Squire Howe and Martha Field

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Husband Squire Howe ¹

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           Born: 1751 1
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           Died: 20 Nov 1807 - Fabius, Onondaga Co, NY 1
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         Father: Caleb Howe (1724-1755) 2
         Mother: Jemima Sawtelle (Abt 1723-1805) 2

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       Marriage: 1781 1

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Wife Martha Field ¹

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           Born: Abt 1757
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           Died: 1839 - Prattsburg, Steuben Co, NY 1
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         Father: Moses Field (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M Rhodolphus Howe ¹

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           Born: 1782 1
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         Spouse: Clarissa Hill (      -      ) 1

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2 M Squire Howe ¹

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           Born: 1785 1
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         Spouse: Mary Townsley (      -      ) 1

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3 F Martha Howe ¹

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           Born: 20 May 1787 1
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         Spouse: Horace Fowler (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 19 Jan 1809 1

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4 M William Howe ¹

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           Born: 1790 1
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         Spouse: Polly Griffity (      -      ) 1

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5 F Ann Howe ¹

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           Born: Abt 1792
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         Spouse: Levi Fowler (      -      ) 1

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6 F Susan Howe ¹

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           Born: 19 Apr 1794 1
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         Spouse: Horace Fowler (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 24 Oct 1835 1

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7 F Clarissa Howe ^{3 4}

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           Born: 17 Apr 1797 - Brattleboro, Windham Co, VT 1
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           Died: 1885 1
         Buried:  - Sugar Grove, Warren Co, PA

         Spouse: Robert Farrell Weld (1784-1875) 3 4
           Marr: 9 Feb 1817 1

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8 F Caroline Howe ¹

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           Born: 17 Jul 1798 1
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         Spouse: Horace Dunns (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Squire Howe

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His mother was captured when the fort at Great Meadows was taken, and with her seven children was carried to Canada. He was but four years old when taken captive by the Indians; scars on his head, however, in 1790, bore testimony to the brutality of the savages. In 1806 he removed to Fabius, New York, where he died.
The records at Washington show that one Squire How served in the revolutionary war as captain of a com­pany of horse, Vermont troops; his name ap­pears on a pay roll (dated at Guilford, Sep­tember 16, 1782) of his company in the service of the state, assisting the sheriff in Guilford four days in September, 1782, in Brigadier-General Fletcher's brigade. The records also show that one Squire How, or Howe, served as a gunner in Captain Ebenezer Stevens' company of Colonel Knox's artillery regiment, Conti­nental troops, revolutionary war. He enlisted January 1, 1776, and was promoted to bom­bardier October 4, 1776; his name last appears on a pay roll for December, 1776, dated at Ticonderoga, January 1, 1777. The name Squire How also appears without rank or organization on two receipts dated at Rox­bury, November 1, 1775, and March 11, 1776, which show that he was paid by Major John Crane for serving in September to December, 1775, inclusive. The name has not been found on the rolls of any organization of New Hamp­shire troops, revolutionary war.
The Howe family became famous as innkeepers, the old Red Horse Tavern, built in about the year 1686, being kept from about the year 1714 for the following hundred and fifty years, by gen­eration after generation of Howes. An old sign board recorded the fact that one D. Howe kept it from 1686 to 1746; and another Howe kept it from then onward to 1786. This is the old Wayside Inn in Sudbury, which was given lasting fame by Longfellow in his “Tales,” and is a fine specimen of the tavern of our forefathers; it contains the state room in which Washington and Lafayette are said to have spent the night, and upon one of the window panes is a rhyme written with a dia­mond by young William Molineux when he was there in 1774. Not far distant stands an­other tavern, the White Horse.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1041.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1040.

3 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP ci.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 411, 1040.