Joseph Howe

Brief Life History of Joseph

When Joseph Howe was born on 19 February 1697, in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Howe I, was 36 and his mother, Dorothy Martin, was 33. He married Zerviah How on 20 February 1722, in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1712. He died on 18 February 1775, in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 77, and was buried in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Howe
1697–1775
Ruth Brigham
1704–1776
Marriage: 20 February 1726
Joseph Howe
1729–1800
Dorothy Howe
1730–1764
Dinah How
1731–1796
Thaddeus Howe
1733–1799
Elizabeth Howe
1734–1801
Samuel Howe
1737–1756
Phineas Howe
1739–1832
Artemas Howe
1743–1813
Miriam Howe
1744–1825

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  • Joseph How, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Joseph How, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
  • Joseph Howe, "Find A Grave Index"

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1750

Historical Boundaries 1750: Cumberland, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States

Name Meaning

English: topographic name pronounced to rhyme with hoe, who, or how, from Middle English hoʒe ‘spur of a hill, steep ridge, or slight rise’. Hoʒe comes from a late variant, hōge, of the dative case of the Old English root word, hōh, literally ‘heel (of a person) or hock (of an animal)’, a common placename element. The regular Old English dative singular, , is the source of the placenames Hoo and Hoe and the surname may also be habitational name from a placename consisting of this word, for example Hoe (Norfolk), Hoo (Kent), Hooe (Devon, Sussex), or either of two places called The Hoo in Great Gaddesden and Saint Paul's Walden (Hertfordshire). Hose (Leicestershire) comes from the plural form of the word (see Howes ). Howe may also be from Old Norse haugr ‘mound, hill’, for without other evidence, this cannot be distinguished from howe ‘spur of a hill’ and is certainly the origin of Howe (Norfolk) and Howe Hill in Kirkburn (East Yorkshire). See also Hough .

English: variant of Hugh , pronounced to rhyme with who or how.

Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Will of Joseph Howe Sr.

The Name of God Amen; The sixteenth day of July in the year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred & seventy. & in the tenth year of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lord George ye third, of Great Britta …

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