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Facts and Events
References
- 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)
2:471. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Howard, Heman. The Howard genealogy, descendants of John Howard of Bridgewater, Massachusetts from 1643 to 1903. (Brockton, Mass.: Standard Printing Co., 1903)
pp. 1-5.
(excerpts) JOHN HOWARD, with his brother George, came from England, and settled in Duxbury...
Lieut. Howard d. in 1700. His property was appraised in October, the next year. It consisted of about 450 acres of land, and his estate was valued at about 840 pounds. Following is a copy of the division of his estate and of that of his widow, who d. before 1703.
A true copy of the division of the estate of Lieut. John Howard, late of Bridgewater, who died intestate, as it was mutually agreed and consented to by all the several heirs apparent to said estate, on the fifteenth day of Oct., Anno Dom. 1701, which division is made according to the appraisement in the inventory taken of the said estate:—To the widow, one hundred and seven pounds out of the moveable estate, and her thirds in the improved lands and housing. To John Howard, the eldest son...
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Mitchell, Nahum. History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts: including an extensive family register. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Printed for the author by Kidder & Wright, 1840 (reprinted 1897))
197.
John Howard, with his brother James, came from England and settled in Duxbury; he was among those able to bear arms there in 1643. James, it is said, went to Bermuda, and John came to W. B., and was one of the proprietors and original settlers in the town a. 1651; was young when he came over, and it is said, lived in Capt. Miles Standish's family; was a man of much influence in the new plantation; one of the first military officers in Bridgewater; took the oath of fidelity here 1657; his descendants still own and live on the place where he first settled; he always wrote his name Haward, and so did all his descendants till after 1700, and the early town records are conformable to this spelling; but for the last century it has been invariably written Howard. It is remarkable that the two names of Hayward and Haward, which have always been known as distinct families, were uniformly pronounced alike, Howard. They were perhaps the same originally, and both Hayward; but, in writing, John omitted the Y. There was supposed to have been some connection between the families, but perhaps it arose altogether from intermarriage, as John m. Martha, D. of Thos. Hayward, and was a younger man even than Thomas Hayward, Jr.—He d. about 1700. He had John, James, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Sarah, Bethiah, Ephraim.—Elizabeth m. Edward Fobes.— Sarah m. Zaccheus Packard.—Bethiah m. Henry Kingman.—He was licensed to keep an Ordinary or Tavern as early as 1670, and it is remarkable that a public house has been kept there by his descendants ever since till within a few years.
- ↑ Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Brockton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911)
p. 336.
Howard, John, "one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater in 1645 and one of the first settlers", [died] ---, 1700. GR6
[GR6=North End, or Ashland Cemetery. Note, this is not a contemporary grave marker.]
- ↑ Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Plymouth County, Mass., Probate records, 1686-1903; with index and docket, 1685-1967. (Originals with town clerk, filmed by Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968)
Case 9804: John Hayward Bridgwater 1701.
24 Sep 1701: Inventory of Lieutenant John Haward Lately Deceast: £661-19-03, by Thomas Snell,Edward Mit[c]hell, Joseph Hayward.
16 Oct 1701: Bond of Martha Haward and John Haward of Bridgwater as administrators of Lieu't John Haward late of Bridgwater deceased Intestate.
[Agreement of heirs dividing estate recorded Vol. 1, p. 355:]
15 Oct 1701 (signed 16 Oct 1701): to the widow £107 and thirds of lands & houing; to John Haward eldest son various land he paying £ each to brothers Jonathan and Ephraim; to Jonathan Haward ye second surviving son; to Ephraim Howard; to James Haward only son of James Haward deceased to be divided one half to him and the other half to his sisters [Edward Mitchell signing as guardian of children of James Haward deceased]; £68 to 3 daughters: Edward ffobes' wife [he signed in behalf of Elizabeth]; Zacheus Packard's wife [he signed in behalf of Sarah]; Henry Kingman's wife [he signed in behalf of Bethyah].
[Note: some land is undivided, a quarter to each of the sons: John, Jonathan, Ephraim and James deceased.]
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