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Notes: | Fredric Z. Saunders, a professional genealogist, observes that the ancestry of Matthew Howard is unknown. [1] Sharon Doliante [2] estimates that Matthew Howard Sr. was probably born at least by 1610. A 1609 birthdate is consistent with estimation from later events. Matthew had a wife and more than one child in Virginia in 1635. Assume that in that year there were two children, aged 2 and 4, thus born in 1633 and 1631. Then assume a date of marriage to Ann of 1630, and that Matthew was 21 at the time. He would then have been born in 1609. Since Jamestown, Virginia was only settled two years earlier in 1607 and there is no record of a Howard family having a son in the early days of the colony, it may be assumed that Matthew Howard was born somewhere in England.
| | Notes: | In 1624 a Matthew Hayward was a close neighbor of Edward and Cornelius Lloyd in Lower Norfolk County Virginia. [3]. However, Matthew Howard was not listed among those persons living in Virginia at the time of the "Muster" of 1624/1625.
| | Notes: | Matthew Howard married, possibly about 1635, Ann, last name unknown, whose transportation into Virginia he claimed in 1638 -- probably having brought her to Virginia himself. [4] Sharon Doliante notes that Ann was first mentioned in Virginia records on May 26, 1638, with no further known reference to her after July 6, 1640. Doliante estimates that Ann, wife of Matthew Howard, had died only shortly before the children came to Maryland, in 1659. [4] "There appears to have been some degree of relationship between Matthew and/or Ann, his wife, and the brothers Cornelius and Edward Lloyd / Edward Lloyd (who came from the Severn River area of Wales) and also between them and Richard Hall - all parties of Lower Norfolk Co.) [5] The Lloyds and Richard Hall were persons of some importance in early Virginia. [5] Warfield adds that "Edward and Cornelius Lloyd were near neighbors in Virginia in 1635 of Matthew Howard and Ann his wife. The latter named his son Cornelius in honor of Colonel Cornelius Lloyd
| | Notes: | Matthew Howard was in Virginia 8 February 1637/38 when he was located in the Upper County of New Norfolk on the western branch of the Elizabeth River. On that date a land patent granted to Robert Taylor, describes Mathew Howard as a neighbor bounding that land grant. [9] Mathew Howard himself received a Grant/Patent for 150 acres, Low. Co. of New Norf, 26 May 1638, due for transporting of his wife Ann and two persons. The land was E. upon the W. br of Elizabeth River and n. upon he broad cr. runing out of sd. branch
| | Matthew Howard Will: | hard Hall wrote his will August 7, 1648, and it was proved Nov 16, 1648. Matthew Howard and his children were almost the sole legatees. [13] In the name of God, Amen. I Richard Hall of Virginia being weake in body but in perfect memory (thanks bee to God) doe make this my last will and testament: ffirst I bequeath my Soule to Jesus Christ my Mediator and Redeemer and my body to the earth; and for my worldly goods wch the Lord hath given mee after my debts are payd and & my funeral expenses discharged I bequeath as followeth: ffirst I bequeath unto Mathew Howard the Elder one yearling steere calf I bequeath unto Ann Howard a Cowe calfe & a barrowe chote I bequeath unto Elizabeth Howard my two Cows with all theire encrease after the date herof, alsoe I bequeath unto ye said Elizabeth Howard my sow with all encrease excepting three chotes. I give one Sow chote of a twelve month old to Mathew Howard the younger. I give one Sow pigg to Cornel(ius) Howard and my hat. I give one Sow pigg to John Howard and my work clothes and my handkerchiefes. I give unto Mathew Howard the elder my best paire of breeches; I give unto Samuel Howard all the tob(acco) that is coming to mee after my debts are payd & my ld white suite which I nowe have on & one payre of shoes & stockings; Mathew Howard (the) elder (to be) my sole Executor of this my last will & testament. In witness hereoff I have hereunot sett my hand this twnety first day of August, 1648 /s/ Richard Hall. Signed & delivered in the presence of Cornelius Lloyd. The mke of Tho. Pill. By the Governor & Capt Geneall of Virginia To all to whom thse presents shall come, I Sr Wm Berke(ley) Governor & Capt Generall of \virginia Send greeting in our Lord everlasting whereas Rich Hall late of this Collony deceased did by his last will & testament nominate and appoint Mathew Howard the elder his executor and the said Mathew did at a County Court holden for Lower Norfolk upon the fifteenth day of November 164(8) make humble suite to the board: That a Probate of the said will might be graunted unto him for which cause full power and lawfull authority is hereby given & granted unto him the said Mathew Howard to dispose of all and singular the goods rights & credits of the said decedent according to the true intent & meaning of the said will & testament expressed: given at James Citty under my hand and Seale of the collony this sixteenth day of November Anno Dom 1648 /s/ William Berkeley. [14] Analysis of Richard Hall Will A review of Richard Hall's will prompts the following observations: No wife of Richard Hall is named in the will. If he had a wife, she must have predeceased him. But there is no documentation that he had a wife at all. Regardless of whether he had a wife, there is no one in the will identified as his child. There is no land identified in the will. One imagines that Hall must have owned land, but if so, was it already disposed of? Further research to identify any land of Hall's, and its disposition, would be most useful. All but one of the bequests are assigned to Mathew Howard, his wife Ann, and their children Elizabeth, Mathew the younger, Cornelius, John, and Samuel. While some popular genealogies show Ann Howard as Richard Hall's daughter, there is no indication in the will that Ann is his daughter or that Ann's children are Richard Hall's grandchildren. The default theory is that Richard Hall was childless, was a good friend of Mathew Howard and his family, and had no one better to will his personal property to -- and perhaps had disposed his real property in some other way.
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