Original records lost, but two records based on a 1736 copy call Experience, d/o John Howland, a daughter, refuting Elizabeth Pearson White in MQ article, who claims that person was a male, noting no probate found for John2 Howland. Births of the children taken from Bierce-Cottreell pedigree, claimed by author to match an unpublished manuscript of Donald Jacobus based on land and probate records of Plympton. Jacobus says, "Although not proved by definite record, there seems no reasonable doubt that his [James2 Bearse/Bearce/Bierce's] wife was Experience Howland." The reasons include the relative uncommonness of the name Experience, and the names of children (including both John and Mary, and also Shubael, neither John nor Shubael seen before in the Bearse family.
