Daniel Howe was the son of Lieutenat Colonel Samuel Howe , (1642-1713) and Samuel Howe's second wife,the widow Sarah (Leavitt)Clapp(1659-1726).Daniel Howe married Elizabeth Johnson on Dec 17,1716 in Sudbury,Massachusetts.Daniel and Elizabeth had the following six children..
1-Elizabeth Howe b Sep 25,1717,d Feb 3,1739
2- William Howe b Feb 11,1720,d Apr 9,1791
3-Joseph Howe b May 5,1723,d Aug 8,1757
4-Mary Howe b Dec 9,1726,d Jul 23,1797
5-Daniel Howe Jr b Mar 20,1729,d May 12,1810
6-Beulah Howe b 1745,d 1825
His father gave him part of the homestead,which he sold to his brother Elisha, and he recieved a grant of land in Brookfield, MA in 1715, but he does not appear to have lived there; he was at Sudbury, MA 1716 to 1721,and at Rutland 1722-1725, in 1722 he was chosen one of the assessors of Rutland. On 26 March 1726, he bought land in Framingham, MA and opened a tavern there,which he kept for a few years.In 1736 Massachusetts granted a new township called No. 2, on the east bank of the Connecticut River,above Northfield, of which Daniel Howe was a proprietor. The next year,1737,he sold his property in Framingham, MA, and he and his brother Nehemiah Howe , with Jethro Wheeler and William Phipps,together with their families,became the first inhabitants of the new township, which soon took the name of Great Meadows, and was so called until 1752 when it was rechartered under the name Westmoreland by the New Hampshire government,it having fallen within the limits of that province, by a final settlement of the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. By this second grant,the proprietary rights of nearly one-tenth part of the town fell to Daniel and his sons,and the sons of his brother, Nehemiah Howe ,who had died in captivity in Canada.Daniel built a block house on his land on a bluff overlooking the river.A small fort was erected near by for protection.This smaller fort and some of the settlers huts were piliaged and burned during the Indian raid on the settlement the day Daniel Howe's brother, Nehemiah Howe was captured.
In 1744 King Georges war started and the Indians alled with the French became hostile to the then Engish settlers.This made it difficut for Daniel Howe and his fellow settlers and slowed the growth of the town.In 1755 the settlers of Putney and Westminster united to build a stockaded fort upon the Great Meadow,across the river in East Putney,Vt.It was built on the site of the house formerly occupied by Colonel Thomas White,near the ferry landing.The ferry was the first one at the Great Meadow was on the road to the Howe settlement.The new fort was named "Fort Hill".It was of oblong form,eighty by one hundred and twenty feet,built of yellow pine timber hewed six inches thick and laid up about ten feet high.Daniel Howe's dwelling with fifteen others were erected within it(see posted Map).The walls of the fort formed the back wall of the houses Inside.These were covered with a single roof,which slanted upward to the top of the wall of the fort. In the centre of the inclosure was a hollow square,on which all the houses fronted.On the northeast and southeast corners of the fort watchtowers were placed.A great gate opened on the south,toward the river,and a smaller one towards the west.The fort was generally garrisoned by ten or twelve men.A cannon was furnished by the Massachusetts government that survived the fort many years... Upon the completion of the fort several of the inhabitants of # 2 joined the garrison (These were David Howe,Thomas Chamberlain,Isaac Chamberlain,Joshua Warner and son Daniel Warner,wife and son,Harrison Wheeler,Samuel Minot,Benjamin Aldrige and his son George,who afterward became a general).
Daniel Howe died in his dwelling inside Fort Putney on February 3,1757,and was buried in the old North Cemetery,which was a short distance across the Connecticut River,in Westmoreland,New Hampshire.His wife outlived him many years.Her will dated May 17,1779 mentions children ,Mary,Daniel,William and Beulah.She was the Granny Howe who,at one time,when the men were all away fighting Indians and her corn needed hoeing,got some rum, the custom of those times,and invited the neighboring women to come and help her attend to the corn.
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1-Elizabeth Howe b Sep 25,1717,d Feb 3,1739
2- William Howe b Feb 11,1720,d Apr 9,1791
3-Joseph Howe b May 5,1723,d Aug 8,1757
4-Mary Howe b Dec 9,1726,d Jul 23,1797
5-Daniel Howe Jr b Mar 20,1729,d May 12,1810
6-Beulah Howe b 1745,d 1825
His father gave him part of the homestead,which he sold to his brother Elisha, and he recieved a grant of land in Brookfield, MA in 1715, but he does not appear to have lived there; he was at Sudbury, MA 1716 to 1721,and at Rutland 1722-1725, in 1722 he was chosen one of the assessors of Rutland. On 26 March 1726, he bought land in Framingham, MA and opened a tavern there,which he kept for a few years.In 1736 Massachusetts granted a new township called No. 2, on the east bank of the Connecticut River,above Northfield, of which Daniel Howe was a proprietor. The next year,1737,he sold his property in Framingham, MA, and he and his brother Nehemiah Howe , with Jethro Wheeler and William Phipps,together with their families,became the first inhabitants of the new township, which soon took the name of Great Meadows, and was so called until 1752 when it was rechartered under the name Westmoreland by the New Hampshire government,it having fallen within the limits of that province, by a final settlement of the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. By this second grant,the proprietary rights of nearly one-tenth part of the town fell to Daniel and his sons,and the sons of his brother, Nehemiah Howe ,who had died in captivity in Canada.Daniel built a block house on his land on a bluff overlooking the river.A small fort was erected near by for protection.This smaller fort and some of the settlers huts were piliaged and burned during the Indian raid on the settlement the day Daniel Howe's brother, Nehemiah Howe was captured.
