Mary (Howland) Russell (1706)

Born 27 Mar 1706 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of James Russell — married 19 Dec 1728 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Biography

This profile is part of the Howland Name Study.

Mary was a Friend (Quaker)

Mary Howland was born on 27 March 1706 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay.^[1] She was the daughter of Henry Howland.

She married James Russell, son of Jonathan Russell late of Dartmouth, on 19d 10m 1728 [19 Dec 1728].^[2]

Whereas James Russel Son of Jonathan Russel Late of Dartmouth Deseased in the County of Bristol in the Province of the Massechusets Bay in New England and Mary Howland Daughter of Henry Howland of the town and County above Said having Declared their Intentions of taking of Each other in Marriage Before Several Publick Meetings of the People Called Quakers in darmouth according to the good order used among them Whose proceedings there in after a deliberate Consideration there of With Regard onto the Righteous Law of God and Example of his People Recorded in the Scriptures of truth in that Case Where Permitted by the Said Meetings they appearing Clear of all others having Consent of Parents and others Conserned Now these are to Sertifie all Whome it may Consern that for the full accomplishing of their sd intentions; this Nineteenth day of the tenth Month Called Desember in the year according to the English: Account one thousand seven hundred and twenty Eight they the Said James Russel and Mary Howland appeared in a publick Assembly of the afore Said People and others Mett to gather, for that porpose in their publick Meeting place at Dartmouth afore Said and in a Solem Manner hethe Said James Russel taking the said Mary Howland by the hand Did openly declare as followeth friends I Desire you to be my Witnesses that I take this my friend Mary Howland to be My Wife Promising With Gods assistance to be Aloving Husband tell Deth Seperate;

and then an there in the said assembly the said Mary Howland Did in like-Manner Declare as followeth: friends I desire you to be my Witnesses that I take this my friend James Russel to be my Husband promising With Gods assistance to be a loving Wife tel death Seperate; and the Said James Russel and Mary Howland as a further Confirmation there of Did then and there to these preasents Sett their hands; and We Whose Names are unto Subscribed being preasents among others at the Solemnising of their Said Marriage and Subscription in Manner afore Said as Witnesses here unto have also to these preasents Subscribed our Names the Day and year above Writen

John Tucker Thomas Smith James Barker John Russell Judah Smith Beniaman Wing James Tripp John Tucker John Chapman Nicolas Howland Peleg Smith

Mary Howland Content Wing Johanna Russell Deborah Howland Lydia Allen Anne Tripp

James Russell Mary Russell William Russell Henry Howland John Howland Dorite Shearman

In 1729, her father, Henry Howland wrote in his will, "I Give and bequeath to my Two Daughters mary & Hannah forty Pounds to be [ink faded, one word] Paid them in money or my househoold Goods within one year after my Decease."^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. 22 (1868). Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, p. 69, https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2129/32608_234084-00082?pid=180777.
2. ↑ Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p. 233.
3. ↑ Bristol County, Probate Records, Volume 6, 1726-1730, p. 294-295.