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John Lithgow

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John Howland

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2618 
  • Father:
  • Henry Howland 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1598 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Feb 1672/1673 
  • Death Location:
  • Rocky Nook (now Kingston), Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Tilley
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 25 Mar 1623/1624 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Desire Howland (Ahnentafel No:1309 )

  John Howland

  Hope Howland

  Elizabeth Howland

  Lydia Howland

  Hannah Howland

  Joseph Howland

  Jabez Howland

  Ruth Howland

  Isaac Howland

  • Notes: 

  • Mayflower passenger

• Sources for John Howland

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/06/2011).
  • ² Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, To January 1, 1929, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1988), 386.
  • ³ Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Vol. II, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1988), 75.
  • ⁴ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1942, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 159-166 and accompanying chart.
  • ⁵ The Mayflower Descendant, 1991, Vol. 41, p. 2.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith, Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale: With Little Sketches of Their Immigrant Ancestors All of Whom . . ., Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House (1929), see chart preceding p. 51.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1019-1024.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1714.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 171.
  • ¹⁰ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 19.
  • ¹¹ Aspinwall, Algernon Aikin, comp., The Aspinwall Genealogy, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company (1901), 74-75.
  • ¹² Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors: Their Part in the Making of American History, Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1933), 79-82.
  • ¹³ Johnson, Caleb H., "Henry Howland of Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire: Father of Mayflower Passenger John Howland", (accessed 06/09/2020).
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#55 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Notable Descendants of Henry and Margaret (----) Howland of . . .", (accessed 10/29/2014).
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#78 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Ten Further Hollywood Figures (or Groups Thereof)", (accessed 10/06/2014).
  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 148, 173, 183.
  • ¹⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117.
  • ¹⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 6, 9, 14, 16, 21, 27, 30, 34, 40, 55, 66, 84, 90, 96, 109, 127, 129, 132, 136, 140, et. al..
  • ¹⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 446, 616.
  • ²⁰ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 68.
  • ²¹ Wakefield, Robert S. and Ann Smith Lainhart, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 23, Part 1, John Howland, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 1-2.
  • ²² Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 13.
  • ²³ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 1, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 13.
  • ²⁴ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 340.
  • ²⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, ""John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 2, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1993, 4th printing 2008), 1-15.
  • ²⁶ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 1-8.
  • ²⁷ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 3, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2008, 2nd printing 2011), 17-27.

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