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John Howland Jr (1744 - 1835)

John Howland Jr
Born in Swansea, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
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Husband of — married 1768 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Islandmap
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Died at age 91 in Knoxville, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United Statesmap
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Biography

1776 Project
John Howland Jr served with Rhode Island Militia during the American Revolution.
John was a Friend (Quaker)
This profile is part of the Howland Name Study.

Birth

In Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay, the birth record said, "John Howlen the Son of John Howlen and Freelove his wife was born January: 14:1743/4."[1] John Howland was born 14 January 1743 in Swansea, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.[2] However, the Daughters of the American Revolution source suggests that he was born in Attleboro, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, the son of John Howland and Freelove Wood.[3] He was the seventh child of their eight children.

Life

After John Howland, Jr. and his six older siblings were born in Swansea between 1726 and 1744, his parents, John and Freelove (Wood) Howland, and his family moved to Scituate, Bristol County, Rhode Island in 1745,[4][5] and he grew up there. Finally, his younger brother, William Howland was born in Scituate in 1746.

Then, John Howland, Jr. married Lois Eddy and lived in Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Island where their ten children all were born there between 1769 and 1793.

John and Lois (Eddy) Howland moved to Tioga County, Pennsylvania in 1803.[6]

Marriage

John Howland married Lois Eddy in 1768 in Gloucester, Rhode Island.

Children

These are John Howland and Lois Eddy’s known children:

  1. Merrobe (Howland) King (1769 - 1836).
  2. Eddy Howland (1771 - 1841)
  3. Huldah (Howland) Bowen (1775 - 1847)
  4. Miriam (Howland) Aldrich (1776 - 1856)
  5. Willard Howland (1778 - 1853)
  6. Hannah Howland (1778)
  7. Lois Howland (1781 - 1838)
  8. Phebe Howland (1784)
  9. John Howland (1787 - 1840)
  10. Mercy (Howland) Seelye (1793 - 1867)

Military

John Howland participated in Revolutionary War in 1777 in Rhode Island.

John Howland's Revolutionary War service is recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) which has assigned no. A058813 to John Howland as follows:

Service: Rhode Island
Rank: Soldier
Birth: 14 Jan 1743, Attleboro, Bristol Co. Massachusetts
Death: 13 May 1835, Knoxville, Tioga Co. Pennsylvania
Service Source: Rhode Island Historical Society Published, Vol. 15, July 1922, Page 77 - Reporting on Meeting of Town Council, 5 May 1777
Service Description: Col. Chad Brown, Militia.[3]

Property

The Glocester 1778 tax roll listed his taxable property in Gloucester, Rhode Island at the time: Howland, John jun 1 poll; 1 house; 4 horses; 2 oxen; 23 horned cattles; 42 sheep/goats; 7 swines; 50 acres pasture to keep 15 cows; 10 acres of tillage; 100 bushells grain; 1 acre orchard; 5 barrels cider; 40 acres meadow; 13 tons English hay; 13 tons fresh hay; 199 acres wood & waste land; total acres 300; £149.16 personal estate; £1200 real estate; rateable value £1349.16.[7]

Census

On the page for the 1790 census in Glocester, Providence, RI are listed the names of James King, James King Jr., Enoch Lippett, Lippett Eddy, and John Howland.[8]

The names, ages, and inferred attributions are:

  • James King, Sr. born about 1731.
  • James King, Jr. born about 1765 and married Merrobe Howland, who born in 1769 and was the daughter of (5). John Howland.
  • Lippett Eddy born between 175[?] and 176[?] and was the son of (4). Enoch Eddy and Hannah Lippett.
  • Enoch Eddy married Hannah Lippett.
  • John Howland born between 1742 and 1744 and married Lois Eddy, who was the daughter of (4). Enoch Eddy and Hannah Lippett, and the sister of (3). Lippett Eddy.

Death

John Howland died on May 13, 1835, in Knoxville, Tioga County Pennsylvania.[2]

Burial

John Howland was buried in the Quaker Burying Ground, Knoxville, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.[2]

Now John Howland's grave is unmarked. “Within this inclosure, in unmarked graves, lie the remains of John Howland, the first of the name to settle in this valley.”[9]

Sources

  1. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/rd/13932/93/251744862.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Find A Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 November 2019), memorial page for [John Howland (14 Jan 1743 – 13 May 1835), Find A Grave Memorial no. 80599616, citing Quaker Burying Ground, Knoxville, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Mary Briggs (contributor 47645089).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rhode Island Historical Society, Vol 15, July 1922, p.77, cited by the Daughters of the American Revolution, #A058813. Text: "On September 19, 1776, the Town Council sought to encourage enlistments for the protection of Newport by offering 3 pounds as a bonus in addition to the regular pay given the State troops and by promising to replace the firearms furnished by each soldier if it should be taken from him by a stronger power. A record of the meeting of the Town Council on May 5th, 1777, shows that the State draught included the following land-owners of the Allum Pond neighborhood: Ezra Stone, Jeremiah Ballard, Jethro Lapham, John Howland, Jr., James Stone and Thomas Herendeen, who were to serve under Col. Chad Brown."
  4. ↑ Scituate, R.I., Land Records, 3:250.
  5. ↑ Bartlett, John Russell, ed., Records of The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation in New England, [Providence, 1860] V:110.
  6. ↑ History of Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: R.C. Brown, 1897, p. 869.
  7. ↑ Fiske, Jane Fletcher, transcriber. “The Glocester 1778 Tax List: A List of the Polls and Estates Real and Personal of the Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Town of Glocester in the State of Rhode Island &c Taken By Us the Subscribers Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly Passed at Their Session in October AD 1778.” Rhode Island Roots, volumes 19 (1993) through 20 (1994), page 119.
  8. ↑ First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637, 12 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Year: 1790; Census Place: Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island; Series: M637; Roll: 10; Page: 245; Image: 144; Family History Library Film: 0568150.
  9. ↑ History of Tioga County, Pennsylvania, History of Tioga County, Pennsylvania with Illustrations, Portraits, & Sketches of Prominent Families and Individuals. New York: W. W. Munsell & Co., 1883, pp. 232, 237-238, 323.




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Stanton-3574 T Stanton
Anonymous, there is some confusion in the narrative biography. It is only the place of birth, not the parents, for which there is a possible alternate place of birth? Might this be explained simply by the birth being later recorded in a second location as was common when people moved during this period of time? The narrative states he was 5th of six children yet more than this are listed on this profile (the sibling information is probably best on the parent profiles?) and more than this appear to be documented.
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Howland-1449 and Howland-1429 appear to represent the same person because: please review these potential duplicates and avoid duplicate profiles.
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Anonymous Howland
Howland-1449 and Howland-1446 appear to represent the same person because: please review these potential duplicates and avoid duplicate profiles. Thank you.
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