10 JUL 1999

Father: James HOW (HOWE) b: 15 MAY 1598
Mother: Bridget RICH b: 1584 in Hadnall, Shropshire, England

Marriage 1 Mary Martha JONES b: 1618 in England
Married: 1640 in Marlborough, Middlesex, MA
Children
John HOWE b: 24 AUG 1640 in Sudbury, Middlesex, MA
Samuel HOWE b: 20 OCT 1642 in Sudbury, MA
Sarah HOWE b: 25 SEP 1644 in Sudbury, Middlesex, MA
Mary HOW b: 18 FEB 1647 in Sudbury, MA
Isaac HOWE b: 8 AUG 1648 in Sudbury, MA
Josiah HOWE b: 1650 in Sudbury, MA
Mary HOW b: 18 JAN 1654 in Sudbury, MA
Thomas HOW b: 22 JUL 1656 in Sudbury, MA
Daniel HOW b: 3 JAN 1658 in Marlborough, MA
Daniel HOW b: 28 DEC 1661 in Marlborough, MA
Alexander HOW b: 29 DEC 1661 in Marlborough, MA
Eleazer HOWE b: 18 JAN 1663 in Marlborough, Middlesex, MA

Sources:
Author: Charles Edward Banks
Title: Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England,, 1620-1650
Publication: 1937, Philadelphia, PA: E. E. Brownell
Author: James Savage
Title: Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
Publication: 1860, Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co
Author: Lucius R. Paige
Title: List of Freemen of Massachusetts
Publication: 1978, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co
Author: Charles H. Pope
Title: Pioneers of Massachusetts
Publication: 1900, Boston, MA: Charles H. Pope
Author: Marlborough, Mass
Title: Vital records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849
Publication: 1908, Worcester, MA: Franklin P. Rice
Author: Charles Hudson
Title: History of the town of Marlborough
Publication: 1862, Boston, MA: T.R. Marvin & Son
Text: The 1656 petition said, in part, "Whereas, your petitioners have lived ... years in Sudbury, and God hath been pleased to increase our children, which are now, divers of them, grown to man's estate, and wee many of us grown into years so as that wee should bee glad to see them settled before the Lord take us away from hence, as also God having given us some considerable quantity of cattle, so that wee are so straightened that wee cannot so comfortably subsist as could be desired, and some of us having taken som pains to view the country, wee have found a place which lieth Westward about eight miles from Sudbury which wee conceive might bee comfortable for our subsistence."
Author: Probate Court, Title: Case records (for place noted)
Text: docket 12049    END

# ID: I11864
# Name: John Howe
# Sex: M
# Death: 10 JUL 1678 in Watertown,,MA 1
# Occupation: Esquire 2
# Note:

John Howe was in Sudbury as early as 1639 and was admitted freeman 1640. He was selectman 1642, and is mentioned in the records of that town as late as 1655; soon after he moved to Marlborough, Mass. where he died in 1687, leaving a widow Mary, five sons and three daughters. It was his daughter Mary Howe who married John Wetherbee, the ancestor of the many families in Rindge bearing his name.

Part of the land assigned to John Howe in Sudbury was used as the site of a tavern. "At least four generations of Howes kept the place as a tavern. In 1746 Ezekiel Howe called it "The Red Horse". As Sudbury was just about halfway between Boston and Worcester, this inn became a regular and popular stopping place for travellers between these two towns. it was owned and operated by Howes until the death of Lyman Howe in 1866. It was in the early sixties that Longfellow and his companions visited this "Wayside Inn'."

In 1656, John Howe and other Sudbury inhabitants petitioned the General Court for a grant of land. They received the grant for land about 8 miles west of Sudbury. The new settlement was called Marlborough. On November 26, John Howe , Abraham Howe and Samuel Howe had lots assigned to them. From the begining there was friction with an adjoining Christian Indian tribe, the Wamesit. They had been granted 6,000 acres of the best land in the Marlborough area as early as 1643. Much to their dismay, the English settlers found that they couldn't have the Indians moved as the Masschusetts Council refused to go back on their word. The Indian village, Whipsuppenick, was there to stay. The Indians were self-supporting, peaceable and adapting to the English way of life. Unfortunitly, either hatred or greed for the land, kept relations between Marlborough and Whipsuppenick poor. Relations reached a head during the King Philip's War. English (militia) soldiers arrested 15 of the Indians and had then chained and sent to Boston. They also seized the Indians supply of weapons and plundered the town. This persecution led to the breakup of the village and the Indians fleeing.

