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Husband: Benjamin Howard
Birthdate: 1759
Birthplace: unknown
Death date: 30 Sep 1819
Place of death: Bath, Grafton, NH
Burial: unmarked grave Bath
Father: Daniel Howard
Mother: Sarah Backus

Marriage date: 26 Nov 1805
Marriage place: Lyme, Grafton, NH

Wife: Sarah Currier
Birthdate: 1782
Birthplace: East Kingston, Rockingham, NH
Death date: 12 Mar 1872
Place of death: Mercer, Somerset, ME
Burial: Mercer Village Cemetery
Father: Ezra Currier
Mother: Ruth Cassidy

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Mary Howard
Sex: F
Birthdate: July 1807
Birthplace: Litchfield, Kennebec, ME
Death date: 18 Nov 1892
Place of death: Mercer, Somerset, ME
Burial: Mercer Village Cemetery
Marriage date: 28 Jun 1864
Marriage place: Mercer, Somerset, ME
Spouse's name: Isaac Boston

Child No. 2: Gideon Charles Howard
Sex: M
Birthdate: 13 Mar 1809
Birthplace: Litchfield, Kennebec, ME
Death date: 6 Aug 1864
Place of death: Haverhill, Essex, MA
Burial: Pine Grove Cem., Lynn, MA
Marriage date: 30 Nov 1837
Marriage place: Litchfield, Kennebec, ME
Spouse's name: AnnLewis

Child No. 3: Samuel A. Howard
Sex: M
Birthdate: 31 May 1815
Birthplace: Bath, Grafton, NH
Death date: 25 Oct 1903
Place of death: Morristown, Lamouille, VT
Burial: Morristown, VT
Marriage date: 16 Apr 1845
Marriage place: Alexandria, Grafton, NH
Spouse's name: Sarah H.W. Ballou

Child No. 4: Joseph Adams Howard
Sex: M
Birthdate: about 1817
Birthplace: Bath, Grafton, NH
Death date: bet 1877-1887
Place of death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: 3 Jan 1841
Marriage place: Malden, Middlesex, MA
Spouse's name: Sarah J. Penney

Child No. 5: Elizabeth Howard
Sex: F
Birthdate: about 1819
Birthplace: Bath, Grafton, NH
Death date: unknown
Place of death: unknown
Marriage date: 15 Apr 1849
Burial: unknown
Marriage place: Georgetown, Sagadahoc, ME
Spouse's name: Collins Pattee
 

Documentation:
1)Benjamin Howard sources
- Revolutionary War & Pension
files; 1790 Lyme NH Census; 1800 & 1810 Litchfield ME census - Marriage
to Sarah Currier was his second marriage. I have not located all the
children nor the wife for the first marriage.

2)Sarah Currier sources -
Revolutionary War files; 2nd marriage to Philip I. Fisher 24 Dec 1844 in
Mercer town records, tombstone in Mercer ME; 1850 & 1860 Mercer ME census

3) Mary Howard
- lived with mother until marriage to widower; 1870 &
1880 Mercer ME census; History of Mercer ME 1782-1974

4) Gideon Howard -
1st marriage to cousin Rachel Annis 19 Feb 1835 in Bath, Grafton, NH -
son Charles b. 21 Dec 1836 at Bath; died at Alexandria, VA 5 Jun 1865;
Kennebec court record for bigamy; 1840 Mt Vernon ME census; 1850 Arrowsic
Island ME; 1860 Haverhill MA; Monmouth ME marriage intention; Haverhill
MA death record; tombstone - Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn

5) Samuel Howard -
Morristown VT death record; 1860 Pottsdam NY; 1870 Richford VT; 1880
Elmore VT; 1900 Morristown VT; 2nd marriage to Lovina Lawson Slayton on 1
Feb 1887 Morristown VT marriage record;

6)Joseph Howard
ltr printed in
Currier family book; 1850 Melrose,1860,1865 Lynn MA census; Civil War
Pension record; Joseph just disappeared, but family lived in same area of MA

7)Elizabeth Howard
a gal by this name, the right age, and the right
place married a widower Collins Pattee on 15 Apr 1849 Georgetown town
records. Collins died in 1856 - no further record found of Elizabeth .