Thomas Howes^[1]

1601 - 1665  (64 years)

• Name	Thomas Howes
  Birth	1 Jan 1601	Eastwell, Kent, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Oct 1665	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I31898	Master
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2018

  
  

  Family	Mary Burr,   b. 1 Oct 1609, Stisted, Essex, England d. 9 Dec 1695, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	1625	, , , England
  Children	1. Sarah Howes,   b. 1633, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 3 Mar 1707, Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 74 years) + 2. Joseph Howes,   b. 1634, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England d. 19 Jan 1695, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 61 years)  [Father: natural]   3. John Howes,   b. 1 Jun 1636, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England d. 1 Jun 1636, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural] + 4. Jeremiah Howes,   b. 3 Sep 1637, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 9 Sep 1708, Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural] + 5. Thomas Howes,   b. 1638, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England d. 20 Nov 1676, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 38 years)  [Father: natural]   6. Hannah Howes,   b. 6 Jun 1641, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA d. 1711, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA (Age 69 years)  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F7834	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2021

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1 Jan 1601 - Eastwell, Kent, England Marriage - 1625 - , , , England Death - 18 Oct 1665 - Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Thomas Howes 1601-1665 On 5 October 1658 confirmation was made of a sale by "Capt. Myles Standish" (with consent of his wife Barbara) to Mr. Thomas Howes of Yarmouth of "a certain farm lying in the liberties of Yarmouth," which had been granted to Standish by the court on 4 March 1650 [MD 13:142-43, citing PCLR 2:2:11]. Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691Part One: Chronological Histories Chapter 3: The Founding of Towns (1633-1643)Yarmouth On 7 January 1638/39, the Court of Assistants granted lands at "Mattacheeset, now called Yarmouth" to Mr. Anthony Thatcher, Mr. Thomas Howes, Mr. John Crow, and John Coite "to be enquired of." Coite might have been the man of that name of Marblehead, but apparently he did not move to Plymouth Colony. Thatcher, Howes, and Crow were proposed [p.66] as freemen of Yarmouth, along with Mr. Marmaduke Mathews, Philip Tabor, William Palmer, Samuel Rider, William Lumpkin, and Thomas Hatch. It was also specifically noted that "Old Worden (dead)," Burnell, Wright, and Wat Deville were "Psons there excepted against," probably meaning they were not eligible to be given freemen status, and showing that some form of settlement had already been in existence. In fact, on 4 September 1638 the General Court ordered the inhabitants of Sandwich and "Mattacheese or Yarmouth" to build a bridge over the Eel River (which was just a bit south of Plymouth town, and had to be crossed for travel between Plymouth and the Cape). On 5 March 1638/39 William Palmer was authorized by the General Court to be the one at Yarmouth who would exercise inhabitants in arms, and William Chase was elected constable there. It is apparent that earlier the Plymouth Court had granted land at Yarmouth to others also, for on 1 April 1639 it noted that lands at Mattacheese (another confusion of the names, for it should have been Mattacheeset) were granted to persons who should have inhabited there long ago, but did not, and the grantees "are not likely to come to inhabite there in their owne persons, and lest such as are there should receive in unto them unworthy persons, whereof the Court hath lamentable experience …, the Court doth order that onely such of them wch at present are there shall remayne & make use of some lands for their present necessity, but shall not divide any portions of lands there either to themselves or any others."26View full context It was in 1638 that Thomas Howes and Mary Burr, his wife, came from Morningthorpe, Norfolk, England, and settled on a grant of land in the town of Yarmouth, Cape Cod. As one able to read and write, Thomas was permitted to place the title of "Esquire" after his name. Like most settlers on Cape Cod, he and his descendants became seafaring men and later furnished many of the captains and mates on clipper ships that made America famous on the seven seas. On her mother's side, Miss Howes was descended from John Crow (later Crowell), also a settler in Yarmouth. Members of both Howes and Crowell families intermarried with families distinguished in Colonial days, such as the Brewsters, Princes, and Dunsters.