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Desc of John Howland & Elizabeth Tilley through their oldest child, Desire Tilley Gorham.
Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Interior of the Jabez Howland home.
Lore from the "Pilgrim John Howland Society" website:
As the Mayflower plowed westward through high seas in the fall of 1620 on its way to the New World, John Howland was suddenly swept overboard. Fortunately he grabbed a topsail halyard that was trailing in the water and although doused several fathoms deep, he was hauled aboard with the aid of a boat hook. With this story, William Bradford introduces us to John Howland, a “lustie yonge man”, who when he died in 1672 at over 80 years, was the last male Mayflower passenger living in Plymouth.
John Howland and his wife, Elizabeth Tilley, also a Mayflower passenger, had four sons and six daughters, one of whom was Jabez who lived in the house at 33 Sandwich Street in Plymouth now owned by the Pilgrim John Howland Society.
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