When Joseph Howe was born on 19 February 1697, in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Howe Sr, was 35 and his mother, Dorothy Martin, was 38. He married Zerviah Howe on 20 February 1723, in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 18 February 1775, in his hometown, at the age of 77, and was buried in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.