The following relates an incident that occurred there; "Mr. How went to Marlborough, built a cabin a little to the east of the Indian planting field, where his descendants lived for many generations. By his prudence and kindness, he gained the good will and confidence of his savage neighbors, who accordingly made him their umpire in all their differences. The following incident is related as one of the verdicts of this second Solomon. Two Indians, whose cornfields were contiguous, disputed about the possession of a pumpkin, which grew on a vine that had transgressed the limits of the field in which it was planted. the vine was planted in one field, the pumpkin grew in the other. the dispute grew warm.- Mr. How, after a patient hearing of both parties, divided the pumpkin into two equal parts, giving half to each. Both parties extolled the equity of the judge and acquiesced in the decision."

In 1692 an Indian raid took place in which the Howe family prominently figured. "On the 18th July, 1692, the Indians assaulted the house of Peter Joslin, who was at his labor in the field, and knew nothing there of until entering the house. He found his wife with three children, with a widow WHITCOMB, who lived in his family, barbarously murdered with their hatchets, and weltering in their blood. His wife's sister, ELIZABETH HOW (see Howe family), daughter of John How of Marlborough, with another of his children, were carried into captivity. She returned, but the child was murdered in the wilderness."

Sources; "The How Family" pg. 63 NEHG Register, Vol.4, January 1850, "History of the Town of Rindge,New Hampshire", 1875, Press of George Ellis,Boston. Soldiers in King Philip's War, pg. 313, NEHG Register, Vol.40, July, 1886.

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# Change Date: 11 APR 2004 at 17:45:13

Father: John Howe b: in Kent,England

Marriage 1 Mary (Howe)

* Married: bef ORE 1640 1 3

Children

1. John Howe b: 24 AUG 1640
2. Sarah Howe b: 25 SEP 1644
3. Isaac Howe b: 8 AUG 1648 in Marlborough,,MA
4. Josiah Howe
5. Thomas Howe b: 1654
6. Mary Howe b: 18 JUN 1654 in Sudbury,,MA
7. Daniel Howe b: 3 JAN 1658
8. Alexander Howe b: 1661
9. Daniel Howe b: 1661
10. Eliezer Howe b: 1662

Sources:

1. Title: Genealogical Dictionary..., Vol. II,
Abbrev: Genealogical Dictionary..., Vol. II,
Page: 475
2. Publication: http://www.1nomad.com/genealogy/ftree/d0000/g0000082.html#I0270
Abbrev: http://www.1nomad.com/genealogy/ftree/d0000/g0000082.html#I0270
3. Title: GEDCOM File : weterb.ged
Author: Eugene James Benjamin Weatherby
Abbrev: Eugene James Benjamin Weatherby
Abbrev: GEDCOM File : weterb.ged
Note:
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Date: 11 APR 2004

Descendants of John How
Generation No. 1
1. JOHN1 HOW was born Unknown in England, and died 10 July, 1678 in Marlborough MA. He married
MARY ? 1639.
Children of JOHN HOW and MARY ? are:
2. i. JOHN2 HOWE, b. 24 August, 1640, Sudbury MA; d. 20 April, 1676, Sudbury MA.
3. ii. SAMUEL HOWE, b. 20 October, 1642, Sudbury MA; d. 13 April, 1713, Marlborough MA.
4. iii. SARAH HOWE, b. 25 September, 1644, Sudbury MA; d. 11 August, 1707, Marlborough MA.
iv. MARY HOWE, b. 18 February, 1645/46, Sudbury MA; d. 17 March, 1646/47, Sudbury MA.
5. v. ISAAC HOWE, b. 08 August, 1648, Sudbury MA; d. 09 December, 1724, Marlborough MA.
6. vi. JOSIAH HOWE, b. 1650, Sudbury MA; d. June 1710.
7. vii. MARY HOWE, b. 18 June, 1654, Sudbury MA; d. Unknown.
8. viii. THOMAS HOWE, b. 22 July, 1656, Sudbury MA; d. 16 February, Marlborough MA.
ix. DANIEL HOWE, b. 03 June, 1658, Sudbury MA; d. January 1660/61, Marlborough MA.
x. ALEXANDER HOWE, b. 29 December, 1660, Marlborough MA; d. 04 January, 1660/61, Marlborough
MA.
More About ALEXANDER HOWE:
Fact 1: January 1660/61, Burial at Marlborough, MA
9. xi. ELEAZER HOWE, b. 18 January, 1661/62, Marlborough MA; d. 17 March, 1736/37.

John HOWE was born about 1602 in England.(1418) (1419) Based on age of death, stated as ae 78. He emigrated in 1639 from Sudbury, Middlesex, MA. (1420) He died on 28 May 1680 in Marlborough, Ma?. (1421) He was.(1422) Savage lists him as fau. Screen 1032 Vol 2 Savage: Screen 1032 Vol 2: Children: John, Samuel, Sarah, Mary, Isaac, Josiah, Mary, Thomas, Daniel, Alexander, Daniel, Eliezer. John was killed by the Indians in 1676, First Mary died young, First Daniel died young, Alexander died soon, Daniel died perhaps at birth and may have been twin to Alexander.

