John HOWLAND

                   SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
     Archive Record with Temple Stamp dates - Submitted by Lois Rasmussen,
        Smithfield, Utah.
     Mayflower Descendants Vol. 3 p. 54 Vol. 10 p. 65.  B 11 E 15 p. 155.
     Archive Record submitted by Mabel S. Cordon, Ashton, Idaho.
     N.E.H. & G. Reg Vol CIV Boston, Mass. & Preston Ancestry by Belle
        Preston.  References that are not readable are also shown.
BIRTH DATE:  On Archive Record submitted by L. Rassmussen shows Abt 1593,
     Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Archive Record submitted by Mabel
     S. Cordon shows 1593 at Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England.
          ANCESTRY.COM shows "The traditional date that has been ascribed to John Howland's birth is
     'B:1592' and has never really been questioned.  However, a birth about 1599 is clearly better
     estimate for the following reasons:  
          1)  John Howland is called a 'manservant' in William Bradford's passenger list...as a servant to 
               John Carver.  Servants were contracted out until the age of 25.  Thus, Howland must 
               have been under 25 in 1620, meaning he had to have been born after 1595.  Since 
               Howland signed the Mayflower Compact, he must have been born sometime before 1600
               to have been legally old enough to sign.
          2)  John Howland's wife was born in 1607, and it is most unlikely that he, at the age of 32,
               married a 17 year old girl as his first wife.  Most men married about age 25, and since his
               marriage occurred about 1624, this would place his likely birth at 1599.
          3)  John Howland's last child was born in 1649.  If the 1592 date were accepted, he would
               have fathered a child at the age of 57, a most unlikely circumstance.
           William Bradford writes in that John Howland was a 'lusty young man' in 1620.  It is unlikely
     that Bradford would call a 28-year-old a 'young man'.  The only other person Bradford called a
     'young man' in 1620 was John Alden, who was born in 1599."
DEATH DATE:  Archive Records of L. Rassmussen and M. S. Cordon both show 23 Feb
     1673.  "The Mayflower Passenger List" shows his death as 1672.
WAS A PASSENGER ON THE MAYFLOWER:  See "The Mayflower Passenger List, 1620".
     Howland, John 1592-1672, London or Essex, Servant to Carver.  Married
     Elizabeth Tilley.
MOTHER:  Shown as Margaret on Cyndislist on internet.
MAYFLOWER JOURNEY:   He was nearly swept to his death during a severe storm on the
     passage on the Mayflower.
BURIAL:  Rocky Nook [Cemetery?], Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts.