. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... sey alone there are at least five differentfamilies bearing the name which so far as can beascertained have on this side of the .\tlanticno connection whatever. .Vmong those NewJersey families is one that has long been identi-fied with the early history of Morris, Sussexand Warren counties, who claim their descentfrom Edward Howell, of Southampton, LongIsland, through his youngest son, Richard, whowas twice married, first to Elizabeth, daugh-ter of Thomas Ilalsey, and second to a daugh-ter of Joseph, son of Thruston Raynor. Tow
. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... sey alone there are at least five differentfamilies bearing the name which so far as can beascertained have on this side of the .\tlanticno connection whatever. .Vmong those NewJersey families is one that has long been identi-fied with the early history of Morris, Sussexand Warren counties, who claim their descentfrom Edward Howell, of Southampton, LongIsland, through his youngest son, Richard, whowas twice married, first to Elizabeth, daugh-ter of Thomas Ilalsey, and second to a daugh-ter of Joseph, son of Thruston Raynor. Towhich of these two wives of Richard Howellany particular one of his twelve children areto be assigned has never been of them, however, Daniel and Christopher,removed to New Jersey and founded thefamous Ewing and Trenton families of thename, and two of the sons, Abner and Elias, of athird son of Richard, namely Josiah, settledone in Flanders and New Cermantown and theother in Roxbury or Chester. In the second,edition of his History of Southampton Mr. ^ A^x^c^ e^ 2L_ STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 731 George Rogers Howell says, page 320, thatthe Sussex county family may belong to thedescendants of David, son of Daniel Howellof Ewing. mentioned above, but a diligentsearch of the records of Sussex county and ofthe archives of the secretary of state at Tren-ton have failed to reveal any evidence whichwould point in either direction. In the ab-sence of opposing testimony and in view of thefact that the constant tradition of the Sussexfamily is to their descent as given above a con-jectural line may be assumed as follows: Ed-ward (I) : Richard ( 11 ) ; Daniel (III) ; David(I\) ; William ( \ ), oi Sussex county, XewJersey. (\ ) William, the conjectured son of Davidand Alary ( Baker) Howell, was born probablyin the neighborhood of I^landers. m Morriscounty, Xew Jersey, early in 1740. He re-moved to Hardwick township in Sussex (nowWarren) county, and later on to WantagetowMiship, Sus
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