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The family links and the biography were located on John's memorial, but now that memorial is gone.
∼John Howard, with his brother, came from England, and settled in Duxbury. He was among those who were able to bear arms there in 1643. He was about fifteen years old when he came to Duxbury. He lived in the family of Capt. Miles Standish.. He soon removed to Bridgewater, and was one of the original settlers and proprietors of that town. Judge Mitchell, in his history of Bridgewater, say that John Howard, the first Howard to settle in Bridgewater, was a man of ok much influence in the new plantation.
In 1645 his name appears as one of the fifty-four proprietors of the grant of land afterward known as Bridgewater. In 1656 he was one of the two surveyors of highways for his town. In 1657 he had taken the Freeman's oath. He was one of the fourteen men whose allotment of land was in the easterly part of the grant. He was one of the first military officiers, and was appointed Ensign, Sept. 27, 1664. In May, 1676, during King Philip's War, Ensign John Howard, with twenty others, fought with some Indians and took seventeen of them alive with much plunder, and all returned without serious injury. June 5, 1678, he was a deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts; also on the same date was appointed a selectman of his town. In 1683 he, with Thomas Hayward, was a representative to the General Court. Oct. 2, 1689, he was promoted, and received his commission as a lieutenant.
Mr. Howard was a carpenter by trade. He spelled his name Haward, and so did his descendants until after 1700. He married Martha, a daughter of Thomas Hayward, one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, who came on the ship Hercules, in 1635, from Sandwich, County of Kent, England, with five children and three brothers.
He lived in a house which he built near the first meeting house...This was the first public house in Bridgewater, as Mr. Howard was licensed to keep an ordinary or tavern, in 1670, at this place. This house was owned and managed by John Howard and his direct descendants for a period of 151 years. John Howard opened the tavern in 1670, and kept it 30 years, until his death in 1700. His oldest son, John, then became proprietor, conducting it 26 years, until 1726...
John Howard married Martha Howard. They were the parents of seven children, all born in Bridgewater.
1. John, who married Sarah Latham
2. Sarah, who married Zaccheus Packard
3. Jonathan, who married Sarah Dean & Susanna Keith
4. James, who married Elizabeth Washburn
5. Ephraim, who married Mary Edson Keith
6. Bethiah, who married Henry Kingman
7. Elizabeth, who married Edward Fobes
This memorial is a cenotaph.
The family links and the biography are located on John's memorial, here.
∼This memorial is a cenotaph. Understand, John is NOT buried here. FindaGrave explains how to work with cenotaphs here.
The family links and the biography were located on John's memorial, but now that memorial is gone.
∼John Howard, with his brother, came from England, and settled in Duxbury. He was among those who were able to bear arms there in 1643. He was about fifteen years old when he came to Duxbury. He lived in the family of Capt. Miles Standish.. He soon removed to Bridgewater, and was one of the original settlers and proprietors of that town. Judge Mitchell, in his history of Bridgewater, say that John Howard, the first Howard to settle in Bridgewater, was a man of ok much influence in the new plantation.
In 1645 his name appears as one of the fifty-four proprietors of the grant of land afterward known as Bridgewater. In 1656 he was one of the two surveyors of highways for his town. In 1657 he had taken the Freeman's oath. He was one of the fourteen men whose allotment of land was in the easterly part of the grant. He was one of the first military officiers, and was appointed Ensign, Sept. 27, 1664. In May, 1676, during King Philip's War, Ensign John Howard, with twenty others, fought with some Indians and took seventeen of them alive with much plunder, and all returned without serious injury. June 5, 1678, he was a deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts; also on the same date was appointed a selectman of his town. In 1683 he, with Thomas Hayward, was a representative to the General Court. Oct. 2, 1689, he was promoted, and received his commission as a lieutenant.
Mr. Howard was a carpenter by trade. He spelled his name Haward, and so did his descendants until after 1700. He married Martha, a daughter of Thomas Hayward, one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, who came on the ship Hercules, in 1635, from Sandwich, County of Kent, England, with five children and three brothers.
He lived in a house which he built near the first meeting house...This was the first public house in Bridgewater, as Mr. Howard was licensed to keep an ordinary or tavern, in 1670, at this place. This house was owned and managed by John Howard and his direct descendants for a period of 151 years. John Howard opened the tavern in 1670, and kept it 30 years, until his death in 1700. His oldest son, John, then became proprietor, conducting it 26 years, until 1726...
John Howard married Martha Howard. They were the parents of seven children, all born in Bridgewater.
1. John, who married Sarah Latham
2. Sarah, who married Zaccheus Packard
3. Jonathan, who married Sarah Dean & Susanna Keith
4. James, who married Elizabeth Washburn
5. Ephraim, who married Mary Edson Keith
6. Bethiah, who married Henry Kingman
7. Elizabeth, who married Edward Fobes
Inscription
JOHN HOWARD
was one of the original
proprietors of
Bridgewater in 1645,
and one of the first settlers.
Died 1700.
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His Sons
JOHN died 1727.
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EPHRAIM died 1750.
They bought the
Peregrine White Farm
in Brockton in 1703,
and they are buried in
W. Bridgewater.
