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Ruth Howland

Female 1637 - Bef 1679  (42 years)

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  • Name Ruth Howland  [1]
    Birth 16 Sep 1637  Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Christening Y  [3]
    Gender Female
    AFN JQ1G-8G 
    Death Bef 16 Oct 1679  Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Burial Y  [3]
    Person ID I2193  Bisbee
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2009

    Father John Howland,   b. 1592, Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Feb 1671/72, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    Mother Elizabeth Tilley,   b. 30 Aug 1607, Henlow, , Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Dec 1687, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    Marriage Bef 1623  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1184  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomas Cushman, Jr.,   b. 16 Sep 1637, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Aug 1726, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
    Marriage 17 Nov 1664  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4, 5] 
    • Family REF: [A] Comp. by Robert S. Wakefield and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families, Vol. 17 (Isaac Allerton), (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1998). [B] William T. Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985), 78-79.
    Children 
    +1. Robert Cushman, II,   b. 4 Oct 1664, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Sep 1757, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years)
     2. Desire Cushman,   b. 1668, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Feb 1762, Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years)
    +3. Thomas Cushman, III,   b. Abt 1670, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jan 1726/27, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years)
    Family ID F1174  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 16 Sep 1637 - Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 17 Nov 1664 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Bef 16 Oct 1679 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • Ruth is daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland. She was living wher her father's will was made on May 24, 1672. Her husband Thomas was married a second time in 1679: thus Ruth must have died between those dates.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1218] William T. Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985), 78.

    2. [S2177] Henry Wiles Cushman, Cushman Genealogy, (Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1885), cited by Anne Thomas Kelley Miller at www.tracingroots.com.

    3. [S1456] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, LDS Ancestral File (R) - v4.19, (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999-2008), AFN JQ1G-8G.

    4. [S1530] Susan E. Roser, Mayflower Increasings for Three Generations, (1989), cited by Anne Thomas Kelley Miller at www.tracingroots.com.

    5. [S1567] George Ernest Bowman, Mayflower Reader, (Genealogical Publishing Co Excerpted from Volumes I-VII of the Mayflower Descendant (1899-1905). The Mayflower Reader consists of a comprehensive selection of articles from the first seven volumes of the Mayflower Descendant, an authoritative journal devoted to Pilgrim genealogy and history, discontinued in 1937 and now quite scarce.), cited by Anne Thomas Kelley Miller at www.tracingroots.com.