Marriage of Mary Newland and Henry Howland ?

I have seen much information that accepts the fact that Henry Howland (brother of John) married Mary Newland (sister of William Newland). We know that Mary was the first name of Henry's wife. The Newland family and the Howland family did have close ties in Duxbury. Is it because both families are Quaker, just good friends or are they related?

William Newland did have a sister Mary. How many other Mary's lived in Duxbury in the 1620'^s? Some sources accept as fact, that Mary Newland was Henry Howland's spouse. Without primary proof of the marriage between Henry Howland and Mary Newland, we can only assume that Mary Newland is Henry's wife.

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From the book, "SEVENTEENTH CENTURY COLONIAL ANCESTORS of Members of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century" 1915 - 1075, compiled by Mary Louise M. Hutton,
pg.133:
"Howland, Henry (_-1671) Mass.; m. Mary Newland; juror; landowner."

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Davis, William T.; "Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families"; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; Baltimore; pg 154.
Originally Published as Part II of "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth", Second Edition, Damrell & Upham, Boston, 1899;
"Henry, Daxbury, brother of 1st John and 1st Arthur, appeared as early as 1633, and m. Mary Newland, and had Joseph, m. Rebecca, d. of John Huzzy of Hampton; Zoeth; John, m. Mary Walker; Samuel removed to Freetown; Sarah, m. Robert Dennis of Newport; Elizabeth; Mary, m. James Cudworth; Abigail, m. John Young."

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Excerpted and Reprint from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, "Mayflower Source Record", (Genealogical Publication Co, Inc Baltimore 1986), pg 30, Extracted from the early probate Records of Bristol County, with note from the Registry of Deeds and Town Records. "Samuel, John and Zoeth, were the sons of Henry Howland, of Duxbury, said Henry being one of the 26 original proprietors of Freetown. Henry Howland died in 1670, and Mary his wife died June 16, 1674."

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He made his will 28 November 1670, and he named his wife Mary (her surname is not known; they were possibly married in England), his sons Zoeth, Joseph, John, and Samuel, and his daughters Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, and Abigail.   Will was probated on March 8, 1670/71.
Source: National Genealogical Quarterly

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From PLYMOUTH COLONY - ITS HISTORY AND PEOPLE, 1620-1691:
Ancestry Publishing (April 1, 1986)
"HENRY HOWLAND - A brother of 1620 Mayflower passenger, John Howland, Henry Howland was in Plymouth at least as early as 25 March 1633, when his name appears on the tax list, and he was also on the original freeman list."
On 2 March 1657/58, the same day his brother Arthur was fined for permitting a Quaker meeting in his house and for resisting the constable of Marshfield in the execution of his office, Henry Howland was fined ten shillings for entertaining a meeting in his house contrary to court orders. On 7 June 1659 the court, referring to an order disenfranching Quakers and other offenders, gave notice to four men to appear in court the following August, and on 6 October 1659 Howland had his freeman status taken away from him. On 1 May 1660 Henry Howland was charged with entertaining another man's wife in his house after her husband had complained to him, and for permitting a Quaker meeting in his house and entertaining a foreign Quaker. He stiffly denied the first charge, and the court noted that the evidence 'did not appeer to make it out,' but he was convicted on the Quaker charges."
"On the 2nd of March 1657/58 he was fined for entertaining a meeting of Quakers in his home. On the 6th of Oct 1659 he and his brother-in-law, William Newland, were were sentenced "to bee defranchised of their freedom of this corpation".

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From the book, "History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters and First Comers to Ye Olde Colonie" by Leon Clark Hills, Published 1975 by Genealogical Pub. Co. in Baltimore.
Reprint of the 1936-1941 ed. published by Hills Pub. Co., Washington, which was issued as v. 1-2 of Cape Cod series.
pg 161:
"Howland, Henry, born England; died Duxbury, Mass., Jan 17, 1671; married Mary Newland; died Duxbury, June 16, 1674. She was a sister of William Newland who came from Lynn in 1637 and settled in Sandwich. She and her brother were Quakers. Henry resided for a while in Plymouth, but became an early settler in Duxbury "by the bayside, near Love Brewster." He was a surveyor of highways, and was able to bear arms in 1643. As a Quaker he suffered the persecutions of the times. On April 2, 1659 Henry with 26 others bought of the Indians what is now Freetown, for a few old coats, rugs, iron pots, etc. including "one little kittle. In 1664 he purchased a large portion of land in Mattapoisett (Swansea). Henry was owner of the sixth lot in Freetown. However, his sons, John and Samuel, really became the actual settlers."

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Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: immigrants to New England 1620-1633, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995, Three volumes.
"the claim that Mary was a Newland is unsupported."

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Robert S. Wakefield and Robert M. Sherman, "Henry Howland of Duxbury, Mass, 1633," National Genealogical Society Quarterly (June 1987): 75:105 - Although she is often called Mary Newland, no evidence has been found to verify this claim.

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Neither Wakefield & Sherman in the NGSQ articles on Henry Howland and his descendants nor Robert Charles Anderson in his "The Great Migration Begins" accept Mary Newland as the proven wife of Henry Howland.