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 Shared Note: - Arthur and Henry, Jr came to Plymouth several years after John. They settled at Marshfield in 1647. Both were Quakers, the sect that originated in 1647 in England. The Quakers would never pay tithes and never yielded to any human law which traversed their conscience. Arthur particularly did more - he resisted tyranny with all the moral energy of enthusiasm, bearing witness against blind obedience. Plymouth colonists were very bitter toward the Quakers and stringent laws were made punishing their refusal to contribute toward the support of the ministry of the colonial church, holding meetings in their faith and entertaining their traveling brethren. This led to severe persecution and imprisonment which made Plymouth a very undesirable place for the Quakers to reside. It is odd that the Pilgrims who left England and Holland in search of religious freedom were so unsympathetic to other sects. This difference in beliefs must have led to harsh family feelings between the brothers, particularly between Arthur and John. Arthur was brought before the General Court many times and John was a member of that Court.
Arthur's house at Marshfield was the headquarters of the persecuted Friends. He was arrested in 1657 and refusing to pay bond was sent to prison. While in prison, he wrote a letter to the General Court held in Plymouth, March 2, 1658, which was found to be "full" of facetious, seditious, slanderous passages to be of dangerous consequences." He was fined, refused to pay the fines and went back to prison. In one instance, John Howland, Jr was called before the General Court because he had warned his Uncle Arthur and other Quakers that the constables were on their way to arrest them.
"Some Descendants of Robert Dennis of Portsmouth, Rhode Island," by Elaine Dennis Young, pg vii: "American Ancestry " gives Henry Howland as one of the Proprietors of Duxbury and a brother of John, who came in the "Mayflower."
In the "History of Duxbury," by Justin Winsor: "Henry Howland, Duxbury, 1633, lived by the bay side, close to Love Brewster. One of the substantial landholders and freemen, Proprietor of Bridgewater, 1645."
Apparently he had indentured servants.
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