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• Name: Thomas HOWLETT
• Sex: M
• Birth: Abt 1606 in South Elmham, Suffolk, England ^b
• Death: 22 Dec 1677 in Ipswich, Massachusetts ^d


Parents:

Family:
Marriage:

• Alice FRENCH on 1634 at Boston, Massachusetts .^m1
  
• Alice FRENCH Birth: 9 Apr 1610 in Assington, Suffolk, England Death: 26 Jun 1666 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Children:

1. Sarah HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1634 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 7 Dec 1688 in Dunstable, New Hampshire
2. Thomas HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1637 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 22 Dec 1667 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
3. John HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1643 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 1675 in Boston, Massachusetts
4. Mary HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1645 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 21 Oct 1718 in Boxford, Massachusetts
5. Samuel HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1646 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 11 Mar 1720 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
6. William HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1650 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 1718 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
7. Nathaniel HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1652 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 28 Apr 1658 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Marriage:

• Rebecca (SMITH) on After 1666 .^m2
  
• Rebecca (SMITH) Birth: England Death: 1 Nov 1680 in Newbury, Massachusetts

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

1606 [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2]

1606? [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p395]

abt 1606 [Ref: Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p286, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]

age 25 in 1630 [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

d 1678 age 79 [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p153]

deposed 25 Nov 1658 aged abt 52, deposed Jun 1665 aged abt 60, deposed Mar 1666 aged abt 60 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

deposed in 1658 age about 52 [Ref: Banks Winthrop p75, Pope PioneersMA p244],

place:

[Ref: Banks Topo p161]

England [Ref: Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p286]

co Suffolk, England [Ref: Banks Winthrop p75]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Sav-age HOWLETT Thomas, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]

1677/78 [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p395]

1678 [Ref: Davis WILDES p53, Jacobus GRANBERRY p256]

Sep 1678 [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287]

between 4 Nov 1677 and 10 Sep 1678 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025],

place:

[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025, Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287]

Sources with Information about marriage to Alice FRENCH

date:

[Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p14]

1639 [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2]

abt 1634 [Ref: Davis WILDES p64, Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425]

abt 1634? [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p395]

abt 1644 [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p244]

by about 1637 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

in or before 1644 [Ref: Hoyt S&A p1070],

place:

[Ref: Jacobus GRANBERRY p256]

prob Boston [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287],

names:

[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705, Davis WILDES p53, FrenchAD FRENCH p362],

child:

[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1027, Davis WILDES p55, Davis WILDES p56, Davis WILDES p57, FrenchMT FRENCH pI-20, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p14, Hammatt Ipswich p153, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p298, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p299, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p301, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p302, Sav-age HOWLETT Thomas, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

names:

Thomas HOWLETT & widow of Thomas FRENCH [Ref: Hoyt S&A p1070, Pope PioneersMA p244, Torrey NE<1700 p395]

Sources with Information about marriage to Rebecca (SMITH)

date:

after 1666 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287]

after 26 Jun 1666 [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p395]

second marriage of Thomas [Ref: Davis WILDES p53, Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Sav-age HOWLETT Thomas, Threlfall 50GMCol p160],

names:

Thomas HOWLETT & Rebecca ___ [Ref: Davis WILDES p53, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p287, Sav-age HOWLETT Thomas, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]

Thomas HOWLETT & widow Thomas SMITH [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025, Jacobus GRANBERRY p256, Pope PioneersMA p244, Torrey NE<1700 p395]

Research Notes:
carpenter [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

1630: immigrated, origin unknown, to Boston [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1024]

1630: immigrated in Winthrop's fleet, age 25 [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

immigrated in Gov. Winthrop's Fleet of 1630 [Ref: Banks Winthrop p75]

immigrated from South Elmham, co Suffolk, to Ipswich [Ref: Banks Topo p161]

1630: Boston [Ref: Sav-age HOWLETT Thomas]

27 Aug 1630: member of the first church [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

1630: member of the church in Boston [Ref: Banks Winthrop p75, Pope PioneersMA p244]

Aug 27 1630: member #51 of First Church of Boston at Charlestown [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p291]

