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Mary Howland - Goodspeed (Sampson)

Also Known As: "Widow Howland"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Perhaps, Rhode Island
Death: November 17, 1736 (68-77)
Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Thomas Sampson and Margaret Sampson
Wife of Daniel HOWLAND; Daniel Howland and Samuel Goodspeed
Mother of Mary Gardner; Thomas HOWLAND; Daniel HOWLAND; John HOWLAND; Isaac HOWLAND and 16 others

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About Mary Howland - Goodspeed

m2. Samuel Goodspeed, 26, 2, 1712 in Newport, Rhode Island.

Disputed Origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-330194

There is no real evidence that Mary's maiden name was a Sampson. There is no birth record for Daniel Howland's wife. The Sampson name is used on many trees on Ancestry, RootsWeb, and others.

It seems that the claim that Mary was a Sampson first arose in the old Howland Family, by Franklyn Howland.

Research on the Sampson family does not show anything about about a Mary Sampson.


Ancestry.com:

'Mary Sampson

Born in Rhode Island, USA on 1662

to Thomas Sampson and (?) Thomas Sampson.

Mary married Daniel Howland and had 10 children.

Mary married Samuel Goodspeed.

She passed away on 17 Jan 1737 in Rhode Island, USA.

Family Members

Parents

Thomas Sampson
1637-Unknown

Thomas Sampson 1640-Unknown

Spouse(s)

Daniel Howland 1661-1714

Samuel Goodspeed 1661-1716

Children

Daniel Howland 1691-1752

John Howland 1696-1748

Isaac Howland 1698-Unknown

Mercy Howland 1699-Unknown

Thomas Howland 1701-Unknown

Benjamin Howland 1703-Unknown

William Howland 1705-Unknown

Joseph Howland 1708-Unknown

Margaret Howland 1710-Unknown

Mary Howland 1705-1747



Daniel Howland was the innkeeper and proprietor of Howland's Ferry. He acquired the ferry and inn from John Simmons in 1694. Daniel was prominent in town affairs and for the first twenty years he lived near his ferry service. The town meetings were regularly scheduled at his residence which also doubled as a tavern, therefore the immediate surrounding vicinity of the ferry became known as Howland's Ferry Village. It later would become known as Stone Bridge Village.

His wife Mary kept her husband's tavern while she was a widow.

Source: "Tiverton and Little Compton, Rhode Island, Volume 2"


History of the Goodspeed Family, Profusely Illustrated: Being a ..., Volume 1”. By Weston Arthur Goodspeed. Page 85. GoogleBooks

(3b) Samuel Goodspeed (12) married Feby 26, 1712, Mrs. Mary Howland,t widow of Daniel Howland, at Tiverton, R. I., Thomas Church, J. P. officiating; they had :

(4a) Ruth (36) born August 4, 1714.

fMary's maiden name was Samson or Sampson. She was probably the sister of Benjamin Howland 's wife. She was the daughter of Thomas Samson and probably the grand daughter of Abraham Samson; she died Nov. 17, 1736.

Daniel Howland was tavern keeper at Tiverton and his widow continued the same after his death and until she married Samuel (12).

It is barely possible that Samuel may have had a second daughter, Remembrance, born late in 1715 or early in 1716. On Dee. 13, 1733, a Remembrance Goodspeed probably married Richard Borden (or Barney or Brown) at Tiverton. However, it is much more probable that this Remembrance was the daughter of John (13), Samuel's brother; see elsewhere.

  • *The probate records at Newport disclose the fact that John Bradford's estate was probated Nov. 5, 1767. Therein is mentioned his mother, Ruth Goddard, executrix; his sister, Mary Jaques ; his nephew, John Jaques, no doubt the grandson of Ruth ; his half brothers, Bradford and Samuel Goddard, and his half sisters, Mary and Desire Goddard. This record shows that Ruth had a second husband, and had children by both husbands.

86 GOODSPEED GENEALOGY

Samuel (12) died at Tiverton probably in 1716. He was dead at the time his father's will was made in August, 1718. In a deed dated at Newport, R. I., February, 1717, whereby Joseph Chaplin conveyed certain property to "Mary Goodspeed, widow of Samuel deceased," his death is recognized. Samuel (12) was about forty-two years old when he married; no doubt he left property which passed to his widow and daughter. He was reared at Misteake.


