Family Group of Samuel Howland

SAMUEL HOWLAND 1 7   ( Henry, Henry, John, John, John ) was born Abt. 1646 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 2, and died after Feb 15, 1715 (date of his Will 3) and before May 07, 1716 (date of Probate 15) in Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He married (1) MARY SAMPSON 3 21 Bef. June 02, 1681, daughter of ABRAHAM SAMPSON and ESTHER? NASH. He married (2) MARY MERRIHEW July 17, 1708 4.

Notes for SAMUEL HOWLAND  

Time Line for Samuel Howland ... developed from research data

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Samuel Howland was born in 1638 in Duxberry, Ma.. He died on 18 Apr 1716 in Freetown, Ma.. He married Mary Sampson in 1670 in Freetown, Bristol Co., Ma.. 20

They had the following children: 20

F i Mary Howland
M ii Abraham Howland
F iii Content Howland
M iv Samuel Howland Jr.
M v John Howland
M vi Isaac Howland
M vii Joshua Howland
M viii Gershom Howland.

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William Ford first appears in Plymouth records on the 1643 ATBA for Duxbury. Moore Families, pp. 264-75, gives an account of his life and his family. On 3 October 1662, he was fined five shillings for allowing Samuel Howland to breach the Sabbath by carrying grist from the mill. 13

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From "Early Records of Bristol County": 3

Samuel Howland, of Freetown, Yeoman, made Feb 15, 1715, a will referring to his wife Mary, his daughter Mary Rounsevill, his daugter Content Hanford, his sons Samuel, John, Abraham, Joshua, and Gershom, and grand daughter Mary Morton, and each of Isaac's children. The will was probated May 1716.

He was elected one of the Selectmen of Freetown May 12, 1690, and assessor Nov 24, 1697.

bef 1673 Samuel married Mary Sampson, daughter of Abraham Sampson.

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"1687 August 8th - Letters of Administration were granted to Samuel Howland, upon the estate of his brother John Howland, deceased. [Samuel, John and Zoeth, were the sons of Henry Howland, of Duxbury, said Henry being one of the 26 origional proprietors of Freetown. Henry Howland died in 1670, and Mary his wife died June 16, 1674. Zoeth had a son Nathaniel, who divided his grandfather's lot (the 6th on Freetown) with uncle Samuel, Feb. 13, 1687. In this division Samuel Howland also received 32 acres of land in Swansea. Nathaniel Howland, of Dartmouth, in consideratio of 60 pounds, sold Henry Brightman, of Portsmouth, R.I. half a freeman's share in Freetown, and half a freeman's share in the meadows at Sippacan, Dec. 8, 1691. Zoeth was the ancestor of the New Bedford branch of the Howland family.]" 15

Samuel Howland of Freetown, Yoeman, made his will gave "to wife Mary, 2 cows, white mare and ye colt, one warming pan, one basin and my chamber pot, and bed I commonly lie upon and the bedding belonging to it; also one sheet and a box and all therein at the time of my decease." "To daughter Mary Rounsevill one cow. To daughter Content Sandford more than she has had one pound. To my sons Samual, John, Abraham, Joshua, and Gershom more than they had in other things one shilling each. To Mary Morton one shilling, and to each of son Isaac's children on pound in money" 15

Will was presented and proved in the court of Probate May 7, 1716. 15

Besides the above enumerated gifts, Samuel Howland had conveyed to his sons by deed as follows. "1711 April 13th, To son Joshua of Taunton, one quarter of the sixth lot, one quarter part in width and upon the north side." "1712 Dec. 16th, to son Joshua who is now said to be of Freetown, one quarter part in bredth of the sixth lot from Taunton River to the great ffresh pond." "1722 Dec. 16th, to sons Samual and Gershom of Freetown, a part of the northerly half of the sixth lot." 15

Samuel Howland, the parent, was elected one of the Selectmen of Freetown May 12, 1690 and Assessor Nov. 24, 1697. He is undoubtedly the Samuel Howland who resides in Duxbury in 1662, and was fined 10 shillings or to be whipt for carrying on the Lord's day a grist from the mill; and he was also charged with "discharging a fowling piece on the body of William Howse" of Sandwich, while gunning at the "high pyne on Salthouse beach". A verdict was given by the jury, "not guilty of willful murder, yet we find that the said Howse received his deadly wound by Samuel Howland's gun going off, as it lay on his shoulder." Mary the daughter of Samuel Howland, is supposed to be the wife of Phillip Rounsevill and the mother of the entire Rounsevill family in this country. 15

Notes for MARY SAMPSON:  

Mary Sampson was born about 1650 in Freetown, Bristol Co., Ma.. She married Samuel Howland in 1670 in Freetown, Bristol Co., Ma.. 20

Children of SAMUEL HOWLAND and MARY SAMPSON :

1. ABRAHAM HOWLAND 7, b. May 09, 1675, Freetown, Plymouth (now Bristol), Massachusetts; d. June 15, 1747, Hanson, Massachusetts 14; m. Ann (Rouse?) (Colson?) , Abt. 1700; 14

   Notes for ABRAHAM HOWLAND:

   "HOWLAND, ABRAHAM, Pembroke, son of 1st Samuel, m., about 1700, Ann, d. of Nathaniel Colson of Newport, and had Rouse, 1706; Abraham; Samuel, 1717; Joseph, 1722; Benjamin, 1724, m. Experience Edgarton of Halifax; Sarah, 1707, m. a Dawes; Elizabeth, 1706, m. a Bonney; Mary, 1704, m. Jacob Mitchell, and a d. m. Jedediah Beals." 16

2. SAMUEL HOWLAND 7, b. Abt. 1679.
    
3. JOSHUA HOWLAND 7, b. Abt. 1670, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. Aft. 1741; m. (1) ELIZABETH HOLLOWAY 7, May 12, 1709, Taunton, Mass.; m. (2) DORTHY LEE 7, February 17, 1724/25.
    
4. JOHN HOWLAND 7, b. Freetown, Massachusetts; d. Freetown, Bristol, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
    
5. CONTENT HOWLAND 7, b. Abt. 1673; m. JOHN SANFORD, Abt. 1698.
    
6. GERSHOM HOWLAND 19 7, m. PRASSILLA WISWELL, 1716.
    
7. ISAAC HOWLAND 7
    
8. MARY HOWLAND 7, b. 1673; d. May 08, 1744; m. PHILLIP ROUNSEVILLE 7, 1705.
    

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