Aug 27 1630: made a member of the first church in Boston [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

late 1630: admitted to Boston Church as member #51 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1024]

carpenter by trade, when not engaged in military affairs, or sent as a Deputy to the Geneal court, or employed to run the boundaries of towns and farms [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p295]

evidently trained as a surveyor, for he was in great demand in laying out lands and determining boundaries between towns [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1024]

4 Mar 1633/4: freeman at Ipswich [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

before Apr 1633: went with John Winthrop Jr to Agawam to found the settlement which became Ipswich [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

1633: Ipswich [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1024, Banks Winthrop p75]

Apr 1 1633: one of first planters at Agawam (Ipswich) [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p244]

one of first planters of Ipswich [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p160]

Apr 1 1633: fifth in a list of ten men permitted to remove to and inhabit Agawam (Ipswich) [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1028]

came prob in the fleet with Winthrop, went early in 1633 with young John Winthrop to plant Ipswich [Ref: Sav-age HOWLETT Thomas]

Apr 1 1633: "It is ordered that noe pson whsoeuer shall goe to plant or inhabitt att Aggawam, without leave from the court, except those that are already gone, vzs: Mr. John Winthrop, Junr, Mr. Clerke, Robte Coles, Thomas Howlett, John Biggs, John Gage, Thomas Hardy, Willm Perkins, Mr. Thornedicke, Willm Srieant." [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p294]

Mar 3 1634: freeman of Ipswich [Ref: Sav-age HOWLETT Thomas]

Mar 4 1633/4: freeman [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1024, Davis WILDES p53, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p294]

1634: Given and Granted unto Thomas Howlett, two acres of meadows, and two acres and a half of marsh joyninge unto it lyinge betweene the Towne River, and the lands of William Sergient and John Newman [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p294]

1634: granted, by Ipswich, two acres of meadow and two and a half acres of marsh between the town river and the lands of William Sergient and John Newman, also six acres, in partnership with John Manning and others, on the neck of land on which the town stood [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

1634?: Given and Granted unto Thomas Howlett, six acres of land more or less, in equall share with John Maninge and others, lyeing uppon this neck of Land the Towne standeth, between the Lands of John Gadge on the one side and Thomas Clarke on the other [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p294]

1634?: Granted unto John Maning, six acres of Land more or less in equal shares with Thomas Howlett, john Gage and others lying on the neck of Land at the east end of the Town [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p294]

1635: represented Ipswich in the General Court [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

Apr 20 1635: There was Granted to Thomas Howlett, thirty acres of upland and ten of meaddow at the head of Chebacko creeke the meaddow lyinge on both sides the Creeke, and the upland on the West side of the meaddow. Likewise ten acres of Land lyinge on the North side of the Town towards the Reedy marsh, having John Gage, his Land towards the North, and Thomas Scott towards the South. Likewise six acres of Land lying on the Town River, havinge Thos: Clarke's on the Northeast and John Gage on the Southwest, Likewise six acres part meaddow, part upland, having a lott of Edmund Gardiners on the Southwest. Likewise an house lott in the Town adjoyninge to Thos: Hardy's upon which he hath built an house. [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p295]

1635: additional land granted, thirty acres of upland and ten of meadow at the head of Chebacco creek, ten acres north of the town toward the Reedy Marsh and a house lot in the town [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

May 6 1635: Deputy to Massachusetts Bay General Court for Ipswich [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

1635: representative [Ref: Sav-age HOWLETT Thomas]

1635: deputy to general court [Ref: Davis WILDES p53, Hammatt Ipswich p153]

1635: granted to him a "houselot n the town adjoining Thomas Hardy's n the crossway leading to the mill" [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p153]

received a land grant at Ipswich, six acres in equal shares with John Gage, and othrs "lying upon this neck of land the town standeth" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p719]

1636: in militia, Third Regiment. Col John Endecott of salem; Lieut. Col John Winthrop Jr [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p295]

1636-7: Capt Daniel Denison; Lieut John Willingham; Ensign Thomas Howlett [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p295]

1637: purchased 40 acres from John Perkins, Sr [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

1637: purchased of John Perkins, the Elder, forty acres of land for 7 pounds 10 shillings [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p153, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p295]

Mar 13 1638/9: referred to as sergeant [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