[p.163] American Biographical Library "Howes Wills and Inventories," in The Mayflower Descendant, vol. VI: The wills and inventories of Thomas' Howes, Captain Thomas-2 Howes and the latter's widow, Sarah (Bangs) Howes, all of Yarmouth, are important links in the chain of evidence which proves -that Mary, the widow of Thomas' Howes, became the third or fourth wife of Governor Thomas Prence and survived him. The literal copies here presented were made from the second, third and fourth volumes of the Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories. [The Will and Inventory of Thomas Howes. ] The Last Will and Testament of Mr Thomas Howes of yarmouth late Deceased; exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the seaventh of March 1665 on the oath of; Mr Anthony Thacher and Mistris Elizabeth Thacher his wife I Thomas howes weake in body but of sound memory Doe this 26 Day of September Anno: Dom: 1665 Doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testaument in maner & form following first my Will is that my three sonnes Joseph Thomas and Jeremy have and hold the lands; both upland and meddow which I have formerly given to each of them and alreddy put each of them in posession of; To them and theire heires and assignes for ever; together with all waies and easments unto them and each pticulare psell of them as now they have them; without any Interuption or molestation of any or each of them or any theire assignes; further my will is and I Doe give -unto Mary my wife my Dwelling house with all other my outhousings whatsoev with all the Lands now in my Posession During her life unlesse shee Change her Condition by manying her selfe after my Decease unto another man; and then shee shall have onely the thirds of them; And my w-HI is that shee alsoe have all my moveable goods both -within and without after my Debts bee payed att her Dispose for her use and benifitt; provided shee Dispose and give the remaine of them; att her Decease or marriage unto my said Children but in such and such proportions as shee shall see meet; And my will is and I Doe give and bequeath unto miue eldest sonne Joseph after; mine and my said vvifes; Decease all that feilci now comonly called the new feild; and all my meddo wes the=to adjoyning unto the little brooke that runs Downe towards the nine acres point; and one halfe pte of the necke called Simpldns necke; from the Cart path as now goeth through the swamp into the said necke on a straight line to the Easter end of the Townes meddow (viz) the eastern end and alsoe that meddow, which was formerly Sturgises together with all waies and easments with the bounds both uplands and meddow; and every pte and psell of them as now they are; and I Doe give and bequeath by this my last Will and Testament unto Thomas my second son after muie and my wifes Decease my now Dwelling house with m3r outhouses and orchyard and all the land according as the old ffence went I)owne to the nine acres springe on the north west side of the said ffence to my son Jeremyes feild with the other pte of said NeckeCalled Simpkins necke and four acres of meddow lying and being betwixt the Towne meddow and Ryders meddow; and all the meddow on the Northwest of the said Pyders meddow to the Reedy Creeke together with such waies &- easments to the said lands a-ad meddowes and every pte and psell of them as now they are; provided and my will is that in Consideration of this legacy my said son Thomas teach or cause to bee taught my grandchild Samuell the Trad of a Cooper; and alsoe att such time as the said Samuell is twelve yeares old hee the said Thomas pay unto him the said Samuell one mare of three yeares old; and alsoe keep and maintains from time to time the said Dwelling house in good repaire During my said wffes life or widdowhood; And I Doe give and bequeath unto Jeremiah my youngest son all the upland from the old barrs beyond the barne on the southwest side the said old ffence Downe to the nine acrees Creeke or little brooke before mentioned and all the meddow that lyeth and is between his meddow now in his posession and the aforsaid Reedy Creeke together with the waies and easments to the said lands and every pte and pcell of them as now they are; and the rest of my lands whatsoever not heer nominated and bequeathed I give and leave to my wife to bee Deposed of and given unto my said Children as shee pleaseth att or before her Decease; And I make and ordaine my said wife sole exequitrix of this my last Will and Testament; and I Doe Intreat and appoint my beloved frinds Mr Anthony Thacher and Robert Denis as feofees in trust to 'See to the pformance of this my last Will and Testament In witnes wherof I have heerunto sett my hand the Day and yeare abovewritten In the prsence of Thomas howes Thomas Thornton Anthony Thacher These abovewritten being read unto Mr Thomas howes the Testator after hee had Considered of the same hee Did the sixt Day of the eight month x665 owne and acknowlidg that it was his last willand Testament in the prsence of Mr Anthony Thacher Mistris Elizabeth Thacher and his owne wifeTesta Anthony Thacher Elizabeth Thacher her marke And further Desired that wheras hee had eight acrees of rneddow in the meddowes att the basse pond rivers mouth; That the Comittees would exchange it for six acrees late Willam Nicarsons lying in the meddows within Nobscusett beach and if they would Doe it; hee then gave the said six acrees unto his son joseph after his and his wifes Decease; [fol. .3.3] A true and pfect Inventory of all the goods Cattles and houshold stuffe of mr Thomas howes Deceased as it was taken and Apprised the eighteenth of October Anno : Dom : i665, by us whose names are heer underwritten Impr - in the Parlour i feather bed bolster pillowes and its furniture both linnine and woolen with a bedstead &c: 1S oo oo Item all his wearing apparrell 11 10 00 Item 1 Table board and pg. & forme with six Chaires 4 Cushen and one Chest &c: 04 00 00 Item 1 smale silver bowle 2 silver spoones 1 silver Dram Cupp and a