Person:James Howe (1)

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James Howe
b.Bef 1603
m. 27 Jun 1628
  1. Unknown HoweBef 1629 - 1629
  2. Elizabeth Howe1630/31 -
  3. James Howe1632/33 - 1701/02
  4. Captain John HoweEst 1637 - 1728
  5. Mary HoweEst 1639 - 1730
  6. Sarah HoweEst 1646 - Bef 1678
  7. Abraham HowCal 1650 - 1717/18
  8. Rebecca HoweEst 1652 - 1725
Facts and Events
Name[1] James Howe
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1603
Marriage 27 Jun 1628 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, Englandto Elizabeth Dane
Emigration[1] 1635 Based on admission to Roxbury church.
Residence[1] 1635 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 17 May 1637 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Residence[1] Bef 1641 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[EQC 1:37].
Death[1] 17 May 1702 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[1] 19 May 1702 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 James 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)
    3:431-35.

    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]).