Ancestry of
Cecil B. DeMille

American Film Director

John Howland Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Cecil B. DeMille — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 606 
  • Father:
  • John Howland 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Tilley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Apr 1627 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 18 May 1699 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Lee
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Oct 1651 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Howland

  Elizabeth Howland

  Isaac Howland

  Hannah Howland

  Lydia Howland

  Experience Howland

  Anne Howland (Ahnentafel No:303 )

  Shubael Howland

  John Howland

• Sources for John Howland Jr.

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 2016, Vol. 88, pp. 31-36.
  • ² 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.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 282.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 14, 55, 127, 157, 269, 445, 481, 535, 553, 566, 758.
  • ⁵ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 68, 70.
  • ⁶ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 6.
  • ⁷ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 2, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1993, 4th printing 2008), 14, 16-22.