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The Life of John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland as Found in the Records
The Life Of John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland
As Found in the Records
Compiled by
Eldon W. Gay
January 8, 2022
Click on the links below to see the records for that period.
Chapter One ~ 1465 - 1619
Chapter Two ~ 1620 - 1629
Chapter Three ~ 1630 - 1639
Chapter Four ~ 1640 - 1649
Chapter Five ~ 1650 - 1659
Chapter Six ~ 1660 - 1669
Chapter Seven ~ 1670 - 1679
Chapter Eight ~ 1680 - 1694
Technical Notes
Dates: The year begins March 25. For the period between January 1 and March 24 there will be double-dating if included in the source.
*Say is defined as our best estimate of a date.
*About is likely within 2 years above or below the date. It is more precise than Say
Key to Titles
BET Boston Evening Transcript Genealogical Pages 1896 - 1941
Bradford William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620 – 1647, Samuel Eliot Morison, ed. (New York, 1993)
BarnVR Records of Barnstable, Mass. Boston, MA NEHGS 2002 CD-ROM
BrPR Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records
Drapers Records of London’s Livery Companies Online. londonroll.org
ETR Early Land Grant Transcriptions Eastham MA 1650-1745. Town of Eastham
GNBF Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Vol. 1, by Amos Otis, F. & F. Goss
Publishers,Barnstable, MA, 1888
HP James Thacher, MD. History of the Town of Plymouth 3rd Ed. (Yarmouthport 1972)
HQ The Howland Quarterly, Volume 1 to present
KPW George Mason Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip’s War Boston 1906
KinVR. Vital Records of Kingston, Massachusetts to the year 1850, NEHGS, 1911
Lechford Note-Book Kept by Thomas Lechford Esq. Edward Hale (ed.) Cambridge 1885
MarVR Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850,
Sherman and Sherman, eds. (n.p. 1970) Families
MD Mayflower Descendant, Volume 1 through present (1899 – 1937, 1985+)
MF Mayflower Families Through Five Generations (Silver Books)
MiddleVR Middleborough Massachusetts Vital Records, Merrick and Williams,
(Boston 1986, 1990)
Mourt Henry M. Dexter, Mourt’s Relation or Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth.
Boston, 1865
Mss “New England Historical and Genealogical Society Archives”
NEHGR New England Historical and Genealogical Society Register, Volume 1 to present (1847 +)
NM Nathaniel Morton, The New England’s Memorial 5th Ed. (Plymouth, 1826)
PChR Plymouth Church Records, 1620-1859, Part I and Part 2 in Publications of the
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, volumes 22 and 23 (Boston 1920,1923)
PCLR Plymouth Colony Deeds from microfilm
PCR Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and
David Pulsifer, eds., 12 volumes in 10 (Boston1855-1861) and David Pulsifier,
12Volumes (Boston 1855 -1861)
PCCR Plymouth County, MA: Plymouth Court Records, 1686 - 1859. (CD-ROM)
Boston, MA: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 2002
PCRD Plymouth County Registry of Deeds on-line
PHJS Pilgrim John Howland Archives
PH Pilgrim Hall Museum Archives.
PM Robert Charles Anderson, The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to
Plymouth Colony, 1620 - 1633 (Boston 2004)
PTR Records of the Town of Plymouth, Volume 1, 1636 to 1705 Plymouth (1889)
Volume 2, 1705 to 1743 Plymouth (1892)
PVR Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850
Van Antwerp & Sherman (Camden, Maine, 1993)
Sewall The Diary of Samual Sewell, Volume One 1674 - 1708, Volume Two
1709 - 1792. M. Harley, Thomas, ed. (New York, 1973)
SwVR Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850 Transcribed by
H. L. Peter Rounds,Boston1992
TAG The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present (1932+)
WJ John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649,
James Kendall Hosmer, ed. (New York, 1908)
WP Winthrop Papers Vol III 1631- 1637, Massachusetts Historical Society
(Boston, Massachusetts, 1943)
