VOLUME 3

(of 4 Volumes)

(surnames from KATES to RYLAND)

 

 

Complete Revision of:

A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England

showing three generations of those who came before May 1692

on the basis of John Farmer`s Register

 

 

 

 

 

Volume 1 originally published Boston 1860-62

 

Second revision published by James Savage 1965

Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company 1965

History of Congress Catalog Card no. 65-185451

 

 

Edited for easier and friendly internet-search of names, by

Donald F. Day, Ottawa, ON, Canada

February 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CATHARINE RABBEY, or CATHARINE RABBE, Salem, a waterman's widow from Yarmouth, in County Norfolk, embarked 12 April 1637, aged 68, to come hither, "to remain with her son" as the official document in Westminster Hall or her Majesty's Remembrancer's office says.  Who he was is unknown but she united with the church of Salem 1641.

 

GEORGE RABUN, or GEORGE RABONE, Exeter 1639, by Belknap I. 432, spelled Rawbone.

 

THADDEUS RADDEN, Marblehead 1674, as printed in Genealogical Registrar VIII. 282, which I presume to mean the same person as T. Reddam, Redden, and Raddin in Essex Institute II. 279 and 280, with less probable name in Genealogical Registrar VII. 70, Thaddeus Kidder or Kiddar.

 

JOHN RAGLAND, Boston, died 27 November 1690, in his will, of 26, probated 8 January following, gave all his estate to wife Mary.

 

FRANCIS RAINES, or FRANCIS RAYNES, York, sworn freeman of Massachusetts 1652, with prefix of dignity, Lieutenant 1654, had a daughter married John Woodman of Dover; as a Captain swore allegiance to the King 1680; made his will 21 August 1693.

NATHANIEL RAINES, or NATHANIEL RAYNES, York, son perhaps of Francis Raines, swore allegiance to the King 1681.

RICHARD RAINES, or RICHARD RAYNES, Edgartown 1659.

 

WILLIAM RAINSBORROW, Charlestown 1639, was of Artillery Company that year, and had next year estate at Watertown, was probably desirous of living on this side of the ocean, purchased in the first year of his residence the old meetinghouse, as Budington, 195, has shown, but went home before the civil war, in which he acquired distinction.  He is called brother of Stephen Winthrop (perhaps by marriage of Wintrhop with sister of Rainsborrow), whose executors conveyed to Edward Rrainsborrow probably son of William Rainsborrow, large estate in Lynn, half of fifteen hundred acres, and also half of Prudence isle in Narraganset Bay.  Edward in 1672, was of London.  Clarendon in History of the Rebellion, gives account of William's death 1648.

 

EDWARD RAINSFORD, often EDWARD RANSFORD, Boston 1630, came in the fleet with Winthrop, by Hutchinson I. 260, called brother of Chief Justice Rainsford, which so strongly do I suspect to be erroneous, that gladly would conjecture be offered of its possible cause, were it in my power, was freeman 17 April 1637, a Deacon, and Ruling Elder of the First Church, and one the founders of the third, indignant at the artifices, practised to bring Davenport from New Haven, died 16 August 1680.   He by first wife, had Mary and Josiah, born 1, both baptized 17 June 1632; the mother died the same month, and Josiah died in September following, and by second wife Elizabeth, had John, born 30 June, baptized 27 July 1634; Jonathan, baptized 23 October 1636; Ranis, 4, baptized 10 June 1638; Nathan, 24 July, baptized 1 August 1641, died before his father; David, baptized 1 September 1644, died 28 November 1691; Solomon; Edward; Elizabeth; and Ann, born 1 February 1652; all except the first son named in the will, made 3, probated 28 August 1680, though Jonathan and Nathan are mentioned as dead, yet the latter probably without issue, as his surely to Edward, and the children of the others are named, Jonathan, Dorothy, and Mary.  His widow Elizabeth, who died 16 November 1688, aged 81, is named executor, and he calls his daughters Mary Parcyfull, meaning possibly Percival, but who the husband was is unknown; Ranis Belcher, wife of Josiah, Elizabeth Greenough, second wife of William; and Ann Hough, wife of Samuel of Boston.

EDWARD RAINSFORD, often EDWARD RANSFORD, Boston, a fisherman, came in the Abigail from London, 1635, aged 26, whom I dare not deny though I must not assert, to be the same as preceding.

JOHN RAINSFORD, often JOHN RANSFORD, Boston, ship carpenter, son of the preceding, married Susanna Vergoose, daughter of Peter Vergoose, had Elizabeth, John, Mary Shute, Susanna, Edward, Hannah, and Nathan, as all are named legatees in the will of their grandmother Susanna Vergoose.  He died5 April 1698.

JONATHAN RAINSFORD, often JONATHAN RANSFORD, Boston, son of the Elder, married 29 November 1656, Mary Sunderland, daughter of John Sunderland, had Mary, born 2 July 1659; Jonathan, 26 July 1661, Dorothy, 11 September 1663; and Hannah, 5 April 1666; died at Barbadoes, 11 March 1671, leaving his father and Jacob Eliot executors of his will (which was nuncupative) and trust for his children. The  widow married August 1674, Joshua Hobart.

NATHAN RAINSFORD, often NATHAN RANSFORD, Charlestown, son of the Elder, was a cooper, removed to Boston, a merchant in 1674. 

SAMUEL RAINSFORD, often SAMUEL RANSFORD, a soldier, under Captain Turner, killed by the Indians May 1676 in the fight near the falls of Miller's River.

 

GEORGE RAM, came in the Abigail, from London, 1635, aged 25; but nothing more is known of him.  In Genealogical Registrar XIV. 318, Mr. Drake is positive that this name in the custom-house record is Rum.  How much his eyesight was better than mine, in copying the same page for 3 Historical Collections VIII. 267, I may be satisfied when next visiting London; but until then, as keeper of her majesty's record in his many corrections of my text in same series of Historical ColIections X. 130, did not include this error, let it passed Rum or Ram is unknown.

 

CHRISTIAN RAMACKE, Kittery, of the grand jury 1659.

 

AQUILA RAMSDELL, or AQUILA RAMSDEN, Lynn, son of John Ramsdell, freeman 1691, had Nathaniel, born 16 September 1673; Aquila, last of January 1676; John, 25 March 1678; Jonathan, 23 August 1679, died next month; Hannah, 26 September 1680;  Jonathan, again, died under 3 years; Samuel, 26 October 1684; and Jonathan, again, 25 February 1686.

ISAAC RAMSDELL, or ISAAC RAMSDEN, Lynn, probably brother of the preceding, married 12 July 1666, Eleanor Vinton, eldest daughter of John Vinton, had Dorcas and John, who both died young; Nathaniel, born last of May 1677; John, again, 29 March 1680; Joseph, 17 September 1683; Sarah, 8 May 1685; and Eleanor; 8 April 1688.

JOHN RAMSDELL, or JOHN RAMSDEN, Lynn 1630, or at least a very early settler, had John and Aquila, and died says Lewis, 27 October 1688, aged 86, whose wife Priscilla, he adds, had died 23 January 1676.  His daughter Elizabeth, I judge, became wife 12 August 1674 of John Shaw of Malden, and the son. probably the youngest, Jonathan, born 31 March 1657, died next year.

JOHN RAMSDELL, or JOHN RAMSDEN, Boxford 1673, perhaps son of the preceding, married 31 May 1671, Elizabeth Perkins, daughter of Reverend William Perkins of Topsfield.

 

DANIEL RAMSDEN, Plymouth 1665.

JOHN RAMSDEN, Newton, Long Island, 1663, selectman 1664, and same year made freeman of Connecticut, of whose jurisdiction he was strenuosly supportive, and lived in 1686 to be named in the patent from Governor Dongan.  See Riker.

JOSEPH RAMSDEN, Plymouth, married 1646, Rachel Eaton, daughter of Francis Eaton, had Daniel, born 14 September 1649.  He married again, 16 October 1661, Mary Savory.

 

JOHN RAMSEY, one of Moseley's Company December 1675, but where he lived or when he died is not known.

 

JOHN RANCE, Scituate, a Quaker, who assisted in erecting meeting house was whipped for ardent language 1677, and removed to Barbadoes.  Yet he had served in Philip's war.  His widow was at Scituate in 1697. Deane, 51.

 

FRANCIS RAND, Portsmouth 1631, sent over by John Mason, and there lived to serve on the jury 1656.  Adam's Ann. 18.  Perhaps he was at Exeter 1657.

HENRY RAND, Stow, married 19 September 1682, Mary Crane, and had children born there.

JAMES RAND, Plymouth, came in the Ann, 1623, and next year had his share in the division of land but none in the division of cattle, 1627, so that we may conclude, he was gone.

JOHN RAND, Charlestown, perhaps son of Robert Rand, died 19 December 1659, probably unmarried.

JOHN RAND, Braintree 1657. a mariner, there lived 1662.

JOHN RAND, Dover, married Remembrance Alt, daughter of John Alt, was freeman 1672, perhaps had second wife Elizabeth, who administered his estate 1690.

JOHN RAND, Charlestown, son of Thomas Rand, 2 December 1685, Mehitable Call, daughter of John Call, had Mehitable, born 27 March 1687; Sarah, 5 January 1688, died very soon; John, 7 March 1690; Hannah, 6 February 1692; Jonathan, 27 April 1694; Sarah, again, baptized 19 July 1696, Rebecca, born 4 November 1698, died at 2 months; Benjamin, 17 March 1700; Thomas, 22 March 1702; Caleb, 6 December 1703; Isaac and Rebecca, twins baptized 8 September 1706, both died next month; Rebecca, again, born 31 July 1708, died soon; Edmund, 2 July 1710; and Richard, 19 November 1714.  His wife died 25 March 1727, aged 58, and he married 14 October 1730, Mary Randall, and died 24 September 1737.  His widow died 22 September 1757, aged 85.

NATHANIEL RAND, Charlestown, son perhaps youngest, of Robert Rand, married 2 September 1664, Mary Carter, daughter of Samuel Carter of the same, had Nathaniel, born 13 July 1665, died in few days; Mary, 30 December 1666, baptized 5 April 1668, he having been administered of the church on Sunday preceding, and she died in few days after; Nathaniel, again, 12, baptized 16 August 1668, died young; Samuel, baptized 4 September 1670, died young; John, 17, baptized 22 October 1671, died soon; John, again, baptized 19 October 1673; Samuel, again, 20 February 1676, died young; Mary, again, born 16, baptized 18 November 1677; and by second wife Abigail, had Abigail, born 9 March baptized 16 May 1680; Joseph, 4, baptized 5 February 1682; Thomas, born 10 August 1685, died soon; Ebenezer, baptized 6 May 1688; Sarah, born 16 June 1690; Susanna and Isabel, twins baptized 3 June 1694, both died in few months, and was freeman 1668, one of the selectmen 1690, and died 17 May 1696, his wife having died 16 October before.

ROBERT RAND, Charlestown 1635, brought from England, wife Alice Sharp, said to be daughter of Nicholas Sharp in England, and sister of Mary, wife of the first Captain Richard Sprague, with children Margery, Thomas, Susanna, and probably Alice; here had Nathaniel, baptized 3 November 1636; and Elizabeth, 29 December 1639, but he died before Margery married about 1646, as his second wife Lawrence Dowse.  Susanna married 8 February 1652, Abraham Newell of Roxbury; Alice married Thomas Lord, and died 11 August 1721 in her 88th year; and Elizabeth married about 1662, Nathaniel Brewer of Roxbury.  His widow lived to 29 July 1691, aged 87, and her will was probated 17 August following.

ROBERT RAND, Lynn 1649, had Robert; Zechary; and Hannah, born August 1657; died 8 November 1694, says Lewis, in History second edition 112, where he says his wife Elizabeth died 29 August 1693, and adds Elizabeth and Mary to the number of his church.

ROBERT RAND, Lynn, son probably of the preceding, married last of January 1684, Tabitha Ivory, daughter of second Thomas Ivory of Lynn.

SAMUEL RAND, Dover, married 14 August 1679, Mary Walton, daughter of George Walton.

THOMAS RAND, Charlestown, son probably eldest of Robert Rand, born in England about 1627, brought by his father, married 12 March 1656, Sarah Edenden, daughter of Edmund Edenden, had Thomas, born 1 February 1657, baptized 6 May 1660, as father and mother joined the church the week preceding; John born 6 October 1659, died in few weeks; Elizabeth, baptized 2 February 1662; John, again, born 25 May 1664; Sarah, 15 August 1666; Robert, baptized 19 April 1668; Edmund, born 27 January 1670, died young; Hannah, 21 February 1672; William, 11 September 1674; Deborah, 28 September 1676; and Samuel, 3 May 1679; was freeman 1660, and died 3 August 1683, and his widow died 1699, in her 63d year.  Elizabeth married 4 July 1632, John Pinney; and Hannah married 12 April 1694, Nathaniel Frothingham.

THOMAS RAND, Charlestown, son of the preceding, married 17 June 1679, Sarah Longley, daughter of William Longley or William Langley of Groton, had Sarah, born 27 January 1680, died soon; Thomas, 26 December 1681; Edmund, who died 31 August 1683; Robert, 18 June 1684; Edmund, again, 22 August 1686; William, 4 May 1689; Joshua, 2 March 1692; and Sarah, 1 September 1694, died next year.  He was drowned 2 October 1695, and his widow had administration 2 December following.

WILLIAM RAND, Charlestown, brother of the preceding, by wife Persis, had Mary, born 21 May 1695; Elizabeth, baptized 4 April 1697; William, 1698; John, born 11 February 1701, died soon; Deborah, baptized 29 November 1702; Samuel, born 27 May 1704; Thomas, 22 August 1711; and Joshua, baptized 20 September 1713, and died 19 February 1747; and his widow died 25 June 1748, aged 80 years.  Ten of this name had, in 1828, been graduates at Harvard.

 

ABRAHAM RANDALL, Dorchester, son of Philip Randall, removed with his father to Windsor 1636, was constable 1656, married first wife Mary, 1 December 1640, and second wife 27 October 1681, Elizabeth Kibby, but probably had no children by either, or at least left none, when he died 21 August 1690; in his will gave most of his estate to Abraham and two other sons of George Phelps, his nephews.

ANTHONY RANDALL, Salem 1688, a physician.  Felt.

ISAAC RANDALL, Scituate, youngest son of William Randall of the same, married 19 November 1684, Susanna Barstow, daughter of Joseph Barstow, and for second wife 1692, Deborah Buck, daughter of John Buck, had Isaac, Susanna, Jacob, Deborah, Robert, Ruth, Gideon, Rachel, Caleb, Elisha, Mary, Abigail, Grace, and Perez; of whom we may presume that the last eleven were by the second.  Deane says he lived to the age of 102.

JOB RANDALL, Scituate, son of William Randall of the same, had Mary, born 1680; Job, 1683; James, 1685; Nehemiah, 1688; Lydia, 1690; and Samuel, 1694.

JOHN RANDALL, Watertown, by wife Susanna, had Sarah, born 7 August 1659; besides Susanna, supposed to be first child; Stephen; Mary; Samuel, 20 March 1669; and Eleazer, 30 April 1672; all named in his will of 22 April probated 5 October 1680.  His wife had died 14 May 1673.  He was probably younger brother of Stephen Randall, and died 16 June 1680.  Susanna married Enoch Sawtell.

JOHN RANDALL, Westerly 1667, complained of by Connecticut Indians.  Trumbull II. 529.

JOHN RANDALL Weymouth, son of Robert Randall, freeman 1691, by wife Mercy, had Mary, born 31 May 1668; John 16 April 1673; Elizabeth; Mercy; and other children whose dates are not in the records, but in his will of 28 December 1715, he names wife Sarah, son John; Mercy, wife of Thomas Kingman; Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Orcut; besides wife of Benjamin Luddam; and wife of ....Reed, as his daughters.

JOHN RANDALL, Rochester, may have been son of William Randall of Scituate, and lived there early, had John, born 6 May 1677; Patience, 13 January 1679, Thomas, 25 January 1681; Mercy, 20 January 1683; William, 6 February 1685; Job, 3 March 1688;  Judith, 29 April 1690; and Lazarus, 25 December 1691.  Perhaps his wife was relative of Thomas Rollins the second of Boston; at least in his will of 12 December 1681, he is named among other kin.

JOHN RANDALL, Watertown, married Rachel Waite, daughter of John Waite of the same, had Mary, born 10 June 1690; and he died December following.

JOSEPH RANDALL, Scituate, eldest of William Randall of the same, married 1673, Hannah Macomber, perhaps daughter of William Macomber, had Elizabeth and Sarah, born 1673, Joseph, 1675; Hannah, 1677; Sarah, again, 1680; Margaret, 1683; Mercy, 1684; and Benjamin, 1688, as Deane tells.

NATHANIEL RANDALL, Boston 1660, son of John Randall of Clerkenwell, London, that had wife Elizabeth, who was sister of William Morton of Windsor and New London. 

PHILIP RANDALL, Dorchester, freeman 14 May 1634, had one daughter called Philury, who married George Phelps, and son Abraham, before mentioned, and Philip, removed 1636 to Windsor, there died 6 September 1648, unless this be date of his son of the same name, and he, I think, lived to 66, but had no children and the name soon after was exinct at Windsor.  The widow died 1665, aged 87.

RICHARD RANDALL, Saco, had Richard, born 1659; and Sarah, 1661; may be the same who was of Boston 1676, (but more probably his father) a mariner, had wife Elizabeth Tozer, daughter of the first Richard Tozer, and many years later was of Dover.

ROBERT RANDALL, Weymouth freeman 1647, then spelled Rendell, in his will of 27 March 1621, names his children John, Thomas, Mary, who was born 20 or 30 March 1642, wife of Abraham Staples, married 17 September 1660; and Hannah, wife of John Warfield, both then of Mendon.  Mary, his wife was buried 3 September 1640, but his next wife is unknown.  He came from Wendover, County Bucks, as he testified in 1688, at the age of 80.

SAMUEL RANDALL, Watertown, son of John Randall of the same, married 27 January 1709, Elizabeth Gleason of Cambridge, had Elizabeth, born 22 March 1710; Samuel, 12 November 1711; Susanna, December 1713, died at 10 years; Mary, 23 February 1713; John, January 1719; and Stephen, 29 January 1722; and died 24 January 1730.

STEPHEN RANDALL, Watertown, married 14 December 1653, Susanna Barron, daughter of Ellis Barron, had Elizabeth, who married Stephen Codman; Stephen, born 20 August 1655, who probably died young; Susanna, who married William Shatuck; and Mary, 24 June 1662.  He was perhaps elder son of that widow Elizabeth, who died at Watertown 24 December 1672, aged 80; and he died 26 February 1708.  The will of 13 January 1698, names the three daughters, and Mary married, only six weeks after that date, Abraham Chamberlin; yet the will was not, of course, potental in the matching.  He left no male descendants.

THOMAS RANDALL, Marblehead, fisherman, married before February 1665, Sarah Langdon, daughter of John Langdon of Boston, died soon, for his inventory was taken 20 November 1667.

THOMAS RANDALL, Weymouth, son of Robert Randall, freeman 1691, by wife Hannah, had Deborah, born 2 September 1683.

WILLIAM RANDALL, Scituate 1640, had lived perhaps in 1636 at Rhode Island, certainly in 1637 at Marshfield, before marrying, and after had Sarah, born 1640; Joseph, March 1642; Hannah, March 1644; William, December 1647; John, April 1650; Elizabeth, October 1652; Job, 8 February 1655; Benjamin, 1656; and Isaac, 1658. To his. wife Elizabethm by will of Michael Barstow of Watertown, in June 1674, was given good legacy.

WILLIAM RANDALL, Newbury, by wife Elizabeth, who Coffin says he married 2 October 14, had Elizabeth, born 13 May 1650; William, 2 March 1653; John, 3 March 1655; Mary, 26 March 1656; and Hannah, 7 January 1659.

WILLIAM RANDALL, Newbury, son of the preceding, by wife Rebecca, had Enoch, born December 1676; and his wife died 18 February following.

WILLIAM RANDALL, Westfield, perhaps son of William Randall of Scituate, by wife Mary, had chidren before going thither, of whom only Mary is known, but probably another was William, and there had John, born 17 June 1682; Abigail, 26 July 1684; Hannah, 23 November 1686; and Elizabeth, 8 April 1689, died next year at Enfield, whither here.  In March 1691, his daughter Mary was charged with witchcraft but the murderous spirit was rebuked by the judges, considerate administered her father to be surety.  One of the early purchasers at Taunton, was a widow Randall, but of whom she had been wife is not known.

