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Howland John  Share Photo / Document
1599 - Abt 1673

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• Birth	1599	Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	16 Jan 1602/03	Holy Trinity, Ely, Cambridge, England
  Immigration	1620	On the Mayflower
  Will	29 May 1672	Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
  Died	Abt 24 Feb 1672/73	Rocky Nook, Plymouth, Massusetts, USA
  Buried	Burial Hill, Rocky Hook, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
  Age	74 years
  Person ID	I05412	Routon and Riddle
  Last Modified	14 Jan 2020

  
  

  Father	Howland Henry,   b. Abt 1575, England ,   d. 17 May 1635, Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England    (~ 60 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Aires Anne Margaret,   b. 1567, Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England ,   d. 31 Jul 1629, Fenstanton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England    (62 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Family ID	F00990	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Tilley Elizabeth,   b. 30 Aug 1607, England ,   d. 31 Dec 1687, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA    (80 years)
  Married	Abt 1624	Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
  Children	> 1. Howland Desire,  b. Abt 1625, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA ,  d. 13 Oct 1683, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA   (~ 58 years)   2. Howland John, Jr.,  b. 24 Apr 1627, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA ,  d. Aft 1699   (> 73 years) > 3. Howland Hope,  b. 30 Aug 1629, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA ,  d. 08 Jan 1683/84, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA   (54 years)   4. Howland Elizabeth,  b. Abt 1631,  d. 1691, Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York, USA   (~ 60 years)   5. Howland Lydia,  b. Abt 1633,  d. Aft 11 Jan 1710/11   (~ 78 years)   6. Howland Hannah,  b. 1637,  > 7. Howland Joseph,  b. 24 Apr 1627, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA ,  d. Jan 1703/04, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   (76 years)   8. Howland Jabez,  b. Abt 1644, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA ,  d. Between 1708 and 1712   (~ 64 years)   9. Howland Ruth,  b. Abt 1646, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA ,  d. Between 1672 and 1679   (~ 26 years) > 10. Howland Isaac,  b. 15 Nov 1649, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA ,  d. 09 Mar 1723/24, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA   (74 years)
  Family ID	F01828	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  A signer of the Mayflower Compact. John came on the Mayflower as a servant to John Carver. Best remembered for having the following accident while on board the Mayflower as recorded by William Bradford: "In sundry of these storms the winds were so fierce and the seas so high, as they could not bear a know of sail, but were forced to hull for divrs days together. And in one of them, as they thus lay at hull in a mighty storm, a lusty young man called John Howland, coming upon some occasion above the gratings was, with a seele of the ship, thrown into the sea; but it pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard and ran out at length. Yet he held his hold (though he was sundry fathoms under water) till he was hauled up by the same rope to the brim of the water, and then with a boat hook and other means got into the ship again and his life saved. And though he was something ill with it, yet he lived many years afer and became a profitable member both in church and commonwealth."