ORIGIN: Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.
OCCUPATION: Weaver [ILR 2:127, 5:439].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "James How" was admitted to Roxbury church as member #144, and "[blank] How the wife of Jam[e]s How" was admitted as member #145, among those admitted in 1634 [RChR 82]. "Old Father How" and "James How Junior" signed a Topsfield church petition of 29 April 1679 [EQC 7:237-38].
FREEMAN: 17 May 1637 (third in a sequence of three Roxbury men) [MBCR 1:373].
BIRTH: By about 1603 (deposed on 27 March 1666 "aged sixty-one years" [EQC 3:312]; deposed on 28 November 1681 "aged about eighty years" [EQC 8:189]), son of Robert Howe [Howe Gen 2:153, citing account book of Abraham Howe, son of the immigrant].
DEATH: Ipswich 17 May 1702 ("May 19th [1702] Mr. James How, a good man of Ipswich, 104 years old is buried. Died I think on Lords-Day night, just about the time the news of the King's death was brought from Madera" [Sewall 467]).