James How was the son of Robert How of Hatfield Broadoak, Essex, England. Ref: P153 Howe Genealogies Vol II, By Daniel Wait Howe 1929
https://archive.org/details/howegenealogiesb02howe/page/2/mode/2up?view=theater
His actual burial place is unknown. It may have been on his farm in Ipswich in which case the site has been lost or he may have been interred here with many members of the How family.
A blind son, James How (Junior) married Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of William and Deborah Jackson, in Ipswich. They had five children. His death date is unknown but was alive in 1692 for her trial. Alive also was his brother John How, then aged 50 in June 1692, and father, James How, Sr, then aged 94 in June 1692 and living in Ipswich.
In 1692 his daughter in law, Elizabeth, was accused of witchcraft. Elizabeth always proclaimed her innocence. Elizabeth was one of five women arraigned in the first Salem witch trial and was brought to court on the 30th of June 1692.
At age 94 in June 1692 he testified for Elizabeth How at her trial that he lived by her for about thirty years, has taken note that she has carried it well becoming her place as a daughter, and as a wife in all relations, setting aside human infirmities as becomes a Christian with respect to my self as a father very dutifully, and a wife to my son very careful, loving, obedient and kind, considering his want of eye sight, tenderly leading him about by the hand. Now desiring God may guide your honors to see a difference between prejudice and conscience, I rest yours to serve.
Despite strong support from family and friends, she was found guilty and hanged three weeks later on the 19th of July 1692, along with the other four accused. She was buried in a crevice on Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachusetts. A further fourteen alleged witches and warlocks were subsequently hung or pressed to death in Salem during the months of August and September 1692; by November more than 150 people had been accused. All those accused were freed. Many years later, in 1710, legal proceedings were instituted to verify Elizabeth How's innocence. The conviction was reversed.
Following provided by Charlene King: In The Great Migration, Vol 3, G-H, page 432-5 by Robert Charles Anderson, states that his father (James How Sr) on 6 Dec 1699 gave some land to James "…in consideration of that parental love & affection which he hath to his son James How as also considering the condition that he is now in that he is maintained by his two daughter's labor, Mary & Abigail, …"
Children:
Child- d. 1629 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Elizabeth- bp. Mar 13, 1630
John- b. 1637, m. 1665 Mary (Cooper) Dorman
Mary- b. 1639, m. 1659 Nehemiah Abbott, in Ipswich
Sarah- b. 1646, m. 1666 John Bridge , in Ipswich
Abraham- b. 1650, m. 1678 Sarah Peabody, in Ipswich
Rebecca- b. 1652, m. 1671 Stephen Barnard
James- d. Feb 15, 1701 in Ipswich (provided by member Lois Brott)
Abigail
Grandchild:
Sarah Preston, daughter of Sarah Bridges∼Born by about 1603 (deposed on 27 March 1666 "aged sixty-one years;" deposed on 28 November 1681 "aged about eighty years"), son of Robert Howe. Weaver from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1635 (based on admission to Roxbury church).
First settled in Roxbury; moved to Ipswich by 1641. Died in 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").
Married at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, 27 June 1628 Elizabeth Dane, daughter of JOHN DANE {1636, Roxbury} (in his will of 7 September 1658, John Dane included bequests to "my daughter Elizabeth How"). She died at Ipswich on 21 January 1693/4.
James Howe was brother of ABRAHAM HOWE {1636, Roxbury}. On 28 November 1681, "James How, Sr., aged about eighty years, and Abraham How, aged about thirty years, testified that their cousins, Goodman Seres and his wife came to their house to visit them about four years ago and Hester Seers, formerly the wife of Henery Mason, told them that her first husband had given her cousin John How his feather bed, but she could not spare it yet." The first deponent is the subject of this sketch, and the second deponent is his son. Hester (Howe) (Mason) Sears is a daughter of the immigrant Abraham Howe.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project∼James Howe was born in the year 1598. He married Elizabeth Dane, changing her last name Howe. James and Elizabeth Howe had one known child. This child was James Howe, Jr. Elizabeth gave birth to James Howe, Jr (1632-1702) on March 23rd, 1632 in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. It is unknown if James and Elizabeth had any other children. It is unknown if James had any siblings or who his parents were. James Howe passed away in the year 1702, the same year his son, James Howe, Jr, passed away.
https://archive.org/details/howegenealogiesb02howe/page/2/mode/2up?view=theater
His actual burial place is unknown. It may have been on his farm in Ipswich in which case the site has been lost or he may have been interred here with many members of the How family.
