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Ebenezer Howes, son of Jeremiah Howes and Sarah Prence

Sarah Gorham, daughter of Ensign Joseph Gorham and Sarah Sturgis

Ebenezer Howes of Yarmouth married first Sarah Gorham of Yarmouth on 20 April 1699 in Yarmouth. [MVRY] He married second Lydia Joyce on 20 November 1706 in Yarmouth. [MVRY]

Sarah, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Gorham, was born on 10 January 1678 in Yarmouth. [MVRY]

Children of Ebenezer Howes and Sarah Gorham: Births and the death of the unnaned son recorded in Yarmouth. The children are listed together and Thomas, Sarah, and the unnamed son are called the children of Ebenezer and Sarah. [VRMY]

i. Thomas Howes (twin) was born on 22 January 1699.

ii. Sarah Howes (twin) was born on 22 January 1699. She married Ebenezer Sears.

iii. Elizabeth Howes was born on 28 September 1701.

iv. Son Howes was sborn on 5 July 1704 and died the same month.

v. Ebenzer Howes was born on 8 September 1705.

Children of Ebenezer Howes and Lydia Joyce. Births recorded in Yarmouth as the children of Ebenezer and Lydia:

vi. Lydia Howes was born on 10 August 1709.

vii. Thankful Howes was born on 22 August 1711.

viii. Marcy Howes was born on 27 December 1713.

ix. Anna Howes was born on 14 February 1715.

x. Prince Howes was born on 13 April 1718.

xi. Susanna Howes was born on 10 October 1720.

xii. Mary Howes was born on 7 January 1722/3.

References:

VRMY. Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, vol. 1 (Warwick: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island, 1975), 11 (Sarah's birth recorded by the town clerk on 26 June 1695), 31 (births of the children), 134 (first marriage of Ebenezer), 137 (second marriage of Ebenezer).

Last revised: 27-Aug-2021