• 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]

• Prence arrived at Plymouth Colony in 1621 on the Fortune, and from the beginning seemed to have taken a leading role in Plymouth affairs. Of the eight Plymouth Undertakers, who seemed to be the most important men in the colony in 1627, Prence was the only one who had not arrived on the Mayflower. He became governor in 1634, and was elected an Assistant in 1635, and from then on he was either an Assistant or governor every year the rest of his life. With the death of Bradford in 1657, Prence became without doubt the most important and influential man in the colony. [20, p 340]

• Gives marriage date as bef 1 Aug 1668. [20, p 341]