JOHN Howell and JACOB STUTZMAN FAMILIES
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A MEMORIAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGICAL RECORD OF THE JOHN HowELL AND JACOB STUTZMAN FAMILIES AND A COMPLETE FAMILY RECORD OF The Lineal Descendants and Thoae Related To Them - by Intermarriage From the Year 1697 to 1922 CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED Compiled by JO.\'.-\. THA~ S. HOWELL Rushville, Illinois H~rald Print. Rushville, I!linoi!'I. EXPLANATOR.Y 'fhe object in publishing this \\"ork is to present and preserve in ~ l·c•mpendious form a genealogical record and biographical •nicrnoir-• of the descendants of John Howell, of Philadelphia. who first plantec1 the Hm,·ell family under consideration. on this continent. at 'Phila delphia, in the province of Pennsylvania, in 1697. \\'e learn from First Chronicles. I, 2, 3. 4. and 6, and also Mathe\\· I and Luke 3 . that family registers and genealogies have heen kept from the earliest ages. Genealogy is an account or history of the descendants of a person ur family from an an_cestor. or an enumeration of ancestors and their descendants in natural order of succession. The system employed in compiling this volume is thought to he the most approved now in use, and may be readily understood by a little study. The families are numbered in generations. and their children. of both sexes. are numbered in succession of birth. with date of death in the father's family and as married in successive years in the same order as their single children are recorded. Thus, Jacoh Howell. son of John Ho,,·ell. is the second generation in this record. and so on through each generation. On the left of the words "Secornl generation" is the index number of his family, on the right is the number of his father's (John Howell) family. A memorial is any thing that is intended to preserve the men10ry uf a person or event. vVe find it necessary to confine some of the generations to :i. mere enumeration of their family. as we are unable to ascertain any further knowledge of them. In apology we \\'ish to say that neither time nor pains have been spared in obtaining the data for this work; great care has been take1; to insure accuracy as to facts and 'dates. Much time has been spent in researches, to collect and copy church and family records. wilb. dates of land titles. list of taxable inhabitants in a township or count: wht:re the ancestors have lived. different cemeteries have been visited I 111 hopes of obtaining some dates that would help to locate some families. and if mistakes or omissions are found \\'e trust that none will feel slighted or take offense. This has been a much greater task than one would suppose at first thought, to collect what little infor mation we have herein published. During the compilation of this History and Genealogical Record. correspondents have been very courteous and patient with the com piler, and have shown him many kindnesses and favors, which he hopes that the result of his effort, begun only as a pleasure and curiosity to know, with no thought of pecuniary benefits, may in some manner requite them for their hearty and kindly co-operation. Our American ancestors have been prohibited from obtaining fame in war or politics, possibly on account of their religious senti ments. You will remember the Quakers do not believe in war. How ever several of them have been honored with various responsible positions of trust in both nation and state. All learned professions are represented; although very few appear to have amassed great wealth, they enjoy a competency, and live quiet, modest, peaceful lives. , The descendants of John Howell of Philadelphia. the ancestors, wherever found, have been in the main, honest. industrious, indepen dent, God-fearing, patriotic citizens who have made the world better by their having lived in it. They are heirs to a desirable uprightnes~ of character, a legacy in which each one of our numerous family should take great pride. Samuel Smiles says concerning heirship of character, "it steadies the life of the'present, elevates and upholds it, and lightens and lifts it up, by the memory of the great deeds, noble suffering, and the valorous achievements of the men of old." It should be more or less gratifying to be descended from an honorable ancestry than to take great pride in a historic nobility. Our progenitors were induced by religious persecution and divers motives to abandon their native homes in Europe, the dearest spot on earth, whither the heart always turns, and come to the wilds of primitive America in search of peace. happiness, and religious liberty. They are now widely scattered from the eastern to the western shore. Some lines are still of the original faith and practice of their primitive religion, while others have discarded the old traditions and practices, and many families have been absorbed, in their migrations, by various other denominations. 