Ebenezer Cobb. Ebenezer married Mehitable Robinson.

Mehitable Robinson. Mehitable married Ebenezer Cobb.

Benjamin Howell [Parents] ¹ was born ¹ on 10 Oct 1725 in Southampton. He died ¹ on 26 Dec 1798 in Troy Hills, Morris County, New Jersey, USA. He was buried ^{2, 3} in Vail Memorial Cemetery, Parsippany, Morris County, New Jersey, USA. Benjamin married ⁴ Abigail Cook on 17 Jul 1751.

In 1763 He lived at Benjamin Howell House; 709 S. Beverwyck Rd.; Parsippany, NJ.

Benjamin Howell, whom we will call "the first" in Troy, was born Oct. 10, 1725, in Southampton, L. I., and died Dec. 26, 1798, in the house which he had built at Troy Hills, N. J., and is buried in Parsippany Cemetery. He was the son of Benjamin, of Southampton, whose will, dated 1744, is in the possession of Miss Lillian Howell of Morristown, and in which he bequeaths farming implements, etc., to his sons, Nathan, Benjamin and Samuel, and 50 shillings each to his four daughters, Hannah, Deborah, Rhoda and Bethia. This Benjamin, whose will I have named, was the great-grandson of "Edward Howell. Gentleman," who, in 1639, sold his grandfather's estate in Marsh GibTxin, Bucks Co., England, left England because of religious troubles and came to New England with a generous property. His grandfather, William Howell, had come from Wales and built the large stone manor-house in Marsh Gibbon in 1536, a house still well preserved. Some of the New England descendants have a picture of it.

Howell was politically active for the American cause during the Revolutionary War. In 1775 he was named to a Committee of Observation for the Township of Hanover. (What is now Parsippany-Troy Hills was then part of Hanover Township.)  He was elected a Morris County Justice of the Peace in 1776 and re-elected to another five year term in 1781. He therefore served in that position throughout the Revolutionary War.  He died in 1798, and is buried in Vail Memorial Cemetery (See above entry)

The house may have been used for military conferences during the winter of 1779-1780, while Washington's army was encamped at Morristown. [http://www.revolutionarywarnewjersey.com/new_jersey_revolutionary_war_sites/towns/parsippany_nj_revolutionary_war_sites.htm]

Abigail Cook [Parents] was born ¹ in 1725. She died ¹ on 3 Feb 1784. She was buried ² in Vail Memorial Cemetery, Morris County, Parsippany, New Jersey, USA. Abigail married ¹ Benjamin Howell ³ on 17 Jul 1751.

Benjamin Smith [Parents] was born ¹ in May 1725. He died ¹ on 20 Jul 1767. Benjamin married Hannah Dod ¹ in 1752.

"Benjamin Smith, son of Richard, was born in 1725, died 1767, married Hannah Dod in 1752. We believe that he lived on what we know as the A. J. Smith property in a house near the road in front of the site of the present house. [The author, Emily C Smith, has earlier stated "I have been again impressed with what a closely knit community we in Troy and Parsippany have been"]. They had 8 children; two died in infancy and Caleb at the age of 18. Benjamin died at the age of 42, and his wife died in 1771. Hiram found himself at the age of 15 the oldest of 5 children; they went to live with their mother's family in Orange until they were old enough to return to Troy, Benjamin to the house where they were born and Hiram to a house at the end of the lane which runs off from the main road on Troy hill where later the A. J. Smith flour mill and saw mill were situated." Benjamin was born in 1725. He married Hannah Dod in 1752.

Hannah Dod [Parents] ¹ was born ¹ on 18 Dec 1724. She died ¹ on 18 Oct 1771 in Troy, Hanover Township, New Jersey. Hannah married Benjamin Smith in 1752.

Benjamin Howell [Parents] ¹. Benjamin married Nancy Bishop.

Other marriages:

Norris, Hannah

Nancy Bishop. Nancy married Benjamin Howell.

Benjamin Howell [Parents] ¹. Benjamin married Hannah Norris.

Other marriages:

Bishop, Nancy

Edward Howell [Parents] was born in Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England. He was christened on 26 Sep 1626 in Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England. He died on 29 Apr 1699 in Southampton, Suffolk, Long Island, New York, USA. Edward married Mary Fordham.

Mary Fordham [Parents]. Mary married Edward Howell.

Edward Howell [Parents] ¹ was born in 1584. He was christened on 22 Jul 1584 in England. Edward married Elizabeth Frances Paxton.

Edward immigrated ² in 1639 to Boston.

Edward Howell, "gentleman". Came to America from England in about 1639.

Edward (3rd) was the first in this county; he came with his family to Boston, where in 1639, lie was made freeman May 14, 1639-40. He soon removed to Lynn, where he had a grant of 300 acres. During the winter of 1639-40, a new settlement was projected on Long Island of which lie seems to have been the leader, as the agreement of terms of founding the plantation is in his handwriting, as well as the laws adopted by the first settlers, and to the last year of his life he was always a magistrate and member of the Colonial Legislature at Hartford, Conn. The manner in which his name is mentioned in the colonial records of New England and New York point to the conclusion that he was the leader and first man in the Southampton, Long Island settlement.

