HENRY HOWLAND, the youngest of the three Howland brothers arrived in this country before 1625. He and his wife MARY NEWLAND were Quakers, and apparently suffered much persecution on their faith. Plymouth Colony records show Henry, Mary, and several of their children called into court many times for "intertaining Quaker meetings," for "being abettors and entertainors of Quakers," and for "p'mitting a quakers meeting and for entertaining a forraigne Quaker contrary to order of the court." Once when refusing to pay his fine, Henry's house and lands were seized by the marshall.

Roger Williams had established in Rhode Island a government the charter of which guaranteed that everyone should be free to enjoy his own opinions, so long as they did not militate against the general good. The Friends and Henry and his family fled to this land of liberty. Henry's property was near the boundary line, but still within the jurisdiction of Plymouth County, in Freetown. Henry also had homes in Dartmouth and Duxbury. Henry and Mary probably died at the old Duxbury homestead; Henry on January 17, 1671, and Mary on June 17, 1674.

ZOETH HOWLAND was born in Duxbury. The Friends' records in Newport, RI, record: Zoar Howlan of Dartmouth in plimouth Colony was maried to ABIGAIL his wife in the tenth month of the year one thousand six hundred fifty-six. In the same records is this brief entry of his death: Zoar Howland was killed by the Indians at Pocaset the twenty-first day of 1st mo. 1676. Abigal married (2) Richard Kirby Jr, whose sister Rhuhama was the second wife of John Smith, whose first wife was Deborah, daughter of Arthur Howland (Henry's brother).

The date of Zoeth's death was in the middle of King Phillip's war. The northeast part of Dartmouth was burned te previous July. About that date the English had a skirmish with the Indians in Tiverton, and from that date the Indians "greatly annoyed" the settlers. Though at the time of Zoeth's death the war was going on in southwestern Rhode Island only, the savages in this section were doubtless full of revenge, and Zoeth was one of their victims.

NATHANIEL HOWLAND was born in Duxbury on August 5, 1657. He was married in 1684 to ROSE ALLEN, daughter of Joseph (Ralph, George) and Sarah Allen. Rose was born in October, 1665. Nathaniel died in Dartmouth in June, 1724.

JAMES HOWLAND was born in Dartmouth on November 3, 1719, and married ELIZABETH WING onJanuary 6, 1740. He was a successful farmer and buyer and seller of real estate in Dartmouth. He died October 28, 1778 and left a large estate. Elizabeth was born in 1723 and died shortly before her husband on October 10, 1778, and was buried at the Apponegansett meeting-house.

TIMOTHY HOWLAND was born May 14, 1752 in Dartmouth. He married HANNAH DILLINGHAM of Dartmouth on November 5, 1779. The latter years of his life he resided on Acushnet Avenue in New Bedford, MA, and died there. He manufactured implements for farmers.

ABNER W HOWLAND was born June 14, 1782, in Dartmouth. His first wife was SUSAN SHEARMAN, daughter of Ichabod Shearman. Abner later married Elizabeth Bliss. He lived and probably died at the corner of Sixth and School Streets in New Bedford.

SUSAN RUSSELL HOWLAND was born January 6, 1807, and died in childbirth on April 29, 1838. She had six children, only one of whom survived past the second year. The child whose birth killed her lived only two months. Susan married PERRY BROWNELL of New Bedford. Perry was born November 9, 1808, in Little Compton, RI, and died July 20, 1885 in New Bedford. He and Susan were married in New Bedford on December 24, 1828. Perry later married Sarah Vinal.

The one surviving child was SARAH MARBLE BROWNELL. She was the second child, born September 15, 1831. She married WILLIAM TABER LAVARE SR on June 3, 1858. Sarah died September 18, 1901, from a crushed skull sustained in a railroad accident in Avon, MA. William was born May 30, 1823, at Westport, MA, and died January 26, 1899, at Fairhaven, MA.

WILLIAM TABER LAVARE JR was born April 26, 1859, at New Bedford, and died January 3, 1947, at Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, MA. He married on June 1, 1892, an English immigrant from Birmingham, ELIZABETH LEWIS, who was born in Birmingham, England, on December 1, 1861. She died November 11, 1949, at Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard. Elizabeth was the daughter of Edwin Lewis and Mary Ann Chinn Hughes.

MARY HUGHES LAVARE was born in New Bedford on October 22, 1894, and died in Pinellas Park, Florida, on June 29, 1982. She served as a nurse in the Army Nurse Corps in WW1. On September 20, 1919, she married KENNETH AINSWORTH FLANDERS from Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard. This marriage took place in Norwood, MA. Kenneth was born July 8, 1893, in Chilmark, and died November 8, 1965, in Ft Lauderdale, Florida in a car crash. Ken and Mary had been divorced by then and the crash also claimed the life of Ken's second wife, Maud. Both Ken and Mary were devout Christian Scientists.