Mercy
Howland
Born in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Howland
and Mary (Unknown) Howland
Sister of
Rebecka Howland, Ebenezer Howland, John Howland, Rebecka (Howland) Thomas, William Howland, Thomas Howland, Samuel Howland and Hannah (Howland) Barker
Died after
after age 38
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Contents |
Biography
Birth
- "Mercy the Daughter of Thomas Howland and Mary his wife was borne January the 7: 1697-8" in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.[1]
Status
- In her father, Thomas Howland's probate records, Mercy Howland appeared unmarried as she was mentioned in the citation order by Judge Isaac Winslow in 1737. She was 39 years old at her father's death. After that, she possibly never married.
Death
- The date of her death was unknown; however, she died sometime after her father, Thomas Howland's estate was probated in 1737, and her name was mentioned in the probate records of Thomas Howland's estate in 1737. What became of her was unknown.
Probate Records
Will of her grandfather, Arthur Howland, March 15, 1720-21 [2]
In the name of God Amen. To all People Greeting Know yea that I Arthur Howland Senr of the town of Mashfeild in the County of Plymouth in the Province Bay in New England being weak of Body but of disposing mind & memory Praised by God for the same do make this my will in manner and form as ffolloweth first I Bequeath my soul to God that gave it and beleiveing in his mercy through the lord Jesus Christ for the salvation thereof and my body to the Earth to be desently buried by my Executor hereafter named as he shall see meet and as for such Estate as the lord hath sent me I dispose of as ffolloweth
Item conferm to my son Thomas Howland what I have already given him by Deed as also a certain peeice of medow commonly called the little cove with all my other lands that are not already disposed by Deed he paying five pounds in money to my grand Daughter Marcy Howland and further I give unto my son Thomas Howland all my Estate that I do give by this my will
Item I confirm to my son Arthur Howland what I have already given him by Deed he proforming the conditions thereof
Item I confirm to the heires of my son Prince Howland late of Marshfield Deceased what I have given him in his lifetime by Deed they proforming the conditions thereof
Item I give my Daughter Mary Goddard twenty pounds in mony to be paid to her or her children or the survivers of them by my son Arter Howland I also give her my biggest brass kittle
Item I give to my Daughter Elizabeth Sanders five pounds in money to be paid to her by the successors of my son Prince Howland
Item I give to my Daughter hannah Smith fifteen pounds in money to be paid to her by the successors of my son prince Howland Deceased and i doe ordain my well beloved son Thomas howland to be the whole and sole Executor of this my last will and testament I witness where of I have here unto let my hand and seal this ffiftenth day of March 1720-21
Arthur Howland
Signed sealed in the present of us Gedeon Thomas Nicholas Carr John Holmes
Citation on Thos Howland Estate on February 28, 1737 [3]
Isaac Winslow Esqr appointed and commissioned to be judge of the Proba[te] of Wills and for the granting of Administration in the county of Plimouth within the Province of the Massachusetts bay in Newengland. To Mary Howland of Pembrooke in the county aforesd widdow of Thomas Howland late Pembrook aforesd deceased To Ebenezer Howland of Pembrook aforesd To William Howland of Marshfield in the county aforesd To [erased] Robert Barker and to [blank] his wife of Hanover in the county aforesd and to Mercy Howland who are the children of sd deceased greeting Whereas Capt Nehemiah Cushing of Pembrook aforesd who is app[ointing] and impowered as Adminstrator on the Estate of the sd Thomas Howland deceased and the sd Adminstrator suspecing that part of the many goods or chattles of the sd deceased are concerned embeieled or conveyed away by you or some of you hath therfore moved that you may be cited before my selfe in order to give an accompt therof: These are therfore [ther (slashed) fore (slashed)] in his Majesties Name & Require you and each of you that you appear at my Dwelling house in Marshfield aforesd on Wensday the Twenty second day of March next by ten of the Clock in the forenone then and ther to give an account therof as the law directs hereof foile not given under my hand and the seal of the jd court of Probate the Twenty eight day of ffebruary anno Domini 1737.
Isaac Winslow
Sources
- ↑ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : 2014), Plymouth County, Marshfield, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Town Records, 1645-1733; image 135 of 147; Marshfield town clerk office, Massachusetts. Text: "Mercy the Daughter of Thomas Howland and Mary his wife was borne January the 7: 1697-8".
- ↑ Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)<https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1558/i/20951/10901-co8/45415702>
- ↑ Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) <https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1558/i/20951/10971-co8/45416730>
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Interestingly, the book "John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., and His Descendants," which was published in 1904, did not say anything further on the identification of John Hill's wife on page 30, but it listed only six known children of John Hill and no further investigation of this family had been made.
The identification of John Hill's wife remains unclear, so it is doubtful that "Mercy Howland" married John Hill. It is necessary to find a good source to support the evidence on identification of his wife's name before the book was published in 1904.
The best source is preferred before 1904 for her identification.
Unknown wife of John Hill is not identical with Mercy Howland who was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Howland because Mercy Howland was mentioned as Mercy Howland in a citation order by Judge Isaac Winslow in 1737 and she was unmarried at that time.
Merging is rejected.
Mercy Howland (Howland-3398) and John Hill's first child Tacy Hill was born in 1727, and they had the children together during their marriage between 1727 and 1739, but the fact is that Mercy Howland (Howland-1752) was not yet married or did not have any children yet because she was mentioned in citation paper in Thomas Howland's probate records as she was called as Mercy Howland in 1737. In fact, nothing mentioned about Mrs. Mercy Hill or John Hill in Thomas Howland's probate records in 1737.
Those records showed that Mercy Howland (Howland-3398) who married John Hill and Mercy Howland (Howland-1752) who was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Howland are separate, different women.
edited by Anonymous Howland