A blind son, James How (Junior) married Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of William and Deborah Jackson, in Ipswich. They had five children. His death date is unknown but was alive in 1692 for her trial. Alive also was his brother John How, then aged 50 in June 1692, and father, James How, Sr, then aged 94 in June 1692 and living in Ipswich.
In 1692 his daughter in law, Elizabeth, was accused of witchcraft. Elizabeth always proclaimed her innocence. Elizabeth was one of five women arraigned in the first Salem witch trial and was brought to court on the 30th of June 1692.
At age 94 in June 1692 he testified for Elizabeth How at her trial that he lived by her for about thirty years, has taken note that she has carried it well becoming her place as a daughter, and as a wife in all relations, setting aside human infirmities as becomes a Christian with respect to my self as a father very dutifully, and a wife to my son very careful, loving, obedient and kind, considering his want of eye sight, tenderly leading him about by the hand. Now desiring God may guide your honors to see a difference between prejudice and conscience, I rest yours to serve.
Despite strong support from family and friends, she was found guilty and hanged three weeks later on the 19th of July 1692, along with the other four accused. She was buried in a crevice on Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachusetts. A further fourteen alleged witches and warlocks were subsequently hung or pressed to death in Salem during the months of August and September 1692; by November more than 150 people had been accused. All those accused were freed. Many years later, in 1710, legal proceedings were instituted to verify Elizabeth How's innocence. The conviction was reversed.
Following provided by Charlene King: In The Great Migration, Vol 3, G-H, page 432-5 by Robert Charles Anderson, states that his father (James How Sr) on 6 Dec 1699 gave some land to James "…in consideration of that parental love & affection which he hath to his son James How as also considering the condition that he is now in that he is maintained by his two daughter's labor, Mary & Abigail, …"
Children:
Child- d. 1629 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Elizabeth- bp. Mar 13, 1630
John- b. 1637, m. 1665 Mary (Cooper) Dorman
Mary- b. 1639, m. 1659 Nehemiah Abbott, in Ipswich
Sarah- b. 1646, m. 1666 John Bridge , in Ipswich
Abraham- b. 1650, m. 1678 Sarah Peabody, in Ipswich
Rebecca- b. 1652, m. 1671 Stephen Barnard
James- d. Feb 15, 1701 in Ipswich (provided by member Lois Brott)
Abigail
Grandchild:
Sarah Preston, daughter of Sarah Bridges∼Born by about 1603 (deposed on 27 March 1666 "aged sixty-one years;" deposed on 28 November 1681 "aged about eighty years"), son of Robert Howe. Weaver from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1635 (based on admission to Roxbury church).
First settled in Roxbury; moved to Ipswich by 1641. Died in 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").
Married at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, 27 June 1628 Elizabeth Dane, daughter of JOHN DANE {1636, Roxbury} (in his will of 7 September 1658, John Dane included bequests to "my daughter Elizabeth How"). She died at Ipswich on 21 January 1693/4.
James Howe was brother of ABRAHAM HOWE {1636, Roxbury}. On 28 November 1681, "James How, Sr., aged about eighty years, and Abraham How, aged about thirty years, testified that their cousins, Goodman Seres and his wife came to their house to visit them about four years ago and Hester Seers, formerly the wife of Henery Mason, told them that her first husband had given her cousin John How his feather bed, but she could not spare it yet." The first deponent is the subject of this sketch, and the second deponent is his son. Hester (Howe) (Mason) Sears is a daughter of the immigrant Abraham Howe.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project∼James Howe was born in the year 1598. He married Elizabeth Dane, changing her last name Howe. James and Elizabeth Howe had one known child. This child was James Howe, Jr. Elizabeth gave birth to James Howe, Jr (1632-1702) on March 23rd, 1632 in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. It is unknown if James and Elizabeth had any other children. It is unknown if James had any siblings or who his parents were. James Howe passed away in the year 1702, the same year his son, James Howe, Jr, passed away.
