Gershom Howland

Biography

Gershom Howland was born in 1685 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. His parents were Samuel Howland, of Freetown and Mary (Sampson) Howland.

Gershom married Martha (Bell) Howland. Together they had the following children: Samuel Howland.

He died in 1745 in Carteret County, North Carolina. His death date is also seen as March 1718.

Notes

From “Family Group of Samuel Howland”

GERSHOM HOWLAND 19 7, m. PRASSILLA WISWELL, 1716.

Comments

• link text of page 354 In David reads “Prasilla Wiswall m Gershom BRADFORD”

Citations

• 19. Genealogical Register of Plymoth Families, Pg. 39.
• 7. link to Davis, William T., Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, (2nd Edition; Boston: William T. Davis, 1899), p. 154-155, "SAMUEL, Freetown, son of 1st Henry, by wife Mary, had Content, m. a Sanford; Samuel; Isaac; Abraham, 1675; John, Joshua, m. Elizabeth Holloway and Dorothy Lee; Gershom; and Mary, m. Philip Rounseville."

From Early Records of Bristol County, cited by Pane-Joyce Report

Samuel Howland, of Freetown, Yeoman, made Feb 15, 1715, a will referring to his wife Mary, his daughter Mary Rounsevill, his daugter Content Hanford, his sons Samuel, John, Abraham, Joshua, and Gershom, and grand daughter mary Morton, and each of Isaac's children. The will was probated May 1716. He was elected one of the Selectmen of Freetown May 12, 1690, and assessor Nov 24, 1697.

From North Carolina History ProjectWritten by Carteret County Historical Society

Carteret County, North Carolina was formed in 1722 out of Craven County. It is named in honor of Sir John Carteret, who later became the Earl of Granville and one of the Lords Proprietors of North Carolina.
Native inhabitants of the area were the Iroquois-speaking Tuscarora Indians. The Tuscarora Nation lived between the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers in eastern North Carolina. As early as 1706, white settlers of Huguenot, German, Scotch-Irish, French, and English descent arrived in the region. Most had migrated southward from northern American colonies rather than from Europe. Also, in 1721 Quakers from Rhode Island came in family units and settled on the north side of the Newport River.

From “Northeastern North Carolina Stories”

George Fox, Englishman and founder of the Religious Society of Friends— or Quakers— arrived in North Carolina a few months after Edmundson’s visit. He held several meetings around the area and established a Quarterly Meeting, the first structured religious body in North Carolina. The Society of Friends spread throughout the northeast corner of North Carolina, particularly in Pasquotank and Perquimans Counties. Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire wrote in the North Carolina Booklet of April, 1906, page 261: “Quakerism was the only organized form of religion in the colony, with no rival worship among the people for the rest of the seventeenth century (1672-1700).”

From North Carolina Road Markers

The first Quaker meeting in Carteret County was organized on August 1, 1733, at the home of William Borden. The meeting was to be held the first “third day,” or Tuesday, of each month for “time to come” and the Sunday prior to the meeting was set aside as the representative meeting to be held at the home of Henry Stanton. In 1736, Nicolas Briant gave the Quakers some land a few miles north of Beaufort on which they build the Core Sound Meeting House and Friends from Rhode Island sent “60 pounds Rhoadisland money” toward its construction.

From Duke Library: “Guide to the Howland - Mcintosh Family Papers, 1713-1997”

Also in this series is genealogical information on the Howland family, who descended from Henry Howland, brother of John Howland, original Mayflower passenger. ...
The Howland-McIntosh Family Papers span the years 1713-1997, with the bulk of the papers being dated from 1830-1989. They chronicle the personal lives and business affairs of three North Carolina families: the Howlands, the McIntoshes, and, to a much lesser extent, the Dawsons. The Howlands settled in Carteret County in the early eighteenth century, buying properties in and near Beaufort and on the Shackleford Banks. Their occupations included sea captains, millers, carpenters, small farmers, and insurance agents. Howland descendants married members of the McIntosh family, who were then living in Moore County. Eventually, descendants of these families moved briefly into Durham County in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.

Sources attached

• Gershom Howland in the American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Name: Gershom Howland Birth Date: 1720 Birthplace: North Carolina Volume: 85 Page Number: 299 Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 9 Dec 1931, 2668 Source Information Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999.
• Gershom Howland in the North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 Name: Gershom Howland State: NC County: Carteret County Year: 1741 Database: NC Early Census Index Source Information Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
• Gorshom Howland in the North Carolina, Land Grant Files, 1693-1960Name: Gorshom Howland Issue Date: 4 Apr 1745 Residence Place: Onslow, North Carolina, USA Certificate Number Range: 1-542 Description: Onslow 1-542 Source Information Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Land Grant Files, 1693-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

links

• http://www.quaker-chronicle.info/meetings.php?meetingID=105
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/a/p/Janet-Maple/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-02...
• http://www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/surveyreports/CarteretCountySurvey-2012.pdf