 

EDWARD RANDOLPH, Boston, called "the evil genius of New England" from 1676, engaged in the project of overturning the rights secured by the Charter, and after its extinction in 1684, employed with Sir E. Andros, and the instrument of tyranny until the glorious Revolution 1689, when he, with the rest, was imprisoned in few weeks after rejoicing to be sent home; and it is said that he died in the West Indies.  See Eliot's Biographical Dictionary; Hutchinson 1. 319; and Chalmer's Pol. Ann. 491.

 

EDWARD RANGER, Boston, a stationer, or as Thomas II 411, calls him, binder, by first wife Sarah, had Prudence, born 5 November 1672; John, 16 April 1674; and by wife Mary, Samuel, 29 March 1681; and Sarah, 15 September 1692; was freeman 1671.

 

ANDREW RANKIN, York, died before 1678, leaving five children and widow Martha, who married Philip Frost.

JOHN RANKIN, Roxbury 1653, a servant of Governor Thomas Dudley.

 

EBENEZER RANNEY, Middletown, youngest son of Thomas Ranney the first, married 4 August 1698, Sarah Warner, perhaps daughter of Robert Warner of the same.

JOHN RANNEY, Middletown, brother of the preceding, married 1693, Hannah Turner.

JOSEPH RANNEY, Middletown, brother of the preceding, married 1693, Mary Star, probably daughter of Comfort Star of the same, and died 2 March 1745.

THOMAS RANNEY, Middletown, from Scotland, says Field, 33, married May 1659, Mary Hubbard, daughter of George Hubbard, and died 2 June 1713, leaving good estate and four sons: Thomas, born 1 March 1660; John, 14 November 1662; Joseph, September 1663, and Ebenezer, besides daughters Mary, born February 1665, married 30 May 1682, John Savage; Elizabeth, 12 April 1660, wife of Jonathan Warner, married 4 August 1698; and Esther, who married 3 November 1696, Nathan Savage.  His widow died 18 December 1721.

THOMAS RANNEY, Middletown, eldest son of the preceding, married 1690, Rebecca Willet, eldest daughter of Nathaniel Willet, probably had several children.

 

MATTHEW RANSOM, Saybrook, married 7 March 1683, Hannah Jones, had Joseph, born 10 January 1684.

 

THOMAS RAPER, Boston, by wife Martha, had Jeremiah, born 27 April 1685; Mercy, 8 October 1686, died young Stephen; 16 June 1688; Martha, 18 November 1689; and Mercy, again, 23 October 1691.

 

HENRY RASHLEY, Boston 1648, perhaps brother of Thomas Rashley, died before July 1657,

JOHN RASHLEY, charged with murder 1679, to the East of Kennebeck.

THOMAS RASHLEY, Boston, administered of the church 8 March 1640, called "a studyent," meaning in theology, no doubt, and next year at Gloucester, as we learn from Lechford, he exercised as they say, in a prophetical way, and there perhaps married, but his son John "being about six weeks old," was baptized at Boston 18 May 1645, in which year he was possibly of Artillery Company and of Exeter 1646; but soon went home, was the minister at Bishop Stoke, County Hants, where, 4 May 1652, he baptized Samuel Sewall, first of that name, Chief Justice of Massachusetts.  He was after, as Farmer, in a MS note says, settler in Wiltshire.

 

RICHARD RASOR, Boston, married 24 August 1660, Exercise Blackleach, daughter of John Blackleach.

 

ROBERT RATCHELL or ROBERT RACHELL, Boston, married Judith Hart, daughter of John Hart, had Mary, born 31 August 1652; Ann, 4 February 1654; and Temperance, 8 June 1658; he died 1659, when inventory of his estate was £5  4s. 8d., and his widow married 3 December 1663, Philip Bullis.  Boston record however, by seeming incongruent, makes Thomas Reape to be married by Governor John Endicott, 30 November 1660, to widow Judith Ratchell. Still Bullis prevailed, possibly at a later day.  Mary married John Pierce of Gloucester; Ann married 1677, Andrew Hall of Boston; and Temperance married William Johnson of Boston, and was widow 1677.

 

JOHN RATCLIFF, or JOHN RATLIFFE, Boston, by wife Alice, had John, born 16 November 1664; Thomas, 17 January 1667; and Elizabeth, 1 January 1670.

PHILIP RATCLIFF, or PHILIP RATLIFFE, agent for Governor Cradock, probably in the Marblehead fishery, before 1630, severely, even cruelly punished for malediction of the church at Salem in June 1631, as cutting off his ears, and a sort of excuse seems to be suggested that he could not have felt the indignity because he was insane.  He was banished as in Winthrop is told I. 56.

ROBERT RATCLIFF, or ROBERT RATLIFFE, Plymouth, came in the Ann, 1623, probably with wife and children, for in the division of lands next year he had four shares but in the division of cattle, 1627, his name is not found.

ROBERT RATCLIFF, or ROBERT RATLIFFE, Boston 1686, the first Episcopal minister settler in New England, was inducted15 June of that year and Sewall, in his Diary Notes, that on 15 September Mr. David Jeffries was by him married to Miss Betty Usher, probably daughter of John Usher; but perhaps no edifice for worship was erected in his time.  Neither Pemberton nor Eliot give any report of him after the first year.  Dunton says he "was an eminent preacher and his sermons were useful, and well dressed."  He had come in the frigate Rose, May 1686, and went home, no doubt, at the end of three years when his patron Andros was overthrown.

WILLIAM RATCLIFF, or WILLIAM RATLIFFE, Greenwich 1669, had probably lived at Stamford, there married 27 October 1659, Elizabeth Thele, daughter of Nicholas Thele, was Representative 1670.

 

JOHN RATHBON, THOMAS RATHBON, THOMAS RATHBON, junior and WILLIAM RATHBON, were of Block Island 1678.

 

JOSHUA RATSTOCK, Boston 1687, prayed Sir E. Andros for leave to keep a school at the North end, but his success is not heard of.

 

ANTHONY RAVENSCROFT, Westerly 1661, was a soldier in 1675.

SAMUEL RAVENSCROFT, Boston, Artillery Company 1679, married Dionysia Savage, daughter of Major Thomas Savage, had Dionysia, born 12 April 1681; Samuel, 12 April 1682; both baptized 7 May this year; George, 20, baptized 23 March 1684; Sarah, 20 November 1686; and Thomas, 29 June 1688.  He was one of the Wardens of the first Episcopal church, and that prevented the baptism of the church at Old South to which he had belonged, and it may be thought perhaps led to his imprisonment at the Revolution in April 1689.  Soon after, he united in a loyal address to King William, but probably removed in short time.

 

JOHN RAVENSDALE, was sworn a freeman of Massachusetts 6 May 1635; but where lived I find not.

 

RAWBORNE. See Rabun.

 

CALEB RAWLINS, CALEB RAWLINGS, or CALEB ROLLINS, Boston, son of Thomas Rawlins the second, by wife Elizabeth Wilmot, daughter of Nicholas Wilmot, had Thomas, born 15 September 1673; Mary, 10 March 1677; and Ann, 25 October 1679.

ICHABOD RAWLINS, ICHABOD RAWLINGS, or ICHABOD ROLLINS, Dover, perhaps son of James Rawlins, was taxed 1665.

JAMES RAWLINS, JAMES RAWLINGS, or JAMES ROLLINS, Newbury, freeman 14 May 1634, was of Dover two years after, and in 1656, fined for neglect of public worship.

JASPER RAWLINS, JASPER RAWLINGS, or JASPER ROLLINS, Roxbury, came with wife Joan in 1632 probably, for 11 June 1633 he was administered freeman, went early to Wethersfield, soon after to Windsor; but back to Roxbury before 1646; there married 8 June 1651, widow of Thomas Griggs, perhaps Hannah, to who by his will of 7 January 1666, probated 13 June 1667, he gave all his estate, unless any of his children came here to settle.  I believe they all continued in Connecticut.  He was of Boston 1654 and after.

JOHN RAWLINS, JOHN RAWLINGS, or JOHN ROLLINS, Boston, by wife Judah, had Gershom, born 29 January 1686; and perhaps more.

JOSHUA RAWLINS, JOSHUA RAWLINGS, or JOSHUA ROLLINS, Boston 1671, mariner, son of second Thomas Rawlins, by wife Abigail, had Abigail, born 2 May of that year, who married October 1686, Zechariah Kirk.

NATHANIEL RAWLINS, NATHANIEL RAWLINGS, or NATHANIEL ROLLINS, Scituate, son of Thomas Rawlins, came with his father to Roxbury 1630, married 4 September 1652, Lydia Sylvester, daughter of Richard Sylvester, had Elizabeth, born 1 March 1654, died young; Ruth, 27 September 1655; Patience, 1658; Nathaniel, 1659; Elizabeth again, 1661; and Nathaniel, again, 7 September 1662; and died 23 December 1662.  His wife married May 1664 Edward Wright.  His daughter Elizabeth married 1679, James Torrey.

NICHOLAS RAWLINS, NICHOLAS RAWLINGS, or NICHOLAS ROLLINS, Newbury, married 31 October 1679, Rebecca Long, daughter of Robert Long of the same, had John, born 13 December 1680.; Daniel, 21 March 1682; Mary, 10 April 1683; Joseph, 25 March 1685; Benjamin, 2 March 1687; Rebecca, 1 October 1689, and Martha, 5 November 1692. 

RICHARD RAWLINS, RICHARD RAWLINGS, or RICHARD ROLLINS, Boston 1638, a plaisterer, administered of the church 1642, freeman 10 May 1643, had wife Mary.

ROBERT RAWLINS, ROBERT RAWLINGS, or ROBERT ROLLINS, Amesbury, swore allegiance 20 December 1677.

SAMUEL RAWLINS, SAMUEL RAWLINGS, or SAMUEL ROLLINS, a soldier at Hadley in 1676, was perhaps son of Thomas Rawlins the second of Boston.

THOMAS RAWLINS, THOMAS RAWLINGS, or THOMAS ROLLINS, Roxbury 1630, perhaps brother of Jasper Rawlins, "came in the first Company" says the church record, that is, with Winthrop before either Eliot or Welde, bringing with wife five children: Thomas, Mary, John, Nathaniel, and John, was made freeman 18 May 1631, having requested that benefit 19 October before.  His wife Mary died about 1639, and he soon removed to Weymouth, thence to Scituate, and few years later to Boston, where his wife Emma died 27 December 1655, and he married 2 May 1656, Sarah, widow of David Mattocks of Roxbury, and died 15 March 1660.  His will of three days before probated 4 April following, names only wife Sarah, and sons Thomas and Nathaniel.  Mary, the daughter brought from England married April 1639, William Parker, and Joan married 28 January 1646, Ephraim Kempton, both of Scituate, but their wives were dead before this will.  Deane has slightly confused the account. 

THOMAS RAWLINS, THOMAS RAWLINGS, or THOMAS ROLLINS, Weymouth, mariner, son of the preceding, came 1630, with his father, freeman 3 March 1636, probably removed after birth of Thomas his first son, and Joshua, born 2 December 1642, to Boston, there had Caleb, 8 March 1645; Joseph, baptized in right of his mother of the church of Weymouth, at Boston 25 June 1648, about 11 days old; Mary, born 24 November 1652; Samuel, 1 September 1655; and his wife Hannah, mother of these children was administrator of the estate 1677.

THOMAS RAWLINS, THOMAS RAWLINGS, or THOMAS ROLLINS, Dorchester, of who all we know comes from the gravestone that he died 7 July 1693, aged about 70 years.

THOMAS RAWLINS, THOMAS RAWLINGS, or THOMAS ROLLINS, Boston, son probably of the second Thomas Rawlins, by wife Sarah, had Thomas, born 20 January 1667; but no more is found on the record and we may presume he died or removed.  Almost universally this name has become Rollins.

 

THOMAS RAWLINSON, Ipswich, freeman 2 May 1638.  See Rowlandson.

 

EDWARD RAWSON, Newbury, born 16 April 1615, at Gillingham, County Dorset, near the bounds of Hants and Wilts, from both of which came many of our Newbury people, arriving I suppose, in 1637, and in March 1638, freeman, was first clerk of the town, Representative 1638, 9, 42, 4, 6, 8, and 9, and Secretary 1650 to 86, died 27 August 1693, having removed to Boston, 1650; was long registrar of deeds for Suffolk County, as well as Secretary for the Colony, for which office the volumes of records exhibit strange evidence in many places of his incompetency or more wonderful neglect.  One instance is specified under Adams, Joseph.  He had son Daniel, before 1662.  He married in England Rachel Pirne, daughter of Thomas Pirne, or Thomas Perne, and his first child a daughter was born there, and left at home; besides her, six more daughters are said to have been born to him, and five sons.  Of these we can hardly be sure of the dates of more than half; Edward Rawson, Harvard College 1653; and Rachel, who married at Boston, 18 January 1653, William Aubrey, we may suppose to have been born in England also; but the rest would probably be born here, though we may mistake names as well as dates.  David, born 6 May 1644; Pirne or Parnell, 1646; and Grindall, 23 January 1649, who died young, may admit to have their births at Newbury, as Coffin gives them; though his Susan who died in Roxbury 1654, must be rejected, since the town record is silent, and by inspection of the church record it seems probable Susan Payson, daughter of Edward Payson, was thus read.  John, who went to England and never came back, and William, born at Boston 21, baptized 25 May 1651; Rebecca, 19 October 1654, died soon; Rebecca, again, born 21, baptized 25 May 1656; Sarah; Elizabeth, 12 November 1657; and Grindall Rawson, again, 23 January 1659, Harvard College 1678, will complete the number without the conjectural  Susan of Roxbury.  His wife had died 11 October 1677.  Mary married 15 May 1657, Reverend Samuel Torrey; Rebecca married 1 July 1679, one Thomas Rumsey, a scoundrel, who pretended to be Thomas Hale junior, a nephew of the great jurist, Sir Matthew, Chief Justice of England who carried her to London, and immediately abandoned her; and Sarah married Thomas Brougton of Boston.

EDWARD RAWSON, Boston, eldest son the preceding, went home, and was a settler, minister at Horsmanden in County Kent, whence, after the restoration, he was ejected by the Farmer incumbent.

GRINDALL RAWSON, Mendon, youngest son of Edward Rawson the first, so named in honor of the puritan Archbishop of Canterbury in Elizabeth's day, was second minister in that town, freeman 1683 ordained 7 April 1684, married Susanna Wilson, daughter of Reverend John Wilson of Medfield, had Edmund, born 1684, died soon; John, 26 April 1685, died next month; Susanna, 3 October 1686; Edmund, again, 8 July 1689; Wilson, 23 June 1692; John, again, 1 October 1695; Mary, 22 June 1699; Rachel, 6 September 1701; David, 25 October 1703, died in 3 months; Grindall, 6 September 1707; and Elizabeth, 21 April 1710.  He died 6 February 1715, and his widow died 8 July 1748, in her 84th year.

WILLIAM RAWSON, Boston, brother of the preceding, married 11 July 1673, Ann Glover, only daughter of Nathaniel Glover of Dorchester, had Ann, born 11 April 1674; Wilson, 1675; Margaret, 1 August 1676; Edward, 6 September 1677, died soon; Edward, again, 29 August 1678; Rachel, 16 October 1679; Dorothy, 8 August 1681, all died young; William Rawson, 2 or 8 December 1682, Harvard College 1703; David, 13 December 1683; Dorothy, again, 19 June 1686, died young; removed to Dorcheser, there had Ebenezer, 1687, died young; Thankful, 6 August 1688, died in few days; removed to Braintree, there had Nathaniel, 1689; Ebenezer, again, 24  July 1691, died in few months; Edward, again, 27 January 1692; Ann, 28 August 1693, died soon; Patience, 8 November 1694, died soon; Pelatiah, 2 July 1696; Grindall, 24 August 1697; and Mary, 1698; but the last two died soon.  The names of these twenty children of which only five lived to grow up, it is said are recorded in the ancestral family bible, and so, we presume, are the dates; one of which is impossible to be true.

 

CALEB RAY, or CALEB REA, Boston, by wife Elizabeth, had Caleb, born 19 February 1683; and by wife Mary, had Mary, 28 August 1691.

DANIEL RAY, or DANIEL REA, Plymouth 1631, removed to Salem, and probably was that freeman of 14 May 1634, spelled Wray in Colony records, and perhaps husband of Bethia, administered the church 1637, and September of that year was on the grand jury, living there 1644.  He had daughter Bethia who married first the brave Captain Thomas Lothrop, next Joseph Grafton, and last Deacon William Goodhue.  But other children were Joshua, Rebecca, and Sarah.

DANIEL RAY, or DANIEL REA, Salem, grandson of the preceding, son of the first Joshua Ray, married 10 April 1678, Hepzibah Peabody, had Jemima, born 29 December 1680; Daniel 23 November 1682; Zerobabel, 12 May 1687; Elizabeth, 14 August 1687 (unless, as may easily be conjectured, an error has crept into Essex Institute III. 97); Uzziel, March 1693; and Pilgrim, 30 November 1695.

JAMES RAY, or JAMES REA, Hingham, married January 1682, widow Hewett, perhaps relict of Thomas.

JOSHUA RAY, or JOSHUA REA, Salem, son of Daniel Ray, may have been brought from England, freeman 1665, was a taverner, 1693.  He married 26 February 1652, Sarah Waters, possibly daughter of Richard Waters, who died 19 May 1700, aged 70, had Daniel, born 30 March 1654, who served in Philip's war 1676; Rebecca, 4 September 1656; Sarah, 10 November 1658, died soon; another Sarah, and Elizabeth, dates of whose births are so confusing in Essex Institute III. 16, that though it is clear, that one is false, we know not which besides Bethia, 3 January 1663; Joshua, 6 August 1664; John, 23 May 1666; and Hannah, 1 August 1668.  Rebecca married that Samuel Stephens, killed September 1675 at the fight of Bloody Brook, and her father reported to the government that his brother-in-law, Captain Thomas Lothrop, and his son-in-law, Samuel Stephens, both killed by the Indians in that service, left families depending on him.

JOSHUA RAY, or JOSHUA REA, Salem, son of the preceding, married Elizabeth Leach, had Sarah, born 28 April 1686. 

RICHARD RAY, or RICHARD REA, Warwick, 1656.

SIMON RAY, or SIMON REA, Braintree, came, it is said, from Braintree, County Essex, and died 30 September 1641.  His will was copied on one of the lost pages of our Volume I in Probate Court, if we may believe the Index; and his inventory of 20 February following shows good estate.  Perhaps Mary, who married 15 November 1651, Samuel Deering, was his daughter.

SIMON RAY, or SIMON REA, Block, son of the preceding, an original proprietor of the Island in 1661, married Mary Thomas, daughter of the first Nathaniel Thomas of Marshfield, had Mary, born 19 May 1667; Dorothy, 16 October 1669; Simon, 9 April 1672; and Sibel, 19 March 1675.  He lived to see numerous progeny through male and female lines, and died 17 March 1737, in 102nd year, says the gravestone; and from him came into the family by subsequent intermiates the Honorable Nathaniel Ray Thomas, one of his Majesty's Counsellors of Massachusetts Bay 1774.

 

DANIEL RAYMOND, perhaps often DANIEL RAYMENT, Lyme, youngest son of Richard Raymond, married Elizabeth Harris, daughter of Gabriel Harris, who died 10 August 1683, had Elizabeth and Sarah; and married next Rebecca Lay, daughter of John Lay, had Richard, Samuel, and perhaps others, and died 1696.  His widow married Samuel Gager of Norwich.

JOHN RAYMOND, perhaps often JOHN RAYMENT, Beverly 1670, perhaps the freeman of 1683, died in 87th year 18 January 1703.

JOHN RAYMOND, perhaps often JOHN RAYMENT, Beverly, possibly may be thought son of the preceding, as in 1682, he was called senior; by wife Rachel, had Bethia, born 14 June 1655, who died young, as did, also, Abigail and Elizabeth, all in December 1662; Rachel, born 14 February 1660; and Jonathan, 25 April 1666; and his wife died the week following. 

JOHN RAYMOND, perhaps often JOHN RAYMENT, Norwalk, son of Richard Raymond, married 10 December 1664, Mary Betts, daughter of Thomas Betts, had John, born 9 September 1665; Samuel, 7 July 1673; and perhaps others; was living with two children 1694.