He was in Sudbury by 1639--and one of the original grantors-- when he received grant of a house lot, then shared in the three divisions of Sudbury Meadows, 1639-40. Was a petitioner for a grant of Marlborough, 1656, (NEHGR 62:220, Colonial Records of Marlborough) where he removed 1657. His house was about 1/3 mile NE of Spring-hill Meeting House. Opened a tavern in 1661. By appointment of the Mass gov/t, he and Edmund Rice laid out the Framingham lands to Gov Danfort in 1662.

Nellie Palmer George: "Marlborough suffered greatly through all the years of Indian warfare." John How's eldest son was killed by them in 1671. His grand-daughter, Elizabeth was at her sister's home assisting her in caring for her infant neice when they were surprised by the indians in the home. The Indians seized them both, and later killed the baby. Elizabeth was held captive for many years in Canada, being ultimately redeemed. She was 17 when taken captive. She returned home to marry her long awaiting lover, Thomas Keyes. Her sister, Mrs. Joslyn, and a child two years old were murdered a few miles from her home. Elizabeth never recovered from the horror and brutality of her sister's death which she was obliged to witness. Her own life was spared because of the superstitious regard the Indians had for her beautiful voice, and during her captivity, she was frequently compelled to 'make sweet sound.' She retained for some time the customs of the Indians--their posture in sitting and their love for the out of doors."

He was married to Mary UNKNOWN before 1640 in Sudbury, Middlesex, MA.(1423) (1424) Children were: John2 HOWE, Lt. Samuel HOWE, Sarah HOWE, Mary HOWE, Isaac HOWE, Josiah HOWE, Mary HOWE, Thomas HOWE, Daniel HOWE, Alexander HOWE, Eleazer HOWE.

Massachusetts Archives Collection (1629-1799)
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ArchivesSearch/RevolutionaryDetail.asp?Vol= 112&Page=217
Volume Number 112
Page 217
Summary PETITION SUBMITTED TO THE GENERAL COURT BY THOMAS KING AND OTHERS REQUESTING A GRANT OF LAND AT KUNNAPOUG FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PLANTATION.
Number of Pages 1
Condition
Series 2043 : RECORDS : GENERAL COURT
Cite MASS RECS 4, PT 2: 500
Copy Type Original
Original Date (yyyy/mm/dd) 1671/05/31
Other Dates
Seals No
Geographic Locations BOSTON (MA)
CONNECTICUT RIVER
Marlborough (MA)

Personal Names : Signature Type BARNES, RICHARD (BARNS) : Transcript
BEERS, ELEAZAR (BEERES) : Transcript
BEERS, RICHARD (BEERES) : Autograph
BENT, PETER : Transcript
BRIDGHAM, SAMUEL : Transcript
BRIGHAM, JOHN : Transcript
BRIGHAM, THOMAS : Transcript
FAY, JOHN : Transcript
HOWE, JOHN (HOW, JR.) : Transcript
HOWE, JOHN (HOW, SR.) : Transcript
KING, THOMAS : Transcript
PARK, THOMAS : Transcript
RAWSON, EDWARD : Autograph
RICE, EDWARD : Transcript
RICE, JOSEPH : Transcript
RICE, SAMUEL : Transcript
RICE, THOMAS : Transcript
TORREY, WILLIAM : Autograph
WETHERBEE, JOHN (WITHERBEE) : Transcript

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Lieutenant Samuel Howe
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History of the Red Horse Tavern owned by the Howe Family

Wayside Inn 72 Wayside Inn Road, off Old Boston Post Road 1702

The How family chose a location mid-way between Boston and Worcester on the Bay Path, as well as on a trail to Hartford, Connecticut. For two centuries after the granting of John How's original license for a tavern in 1661, the How family thrived as innkeepers. John's son, Samuel, applied for a license in 1692 and in 1694 built his own tavern. In turn, he deeded his son David 30 acres in 1702 on which to build another inn, which still stands, and was to become famous in Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn." This inn was a two-room building with a common room below and a chamber above and was known as "How's Tavern." By 1716, David How added "House Number Two" to the original building, consisting of a room downstairs and one upstairs, both to the left of the original Inn's entrance. David's son Ezekiel became proprietor of the Inn in 1774 and changed the name to the "Red Horse Tavern." Lt. Col. Ezekiel How led the 4th Regiment of Middlesex County Militia on April 19, 1775
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