Mary "Sarah" Howland

Mary "Sarah" (unknown)

• Birth: 1609 in Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England
• Death: 17 Jun 1674 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
• Burial: Unknown Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts 2
• From The Great Migration Project: The claim that Henry Howland's wife was Mary Collins? is unsupported.

Marriage

1. Henry Howland b: 25 Nov 1604 in Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England c: 25 Nov 1604 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. Before 1628.

8 children of HENRY HOWLAND and MARY

1. ABIGAIL HOWLAND 17, b. 1629, England; d. April 07, 1692, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts 18; m. JOHN YOUNG 14, December 13, 1648, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts 19.
2. JOHN HOWLAND 13, b. November 16, 1633, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. August 18, 1687, Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts; m. MARY WALKER 14 15, January 12, 1684/85, Duxbury, Plymouth, Mass.
3. JOSEPH HOWLAND 11, b. Abt. 1635, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; d. June 15, 1692; m. REBECCA HUZZEY 12, May 04, 1683, Hampton, NH.
4. ZOETH HOWLAND 20, b. January 31, 1635/36, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusettes; d. January 01, 1675/76, Puncatest, Newport, Rhode Island; m. ABIGAIL, October 10, 1656, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusettes 21.  
5. MARY HOWLAND 16, b. Abt. 1640, Duxburrow,; d. Aft. November 04, 1699, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; m. JAMES CUDWORTH, Bef. 1665, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
6. SAMUEL HOWLAND 2, b. Abt. 1646 3, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 3; d. May 07, 1716, Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts; m. (1) MARY SAMPSON , Bef. June 02, 1681; m. (2) MARY MERRIHEW 6 23, July 17, 1708. 
7. ELIZABETH HOWLAND 22, b. 1647, Duxbury, Plymouth, Mass; d. Aft. September 15, 1711, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, NJ; m. JEDEDIAH ALLEN, 1668, Sandwich, Barnstable, Mass.
8. SARAH HOWLAND 9, b. Abt. 1650, Duxborough, Plymouth, MA; d. October 02, 1712, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island; m. ROBERT DENNIS 10, November 16, 1672, Duxborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Disputed Origins

Wakefield published an article on Henry Howland in the National Genealogical Quarterly ca. 1998 which stated that Henry did not marry Mary Newland, and that she married someone else. Henry married a Mary, last name unknown. It is believed that Henry married in England prior to coming to the colony. He first shows up in Plymouth records in 1634.

Henry is the son of Henry of Fen Stanton, England. We know this from the will of his brother, Humphrey a draper in London. Humphery mentions his brother John, Arthur and Henry in his will. Humphery's will was discovered in 1955, and is the cite to the relationship of the three.

"Henry Howland of Duxbury, Massachusetts" Robert S. Wakefield, Robert M. Sherman NGSQ, v75, pp105-116 (Jun 1987)

"Henry Howland, son of Henry, was born before 1613 - probably at Fenstanton, county Huntingdon, England - and died at Duxbury, Massachusetts, on 1 "leventh month" [January] 1670/71. He was apprenticed on 1 October 1623 to his brother, Humphrey Howland, in London but appears not to have completed his apprenticeship. Henry married, probably in England, to Mary [-]. On 16 6m [August] 1674, there died in Duxbury "Mary Howland who had bin the wife of Hennery." Although this wife is called Mary Newland by several writers, no evidence for her surname has been located in a contemporary record."

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References

• "History of Duxbury" Justin Winsor Boston, MA: 1849; p270 "Henry Howland, Duxbury,1633, lived by the bay side, close to Love Brewster. One of the substantial landholders and freemen, Proprietor of Bridgewater, 1645."
• "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" James Savage Pub. Boston, 1860-1862, Vol. 2, p. 479 "Howland, Henry, Duxbury 1633, may have been br. of the first Arthur, was a grantee of Bridgewater 1645, but did not rem.; d. 1670, leav. wid. Mary, wh. d. 16 June 1674. His will of 28 Nov. 1670, beside w. ment. eight ch. Joseph, Zoeth, John, Samuel, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, and Abigail."
• "New England Marriages Prior To 1700" Clarence A. Torrey, (as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001) "HOWLAND, Henry (-1671) & Mary _____ (not NEWLAND) (-1674); in Eng, ca 1628; Duxbury/Plymouth"
• 24. Records of the Society of Friends of Pembroke, now in the possession of the Society at New Bedford. "Duxbury Deaths: Mary, wid. Hennery (Hoowland), Aug. 16, 1674"
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=norvan&id...
• http://www.bluezstreet.com/howland/FG_Howland/FG_HenryHowland1604.htm
• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...
• A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry and John Howland and Their Descedants / Vital Records of Duxbury, MA); m. HENNERY HOWLAND, THE IMMIGRANT, Abt. 1628, England
• New England Marriages Prior to 1700); b. Bef. 1613, Fenstanton, Huntingtonshire, England
• NGSQ, Vol. 75, Henry Howland of Duxbury, MA); d. Jan 17, 1670/71, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA
• Lineage of Pardon Head & Harriett Russell / Vital Records of Duxbury, MA).
• http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kenzie/GenHOWLAND2.htm
• https://jrm.phys.ksu.edu/genealogy/needham/d0004/I2890.html