James Howe1

#1298, (circa 1598 - 17 May 1702)

Family

Elizabeth Dane d. 1693/94
Children 1.James Howe Jr.7 (c 1635/36 - )
 2.John Howe7 (c 1637 - )
 3.Mary Howe7 (c 1638 - )
 4.Sarah Howe+1 (c 1644 - )
 5.Abraham Howe7 (c 1649 - )
 6.Rebecca Howe7 (c 1651 - 1725)
James Howe was also known as How.2 
Birth*circa 1598He was born circa 1598 at EnglandG; (prob. Hockerill, Bishop-Stortford or Hatfield-Broad-Oak, Essex.)3 
Marriage*say 1633He married Elizabeth Dane, daughter of John Dane and Frances Bowyer, say 1633 at MassachusettsG.1,4 
17 May 1637He was admitted as a Freeman on 17 May 1637 at Roxbury, Massachusetts.5 
Death*17 May 1702He died on 17 May 1702 at Ipswich, Essex Co., MassachusettsG.6 

Citations

  1. [S161] George Thomas Little, editor, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1909), four volumes, p. 1602.
  2. [S161] George Thomas Little, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, p. 1604 "Sarah, daughter of James and Elizabeth How."
  3. [S800] M. V. B. Perley, "James Howe of Ipswich and Some of His Descendants", Essex Institute LIV:33 (1918): p. 36: "James Howe, senior, died Sunday, 17 May, 1702, aged 104 years, having lived in three centuries.", and p. 33: "In the possession of the Ipswich Historical Society is an old account book formerly the property of James Howe, the emigrant ancestor, in which, not long before 1690, he inscribed the following record : 'Robert Howe lived in Hatfield-Broad-Oak, county Essex, England, where Sir Francis Barrington lived in Woodrow-Green ; James, son of said Robert, in a place called Hockerill [or Bockerill], in Bishop-Stortford, — in the happy and gracious reign of King James I.'". Hereinafter cited as James Howe of Ipswich and Some of His Descendants.
  4. [S520] VWH.
  5. [S800] M. V. B. Perley, "James Howe of Ipswich and Some of His Descendants", p. 33, also with Abraham Howe.
  6. [S800] M. V. B. Perley, "James Howe of Ipswich and Some of His Descendants", p. 36: "James Howe, senior, died Sunday', 17 May, 1702, aged 104 years, having lived in three centuries."
  7. [S800] M. V. B. Perley, "James Howe of Ipswich and Some of His Descendants", p. 37.