{"id":8876,"date":"2014-11-14T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=8876"},"modified":"2021-04-21T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:41:22","slug":"man-overboard-mayflower-pilgrim-john-howlands-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/man-overboard-mayflower-pilgrim-john-howlands-story.html","title":{"rendered":"Man Overboard! Mayflower Pilgrim John Howland\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that <em>Mayflower<\/em> Pilgrim John Howland almost didn\u2019t make it to America?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8877\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0521-1897-john-howland-mayflower.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8877\" title=\"omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0521-1897-john-howland-mayflower\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0521-1897-john-howland-mayflower.png\" alt=\"article about Pilgrim John Howland being swept overboard from the Mayflower, Omaha World Herald newspaper article 21 May 1897\" width=\"558\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0521-1897-john-howland-mayflower.png 558w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0521-1897-john-howland-mayflower-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0521-1897-john-howland-mayflower-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omaha World Herald (Omaha, Nebraska), 21 May 1897, page 10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This old newspaper article reports his narrow escape:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026with a roll of ye ship [John Howland was] throwne into the sea, but it pleased God that he caught hould of the topsail halliards, which hunge overboard and ran out of length; yet he held his hould (though he was sundry fathoms under water) till he was held up by the same rope to the brim of the water, and then with a boat hooke and other means got into the ship again and his life saved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a painting by Mike Haywood \u2013 <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mikehaywoodart.co.uk\/webrescue.html\">\u201cPilgrim Overboard\u201d<\/span> \u2013 that commemorates this event.<\/p>\n<p>It is a good thing that John Howland was rescued from the sea\u2014not only for his sake\u2014but because he has more living descendants today than any other <em>Mayflower<\/em> passenger.<\/p>\n<p>Wow \u2013 I didn\u2019t know about his near-drowning.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many of our old family stories that simply have not been passed down to us today. Rediscover your family\u2019s stories in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all\">GenealogyBank\u2019s more than three centuries of historical newspaper archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Mayflower Ancestry Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-heritage-jack-howland-loved-his.html\">Mayflower Heritage: Jack Howland Loved His!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/researching-your-pilgrim-ancestry-from-mayflower-ship-passengersintroduction-mary-harrell-sesniak-is-a-genealogist-author-and-editor-with-a-strong-technology-background-in-this-guest-blog-post.html\">Researching Your Pilgrim Ancestry from Mayflower Ship Passengers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/researching-recent-obituaries-for-all-my-mayflower-cousins.html\">Researching Recent Obituaries for All My \u2018Mayflower\u2019 Cousins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article about how Pilgrim John Howland almost didn&#8217;t make it Plymouth after being swept overboard the Mayflower while crossing the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12235],"tags":[12775,6713,5830,8263,2020],"class_list":["post-8876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-accidents-disasters","tag-american-history","tag-john-howland","tag-mayflower-pilgrims","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/illustration-0720-2016-mayflower-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76047,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions\/76047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}