John HOWLAND

ABT 1592 - 23 Feb 1672

  • BIRTH: ABT 1592, Fenstanton, Huntingdon, England
  • EMIGRATION: 1620, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
  • DEATH: 23 Feb 1672, Rock Nook, Kingston, near Plymouth, MA
Father: Henry HOWLAND
Mother: Anne Margaret AIRES

Family 1 : Elizabeth TILLEY
  • MARRIAGE: 14 Aug 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA 


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 _Henry HOWLAND _______|
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[3770] John Howland came on the Mayflower in 1620 as a servant of John Carver. A signer
of the Mayflower Compact, he is best remembered for having fallen off the Mayflower
during a mighty storm, as recorded by William Bradford:

In sundry of these storms the winds were so fierce and the
seas so high, as they could not bear a know of sail, but were
forced to hull for divers days together. And in one of them, as
they thus lay at hull in a mighty storm, a lusty young man
called John Howland, coming upon some occasion above the
gratings was, with a seele of the ship, thrown into the sea; but
it pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which
hung overboard and ran out at length. Yet he held his hold
(though he was sundry fathoms under water) till he was hauled
up by the same rope to the brim of the water, and then with boat
hook and other means got into the ship again and his life saved.
And though he was something ill with it, yet he lived many years
after and became a profitable member both in church and
commonwealth.

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

"The Howlands In America"
William Howland
The Pilgrim John Howland Society
Detroit, MI: 1939

"Certain Comeoverers"
Crapo, Henry Howland
New Bedford, Mass.: E. Anthony & Sons, 1912; p141

"History of Duxbury"
Justin Winsor
Boston, MA: 1849; p269
"Hon. John Howland, arrived 1620, Plymouth, removed to Dux. (Vide first settlers.)
He m. Gov. Carver's da. Elizabeth. She d. 1687, age 81."
[Winsor is but one who fell prey to the legend that Elizabeth was a Carver.]

"A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England"
James Savage
Pub. Boston, 1860-1862, Vol. 2, p. 478-480
(John has an extensive description in Savage, of course.)

"New England Marriages Prior To 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey,
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"HOWLAND, John (-1692/3) & Elizabeth [TILLEY] (1607-1687),
Swansea; ca 14 Aug 1623; Plymouth"


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