The Aaron Howe House, Linebrook Parish
Built in 1711, the birthplace of Rev. Nathaniel Howe (1764-1837), of Hopkinton, Mass., and of Rev. Benjamin Howe (1807-1883) of that parish; taken down about 1853.


DESCENDANTS OF JAMES HOWE

JAMES
ELIZATH
JAMES .....MARY
DEBORAHMARTHA
JOHN ......SARAH HOWE ARMS
ABIGAILJAMES
MARY
SARAHMARK
MARKMARY
JOHN ......SARAH
ANNJOHN
SAMUELZERUIAH
JOHN ......JOSEPHJOSEPH
MARY
ELIZATH
LYDIA
BENJN
HANNAH
ABIGAIL
ISAAC
JOSEPH
REBECCA
LOVEMARY
JOSEPH
SARAH
INCREASE ..SUSAN
ELIZATH ABRAHM ...ABRAHM P.
JOSEPH
JOHN WM A.
SAMSON EDWARD E.
MERCY ADELINE
JEMIMA ABEL ......MARGARET
HEPHZIBAHABRAHM ...ELEANORLEVERETT S.
ABRAHM ..ABRAHM ...SARAHJOHN ABEL S.
RUTHLUCY WILLARD P.
ABRAM ....NATHANLJOHN
ELIZATHELIZATHMEHITALE
ABIJAH JOSEPH ....ELIZATH
MARKMOSES
DANIELSAMUELPRISCILLA
ISRAEL .... SAMUEL
HANNAH JOSHUACECIL P.
PRISCILLA BENJN ....HOMER
LUCY MARY
AMOS
HANNAH
LOVE
MOSES
LUCY
MARK ......MARY
AARON
SARAH MARKCATHERINE
ABIJAHJANE
MARK .....ELIPHALET
NATHANL LEONARD
NATHANL ..AARON ....ELIZACALVIN E
PHILEMONHANNAH CELESTIA E.
HEPHZIBAHMARK .....NATHANL ..MARY I.
EMERSON ...CELIA A.
HANNAH

DESCENDANTS OF JAMES HOWE
IPSWICH HOWES—JAMES BRANCH
ARMA VIRUMQUE CANO

James Howe, Jr., was son of James, Sen., of Ipswich, County Essex, Mass., and grandson of Robert, “who lived in Hatfield, Broad-Oak, county Essex, England, where Sir Francis Barrington lived in Woodrow-Green; James, son of said Robert, lived in a place called Hackerill, or Bockerill, in Bishop-Stortford—in the happy and gracious reign of King James I.”

The mention of Sir Francis’s name in this connection suggests some particular attachment, of which Mr. Howe had, no doubt, informed his children, and which he wished them to remember and cherish. Sir Francis’s family name went into England with the Conqueror, 1066, as Du Barentin. The old feudal burg and barony which cradled the name, near Rouen, is now Barentin. The Conqueror gave Baron Odo Du Barentin a grant of land in county Essex and the descendant office of ranger or keeper of the forest of Hatfield. Early in the seventeenth century the name was anglicized Barrington.

The special mention of Sir Francis’s name, noted above, could hardly indicate a family relation; it may have been a correlation, as ranger and subranger, or assistant, a lucrative station of Sir Francis’s gift. The charge, a wolf’s head, which has characterized the Howe arms for centuries, suggests forests and an encounter.