Name: John Howland
Born: ca 1598
Died: ca February 1672
Today we talk about a man that I am distantly related to, through my mother's side of the family. A man who came over on the actual Mayflower. And also fell off the actual Mayflower, on the way over. This is a true story. He literally fell out of the Mayflower and was fished out of the water as they traveled across the ocean.
John Howland was a servant of one of the men traveling to the "new world" and ended up married with kids and land here, and is related to a LOT of Americans. Myself included. According to ancestry.com records, he is my first cousin, 12 times removed. It is both interesting and disturbing to have a direct connection to the Mayflower. There is no way I can deny my benefiting from white supremacy now and always.
John Howland might have an unusual claim to fame in this country, but his presence begat a lot of us. And we have been reaping the benefits of this country, colonization, and the slave trade, ever since.
There have even been children's books written about him, but here are more online sources about John Howland:
He basically has his own website...
Another Mayflower history site.
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