Some Descendants of Capt. Joseph Howland (John) and Elizabeth Southworth (Thomas) of Plymouth

  1. Thomas Howland was born about 1675 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 9] He died on 2 Dec 1739 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 29] He married Joanna Cole about 1699. [MF23, p. 29] Joanna was the daughter of James and Mary (Tilson) Cole. [MF23, p. 29] She was born about 1679 and died on 4 Jan 1760 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 29] Thomas and Joanna had eight children born in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 29]
  2. James Howland was born before 29 Dec 1669 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 31] He died after 26 Aug 1735. [MF23, p. 31] He married Mary Lothrop on 8 Sep 1697 in Barnstable. [MF23, p. 31] James and Mary had six children born in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 32]
    1. Abigail Howland was born on 29 Oct 1702 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 142] She died on 18 Apr 1761 in North Yarmouth, Maine. [MF23, p. 142] She married first Caleb Cooke on 6 May 1722/3[!] in Kingston. [MF23, p. 142] Caleb, the son of Caleb and Jane Cooke, was born on 17 Apr 1697 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 143] He died on 15 Mar 1724 in Kingston. [MF23, p. 143] She married second as his second wife Barnabus Seabury [CJJR, p. 18] after 25 May 1725 (int.) in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 143] Barnabus was the son of Samuel and Abigail (Allen) Seabury, Jr. [CJJR, p. 18] He was born on 29 Jan 1700 in Duxbury. [CJJR, p. 18] He died on 4 May 1787, age 87, at North Yarmouth. Barnabus married first Mary Johnson on 11 Oct 1722. [CJJR, p. 18]
  3. Sarah Howland died before 23 Dec 1703, unmarried. [MF23, p. 9]
    Sarah was called before the court for the sin of fornication on 13 Dec 1691. [MF23, p. 32] She was fined at the Aug 1692 court. [MF23, p. 32] She was fined again for fornication at the Court of Common Pleas in Mar 1698/9. [MF23, p. 32] She had a daughter Mary with an unknown father. [MF23, p. 32]
  4. Lydia Howland was born about 1674 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 9] She died after 25 Jan 1733. [MF23, p. 32] She married Joseph Jenkins in Oct 1694 in Barnstable. [MF23, p. 32] Joseph was the son of John and Mary (Wallen) (Ewer) Jenkins. [MF23, p. 32] He was born the last of Mar 1669 in Barnstable and died on 13 Oct 1734, age 66, in Barnstable. [MF23, p. 32] He was buried in the West Barnstable Cemetery. [MF23, p. 32] Lydia and Joseph had nine children born in Barnstable. [MF23, p. 32]
  5. Elizabeth Howland was born in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 9] She died after 15 Feb 1723/4. [MF23, p. 33] She married first Isaac Hamlin on 14 Sep 1698 in Barnstable. [MF23, p. 33] Isaac, the son of Eleazer and Mehitable (Jenkins) Hamlin, was born on 20 Aug 1676 in Barnstable and died before 8 Feb 1709/10. [MF23, p. 33] Elizabeth married second Timothy Cannon on 9 Nov 1711 in Barnstable. [MF23, p. 34] Timothy, the son of Joanna Cannon, was baptised on 19 Apr 1681 in Barnstable and died after 1715. [MF23, p. 34] Elizabeth and Isaac had four children born in Barnstable. Eizabeth and Timothy had two children born in Falmouth. [MF23, p. 34]
  6. Mercy Howland was born in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 9] She died after 18 Jun 1721. [MF23, p. 35] She married Joseph Hamlin on 27 Apr 1704 in Barnstable. [MF23, p. 35] Joseph, the son of Eeazer and Mehitable (Jenkins) Hamlin was born on 20 Nov 1680 in Barnstable and died on 27 Aug 1766, age 86. [MF23, p. 35] He is buried in the West Barnstable Cemetery. [MF23, p. 35] He married second Hopestill (Lombard/Lumbert) Davis on 5 Sep 1751 in Barnstable. [MF23, p. 35] Mercy and Joseph had five children born in Barnstable. [MF23, p. 35-6]
  7. Nathaniel Howland was born about 1670 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 36] He died on 20 or 29 Dec , age 76, in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 36] He is buried in the Burial Hill Cemetery. [MF23, p. 36] He married first Martha Cole on 16 Mar 1696/7 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 36] Martha, the daughter of James and Mary (Tilson) Cole, was born about 1672 and died on 11 Aug 1718, age about 46, in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 36] He married second as her second husband Abigail (Churchill) Billington on 25 Jan 1725/6 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 36] Nathaniel and Martha had five children born in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 36]
    1. Capt. Nathaniel Howland was born on 9 Jun 1705 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 163] He died on 20 Jul 1766, age 62 in Boston. [MF23, p. 163] He married first Yetmercy (Howland) Palmer on 6 Dec 1733 in Bristol. [MF23, p. 163] He married second as her second husband Abigail (Burt) Lane on 22 Nov 1739 in Boston. [MF23, p. 164] Abigail, the daughter of John and Abigail (Cheever) Burt, was born on 28 Mar 1718 and died in Jul 1766. [MF23, p. 164] She married first Richard Lane on 8 Jan 1735 in Boston. [MF23, p. 164]
      Capt. Nathaniel Howland was a West India trader. [MF23, p. 164]
      1. Joseph Howland was born on 30 Sep 1749 in Boston. [MF23, p. 164] He was baptised on 1 Oct 1749 in the New North Church in Boston. [MF23, p. 164] He died in 1836 in Norwich. [FDRA, p. 83] He married Lydia Bill. [MF23, p. 164] Lydia, the daughter of Capt. Ephraim and Lydia (Huntington) Bill, was born in 1753. [FDRA, p. 91]
        Joseph moved to Norwich. [FDRA, p. 83] He was a West India trader. [FDRA, p. 83]
        1. Susan Howland was born in 1779. [FDRA, p. 83] She married John Aspinwall. [FDRA, p. 83] John, the son of John and Rebecca (Smith) Aspinwall was born in New York in 1774. [FDRA, p. 53] John was a shipowner and merchant. [FDRA, p. 53]
          1. Mary Rebecca Aspinwall was born in 1809 in New York City. [FDRA, p. 12] She married Isaac Roosevelt. Isaac, the son of James and Maria Elizabeth (Walton) Roosevelt, was born in 1790 in New York City. [FDRA, p. 12]
            • James Roosevelt was born in 1828 in Hyde Park, New York. [FDRA, p. 12] He married Sarah Delano. [FDRA, p. 12]
              • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  8. Benjamin Howland was baptised on 29 Mar 1685 in Plymouth. [MF23, p. 9] He died on 7 Sep 1689. [MF23, p. 9]
  9. Joseph Howland died on 8 Sep 1689. [MF23, p. 9]

References

FDRA Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors, Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, c1933.
CJJR Johnson, Paul Franklin and Frank Leonard Johnson, Genealogy of Capt. John Johnson of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Commonwealth Press, Los Angeles, 1951.
MF23 Lainhart, Ann Smith and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, v. 23 (Family of John Howland), Plymouth, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006.