JOSHUA RAYMOND, perhaps often JOSHUA RAYMENT, New London 1658, eldest son of Richard Raymond, married 10 December 1659, Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Nehemiah Smith, had Joshua, born 18 September 1660; Elizabeth, 2 May 1662 Ann, 12 May 1664; Hannah, 8 August 1668; Mary, 12 March 1672; and Experience, 20 January 1674, died at 16 years; besides Richard and Mehitable, who died infants; and he died 1676.  His widow married 26 January 1681, George Dennis.

JOSHUA RAYMOND, perhaps often JOSHUA RAYMENT, Block Island 1687, son of the preceding.

RICHARD RAYMOND, perhaps often RICHARD RAYMENT, Salem, perhaps brother of the first John Raymond and of William Raymond, freeman 14 May 1634, had there baptized Bathseba, 11 July 1637, who married 29 July 1659, Humphrey Coombs; Joshua, 3 March 1639; Lemuel, 3 January 1641; Hannah, February 1643; Samuel, 13 July 1645; Richard, 2 January 1648; Elizabeth, 28 April 1650; and Daniel, 17 April 1653, all probably by wife Judith; removed to Norwalk, thence in 1664 to Saybrook, there died 1692.

RICHARD RAYMOND, perhaps often RICHARD RAYMENT, Saybrook, son of the preceding, died as early as 1680.

SAMUEL RAYMOND, perhaps often SAMUEL RAYMENT, New London, son of the first Richard Raymond, married Mary Smith, daughter of Nehemiah Smith, had no children; but he and wife were living 1700.

THOMAS RAYMOND, perhaps often THOMAS RAYMENT, Salem Village, freeman 1690.

WILLIAM RAYMOND, perhaps often WILLIAM RAYMENT, Portsmouth 1632, sent out by Captain John Mason. 

WILLIAM RAYMOND, perhaps often WILLIAM RAYMENT, Salem 1648, brother perhaps of the first John Raymond and Richard Raymond, married Hannah Bishop, and next Ruth Hall, by both had children, probably one William, aged 20 in 1692, witness about witchcraft, was a Captain of Beverly, and with Reverend John Hale, his minister, went in the unfortunate expedition protected by Sir William Phips, when he was sheriff, 1690, against Quebec; freeman 1683, and Representative 1685 and 9; and died 29 January 1709.

 

FRANCIS RAYN, or FRANCIS RAYNES, York 1649, a selectman, Captain 1659, and Magistrate 1670, owed allegiance to Massachusetts.  Hutchinson I. 267, and Hubbard, 617.

JOSEPH RAYN, or JOSEPH RAYNES, Portsmouth, 1685, Attorney-General of the Province to do the pleasure of Governor Cranfield.

NATHANIEL RAYN, or NATHANIEL RAYNES, York 1680, was perhaps son of Francis Rayn.

 

EDWARD RAYNER or EDWARD REYNER, Hempstead, Long Island, 1647, was probably son of Thurston Rayner, or at least came with him, aged 10, from Ipswich, County Suffolk, in the Elizabeth, lived first at Watertown.

HENRY RAYNER or HENRY REYNER, Boston, married 9 June 1662, widow Joanna Edwards, was a soldier on Connecticut River 1676, under Captain Turner.

HUMPHREY RAYNER or HUMPHREY REYNER, Rowley, born at Gildersome, in the West riding of Yorkshire, not far from Leeds, freeman 18 May 1642, was Representative 1649, had besides the daughter Mary, who married Michael Wigglesworth, and perhaps died before her father.  Ann, who married William Hobson; and Martha, married John Whipple; died 1660, and to those daughters gave all his estate after widow died. 

JACHIN RAYNER or JACHIN REYNER, Rowley, son of Reverend John Rayner the first, married 22 November 1662, Elizabeth Denison, probably daughter of Edward Denison, who died perhaps 7 May 1672, had daughter Elizabeth, and by another wife had Ann, born 23 July 1678; died 8 July 1708, and perhaps his wife died ten years before.

JOHN RAYNER or JOHN REYNER, Plymouth, brother of Humphrey Rayner, born at Gildersome, was bred at Magdalen College Cambridge, where he had his A.B. 1625, married one of four coheiresses named Boyes of his native parish, and Reverend Peter Prudden is known to have taken another, came about 1635, perhaps with first wife by whom he had Jachin; and Hannah, who married September 1660, Job Lane often; besides an elder daughter who was once thought, but erronously the first wife of Michael Wigglesworth, married 1642, for second wife Frances Clark, had John Rayner, Harvard College 1663; Joseph, 15 April 1650, died at two years; Elizabeth, Dorothy; Abigail; and Judith, who perhaps became wife of Reverend Jabez Fox of Woburn.  One of the daughters whose name is lost from the Colony record was born 26 December 1647.  After 18 years of service at Plymouth, he removed to Dover, there died 20 April 1669.  He had estate at Gildersome, the place of his nativity in the parish of Batley in the West riding of Yorkshire near Leeds, where the celebrated Dr. Priestly was born.  His will, made only one or two days before he died, probated 30 June following, directs the division of rents from his lands at Gildersome, provides for his wife and their five children, having formerly provided for children by first wife, and in case his wife married again, carefully devises both the Dover and England estate.  Mr. Hunter, in Early History of the Founders of New Plymouth, 4 Massachusetts History Collection I. 84, supposed he may be derived from Bassetlaw in County Notts.  But he was born at no great distance, as the same accurate inquirer, in his revised work, London 1854, pages 118 and 119, proves.  He made his name Reyner.

JOHN RAYNER or JOHN REYNER, Dover, son of the preceding, ordained 12 July 1671, married Judith Quincy, daughter of Edmund Quincy second of Braintree, and in short time after died at Braintree 21 December 1676, probably without children, aged 33.  His widow died 8 March 1679 or 80, as the gravestone inscription blindly makes it.

JOHN RAYNER or JOHN REYNER, Charlestown, by wife Catharine, who died 22 December 1682, in her 23d year, had John, who died the day before his mother, and he married 31 July 1685, Abigail Hathorne, who died 17 May 1714, in her 47th year; had Abigail, baptized 21 June 1691, died young, and two daughters, Elizabeth who both died young; besides John baptized 25 December 1687, who reached middle life.

JOHN RAYNER or JOHN REYNER, Rowley 1691.

JONATHAN RAYNER or JONATHAN REYNER and JOSEPH RAYNER or JOSEPH REYNER, Southampton, Long Island, 1666-73, were perhaps son of Thurston Rayner.

SAMUEL RAYNER or SAMUEL REYNER, Watertown, had been of Cambridge, where by wife Mary he had Hannah, born 2 March 1654, who married 7 April 1670, Ephraim Winship; died 1669, in his will 26 September of that year names wife Mary and a daughter.

SAMUEL RAYNER or SAMUEL REYNER, Charlestown, by wife Mary, had Sarah, baptized 8 May 1687.

THOMAS RAYNER or THOMAS REYNER, Hempstead, Long Island, 1643, according to Wood's History, yet possibly the name may be mistaken for the following. 

THURSTON RAYNER or THURSTON REYNER, Watertown, came in the Elizabeth 1634, from Ipswich, County Suffolk, aged 40, with wife Elizabeth, 36; Thurston, 13; Joseph, 11; Elizabeth, 9; Sarah, 7; and Lydia, 1; who, by the order of their names in the record certified up to London, may be thought his children, and Edward, following on the same list, aged 10, may have been son or nephew in 1636; removed to Wethersfield, was Representative 1638, 9, and 40; removed 1641 to Stamford, there had commission from New Haven jurisdiction but in few years removed to Southamton, Long Island, under Connecticut, and was an Assistant 1661 and 3; made his will 6 July, 1667, probated same year.  In it he names wife Martha, two sons Joseph and Jonathan, besides alluding to four more children not named.  Jonathan was not of age.  His daughter Hannah married Arthur Howell, as his second wife.  Mather in Magnalia II. 33, forgot his baptized name.

WILLIAM RAYNER or WILLIAM REYNER, Marblehead, the freeman of 1670, may have been son of that

WILLIAM RAYNER or WILLIAM REYNER who died 1666, having married as Farmer says in MS note, Elizabeth, widow of Humphrey Gilbert.  He was aged 45 in 1668.

 

EDMUND RAYNGER, Boston, a witness to the will of Governor Bellingham, 25 November 1672, as in Genealogical Registrar XIV. 238.  He was of Bristol 1688.

 

JOSHUA REA, Salem.  See Ray.

 

ABRAHAM READ, or ABRAHAM REED, Salem, son of the first Thomas Read, had Samuel, who went to England, and by deed at London, 1701, conveyed to Daniel Epps part of estate of his grandfather that fell to his father and early in this century was known as the Derby farm.

ARTHUR READ, or ARTHUR REED, perhaps of Stratford 1676.  See Trumbull, Colony record II.

BENJAMIN READ, or BENJAMIN REED, Duxbury, fit to bear arms 1643.

DANIEL READ, or DANIEL REED, Rehoboth, son of John Read first of the same, married at Taunton 20 March 1677, Hannah Peck, but Colony record says 20 August of that year, had Hannah, born 30 June 1678; Bethia, 2 November 1679; Daniel, 20 January 1681; John, 25 February 1683, died in few days; probably several others, and died 17 October 1710.

DANIEL READ, or DANIEL REED, Woburn, son of Ralph Read, married 17 January 1699, purchased the squaw sachem farm, so called on which as is said, his descendants still reside.

EDWARD READ, or EDWARD REED, Marblehead 1674.

ESDRAS READ, or ESDRAS REED, Salem 1639, had Bethia, born about 1637; and Obadiah, 1639; both baptized there, 31 May 1640, born by wife probably named Alice; was freeman 2 June 1641, removed to Wenham, of where he was Representative 1648 and 51, and with his minister removed 1655 to Chelmsford.

ESDRAS READ, or ESDRAS REED, Boston  1661, a tailor, perhaps son of the preceding, was with his wife administered of the second church that year.

GEORGE READ, or GEORGE REED, Woburn, son of William Read of Dorchester, born in England, married 4 October 1652, Elizabeth Jennison, daughter of Robert Jennison, (not Jennings as often said), who died 26 February 1665, had Elizabeth, born 29 July 1653; twins, died 14 November 1654, probably few hours old; Samuel, 29 April 1656; Abigail, 27 June 1658; George, 14 September 1660; William, 22 September 1662; Sarah, 12 February 1665; and by second wife of unknown name, Hannah, 18 February 1670; John, 18 March 1672; Mary, 15 June 1674; Timothy, 20 October 1678; and Thomas, 15 July 1682, was freeman 1684; Elizabeth married 15 December 1675, Daniel Fiske.  I presume he was son of William of Newcastle in Northumberland, and died 21 February 1706.

GEORGE READ, or GEORGE REED, Woburn, son of the preceding, freeman 1690, by wife Abigail Pierce, married 15 February 1685, died 7 September 1719, had Abigail, born 6 February 1686; Ebenezer, 6 March 1690; George, 2 August 1697, died in few weeks; and Elizabeth, 14 June 1700.  He married second wife 24 May 1721, Sybel Rice, probably widow of Isaac, and was, it is said, the first Deacon in church of Burlington.

ISAAC READ, or ISAAC REED, Salem, married 10 March 1674, Joan Stone.

ISRAEL READ, or ISRAEL REED, Woburn,  by wife Mary, had Mary, born 15 October 1670; Sarah, 29 August 1673; a daughter without name on the record 2 June, 1679; Elizabeth, 22 December 1681; Ruth, 6 January 1684; Israel, 17 March 1687; Jemima, 23 July 1689; and Patience, 3 December 1697.

ISRAEL READ, or ISRAEL REED, Rehoboth, youngest son of John Read the first, married 6 November 1684, Rebecca Ruggles, youngest daughter of the third John Ruggles of Roxbury, had eleven children but my correspondant gives dates or names to neither, and he died 17 November 1732.

JACOB READ, or JACOB REED, Salem, son of the first Thomas Read, owned estate in 1661, but probably died before his father, or at least nothing more is known of him.

JACOB READ, or JACOB REED, Salem, son of the second Thomas Read, married December 1693, Elizabeth Green, had Aaron, born June 1694; John, 26 December 1695; Mary, 1697; Jacob, 1699; Jonathan, 12 January 1701; Sarah, 15 May, 1703; and Elizabeth, 13 March 1705.  His will was of 5 January 1741, and his wife then living.

JAMES READ, or JAMES REED, Taunton, son perhaps youngest, of William Read of Dorchester; perhaps the soldier of Johnson's Company in Philip's war, married 18 April 1683, Susanna Richmond, daughter of John Richmond, had James, William; John, Thomas, Mary, born 1697, Martha, Ann, and Susanna.

JOHN READ, or JOHN REED, Dorchester, removed to Weymouth or Braintree, freeman 13 May 1640, Artillery Company 1644, had Abigail, born at Dorchester; John, 29 August 1640; and Thomas, 20 November 1641; removed to Rehoboth, 1645, there had, perhaps, William; Samuel; Moses, October 1650; Mary, June 1652; Elizabeth, January 1654; Daniel, March 1655; Israel, 1657; and Mehitable, August 1659; was one of good property and influence, whose gravestone, still extant, it is said, shows; that he died September 1685, aged 87.

JOHN READ, or JOHN REED, junior Rehoboth, son of the preceding, who had share in division of lands 1668, and by wife Sarah, had John, born 8 December 1669; Thomas, 23 July 1672; besides Sarah buried 19  July 1678, was killed by the Indians at Pierce's fight, 26 March 1676.

JOHN READ, or JOHN REED, New London 1651, had then grant of land which he forfeited by neglect of residence.

JOHN READ, or JOHN REED, Weymouth, son of William Read first of the same, is probably he who married Bethia Fry, daughter of George Fry, removed to Taunton, had William, Thomas, George, Mary, Ruth and Hannah, probably some of them before removed, and died at Dighton, 13 January 1721.  His widow died 20 October 1730,  aged 77.  He may have been of Johnson's Company in Philip's war, and by a former wife had John, born 5 June 1674; but neither her surname, nor baptized name can I decipher from the MS of my friendly correspondent.

JOHN READ, or JOHN REED, Scituate, may be that youth bound 1653 to Michael Pierce for nine years, personal servant as recorded in 1662, married 1668, Mary, widow of Christopher Winter, had John; lived some years at Marshfield, and died 21 May 1694.

JOHN READ, or JOHN REED, Rye, removed to Norwalk, probably had John, as in 1687, he is distinguished as senior and both lived there 1694. 

JOHN READ, or JOHN REED, Woburn, son of Ralph Read, married 21 March 1682, Elizabeth Holden, perhaps daughter of Richard Holden, had John, born 22 March 1684; Ralph, 6 September 1686; Elizabeth, 25 February 1691; and he took second wife 4 December 1705, Abigail Baldwin, perhaps daughter of Henry Baldwin.

JOHN READ, or JOHN REED, Woburn, son of George Read the first, married 10 January 1697, Ruth Johnson, probably daughter of Matthew Johnson, but I hear no more.

JOHN READ, or JOHN REED, Boston, whose father by no diligent inquiry can be ascertained, but seems to be entitled to insertion here, though the first mentioned of him is as graduate at Harvard College 1697, because it is so high a probability that he was either born on our side of the ocean, or at least had been here so many years.

JOSEPH READ, or JOSEPH REED and JOSIAH READ, or JOSIAH REED, of Lynn, are among the freeman of 1681.  The former came to Boston 1671, in the Arabella from London.

JOSIAH READ, or JOSIAH REED, New London 1662, removed to Norwich, married at Marshfield, November 1666, Grace Holloway, had Josiah, born April 1668; William, April 1670; Elizabeth, September 1672; Experience, 27 February 1675; John, 15 April 1670; Joseph, 12 March 1681; Susanna, 20 September 1685; Hannah, July 1688; and he died 3 July 1711.  His widow died 9 May 1727.

MATTHEW READ, or MATTHEW REED, Norwalk, administered to be an inhabitant 1655, but his name is not found after.  Hall's History 48.

MICHAEL READ, or MICHAEL REED, named in the will of William Read, probated at London, 31 October 1656, as one of three sons, married in New England but the name is not known to me of an inhabitant.

MOSES READ, or MOSES REED, Rehoboth, son of the first John Read, married at Taunton, 6 December 1677, Rebecca Fitch, had Zechariah, born 25 October 1678, died in January following; Zechariah, again, 20 October 1681; Rebecca, 14 September 1683; was Representative several years, and died 14 December 1716.

NICHOLAS READ, or NICHOLAS REED, Danvers, apprentice of Edward Putnam, killed by the Indians September 1689, aged 18.

OBADIAH READ, or OBADIAH REED, Boston, married 19 August 1664, Ann Swift, daughter of Obadiah Swift, had Elizabeth, born 29 March 1669; Sarah, 16 April 1671, died young; Ann, 3 February 1673; Obadiah, 29 November 1677, died soon; Obadiah, again, 29 November 1678, died young; and James, 29 February 1680.  His wife died 13 September following aged 33; and by wife Elizabeth, he had Obadiah, again, 27 March 1683; Mary, 4 May 1684; Nathaniel, 23 August 1686; and Sarah, again, 26 January 1688.

PHILIP READ, or PHILIP REED, Weymouth 1640, by wife Mary, had Philip, born 24 October 1641; Samuel; and Mary, who married 27 November 1669, John Vining; was probably the freeman of 1660, and his will of 15 December 1674, was probated 5 May 1676.

PHILIP READ, or PHILIP REED, Lynn 1669, a physician, is presumed to be that resident of Concord who after living there 25 years, died 10 May 1696.

PHILIP READ, or PHILIP REED, Weymouth, son of Philip Read the first, by wife Hannah, had Mary born 21 March 1669; Hannah, 18 February 1672; Philip, 2 November 1674; John, 16 August 1676; and probably these by wife Abigail, Samuel, 29 September 1681; Prudence, 7 October 1685; Stephen, 15 October 1690; and Deborah, 30 August 1692.

RALPH READ, or RALPH REED, Woburn, son of William Read of Dorchester, brought from England by his father in very early youth, by wife Mary Pierce, daughter of Anthony Pierce of Watertown, had William, born 1658; John, 1660; Joseph; Daniel; Timothy, born 14 February 1666; David; and Jonathan.

RICHARD READ, or RICHARD REED, Marblehead 1674, in June 1678 was witness with Samuel Read to the will of Samuel Condy.

RICHARD READ, or RICHARD REED, Boston, by wife Joanna, had Mary, born 26 March 1687, and perhaps others.

ROBERT READ, or ROBERT REED, Exeter 1638, was one of the first settlers at Hampton, but removed to Boston, there by wife Hannah, had Rebecca, born 9 September baptized 1 November 1646, who probably died young; again went to Hampton, there had Hannah, Mary, and Sarah; again removed to Boston, perhaps, where he had the last mentioned baptized 1 September 1650; and Samuel, 3 April 1653; this son died the end of March following, and another Samuel was born 28 February 1655.  His wife died 24 June following and he went once more to Hampton, had another wife Susanna; and was drowned 20 October 1657, by oversetting of a boat.  See Belknap 58, of Farmer's ed.  His widow married John Preston, and she joined with the children in conveyance of estate in Boston.  Hannah married 11 January 1661, John Senter of Boston.

SAMUEL READ, or SAMUEL REED, Mendon, son of John Read the first, freeman 1673, married 1668, Hopestill Holbrook, perhaps daughter of William Holbrook the first, had Samuel, John, Josiah, and Ebenezer, besides Mary, wife probably of Seth Chapin; but dates are not seen.  His will was of 5 April 1717.  The son John is said to be that graduate of Harvard College 1697, who was held the greatest lawyer this country produced before the American Revolutionm except perhaps Judge Trowbridge.  See full exhibit of his esteem in Eliot's Biographical Dictionary. 

SAMUEL READ, or SAMUEL REED, Marblehead, 1674, perhaps brother of Richard Read.

SAMUEL READ, or SAMUEL REED, Charlestown, son of George Read the first, a physician, married 19 June 1679, Elizabeth Mousal, daughter of John Mousal, had Elizabeth, born 3 April 1680; Joanna, 16 February 1681; Abigail, 10 January 1683; Samuel, 16 July  1688, died in few days; Mary, 9 January 1690; Mercy, 29 November 1697.

THOMAS READ, or THOMAS REED, Salem 1630, freeman 1 April 1634, was made Ensign 1637, had sons Thomas, Abraham, and perhaps others, and he may earlier have been of Lynn and Marblehead, at which latter he was a witness, 28 September 1630, before coroner's jury.