paire of -,old waightes 03 00 00 In the Closett 1 Case of bottles some butter with other lumber of 10 00 In the Kitchen Item 1 short Table z formes a kneading trough 1 Jack 2 spitts a paire of rackes an Iron barr & z rackhookes and other lumber Os I o oo Item 4 Potts & kettles 1 Dripin,-, pan a spice-morter a posuett with skiuetts Chaffing Dish and other smale thinges og 10 00 Item in pewter 1 bason and yoare six platters i great Candle sticke with flagons and other Dishes and potts 04 10 00 Item in earthen Dishes wooden platters trayes pailes &c: ox 05 00 Item in Armes and Amunition as 3 guns a Case of Pistols & holsters 1 saddle and furniture one halbert a sword and belt powder & shott 08 oo oo Item in tooles as addes Coopers tooles plow irons cheines and other old Irons with spades shovels howes and other things not named 03 is 00 In the little Chamber Item 1 bedsted bed & bolster piuowes & bedclothes both linnine and woolen with its furniture 10 00 00 Item 1 sidebedsted with flocke bed bolster & other bedclothes o2 oo -oo Item 1 smale Chist 2 smale boxes a smale case 1 trunke with sorn smale thinges not worth the naming 01 To 00 Item 3 paire of sheets 6 pillow beares 3 Table clothes nap- kins and other Unnine - 10 00 00 Item 2 bibles & other bookes 02 00 00 In the Dary Item 1 butter cherne muke vessells Cheesfatts scales & waightes a caske of viniger salt sope powdering tubb with stutgion, and other tubbs & lumber & a few apples oS o2 oo Item in another roome a trundle bedsted with tubbs & bas- ketts inault shooes and bootes and other smale thingesnot named ox ig 00 up in the Chamber item spining wheeles yerne an hatcheu 2 bedsteds a flockbed bolster & bedclothes 61--d-barreUs Tobaco a saddle & other lumber o6 og oc Item in wheat rye pease Indian Corne and other -raine & a fann 20 00 oc Item a Cart and wheeles & boards and plow 04 co 00 Item 7 hives of bees - - - @03 10 00 item in an outhouse old. tubbs barrens &other lumber not worth the nameing 02 02 00 Item in Cattle as z mares I -horse I Colt 24 00 00 Item 4 Cowes x bull i steer 5 heiffers & steers 4 yearlinges one Calfe 2 oxen & 13 sheep 68 io oo Item hoggs & piggs & poultery &c: og 02 00 242 14 00 item besides in Desparate Debts Due from the Indians and others not named & some Debts which hee owed when hee Deceased as alsoe the house and lands not apprised by us his Debtes -Due to bee payed by him are item to mr John Winslow 05 08 08 Item To Thomas huckens -07 14 00 Itern To John Gorum 07 o6 7i Item To the widdow Davis 02 00 -00 Item To Isacke Wells 01 00 00 Item To Nathaniel Bassett 0-0 Io oo23 19 3i Mistris Mary howes widdow and the relict to the above mencioned na Thomas howes senir: was sworne to the truth of the abovewritten Inventory The 26 of february 1665, before me Thomas hinckley Assistant Thomas Howes Jr Captain (1601 - 1665) Birth:1590, England Death:Oct. 18, 1665 Dennis Barnstable County Massachusetts, USA A monument was erected upon a millstone at the Howes Cemetery in 1834 to mark the resting place of Thomas and Mary (Burr) Howes. Thomas, Mary, and their family of three sons - Joseph(1630), Thomas(1634), and Jeremiah(1637), landed at Salem, MA from England about 1637, and moved to Yarmouth (now Dennis) Cape Cod about 1638 to farm the land granted by the King's Governor. They are believed to be the first of their surname in the ‘New World'. On the side of the monument it is indicated that the number of Thomas Howes descendants then (1834) living were as follows: 315 in Dennis,MA, 138 in Chatham,MA, and 396 in "other places". 1637 - Arrived in Salem,MA 1639 - Moved to Old Yarmouth,Mass.Settled in Dennis,Mass. 1644 - Appointed Constable 1652 - Appointed to recieve "oil of the country" 1652 - Deputy to the General Court 1658 - Member of Council of War He was the first husband of Mary Burr, who later married Gov.Thomas Prence. Children: Joseph Howes, Thomas Howes Jr(father of Thomas Howes III and Jonathan Howes), and Jeremiah Howes. Thomas Howes (1601-1665) came to New England from co. Norfolk, England with his wife in 1637, first in Lynn and afterward in 1638 settled in Yarmouth. His son Jeremiah is said to have been born on the passage over. Thomas was one of the three original grantees of Yarmouth (Mattacheese as called by the Indians), took the oath of allegiance to the King 18 Dec 1638, constable of Yarmouth 5 Jun 1644, and representative to the Colony Court 1652-53, 1658, and 1659. On 3 Jun 1662, Mr. Thomas Howes is named as a deputy from Yarmouth to the General Court. His will is dated 26 Sep 1665 and was proved in Plymouth 17 Mar 1665/6 and is printed in MD 6:157. It was inventoried on 18 Oct 1665 and amounted to £242 14s. Thomas and Mary are buried in Howes Family Cemetery, Dennis, MA. On the side of the monument it is indicated that the number of Thomas Howes descendants then (1834) living were as follows: 315 in Dennis, MA, 138 in Chatham, MA, and 396 in "other places". Thomas Howes came to America abt 1637. He first came to Lynn, MA, but later settled in Yarmouth, MA. He was one of the original proprietors. He lived in Nobscusset on the north side of Cape Cod which became part of the town of Dennis. He was named constable of Yarmouth Aug 20, 1644. On June 5, 1650 Thomas Howes & Samuel Mayo were appointed administrator of the estate of the late Samuel Hallett. On Oct 5, 1658 Thomas Howes purchased a farm in Yarmouth from Capt Myles Standish.

  
  

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