Mary (Unknown) Howland (1609 - 1674)

Born 1609 in Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England [uncertain]

Wife of Henry Howland — married [date unknown] in England

Descendants

Died 16 Jun 1674 at about age 65 in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony

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Biography

Mary was a Friend (Quaker)

Disputed Identity

Merging Notice. This profile is the target for duplicates of the wife of Henry Howland Jr. Her surname is not known. There is no proof that she was a Newland. If there was no proof that she was a Newland, why does the book, "The Howland Heirs," list her as a "sister" to William Newland?

Older sources say she was born about 1609 to William Newland and Agnes Anne Greenway. What is the source of this statement? https://minerdescent.com/2010/05/31/henry-howland/ states that she is their daughter, that she married Henry Howland Jr., and her brother William married Rose Allen, no sources are listed for any of these assertions.

There is no evidence her LNAB is Newland and the name has been rejected by all recent publications, including the definitive article which appeared in the NGSQ, and Anderson.

Last Will & Testament

Proved 8 April 1675

The will of Mary, "sometimes the wife of Hennery Howland now deceased," provides additional data, particularly on the daughters. It was drawn the "eight day of third month called May 1674" and was twice attested ---first on the "26 of second month [April] 1674" and the second on 8 April 1675. The testatrix, who did not cite her pace of residence, made bequests to her daughter Abigaill Young, sons Zoeth and John Howland, daughter Mary Cudworth, son Samuel Howland, daughters Sarah Denis and Elizabeth Allin, and son Joseph Howland. The latter was to give twelve pence to each of his siblings and was to have the remainder of the estate----except for "my horse att Ponagansett," which Mary bequested to John.^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ Robert S. Wakefield & Robert M Sherman, "Henry Howland of Duxbury, Massachusetts, 1633, His Children and Grandchildren," in NGSQ, 75 (1987):105
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-V3PS : 11 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 Vol 1-4 > image 400 of 616; State Archives, Boston.

• Emery, William M. The Howland Heirs (E. Anthony and Sons, Inc., New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1919) Page 4: She is "a sister of William Newland, who came from Lynn in 1637 and settled in Sandwich."
• Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=18828741&pid=725409551
• BURIAL: Burial Details Unknown

• Find A Grave: Memorial #34785086 Mary Howland

See also:

1. Leon Clark Hills, History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters and First Comers to Ye Olde Colonie, , page 161: "Mary Newland... was a sister of William Newland who came from Lynn in 1637 and settled in Sandwich. She and her brother were Quakers." [UNPROVEN THAT WIFE OF HENRY HOWLAND WAS MARY NEWLAND.]
2. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Vol. I, A-B, 29.)
3. A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry and John Howland and Their Descendants
4. Vital Records of Duxbury, Massachusetts
5. New England Marriages Prior to 1700
6. Lineage of Pardon Head & Harriett Russell

Acknowledgements

• RE: wife of Zoeth Howland & early Howland line: "The date of the marriage of Abigail to John Young is in dispute. According to Howland's History, this Abigail married Young on 2 9m [November] 1678, a date not found in any records relating to Abigail and one too late to accord with her being called Abigail Young in her mother's Will of 1674. Howland's alleged date is the one found in the Friends Records for the marriage of an Abigail Howland to Richard Keerby (see Abigail, widow of No.2, Zoeth Howland). The names of some of the children born to John Young and wife Abigail (e.g., Joseph, Henry, and possibly Robert) are Howland names and are compatible with a presumption that the mother was a daughter of Henry Howland; but if she were, Abigail was married many years earlier. A likely record of the marriage is the previously cited one in 1684. Extensive information is available on the family, both published and unpublished. A quick review of the Youngs in Plymouth Colony, made by the the authors Wakefield and Sherman, suggests that this John is the only Young in the colony likely to be Abigail's husband. This is a decently sourced out report with lots of potential for further study."