Ancestry of Dr.
Tom Price

23rd U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services

Experience Howland

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Tom Price — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1961 
  • Father:
  • John Howland Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Lee   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Jul 1668 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • from 16 Oct 1734 to 31 Dec 1752 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • James Bearse
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1683 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Shubael Bearce

  James Bearse Jr. (Ahnentafel No:980 )

  Experience Bearse

  Priscilla Bearse

  Mary Bearse

  John Bearse

  Thankful Bearse

  Rebecca Bearse

  • Notes: 

  • GSMD Gen. No. 094148

    While no direct marriage record has been found to show that Experience Howland, daughter of John and Mary (Lee) Howland, was the same woman as the wife of James Bearse, circumstantial evidence does support that she was probably his wife and the mother of his children.

    Some publications have made the claim that Experience Howland was a male and not a female. However, the 1736 transcription of the Barnstable vital records shows that Experience was recorded as a female.

    As quoted from Erin Gillett, Research Asst., General Society of Mayflower Descendants, in a reply to a Lineage Match request by Doug Rogers dated 30 APR 2020:

    &dlquo;The Mayflower Society did recently discover evidence that proves that Experience Howland (granddaughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland) married James Bierce. We are currently accepting applications that go through this couple. Currently we have approved applications going through these 4 different children of Experience Howland and James Bierce: 1) James, 2) Priscilla, 3) Rebecca, and 4) Shubael.&drquo;

• Sources for Experience Howland

  • ¹ Plymouth County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1881, Case No. 1761, Probate file for spouse James Bearce.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 2008, Vol. 83, pp. 122-126.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 2016, Vol. 88, pp. 31-36.
  • ⁴ Bierce, Thurber H. and Lisle Cottrell, Ancestors in the United States of Byron H. Bierce and His Wife Mary Ida Cottrell of Cortland County, New York, n. p.: n. p. (1962), 2-7.
  • ⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 2, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1993, 4th printing 2008), 21-22.