Antipas Howe (1745 - 1833)

This profile is part of the Howe Name Study.

Biography

Antipas was born in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony on 19 Aug 1746.^[1] He is the fifth born child and third son of Isaac Howe and Prudence Howe.^[2] He married on 20 Jan. 1782 in Hardwick Worcester, Massachusetts, Joanna Lawrence,^[3] daughter of Joshua Lawrence and Jane Haskell, born in Rochester, Mass. They lived a few years in Swanzey, N. H., where his first two children were born, then they moved to Shutesbury, Mass.; later (by 1812) they went to New York State, and they appear to have lived in Truxton, where he died in March 1833. He was a farmer, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.^[4] They had 5 children. She died in Bertrand, Berrien Co., Michigan, while living with son Frederick's family.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Leicester, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849; Births; pg 51
2. ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, the Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, (Boston: NEHGS, 1929), pp.56.
3. ↑ Mass. Vital Records, Hardwick Marriages, p 193
4. ↑ U.S. Pension Rolls of 1835, cited for New Hampshire Line service. pension enrollment 15 Jun 1827
5. ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, the Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, (Boston: NEHGS, 1929), pp.105.