Frances Horton

I believe you are aware that after the death of John Howard, Esq. in 1751 or 1752, his wife Frances remarried to Parmenas Horton.They lived in Craven County.In 1786 she wrote a Will under the name "Frances Horton".(By this time her second husband and all of her sons, except James, had died.)We know we have the correct Frances, because she mentions her son James Howard, her son John Howard deceased, and the three children of Bartholomew which she refers to as grandchildren.She also mentions the child of her son John, Fanny Howard.But, the important point here is that she also leaves something to "my Grand daughter Faney Howard daughter of my son James Howard ---".(Both John and James had named a daughter for their mother, and she acknowledged both in her Will.)

Next we go to the 1790 Will of James Howard of Onslow county.He has a son Josiah Howard and four daughters.He leaves several hundred acres to each of the daughters.Of importance here is that one of the daughters is "Fanny Howard".

Source: http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/howard/12623/

Notes

• Frances Denson that married John Howard, Esq. and lived on the Blue (Blew) Creek in Onslow Co. was a Denson and described in the Onslow Co. records as "A Quaker Lady of Virginia". John Howard , Esq. was called this esq. as the first court held in N.C. was held in his house...he being a constible; magistrate, or whatever they called it in those days....His sons (Two) built the first courthouse in Onslow. ... From Re: Parents of Frances Denson that married John Howard
• James Howard, and Sarah Titus Howard .... that John Howard, next to the younger of the children, did come to Onslow Co., and had already married Frances Denson "Quaker Lady Of Virginia". Re: Frances Denson m. John Howard abt . 1730 in NC(?)