James How was the son of Robert How of Hatfield Broadoak, Essex, England. Ref: P153 Howe Genealogies Vol II, By Daniel Wait Howe 1929
https://archive.org/details/howegenealogiesb02howe/page/2/mode/2up?view=theater
His actual burial place is unknown. It may have been on his farm in Ipswich in which case the site has been lost or he may have been interred here with many members of the How family.
A blind son, James How (Junior) married Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of William and Deborah Jackson, in Ipswich. They had five children. His death date is unknown but was alive in 1692 for her trial. Alive also was his brother John How, then aged 50 in June 1692, and father, James How, Sr, then aged 94 in June 1692 and living in Ipswich.
In 1692 his daughter in law, Elizabeth, was accused of witchcraft. Elizabeth always proclaimed her innocence. Elizabeth was one of five women arraigned in the first Salem witch trial and was brought to court on the 30th of June 1692.
At age 94 in June 1692 he testified for Elizabeth How at her trial that he lived by her for about thirty years, has taken note that she has carried it well becoming her place as a daughter, and as a wife in all relations, setting aside human infirmities as becomes a Christian with respect to my self as a father very dutifully, and a wife to my son very careful, loving, obedient and kind, considering his want of eye sight, tenderly leading him about by the hand. Now desiring God may guide your honors to see a difference between prejudice and conscience, I rest yours to serve.
Despite strong support from family and friends, she was found guilty and hanged three weeks later on the 19th of July 1692, along with the other four accused. She was buried in a crevice on Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachusetts. A further fourteen alleged witches and warlocks were subsequently hung or pressed to death in Salem during the months of August and September 1692; by November more than 150 people had been accused. All those accused were freed. Many years later, in 1710, legal proceedings were instituted to verify Elizabeth How's innocence. The conviction was reversed.
Following provided by Charlene King: In The Great Migration, Vol 3, G-H, page 432-5 by Robert Charles Anderson, states that his father (James How Sr) on 6 Dec 1699 gave some land to James "…in consideration of that parental love & affection which he hath to his son James How as also considering the condition that he is now in that he is maintained by his two daughter's labor, Mary & Abigail, …"
Children:
Child- d. 1629 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Elizabeth- bp. Mar 13, 1630
John- b. 1637, m. 1665 Mary (Cooper) Dorman
Mary- b. 1639, m. 1659 Nehemiah Abbott, in Ipswich
Sarah- b. 1646, m. 1666 John Bridge , in Ipswich
Abraham- b. 1650, m. 1678 Sarah Peabody, in Ipswich
Rebecca- b. 1652, m. 1671 Stephen Barnard
James- d. Feb 15, 1701 in Ipswich (provided by member Lois Brott)
Abigail
Grandchild:
Sarah Preston, daughter of Sarah Bridges∼Born by about 1603 (deposed on 27 March 1666 "aged sixty-one years;" deposed on 28 November 1681 "aged about eighty years"), son of Robert Howe. Weaver from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1635 (based on admission to Roxbury church).
First settled in Roxbury; moved to Ipswich by 1641. Died in 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").
Married at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, 27 June 1628 Elizabeth Dane, daughter of JOHN DANE {1636, Roxbury} (in his will of 7 September 1658, John Dane included bequests to "my daughter Elizabeth How"). She died at Ipswich on 21 January 1693/4.
James Howe was brother of ABRAHAM HOWE {1636, Roxbury}. On 28 November 1681, "James How, Sr., aged about eighty years, and Abraham How, aged about thirty years, testified that their cousins, Goodman Seres and his wife came to their house to visit them about four years ago and Hester Seers, formerly the wife of Henery Mason, told them that her first husband had given her cousin John How his feather bed, but she could not spare it yet." The first deponent is the subject of this sketch, and the second deponent is his son. Hester (Howe) (Mason) Sears is a daughter of the immigrant Abraham Howe.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project∼James Howe was born in the year 1598. He married Elizabeth Dane, changing her last name Howe. James and Elizabeth Howe had one known child. This child was James Howe, Jr. Elizabeth gave birth to James Howe, Jr (1632-1702) on March 23rd, 1632 in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. It is unknown if James and Elizabeth had any other children. It is unknown if James had any siblings or who his parents were. James Howe passed away in the year 1702, the same year his son, James Howe, Jr, passed away.
https://archive.org/details/howegenealogiesb02howe/page/2/mode/2up?view=theater
His actual burial place is unknown. It may have been on his farm in Ipswich in which case the site has been lost or he may have been interred here with many members of the How family.