THOMAS READ, or THOMAS REED, Salem, elder son of the preceding, by wife Mary, had Susanna, baptized 23 September 1649; Ann, 15 June 1651, died at 11 years;  Mary, 10 April 1653; Elizabeth, 13 May 1655; Remember, 26 April 1657; Jacob, 5 June 1659; Sarah, 15 March 1661; but probably the last to died young, for another Jacob was baptized there 7 November 1663; and Sarah, again, 14 October 1665, or 19 August 1666. Yet here, without doubt, is some confusion and more omissions.  I feel sure there were two, and probably three Thomases contempory at Salem.  The first had title of Colonel and died abroad about 1663; left besides a second wife called Elsy, two sons of who Abraham, the younger, was administrator by Wait Winthrop, his attorney.  Samuel, only son of the other Thomas, called himself merchant of London, sold 28 June 1701, to Daniel Epps the farm at Salem that had belonged to his father.  But Essex Institute II. 16, gives inventory of another.

THOMAS READ, or THOMAS REED, taken 5 April 1667.

THOMAS READ, or THOMAS REED, Sudbury, may have been a prominent man at Newtown, Long Island, 1656.

THOMAS READ, or THOMAS REED, Sudbury, may be the freeman of 1656, had Thomas, and perhaps more, died 19 September 1701, as Mr. Shattuck thinks.

THOMAS READ, or THOMAS REED, Boston, by wife Mary, had Elizabeth, born 28 January 1657; and he died 11 May 1661.

THOMAS READ, or THOMAS REED, Rehoboth, son of John Read the first, married 29 March 1665, Elizabeth Clark, buried 23 February 1675, aged 32; and married 16 June 1675, Ann Perrin, perhaps daughter of the first John Perrin, had John who died 4 December 1676; Thomas, 25 March 1678; Nathaniel, 30 March 1680; and Hannah, 12 April 1682; and he died 6 February 1696.

THOMAS READ, or THOMAS REED, Weymouth, son of William Read the first, by wife Sarah, had Thomas, born 12 September 1671; John, 30 December 1679; Samuel, 12 April 1681; Ruth, 20 February 1685; William, 4 February 1688; Hannah, 25 September 1689; and Elizabeth, 9 November 9.

THOMAS READ, or THOMAS REED, Sudbury, son of Thomas Read of the same, married 30 May 1677, Mary Goodrich, daughter of John Goodrich of Wethersfield, had family, was freeman 1678, then called junior.

THOMAS READ, or THOMAS REED of New Hampshire, 1689, prayed for jurisdiction of Massachusetts.

THOMAS READ, or THOMAS REED, Woburn, youngest son of George Read the first, married 1 February 1704, Sarah Sawyer.

TIMOTHY READ, or TIMOTHY REED, Wourn, son of Ralph Read, married 27 December 1688, Martha Boyden, had Martha, born 1 March 1690; William, 5 October 1694, so named for a brother killed by the father; Jonathan, 15 December 1701, died young; Elizabeth, 1 December 1706; and Mary, 25 December 1709; and by second wife Persis, had Persis, 21 July 1711; Timothy, 27 September 1713; Jacob, 31 January 1716; and Jonathan again, 19 May 1718.  But it must be told, that the husband of Persis, to whom the last four children are given is, by my correspondent called son of George the first.

WILLIAM READ, or WILLIAM REED, Boston, perhaps very early, but more probably not, as it seems likely that most, if not all of his children were brought from England.  So far as can be gathered or resonably conjectured, they were Margaret, who married 3 March 1659, Richard Stubbs; Susanna married 13 December 1659, Samuel Smith; Esther married 30 July 1661, John Canney, all at Boston.  Edward, Richard, and Samuel, all at Marblehead, and it is said Christopher, who died at Charleston 1696. tradition tells, that he died at sea, on a passage, 1667, hither from Ireland.

WILLIAM READ, or WILLIAM REED, Weymouth, freeman 2 September 1635, Representative 1636 and 8, had John; William, born 15 December 1639; Esther, 8 May 1641; and probably others, certain; Mary who died by record 16 April 1655.  But another Mary Read, daughter of one William Read at Weymouth married 11 May 1657, John Vining, by the same record so that some mistake may be feared.  Perhaps the earlier date refers to the mother of the married Mary.  He had also Thomas, Margaret and James.

WILLIAM READ, or WILLIAM REED, Dorchester, came probably In the Defence 1635, aged 48, with wife Mabel, 30; George, 6; Ralph, 5; and Justus, 18 months; and had at Dorchester Abigail, baptized 30 December 1638; was freeman 14 March 1639; removed probably first to Rehoboth, or perhaps lived at Woburn.

WILLIAM READ, or WILLIAM REED, Boston, perhaps brother of the first John Read, there by wife Susanna, had Susanna; and John born 25, baptized 27 September 1646, about 4 days old, as the church record says.  His wife died 12 October 1653, and he married 20 May 1654, Ruth Crook, had William, 3 February 1655, died soon; Isaac, 18 April 1656; Ephraim, 23 November 1657; Jonathan, 23 April 1659; Timothy, 11 August 1660; William, again, 7 May 1662; Hezekiah, 6 July 1663; Sarah, 21 June 1665; Elizabeth, 22 December 1666; and Elizabeth again, 22 April 1669.  He may have been of the first proprietor of Worcester, 1674.  His daughter Hannah died 25 November 1656, by record and daughter Susanna married 13 December 1659, Samuel Smith.

WILLIAM READ, or WILLIAM REED, Norwalk 1654, perhaps was only a transient man, and very soon after of Newtown, Long Island,

WILLIAM READ, or WILLIAM REED, Boston, by wife Hannah, had William, born 26 March 1665, unless there be errors in town records which is not very improbable; and John, 25 April 1669.

WILLIAM READ, or WILLIAM REED, Woburn, eldest son of Ralph Read, by wife Elizabeth, had William, born 23 August 1682; Mary, 12 March 1685; Elizabeth, 23 February 1687; was casually killed by his own brother Timothy Read, 7 November 1688, shooting at a deer.

WILLIAM READ, or WILLIAM REED, Woburn, son of George Read, married 24 May 1686, Abigail Kendall.

WILLIAM READ, or WILLIAM REED, Weymouth, son of William Read the first of the same, not the freeman 1653, married 1675 Esther Thompson, had William; Esther; John, born 21 October 1680, another child whose name is not in the record 24 May 1682; John, again, 10 July 1687; so that probably the first John died young; Jacob, 6 November 1691; and Sarah, 21 March 1694; besides others, as we are confident, for his will of 26 October 1705, probated 12 September following, names wife Esther; eldest son William; John; Jacob, and daughters Bathshua Porter; Mercy Whitmarsh; and unmarried ones, Mary; Esther; and Sarah. This name is very common, often written Reed, and under either form likely to breed confusion between several having the same baptized title.  After spending many hours of several days, I am unable to reconcile and fix the habitant of all.  Farmer found 60 graduates in the New England, New Jersey, and Union Colleges 1829.  Twelve at Harvard and eleven at Yale had been graduates in 1834.

 

JOHN READER, Springfield 1636, had grant of land but did not long continue, perhaps was of New Haven in 1643; Stratford 1650; but last of Newtown, Long Island, 1656.

 

SAMUEL REAPE, Newport, married before 30 January 1669, Joanna, widow of Zechariah Rhoades.

THOMAS REAPE, Boston, married 30 November 1660, by Governor Endicott, to Judith, widow of Robert Ratchell.

WILLIAM REAPE, Newport, by wife Sarah, had Sarah, born 17 April 1664; and William, 31 December 1667; and died 6 August 1670, aged 42.

 

JOHN RECORD, Weymouth, was a soldier on Connecticut River in Philip's war 1676, and in July 1677, married at Hingham, Hannah Hobart, daughter of Thomas Hobart.

 

JOHN REDDING, JOHN RIDDAN, or JOHN READING, Sandwich, married 22 October 1676, Mary Bassett, perhaps daughter of William Bassett the second.

JOSEPH REDDING, JOSEPH RIDDAN, or JOSEPH READING, Boston, early one of the church, and probably came in the fleet with Winthrop, removed to Cambridge 1632, was freeman 14 May 1634, and at Ipswich 1637, where a widow Redding perhaps his, was living 1678. 

MILES REDDING, MILES RIDDAN, or MILES READING, Boston, perhaps brother of the preceding, a cooper, came probably with Winthrop, for in the list of First Church members his number is 81, freeman 14 May 1634, was probably of Billerica 1665.

THADDEUS REDDING, THADDEUS RIDDAN, or THADDEUS READING, Lynn, by wife Elizabeth, had Hannah and Sarah, twins born 12 August 1660, of who Hannah died in 3 months; Hannah, again, 11 November 1662, John, 3 February 1665; and Abigail, 4 June 1671; was of Marblehead 1674.

THOMAS REDDING, THOMAS RIDDAN, or THOMAS READING, Saco 1652, freeman 1653.  See Folsom, 183.  This name, Farmer says, is found still in New Hampshire.

 

HENRY REDDOCK, Providence 1645-55, in 1661 lived at Warwick, father-in-law of Christopher Hauxhurst.

JOHN REDDOCK, Sudbury, an original proprietor 1640.

 

JAMES REDFIELD, or JAMES REDFIN, New London, perhaps as early as 1649.  One of the name is mentioned at Edgartown 1671, yet he may more likely be the following.

JAMES REDFIELD, or JAMES REDFIN, New London, son of William Redfield, apprentice to a tanner 1662, but probably became a weaver, married at New Haven, Elizabeth Howe, daughter of Jeremiah Howe, in May 1669, had Elizabeth, born 31 May 1670; and Sarah; besides Theophilus 1682; seems to be resident at Saybrook in 1676.  He removed to Fairfield, married Deborah Sturges, daughter of John Sturges, had Margaret, baptized 7 October 1694; and James, 25 October 1696; and probably died after 1719, when he gave estate to son James.

WILLIAM REDFIELD, or WILLIAM REDFIN, New London, soon after 1646, brother probably of James Redfield the first, by wife Rebecca, had Rebecca, who married 12 December 1661, Thomas Roach; Lydia, who married 10 January 1656, Thomas Bayley; James, before mentioned and Judith, who married 17 June 1667, Alexander Pyan; and died 1662.  He had been of Cambridge 1639-42, in the South part now Newton, where he sold his estate September 1646 to Edward Jackson, being in my opinion, the same man called by Jackson in his History 9 and 23 (mistakes the letter f, for the ancient long s, in his name), Redson, Redsyn, or Redsen.  Probably some of his children were born in England, one or more at Cambridge.

 

CHARLES REDFORD, Salem, merchant, was Captain of the troop 1691, perhaps went home, died 1692, Felt says.

 

JOHN REDIAT, JOHN RIDIAT, or JOHN RADYATE, Sudbury, freeman 1645, by wife Ann, had John born 19 April 1644; Samuel, 22 October 1653, died in few weeks; and Elizabeth, 12 August 1657; perhaps others.  Deborah Rediat married at Concord, 22 May 1679, Daniel Farrabas, as second wife is in his will of 5 February 1687, made at Marlborough, probated 28 April following, calls his daughter Farrowbush, and therein favored with good part of his estate another part to Mehitable, his daughter wife of Nathaniel Oakes, and some provision for grandchildren John and Mary Rediat, son and daughter of his deceased son John.

JOHN REDIAT, JOHN RIDIAT, or JOHN RADYATE, Sudbury, son of the preceding, by wife Susanna, had John; Susanna, born 1 December 1672; and Mary, 8 February 1675; and died 1676.  His widow married John Miles of Concord; Susanna, married 26 December 1692, Jacob Farrar; Mary, married 1 September 1696, Nathaniel Jones; and John died 5 August 1694, probably without issue, and the name perhaps is extinct.

 

ABRAHAM REDINGTON, Rowley 1667, was Representative in 1686, for Topsfield or Boxford, freeman 1690.  I suppose he married Mary Gould or Margaret Gould, daughter of Zacheus Gould of Topsfield, but no issue is known to me, unless he be (as highly probably it seems), that man, called in Genealogical Registrar I. 77, Pedington, whose son Benjamin was born 19 April 1661.

DANIEL REDINGTON, Topsfield, freeman 1685.

THOMAS REDINGTON, Boxford, freeman 1690.

 

BENJAMIN REDKNAP, or BENJAMIN REDNAPE, Lynn, son of Joseph Redknap, freeman 1691, had Sarah, born 8 February 1675; Hannah, 9 April 1679; Rebecca, 9 August 1682; and Joseph, 20 January 1684.

JOSEPH REDKNAP, or JOSEPH REDNAPE, Lynn, a wine-cooper from London, came probably in 1634, was freeman 3 September of that year, had a family Nathaniel and Benjamin, or daughter Sarah, who married 28 December 1671, Thomas Laighton; certainly lived to great age.  President Dudley probated his will 28 October 1686, that was made 20 May 1681, at Lynn.  It names only son Nathaniel, to whom he gave land at Springfield; and Benjamin, making the latter executor and devised to him estate at Lynn.  Hutchinson I. 341, says he came over at 60 (but he could be little more than 40) and died in Boston, aged 110.  He followed authority of Judge Sewall (who in one place says he died at Lynn), not doubting to draw the conclusion as to his age on arriving, when Sewall said he lived here about 50 years. To this weight, Felt, Eccl. History I. 531 offers no resistance.  But as the Court record of Essex County shows that given evidence in 1657, he was about 60, and in 1670, he called himself between 70 and 80, we may judge with highest confidence, that when he died 22 January 1686, he had not run much beyond 90, and perhaps not reached it.  Lewis, whose regard was absorbed by Boniface Burton, barely refers to Sewall's liberaI allowance to Redknap, but gives no addition to the credit of the tradition.  Sewall was very apt to believe what old persons told him, often when their habits or power of mind should rather have led to distrust their evidence.  He owned estate at Hampton in County Middlesex, called Blackbush right, near Hampton Court, which he sold in 1649 to Edward Tomlyns.

 

JOHN REDMAN, Hampton, a blacksmith, one of the early settlers.  In 1685 was called 70 years old.

JOHN REDMAN, Hampton 1678, probably son of the preceding, married Martha Cass, daughter of John Cass, may have had John.

RICHARD REDMAN, Boston 1639, a mariner, was charged for murder, 1645, in Delaware Bay, long imprisoned but acquitted for defection of evidence.  See Winthr. II. 237.  Yet the Court record seems to permit us to suppose, that his discharge was for convenience of the prison keeper.

ROBERT REDMAN, Dorchester, was of Milton when he made his will, 30 December 1678, probated 31 January following, which mentioned wife Luce; eldest son John; youngest son Charles; daughters Mercy; Ruth who married Everenden, that is an unknown man; and son-in-law William Delene, also unknown, so by conjecture may seem husband of Ruth.

 

JAMES REDWAY, JAMES REDWEY, JAMES READAWAY, or JAMES REDDAWAY, Rehoboth 1646, probably had John, perhaps more, as Sarah, who married 25 May 1660, Samuel Carpenter; and was buried 28 October 1676.

JOHN REDWAY, JOHN REDWEY, JOHN READAWAY, or JOHN REDDAWAY, Rehoboth, probably son of the preceding, had James, born 10 January 1679; and John, 10 September 1682.

 

HENRY REEVE, or HENRY REEVES, came in the Speedwell 1656, from London, aged only 8 years but whose care he was delivered we know not.

JOHN REEVE, or JOHN REEVES, Salem, came in the Christian to Boston 1635, aged 19, from London, probably as apprentice of Francis Stiles, who next year carried him to Windsor; but in 1643, he had grant of land at Salem, by wife Jane, a member of the church 1640, had William; probably Mary; and perhaps Elizabeth, unless she belonged to second wife; Freeborn, born 10 March or July 1658; and Benjamin, 30 December 1661; but he had second wife Elizabeth, who was mother of these last two, who died young.  A score of years later, widow Reeves was excommunicated by the church.  His will, of 1 October 1677, provided for daughter Elizabeth, wife of Richard Richards and her daughter Elizabeth, his own son William, and daughter Elizabeth, his son-in-law Ephraim Kempton, husband of his daughter Mary, and her sons John and Ephraim.  But material difference in a later will, 10 May 1681, so enlarged the devise to Kempton and his wife and lessened that to William, as to make dispute in Court upon its validity.  Other children of Richards are mentioned as John, Mary, and Joanna, that may be the same as Joshua. 

ROBERT REEVE, or ROBERT REEVES, Hartford, by wife Elizabeth Nott, daughter of John Nott of Wethersfield, had Sarah, born 23 December 1663; Mary, 31 July 1665; Elizabeth, December 1668; Hannah, October 1670; Nathaniel, October 1672; Robert and Ann, twins April 1675; Abraham, September 1677; and Mehitable, March 1680, made his will 23 December 1680, and died in February following.  One of his sons went to Long Island.  The venerable Dr. tells in history of three of the Judges the regicides gave this name Peirce, page 352.

THOMAS REEVE, or THOMAS REEVES, Roxbury, came in the Bevis 1638, from Southampton, servant of Henry Byley of Salisbury, at Roxbury as servant of John Gore until 1644, married at Roxbury 15 April 1645, Hannah Rowe, was made freeman that year, had Thomas, baptized 5 July 1646; removed that year to Springfield, there had Hannah, 11 February 1649; and John, 12 March 1651, posthumous, died next year, was the town drummer, and died 5 November 1650.  His widow married 4 June 1651, Richard Exel; Mary, perhaps his daughter married 17 February 1670, William Webster, and was terribly troubled as a witch.

THOMAS REEVE, or THOMAS REEVES, Southampton, Long Island, 1673, was born that goodman Reeve of the adjoining town of Southold, made freeman of Connecticut 1662; had a daughter who married Peter Dickinson; perhaps other children, and it may be that Tapping Reeve, the learned jurisprudent of Connecticut who was born at Southold, driving blood from him.

WILLIAM REEVE, or WILLIAM REEVES, Salem 1668, probably brother of John Reeve, came in the Elizabeth and Ann from London 1635, aged 22.

WILLIAM REEVE, or WILLIAM REEVES, Medford, son of John Reeve, married 14 March 1670, Elizabeth Collins, had John, born 12 July 1673, by record of Salem, Cochran, and Elizabeth.

 

THOMAS REGION, a soldier in Moseley's Company December 1675

 

RICHARD REITH, Lynn, married 16 February 1665, Elizabeth George, as Mr. Felt copies the record. The name is strange; but he is found at Marblehead 1674.

 

THOMAS RELPH, THOMAS RALPH, or THOMAS RELF, Warwick, married 1655 or 6, Mary, widow of John Cooke of the same.  But he had lived some years before at Guilford, there by wife Elizabeth Desborough or Elizabeth Disbrow, had Samuel, and his wife obtained divorce from him for his fault, and married 1 October 1651, John Johnson.  He had probably lived some time at Warwick before getting the new wife, and by her had Alice, born 3 January 1657, died young; Thomas, 12 July 1658; Sarah, 4 December 1661; and  Deliverance, 20 August 1666; besides Benjamin, of who the last four with Samuel, are mentioned in his will, probated 1682.  It also names grandchild William Fenner, and cousin Samuel Stafford.

 

CHRISTIAN REMICK, Kittery freeman.  In Maine and New Hampshire, this name is diffused, and on Cape Cod probably, as descendants are seen in each direction.

 

JOHN REMIGTON, or JOHN RIMMINGTON, Newbury, 1637, freeman 22 May 1639, removed to incorporate with Bradstreet, Denison and others as military Company 1645, and was Lieutenant, had Joseph, born 1650; and Thomas.  His wife Elizabeth died December 1657, and he removed to Roxbury, there married Rhoda, widow of John Gore, and died or was buried 8 June 1667.

JOHN REMIGTON, or JOHN RIMMINGTON, Haverhill and Andover, had wifeAbigail, and son Daniel, born 18 October 1661; and Hannah, 3 July 1664.

JONATHAN REMIGTON, or JONATHAN RIMMINGTON, Cambridge, born in  Rowley 1639, perhaps son of John Remigton the first, married 13 July, 1664; Martha Belcher, daughter of Andrew Belcher, had Martha, born 18 February 1667; Jonathan, 18 March 1669; both died in April 1669; Martha again, 28 October 1674; Jonathan Remigton, 27 July 1677, Harvard College 1696; Samuel, 11 July 1679, died next year; Ann, 30 January 1681; John, who died 6 April 1689; and Sarah, 10 May 1688.  He was selectman, town clerk and treasurer, died 21 April 1700, and his widow Martha died 16 July 1711.  His son Jonathan Remigton, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, died 1745, had Jonathan Remigton, Harvard College 1736, who died after two years.

