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375th
Anniversary Celebration of Edward Howell’s
Arrival in 1640 to Southampton
In October
2015, there will be a celebration of the 375th
Anniversary of the arrival of the
Colonist Edward Howell from Lynn,
Massachusetts in 1640 to what later was named
Southampton, NY. The Edward
Howell Family Association, Inc., is inviting
members and all
descendants
of Edward Howell from all over the United States
to attend.
There will
be many special activities and programs planned,
some in conjunction with the
Southampton Museums and Research Center. Advanced
Registration is required.
Who: Edward
Howell Family Association members and any
descendants of
the original colonist from
1640, Edward Howell, are invited. When:October 16 &17, 2015
Where: The
Southampton Inn is the reunion host hotel.
What:On Friday,
10/16, there will be an informative business
meeting followedby lunch, a
bus tour of points of
historical interest, and a banquet.
On Saturday, 10/17, there will be a picnic at a
farm, a tour,
and special eventsorganized
by the historical Southampton Museums and Research
Center (SHMRC), followed
with a dinner and speaker.
Edward
Howell
was
baptized
22 July 1584 at Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire,
England. He
arrived in Boston in 1639 with wife Eleanor was made
a freeman at
Boston, March 4, 1639. He was one of the eight
"original
undertakers" who settled at Southampton in 1640,
Leader of
the group that founded Southampton, LI, NY, and the
progenitor of the
Howell family in that locality.
Edward
died
before
Oct.
6, 1655, as court records dated Oct. 6, 1655,
granted Eleanore Howell all his goods. Mar. 1657, the
town
allowed her 20 shillings because her house was burned to the
ground by
the Indians. Long ago, in early colonial times, Water
Mill was
the first and only community on the eastern tip of Long
Island that
could boast of a mill driven by water and not by wind. Until
it was put
into operation by a wealthy land owner, Edward Howell, four
years after
the "Undertakers" came to the
island in 1640, all mills in the colony were wind driven
because of the
scarcity of swift flowing streams.
Howell
came in 1640 to the tiny settlement, called "Mecox," a name
taken from the Shinnecock Indians for "flat or plain
country." He announced he would build a mill for
the
grinding of grain, rye and wheat, into flour. The
colonists
expected him to construct a "wind mill" but he had a different
idea. He made his choice of land so that it included
a
lively stream which emptied into Mecox Bay. There, as
settlers
watched, Howell built his mill upon the creek and built
it so
durable that 327 years later, it is still standing in the
serene little town of Water Mill.
Now,
the
acient
mill,
but
a
few
miles from the Old South End Burying
Ground where the original miller is buried, is owned by a
woman's
organization of the village. Through the summer months
it is
put into
service as a tea room and gift shop.
For
many generations the mill supplied flour for the townspeople
of
Water Mill and adjoining communities. The mill's large
grinding stones
and
the deed were
given to Howell
by the town. In return, the miller signed an
agreement to
supply such necessities of the town as grinding of grain grown
anywhere
in the Water Mill area and delivered to the mill. That Howell
lived up
to his agreement faithfully is duty recorded in the town
records. The name Water Mill is the lasting memorial to
the
pioneer miller who built
the first grist mill run by water. Two of the grinding
stones are
in the park where there is a wind mill and the other two are
at the
mill.
The Howell House" -
East
Moriches, LI, NY
Information on the
descendants of Jared Woolley was provided by Karen.
Please contact her
if you
are researching this line or need additional information.
Thank you also to
the
contributions of Barbara
Dutton
Gaylord to
extended lines within this file.
Her hard work and
generosity is appreciated by all.
NOTE:
The
Edward Howell (b. 1584 d.1655) Family Association has a
website
at http://edwardhowellfamily.org
Their email is howellsearch@aol.com
Membership in the
Edward
Howell Family Association is $15 per year, or $100 for
Lifetime
Membership.
To join, please
make your
check payable to EHFA, and mail to:
Membership
includes
a quarterly newsletter, and an invitation to the annual Edward
Howell Family Association Reunion.
Please indicate that
you
learned of the EHFA from the EHFA web site.
Don't
miss The Howell Research
Room
Some of the sections: Family
Histories,
Vital Records, Life's Paper Trail, Resources, Forum, Guestbook
The Center is the only
site on the Web dedicated to comprehrensive global research and
discussion of the Howell/Howle surnames and their 30+ variant
spellings. It is the home site of three major e-mail
discussion
groups. Included on-site is a vital records certificates
project. I believe you'll find the Howell Research Center
not
only creatively-presented, but content-loaded and user-friendly.
For information or
information donations please contact Colleen Pustola.
