James Howe b. 15 May 1598 per Howe Genealogy; considerable research presented on the site. James Howe was said to be 94 years old in 1692 when he testified on behalf of his daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Jackson Howe, at the Salem witch trials.

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James Howe was born by about 1603 (deposed on 27 March 1666 "aged sixty-one years;" deposed on 28 November 1681 "aged about eighty years"), son of Robert Howe. Weaver from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1635 (based on admission to Roxbury church).

First settled in Roxbury; moved to Ipswich by 1641. Died in Ipswich 17 May 1702 ("May 19th [1702] Mr. James How, a good man of Ipswich, 104 years old is buried. Died I think on Lords-Day night, just about the time the news of the King's death was brought from Madera").

James Howe was brother of ABRAHAM HOWE {1636, Roxbury}. On 28 November 1681, "James How, Sr., aged about eighty years, and Abraham How, aged about thirty years, testified that their cousins, Goodman Seres and his wife came to their house to visit them about four years ago and Hester Seers, formerly the wife of Henery Mason, told them that her first husband had given her cousin John How his feather bed, but she could not spare it yet." The first deponent is the subject of this sketch, and the second deponent is his son. Hester (Howe) (Mason) Sears is a daughter of the immigrant Abraham Howe. 

Married: 

1.  at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, 27 June 1628 Elizabeth Dane, daughter of JOHN DANE {1636, Roxbury} (in his will of 7 September 1658, John Dane included bequests to "my daughter Elizabeth How"). She died at Ipswich on 21 January 1693/4.

Children:

1.  Abraham HOWE b: ABT 1630 in Ipswich, MA
2. James HOWE b: ABT 1635
3. Sarah HOWE
4. Mary Howe Abbott (1638 - 1729)

Sources

•  Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer co. NJ editorial supervision of Francis Bazeley Lee, Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer co. NJ editorial supervision of Francis Bazeley Lee.
• 987. Ancestry.com; Joseph B. Felt, Full Context of Ipswich, Essex and Hamilton, MA: Town Histories MA: Town Histories, (2001; Cambridge, MA 1834).
• 988. New England Familes Genealogical and Memorial, Series 1.
• 989. New England Familes Genealogical and Memorial, Series 1, Howe line .

Links

•  http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/a/l/Maryellen--Salazar...
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37116371
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=marbledb&...
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=grumpyhug...

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Brief Life History of James
When James How was born on 15 May 1598, in Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England, his father, Robert Howe, was 11595 and his mother, Eme Ingold, was 22. He married Elizabeth Dane on 27 June 1628, in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America in 1635. In 1648, at the age of 50, his occupation is listed as constable in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 17 May 1702, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 104.