Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: John HOWLETT
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1643 in Ipswich, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 1675 in Boston, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas HOWLETT Birth: Abt 1606 in South Elmham, Suffolk, England Death: 22 Dec 1677 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Alice FRENCH Birth: 9 Apr 1610 in Assington, Suffolk, England Death: 26 Jun 1666 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary HOWLETT Birth: 22 Jan 1670 in Boston, Massachusetts
  2. Samuel HOWLETT Birth: 6 Feb 1672 in Boston, Massachusetts Death: Before 1675
  3. Sarah HOWLETT Birth: 22 May 1674 in Boston, Massachusetts Death: Before 1675

Bibliography
  1. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Boston, New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1995. Available at http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p[0-9]*].
  2. Boston Registry Dept, Boston births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths, 1630-1690. Boston, Rockwell and Churchill, 1883. M-LH #PS21. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: BostonMA vitals 1630 p[0-9]*].
  3. Davis, Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820, of Topsfield, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1959. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/33853 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis WILDES p[0-9]*].
  4. French, Mara T, The Frenchline Newsletter. San Jose, CA: 1984. LDS Fiche#605537. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v[0-9]*#[0-9]*].
  5. French, Robert L, Descendants of Thomas French of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in Five Generations. Chatham, NY: author, 1990. NEHGS CS71/F876/1990. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p[0-9]*].
  6. Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. Boston: author, 1913. G1638. Available at http://archive.org/details/historyofpeterpa00linz Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p[0-9]*].
  7. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Boston, MA: author, 1900. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1400537. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Pub Co, 1986. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p[0-9][0-9a]*].
  8. Threlfall, John B, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England, Madison, WI: author, 1990. NEHGS F3/T58/1990. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/405085. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
1643 [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2]
abt 1643 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1027, FrenchRL FRENCH p14]
abt 1643-4 [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p299]
abt 1643/4 [Ref: Davis WILDES p56],
place:
[Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p299],
parents:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p56, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p14, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p299, Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
father:
[Ref: Pope PioneersMA p244]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p56, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p299],
place:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p56, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p299]
Sources with Information about marriage to Susanna HUDSON
date:
1669 [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2]
abt 1669 [Ref: Davis WILDES p56, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p299]
by 1670 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1027],
place:
[Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p299],
names:
[Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p14],
child:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1027, BostonMA vitals 1630 p115, BostonMA vitals 1630 p123, BostonMA vitals 1630 p132, Davis WILDES p56, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p299]
Research Notes:
Apr 28 1675: deposed aged 32 years [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1027]

Apr 28 1675: John Howlet aged 32 yeares or there abouts saith that about the month of May 1673 this deponant bought a certain house & land of Mr Sampson Sheafe wch saide was sometime the house & land of Tho. Hawkins for wch the sd. deponent was to give unto sd. Sheafe the sum of three hundred & ffifty pounds [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p300]

Jan 26 1675/6: inventory of estate of Jno Howlett entered by Susan Howlett [Ref: Davis WILDES p56, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p300]

Jun 15 1676: Susanna Howlet relict widdow of John Howlet late of Boston in New England marinr, decd in consideration of three hundred and fifty pounds, sell to Andrew Neale my tenement in Boston, neere the water mill, being bounded on the front of South-Easterly end by Street that Leads from the said water mill towards Beacon Hill, fifty five foote or thereabouts ... [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p300]

For a settlemt of the Estate of John Howlett marrinr late of Boston decd intestate. It is ordered that the remainder of the Estate (debts being first paid) amounting to one hundred thirty seven pounds eighteenshillings & six pence be equally divided between Susanna his Relict & Mary his onely childe; Francis Hudson ffather to the said Susanna taking the childes part into his hands and paying interest for it yearely to its mother towards its education for which he is to give Security. [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p301]

Nov 4 1677: daughter Mary mentioned in will of father Thomas HOWLETT [John d.v.p.?] [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p244]



Pedigree of John HOWLETT
 /-----Thomas HOWLETT
John HOWLETT
|                           /-----Stephen FRENCH
|                  /-----Jacob FRENCH
|                 |         \-----Mary (FRENCH)
|         /-----Thomas Sr FRENCH
|        |        |         /-----William WARREN
|        |         \-----Susan WARREN
|        |                  \-----Katherine (WARREN)
 \-----Alice FRENCH
         |                           /-----Jasper RIDDLESDALE
         |                  /-----Henry RIDDLESDALE
         |                 |         \-----Elizabeth (RIDDLESDALE)
         |         /-----John RIDDLESDALE
         |        |         \-----Joan (RIDDLESDALE)
          \-----Susan RIDDLESDALE
                   \-----Dorcas (RIDDLESDALE)



Descendants of John HOWLETT
1. John HOWLETT m. Susanna HUDSON
m. Susanna HUDSON father: Francis HUDSON mother: Mary (HUDSON)