!was Mayflower passenger died above 80 years old Fell off Mayflower, but was saved! Servant to John Carver. Freeman list in 1633 but head of one of 12 companies dividing livestock in 1627. Could have inherited Carver's money. P Ch R: 1:144 held hands in ordination P Ch R: 1:147 "He was a good old disciple and had bin sometimes a magistrate here, a plaine-hearted christian"

!SOURCE: John Howland of the Mayflower, V.1 Came on Mayflower as servant to John Carver. On 1633 freeman list. Will dated 29 May 1672, inventory 3 Mar 1672/3, mentions wife Elizabeth; oldest son John Howland; sons Jabez and Joseph; youngest son Isaac; daughters Desire Gorham, Hope Chipman, Elizabeth Dickenson, Lydai Browne, Hannah Bosworth, and Ruth Cushman; and granddaughter Elizabeth Howland, daughter of his son John.

!from Pioneers of Mass: "Signed Mayflower Compact; took an active part in the early explorations. Settled at Plymouth. Town officer; a partner in the Trading Company of the Colony;Asst. or deputy almost continually. Prominent in the church, so that he "assisted in the imposition of hands" upon Rev. John Cotton, Jr. when he was ordained pastor 30 Jun 1669. He died "a profitable instrument of good; the last man that was left of those that came over in the ship called the May Flower that arrived at Plymouth." (Plym. Col. Rec. VII, 34) (copy of this in file)

!have picture of stone per EPITAPHS OF BURIAL HILL by Kingman Here ended the Pilgirmage of John Howland and Elizabeth his wife. She was the dau'tr of Gov. Carver (this is a mistake) They arrived in the Mayflower Dec. 1620; they had 4 sons + 6 dau'trs from whom are descended a numerous posterity "1672 Efb'y 23d John Howland of Plymouth deceased, he lived to the age of 80 yr's. He was the last man that was left of those that came overin the Ship called the Mayflo wer that lived in Plymouth

!CHRISTENING: Stoddard, Francis R., The Truth About the Pilgrims, Reprint, Baltimore, 1973, p 138.

!DEATH: Mayflower Descendants, 18:69; Roberts, Gary Boyd, Mayflower Source Records, Baltimore, 1986, p 548.

!BURIAL: Gravesite viewed August 20, 1994 by Patricia, Carol + Dale Fink.

!THE GREAT MIGRATION BEGINS by Robert Charles Anderson, NEHGS was hired as a cooper in Southampton"In early 1634 he (Alden) became involved in an incident in which a party of Plymouth men led by himself and John Howland became embroiled with a group of men from the Piscataqua settlement which would grow into Dover. One man on each side was killed, and in the aftermath Alden was detained at Boston as security against the final resolution of the conflict."