Howell, Arthur Sr

Birth Name Howell, Arthur Sr
Gender male

Events

Birth 1632  at  Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, Eng
Death Mar 29, 1683  at  Southampton, Suffolk County, NY

Parents

Father Howell, Edward   (Birth)
Mother , Eleanor   (Birth)
Siblings Howell, Edmund
 

Families

Married Wife Osborne, Hanna
  Children Howell, Elisha
 
Married Wife Gardiner, Elizabeth
  Children Howell, Elizabet
 
Married Wife Raynor, ?
  Marriage Dec 7, 1664
  Children Howell, Arthur Jr

Narrative

Born abt 1632 in Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England. Arthur was baptized in Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England in Sep 1632. Arthur died in Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York on 29 Mar 1683; he was 51.

It is evident that Arthur learned an Indian language as a child from his father's Indian servants (including Hope). In January 1663, he was employed as an interpreter to the Shinnecock Indians.

On 23 February 1657/8 Lieutenant Lion Gardiner and his son-in-law Arthur Howell signed a detailed agreement making provision for rearing Elizabeth Howell. On 4 March 1658/9, he had "sould his accomodacons" to John Mulford, and settled at Mecox.

In 1665, Arthur acknowledged receipt of a "parcell of goods" for his daughter Elizabeth from her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Gardiner, "lately deceased."

The will of Arthur Howell of Southampton, "being sicke and weak," dated28 march 1683, devised:

"to eldest son Elisha, when of age, one half of my dwelling house and home lot and one half of my land at home adjoining my dwelling house and after the decease of my wife Hannah, he is to have the other half; to my sone Lemuel, all that my parcel of land lying and adjoining eastward to Ezekiel Sandfords home lot, and that piece of land lying near hackers Hole, and that parcel of land at Swan creek neck, which my son Arthur deceased gave him, and all my piece of land at Mecox plain after my wife's decease; all other lands with a one hundred pound right of Commonage are left to his sons Elisha and Lemuel; to daughter Elizabeth Loper, five pounds, "she having received most of her portion already;" to his six other daughters, Hannah, Abiah, Martha, Eleanor, Thomason and Penelope each twenty pounds, when 18 years of age; comfortable support of wife Hannah, and makes her executor, and she has the use of one half the house and lands; mentions an expected child; to his two sons his windmill [proved 5 July 1683].

Arthur died on the day after making of his will. The inventory of his estate taken on 15 May 1683 included 43 acres of land at home with house, etc. (at Mecox near Bridgehampton, and on the south side of the roadrunning east to the bridge over Sag Pond), 10 acres on Mecox Plains, 20 acres by Ezekiel Sandfords, 28 acres at Sagg Pond, 10 acres by HackersHole, land at Hog neck and windmill, valued for 887 pounds.

Arthur and Hannah were expecting their ninth child when Arthur died. Coincidentally, Arthur died only 5 days after his son, Arthur Jr., died.

About 1657/58 when Arthur was 25, he first married Elizabeth Gardiner 8,48,64,66,243, daughter of Lyon Gardiner (1599-1663) & Mary Willemson Deurcant (1601-1665). Born on 14 Sep 1641 in Isle of Wright (Gardiner's Island), Suffolk County, New York. Elizabeth died in Feb 1658; she was 16.

Elizabeth Gardiner Howell died in childbirth "bewitched by Mrs. Garlick" in february 1657/8. A detailed account of Elizabeth's final illness and death is given in R. G. Tomlinson, Witchcraft Trials of Connecticut, Glastonbury, Conn., 1978, pp. 19-23. On May 5, 1658, a court of magistrates in Hartford was called upon the trial of the wife of Joshua Garlick of East Hampton, who was indicted " that thou entertained familiary with Sathan." She was however found not guilty. See Collections of the Connecticut History Society 22:188-189 (1928), Particular Court Records."

Arthur third married Hannah Osborn, daughter of Recompence Osborn. Born on 24 Aug 1646 in Braintree, Massachusetts.

Arthur's widow, Hannah Howell, and her remarriage appear in town records:"December ye 6 1683. Widow Hannah Howell gives her ear mark to be a crop on both ears and two slits downe the right ear."

"Widow Hannah Howell" was assessed at 59 pounds in the town estimate on 27 February 1698/9. Job Sayre gives in the day of his marriage with Hannah Howell to be upon the 18 of June 1685.