Phineas HOWE

                   Information from FGS submitted by Zerviah G. Smith.
Howe Genealogy by D. W. Howe page 79,80,81.  F.H. S M 62 Cache Genealogical
Library, Logan, Utah, p 90-92.
Updated and corrected by FGS submitted by John Young Family Organization.
Note: Howe Genealogies, p 81, lists a daughter Ruth as child XI, b 31 March
1784-5; Sanborn's "The Ancestry of President Brigham Young,: p 151 also lists a
daughter Ruth as child XI, b. 31 Mar 1785, Middlesex, Mass.  However, no record
of her birth or christening has been found in the vital records of Middlesex
County.  "An exact copy transcribed from a writing" of Phinehas Howe does not
list a daughter Ruth, and no signature of a Ruth is found on the quit-claim
deed dated 16 October 1807, signed by the other heirs of Phinehas Howe.
Nehemiah Howe md 30 Nov 1806 in Framingham, Ruth Eames, who was born in
Framingham 30 Mar 1784 (Vital rec p 65).  Evidently Ruth Howe, wife of
Nehemiah, has been listed as his sister.  Nehemiah's widow, Ruth Howe, died 7
Jul 1844 (Hopkinton vital rec p 429).  No death of a Ruth Howe febore 1807
(date of the quit-claim deed) has been found.  In her letter to her brother
Phineas, Fanny lists only 10 children of Phineas and Susanna G. Howe--no Ruth.
Because of these facts Ruth was left off the FGS.