THOMAS REMIGTON, or THOMAS RIMMINGTON, Windsor, had Thomas, John, and Sarah, perhaps before he went there, perhaps from Rowley, where he perhaps had wife Mehitable, and was freeman 1672; had Joseph, born at 1 September 1675; removed to Suffield, there had Benjamin 1677; took oath of allegiance 1679, with sons Thomas and John, they being then 16 years old and upwards.  Thomas died 1683, probably unmarried.  John married in 1687; and Sarah married 1689, Peter Rose; but when the father died is unknown.

THOMAS REMIGTON, or THOMAS RIMMINGTON, Hingham, married March 1688, Remember Stowell.  Five of the name had in 1798, been graduates at Harvard and one at Yale.

 

JAMES RENDALL, perhaps of Portsmouth 1686, married I suppose, Martha Brooking, widow of John Lewis, daughter of William Brooking.  See Randall.

 

JOHN REVELL, Salem, a merchant of London, greatly engaged in the promotion of settlement of Massachusetts Bay, by the Governor and Company chosen an Assistant 20 October 1629, came in the Jewell, one of Winthrop's fleet, June 1630, but went home next month in the Lion.

THOMAS REVELL, New London 1658, a merchant from London, at Barbadoes 1660, but lived there 1662-66. Miss Caulkins thinks he was proscribed at the restoration having stood for the Commonwealth, that he is the hermit of Braintree at a later date, called "Tom Revel," a regicide, or holy hermit gone crazy, he and his hog enjoying their common stye, of which absurd tradition in Whitney's History of Quincy is given, that when he died the Governor of the Province and other distinguished men came out from Boston, and were his pall-bearers."  That the hog, being nearest relative was chief mournere, is unaccountably omitted.  Usually there is some slight foundation of truth, to afford appearance of support to the wildest story; but here even that is wanting.  We read the ridiculous tale in a note on page 36.  Every one knows, that there was no regicide of this name; that no Governor of the Province after 1691, could have been such a fool, nor would any Governor of the Colony after 1660, have shown such public honor to a regicide; nor lastly is any such name, as Reverend wifeP. Lunt, after scrutiny of Braintree record assures me, to be found among dead at Braintree.

 

EDWARD REW, Newport 1638, was of Taunton 1643, where he married Sarah Richmond, daughter of John Richmond; and Baylies says II. 282, he died 16 July 1678, leaving no children, and his widow married 4 November following James Walker.

 

WILLIAM REX, unless the name be misspelled, was a proprietor of Watertown 1642, lived at Boson after, there by wife Grace, had Elisha, born August 1645; Mary, 4 March 1647; and Ezekiel, 30 November 1656.

 

REYNER. See Rayner.

 

FRANCIS REYNOLDS, FRANCIS RENOLD, or FRANCIS RENOLDS, Kingstown, in the Narraganset country, 1686, was perhaps son of James Reynolds the first.

HENRY REYNOLDS, HENRY RENOLD, or HENRY RENOLDS, Salem, had grant of land 1642, was of Lynn 1647, and perhaps again of Salem.

HENRY REYNOLDS, HENRY RENOLD, or HENRY RENOLDS, Kingstown, who married Sarah Greene, daughter of James Greene, was brother of Francis Reynolds.  See 3 Massachusetts History Collection 183.

JAMES REYNOLDS, JAMES RENOLD, or JAMES RENOLDS, Plymouth, if we may suppose his name to be carelessly spelled Renell in 1643, perhaps removed to Rhode Island jurisdiction and before 1674, was with family of several sons established at Wickford, in the Narraganset land, and in the conflict between Connecticut and Rhode Island for jurisdiction, was imprisoned by one party.  See Trumbull, CoI. record II. 540.

JAMES REYNOLDS, JAMES RENOLD, or JAMES RENOLDS, junior and JOSEPH REYNOLDS, JAMES RENOLD, or JAMES RENOLDS, inhabitant there 1687, as well as before mentioned Francis and Henry, may have all been his sons, of who James married 19 February 1685, Mary Greene, daughter of James Greene; Henry married Sarah Greene, another daughter of the same; and Elizabeth another daughter married also a Reynolds.

JOHN REYNOLDS, JOHN RENOLD, or JOHN RENOLDS, Watertown 1634, freeman 6 May 1635; Sarah, perhaps his wife, came with many people of Watertown in the Elizabeth from Ipswich, County Suffolk 1634, aged 20, removed in two years to Wethersfield, removed again before 1644, to Stamford, and may have been father of Jonathan and John, freeman in 1669, of Greenwich, where the family long continued.

JOHN REYNOLDS, JOHN RENOLD, or JOHN RENOLDS, an early settler at Isle of Shoals, complained against in 1647 (when he was constable), for having a wife there, as he might have been on the mainland, for not having one.  See 1 Massachusetts History Collection VlI. 250.

JOHN REYNOLDS, JOHN RENOLD, or JOHN RENOLDS, Saybrook, removed to Norwich, with first settlers about 1659, made freeman 1663, selectman 1669; had eleven children of who Caulkins in her History mentions John, born at Saybrook August 1655; Sarah, November 1656; Susanna, October 1658; Joseph, March 1660; Mary, 1664; Elizabeth, 1666; Stephen, January 1669; and Lydia, February 1671.  The son John was killed by the Indians 28 January 1676.  See Trumbull, Colony record II.  He perhaps was of Stonington 1670, but died at Norwich 1702, leaving only son Joseph, daughters Sarah, wife of the second John Post, Mary Lothrop; Elizabeth Lyman; and Lydia Miller.

JOHN REYNOLDS, JOHN RENOLD, or JOHN RENOLDS, Weymouth, carpenter, by wife Ann, had Mary, born 15 March 1660, probably removed soon, for in 1664, he sold Weymouth estate.

JOHN REYNOLDS, JOHN RENOLD, or JOHN RENOLDS, Wethersfield, perhaps son of John Reynolds the first, had Kezia, born 1667; Ann, 1669; Rebina, 1671; John, 1674; Jonathan, 1677; and died 1682.

JOHN REYNOLDS, JOHN RENOLD, or JOHN RENOLDS, Providence 1676.

JONATHAN REYNOLDS, JONATHAN RENOLD, or JONATHAN RENOLDS, Stamford, Representative 1667, perhaps brother of first John Reynolds, died 1673, leaving children Rebecca, aged 17; Jonathan, 13; John, 11; Sarah, 8; Elizabeth, 6; and Joseph, 4 1/4.

NATHANIEL REYNOLDS, NATHANIEL RENOLD, or NATHANIEL RENOLDS, Boston, son of Robert Reynolds the first, perhaps born in England, shoemaker, married 30 December 1657, or as another record has it, 7 January 1658, Sarah Dwight, daughter of John Dwight of Dedham, had Sarah, born 26 July 1659; Mary, 20 November 1668; Nathaniel, 3 March 1662; and by wife Priscilla, had John, 4 August 1668; Peter, 26 January 1670; Philip, 15, baptized 20 September 1674, and Joseph, born 29 December 1676.  He was of Artillery Company 1658, freeman 1665, and I think that Captain in Philip's war on service at Chelmsford, 25 February 1676.  He is in Boston tax list of 1695; but perhaps had some years lived at Bristol.  His son John was, I presume, that member of the second church at Newport, that President Stils, in MS itinerary notes the death of Bristol, 30 January 1757, in his 90th year.

RICHARD REYNOLDS, RICHARD RENOLD, or RICHARD RENOLDS, a passenger in the Mary and John 1634, of who I know no more.

ROBERT REYNOLDS, ROBERT RENOLD, or ROBERT RENOLDS, Watertown 1635, shoemaker, freeman 3 September 1634, was dismissed by the church 29 March 1636, to form a church at Wethersfield, but probably after few years removed to Boston, had wife Mary, but no child is found in town or church records, so that we infer that all the five children named in his will of 20 April 1658, good abstract of which is in Genealogical Registrar IX. 137, viz. Ruth Whitney, wife of John, Tabitha widow of Matthew Abdy, Sarah Mason, and Mary Sanger, wife of Richard, besides Nathaniel, above, must have been brought from England.  He is mentioned with remarkable kindness in the will of Captain Robert Keayne, and died 27 April 1659.

ROBERT REYNOLDS, ROBERT RENOLD, or ROBERT RENOLDS, Boston, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born January 1669; and Ann, 11 August 1670.  I think he was a fisherman, may have been son of the preceding and lived at Pulling Point as New London, perhaps on the tax list of 1666, married 1 October 1683 Sarah Clark, daughter of Joseph Clark the first of Newport, and in 1680 had a lot at Westerly.

WILLIAM REYNOLDS, WILLIAM RENOLD, or WILLIAM RENOLDS, Duxbury 1636, married 30 August 1638, Alice Kitson, may be the same who was in 1634 one of Howland's men, when the dispute in Kennebeck River caused death of two men, and of Cape Porpoise 1653, then administered freeman of Massachusetts, to which grant of 200 acres at Kennebunk 4 or 5 years before had been made.

WILLIAM REYNOLDS, WILLIAM RENOLD, or WILLIAM RENOLDS Providence, as early as May 1637.

WILLIAM REYNOLDS, WILLIAM RENOLD, or WILLIAM RENOLDS, Salem, in Felt's list of church members, it appears that she was administered 1640.  Ten of this name had been graduates at Yale 1852, and three at Harvard

 

HENRY RHODES, HENRY ROADS, or HENRY RHOADS, Lynn. born 1608, had Eleazer, 6 February 1641; Samuel, February 1643; Joseph, January 1645; Joshua, April 1648; Josiah, April 1651; Jonathan, August 1654, died before 23 years; and Elizabeth, March  1658.

JEREMIAH RHODES, JEREMIAH ROADS, or JEREMIAH RHOADS, Providence, swore allegiance in May 1671.

JOHN RHODES, JOHN ROADS, or JOHN RHOADS, and JOHN RHODES, JOHN ROADS, or JOHN RHOADS junior, were at Salem 1678.

JOHN RHODES, JOHN ROADS, or JOHN RHOADS, Providence, son of Zachary Rhodes, died 1712, his will of that date, named wife Waite, and children Zachariah, John, Joseph, William, Resolved, Phebe, and Waite, of who all the first were minors, but of them William and John were by former wife Mercy Williams, youngest daughter of Roger Williams, who had been wife of Samuel Winsor, and before that of Resolved Waterman.

JOHN RHODES, JOHN ROADS, or JOHN RHOADS, Boston 1659, shoemaker, may not have been of Providence 1676.

JOHN RHODES, JOHN ROADS, or JOHN RHOADS, Lynn, freeman 1684, perhaps was of Marblehead 1673.

JOSEPH RHODES, JOSEPH ROADS, or JOSEPH RHOADS, Lynn, probably son of Henry Rhodes, freeman 1677 or 1684, and again took the oath 1690, as perhaps did others a second time, after the overthrow of Andros, married 25 May 1674, Jane Coates, had Samuel, born 6 March 1675, died at 4 months.; Elizabeth, 22 August 1676; Joseph, 1 April 1678, died at 3 months; Jane, 14 July 1679; John, 20 January 1682; and Susanna, 18 November 1684.

JOSHUA RHODES, JOSHUA ROADS, or JOSHUA RHOADS, Lynn, brother of the preceding, married 12 June 1678, Ann Graves, perhaps daughter of the first Samuel Graves of the same, had Hannah, born 28 March 1679; Joseph, 19 January 1681; Henry, December 1682; and Thomas, 14 February 1685; was freeman 1690.

JOSIAH RHODES, JOSIAH ROADS, or JOSIAH RHOADS, Lynn, brother of the preceding, married 23 July 1673, Elizabeth Coates, had Henry born 1 June 1674; Elizabeth, 13 August 1676; Mary, 21 October 1677, died soon; John, 27 May 1679, died at 5 years; Josiah, 29 January 1681; and Eleazer, 8 July 1683; was freeman 1690.

MALACHI RHODES, MALACHI ROADS, or MALACHI RHOADS, Providence, son of Zachary Rhodes, married Mary Carder, daughter of Richard Carder, and died 1682; his will of 17 October in that year probated 10 December following, names wife Mary, eldest son Malachi, a minor, daughters Sarah and Mary, brother John, and brothers-in-law, John Low and Daniel Williams.

RICHARD RHODES, RICHARD ROADS, or  RICHARD RHOADS, Salem 1669.

SAMUEL RHODES, SAMUEL ROADS, or SAMUEL RHOADS, Lynn, brother of Joshua Rhodes, married 16 January 1684, Abigail Coates, had Jonathan, born 28 November 1685; and Samuel, 2 August with a wrong year in the record that may have been intended for 1687; was freeman 1691.

THEOPHILUS RHODES, THEOPHILUS ROADS, or THEOPHILUS RHOADS, Boston, freeman 1683.

WALTER RHODES, WALTER ROADS, or WALTER RHOADS, Providence, "gave engagement of allegiance to his Major Charles II before William Carpenter, Assistant in the face of the town,"  1 June 1668.

WILLIAM RHODES, WILLIAM ROADS, or WILLIAM RHOADS, Block Island 1678.

ZACHARY RHODES, ZACHARY ROADS, or ZACHARY RHOADS, Providence, married Joanna Arnold, daughter of William Arnold, had John, born about 1658; Zechariah; and Malachi; besides a daughter Rebecca, who married Nicholas Power the second, and he died 1668.  His widow married Samuel Reape, of Newport, before the end of January 1669; and the son Zechariah, died without issue.  He had also some others.  This name is often found without an h, but rarely in modern days.

 

BENJAMIN RICE, Marlborough, youngest of eight sons of the first Edmund Rice of the same, married about 1662 Mary Brown, eldest child of Deacon William Brown of Sudbury, had only Ebenezer, born 1 May 1671; and his wife died 3 January 1691.

BENJAMIN RICE, Marlborough, youngest of five sons of Edward Rice, married 1 April 1691, Mary Graves, had Azariah; Lydia, born 1695 Elizabeth, 1697; Simon 1699; Zerubabel 1702; Rachael 1703; Matthias 1706; Priscilla 1708; and Damaris 1711; and he died 23 February 1748.

CALEB RICE, Marlborough, son of Joseph Rice, married 1696, Mary Ward, had Martha, Mary, Josiah, Jabez, Nathan, Rebecca, Sarah, Caleb, Hepzibah, and Kezia; was Deacon, died 5 January 1739, and his widow died 1742.

DANIEL RICE, Marlborough, son of Edward Rice the first, married 10 February 1681, Bethia Ward, youngest daughter of the first William Ward, had Bethia, born 1682; Daniel 1684; Luke 1689; Priscilla 1692; Eleazer 1695; Deborah 1697; and Hopestill 1702; his wife died 8 December 1721, aged 63, and he died 14 July 1737.

DAVID RICE, Framingham, son of Henry Rice, married 7 April 1687, Hannah Walker, daughter of Thomas Walker, had Elizabeth, born 8 September 1689; Hannah, 5 January 1692; Bezaleel; Josiah, 19 August 1701.  He was Deacon, his wife died 18 December 1704; and he died 16 October 1723.

EDMUND RICE, Sudbury, was from Barkhamstead in County Herts, and of the first settlers 1639, appointed to lay out the plantation, freeman 13 May 1640, and among proprietors that year is a widow Rice, perhaps his mother, was Representative in October following and 1643, Deacon, and selectman, born about 1594, brought from England wife Thomasine, and children by her, Edward, born 1618; Henry; Edmund; Thomas; Matthew; Samuel; and Joseph, had here Benjamin, born 31 May 1640.  His wife died 18 June 1654; and he married 1 Mar, 1655, Mercy, widow of Thomas Brigham, who survived him, and had Ruth born 29 September 1659; and Ann, 19 November 1661; was among early settlers of Marlborough, and he died 3 May 1663, all the ten children having division of his estate.  His widow married William Hunt.

EDMUND RICE, Marlborough, son of the preceding, born in England, married 13 October 1680, Joyce Russell, daughter of William Russell of Cambridge, had Joyce born 1681; Edmund, 9 July 1688; and Lydia, 24 May 1690; Joyce married 1705, Samuel Abbot.

EDMUND RICE, Sudbury, second son of Edward Rice the first, was a Deacon, and died 25 September 1719, but of marriage or issue I hear not.

EDWARD RICE, Westborough, son of Samuel Rice, married 15 November 1692, Ruth Parker of Roxbury, says Barry, and had at Marlborough, Dinah, born 1693; Silas 1695; Timothy 1697; Nahor 1699, killed by the Indians at 5 years; Huldah 1701; Moses 1704, died soon; Seth 1705; Thankful 1707; Eleazer 1709; Ruth 1712; Ebenezer 1714; and Ann 1716; died 1726, leaving widow Hannah.

EDWARD RICE, Sudbury, son of the first Edmund Rice, probably eldest, born at Barkhamstead, England, by first wife Agnes Bent, says Barry, he had no children, but John Bent, in his will of 14 September 1672, speaks of his daughter Agnes Rice, so that I doubt she was not first, but second wife unless Agnes and Ann mean one woman.  Children by wife Ann, according to Barry, were John; Lydia, born 30  July 1648, died soon; Lydia, again, 10 December 1649; Edmund, 9 December 1653; Daniel, 8 November 1655; Caleb, 8 February 1658, died soon; Ann, 9 November 1661; Dorcas, 29 January 1664; Benjamin, 22 December 1666; and Abigail, 9 May 1671; removed to Marlborough, was a Deacon, and died 15 August 1712 at great age, and his widow Ann died next year.

EDWARD RICE, Marlborough, son of Samuel Rice, married 25 May 1702, Lydia Fairbanks, had Gideon, and nine daughters.

ELISHA RICE, Sudbury, son of the first Thomas Rice, it is said, lived to near 60 years.

EPHRAIM RICE, Sudbury, son of the first Thomas Rice, married 21 February 1689, Hannah Livermore, perhaps daughter of John Livermore of Watertown, had Hannah, died young, Ephraim; Mary; Josiah; Grace diedyoung; Thomas; Gershom; John, Isaac; and Hannah, again; and he died 1732.  Of course he was 65, or at most, 69 years old, but then age is kindly stretched to 71, in Genealogical Registrar XIlI. 140.

GERSHOM RICE, Worcester, brother of the preceding, died 29 December 1768, at the great age of 101, as may be read in Genealogical Registrar XIII. 140.  He had seven children, all then living.

HENRY RICE, Sudbury, son of Edmund Rice the first, born in England, married 1 February 6, Elizabeth Moore, had Mary, born 19 September 1646; Elizabeth, 4 August 1648; Jonathan, 3 July 1654; born 17 June 1657; David, 27 December 1659; Thomasine, 2 February 1662; Rachel, 10 May 1664; Lydia, 4 June 1668; Mercy, 1 January 1671; besides Hannah; was freeman 10 May 1648, an early proprietor of Marlborough, removed to Framingham, there his wife died 3 August 1705; and he died 10 February 1711.  Elizabeth married John Brewer; Abigail married Thomas Smith; Thomasine married 1680, Benjamin Parmenter; Rachel m 15 December 1687, Thomas Drury; Lydia married Samuel Wheelock; Mercy married Elnathan Allen; and Hannah married 5 August 1675, Eleazer Ward, and next, 17 October 1677, Richard Taylor. 

ISAAC RICE, Framingham, son of Matthew Rice, by wife Sybilla, had Sybilla, born 1691; Martha; Mary; Abigail; and Ruth; and he died 1718.

JAMES RICE, Marlborough, son of the first Thomas Rice, had Jotham; Zebedia; Cyrus; Frances; James; Jaazaniah; Grace, and Berzela, if Barry is correct, who adds that he died at Worcester 1730.  His age was 61 years but in Genealogical Registrar XIII. 140, made to run up to 72.  Perhaps his wife was Sarah, and he had at Framingham Daniel, born 13 March 1705.

JOHN RICE, Boston, by wife Mary, had John, born 9 May 1669.

JOHN RICE, Warwick, married 16 July 1674, Elizabeth Houlden, second daughter of the first Randall Houlden, died 6 January 1731, aged 85, had John, and Randal, perhaps others.

JOHN RICE, Marlborough, eldest of Edward Rice the first, married 2 or 27 November 1674, Tabitha Stone, daughter of John Stone, had John born 1675; Ann, 1678; Deliverance, 1681; Tabitha, 1683; Prudence, 1685; Abigail, 1687; Edward, 23 December 1689; Dinah, 1691; Moses, 1694; Tamar, 1697; and Aaron, 13 August 1700; and died 5 September 1719.