When a company was formed at Lynn, Mass., soon after Edward's arrival, to settle on Long Island, he was sent in advance to buy land. 400 pounds was paid for the east end of L. I., in June, 1640, and Edward Howell was evidently the leader, for we read that "all compacts or agreements of founding the plantation and the laws adopted by first settlers are in his handwriting." He invested £15 of his own money in land at this time, and many of his descendants still live there, while the Howell name appears many times on the stones in the cemetery at Southampton.

The Howell coat-of-arms, which dates back to 1250 A. D., according to records in the British Museum, were carved on the grand western staircase of the capitol in Albany, in honor of this Edward Howell, who founded Southampton, the first English settlement in the State of New York. He was evidently a man of affairs all his life, for he served as magistrate from 1640 to 1653 and was Representative to the General Court at Hartford from 1647 to l&53- His death occurred in 1655. As Edward's grandmother, the wife of William Howell, who built the manor-house at Marsh Gibbon, was Ann Hampton, it is supposed that he named Southampton for that family.

Elizabeth Frances Paxton was born in 1584 in Odell, Bedfordshire, England. She died in 1630. She was buried ¹ on 2 Jul 1630 in England. Elizabeth married Edward Howell ².

John McClure [Parents] was born ¹ on 1/5 Jul 1788. He died ¹ in 1849 in Landisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He was buried ² in Kossuth Cemetery, Mediapolis, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA. John married Susannah Ross.

John McClure (1788-1849), the second child of William McClure and Agnes McKeehan McClure, was born July 5, 1788 and died Dec. 25, 1849, at Landisburg, Pa. He married Susannah Ross. All but the youngest of their children married and raised families.

John McClure emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1815, and settled in Highland County, near Greenfield, the county seat. He and his wife were charter members of the First Presbyterian Church of Greenfield, and he was an elder in that church. About the same time Isaac Evans also was living in the vicinity, having established himself on a farm at the edge of South Salem. He also had a large family. Like John McClure, he was a farmer. Out of these two families grew our branch of the McClure family when John's son, William, and Isaac's daughter, Cynthia, were married.

During the summer or fall of 1837 John McClure and his son-in-law, Reuben Nichols, with Nichols' family, drove through from Ohio, seeking a new home in the West. They stopped for a short time with William and Cynthia who, married two years before, had settled in LaSalle County, Illinois. "Aunt Nancy" Nichols stayed with Cynthia while William went on with his father and brother-in-law to look up prospects in Iowa.

Burlington, Iowa, was then only a small village of a few cabins, on the hills by the Mississippi. Our immigrants were looking for good farm land and entered a claim for 160 acres in the extreme northern part of Des Moines County, ten miles or so north of Burlington. Reuben Nichols and his family moved over that fall, and early the next spring (1838) William and Cynthia .McClure also came and settled on their claim, later known as the John McBride Farm, half a mile south of Northfield. Here, in the new cabin home of William and Cynthia McClure "three members of the family were born (Sue, Julia and Isaac) and here was where sister Sue lost her hearing by a severe attack of scarlet fever. All the younger members of the family were born at the old home just north of Northfield except Emma, who was born in Ohio, near Columbus." To this neighborhood John McClure himself brought his family in the fall of the same year. Others, "quite a colony of Presbyterians," settled in the vicinity : the Heizers, Wares, Rankins, Blairs, Waddles, and others who had been neighbors and friends back in Ohio.

Susannah Ross was born on 23 Aug 1786. She died on 5 Nov 1864. She was buried ¹ in Kossuth Cemetery, Mediapolis, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA. Susannah married John McClure.

A Susannah MC Clure, age 74, is found with Jane Ross, age 69 in Des Moines County, IA for the 1860 census.

Henry Howell [Parents] ¹. Henry married Margaret Hawten in 1583.

Margaret Hawten [Parents]. Margaret married Henry Howell in 1583.

William Howell ¹ died ² in 1557. William married Anne Eyre Hampton ¹.

Other marriages:

, Maude

William Howell, had come from Wales and built the large stone manor-house in Marsh Gibbon in 1536, a house still well preserved. Some of the New England descendants have a picture of it.

William Howell, of Wedon, in County of Bucks, England, purchased the manor of Westbury, in Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, in 1536. The old stone manor house is still standing, though the remains of a foundation near it shows that some portions of it have been taken down. It is two full stories and what is called a double house and is nearly covered with ivy. William Howell married first Maude, second Anne Hampton. His will of date Nov. 30, 1557, directs his body to be buried in the parish church of Wingrave, in the chancel before the high altar. Gives legacies to the poor of Aylesbury, to the poor of Whiteehurch and to the poor of Marsh. Gives his wife Anne his lands in Watton and Hamme for her life, and at her decease they are to go to his son Henry. Gives his eldest son John his lands in Marsh Gibbon and in default of issue to his son Henry and in default of issue to his son Jacob. To each of his daughters £20 and a legacy for bells for Hardwich Church. He died in 1557 and John the eldest son inherited the manor and himself died without issue in 1576, so Henry inherited the manor. [ history of the Willis family of New England and New Jersey]

Anne Eyre Hampton ¹. Anne married William Howell.