ORIGIN: Unknown (but see ASSOCIATIONS
below)
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn
REMOVES: Southampton 1639, New Haven 1646,
Easthampton 1649, New Haven 1650
RETURN TRIPS: Returned to England permanently by
1653
OCCUPATION: Soldier. Mariner.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn (or possibly
Salem) church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by
freemanship.
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [
MBCR
1:369].
EDUCATION: Signed his name to documents [
SoTR 1:2,
5-7].
OFFICES: Deputy to General Court for Lynn, 25 May
1636, 8 September 1636, 18 April 1637, 17 May 1637, 26
September 1637, 2 November 1637 [
MBCR
1:174, 178, 192, 194, 204, 205]; collector of excises on
alcoholic beverages, 2 November 1637 [
MBCR
1:206]; committee on colony land grants, 6 September
1638, 6 June 1639 [
MBCR
1:240, 263].
Chosen lieutenant for Lynn train band (a position
that he already held [
MBCR
1:174;
WJ
2:421]), 9 March 1636/7 [
MBCR
1:190]; committee to raise more forces for Pequot War,
17 May 1637 [
MBCR 1:195]; appointed lieutenant to Captain Patrick
at the Castle, 17 May 1637 [
MBCR
1:197]; on 20 November 1637, "Lt. Howe, being enjoined
to train the company at Lynn, is permitted to have the
fines, with all old arrearages of fines behind there" [
MBCR
1:212].
Admitted to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company in 1638 [
HAHAC
1:26-27].
ESTATE: Granted sixty acres upland and meadow at
Lynn, 1638 [
EQC
2:271]. In 1640, Daniel Howe had some doubt whether the
town had authority to make the above cited grant since
the land was at its very outskirts, so Howe petitioned
that the grant be confirmed and ratified [
Lechford
247-48].
On 10 May 1650 "Mr. Daniell How" sold to Thomas
Backer "all his accommodations at Easthampton with
housings, orchards, gardens, fencings, lands & meadows
withal what he now possesseth & what is or may belong
unto him with relation to his lot as his right to his
settling there"; appended to this deed was a receipt in
which Howe acknowledged payment of £20 through the
agency of "my cousin Alexander Bryan" [Records of the
Town of East-Hampton ... (Sag Harbor 1887) 1:4-6,
citing "Page 18, Book A or page 1, Book B"].
On 5 July 1653 Thomas Kimberly attempted to collect a
debt due from "Captain How" to John Peakin of
Southampton by attaching "money in Mr. Atwater's had due
to Capt. How" [
NHTR
1:184]. On 6 December 1653 Benjamin Ward of Boston sued
"the estate of Dan[iel] How," offering as evidence "a
bill from Daniel How" and "a letter from Capt. How,
dated at Road Island, wherein he desires his brother
Jeremiah How and Mr. Hudson to pay the money" [
NHTR
1:195-96].
BIRTH: By about 1608 based on estimated date of
marriage (but see ASSOCIATIONS below), son of
Edward Howe of Lynn.
DEATH: After 1656, probably in England [
SCHSR
16:24].
MARRIAGE: By about 1633 _____ _____; living on 7
October 1615 [
NHTR
1:88-89]; no further record.
CHILDREN:
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i WILLIAM,
b. say 1633; living in 1653 [
SCHSR
16:22-23, citing Easthampton town records].
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ii Daughter, b. say 1635; living on 7
October 1651 [
NHTR
1:88-89], where she seems to be neither a
juvenile nor an adult; no further record.
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ASSOCIATIONS: Daniel Howe had a brother in Lynn
in 1643 [ EQC
1:53], and in 1653 Captain Daniel Howe called Jeremiah
Howe his brother [
NHTR
1:195]. Ephraim and Jeremiah Howe of Lynn in 1638, and
later of Southampton and New Haven, were sons of Edward
Howe of Lynn. Jeremiah was born about 1614, so Daniel
would be only a few years older, and must have been son
of Edward Howe of Lynn. Two sons of Edward named sons
Daniel.
In 1993 John B. Threlfall published an account of
this Edward Howe [not the same as the
EDWARD HOWE of Watertown], claiming that he was
baptized at Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire, and lived later
at Iver in the same county [
GMC26
135-40]. The records from Iver fit very nicely and this
identification seems likely, but the connection to
Ivinghoe is not so clear. Although Threlfall did not
attach Daniel Howe to this immigrant, the name Daniel
does appear in the Ivinghoe family, and this claim
deserves to be researched more extensively.
In 1990 Thomas Cooper stated that "Daniel How was
christened at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England on
July 8, 1604" [
SCHSR 15:98]. This is not necessarily at odds with
the findings of Threlfall, for Hemel Hempstead is not
far from Iver or Ivinghoe, and the baptism of Daniel
found by Cooper falls into a period when Threlfall did
not find any records for his proposed immigrant.
COMMENTS: Daniel Howe saw service in the Pequot
War. Israel Stoughton reported on 14 August 1637 that
Howe and Thomas Stanton were sent to the Narragansetts
to persuade one to act as a guide, but that they failed
for everyone ran away from them [
WP
3:481], and on 27 May 1638 Roger Williams reported
Lieutenant Howe's opinion of the danger remaining at the
end of the Pequot War [
WP 4:35].
Daniel Howe was the driving force behind the
settlement of Southampton on Long Island, and of
Easthampton [
SCHSR 15:97-105, 16:11-24].
Daniel Howe was in New Haven on two occasions in
1646, but he does not seem to have lived there at that
time. On 7 April 1646 "Capt. How, being then in court,"
testified as to the behavior of Mark Meggs [
NHCR
1:239]. On 24 November 1646 "Daniel How" agree to be one
of four referees in a matter pending between Mr. John
Evance and John Charles, over a trading voyage in which
Charles was master of a vessel owned by Evance [
NHCR
1:282].
On 18 September 1648 Aspinwall recorded that Theodore
Atkinson of Boston gave a letter of attorney to Anthony
Waters late of Marshfield to "ask leave &c. of Capt.
Howe of the Isle of Wight alias Lieft: Gardiners Iland
near Long Island" for £11 [
Aspinwall
158].
On 7 October 1651 "[blank] How, the daughter of Capt.
How, was called before the [New Haven] Court (her mother
being present) and told that she is complained of for a
prophane swearer.... Mrs. How said that her daughter
hath learned some of this ill carriage at Goodwife
Wickams, where she went to school." Two women testified
as to the crimes of the accused, and she was sentenced
to a fine of ten shillings and "publicly by whipping,
suitable to her years" [
NHTR
1:88-89].
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