References

  • https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Sampson_(27)_
  • Rounds, H. L. Peter. Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987) 3:255. Account of Mary Goodspeed formerly Mary Howland, widow and Daniel Howland, eldest son, Execs. of Estate of Daniel Howland of Tiverton, dated 21 Mar 1714 [sic], recorded 17 Nov 1736. Includes payments by receipt to Thomas Corey, John Howland, Isaac Lawton and William Wanton. [8:422/3].
  • http://www.pilgrimhenrysamsonkindred.org
  • Howland, Franklyn. A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland (The Author, New Bedford, Mass., 1885) Page 80 Archive.Org
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Dec 29 2020, 20:51:16 UTC

GEDCOM Note

Mary was probably the sister of Daniel’s brother Benjamin’s wife.

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...
Name: Mary Sampson
Sex: F
Birth: ABT 1663
Death: 17 NOV 1736

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SY89-SGW

(Accessed 10 Aug 2014)
Mary /Sampson/
birth: about 1670
Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts
death: 17 November 1736
Rhode Island
marriage: about 1688
Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island

http://www.familycentral.net/index/family.cfm?ref1=14590:1857&ref2=...
Viewed September 1, 2014
Daniel HOWLAND
Birth: May 1661 Duxbury, Plymouth, Mass
Chr: Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Death: 1714 Duxbury, Plymouth, Mass.

Marriage:
Abt 1690
Rhode Island
Father: Zeoth HOWLAND
Mother: Abigail OCTOBER
User Submitted

Mary SAMPSON
Birth:
Abt 1670/75
of Duxbury, Plymth, Massachusetts

Death:
17 Nov 1736
Rhode Island

Father: Thomas SAMPSON
Mother: Mrs Thomas SAMPSON

Children Marriage
1 Mary HOWLAND
Birth:
10 Jan 1710
Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island
Death:
22 Mar 1726

Benjamin GARDINER 
Marr:

Daniel Howland - Mary Sampson
Daniel Howland was born at Duxbury, Plymouth, Mass May 1661. His parents were Zeoth Howland and Abigail October.
He married Mary Sampson Abt 1690 at Rhode Island . Mary Sampson was born at of Duxbury, Plymth, Massachusetts Abt 1670/75 daughter of Thomas Sampson and Mrs Thomas Sampson .
They were the parents of 1 child:
Mary Howland born 10 Jan 1710.
Daniel Howland died 1714 at Duxbury, Plymouth, Mass. .
Mary Sampson died 17 Nov 1736 at Rhode Island .

http://www.familycentral.net/index/family.cfm?ref1=14590:1899&ref2=...
Thomas SAMPSON
Birth: Abt 1637 Eng

Mrs Thomas SAMPSON
Birth: Abt 1640 Eng

Possible connection
Title
The Sampson Family: Genealogical Memoirs of the Sampson Family in America, from the Arrival of the Mayflower in 1620 to the Present Time
Author
John Adams Vinton
Publisher
Henry W. Dutton & Son, distributed by Higginson Genealogical Books, 1864
Length
136 pages

Mary Howland - Goodspeed
Mary Howland (Sampson)
Birthdate:
circa 1663
Death:
Died November 17, 1736
Immediate Family:
Wife of Daniel Howland and Samuel Goodspeed
Mother of Thomas HOWLAND; Daniel Howland; Mary Gardner (Howland); John Howland; Isaac HOWLAND; Mercy HOWLAND; Benjamin HOWLAND; William HOWLAND; Joseph HOWLAND and Margaret HOWLAND « less


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Last Updated:
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About Mary Howland (Sampson)
Daniel Howland was the innkeeper and proprietor of Howland's Ferry. He acquired the ferry and inn from John Simmons in 1694. Daniel was prominent in town affairs and for the first twenty years he lived near his ferry service. The town meetings were regularly scheduled at his residence which also doubled as a tavern, therefore the immediate surrounding vicinity of the ferry became known as Howland's Ferry Village. It later would become known as Stone Bridge Village.
His wife Mary kept her husband's tavern while she was a widow.
Source: "Tiverton and Little Compton, Rhode Island, Volume 2"

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Mary Howland - Goodspeed's Timeline

1663
1663
Perhaps, Rhode Island
1689
December 30, 1689
December 30, 1689
1691
May 29, 1691
Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island
May 29, 1691
1694
May 14, 1694
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts
1696
July 29, 1696
July 29, 1696
1698
April 7, 1698
April 7, 1698