John Howland

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 11 Nov 1620, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; Passenger on the Mayflower

Notes:

John Howland (c. 1592 – February 23, 1673) accompanied the English Separatists and other passengers when they left England on the Mayflower to settle in Plymouth. He was an indentured servant and in later years an executive assistant and personal secretary to Governor John Carver.

In 1620 he signed the Mayflower Compact and helped found the colony. During his service to Governor Carver in 1621, Howland assisted in the making of a treaty with the Sachem Massasoit of the Wampanoag. In 1626, he was a freeman and one of eight settlers who agreed to assume the colony's debt to its investors in exchange for a monopoly on the fur trade. He was elected deputy to the Plymouth General Court in 1641 and held the position until 1655, and again in 1658.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howland

John married Elizabeth Tilley on 25 Mar 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Elizabeth (daughter of John Tilley and Joan Hurst) was born on 30 Aug 1607 in Henlow, Bedfordshire; died on 22 Dec 1687 in Swansea, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Ancient Little Neck Cemetery, East Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Chipman. John was born on 30 Jun 1621 in Briant's Piddle, Dorset; died on 7 Apr 1708 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Desire married Judge Colonel Melatiah Bourne on 23 Feb 1693 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Melatiah was born on 12 Jan 1673 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America; died on 24 Nov 1742 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America; was buried in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bathsheba Borne was the great-grand daughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. Elizabeth Tilley's parents, John Tilley and Joan Hurst Tilley, were also Mayflower passengers, but did not survive the first winter in the New World. Bathsheba was the daughter of Judge Melatiah Bourne and Desire Chipman.

Bathsheba married Brigadier-General Timothy Dwight Ruggles on 18 sept 1736 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. Timothy was born on 20 Oct 1711 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America; died on 4 Aug 1795 in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried in Aug 1795 in Pine Grove Church Cemetery, Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]