My Mayflower Ancestor
JOHN HOWLAND
This is my direct line of descent from John Howland thru Lydia Ann Nye and James Brown Richards (my great-grandparents), and John Franklin Richards (my grandfather) and his second wife, Mary Lousia Gray. I've also included descendants of John Franklin and his first wife, Emmer Hartson, as well as descendants from John Franklin's brother, Lewis James Richards, for the benefit of "cousins" who may be interested in this page.
SURNAMES NAMES
Direct Descendant Outline
This does not pretend to be a database of all descendaants of John Howland & Elizabeth Tilley and their children. For further information check out some of the following sites.
The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony: 1620
Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History
General Society of Mayflower Descendants
Mayflower Families
Pilgrim John Howland Society
"Our Folk" by Al Hart
Listed are some of the sources for much of the data on the Howland, Jenkins & Nye families.
- Mayflower Increasing (For Three Generations) by Susan Roser.
- Mayflower Marriages (From the files of George Ernest Bowman) by Susan Roser.
- Genealogies of Mayflower Families: Vol. !!, New England Historical and General Register, Peck-Wolcott, Gary Boyd Roberts, 1985, Baltimore Gen. Pub. Co. Inc.
- Mayflower Quarterly - General Society of Mayflower Descendants
- The New England Historical & Genealogical Register
- New England Marriages (Prior to 1700) by Clarence Almon Torrey
- The Great Migration Begins by Robert Charles Anderson
- A Genealogy of the Nye Family compiled by George Hyatt Nye and Frank E. Best.
- Benjamin Nye of Sandwich, Massachusetts, His Ancestor & Descendants by George Hyatt Nye and Frank E. best.
For source material on the Richards information,
check out my Richards Family page.
If you have corrections or suggestions, please E-Mail me.
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