Ancestry of
Bing Crosby

Singer and Movie Actor

Mary Howland

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Bing Crosby — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 285 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Zoeth Howland 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Abigail -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Jan 1665/1666 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Jan 1742/1743 
  • Death Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Freeman
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1692 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Abigail Freeman

  John Freeman (Ahnentafel No:142 )

  Lydia Freeman

  • Notes: 

  • A circumstantial case has been presented that Mary was the daughter of Zoeth Howland. Further evidence is needed to confirm this.

• Sources for Mary Howland

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1970, Vol. 46, p. 250.
  • ² Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 330.
  • ³ Freeman, Frederick, Freeman Genealogy, in Three Parts, Boston: Franklin Press; Rand, Avery, and Company (1875), 28, 42-43.
  • ⁴ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 28.
  • ⁵ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 93-94.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 21, 280, does not give Mary's maiden name.