Whereas Content Howland Daughter of Nathaniel Howland deceased and Rose Howland his widow of Dartmouth in the county of Bristol in New England: having been Educated amongst friends her parents professing them Selves to be of the people Called Quakers hath of Late proceeded in marriage Contrary to the good order established amongst us on that account we do therefore Give this forth as a publick Testimony against the Said disorderly proceeding and also do deny ye said Content now wife of Weston Briggs to be of us the people Called Quakers Sincerely Desiring that if it be the will of god She may Come to a sight and Sense of this and all other her outgoings and by an unfeigned repentance find mercy with the Lord and his people: Signed at our monthly meeting held in Dartmouth the 19th day of the 5th month 1725. John Tucker : Benjamin Howland William Wood : Josiah Merrihew : Peleg Slocum
Joseph Taber : John Lapham : Jabez Barker : Judah Smith Deliverance Smith : Eliashib Smith : James Barker Nicholas Davis : Jonathan Wood Mary Slocum : Hannah Tucker : Rachel Allen : Dinah Smith
Mary Laton : Hope Merrihew : Mary Lapham : Phebe Tucker Mary Smith : Hannah Howland : Ruth Tucker : Rebekah Barker
She married second Thomas Howland in 1734 Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts.[4][5] Roberts gives her married to her first cousin Thomas Howland and having a son David Howland on 25 Aug 1734 in Dartmouth.[6]
Content was the mother of Walter Briggs of Dartmouth.[3]
↑ 1.01.1 "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-T8QV : 10 November 2020), Content Howland, 20 Oct 1702; citing Birth, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.
↑ 3.03.1 "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHPD-XXF : 5 November 2017), Water Briggs, Brigs, Brigg and Hannah Russell, 10 Mar 1754; citing Marriage, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCP-1S2C : 19 April 2021), Thomas Howland and Content Briggs, 17 Jan 1734; citing Marriage, New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009329.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHPD-XXQ : 10 November 2020), Content Briggs, Brigs, Brigg, 17 Jan 1733; citing Marriage, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010711.
↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#55 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Notable Descendants of Henry and Margaret (----) Howland of . . .", (accessed 10/29/2014), New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
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