BOSTON (AP) -- John Howland may not be as famous as William Bradford, John Carver and Myles Standish, notable passengers on the Mayflower that landed in Massachusetts in 1620. Yet Howland, who boarded ...

Howland came to America as an indentured servant to the childless John Carver, and later inherited Carver's estate. Howland's wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of another Mayflower passenger, John ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 15—How many of us have met the descendants of John Howland? For that matter, how many of us might be descendants of John ...

As she prepares for Thanksgiving each year, Betsy Slagle thinks about an ancestor: Francis Cooke, who arrived in Massachusetts with fellow Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620. Thirteen generations later ...

This undated image released by Candlewick Press shows the cover of the children’s book “The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower, or John Howland’s Good Fortune” by Irish illustrator P.J. Lynch. More ...

Howland fell overboard in the middle of the Atlantic during a gale but grabbed a trailing rope and was hauled back aboard by sailors using boat hooks. His remarkable story is the subject of a new ...

BOSTON — John Howland may not be as famous as William Bradford, John Carver and Myles Standish, notable passengers on the Mayflower that landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

BOSTON (AP) — John Howland may not be as famous as William Bradford, John Carver and Myles Standish, notable passengers on the Mayflower that landed in Massachusetts in 1620.