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This review was published in 2009
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John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume 3, The First Five Generations, Documented Descendants Through his Third Child Hope 2 Howland, Wife of John Chipman by Elizabeth Pearson White (Rockland, Me., 2008), hardcover, 672 pp., index. $79.50. John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume 4, The First Five Generations, Documented Descendants Through his Fourth Child Elizabeth 2 Howland, Wife of Ephraim Hicks and Captain John Dickinson by Elizabeth Pearson White (Rockland, Me., 2008), hardcover, 235 pp., index. $37.50.
These two volumes are unofficially the latest in the Five Generation Project and profiles the third and fourth (although research-wise, the last two) of John Howland’s children. Picton Press has already published two volumes on Howland’s eldest two children and the General Society published the first four generations of his six youngest children last year [Reviewed at MD, 55 [2006]: 96]. Based on page counts alone it would seem that John Howland had the largest progeny of any Mayflower passenger down to five generations. Volume Three on Hope (Howland) Chipman is as large as the first two volumes from Picton on John Howland and is just as well-researched. All sketches have endnotes that are tied to specific dates and statements within the sketch. Essentially this work functions as a Chipman family genealogy in all lines and the geography covered quickly expands beyond Massachusetts in the third and fourth generations. Close to 400 sketches are given in this work. Volume Four on Elizabeth (Howland) (Hicks) Dickinson is a more slender volume and is unique in that Elizabeth and all her children in the third generation left New England for Long Island, and consequent generations stayed in New York and New Jersey. Records are not nearly as complete outside of New England in the late 17th century and there more undocumented people in this volume. One particular controversial line that is not continued is through Elizabeth3 Dickinson who was thought to be the wife of Caleb Wright. This line was once accepted by the Society but no longer is. The author provides several pages of notes for continued research, however, the matter was well-researched recently in these pages [see “Who is Elizabeth, Wife of Caleb Wright, of Oyster Bay, Long Island?” in MD, 55 [2006]: 4-15.] Like the above-referenced volume all sketches have endnotes that are specifically tied to dates and statements within that sketch. Seventy-two family sketches are provided in this volume and both volumes contain a comprehensive index. With the publication of these two volumes we await only two silver books on George Soule and William Brewster to have a complete scholarly look at the first four to five generations of Mayflower descendants. Howland and Alden have one to two more volumes each to complete the project on those passengers. Reviewed by Martin E. Hollick
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