Howe John b. ABT 1602 d. 28 MAY 1680 Marlboro, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts

1602 - 1680

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Birth Abt 1602 [1]

Gender Male

_UPD 23 AUG 2009 13:41:18 GMT-5

Died 28 May 1680 Marlboro, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts [1, 2]

Person ID I5509 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Family Mary

Children

	1. Howe Eleazer, b. 1662, d. 1737
	2. Howe Samuel, b. 20 Oct 1642, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA , d. 13 Apr 1713, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Family ID F2368 Group Sheet

Notes	I. HOW, HOWE, John, of Sudbury, 1638; rem. to Marlboro, 1657, where he was a leading citizen; d. May 28, 1680, a. 78. He m. Mary _____, who d. 1698. Ch: -John, Aug. 24, 1640, m. Elizabeth; was killed by indians, at Sudbury, April, 1676. -Samuel, Oct. 20, 1642 (2). -Sarah, Sept. 25, 1644, m. Samuel Ward. -Mary, June 18, 1646, d. young. -Isaac, Aug. 8, 1648, m. Frances Woods. (2) Susanna Sibley. -Josiah, 1650, m. Mary Haynes -Mary, Jan. 18, 1654, m. John Wetherbee -Thomas, July 22, 1656, m. Sarah Hosmer. (2), wid. Mary Barron. -Daniel, Jan. 3, 1659, d. Jan. 8, 1662. -Alexander, Dec. 21, 1661, d. Jan. 7, 1662. -Eleazer, Jan. 18, 1662, m. Hannah Howe. John Howe made his home in Sudbury with settlers from Watertown, then the adjoining town. He was there in 1639 or earlier. He was admitted a freeman in 1640. In 1642 he was one of the Sudbury selectmen.. According to tradition he was the first white inhabitant who settled in the Sudbury New Grant, as it was called. He built.his cabin a little to the eastward of the Indian plantation, and in this vicinity many of his descendants have lived and are living still. His house was about one thousand rods from the Spring Hill Meeting House, a little to the east of the present road from Spring Hill toFeltonville, lately owned by Edward Rice. Howe was a man of dignity and universally respected, even by his Indian neighbors. In 1655 ne was appointed "to see to the restraining of the youth on the Lord's Day." Boys were boys even in the Puritan town of Sudbury in the days of Cromwell. He was brought into contact often with his Indian neighbors and he won their confidence and good will and often he became an arbiter in case of differencesbetween them. The story is told of a pumpkin grown on the land of one Indian, but on a vine belonging to another. Both claimed the pumpkin. Howe was asked to decide the ownership of the pumpkin. He cut it in two and gave a half to each. From 1657 till his death in 1680 he lived in Marlboro, and was the founder of most of the families of this surname in Middlesex and Worcester counties. Descendants of Abraham Howe, another emigrant settler, also settled in Marlboro, however. In 1662 he and Goodman Rice were appointed to make a grant of land to Thomas Danforth, or rather determine the size of a grant made by the general court in payment of services. John Howe opened the first public house in Marlboro. He petitioned the general court September 30, 1662, to be excused from trainingbecause he was aged, thick of hearing and maintained three soldiers in his family. He died in Marlboro, May 28, 1680. His will was dated May 24, 1680, and proved June 15, 1680. He made bequests to his wife, Mary, and children: Samuel, Isaac, Thomas, Eleazer, Sarah Ward, Mary With- erby; grandchild, John, son of John. He gave Thomas "the horse he troops on." His children were: John, born 1640, married, January 22, 1662, Elizabeth Woolson, was killed by the Indians; Samuel, October 20, 1642, married June 5, 1663, at Sudbury, Martha Bent; Sarah, September 25, 1644, married, June, 1667, Samuel Ward, died young; Mary, August 8, 1648; Isaac, August 8, 1648, married, June 17, 1671, Frances Wood; Josiah, married March 18, 1671, Mary Haynes, of Sudbury; Mary, June 18, 1654, married, September 18, 1672, John Wetherby; Thomas, June 12, 1656, married Sarah Hosmer; married (second) Mary Barron; Daniel, June 3, 1658, died 1661; Alexander, December 29, 1661, died January, 1662; Eleazer, January 18, 1662, married, 1683, Hannah Howe, daughter of Abraham Howe, of Marlboro.

Sources

[S301] History of the town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 years: with family genealogies. By J.H. Temple and G. Sheldon, Josiah Howard Temple, 468 (Reliability: 3).
[S142] Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: with a history of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Ellery Bicknell Crane, (Name: 1907;), 282 (Reliability: 3).