Definition of "howsomever"

Howsomever, a bullet passes between my arm—just here, and my side, and striked him dead upon the spot.

1830, [Frederick Marryat], chapter VI, in The King’s Own. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 95

But, howsomever, Cephas wuz took sick, Sally Ann wuzn't able to do anything for their support, S. Annie wuz took down with the typhus, and so it happened the very day the monument wuz brought to the Loontown cemetery, Cephas Bodley's folks wuz carried to the county house, S. Annie, the children and all.

1890, Josiah Allen’s wife [i.e., Marietta Holley], Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete‎

"I've come, howsomever, your mind to light With a more superior fire: You'll have naught hencefor'ard to do but write, While I sets by and inspire.

1892, Ambrose Bierce, Black Beetles in Amber‎

The old woman is over to one of the neighbors', and there ain't no one home but me; howsomever, I'm equal to any two."

1894, Edward S. Ellis, Brave Tom‎

There's one thing certain, howsomever, which is that jest now an hundred of our people could walk through the entire encampment without bein' called upon to spill a drop of blood."

1911, James Otis, The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley‎