Genealogy Thomas » Robert Howe (1732-1786)

Persoonlijke gegevens Robert Howe 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1732 in Clarendon, Columbus, North Carolina.

  Let op: Was jonger dan 16 jaar (15) toen kind (Anna Goodlet Howe) werd geboren (??-??-1747).

• Titel: Major General
• Hij is overleden op 14 december 1786 in Grange, Columbus, North Carolina, hij was toen 54 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Job Howe en

Gezin van Robert Howe

Hij is getrouwd met Sarah Grange.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1754, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. ??  
2. ??  
3. Anna Goodlet Howe  1747-1796 

Notities over Robert Howe

Robert Howe was born in North Carolina in 1730, the third son of Job Howe, or Hows, as the name appears to have been spelt originally. His grandfather (also a Job-there were three of the name) came with the Moores from South Carolina, and Robert, through his grandmother, Mary Moore, sister of Roger, Maurice, and Nathaniel, was related to the Moores, Drys, and others among the first settlers. He was sent to England early, returning in 1748, and soon began to play his part in the history of the colony. He became a justice of the peace in 1756, was appointed captain at Fort Johnston in 1765, succeeding Dalrymple, was superseded by Collet in 1767, but resumed the post on Collet's return to England in 1769, and was finally supplanted on Collet's return in 1773. He was for a time a baron of the court of exchequer and became a member of the assembly as early as 1760. He married Sarah Grange, daughter of Thomas Grange, "a respectable planter on the Upper Cape Fear River" (North Carolina Booklet, VII, 169), but was separated from her in 1772 and never remarried. His political and military career after 1772 is too well known to need rehearsal here. Howe's personality and character have been variously interpreted according to the point of view. Miss Schaw expressed the opinion common in loyalist circles. Governor Martin, while acknowledging that Howe was a "man of lively parts and good understanding," charged him with "misapplication of the public money" and with endeavoring "to establish a new reputation by patriotism." Quincy, a northerner, thought better of him, as "a most happy compound of the man of sense, the sword, the senate, and the buck. A truly surprising character." No one has ever questioned his ability, energy, or devotion to the revolutionary cause, but it may be that the "relation of his past life and adventures" (did we but we have it) would be to us, as it was to Quincy, "moving and ravishing." "He was," adds the latter, "formed by nature and his education to shine in the senate and the field-in the company of the philosopher and the libertine-a favorite of the man of sense and the female world. He has faults and vices- but alas who is without them." This duality of character may explain the unpleasant impression of Howe which Miss Schaw received. Howe's opposition to Martin and his later military activity and influence stamp him as a leader of men and a determined, obstinate fighter, but certain incidents of his life and his later court-martial- though he was unanimously acquitted-seem to point to flaws in his character that have never been fully explained. Howe's father had estates on the Sound and a plantation at Howe's Point below Brunswick. The latter, containing a large three-story frame building on a stone or brick foundation, became Robert's residence and was largely destroyed by the British on May 12, 1776. Howe died in 1786, at the age of fifty-six.
RIN: MH:N896

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