♂Joseph Howland

Joseph Howland (1640 – 1703) was a son of the Mayflower passengers John Howland (1593–1673) and Elizabeth Tilley (1607–1687), and the seventh of their ten children. He was the eighth great-grand-uncle of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), the brother of Desire Howland (1625–1683), Roger’s eighth great-grandmother. His father’s will of 1672 gave him the family house at Rocky Nook, to be his after his mother’s death.

Elizabeth Pearson White’s genealogy of the Howland family, John Howland of the Mayflower, gives his birth as 1640. His father had bought the house and land at Rocky Nook, then part of Plymouth and now in Kingston, on 2 February 1638/39 and lived there for the rest of his life. When John Howland made his will on 29 May 1672, he divided his lands among his four sons, John, Jabez, Isaac and Joseph, and Joseph was the one to have the Rocky Nook house. His mother, who was left the use of the house for her life, died at Swansea on 21 December 1687, living with her daughter Lydia. Nothing further is recorded of where Joseph lived.

White’s family table gives his wife as Elizabeth Southworth, without a marriage date, and gives his death as 1703/4, the old-style double date; the tree enters the first year, 1703. No children are on record for the couple.