Kerley Howe (abt. 1739 - abt. 1749)

This profile is part of the Howe Name Study.

Biography

Kerley was born in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony on 25 Jul 1739.^[1] He was very likely named after his maternal grandmother's family name. He is the sixth born child and fifth son of Jezaniah Howe and Damaris Eager.^[2] He died young at the age of ten in Leicester on 16 Nov 1749.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Leicester, MA to the end of the year 1849; pg 52
2. ↑ Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, the Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, (Boston: NEHGS, 1929), pp.54.
3. ↑ Vital Records of Leicester, MA to the end of the year 1849; pg 261