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Meryl Streep

Movie Actress

Abigail Howland

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Meryl Streep — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 787 
  • Father:
  • Henry Howland 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1627 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. London, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Apr 1692 
  • Death Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Young
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Dec 1648 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Young

  Nathaniel Young

  Abigail Young (Ahnentafel No:393 )

  David Young

  Henry Young

• Sources for Abigail Howland

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 7, p. 956.
  • ² New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1904, Vol. 35, p. 257.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1018.
  • ⁴ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 20, 90.
  • ⁵ Johnson, Caleb H., "Henry Howland of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire: Father of Mayflower Passenger John Howland", (accessed 06/09/2020).
  • ⁶ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 311.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 28, 117.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 620, 626-627.
  • ⁹ Twining, Thomas J., Genealogy of the Twining Family: Descendants of William Twining, Sr., Chicago: Published for the Author (1890), 30.

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