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Facts and Events
Edward Howe's Abbreviated Life in New England
Edward Howe immigrated with his wife and five children on the "Truelove" in the fall of 1635. The passenger list shows: Edward Howe, husbandman, aged 60, Elizabeth, aged 56, Jeremie, aged 21, Sara, aged 12, Ephraim, aged 9, Isaac, aged 7, William, aged 6. The settled in what is now Lynn, north of Boston. Edward was admitted freeman December 8, 1636. He acquired a good deal of land in the short time he lived in the colony - a 1638 landowner list credits him with 210 acres. He was chosen deputy to the General Court in 1638. He died “very suddenly” in April 1639, and his widow was appointed by the General Court to administer his estate on May 22, 1639. (Howe and Savage)
Possible Origin(s) of Edward Howe
Supposedly it is “tradition” that Edward was from London. A birthdate of 12 Jun 1573 and christening date of 10 Dec 1576 appear in a number of places, with no attribution and no parents. There was another Edward Howe, who appeared in Winthrop's papers, but he evidently never left London. Yet another Edward Howe was at Watertown in 1633, but he left no posterity. This Edward indicated he was 60 in Sept 1635. He may have been from Ivinghoe and Iver in Buckinghamshire, the records from that area fitting "nicely" and needing further research, says Great Migration. The IGI (submitted) lists Edward Howe chr 17 Jun 1573, father William, Ivinghoe. One such record also lists a death date of 16 Apr 1639.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Edward Howe, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
3:428-31.
ORIGIN: Unknown.
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Truelove (on 19 September 1635, "Edward Howe," husbandman, aged 60, "Elizabeth Howe," aged 50, "Jeremie Howe," aged 21, "Sara Howe," aged 12, "Ephraim Howe," aged 9, "Isack Howe," aged 7, and "W[illia]m Howe," aged 6, were enrolled at London as passengers for New England on the Truelove [Hotten 131]).
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 8 December 1636 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 8 December 1636 (second in a sequence of three Lynn men) [MBCR 1:372].
BIRTH: About 1575 (aged 60 on 19 September 1635 [Hotten 131]).
DEATH: [blank] April 1639 (in April 1639, Gov. Winthrop reported that "one Mr. Howe, of Lynn, a godly man, and a deputy of the last General Court, after the court was ended, and he had dined, being in health as he used to be, went to pass over to Charlestown, and, being alone, he was presently found dead upon the strand, being there (as it seemed) waiting for the boat, which came soon after" [WJ 1:355]).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Edward Howe, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
2:474.
Edward (Howe), Lynn, came in the Truelove 1635, aged 60, with Elizabeth his w. 50, wh. surv. him; and ch. Jeremy, 21; Sarah, 12; Ephraim, 9; Isaac, 7; and William, 6; was freem. 8 Dec. 1636, rep. at Mar. May, and Sept. Courts 1638, and d. Apr. 1639, very suddenly, as Winthrop I. 293, tells. A wid. H. d. at Lynn, 25 Jan. 1672. Felt.
- ↑ Edward Howe, in Howe, Daniel Wait, and revised/edited by Gilman Bigelow Howe. Howe Genealogies. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historical Genealogical Society (Printed by Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Mass.), 1929)
2:397-98.
- ↑ Edward Howe, in Threlfall, John B. (Brooks). Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists to New England & their Origins. (Madison, Wisconsin: J.B. Threlfall, 1993)
135-40.
- ↑ How, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
4:854.
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