Mar 25 1639: proposed for Ensign, as Sergeant Howlett [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p703]

Jun 6 1639: Appointed to surveying expedition up the Merrimack [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

1640: sergeant of the Ipswich company, and later its ensign [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

Feb 10 1640: Mr. Hubbard, Mr. William Payne, Mr. Tuttle, St. Howlett, and John Gage are chosen by thr Towne and full power given to them on the behalf of Ipswich to run the lyne and make the bounds, between Salem and Ipswich [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p295]

1641: commoner of Ipswich [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

1641: on list of Comoners in Ipswich, that have right to Comonage there [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p295]

Mar 29 1642: Sergeant Howlett was sued by Mr. Bradstreet concerning herds of cows [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1028]

1643: with ten soldiers, were out three days in defense of the Agawam Indians against their tribal enemies, and were voted compensation by the town [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

1643: Sergeant Howlett and ten soldiers, are empowered in some service to the assistance of the neighboring Indians, for which they were voted twelve pence a day for each soldier and the officers double. They were out three days, and Serg't Howlett compensation was six shillings [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p295]

10 (7) 1643: "Having lived sundry years at Ipswich" he was dismissed to that church [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p244]

Sep 10 1643: "Our brethren John Gage and Thomas Howlett, having now for sundry years inhabited at Ipswich and desiring letters of dismission to the church there have the same granted unto them with the church's consent by their silence" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1024]

Deacon of Ipswich church [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1024]

1643: Sergeant, with 10 soldiers, empowered in some service (assistance of the neighboring Indians); absent three days; compensation was 6 shillings [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p153]

1643: Sergeant Howlett and ten soldiers were out three days in defense of the Agawam Indians against their tribal enemies [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

Mar 1 1643/4: will of Robert Andrews commended his son John Andrews to the guardianship of Thomas Howlett [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1028]

Mar 27 1643: member of committee to determine bounds between Salem and Ipswich [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

May 14 1645: confirmed ensign, at Ipswich, according to their choice [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

Nov 4 1645: petit jury [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

(undated) Deputy to Massachusetts Bay General Court for Topsfield, as Ensign Tho Houlet [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

Mar 30 1647: took inventory of John Shatswell, brought to court [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1028]

Nov 11 1647: Committee to view land requested by Haverhill [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

May 23 1650: Committee on bounds between Haverhill and Salisbury [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

Sep 24 1650: Essex grand jury [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

Sep 28 1652: arbiter [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

May 18 1653: Committee to lay out five hundred acres at Rowley [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

May 12 1654: Committee to lay out six hundred acres to Major Daniel Dennison [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

Sep 26 1654: Essex grand jury [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

Nov 13 1655: Committee to settle the line between Rowley and Newbury [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

May 14 1656: Committee to lay out land to Governor John Endicott [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

Oct 14 1656: Committee to settle the bounds between Hampton and Salisbury [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

Feb 27 1657/8: will of John Robinson, wheelwright of Ipswich, bequeathed #10 to Alice, wife of Thomas Howlett, his chest and tools to Thomas Howlett Jr, and the residue to Thomas Howlett Sr. [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1027, Jacobus GRANBERRY p257, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p296]

Sep 29 1657: petit jury [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

May 29 1658: Thomas Howlett, Frances Pabody, Richard Huten, and Abraham Redington took the inventory of the estate of George Buncker [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1028]

1659: General Court awarded him fifty shillings for a ten days' journey with Nathaniel Woodward to lay out the line up the Merrimac River. [Ref: Jacobus GRANBERRY p257]

Sep 27 1659: Essex grand jury [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

May 31 1660: Committee to consider the claim to Jeffrey's Creek [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

1661: selectman of Topsfield [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

1664: included in a list of commoners of Topsfield who were assessed [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

1664: had a share and a half in Plum Island [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p296]

Mar 28 1665: petit jury [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

Sep 1666: Thomas Howlett Sr and John Gage Sr deposed that at the first planting of the town there was an order made by the town that there should be two rods left free on the river for the benefit of the inhabitant above high water mark, from the town to the neck and also above. Further, that lots were always so laid out thirty-two years since [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1028]

Mar 26 1667: Essex grand jury [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

