DESCENDANT LINE:
(1) John HOWE (1620 - 1680) & Mary Martha JONES (1618 - 1672)
(2) Samuel HOWE (1642 - 1713) & Sarah LEAVITT (1659 - 1726)
(3) Nehemiah HOW (1693 - 1747) & Margaret WILLARD (1694 - 1758)
(4) Hannah HOW (1733 - 1797) & Ebenezer MILLER (1725 - 1809)
(5) Samuel Willard MILLER (1772 - ) & Sarah (Sally) GAY (~1775 - 1871)
(6) Hannah Clark MILLER (1807 - 1883) & John SMITH (1802 - 1881)
(7) Ellen Maria SMITH (1832 - >1912) & Abner Gardner TEELE Sr. (1837 - 1868)
(8) Gardner Abner TEELE Jr. (1868 - 1957) & Emma Augusta DEAN (1868 - 1913)
(9) Louis Gardner TEELE Sr. (1889 - 1982) & Gertrude Grace BOLTON (1890 - 1943)
(10) Louis Gardner TEELE Jr. (1913 - 2004) & Margaret Catherine SLINE (1943 - )


(UNKNOWN SOURCE)
“After the death of Nehemiah father, Samuel Howe,Nehemiah took the estate, and paid off the other heirs. In 1717 when he was 24 years old, he sold the estate in Sudbury, MA, and moved to Framingham, MA.


“In 1727 he was a petitioner for the town of Grafton, to which place he moved, and the second town meeting was held in his house 19 April 1728. He was one of the original members of the church, 28 December 1731, and was one of the Selectmen, 1736, school committee, 1736, and was that year paid f4, 1s, 8d. for keeping the school. He was Town Clerk 1736-7-8, assessor 1737, and school committee 1738-9.

“In the spring and early summer of 1739, he bought three full township rights in the new town called Great Meadows, NH, the records of those deeds are found at Springfield, MA. In 1739 or 1740 he became one of the early settlers of that town.

“The year 1744 brought the Indian war, with all its attending horrers, the settlers were obliged to seek safety and shelter in the forts. On the 11th of October 1745, as he was cutting wood a few rods from the fort, he was surprised by a band on Indians and taken captive before help could reach him. He was taken to Canada, where he was kept a prisoner in Quebec for a year and a half, when he died of prison fever 25 May 1747, just as he was about to be redeemed.

“His death was a severe blow to his family, and to the community where he was known, as one of his contemporaries wrote of him, "he was greatly beloved by all who knew him." He was possesed of cultivation and refinement far beyond the ordinary. He kept a journal during his prison life which was of inestimable value, for the many items therin recorded of other captives whose fate otherwise would never have been known. It is also a priceless legacy to his descendants, showing as it does, the beautiful Christion character of one who could endure the severest hardships with a grace and dignity rarely to be found.In 1748 these notes were used to publish "A Narrative of The Captivity of Nehemiah How in 1745-1747"

(MEMO: This Narrative is readily available online, do a Google search!)