Case No. 10935 Images 777-778 Will dated 19 Jan 1804
Image 782 - To Rufus Howland & Essack(?) Howland both of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth, yeomen, children & heirs of Jown Howland Late of said Middlebo, deceased
Greeting
Where as George Lawton of Freetown in the County of Bristol, yeoman, executor of ye Last will & testament of Josiah Lawton Late of the same Freetown, yeoman, deceased, by Jonathan Reed(?) of said Freetown, Gentleman, his attorney, hath made application to me, Judge of Probate ... hath a demand of Ninety pounds against ye estate of ye said John Howland deceased ... __ day of July A. D. 1793 (signed Joshua Thomas)
Vol. 40, p. 134-5 Will
Will of "John Howland of Carver ... Clerk" dated 19 Jan 1801, proved 8 Dec 1804, bequests to son Calvin Howland, son William Howland, son James Howland, son Charles Howland, the Rev'd Ezra Weld of Braintree; Elizabeth Lewis Ripley, Sarah Thomas, Sophia Samson; "all my Children ... namely Daniel Howland, Elizabeth Lewis Ripley, Mary Weld, William Howland, James Howland, Calvin Howland, Charles Howland, Sarah Thomas & Sophia Samson". Son Calvin to be Executor.