JOHN RICE, Warwick, son of John Rice of the same, married 25 July 1695, Elnathan Whipple, second daughter of John Whipple the second of Providence, had John, born 6 April 1696, Elizabeth, 6 May 1698; Thomas, 26 April 1700; Mary, 22 September 1702, died next year; Nathan, 20 June 1704; Barbara, 24 April 1706; William, 2 March 1708; Mary, again, 24 January 1710; Lydia, 30 December 1711; Randall, 22 May, 1714; and Elnathan, 4 August 1716; and he died 9 January 1755, aged 80.

JONAS RICE, Sudbury, son of the first Thomas Rice, said in the doubtful Representative to have lived 84 years.

JONATHAN RICE, Norwich, married March 1661, Deborah Caulkins, daughter of Hugh Caulkins, had Elizabeth, born January 1662; and John, 1663; made freeman 1663, constable 1669.

JONATHAN RICE, Sudbury, son of Henry Rice, by wife Martha, had Martha, born 27 June 1675, died soon, as did the mother.  He married 1 November 1677 Rebecca Watson, had Jonathan, 1678; David, 1680; Ann, 1683; and Henry, 1685.  His wife died 22 December 1689, and he married 3rd wife 12 February 1691, Elizabeth Wheeler, had Martha; Hezekiah; Abraham; Ezekiel, 14 October 1700; Elizabeth, 28 February 1703; Phineas, 24 June 1705; removed to Framingham, there had Sarah, 24 September 1707; Richard, 31 January 1710; and Abigail, 23 March 1714; was selectman, Representative 1711 and 20, and died 12 April 1725.

JONATHAN RICE, Sudbury, son of Joseph Rice the first, married 25 March 1702, Ann Derby of Stow, as by the highest authority is told, was Deacon, and died 7 June 1772, and his widow died 2 December 1773.  So they had lived as husband and wife over 70 years, but whether any children came of the union is not told yet, but may be when the family genealogy is published.

JOSEPH RICE, Sudbury, probably youngest son of Edmund Rice the first, born in England, married 1658, Mercy King, perhaps daughter of Thomas King of Watertown, but no issue is found, in Barry, who says, by wife Martha he had Martha, born 14 January 1662; Josiah, 3 May 1663; Caleb, 1666; and this wife Martha; 4 January 1669; by third wife Mary Beers, by Bond thought daughter of Captain Richard Beers, he had Joseph, 5 June 1671; Eleazer, 26 October 1672; removed to Marlborough, was freeman 1672; had there Mary, 13 August 1674; perhaps driven by the Indians War to Watertown, his wife died there 13 May 1677; and there by 4th wife Sarah, had Jonathan, 26 March 1679; and Sarah, 14 February 1681, who died soon, and again might have, at Marlborough, Phineas, 24 August 1684.

JOSEPH RICE, Marlborough, son of the preceding, had wife Elizabeth, who died 13 October 1733, aged 48, and he died 3 December 1745. 

JOSEPH RICE, Marlborough, youngest child of Samuel, had Jesse and several daughters

JOSHUA RICE, Boston 1663, shoemaker, son of Robert Rice, by wife Bathshua, had Joshua, born 3 May 1664.

JOSHUA RICE, Marlborough, son perhaps eldest, of Samuel Rice, freeman 1690, by wife Mary, had Samuel, born 1693; Nahum, 1695; Sarah, 1698; Zephaniah, 1700; Andrew, 1703; and of him, wife or children I find no more in Barry. 

MATTHEW RICE, Sudbury, son probably fifth of Edmund Rice the first, born in England freeman 1660, married 2 November 1654,  Martha Lamson, perhaps daughter of Barnaby Lamson of Cambridge, had Sarah born 9 September 1655, who married a Loker; Martha, 17 August 1656, married John Bent as his second wife; Deborah, 14 February 1660, married 23 January 1684, Thomas Sawin; Ruth, 2 April 1662, married 21 November 1682, Joseph Hastings, and died two months after; Elizabeth, 20 May 1663, died soon; Dorothy, 14 February 1665, married a Ware; Isaac, 1668; and Patience, 5 March 1671, married a Leland.  His will was probated 30 December 1717.

MICHAEL RICE, New London, freeman 1663, as in Trumbull, Colony record I. 406, yet the name is not in Caulkins. 

NATHANIEL RICE, New London, freeman 1669.

NATHANIEL RICE, Sudbury, son of Thomas Rice the first, had Nathaniel, Mary, and Patience, but he had two wives Sarah, and next married 1704, widow Patience Stone, and he died 13 November 1726.  His age of 66 years is swelled to 70 in Genealogical Registrar XIII. 140.

NEHEMIAH RICE, New London, freeman 1666.

NICHOLAS RICE, Boston 1672, hired a farm of Governor Bellingham.

PETER RICE, Marlborough, son of Thomas Rice the first, by wife Rebecca, had Elisha, born 1690; Zipporah, 1691; Cyprian, 1693; Pelatiah, 1694; Elnathan; Peter; Abigail; Deborah; Rebecca; and Abraham, 1709.  His wife died 1749, and he died 28 November 1753, aged 95 years.  And one month less a week, allowed for change of style.  By the common tendency to exaggerate he is made 97 in Genealogical Registrar XIII. 140.  Several of his children reached old age.

PHILIP RICE, Boston 1640, is called a tailor, when united with the church 21 November 1641.  He died probably in 1665.

PHINEAS RICE, Sudbury, youngest son of Joseph Rice first of the same, married 2 October 1707, Elizabeth Willard, daughter of Daniel Willard of the same, had several children by her, who died 9 March 1761, but I know neither names nor dates, and he died 4 September 1768.

RANDALL RICE, Warwick, son of first John Rice of the same, had children but no record is seen of them.

RICHARD RICE, Cambridge 1635, removed to Concord 1636, freeman 2 June 1641, had Elizabeth, born 27 October 1641; and John, 23 February 1644; died 9 June 1709, aged, says the record more than 100 years who Shattuck judiciously reduced.  Farmer reports that he left 8 sons who lived to great ages, showing how easy tradition borrowed for him the facts of Edmund, of who he is not known to be a relative.

ROBERT RICE, Boston, spelled Roys, Rois, and Royce, in different records, freeman 1 April 1634, had probably come 1631, as he is number 137 on the list of church members, by wife Elizabeth, had Joshua, born 14, baptized 16 April 1637; Nathaniel, baptized 24 March though town record says born 1 April 1639; and Patience, born 1 April 1642, buried next week; Nathaniel died young.  His widow married I presume, Michael Tarne, for they called Joshua Rice their son when in 1668 the three united to mortgage estate.  Perhaps there were both Rice and Roise.  See Roise.

ROBERT RICE, Stratford 1656, was of New London after, freeman 1669.

SAMUEL RICE, Sudbury, son of Edmund Rice the first, born in England, married 8 November 1655, Elizabeth King, had Elizabeth, born 26 October 1656, who married 2 January 1677, Peter Haynes; Hannah, who married... Hubbard; Joshua; Edmund; Esther, 1665, who married 1 November 1683, Daniel Hubbard, Samuel, 1667; Mary, 1669; Edward, 1672; Abigail, 1674; and Joseph.  He had removed to Marlborough, married 1668, second wife Mary, widow of Abraham Brown, who died 18 June 1678; and he probably died 1684, or early next year for his will was probated 7 April 1685.

SAMUEL RICE, New London 1669.

THOMAS RICE, Sudbury, son of Edmund Rice the first, born in England, by wife Mary, had Grace, who died 1654; Thomas born 30 June 1654; Mary, 4 September 1656, married 1678, Joseph White; Peter, 24 October 1658; Nathaniel, 3 January 1660; Sarah, 15 January 1662, married John Adams; was freeman 1660, removed to Marlborough, had there Ephraim; Gershom, said to be born 9 May 1667; James, 1669; Jonas, 1673; Grace, 1675, married 1702, Nathaniel Moore; perhaps Elisha; and Frances, who married an Allen; and in Genealogical Registrar XIII. 140, was made to live 96 years.  His will was probated 1681, so that we may be sure his age was by ten years magnified by his son as in Genealogical Registrar XIII. 140; and the will of his widow was probated 1715.

THOMAS RICE, Marlborough, eldest son of the preceding, by wife Ann, married 1681, had Jeremiah, born 1690; Abiel; Ann; Arthur; Adonijah; Perez; Vashti; Beriah; Jason; Thomas; and Charles.  In Genealogical Registrar XIII. 140, his age is called 94; but my doubt is so strong, that I wish to know the day, month, and year when he died.

TIMOTHY RICE, Concord, freeman 1690, married 27 April 1687, Abigail Marrett, daughter of John Marrett of Cambridge.  Twenty four of this name had been graduates at Harvard in 1849, and six at Yale.

 

OBADIAH RICH, Salem 1668, married 6 July 1662, Bethia Williams, daughter of George Williams of the same, to whom administration on his estate was given January 1678.  He had Bethia, born 25 January 1663, died soon; Margaret, 8 November 1664; Obadiah, 14 January 1668; Bethia, again, 25 June 1670; and Mary, December 1672, who died within 2 years.  

RICHARD RICH, Dover 1671, mariner, married Sarah Roberts, daughter of Thomas Roberts, perhaps removed after 1675, to Eastham, there died 1692, had Richard. 

RICHARD RICH Eastham, son of the preceding, by wife Ann, had Sarah born 22 January 1696; Richard, 28 February 1699; Rebecca, 15 June 1701, Zacheus, 2 April 1704; Obadiah, 15 July 1707; Priscilla, 5 February 1710 died young, Huldah, July 1712; Joseph, 5 October 1715; and Sylvanus, 4 September 1720.

 

BENJAMIN RICHARDS, Boston, merchant, son of Thomas Richards of Weymouth, married 10 October 1661, Hannah Hudson, daughter of William Hudson junior, died early, and probably without child.  His widow married 1666 Richard Crispe.

DAVID RICHARDS, New London, youngest son of the first John Richards of the same, married 14 December 1698, Elizabeth Raymond, perhaps daughter of Daniel Raymond of the same; but Miss Caulkins does not enlarge upon him.

EDWARD RICHARDS, Dedham, married 10 September 1638, Susanna Hunting, perhaps sister of the first John Hunting, had Mary, born 29 September 1639; John, 1 or 10 July 1641; Dorcas, 24 September 1643; Nathaniel, 25 January 1649, not baptized as Genealogical Registrar XIV. 111, says, next day, which was Friday; and Sarah, 1651; was freeman 2 June 1641.  From his will, 1684, shortly before his death, we learn that John and Nathaniel were then living; that Mary married Nathaniel Bullard, and another daughter married a Hearsey; that a granddaughter was Mary Gay, probably wife of Jonathan, and daughter of Bullard; and that if Nathaniel would bring up one of his sons at the College he should have £60.

EDWARD RICHARDS, complained of 1646, by Gerard Spencer, may have been of Lynn, a joiner in 1661, was in 40th year, had William, born 7 June 1663; in 1678 swore that he lived there 5 years, and died 26 January 1690, in 74th year it is said, leaving son John.

ISRAEL RICHARDS, New London, second son of the first John Richards of the same, had Israel, Jeremiah, and several daughters, as Caulkins tells, but mentioned no dates, nor name of wife nor time of his own or her deaths.

JAMES RICHARDS, Boston, son perhaps of Thomas Richards of Dorchester, freeman 1652, removed about 10 years later to Hartford, there made freeman of Connecticut 1664, married Sarah Gibbons, only child of William Gibbons of Hartford, had Sarah, born 22 February 1662; 16 August 1663; Jerusha, 28 June 1665; Elizabeth, 19 May 1667; and Thomas, 16 September 1670; all named as living in his will of 9 June 1680, where he also provided for unborn, after called Ann; besides three named John, and daughter Abigail, who all died infants.  He was in the highest esteem, chosen an Assistant 1665 (and continued I suppose, in that office till his death 11 July 1680), Commissioner of the United Colonies of New England 1672 and 5.  His estate was of the largest.  The widow Sarah married Humphrey Davie of Boston, and next Colonel Jonathan Tyng of Dunstable, as second wife, and his daughter Sarah married Captain Benjamin Davis; Mary married Benjamin Alford, both of Boston; Jerusha married Reverend Gurdon Saltonstall of New London, afterwards Governor of the County; Elizabeth married John, son of Humphrey Davie who became baronet by description from his uncle Sir John, and next married Jonathan Taylor; and Ann died unmarried before 1691, so that brother and the sister had the £700, her share of the estate.

JAMES RICHARDS, Weymouth, by wife Ruth, had Benjamin, born 22 February 1684.

JAMES RICHARDS, Dedham, married Hannah Metcalf, daughter of Jonathan Metcalf, early in the 18th century.

JOHN RICHARDS, Dorchester, son of Thomas Richards, perhaps eldest, born in England, Artillery Company 1644, was established in 1649 at Arowsic Island Kennebeck, to trade with he Indians, removed 1653 to Boston, but had two years before been at London, married 3 May 1654, Elizabeth Hawkins, widow of Adam Winthrop, daughter of Captain Thomas Hawkins, who died 1 November 1691, and he married 1 September following Ann Winthrop, daughter of Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut, but he had no children by either; was Lieutenant, Captain, and Major, Representative 1671-3 for Newbury, 1675 for Hadley, and 1679-80 for Boston; was speaker this last year, and next elected Assistant until the coming of Andros; a high friend of liberty, named counsellor in the new Charter, became a Judge of the Supreme Court, and died very suddenly, as Sewall says, 2 April 1694.  His widow died 27 June 1704.

JOHN RICHARDS, New London, of whose original or date of arrival in our country we are ignorant, was there before 1660, says Caulkins, had eldest son John, born 1666; Israel; Mary; Penelope; Lydia; Elizabeth; and Hannah; but when she assures us that all the seven were baptized 26 March 1671, we necessarily deduce that most, if not all, of the daughters were born before the eldest son, and that careful writer supposed he was married before he settled at New London.  He had also David, baptized 27 July 1673, and died 1687.  His daughter Lydia married 15 November 1678, William Mynard.

JOHN RICHARDS, Dedham, son of Edward Richards the first, by wife Mary, had John, born 20 July 1663, was freeman 1671.

JOHN RICHARDS, Lynn, perhaps son perhaps brother of Edward Richards, married 18 November 1674, Mary Brewer, probably daughter of Crispus Brewer, had Mary, born 16 October 1675; John, 1 May 1677; Edward, 13 June 1679; Crispus, 20 October 1681, Elizabeth, 1683; Joseph, 1685; William, 1688; and Abigail, 1691; was freeman 1691.

JOHN RICHARDS, Hartford, son of first Thomas Richards of the same, born in England, had wife Lydia Stocking, daughter of George Stocking, and children John, Thomas, and Samuel, was freeman 1669, and in 1695 was 64 years old.

JOHN RICHARDS, Weymouth, son of William Richards, freeman 1681, by wife Sarah, had Sarah, born 20 June 1672; Bathshua, 16 November 1674; John, 20 February 1680; William, 12 April 1685; Ephraim, 30 April 1687; Grace, 16 March 1689; and Lydia, 8 November 1691.

JOHN RICHARDS, Westfield, by wife Abigail, widow of John Mun, married 7 October 1686, had John, born 26 July 1687; Abigail, 10 January 1689; and Thomas, 7 November 1691.

JOHN RICHARDS, New London, eldest son of John Richards of the same, married Love Manwaring, daughter of Oliver Manwaring of the same, had ten or more children of which four only, John, George, Samuel, and Lydia, outlived him, who died 2 November 1720.

JOSEPH RICHARDS, Weymouth, son of William Richards, was probably one of Johnson's Company December 1675, freeman 1681, by wife Susanna, had James, born 28 September 1680; and by wife Sarah, had Deborah, 9 October 1684; Benjamin, 7 April 1686; Mary, 6 March 1689; and Daniel, 28 February 1695.

JUSTINIAN RICHARDS, New Hampshire, 1689, prayed for Massachusetts jurisdiction.

NATHANIEL RICHARDS, Cambridge, came to Boston in the Lion, 16 September 1632, as published by me in 4 Massachusetts History Collection I. 94, reprinted in Genealogical Registrar XIV. 301, was freeman 6 November of that year, removed as one of the first settlers at Hartford 1636, and early in 1652 at Norwalk, where in 1655 were but four men with larger estates and only two in 1671, was Representative at October session 1678, probably left no children, for his will of 7 October 1681, gives all his estate to the husbands of four daughters of his wife Rosamond, by her former husband Henry Lindall. 

NATHANIEL RICHARDS, Dedham 1642, perhaps was brother of Edward Richards.

NATHANIEL RICHARDS, Dedham, son of Edward Richards, married 21 February 1679, Mary Aldis, daughter of Deacon John Aldis, may be he who took oath of allegiance at Springfield, 1 January 1679, and freeman at Dedham 1690, and died very suddenly 15 February 1727.

OBADIAH RICHARDS, Farmington, son of Thomas Richards the second, had perhaps by wife Hannah Andres, daughter of John Andres of the same, John, born 1668; Mary, January 1670; Hannah, November 1671; Esther, June 1673; Elizabeth, July 1675; Sarah, April 1677; Obadiah, 1 October 1679; who were all baptized 21 March 1680, removed to Waterbury, and had Rachel, baptized 6 May 1683; Thomas, 9 August 1685; and Benjamin, 5 April 1691, and died 11 November 1702.  His widow died May 1725.

RICHARD RICHARDS, Salem, married 16 January 1661, Elizabeth Reeves, daughter of John Reeves, had Elizabeth, born 28 December following, died in few months; John, 25 May 1663; Elizabeth again, December 1665; Joshua, March 1668, if the name be not Joanna; and Mary, December 1670; perhaps more; and died probably June 1678.

SAMUEL RICHARDS, made freeman of Connecticut 1658, but of what town is uncertain.  See Trumbull, Colony record I. 315; and the name is not found among the freeman of 1669, in Volume II.  Perhaps he was son of the first Thomas Richards, of Hartford, married December 1665, Mary Graves, and died early without issue.  He died I find, 1662. at New Haven. 

THOMAS RICHARDS, Dorchester 1630, perhaps came in the Mary and John, with sons James and John, before mentioned, removed to Weymouth, freeman 13 May 1640, died soon after 17 December 1650.  His will made at Hull on that day, probated 28 January following, names sons John, James, Samuel, Joseph, and Benjamin, calling the last two minors; and daughters Mary, Ann, Alice, and Hannah.  This last child died 10 November following.  His widow Welthian, mother of these children, in her will of July 1679, probated November following,  mentioned only James, John, and Ann, wife of Ephraim Hunt, as then living; Mary, married 7 December 1641, Thomas Hinckley of Barnstable, after Governor of that Colony, and died 24 June 1659; Alice married William Bradford, the Deputy Governor  of the same Colony, and died 12 December 1671.

THOMAS RICHARDS, Hartford 1639, died early, leaving widow who died 1671, and children John, Mary Peck of Milford, perhaps wife of Joseph, besides Samuel, who died before middle age, Thomas, and Obadiah. Descendants are numerous in Connecticut but some of the errors suppose they derived from James, before mentioned son of the former Thomas Richards, who had only son Thomas, that left not male issue.

THOMAS RICHARDS, Boston, freeman 1645, Artillery Company 1648, of who no more is known

THOMAS RICHARDS, Waterbury, son of Thomas Richards of Hartford, married 21 October 1691, Mary Parsons, daughter of Benjamin Parsons. 

THOMAS RICHARDS, Hartford, only son of James Richards that grew up, married Joanna Dodd, had Joanna, born 21 July 1702; and Mary, 14 October 1703; and died December 1714.  His widow married Dr. John Cutter, or John Cutler as is said.

WILLIAM RICHARDS, Plymouth 1633, Haz. I. 327, but in 1643, he is not found there.  Deane thinks he removed to Scituate; but he presumes him to have removed also to Weymouth, which may be true, and yet not be what Deane thought, the same as

WILLIAM RICHARDS, Weymouth 1648, perhaps brother of Thomas Richards of the same, by wife Grace, had William; James born 1658; John; Joseph; and Benjamin, of which this youngest was born 19 May 1660, all named with wife Grace, in his will of 18 June 1680, probated 23 July 1682.

WILLIAM RICHARDS, Weymouth, probably son of the preceding, as freeman 1681.  Of this name seen had been in 1834, graduates at Yale, two at Harvard, and ten at other New England colleges.

