Daniel Howe (1690 - 1757)

Born 24 Feb 1690 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Johnson) Howe — married 17 Dec 1716 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 3 Feb 1757 at age 66 in Great Meadows, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Born in Sudbury, Mass., 24 Feb. 1689-90^[1]; married 17 Dec. 1716, Elizabeth Johnson,^[2] daughter of Caleb and Agnes (Bent) Johnson. His father gave him part of the homestead, which he sold to his brother Elisha, and he received a grant of land in Brookfield in 1715, but he does not appear to have lived there; he was at Sudbury 1716 to 1721, and at Rutland 1722-1725, in 1722 he was chosen one of the Assessors of Rutland. On 26 March 1726, he bought land in Frarningham, and opened a tavern there, which he kept for a few years. In 1736 Massachusetts granted a new township called No. 2, on the east bank of the Conn. River, above Northfield ,of which Daniel How was a proprietor. The next year, 1737, he sold his property in Framingham, and he and his brother Nehemiah, with Jethro Wheeler and William Phipps, together with their families, became the first inhabitants of the new township, which soon took the name of Great Meadows, and was so called until 1752, when it was rechartered under the name of Westmoreland by the New Hampshire government, it having fallen within the limits of that province, by a final settlement of the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. By this second grant, the proprietary rights of nearly one-tenth part of the town fell to Daniel and his sons, and the sons of his brother Nehemiah who had died in the meantime. Daniel built a block house on his land on a bluff overlooking the river, which was later strengthened by a palisade, and during two ensuing Indian wars, it was known as the "Great Meadows Fort." He died in his own fort 3 Feb. 1757, and was buried in the old North Cemetery, which is only a short distance from the site of the fort. His wife outlived him yany years. Her Will dated 17 May 1779, mentions children Mary, Daniel, William and Beulah. She was the Granny Howe who, at one time, when the men were all away fighting the Indians, and her corn needed hoeing, got some rum after the custom of those times, and invited the neighboring women to come and help her attend to the corn.

The Howe Genealogies list six children for Daniel and Elizabeth.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Mass. Vital Records, Sudbury Births, p 73 (listed as 1689 in record under old calendar)
2. ↑ Mass. Vital Records, Sudbury Marriages, p 219
3. ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, the Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts", Vol. 1, (Boston: NEHGS, 1929), pp.20-21. Link to searchable Howe Genealogies at Ancestry.com

• West, Edmund. Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Ancestry.com. Online publication, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Provo, Utah, USA (2000). Link to search page nd search for Daniel How with Birth, marriage and death dates will return at least seven records. Note: This is a derivative source from Yates Publishing. Please see this caution note about a related Yates Publishing database: [1]

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