1668: had a share and a half in Plum Island [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p153]

Nov 18 1668: assessed 4s,10d in the country rate for Topsfield [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

Jan 27 1668/9: assessed 16s,6d in the town rate for Topsfield [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

1669: Ipswich member of committee to determine bounds between Ipswich and Wenham [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

1671: stepson Thomas Smith chose him as his guardian [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

Sep 28 1672: John Gage called Thomas Howlett "my brother Howlet" in a reply to the court. They were first at Boston together, and were dismissed at the same time to Ipswich. There may be a genealogical relationship between the two [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1027, Anderson GreatMigrationI p722]

1672: Deacon of the church [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

1673: among those to share in the common lands (Topsfield?) [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025]

will dated Nov 4 1677, prob Sep 24 1678. to wife Rebecca what she brought with her and other items; to son Samuel and daus Sarah Comings and Mary Perly; to Alice Comins; to Mary, dau of his son John, or to his wife; to son Thomas' wife and children, rest to son William. [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p244]

inventory include "1 fowling piece, books, 1 brush" valued at #2,16s,4d. [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1024]

Sep 10 1678: inventory taken. totalled #452, 11s, 4d, of which #300 was real estate: "the farm with housing, barn, orchard, upland and meadow with one parcel of marsh at Ipswich," #200; and "some other parcels of land," #100. The assets were offset by #34,7s,10.5d in debts [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025, Davis WILDES p53]

Sep 1680: widow sued the executor in court to recover certain geese and turkeys which she claimed as her own. Thomas Durman testified that Ensign Howlett had said "No, I meddle not with the geese nor turkeys, for they are hers, for she hath been and is a good wife to me." Isaac Cummings Jr and Samuel Kingsbury also testified [Ref: Davis WILDES p53]

--------------- Will of Thomas Howlett, dated Nov 4 1677:
"Thomas Howlit of Ipswich ... weak in body" bequeathed to "Rebeka my wife" one cow, two heifers that are called hers, my little gray mare, an annuity of #5 per year, to be 50s in corn and 50s in cattle, the corn part to be half in wheat and malt and half in Indian corn, and the goods she brought with her at marriage; to "my son Samull Howlit" fifty acres of land "which I formerly intended for my son John Howlit and also two twenty acre lots in the thick woods in Topsfield and also four acres of meadow"; to "my daughter Sarah Commings four acres of the Hasakey meadow"; to "my son Samull Howlet the rest of the Hasekey meadow"; "my son Samull Howlet" to pay 50s yearly to the amount of #5 "that I have given to my wife in specie"; to "my wife a kettle instead of a bedtick I promised"; to "my daughter Sarah Comings #4" within four years if she be living, else to her heirs; to "Allis Comins" at her marriage or at 18 years of age 20s; to "my daughter Mary Perly I have given her #23 which my will is should be made up #50"; to "Mary Howlit my son John Howlit's daughter" #45 to be paid to her at the age of eighteen years or at her day of marriage; if she "live not to receive it, then my will it that there shall be #10 paid to my son John Howlit's wife"; "my son William Howlit my sole executor" to whom, my debts being paid, I give all the rest of my estate, housing, lands, goods and cattle, utensils of all sorts and debts from whomsoever due; "my loving friends Capt. John Applton, Major Samull Applton, and John Wippl Senior" overseers, and I do give them power to determine any difference that may arise between my executor and any of the legatees; "my son Thomas Howlit's wife" to enjoy the hundred acres of land "I possessed him of til his eldest daughter" reaches eighteen or marriage "& then she shall enjoy one quarter of it"; when "my son Thomas Howlit's youngest daughter is of the age of eighteen years or at her day of marriage, she shall enjoy one quarter of the hundred acres given to her said father, & after their mother's decease they shall enjoy the other fifty acres equally divided"; if "one of my son Thomas Howlit's daughters die before she is possessed of her portion, it shall goe to her sister"; if they both die, then "my daughter-in-law my son Thomas Howlit's wife shall enjoy all the hundred acres of land her life and at her decease shall pay out of it to my children, then living, #100" to be equally divided among them. Witnesses: John Appleton, Samuel Appleton, John Whipple. [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1025, Davis WILDES p55]



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