Howwaswee, Zaccheus, 1792 -

Zaccheus Howwaswee was the son of Margaret Howwaswee of Gay Head, Massachusetts.  He married Elizabeth (“Betty Zach”) Walmsley of Gay Head in 1827.  Howwaswee was a seaman and a farmer, as well as a headman, parish clerk, and Baptist minister to his community at Old South Road.  He obtained a license to operate a grist mill in 1839, which lasted for sixteen years.  He became an overseer for the Gay Head in 1854.  By 1861, he owned eight cattle, a horse, colt, and two swine and thirty-four acres of land.  Howwaswee and his wife were living at Gay Head as late as 1870.  Pease, Pease Report, 53.  Earle, Indians of Massachusetts, xi.  Mandell, Tribe, Race, History,129.  Resource Extraction - A Meeting of Land and Sea.