Book Description

John Howland (ca. 1592-1672), son of Henry and Margaret Howland of Fenstant, Huntingdonshire, England, and a passenger on the Mayflower, Myflower, which sailed from Plymouth, England, in 1620, was the indentured manservant of John Carver, a wealthy Londoner, who became the first governor of New "Plimoth" Colony in Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Tilley (1607-1687), daughter of John and Joan Hurst Rogers Tilley, in 1623. They had ten children, ca. 1625-1649. He died at Rocky Nook (now Kinston, Massachusetts). Descendants livied in Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, and elsewhere.