Abraham Howe of Ipswich

Buried in Ipswich, January 21, 1716: FindAGrave.

s/o James Howe / Elizabeth Dane; Abraham died 21 Jan 1716/17

Settled on the homestead of his father James How[e] in that part of Ipswich, known as Linebrook Parish, and later became the owner.

m 20 Mar 1678 Sara Peabody d/o Francis Peabody & Mary Foster b ca1650 Hampton, Essex Co., MA currently known as Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH

They had 7 children.

ref: MA VR; Howe Genealogies by Daniel Wait Howe 1929; Ipswich Historical Society

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From Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Thomas Franklin Waters, Sarah Goodhue, John Wise
Ipswich historical society, 1917, pages 253 et seq.:

"Glimpses of the life on one of the quiet Linebrook farms are afforded by the ancient account book of Abraham Howe. He began his record in the latter years of the 17th century. His son Lieut. Mark continued it after his father's death in 1717, and his son, Nathaniel, kept it until his death.

Abraham Howe was the son of James, who died on May 17, 1701-2 at the great age of 104 years. He was a brother of James Howe, Jr., whose latter years were burdened with his own blindness and the heavy grief that befell his family, when Elizabeth, his wife, was arrested, tried for witchcraft and executed in the fateful year 1692. The bitterness of that heart-breaking experience and the natural resentments against the neighbors who had testified against the unfortunate woman, were eased by the lapse of years. Of these things, the old book contains no trace. We find in it only the record of those every day events which were happening in many other farm houses in the parish.

Abraham Howe was a weaver, as his father had been, and his accounts preserve items of his trade: weaving 22-1/2 yards of shirting, cotton and linen, for 7 shillings 8 pence, 36-1/2 yards for 10 shillings, and weaving of cotton, linen and wool a yard wide. He could turn his hand to a variety of employments. He did slaughtering for his neighbors and carpentering. With his own hands he made the coffin for his venerable father. He was handy with his quill, and in 1703, he spent a day in writing evidence before Mr. Samuel Appleton, Justice of the Court, and was at Ipswich Court two days in May. In 1710, he joined his brother, Capt. John Howe in a petition to the General Court to secure damages to his nieces, Mary and Abigail, for the odium cast upon them and the grief and loss they had suffered by the death of their mother.

His son, Lieut. Mark Howe {, was a man of great strength of character and of marked aptitude for many activities. He was a farmer first of all and after the summer work was done, his cider mill began its operations. There was hewing of timber and chopping of fuel in his great wood lots. His oxen and steers hauled a great keel-piece to town in 1751 for some ship that was building, and in 1765 he delivered a huge load of faggots, 200 bundles at the door of Deacon Nathaniel Low. His "Ile nut" bark was in demand. He washed and sheared sheep for his brother Increase, the tavern-keeper, and his oxen and hired man did the spring plowing on other farms.

Mark Howe was a weaver, too, as his father and grandfather had been, and wove not only shifting but the more substantial all wool cloth. From his loom, it passed to Robert Calef's fulling mill, and he credited Mr. Calef 9 May, 1718, by 15 yards of drogid that you fulde died and sheard & prest at eleaven pence per year(d) 13- 9

His account with clerk Nehemiah Abbott, (1754) credited

• 29 May, 1755, by your wife spooling and warping a piece 12-0
• 11 Aug. 1756, by stilling 3 pints of mother time & other herbs 0- 2- 6
• 25 Sept., by making a shirt for me of fine cloth 13- 0 22 Oct., by stilling spearmint 6 quarts 8- 0

. . . Mark and Hephzebah Howe suffered a dreadful affliction in the month of November, 1736, when their whole family of eight children was swept away by an epidemic of throat distemper in twenty three days. Four more were born, Mark, Nathaniel (1739-1809), Philemon and Hephzebah. At the breaking out of the French and Indian war, Lieut. Mark Howe, then just sixty years old, unbroken by toil and sorrow, gathered a squad of soldiers who went with him in Captain Stephen Whipple's company to Crown Point. His son, Mark, lacking six months of eighteen on the day of his enlistment, went with him. The boy, Philemon, was too young then to be a soldier, but a few years later, he joined the expedition against Louisbourg and died there in June, 1759, lacking a week of eighteen."

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Yates Publishing U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was deriv; @R1@

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Source number: 1196.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JBH. Name: Abraham Howe
Birth Date: 1649 Birth Place: MA http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=worldmarr_ga&h=608483...

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Ancestry.com OneWorldTree Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.; @R1@

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Yates Publishing U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was deriv; @R1@

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Source number: 1196.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JBH. Name: Abraham Howe
Birth Date: 1649 Birth Place: MA http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=worldmarr_ga&h=608483...