 

AMOS RICHARDSON, AMOS RICHASON, or AMOS RICHESON, often in old records, Boston, merchant tailor, perhaps one of that great London guild, by wife Mary, had John Richardson, baptized 26 December 1647, Harvard College 1666; Amos, 20 January 1650, in right of their mother; Stephen, born 14 June 1652; Catharine, 6 January 1665; Sarah, 19 July 1657; Samuel, 18 February 1660; freeman 1665, removed next year to Stonington, of who he was Representative 1676 and 7, and there died 5 August 1683.  His wife Mary lived but few weeks after him.  Besides those sons, he had daughters Mary, married June 1663, Jonathan Gatline, or Jonathan Gatliffe, of Braintree, and Prudence, many years younger, married 15 March 1683, Jonathan, and next 17 March 1703, Elnathan Miner.  He had been agent of Stephen Winthrop and was after of Governor John Richardson, his brother was of great enterprise, and good estate, one of the purchasers with Winthrop Atherton, Hudson, and others of the Narraganset lands on which he first settled at Westerly, and when the claim of Connecticut was subjected to Rhode Island jurisdiction, he crossed over to Stonington.  A good letter from him to Fitz John Winthrop, at Cardross in Scotland, written 13 September 1659, signed Amos Richerson, as often the name is in record was given me.

CALEB RICHARDSON, CALEB RICHASON, or CALEB RICHESON, Newbury, son of Edward Richardson of the same, married 31 July 1682, Mary Ladd, had Ruth, born 1 March 1683; and Mary, 12 January 1685.

EBENEZER RICHARDSON, EBENEZER RICHASON, or EBENEZER RICHESON, often in old records, Waterbury, youngest son of Thomas Richardson of the same, married Margaret Warner, daughter of Thomas Warner, and Bronson, who says, he died 30 June 1772, tells no more. 

EDWARD RICHARDSON, EDWARD RICHASON, or EDWARD RICHESON, often in old records, Newbury, had Edward, born 1 December 1649; Caleb, 18 August 1652; Ruth, 23 November 1655; Moses, 4 April 1658; and Mary, 2 September 1660; and he died 14 November 1685, as Coffin tells, who adds that another Edward Richardson died there, 25 March 1655; but he does not inform us, whether this were child or adult.  One was 61 years in 1678.

EDWARD RICHARDSON, EDWARD RICHASON, or EDWARD RICHESON, often in old records, Newbury, son of the preceding, married 28 October 1673, Ann Bartlett, probably daughter of Christopher Bartlett, had Mary, born says Coffin, 25 October 1673, died young; Edward, 2 September 1674; Mary, again, 25 August 1676; Moses, 22 January 1680; and Margaret, 7 July 1682; and he died as in Coffin, 14 November following.  But there was an Edward Richardson of Rowley, a Sergeant in 1691.

EZEKIEL RICHARDSON, EZEKIEL RICHASON, or EZEKIEL RICHESON, often in old records, Charlestown 1630, came probably in the fleet of Winthrop with wife Susanna.  They belonged to the church of Boston, and were dismissed with others, 1 October 1632, to establish a church at Charlestown, freeman 18 May 1631, by the Court appointed 1633, constable, and by the people Representative 1635, with many of his townsmen united in remonstrance against the Act of the government towards Wheelwright, in 1637, and, his heart failing him, in November expressed his contrite and had his name crossed over.  In 1640, when a selectman, he favored settling at Woburn, and there died 21 October 1647.  His will of 20 July preceding is in Genealogical Registrar VII. 172, names eldest son Theophilus and the widow executors, other children only Josias, James, and Phebe, and brothers Samuel and Thomas are mentioned.  Phebe was baptized in Boston, 3 June 1632; Theophilus, 22 December 1633; Josiah, 7 November 1635; John, 21 July 1638; Jonathan, 5 February 1640; both died young; James, 11 July 1641, at Charlestown and Woburn record proves that his daughter Ruth, born 31 August 1643, died in a week.  Phebe married 1 November 1699, Henry Baldwin.

GEORGE RICHARDSON, GEORGE RICHASON, or GEORGE RICHESON, often in old records, Watertown, came in the Susan and Ellen 1635, aged 30, from London had small family in 1642, says Bond.

HENRY RICHARDSON, HENRY RICHASON, or HENRY RICHESON, often in old records, came from Canterbury, County Kent, with wife Mary and five children in 1635 or 6; but I know no more than is told in 3 Massachusetts History Collection III. 276.

ISAAC RICHARDSON, ISAAC RICHASON, or ISAAC RICHESON, often in old records, Woburn, son of Thomas Richardson of the same, married 19 June 1667, Deborah Fuller, daughter of Thomas Fuller, had Jonathan, born 12 December 1669; Deborah, 22 January 1672; Joseph and Benjamin, twins 25 January (Vinton, 392, says June) 1674; Mercy, 27 October 1676, died under 2 years; twins 13 May 1678, both died very young; David, 4 February 1679, probably died young; Phebe, 14 February 1681; Mary, 14 July 1683; Elizabeth, 8 November 1685; and Samuel, 2 February 1687; and died 2 April 1689.

ISRAEL RICHARDSON, ISRAEL RICHASON, or ISRAEL RICHESON, often in old records, Waterbury, son of Thomas Richardson, died 18 December 1712, with his wife and oldest child Mary in few weeks to follow him, but other children are not named by Bronson.

JAMES RICHARDSON, JAMES RICHASON, or JAMES RICHESON, often in old records, Woburn, probably brother of Ezekiel Richardson, removed 1659 to Chelmsford, married probably that year, though by record 28 November 1660, Bridget Henchman, daughter of Thomas Henchman, had Thomas, born 26 October 1660, as the record shows; James, 26 October 1661; and several other children, Farmer says.  His widow perhaps married 8 October 1679, William Chandler of Andover.

JOHN RICHARDSON, JOHN RICHASON, or JOHN RICHESON, often in old records, Watertown 1636, may have been at Exeter 1642.  One of this name having recently married Elizabeth Tryer here, having wife in England, the married was in November 1644 declared void.

JOHN RICHARDSON, JOHN RICHASON, or JOHN RICHESON, often in old records, Woburn, eldest son of Samuel Richardson of the same, married 22 October 1658, Elizabeth Bacon, daughter of Michael Bacon of the same, had John, born 24 January 1661; and Joseph, 3 January 1667; and married 28 October 1673, but 1672, according to Vinton, 381, Mary Pierson, perhaps daughter of Bartholomew Pierson, had Pierson, born 29 September 1674, Vinton, 22 September 1673; Jacob, 15 February 1676; William, 29 June 1678, died in few weeks; and by third wife married 25 June 1689, Margaret Willing, had Willing, 5 October 1692, died at 12 years; and Job, 30 April 1696; was a Lieutenant, and died 1 January 1697.

JOHN RICHARDSON, JOHN RICHASON, or JOHN RICHESON, often in old records, Newbury, eldest son of Amos Richardson, by wife who is not named in Coffin, and by Farmer was mistaken for wife of the preceding, had Sarah, born 9 September 1674; John; Mary 22 July 1677; Elizabeth, 29 April 1680; and Catharine, 15 September 1681; was ordained 20 October 1675, and Farmer says was freeman that year of which I do not see the proof.  He had early been a member of the corporation of Harvard College and engaged, I am sorry to say, in the less reputable business of removing President Hoar, and died 27 April 1696.

JOHN RICHARDSON, JOHN RICHASON, or JOHN RICHESON, often in old records, Waterbury, brother of Ebenezer Richardson, married Ruth Wheeler, daughter of John Wheeler, and second wife Elizabeth Arnold, daughter of Nathaniel Arnold.  But the history gives no dates or issue of either, added only, that he died 17 October 1712 in the great pestilence of that region. 

JOSEPH RICHARDSON, JOSEPH RICHASON, or JOSEPH RICHESON, often in old records, Woburn, son of Samuel Richardson of the same, married 5 November 1666, Hannah Green, daughter of Thomas Green, had Hannah, born 21 October 1667; Mary, 22 March 1669, Elizabeth, 28 June 1670; Joseph, 19 May 1672; and Stephen, 7 February 1674; was freeman, and died 5 March 1718.  His widow died 20 May 1721. 

JOSEPH RICHARDSON, JOSEPH RICHASON, or JOSEPH RICHESON, often in old records, Newbury, son of William Richardson, married 12 July 1681, Margaret Godfrey, daughter of Peter Godfrey, had Mary, born 16 April 1682; William, 22 March 1684; Joseph, 31 December 1686; Elizabeth, 28 February 1689; Daniel, 4 April 1692; Sarah, 19 June 1694; Thomas, 15 February 1697; and Caleb, 9 June 1704.

JOSHUA RICHARDSON, JOSHUA RICHASON, or JOSHUA RICHESON, often in old records, Newbury, married 31 January 1679, Mary Parker, had Esther, born 15 March 1683.  His wife died 7 March 1685, and by second wife Jane, he had Judith, born 25 June 1688; Hannah, 9 October 1690; Abigail, 6 August 1692; Elizabeth, 4 November 1694; Joanna, 6 March 1697; and Joshua, 20 March 1702.

JOSIAH RICHARDSON, JOSIAH RICHASON, or JOSIAH RICHESON, often in old records, Chelmsford, son of Ezekiel Richardson, married 6 June 1659, Remembrance Underwood, daughter of William Underwood, had Sarah, born 1660; Mary, 1662; Josiah, 18 May 1665; Jonathan, 8 October 1667; John, 14 February 1669, Samuel, 21 February 1672; and Remembrance, 20 April 1684; was town clerk, selectman, Captain, Representative 1689 and 90, and died 22 July 1695.  Descendants are very numerous and much diffused.

MOSES RICHARDSON, MOSES RICHASON, or MOSES RICHESON, often in old records, Rowley, or Newbury, youngest son of Edward Richardson of Newbury married Lydia Coleman, daughter of Tobias Coleman; but I know no more.

NATHANIEL RICHARDSON, NATHANIEL RICHASON, or NATHANIEL RICHESON, often in old records, Woburn, youngest son of Thomas Richardson of the same, freeman 1690, by wife Mary, had Nathaniel, born 27 August 1673; James, 26 February 1676; Mary, 10 March 1679; Joshua, 3 June 1681; Martha, 1683; John, 25 January 1685; Thomas, 15 April 1687; Hannah, May 1689; Samuel, 24 September 1691; Phineas, February 1694; Phebe, 4 March 1696; Amos, 10 August 1698; and Benjamin, 27 August 1700; and died 4 December 1714.  His widow died 22 December 1719.

NATHANIEL RICHARDSON, NATHANIEL RICHASON, or NATHANIEL RICHESON, often in old records, Waterbury, son of Thomas Richardson of the same, died 3 November 1712, unmarried. 

RICHARD RICHARDSON, RICHARD RICHASON, or RICHARD RICHESON, often in old records, Boston 1654, had wife Joanna, and daughter Joanna, born 25 February 1658; and son-in-law Timothy Armitage.

RICHARD RICHARDSON, RICHARD RICHASON, or RICHARD RICHESON, often in old records, Lynn, married 20 June 1665, Amy Graves or Ann Graves, had Richard, eldest son John, born April 1670, and Thomas, 15 April 1674; Francis; and Ebenezer; besides Mary, as is learned from distribution in Probat Court after June 1681.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON, SAMUEL RICHASON, or SAMUEL RICHESON, often in old records, Charlestown, probably brother of Ezekiel Richardson, by wife Joanna, had Mary, baptized 25 February 1638, probably married Thomas Mousall; John, baptized 12 November 1639; was freeman 2 May 1688, removed early to Woburn, there had Hannah, born 8 March 1642, died next month Joseph, 27 July 1643; Samuel, 22 April 1646; Stephen, 15 August 1649; Thomas, 31 December 1631, died before his father, and Elizabeth was one of the founders of the church 24 August 1642, and died 23 March 1658 or 9.  His widow Joanna, who died 1666, in her will of 20 June 166, the last figure being lost, names eldest son John, and other children Samuel, Stephen, Elizabeth, and Mary Mousall.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON, SAMUEL RICHASON, or SAMUEL RICHESON, often in old records, Woburn, son of the preceding, by wife Martha, who died 20 December 1673, had Samuel and Thomas, twins born 5 November 1670; Elizabeth, about 1672; and Martha, 20 December 1673, probably died very soon.  On 30 September 1674, he married Hannah Kingsley, perhaps daughter of Samuel Kingsley of Braintree, had Hannah, who at the age of one week with her mother and brother Thomas were killed by the Indians it is said, 10 April 1676; and next he married 7 November following Phebe Baldwin, died probably of Henry Baldwin of Woburn, had Zechariah, born 21 November 1677; and she died 20 October 1679.  By fourth wife Sarah Hayward, perhaps not a maiden, married 8 September 1680, he had Thomas, born 18 August 1681, died next month; Sarah, 20 August 1682; Thomas again, 25 September 1684; Ebenezer, 15 March 1687; a son 17 August 1689, died without name; Hannah, 11 August 1690; Eleazer, 10 February 1693; Jonathan, 16 July 1696; and David, 14 April 1700; and died 29 April 1712.  His widow died 14 October 1717.

STEPHEN RICHARDSON, STEPHEN RICHASON, or STEPHEN RICHESON, often in old records, Woburn, brother of the preceding, married at Billerica, 2 January 1675, Abigail Wyman, perhaps daughter of Francis Wyman, had Stephen, born 20 February 1676; Francis, 19 January 1678, died in few days; William, 14 December 1678; Francis, again, 15 January 1681; Timothy, 6 December 1682, died in few weeks; Abigail, 14 November 1683; Prudence, 17 January 1686; Timothy, again, 24 January 1688; Seth, 16 January 1690; Daniel, 16 October 1691; Mary, 3 May 1696; Rebecca, 10 June 1698, died at 13 years; Solomon, 27 March 1702; and Henry, 1704; was freeman 1690, and 22 March 1718.  His widow died 17 September 1720.

STEPHEN RICHARDSON, STEPHEN RICHASON, or STEPHEN RICHESON, often in old records, Stonington, son of Amos Richardson, was a man of importance 1676, and after.

THEOPHILUS RICHARDSON, THEOPHILUS RICHASON, or THEOPHILUS RICHESON, often in old records, Woburn, son of Ezekiel Richardson, married 2 May 1654, Mary Champney, daughter of John Champney of Cambridge, had Ezekiel, born 28 October 1655; Mary, 15 January 1655; Sarah, 23 April 1660; Abigail, 21 October 1662; Hannah, 6 April 1665; John, 16 January 1668; Esther, 25 June 1670; Ruth, 31 August 1673; and probably Bridget; and he died 28 December 1674.

THOMAS RICHARDSON, THOMAS RICHASON, or THOMAS RICHESON, often in old recores, Woburn, brother of Ezekiel Richardson, had lived few years at Charlestown, freeman 2 May 1638, one of the founders of the church at Woburn, by wife Mary, had Mary, baptized 17 November 1638; Sarah, 22 November 1640; both at Charlestown, but at Woburn had Isaac, born 14 or 24 May 1643; Thomas, 4 October 1645; Ruth, 14 April 1647; Phebe, 24 January 1649; and Nathaniel, 2 January 1651; and died 28 August 1651.

THOMAS RICHARDSON, THOMAS RICHASON, or THOMAS RICHESON, often in old records, Farmington, perhaps came to Boston in the Speedwell, July 1656, from London, aged 19, had Mary, born 25 December 1167; Sarah, 25 March 1669; John, 15 April 1672; Israel; and Thomas; removed to Waterbury, there had Rebecca, 27 April 1679, the First Church says the record born there, Ruth, born 10 May 1681; Joanna, 1 September 1683, baptized 8 April 1684; Nathaniel, born 28 May 1686.; and Ebenezer, 4 February 1690, baptized 28 June 1691; and died 14 November 1712.  His wife died a week after and three sons John, Israel, and Nathaniel, all sunk in the same epidemic.  His wife was Mary; daughter Sarah married 1691, James Williams of Hartford; and the name commonly was written Richason.

THOMAS RICHARDSON, THOMAS RICHASON, or THOMAS RICHESON, often in old records, Billerica, son of Thomas Richardson the first, died 25 February 1721, says Farmer, who adds that he had many descendants.

THOMAS RICHARDSON, THOMAS RICHASON, or THOMAS RICHESON, often in old records, was of Gallup's Company 1690, for the adventure against Quebec; but I dare not conjecture who was his father. 

THOMAS RICHARDSON, THOMAS RICHASON, or THOMAS RICHESON, often in old records, Waterbury, son of Thomas Richardson of the same, removed to Wallingford, was living 1722. 

WILLIAM RICHARDSON, WILLIAM RICHASON, or WILLIAM RICHESON, often in old records, Newport 1638, and there lived 1655, when the name appears Richinson.

WILLIAM RICHARDSON, WILLIAM RICHASON, or WILLIAM RICHESON, often in old records, Newbury, married 23 August 1654, Elizabeth Wiseman, had Joseph, born 18 May 1655; and Benjamin 13 March 1657; and died 14 March 1658. 

WILLIAM RICHARDSON, WILLIAM RICHASON, or WILLIAM RICHESON, often in old records, Newport, perhaps son of William Richardson of the same, married 30 August 1670, Deliverance Scott, daughter of Richard Scott, but I fear she lived not long, for I find no records, nor mentione of children, and he, or another of the same name at Newport married 27 March 1678, Elizabeth Borden, of whose father I am ignorant, and she, we may suppose, died soon, for he married 14 May 1679, Elizabeth Mott, daughter of the second Adam Mott, and had Rebecca, born 14 May 1681; and John, 11 February 1683.  Of this name, eighteen had been graduates at Harvard in 1850, and three at Yale, besides several at other New England colleges.

 

JOHN RICHBELL, or JOHN RIZBELL, Charlestown 1648, merchant, removed before 1662, to Oyster Bay, Long Island.  He owned a plantation at the Island of St. Christophers.

ROBERT RICHBELL, or ROBERT RIZBELL, Oyster Bay, Long Island, who may have been son or brother of the preceding, was made by Connecticut a Commissioner (see 3 Massachusetts History Collection X. 86), and is called Colonel by Sewall, marked his death 22 July 1682, at Boston.  Reverend Noadiah Russell, in his Diary, calls him Major Rechtill from Barbadoes, with income of £1,500 per annum, and says his funeral was attended by eight foot companions of Barbadoes.

 

SIGISMUND RICHELLS, SIGISMUND RITCHELL, or SIGISMUND RICHAL, Wethersfield 1661, then had a son grown up; perhaps was of Brainford after.

 

EDWARD RICHMOND, Westerly, son of the first John Richmond, purchased at Misquamicuk, the most Western part of Rhode Island jurisdiction 1661, had in 1667 grant at East Greenwich, near the centre of the Colony, and Farmer thought he was of Little Compton, the most Eastern town.

JOHN RICHMOND, Taunton, one of the first purchasers 1637, may be the same, who Folsom, 138, places in Maine.  He was not of Taunton so late as 1643, but perhaps in Rhode Island, where I find him 1655, yet late in life went again to Taunton, died 20 March 1664, aged about 70.  Abstract of his will made at Taunton 14 December 1663, is in Genealogical Registrar VII. 180, names sons John and Edward, daughters Mary, wife of William Paul, and Sarah, wife of Edward Rew, and next, 4 November 1678, James Walker, grandchildren Edward, son of Edward, and Thomas, son of John.  Family tradition brings this John from Ashton Keynes, a parish of Wiltshire 4 1/2 miles West from Crichlade, where he was baptized 1597.

JOHN RICHMOND, Taunton, son of the preceding, perhaps born in England, had Mary, born 2 June 1654 at Bridgewater, who married 1 January 1680, Richard Godfrey; John, 6 June 1656, also at Bridgewater, who may have died before the will of his grandfather; Thomas, at Newport, 2 February 1659; Susanna, at Bridgewater 4 November 1661, who married 18 April 1683, James Read; Joseph, or Josiah, 8 December 1663, Edward, 8 February 1666; Samuel, 23 September 1668; Sarah, 26 February 1671; John, again, 5 December 1673; Ebenezer, 12 May 1676; and Abigail, 26 February 1679; all at Taunton, except the last two who were born at Newport, and probably Mary, who may have married the second Richard Godfree; and died 7 October 1715, aged 88.  Abigail, probably his widow died 1 August 1727, aged 86.

JOSEPH RICHMOND, Taunton, probably son of the preceding, married 26 June 1685, Mary Andrews.

SAMUEL RICHMOND, Taunton, probably son of the preceding, married 20 December  1694, Mehitable Andrews.

THOMAS RICHMOND, Middleborough, brother of the preceding, died 14 December 1705.  Of this name, in old records sometimes Richmand, two had been graduates in 1834 at Harvard, and seven at other New England colleges.

