• Henry, later of Plymouth Colony. Mentioned in will of his brother Humphrey, 1646. Apprenticed to his brother Humphrey in Roll of Drapers’ Company, London, 1 Oct 1623.44

• HENRY HOWLAND (youngest of the three brothers) is first mentioned in New England in the allotment of cattle to the different families in Plymouth in 1624. He appears in Duxbury among its earliest settlers, some of the first inhabitants of Plymouth locating themselves there across the harbor, on the north side of the bay.
In 1657 he refused to serve, the apparent reason being that he had joined the Friends’ sect, which was just beginning to spread in America, and the duties were such that he could not conscientiously perform them.46

• Duxbury was another heretical center, harboring Baptists as well as Quakers. Prence’s policy met stiff opposition here, led by John Howland’s brother, Arthur, and the sons of Joseph Rogers of the Mayflower, seconded by the local pastor, the Reverend John Holmes. For outspoken criticism of the authorities, Henry Howland was up on the malicious charge of “improperlie entertaining” a neighbor’s wife, and his young son Zoeth was put in the stocks for saying that he “would not goe to meeting to hear lyes, and that the Divill could preach as good as sermon as the minister,” with which many townspeople seemed to agree, choosing to pay a fine rather than attend public worship.47

• Duxbury harbored a lot of the Quakers and Arthur and Henry Howland led the opposition to Quaker persecution.
Henry Howland was both a public servant and a public nuisance. In 1635 he served as the constable in Duxbury and was a highway surveyor. He also was a frequent member of grand juries. However, he was:
∞ Disenfranchised in 1659 for being “an abettor and entertainer” of Quakers.
∞ Fined 4£ in 1660 for holding Quaker meetings at his house twice.
∞ Fined 10 shillings in 1659 for entertaining a meeting in his house contrary to court orders.
∞ Fined again in 1660 for permitting a Quaker meeting in his house and for entertaining a foreign Quaker.
∞ Stripped of his freeman status in 1659.
Such was the life of the three Howland brother, touched by the Quaker controversy yet serving the needs of Plymouth Colony and the Pilgrim settlers.2036

• John Howland had several brothers who also came to New England, namely Henry Howland (an ancestor to both Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford) and Arthur Howland (an ancestor to Winston Churchill).7141

• Thus the progenitors of three separate Howland families arrived in Plymouth Colony during the first twenty years of its existence, making it difficult to sort out and identify their many descendants.18

• Torrey says “not NEWLAND.”17