In 1744 King Georges war started and the Indians alled with the French became hostile to the then Engish settlers.This made it difficut for Daniel Howe and his fellow settlers and slowed the growth of the town.In 1755 the settlers of Putney and Westminster united to build a stockaded fort upon the Great Meadow,across the river in East Putney,Vt.It was built on the site of the house formerly occupied by Colonel Thomas White,near the ferry landing.The ferry was the first one at the Great Meadow was on the road to the Howe settlement.The new fort was named "Fort Hill".It was of oblong form,eighty by one hundred and twenty feet,built of yellow pine timber hewed six inches thick and laid up about ten feet high.Daniel Howe's dwelling with fifteen others were erected within it(see posted Map).The walls of the fort formed the back wall of the houses Inside.These were covered with a single roof,which slanted upward to the top of the wall of the fort. In the centre of the inclosure was a hollow square,on which all the houses fronted.On the northeast and southeast corners of the fort watchtowers were placed.A great gate opened on the south,toward the river,and a smaller one towards the west.The fort was generally garrisoned by ten or twelve men.A cannon was furnished by the Massachusetts government that survived the fort many years... Upon the completion of the fort several of the inhabitants of # 2 joined the garrison (These were David Howe,Thomas Chamberlain,Isaac Chamberlain,Joshua Warner and son Daniel Warner,wife and son,Harrison Wheeler,Samuel Minot,Benjamin Aldrige and his son George,who afterward became a general).
Daniel Howe died in his dwelling inside Fort Putney on February 3,1757,and was buried in the old North Cemetery,which was a short distance across the Connecticut River,in Westmoreland,New Hampshire.His wife outlived him many years.Her will dated May 17,1779 mentions children ,Mary,Daniel,William and Beulah.She was the Granny Howe who,at one time,when the men were all away fighting Indians and her corn needed hoeing,got some rum, the custom of those times,and invited the neighboring women to come and help her attend to the corn.
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Daniel Howe was the son of Lieutenat Colonel Samuel Howe , (1642-1713) and Samuel Howe's second wife,the widow Sarah (Leavitt)Clapp(1659-1726).Daniel Howe married Elizabeth Johnson on Dec 17,1716 in Sudbury,Massachusetts.Daniel and Elizabeth had the following six children..
1-Elizabeth Howe b Sep 25,1717,d Feb 3,1739
2- William Howe b Feb 11,1720,d Apr 9,1791
3-Joseph Howe b May 5,1723,d Aug 8,1757
4-Mary Howe b Dec 9,1726,d Jul 23,1797
5-Daniel Howe Jr b Mar 20,1729,d May 12,1810
6-Beulah Howe b 1745,d 1825
His father gave him part of the homestead,which he sold to his brother Elisha, and he recieved a grant of land in Brookfield, MA in 1715, but he does not appear to have lived there; he was at Sudbury, MA 1716 to 1721,and at Rutland 1722-1725, in 1722 he was chosen one of the assessors of Rutland. On 26 March 1726, he bought land in Framingham, MA and opened a tavern there,which he kept for a few years.In 1736 Massachusetts granted a new township called No. 2, on the east bank of the Connecticut River,above Northfield, of which Daniel Howe was a proprietor. The next year,1737,he sold his property in Framingham, MA, and he and his brother Nehemiah Howe , with Jethro Wheeler and William Phipps,together with their families,became the first inhabitants of the new township, which soon took the name of Great Meadows, and was so called until 1752 when it was rechartered under the name Westmoreland by the New Hampshire government,it having fallen within the limits of that province, by a final settlement of the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. By this second grant,the proprietary rights of nearly one-tenth part of the town fell to Daniel and his sons,and the sons of his brother, Nehemiah Howe ,who had died in captivity in Canada.Daniel built a block house on his land on a bluff overlooking the river.A small fort was erected near by for protection.This smaller fort and some of the settlers huts were piliaged and burned during the Indian raid on the settlement the day Daniel Howe's brother, Nehemiah Howe was captured.