2 It is said that comparatively few of the living in the United States can tell when their forefathers came to this country; many feel a great interest in the names of their ancestors, their nativity, ancl when they came to this country, ancl their places of residence; such feelings of respect and friendship of their lineal descendants are commenclable. Others have grown indifferent as to their earthly origin or parentage, and seem to care little as to anything higher. In the sixth Commandment we are commanded to "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." The Psalmist also prays : "So teach us to number our clays that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." "The Howell family, it is hardly needful to state, is of Welsh extraction, the different families of which all emigrated to America in the early Colonial period. It is one of the oldest and most respect ed familes in its parent country, the representative of which have almost invariably heen clistinguishecl here in the pulpit, at the bar, in military service of their country, as well as in mercantile and civic p11rsu_its." Of these, John Howell of Philadelphia, the ancestor, has numer ous descendants, among whom were Isaac Howell, of family 2, one of the signers of the Bill of Credit; Colonel Jacob S. Howell, clerk of the Pennsylvania board of ,var in 1776, and receiver-general of clothing of the militia in 1778; John Howell, of family 77, who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private in Captain Clement Hall's Company, 2nd Regiment, North Carolina Battalions, from 1777 to 1780; Arthur Howell, of family 57, an eminent Quaker preacher who died in Philadelphia in 1816, and Colonel Joshua B. Howell, of family 5, · ,vho commanded with distinction the 85th Pennsylvania Volun teers in the Civil war, and fell in hattle. September 14, 1864, at the age of fifty-five. The Howells of \Vales and of the ,vest of England are sµrround• ed in the Cymric annals by legens as varied as those which compose the Xibelungenliecl or the Arthurian circle. :\mid the strains of martial music and the clang of arms in the wrestle for supremacy among the various Vv'elsh tribes, (temp. 900 et seq) Howen Dda. or Howell the Good. stands out as the most famous of the early Welsh kings. He is described in \Villiam Malmesfury's Chronicles as "King of all the \Velsh." The son of Cade!, the son of Rhodri the Great, his pedigree was traced by the tenth century genealogist to Cunedda, the King of North \Vales, thence to Ann, cousin of the Blessed 3 \"irgin. Howell succeeded his father ahunt ()O<J. though suhject to the lady of :\Iercians ..-\ethelflaed, and her husband, Aethelred, as 1Yell as their successor. EchYard the elder. He became Lord of the :'\orth \\"elsh in 922 and King of the \\"est \\'elsh in 926. He attesteJ charters drawn in the reign of .-\thelstan as "Ho\\·ell Suhregulus." in t'1e reign of Edward as "Ho\\'ell Regulus," and in 949 as ''Ho\\'ell l{ex.'' He is styled by Simeon of Durham a contemporary "Rex Brittonum. Stripped of legendary lineage and interesting fiction of those stirring times. Ho\\'ell's best claim to remembrance is as a la\\"-giver. Though the vast code of \\'elsh la11·s. \Yhich is known a,, the la\\" of Ho\\"ell the Good. surYive only in manuscript of a period much later than his O\Yn, t\\"o Latin manuscripts. one of the tll'elith century at Peniarth, the other of the thirteenth century at the Briti~h museum. and a \\'elsh manuscript of the :--orth \\'elsh Code. also at Peniarth. containing in their preface a full account of the circttm stances under which the la\\'s 1Yere iramed. These set forth that Ho\\"ell. observing that "the \\'elsh ,,·ere perYerting the la11·s." sum moned a kind of Parliament to meet. him during Lent. because all a1:e pu_re at that holy time. at the \\"hite Honse ( no\\' \\"hiteland .-\h hey in Carmarthenshire on the Taff): that the members thereof crit ically examined the old laws. abrogated some. amended others: and enacted new ones. is shown by the altered code ( which consisted of t:iree kinds of laws). The first regulated the king's household and his courts: the second. the nation in general: the third. special cus toms pertaining to localities and individuals. 11·ere then proclaimed by Howell. and a curse pronounced upon all \\·ho should not obey its mandates. Aiter which. he. with the Bishop of St. Davids. the Bishop of St. Asaph. and Bangor.