Elizabeth HOW^[1]

c.1624 - 1657

• Name	Elizabeth HOW
  Birth	c.1624	England   [2]
  	Marriage age pattern studies of 17th century Massachusetts residents indicate that women married for the first time at the age of about 23 years
  Gender	Female
  CHAF	Between 1637 and May 1647	Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [3]
  	Some time between her arrival in Roxbury with her parents in 1637 and her marriage to Edmund Parker in May 1647, "Elizabeth How, daughter of Abraham How" was admitted to the membership of the First Church of Roxbury.
  Death	9 Jun 1657  [4]
  Person ID	I3776	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Abraham HOW,   b. England d. 1676, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony
  Mother	(UNKNOWN),   b. England d. Dec 1645
  Marriage	England
  Family ID	F432	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edmund PARKER
  Marriage	31 May 1647	Roxbury, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [5]
  Notes	SEE S1635 FOR INFORMATION ON THIS LINE.
  Family ID	F6284	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S1635] Daniel Wait Howe, compiler & Gilman Bigelow Howe, editor, Howe & Howe, Howe Genealogies 2 volumes, ((Haverhill, MA: Record Publishing Co, 1929)). Vol II, pp. 3 - 5 [transcriptions of will and 2 inventories] [S1591] David Hackett Fischer, Fischer, Albion's Seed, Four British Folkways in America, ((New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)), p. 75., ISBN 0-19-503794-4. [S152] Walter Eliot Thwing, Thwing, History of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1630 - 1904, ((Boston: W.A. Butterfield, 1908)), p. 58. [S1635] Daniel Wait Howe, compiler & Gilman Bigelow Howe, editor, Howe & Howe, Howe Genealogies 2 volumes, ((Haverhill, MA: Record Publishing Co, 1929)), Vol. II, p. 5. [S151] Vital Records Of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. 2 vols., ((Salem, MA: The Essex institute, 1925 - 1926)), Vol. II, p. 213.