In 1744 King Georges war started and the Indians alled with the French became hostile to the then Engish settlers.This made it difficut for Daniel Howe and his fellow settlers and slowed the growth of the town.In 1755 the settlers of Putney and Westminster united to build a stockaded fort upon the Great Meadow,across the river in East Putney,Vt.It was built on the site of the house formerly occupied by Colonel Thomas White,near the ferry landing.The ferry was the first one at the Great Meadow was on the road to the Howe settlement.The new fort was named "Fort Hill".It was of oblong form,eighty by one hundred and twenty feet,built of yellow pine timber hewed six inches thick and laid up about ten feet high.Daniel Howe's dwelling with fifteen others were erected within it(see posted Map).The walls of the fort formed the back wall of the houses Inside.These were covered with a single roof,which slanted upward to the top of the wall of the fort. In the centre of the inclosure was a hollow square,on which all the houses fronted.On the northeast and southeast corners of the fort watchtowers were placed.A great gate opened on the south,toward the river,and a smaller one towards the west.The fort was generally garrisoned by ten or twelve men.A cannon was furnished by the Massachusetts government that survived the fort many years... Upon the completion of the fort several of the inhabitants of # 2 joined the garrison (These were David Howe,Thomas Chamberlain,Isaac Chamberlain,Joshua Warner and son Daniel Warner,wife and son,Harrison Wheeler,Samuel Minot,Benjamin Aldrige and his son George,who afterward became a general).
Daniel Howe died in his dwelling inside Fort Putney on February 3,1757,and was buried in the old North Cemetery,which was a short distance across the Connecticut River,in Westmoreland,New Hampshire.His wife outlived him many years.Her will dated May 17,1779 mentions children ,Mary,Daniel,William and Beulah.She was the Granny Howe who,at one time,when the men were all away fighting Indians and her corn needed hoeing,got some rum, the custom of those times,and invited the neighboring women to come and help her attend to the corn.
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1-Elizabeth Howe b Sep 25,1717,d Feb 3,1739
2- William Howe b Feb 11,1720,d Apr 9,1791
3-Joseph Howe b May 5,1723,d Aug 8,1757
4-Mary Howe b Dec 9,1726,d Jul 23,1797
5-Daniel Howe Jr b Mar 20,1729,d May 12,1810
6-Beulah Howe b 1745,d 1825
His father gave him part of the homestead,which he sold to his brother Elisha, and he recieved a grant of land in Brookfield, MA in 1715, but he does not appear to have lived there; he was at Sudbury, MA 1716 to 1721,and at Rutland 1722-1725, in 1722 he was chosen one of the assessors of Rutland. On 26 March 1726, he bought land in Framingham, MA and opened a tavern there,which he kept for a few years.In 1736 Massachusetts granted a new township called No. 2, on the east bank of the Connecticut River,above Northfield, of which Daniel Howe was a proprietor. The next year,1737,he sold his property in Framingham, MA, and he and his brother Nehemiah Howe , with Jethro Wheeler and William Phipps,together with their families,became the first inhabitants of the new township, which soon took the name of Great Meadows, and was so called until 1752 when it was rechartered under the name Westmoreland by the New Hampshire government,it having fallen within the limits of that province, by a final settlement of the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. By this second grant,the proprietary rights of nearly one-tenth part of the town fell to Daniel and his sons,and the sons of his brother, Nehemiah Howe ,who had died in captivity in Canada.Daniel built a block house on his land on a bluff overlooking the river.A small fort was erected near by for protection.This smaller fort and some of the settlers huts were piliaged and burned during the Indian raid on the settlement the day Daniel Howe's brother, Nehemiah Howe was captured.
In 1744 King Georges war started and the Indians alled with the French became hostile to the then Engish settlers.This made it difficut for Daniel Howe and his fellow settlers and slowed the growth of the town.In 1755 the settlers of Putney and Westminster united to build a stockaded fort upon the Great Meadow,across the river in East Putney,Vt.It was built on the site of the house formerly occupied by Colonel Thomas White,near the ferry landing.The ferry was the first one at the Great Meadow was on the road to the Howe settlement.The new fort was named "Fort Hill".It was of oblong form,eighty by one hundred and twenty feet,built of yellow pine timber hewed six inches thick and laid up about ten feet high.Daniel Howe's dwelling with fifteen others were erected within it(see posted Map).The walls of the fort formed the back wall of the houses Inside.These were covered with a single roof,which slanted upward to the top of the wall of the fort. In the centre of the inclosure was a hollow square,on which all the houses fronted.On the northeast and southeast corners of the fort watchtowers were placed.A great gate opened on the south,toward the river,and a smaller one towards the west.The fort was generally garrisoned by ten or twelve men.A cannon was furnished by the Massachusetts government that survived the fort many years... Upon the completion of the fort several of the inhabitants of # 2 joined the garrison (These were David Howe,Thomas Chamberlain,Isaac Chamberlain,Joshua Warner and son Daniel Warner,wife and son,Harrison Wheeler,Samuel Minot,Benjamin Aldrige and his son George,who afterward became a general).
Daniel Howe died in his dwelling inside Fort Putney on February 3,1757,and was buried in the old North Cemetery,which was a short distance across the Connecticut River,in Westmoreland,New Hampshire.His wife outlived him many years.Her will dated May 17,1779 mentions children ,Mary,Daniel,William and Beulah.She was the Granny Howe who,at one time,when the men were all away fighting Indians and her corn needed hoeing,got some rum, the custom of those times,and invited the neighboring women to come and help her attend to the corn.
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"Here lies the body of Daniel How who departed this life Feb 3, 1757 in the 73rd year of his age."
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