This section documents the Howell family history — from the ancient Welsh kings and medieval Welsh chieftains who bore the Howell name, through the colonial emigration to America, and into the family’s connections to prominent figures of American history.

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• Howell Family History — A scholarly history of the Howell name in Wales and England, tracing the lineage from Howel Dda (“Howel the Good,” died 950 AD) through medieval Welsh warriors and clergy, the emigration of Edward Howell to Massachusetts (1640), the Howells of Marsh Gibbon in Buckinghamshire, and the line that produced Richard Howell of New Jersey. Drawn from Genealogical and Biographical Memorials of the Reading, Howell, Yerkes, Watts, Latham, and Elkins Families by Josiah Granville Leach (1898).

• Family Tree — Links to Richard Howell’s WikiTree profile (Howell-2982) and family tree data. The original embedded WikiTree widgets are not supported in the static Hugo site; direct links to WikiTree pages are provided instead.

The family line most relevant to this site runs: Howel the Good → [many generations] → Reynold Howell of Newark, Delaware (c. 1724) → Ebenezer Howell → Richard Howell (Governor of NJ, 1754–1802).

For individual family member profiles, see the People section.