Person:Daniel Howland (3)

Daniel Howland, was born at Tiverton, R. I., May 29, 1691, and died at his home in East Greenwich, R. I., March 23, 1749. He was associated with his father in operating Howland's Ferry at Tiverton, and was high in public office, serving as assistant deputy and clerk of the court. He purchased a farm at East Greenwich, and resided there until his sudden death in the year 1749. His widow, Judith Howland, survived him a number of years, dying at the age of eighty-two years.

A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland And their Descendants of the United States and Canada By Franklyn Howland First Edition New Bedford, Mass: Published by the Author 1885 Page 91 Daniel 4, (Daniel 3, Zoeth 2, Henry 1) born in Tiverton, R. I.. 29, 5, 1691; m. Judith_____, 18, 7, 1713, who was born 6, 3, 1687, and died 9, 4, 1769, at the residence of her son Daniel, in East Greenwich, R. I. Some of their children were born in Portsmouth, R I. He was associated with his father in ferrying. He represented Portsmouth in the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1744 and 1748, and was an assistant in 1742-46 and in 1765. He was admitted a freeman in Portsmouth in 1717; was auditor of the town in 1742. He was clerk of the court of common pleas in 1759. Daniel and his brother were concerned in navigation, and experienced severe losses, which induced Daniel to attempt a different business, and in the year 1748 he purchased a small farm in the township of East Greenwich, R. I., and not long after removed there, with his wife and son and son's wife and two children. In 1752 he died suddenly of a fit. Judith survived her husband a number of years, retaining in advanced age that brightness of intellect and soundness of judgment which had shone conspicuously through earlier life. She died aged 82 years. At the decease of Daniel Sen., Daniel Jr. came into possession of the farm, and it has remained in the family.

1. ↑ Tiverton Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
   89.

   HOWLAND, Daniel, of Daniel and Mary, [born] May 29, 1694.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Narragansett Record of Friends, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
   150.

   HOWLAND, Daniel, [born] Rhode Island, 10d 6m 1691, [died] 15d 7m 1752

3.   East Greenwich Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
   125.

   HOWLAND, Daniel, died Chief Justice C. C. Pleas, Kent. Co., July 4, 1752.

4. ↑ Bicknell, Thomas Williams. The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. (New York: The American Historical Society, 1920).