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LIEUTENANT NATHAN HOWLAND (1742–1830), son of Seth Howland and Lydia Cobb

PRISCILLA DREW (1742–1828), daughter of John Drew and Susanna Bennett

Nathan Howland, the son of Seth Howland and Priscilla Cobb, was born on 27 February 1741/2 in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.1,2 Nathan, the husband of Priscilla, died on 20 June 1830, age 90, in Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont and is buried in the Cushing Cemetery.3,4 He married Priscilla Drew of Middleborough on 13 April 1765 in Middleborough.2,5

Priscilla Drew, the daughter of John and Susanna, was born on 20 February 1741/2 in Halifax, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.6,7 She died on 16 May 1828 and is buried in the Cushing Cemetery with her husband.4

Nathan Howland, husbandman of Woodstock, Vermont, bought ten acres of lot 173 in Woodstock from Ebenezer Call, yeoman of Woodstock, on 13 September 1776.8

Nathan was a soldier in the French and Indian War and in the Revolutionary War.3,9,10 Nathan Howland, gentleman, was appointed an ensign of the militia company in Woodstock on 22 May 1776.9 He was a lieutenant in the Vermont militia in 1779 and 1780.10 His gravestone has a Revolutionary War marker.

Nathan was a selectman in Woodstock in 1778, 1792 and 1793.9

Nathan appears in the 1790, 1800, 1810 and 1820 censuses for Woodstock. In 1790 his household consisted of a male age 16 and over, a male under 16 and two females. In 1800 it consisted of a male and a female, both aged 45 and older. In 1810 it consisted of a male and two females aged 45 and older a female aged ten to 15. In 1820 it consisted of a male and a female, both aged 45 and older.11

Children of Nathan Howland and Priscilla Drew:

i. Seth Howland was born on 19 October 1765 in Middleborough, Plymouth county, Massachusetts. He died on 2 January 1814, age 48, in Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont. He married Harriet Emmons.

Endnotes:

1. "Middleborough, Massachusetts, Vital Records," Mayflower Descendant 15 (1913): 217.

2. "Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700–1880," database with images, AmericanAncestors > vol. 8 Degory Priest, p. 176.

3. "Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700–2008," database with images, AmericanAncestors > Deaths H to 1871, p. 19003, entry for Nathan Howland.

4. "Nathan Howland," Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68179864). The inscription says, "Nathan Howland died June 20 1830 age 90 yrs Priscilla wife of Nathan Howland died May 16 1828 age 89 years.

5. Vital Records of Middleborough, Massachusetts, vol. 2 (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1990): 61.

6. George Ernest Bowman, Vital Records of Halifax, Massachusetts (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1905), 45.

7. Ann Smith Lainhart and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 23, John Howland (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006), 211.

8. Scott Andrew Bartley, "Ebenezer Call," 17 October 2016, digitzed articles, "Early Vermont Settlers, 1700–1784," AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1565/i/53402/3/72500506).

9. Henry Swan Dana, History of Woodstock, Vermont (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1889), 281, 521, 582.

10. "Early Vermont Settlers Index Cards, 1750–1784," database with images, AmericanAncestors (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2767/i/56484/1217/1425777208 ) > General Eastern Vermont D–H, p. 1217, from source materials for Legacy of Dissent: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Vermont, 1749–1784 (Worcester, MA: D.A. Smith, 1980).

11. "1790 U.S. Federal Census," database with images, Ancestry > Vermont > Windsor > Woodstock, image 3. "1800 U.S. Federal Census," database with images, Ancestry > Vermont > Windsor > Woodstock, image 4. "1810 U.S. Federal Census," database with images, Ancestry > Vermont > Windsor > Woodstock, image 1. "1820 U.S. Federal Census," database with images, Ancestry > Vermont > Windsor > Woodstock, image 5.

Photo: Taken by M.L. Sibert

Payroll: "Revolutionary War Service Records," database with images, Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com/image/1/9960721) > Vermont > Scouts (Lt Nathan Howland) (1780) > 84, citing NARA, M881Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War.

Last revised: 21-Dec-2023