Ancestry of
Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd U.S. President

Nathaniel Howland Jr.

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Franklin D. Roosevelt — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 44 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Howland 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Cole   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jun 1705 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 8 Jul 1705 
  • Christening Location:
  • First Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 20 Jul 1766 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Copp's Hill Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Burt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Nov 1739 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Joseph Howland (Ahnentafel No:22 )

  • Notes: 
  • West India Trader.

• Additional marriages for Nathaniel Howland Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Yetmercy Howland
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Dec 1733
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bristol, Bristol Co., Rhode Island

• Sources for Nathaniel Howland Jr.

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Church Records, 1630-1895, New North Church, p. 165, Baptism for son Joseph Howland.
  • ² Boston, MA: Deaths, 1700-1799, Death record for Capt. Nathaniel Howland.
  • ³ Boston, MA: Marriages, 1700-1809, Vol. 1, Page 211.
  • ⁴ Boston, MA: Old Cemeteries of Boston, 1649-1920, Cemetery records for Nathaniel and Abigail Burt (both buried in Shaw Family Tomb).
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Boston, Marriages 1649-1800, Image 182 of 304.
  • ⁶ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1942, Vol. 73, No. 3, Pages 159-166 and accompanying chart.
  • ⁷ Plymouth Church Records 1620-1859, Page 269, Baptism for Nathaniel Howland.
  • ⁸ Plymouth, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Page 19, Birth record for Nathaniel Howland.
  • ⁹ Aspinwall, Algernon Aikin, comp., The Aspinwall Genealogy, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company (1901), 75.
  • ¹⁰ Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors: Their Part in the Making of American History, Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1933), 83, 87.
  • ¹¹ 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, 185, 261.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 308.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 446.
  • ¹⁴ 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), 37, 163-165.