Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameThomas HOWES
Birthabt 1590, England43, p 5
Birth1 Jan 1601, England3746
Removal1637, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts43, p 7 Age: 47
Death1665, Yarmouth?, Barnstable, Massachusetts17, p 394,43, p 10 Age: 75
Will26 Sep 1665879 Age: 75
FlagsEarliest Immigrant
Individual Notes
• Thomas Howes and his wife, Mary Burr, the progenitors of the Howes family in this country came from the County of Norfolk, in England, and settled in that part of Yarmouth, now Dennis, known as Nobscussett, about the year 1639. They were in Salem, Mass., two years before, or in 1637, where they first landed.
They brought with them three sons, Joseph, Thomas and Jeremiah, the last born on the passage over, or soon after arrival.43, p 7

• Thomas Howes, and his wife, Mary Burr, came from England about the year 1637, and settled in Yarmouth, in March, 1639. He died in 1665, aged 75 years.43, p 10
Spouses
Birthabt 1603, England363, date only,3746
Death9 Dec 1695, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts17, p 394; year only,2044 Age: 92
Marriageabt 1630, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts17, p 394
ChildrenJoseph (~1634-1695)
 Thomas (-1676)
 Jeremiah (1637-1708)
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