I too am descended from this fellow, my grandmother had his name and it is now my middle name.
We should have a reunion…a Howland bash…every…say… 400 years or so?
Excellent idea! Let’s meet at Plymouth Rock.
That depends on whose Desire for what:
Psalm 37:4 - KJV :* Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. *
So the Lord granted them their “desire”, which at the moment would have been a healthy live child.
Though if my parents named me “Increase” I might want to become a Papist just to spite them…
My mom has enjoyed doing genealogical research over the years. One of ours is Stephan Hopkins.
His claim to fame is that he first sailed to Jamestown, shipwrecked on the way on then uninhabited Bermuda, then returned to England to later sail on the Mayflower. Apparently he was a pain in the ass.
My husband (and therefore my daughter) are Alden descendants. And then, through one of John Alden’s granddaughters, Adams (as in John, Sam, and John Quincy) descendants.
My sister used to live in Plymouth. She lived very close to a cranberry farm, a fact not disclosed to her when she bought the house. Not an issue until harvest time, which was very loud and started very early in the morning…
I’m also related to a Mayflower passenger. John Billington on my mother’s side. He was apparently a bit of a trouble maker to put it nicely.
http://mayflowerhistory.com/billington-john/
I’ve wondered how many of us wouldn’t be here if his son Francis hadn’t been caught shooting off his father’s gun near the powder kegs on the ship. :eek:
I was quite shocked (SHOCKED, I say) at how small Plymouth Rock is. I expected an epic boulder - nope. And it’s not even a true story!
And if our collective grandpa Howland hadn’t been pulled back onboard.
Commemorating?
:dubious:
Was he a ghost?
Also, why such a small picture? Did they just not consider it an important event, or did they run out of paint?
Well, I don’t have any Mayflower ancestors, but I did have an ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War. "Course he got court-martialed when he refused to fight with the Catholic French brought over by Lafayette, but got reprieved later when we ran short of soldiers and more warm bodies were needed. My aunt got into the DAR through that guy!
I’ll never forgot the blood-curdling scream of the cranberry . . .
John Alden descendant here, too. My great-grandmother was named Priscilla after her many times great grandmother.
LOL, I think it’s a regular-sized painting, this was the thumbnail I pulled off the Mayflower Museum site.
I have a polaroid of the event in case anyone wants a copy.
This is soooo cool! No wonder this is such a cool board – we’re all cousins.
My Mom is sending me the genealogical charts that trace us back to Grandpa Howland – anyone interested in a copy of it?