Mehitable Howe

1772 - 1817  (45 years)

• Name	Mehitable Howe
  Birth	13 Sep 1772	Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA
  Gender	Female
  Death	Sep 1817	Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, USA
  Person ID	I18434	Master
  Last Modified	14 Jul 2012

  
  

  Father	Abner Howe,   b. 20 Oct 1731, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA d. 13 Jul 1781, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Mehitable Holton,   b. 24 Feb 1736, Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA d. 1 Mar 1799, Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	25 Dec 1753	Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F1740	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 13 Sep 1772 - Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA Death - Sep 1817 - Bloomfield, Trumbull, Ohio, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Excerpts from History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, Vol II Pg 386 EARLY SETTLERS The spring and summer after Mr. Ferry's settlement a number of others came and began improving their farms, and a few brought their families during that year. In the spring of 1815 Willard Crowell, Israel Proctor, Samuel Eastman, and David Comstock came to this township from Vermont on foot. Pg 387 Mayhew Crowell settled about a half a mile north of the center in 18 15. His wife, Mehitabel (Howe) Crowell, died September 20, 1817, being the first death in the township. Her daughter Harriet was the first child born in the township. The Crowell family included five sons and three daughters, who arrived at mature years. All are now dead. Their names were as follows: Willard, Obadiah, Henry, Thomas, Roswell, Mehitabel (Bellows), Mercy, and Mary (Butler). Charles Thayer settled in the northwest of the township about the year 1816. None of the family now remain in Bloomfield. One son, Hiram, resides in Bristol. Pg 387-388 ORGANIZATI0N AND FIRST OFFICERS This township was organized by a special act of the Legislature, and received its present name in 1816. The first township officers were chosen on the 9th of April, 181 7, at an election held at the house of Ephraim Brown and were as follows: Aaron Smith, chairman; Leman Ferry and Jared Green, judges of election; Cyril Green, township clerk; Jared Kimball, David Comstock, and Leman Ferry, trustees; Mayhew Crowell and Timothy Bigelow, overseers of the poor; Leman Ferry, Jr., and Lewis Clisby, fence viewers; Jared Green, Jr., and John Weed, appraisers of property; Jared Green, Jr., lister; Jared Kmiball, treasurer; Samuel Teed, constable; Mayhew Crowell and Leman Ferry, supervisors. Pg 390-391 EARLY EVENTS The first child born in this township was Harriet Crowell. The first male child was Charles Thayer. The first death was that of Mrs. Mehitabel Crowell, in 1817; the second, that of Mrs. Hannah Brown, April 28, 1818. Pg 400 HENRY CROWELL Henry Crowell was born in Grafton, Vermont, in the year 1802. His father, Mayhew Crowell, emigrated from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, residing in Grafton for a term of years and finally removed with his family to Bloomfield, Trumbull county, Ohio. His maternal relative, Mahitable Crowell, was the sister of Major Howe, formerly of Bloomfield, and cousin of Ephraim Brown, Esq., of the same township. The subject of this biographical sketch removed with his parents from his Vermont home to Bloomfield in the year 1815. The journey as accomplished by means of ox teams and was necessarily slow and tedious, six weeks being consumed before they reached its termination, a distance which can now be overcome in less than twenty-four hours. For miles in many places they had to cut their way through dense forests, where the settler's axe had never before swung, bridging streams and camping out nights. This journey proved no pleasure excursion. Few in these days of good roads and easy locomotion can appreciate the trials, privations, and suffering incident to pioneer life in those times when these little bands, severing the ties of old associations, poor in purse but strong in will, went forth in the early twilight of our Nation's history sowing the seeds of empire and breaking the way for future generations in the great West. Arriving at Bloomfield, which at that time was a dense wilderness broken here and there only by small clearings, few and far between, his father located a tract of land, a portion of which he ultimately sold to his son Henry, who, with characteristic industry, proceeded to clear and prepare it for cultivation, erecting a dwelling thereon. In the year 1832 he was united in marriage with Miss Almena Saunders, the result of which union was five sons and two daughters; five of these seven children are still living. In the year 1865 he removed to Cleveland, Ohio. Here he afterwards resided until his death, which occurred September 20, 1881, in the eightieth year of his age, he being the last member of a family of twelve. His temperate, orderly life, combined with habits of well regulated industry, prolonged his years far beyond the average span of existence. He was a man of sterling integrity, most eminently just in all his dealings, never having a quarrel or case of litigation in the entire course of his life. So sweetly ordered were all his ways that in the beaten path of his daily walk and conversation he never made an enemy or lost a friend. Peaceful, quiet, and unostentatious; firmly grounded in his religious convictions, beneath a calm exterior flowed the tides of kindly thought and feeling with scarce a surface ripple, but strong, resistless, pure, and holy. He lived a noble example of the possibilities of a religious culture which rounds into symmetrical beauty the best types of an exalted Christian manhood.