This section presents the life and times of Governor Richard Howell in chronological form, divided into three periods.

All three timelines have been rebuilt as native Hugo content using primary source documentation.

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• Pre-War Timeline, From the Welsh origins of the Howell family through the colonial period, the founding of the Howell Homestead (1773), and the Greenwich Tea Burning (December 22, 1774).

• Revolutionary War Timeline, Richard Howell’s military service with the 2nd New Jersey Regiment, including the Valley Forge encampment, Battle of Monmouth (June 28, 1778), his intelligence operations at Black Point, and his resignation in April 1779.

• Post-War Timeline, Richard Howell’s political career, his six terms as Governor of New Jersey (1793–1801), his role in the Whiskey Rebellion (1794), and his death in 1802.