Lydia (Howland) Brown (abt. 1633 - 1711)

Born about 1633 in Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland

Wife of James Browne — married about 1654 (to 29 Sep 1710) in Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 11 Jan 1711 at about age 78 in Swansea, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Lydia Howland^[1] was born about 1633.^[2] She was the daughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.^[3] She married James Brown.^[4] She died in Jan 1710/1711.^[5] Lydia is buried at Riverside, Rhode Island.

Children^[6]

1. James b. 4 or 21 May 1655
2. Jabez b. c. 1667
3. Dorothy b. 29 Aug 1666
4. Joseph b 9 July 1668
5. Martha d. 1660
6. John d. 1662
7. Josiah d 1724

DNA

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an exact HVR1 and HVR2 match between this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for William Matthew Thornton Jr. and this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for Cynthia Herald, 10th cousins twice removed. Their Most Recent Common Ancestor is Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S255 Page: Brown Family Genealogy, Page 1075 Text: Genealogical information on the James Brown and his family. Genealogical information on the Captain John Brown and his family. Genealogical information on the Ebenezer Brown and his family. Genealogical information on the Timothy Brown and his family.
2. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004). p. 282
3. ↑ Caleb Johnson. The Mayflower Passenger List. 1998, http://mayflowerhistory.com/howland
4. ↑ Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History & People 1620-1691 (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 253
5. ↑ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
6. ↑ Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992. Vol 2 p.174
7. ↑ See FTDNA Kits 159230 and 337121 at GSMD/FTDNA Mayflower DNA Project - mtDNA Test Results for Members. (As of Aug. 2019.)

• Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2
• Lainhart, Ann Smith. Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 23, Part 1, Family of John Howland, General Society of Mayflower Descendents, Plymouth, MA., 2004.
• https://tacrocker.com/mayflower-families-through-five-generations-v.-23.pdf

See also:

• Howland Quarterly, The. Pilgrim John Howland Society
• Source: S255 Rensselaer Allston Oakes. Genealogical and family history of the county of Jefferson, New York. Vol. 2. New York: The Lewis publishing company, 1905. Open Library
• John Browne, Gentleman, of Plymouth (and one branch of descendants to the 12th generation), 1919. Brown, George Tilden, Justice of the Superior Court of Rhode Island. 2012.
• Family Data Collection - Marriages. Edmund West, comp. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Yates Publishing. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
• American Marriages Before 1699. Ancestry.com. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997. Original data - Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriage Records Before 1699. Pompton Lakes, NJ, USA: Biblio Co., 1926.
• Ancestry.com Title: Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013; Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992.