A blind son, James How (Junior) married Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of William and Deborah Jackson, in Ipswich. They had five children. His death date is unknown but was alive in 1692 for her trial. Alive also was his brother John How, then aged 50 in June 1692, and father, James How, Sr, then aged 94 in June 1692 and living in Ipswich.
In 1692 his daughter in law, Elizabeth, was accused of witchcraft. Elizabeth always proclaimed her innocence. Elizabeth was one of five women arraigned in the first Salem witch trial and was brought to court on the 30th of June 1692.
At age 94 in June 1692 he testified for Elizabeth How at her trial that he lived by her for about thirty years, has taken note that she has carried it well becoming her place as a daughter, and as a wife in all relations, setting aside human infirmities as becomes a Christian with respect to my self as a father very dutifully, and a wife to my son very careful, loving, obedient and kind, considering his want of eye sight, tenderly leading him about by the hand. Now desiring God may guide your honors to see a difference between prejudice and conscience, I rest yours to serve.
Despite strong support from family and friends, she was found guilty and hanged three weeks later on the 19th of July 1692, along with the other four accused. She was buried in a crevice on Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachusetts. A further fourteen alleged witches and warlocks were subsequently hung or pressed to death in Salem during the months of August and September 1692; by November more than 150 people had been accused. All those accused were freed. Many years later, in 1710, legal proceedings were instituted to verify Elizabeth How's innocence. The conviction was reversed.
Following provided by Charlene King: In The Great Migration, Vol 3, G-H, page 432-5 by Robert Charles Anderson, states that his father (James How Sr) on 6 Dec 1699 gave some land to James "…in consideration of that parental love & affection which he hath to his son James How as also considering the condition that he is now in that he is maintained by his two daughter's labor, Mary & Abigail, …"
Children:
Child- d. 1629 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Elizabeth- bp. Mar 13, 1630
John- b. 1637, m. 1665 Mary (Cooper) Dorman
Mary- b. 1639, m. 1659 Nehemiah Abbott, in Ipswich
Sarah- b. 1646, m. 1666 John Bridge , in Ipswich
Abraham- b. 1650, m. 1678 Sarah Peabody, in Ipswich
Rebecca- b. 1652, m. 1671 Stephen Barnard
James- d. Feb 15, 1701 in Ipswich (provided by member Lois Brott)
Abigail
Grandchild:
Sarah Preston, daughter of Sarah Bridges∼Born by about 1603 (deposed on 27 March 1666 "aged sixty-one years;" deposed on 28 November 1681 "aged about eighty years"), son of Robert Howe. Weaver from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1635 (based on admission to Roxbury church).
First settled in Roxbury; moved to Ipswich by 1641. Died in 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").
Married at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, 27 June 1628 Elizabeth Dane, daughter of JOHN DANE {1636, Roxbury} (in his will of 7 September 1658, John Dane included bequests to "my daughter Elizabeth How"). She died at Ipswich on 21 January 1693/4.
James Howe was brother of ABRAHAM HOWE {1636, Roxbury}. On 28 November 1681, "James How, Sr., aged about eighty years, and Abraham How, aged about thirty years, testified that their cousins, Goodman Seres and his wife came to their house to visit them about four years ago and Hester Seers, formerly the wife of Henery Mason, told them that her first husband had given her cousin John How his feather bed, but she could not spare it yet." The first deponent is the subject of this sketch, and the second deponent is his son. Hester (Howe) (Mason) Sears is a daughter of the immigrant Abraham Howe.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project∼James Howe was born in the year 1598. He married Elizabeth Dane, changing her last name Howe. James and Elizabeth Howe had one known child. This child was James Howe, Jr. Elizabeth gave birth to James Howe, Jr (1632-1702) on March 23rd, 1632 in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. It is unknown if James and Elizabeth had any other children. It is unknown if James had any siblings or who his parents were. James Howe passed away in the year 1702, the same year his son, James Howe, Jr, passed away.
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"In the United States the spelling of How was generally superseded by Howe about the time of the revolution, although some descendants of James How still retain the old spelling." P.III Howe Genealogies Vol IIBy Daniel Wait Howe 1929
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