 

GEORGE RICHARD, or GEORGE RICKER, or GEORGE RICKET, Dover 1670, by wife Eleanor, had Judith, born 1 February 1681; John, 1 April 1682; Mary, 22 March 1685; Maturin, 1 February 1688; Elizabeth, 8 August 1690; Hannah, 12 May 1693; Ephraim, 15 February 1696; Eleanor, 15 February 1699; and George, 19 February 1702.  He was killed by the Indians 4 July 1706. 

GILES RICHARD, or GILES RICKER, or GILES RICKET, Plymouth, freeman 1637, had first wife Judith, who died 6 February, and married 20 May 1662, for 2nd wife Joan Tilson, but had sons Giles and John, perhaps Sarah (who married 1657, as is said, George Paddock), all by former, and married 3rd wife 25 June 1669, Hannah Pontus, widow of John Churchill, daughter of William Pontus; died 1684, aged 87; and his widow died 12 December 1690.

GILES RICHARD, or GILES RICKER, or GILES RICKET, Plymouth, son of the preceding, married 31 October 1651, Hannah Dunham, perhaps daughter of the first John Dunham, had John, born the next year, day and month lost from the record; Samuel 14 January 1663.

JOHN RICHARD, or JOHN RICKER, or JOHN RICKET, Plymouth, son of Giles Richard the first, married 31 October 1651, Esther Barnes, had John, born 24 November 1657; Mary, 27 October 1677; Lydia, 12 December 1679; John, 29 December 1681; and Mercy, who died 12 February 1683. 

MATURIN RICHARD, or MATURIN RICKER, or MATURIN RICKET, Dover, brother of George Richard, had Joseph, and was killed on the same day with his brother.

THOMAS RICHARD, or THOMAS RICKER, or THOMAS RICKET, Scituate. His will of 14 November 1648, names no wife or children. 

THOMAS RICHARD, or THOMAS RICKER, or THOMAS RICKET, Salem 1670, had wife and daughter Sarah.

 

WILLIAM RICKETSON, Dartmouth, son of Elizabeth, who may have been a widow, resided there, by wife Elizabeth, had Rebecca, born 14 May 1681; John, 11 February 1683; Elizabeth, 1 September 1684.; William, 26 February 1686; Jonathan, 7 April 1688, and Timothy, 22 January 1690; and died 1 March 1691.

 

ISAAC RICKMAN, Salem, came in the fleet with Higginson 1629; and perhaps went back soon, at least no more is heard of him.

 

THADDEUS RIDDAN, or THADDEUS RIDDAINE, Lynn, merchant, freeman 1672, by  wife Elizabeth, had Hannah and Sarah, twins born 12 August of who Hannah, died 13 November  1660; Hannah, again, born 11 November 1662; John, 3 February 1665; and Abigail, 4 June 1671.  By his correspondent Farmer was informed that this name was Kidder.

 

BENJAMIN RIDER, Yarmouth, married 13 June 1670, Mary Gray, daughter of John Gray, was a soldier of Gorham’s Company in Philip’s war, but living in 1698.  He had second wife in 1680, but the sheet of town record that named his family is lost.

JAMES RIDER, Cambridge, by wife Hannah, had Hannah; born 1 March 1651; James, 3 January 1654; and Thomas, 1 March 1657.  Perhaps he removed.

JOHN RIDER, Falmouth 1665-76, was perhaps son of Phineas Rider of the same.  See Hutchinson Collection 398, and Willis, I. 141.

JOHN RIDER, Yarmouth, son of Samuel Rider, died 5 January 1706, but his wife had died 23 October 1691.  Full record of his family is lost, but he had son Samuel, who died 14 August 1702, and from his will we find other children Ebenezer, John, born 1664, Joseph, Hannah, Lydia, and Thankful. 

JOSEPH RIDER, Yarmouth, brother of the preceding, of which the imperfect record shows children Joseph, born 22 December 1676; Hannah; Elizabeth; Mary; Sarah; Rebecca; and Esther; was a man of esteem, left large estate, and his branch of the family was extinct in his grandson.

PHINEAS RIDER, Falmouth 1658, had been of Gloucester 1649 to 58, was a man of importance,  Representative 1670.  See Babson and Willis, I.  His name is, in Hutchinson Collection 398, called Hidar.

SAMUEL RIDER, Yarmouth 1638, had earlier wife Mary, born 6 September 1647; had Elizabeth, who married 2 November 1667, John Cole; besides Benjamin, John, and Samuel, some of whom may have been born in England; and Zechary, first male born of white parents in the town; and Joseph; all named with wife Ann in his will.  He was a Lieutenant, but disfranchized 1655, for favoring Quakers; died 22 December 1679, aged 78; and his widow died at Plymouth 1695; and by this wife had Samuel, 18 November 1657. 

SAMUEL RIDER, Plymouth, a cooper, son of the preceding, perhaps born in England, married 23 December 1656, Sarah Bartlett or Mary Bartlett, daughter of Robert Bartlett, had Samuel, born 18 November following, and probably others. 

SAMUEL RIDER, Taunton, son of the preceding, married 14 June 1680, Lydia Tilden, perhaps daughter of Joseph Tilden of Scituate.  He is said to have had fourteen children. 

THOMAS RIDER, Dorchester, had come in the year 1634, by the Hercules, married Elizabeth Lane, daughter of William Lane, was perhaps a caulker, of Boston 1650, had Hannah, born 7 March 1655.

THOMAS RIDER, Watertown, freeman 1690, married Sarah Lawrence, daughter of George Lawrence the first, had Sarah, born December 1694, died next month, probably he removed to Framingham, in Bond's judgment, and was likely to be at Dorchester 1709.  In the will of her father this Sarah is mentioned 1707; and she died at Roxbury 14 August 1714, says, perhaps erroneously.  Genealogical Registrar XIV. 53.

WILLIAM RIDER, Watertown, married 7 or 11 August 1674, Hannah Lovett, had William, born 29 July 1675; Hannah, 4 April 1678, died young; Hannah, again, 28 May 1680; removed to Shirborn, had Daniel; and Eleazer, 22 January 1687; and died 27 August 1724. 

ZECHARY RIDER, Yarmouth, son of the first Samuel Rider, had grant of land for the first male child born in the town, by wife Mary, had Zechariah and John, was killed by casual shot at a train 5 September 1685; and his widow married Edward Sturgis.

 

JOHN RIDGDALE or JOHN RIGDALE, Plymouth, one of the passengers in the Mayflower 1620, with wife Alice, and both died before April 1621.

 

JOHN RIDGE, Newbury, died 30 December 1666.

THOMAS RIDGE, of town unknown.  His widow Martha gave inventory of his estate 25 November  1684.

 

JOHN RIDGEWAY, or JOHN RIDGAWAY, Malden, had wife Mary, who died 24 December 1670.

 

JOHN RIDLAND, Charlestown, of who no more is known by me but that his name is in the list of householders 1678.

 

RICHARD RIDLEY, came in the Planter, a servant of Martin Saunders, from London 1635, aged 16, but no more is known of him.

 

RICHARD RIFF, Salem, seems a strange name, but is in the list of freeman 1678.

 

EDWARD RIGBY, Lancaster 1654.

JOHN RIGBY, Dorchester 1637, freeman 18 May 1642, died in April 1647; was perhaps father of the Samuel, baptized there 21 March 1641, and of Abigail, who married 19 February 1664, Thomas Holman.

SAMUEL RIGBY, Dorchester 1662, perhaps son of the preceding, shoemaker, by first wife, had Elizabeth who married 23 January 1678, Watching Atherton; and Mehitable; and by second wife had John and Silence.

 

ANDREW RIGGS, Gloucester, youngest son of the first Thomas Riggs, married 24 January 1704, Mary Richardson, had sons William, Joseph, and George, besides six daughters not named in Babson's History which tells that he was living so late as 1771.

EDWARD RIGGS, Roxbury 1633, brought wife Elizabeth and child Lydia, who died August 1633, being the earliest on the record; Elizabeth, who died in May next; and John, died October following and his wife died next year in October.  He married 5 April 1636, Elizabeth Rooke, by whom he had not any children named on record of birth, and therefore it may be concluded that he had brought one other son and two daughters who lived to marry, but all died before him. The wife died 1666, and he was buried 5 March 1672, in his will of 2 September 1670, naming son Edward as deceased, leaving widow and children besides Joseph, Hannah, and other children of his daughter Mary Twitchell, and grandchild Elizabeth Allen.  He was freeman 14 May 1634.

EDWARD RIGGS, Milford 1640, son probably of the preceding, born in England, had perhaps John and Samuel, and was one of the early settlers at Paugusset, after named Derby, but died before his father.

JOHN RIGGS, Milford, son of the preceding, died 1670.

JOHN RIGGS, Gloucester, son of the first Thomas Riggs, married 1 January 1690, Ruth Wheeler, had sons John, Jeremiah, and Jonathan, besides one that died infant, and seven daughters; and died 12 January 1748.

SAMUEL RIGGS, Milford 1671, then propounded for freeman, may have been brother of the first John Riggs, married 1667, Sarah Baldwin, daughter of Richard Baldwin of the same, and removed to Derby.

STEPHEN RIGGS, Marblehead 1674.

THOMAS RIGGS, Gloucester, was town clerk 51 years, selectman 20, sometime schoolmaster, Representative 1700; married 7 June 1658, Mary Millet, daughter of Thomas Millet, who died 23 January 1695, had Mary, born 6 March 1659; Thomas, 23 January 1661, died in few days; Sarah, 16 January 1662; Ann, 27 April 1664; Thomas, again, 7 December 1666; John, 25 February 1670; Elizabeth, 22 April 1672; Abigail, 29 December 1678; and Andrew, 8 January 1682.  He married 30 October 1695, Elizabeth Frese, and died 26 February 1722, aged 90.  His widow died 16 June following aged 80.  Mary, married 21 November 1677, Benjamin Haskell; and Sarah, married 9 May 1681, John Tucker.

THOMAS RIGGS, Gloucester, eldest son of the preceding, married 22 November 1687, Ann Wheeler of Salisbury, had the same number of childre male and female, as his brother John, called the sons Thomas, Moses, Aaron, and Joshua, but the seven daughters go without names, and all the children without dates.

 

GEORGE RIGHT, freeman 18 May 1642, was, I think, either of Dorchester or Weymouth; though more probably with an initial W of Braintree.

JOSEPH RIGHT, Woburn, freeman 1690, when junior is affixed, so that there was an elder of the same name.

ROBERT RIGHT, Boston, had died Hannah, who married 1669, William Hoar; but the spelling is often with initial wife

 

EPHRAIM RIGMAN, a soldier in Philip's war, 1675 and 6, under Captain Poole, on Connecticut River.

 

HENRY RILEY, Rowley, died 1710, aged 82.

JOHN RILEY, Wethersfield, by wife Grace, had John, born 1646; Joseph, 1649; Jonathan, 1651; besides Mary, Grace, Sarah, Jacob, and Isaac, whose dates are unknown, but all the eight are named in this order in his will of 1671, soon after when he died.  All except Jacob, who probably died earlier, divided the estate of Joseph, who without wife or children in 1706; and John, and Jonathan died 1711; Grace married 22 November 1680, William Goodrich the second.

JOHN RILEY, Springfield, by wife Margaret, had Margaret, born 1662; and Mary, 1665; was freeman 1671, and died 24 October 1684.  His widow died 22 August 1689.  Margaret, his daughter married 1685.

RICHARD RILEY, by Hinman, counted as one of the early settlers at Wethersfield, is by me thought to mean Risley.

 

DANIEL RINDGE, Roxbury 1639, removed to Ipswich before 1648, probably had children.

ISAAC RINDGE, Ipswich, perhaps son of the preceding, married about 1692, Elizabeth Dutch, daughter of John Dutch.

JARVIS RINDGE, Salisbury, freeman 1690.  We may hardly doubt that this should be Ring, and that he was son of Robert Rindge.

JOHN RINDGE, Ipswich 1664, was perhaps brother of the preceding.  Daniel Rindge, Harvard College 1709, who died 1712, may have been son of Isaac Rindge, or other son of first Daniel Rindge.

 

ANDREW RING, Plymouth, whose widow mother made her will there 28 October 1633, leaving him to the care of Elder Fuller, came probably about 1629, was freeman 1646, married that year Deborah Hopkins, daughter of Stephen Hopkins, had William; Eleazer; Mary; Deborah; and Elizabeth, 19 April 1652.  He was one of the first settlers of Middleborough, had for second wife Lettys, widow of John Morton.  His sister Elizabeth who married Stephen Dean, and Susanna, who married Thomas Clark, were both older than Andrew who died 1692, in 75th year.  Whether his father came or died in England is uncertain.

JARVIS RING, Salisbury, son of Robert Ring, married 24 December 1685, Hannah Fowler, perhaps daughter of Thomas Fowler, had Jarvis, born 2 October 1686; Hannah, 3 March 1689; Elizabeth, 3 September 1692, and Oliver, 17 June 1698.

JOHN RING, perhaps of Salisbury, came in the Bevis 1638, from Southampton, was a carpenter.

JOHN RING, Ipswich, married 18 November 1664, Mary Bray, eldest daughter of Thomas Bray of Gloucester, removed thither, perhaps, before 1697, or at least his wife there died 11 April 1725, and probably had William, Daniel, and David, possibly also, John.

JOHN RING, Salisbury, son of Robert Ring, by wife Priscilla, had Moses, born 30 April 1692.

ROBERT RING, Salisbury, one of the first settlers, came in the Bevis, 1638, from Southampton, as servant of Richard Austin, was perhaps brother of John Ring, freeman 9 October 160, by wife Elizabeth, had Martha, born 12 December 1654; Jarvis, February 1658; John, 17 February 1662; and Joseph, 3 August 1664.

THOMAS RING, had been of Salem, perhaps in 1637, was after of Exeter, there died 1667.

 

ABRAHAM RIPLEY, Hingham, son of William Ripley, brought by his father from England, freeman 1656, married Mary Farnsworth, eldest daughter of Joseph Farnsworth of Dorchester, who outlived him, and, 1684, married Edward Jenkins of Scituate.

JOHN RIPLEY, Hingham, elder son of William Ripley, born in England, married Elizabeth Hobart, eldest daughter of Reverend Peter Hobart, was freeman 1656, and died soon after date of his will, January 1684, in which he names children only, John, born 2 March 1657; Joshua, Jeremiah, Josiah, Peter, and Hezekiah.

JOSHUA RIPLEY, Hingham, son of the preceding, married 28 November 1682, Hannah Bradford, daughter of Deputy Governor William Bradford.

JOSIAH RIPLEY, Hingham, brother of the preceding, by wife Joanna, had Mary, born 18 February 1695.

WILLIAM RIPLEY, Hingham 1638, came, as by the contempory MS of his townsman Daniel Cushing, we learn, with wife and two sons and two daughters from Hingham, County Norfolk, England, was freeman 18 May 1642, married 29 September 1654, as second wife Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Thaxter, and died 20 July 1656.  His will of 30 June preceding abstracted in Genealogical Registrar VI. 354, is minute enough as to the geography of his lands, but names no relatives except the two sons who are made executors.  His daughter Sarah married 18 October 1653, Jeremiah Beal, but neither she, nor the other daughter, nor wife are mentioned.  The latter married 20 January 1658, John Dwight of Dedham.

WILLIAM RIPLEY, was of Gallop's Company for the sad campaign against Quebec, 1690.  Nine of this name had been, in 1834, graduates at Yale, five at Harvard, and six at other New England colleges.

 

RICHARD RISCRRAFT, Northampton, took the oath of allegiance 8 February 1679.

 

ELISHA RISDEN, Milford, 1678, son of Robert Risden, perhaps removed.

ROBERT RISDEN, Boston 1654, mariner, by wife Beatrice, had Elisha, born 25 January 1655; and Sarah, 29 May 1662, removed to Fairfield, there with wife died about 1666, leaving five children who only Elisha is named.  He owned, besides property at Fairfield, estate at the isle of Nevis, sold by guardians of the children, who in 1678, desired to abrogate the contribution.

 

EDWARD RISHWORTH, Exeter 1639, Wells 1643, married a daughter of Reverend John Wheelwright, whose name is not seen, had Edward and a daughter Mary, who in the will of her grandfather Wheelwright, is named White, daughter of Edward Rishworth, was of York 1652, of Godfrey's council, to support Gorges' patent 1649, as well as three years preceding, Representative for York 1653, and 12 years succeeding.  Last in 1679, after which year no more Representatives came from Maine under the old Charter, was in high esteem, either as republican or royalist, a Magistrate of Massachusetts 1681, and living as Farmer says, in 1683.  But strong reason is found in the will of Samuel Hutchinson and of Reverend John Wheelwright for presumption that father and son were by Farmer here confused.  He had, besides Edward, probably other children, and perhaps had married in England a sister of the wife of Wheelwright, for Samuel Hutchinson in his will, April 1667, gives to Edward Rishworth by the descripton of "eldest son of sister Rishworth" and it may fairly be assumed that the father was then dead.  At least, the Magistrate of 1681, who was probably the recorder of 1671, must be judged, after April 1667, to have married that Sarah Wheelwright, the unmarried daughter of Reverend John Wheelwright, named in her uncle's will, and to be mentioned in 1679 in the will of her father calling him "son-in-law."  Difficulty, however, attends this hypothesis, because it is said, that Richard Crisp married 1671, Sarah Wheelwright, that daughter of Reverend John Wheelwright.  Still, Rishworth may have married the cousin, widow of Crisp.

 

JAMES RISING, Boston, married 7 July 1657, Elizabeth Hinsdale, daughter of Robert Hinsdale of Medfield, removed to Bermudas, there was of the church, and brought letters from their pastor, Nathaniel White, Harvard College 1646, and was administered about 1662, of Salem church, and removed in few years to Windsor, where his wife died 1669, as did another wife 2 April 1674; had James, John, born 14 April 1661; and Hannah, 28 February 1663; these two at Salem, perhaps other children before his removal.  Kept the ferry at Windsor, removed to Suffield about 1679, there died 11 September 1688.  His son James died 1690 without children.

JOHN RISING, Suffield, son of the preceding, married 1684, died 1720, leaving John, James, Josiah, Jonathan, Joseph, Aaron, and Moses, besides four daughters.  Rysand was the spelling at Salem.

 

RICHARD RISLEY, RICHARD RISLA, RICHARD RYSLEY, RICHARD RIZLEY or RICHARD RISSLY, Hartford, 1639,  lived on East side of the River, died 1648.  His inventory is in Trumbull, Colony record I. 486; and at the end are named the three children, Sarah, between 7 and 8 years old; Samuel, about 2; and Richard, about 3 months, who was baptized 20 August 1648, not as the record reads, 21, which was Monday.  Richard the son had a family of children by wife Rebecca Adams, daughter of John Adams, certainly Richard, Samuel, John, perhaps others; but his elder brother Samuel Risley died 1670, probably without family.

WILLIAM RISLEY, WILLIAM RISLA, WILLIAM RYSLEY, WILLIAM RIZLEY or WILLIAM RISSLY, Dover, 1659.

 

NICHOLAS RIST, Reading, had wife Sarah, imprisoned 20 years after marrying, for witchcraft June 1692.

 

RICHARD RITH, or RICHARD RIETH, Marblehead, 1675.

 

JAMES RIX, Salem, probably son of Thomas Rix of the same, had come back after some years absence in 1682.

JOHN RIX, Boston, son of William Rix, tailor, by wife Charity, had Mary, born 3 January 1674; John, 16 August 1676, died soon; Solomon, 10 January 1678; Elizabeth, 3 October 1679; Thomas, 22 January 1681; William, 6 February 1682;  Charity, 29 January 1684; John, again, 30 August 1685; and Benjamin, who died young, 16 June 1693.

RICHARD RIX, Salem 1676.

THOMAS RIX, Salem 1649, barber, surgeon, had there baptized Remember, 13 October 1650; Sarah, 29 June 1651; Esther, 5 June 1653; Thomas, 26 August 1655; James, 18 October 1657; all by wife Margaret, who died 24 July 1660; and he married 3 November 1661, Bridget Fiske, widow probably of William, and had Theophilus, 20 August 1665.

THOMAS RIX, Boston, gunsmith, brother of John Rix of the same, died early having by wife Sarah only child Elisha, born 30 August 1674; and she married, after his death, Joseph Goodale.

THOMAS RIX, Wethersfield, married Abigail Ingersoll, daughter of John Ingersoll, and died 21 May 1690, leaving widow and only child Abigail.  His widow married Joshua Wills of Windsor, as his third wife about 1696.

WILLIAM RIX, Boston, weaver, by wife Grace, had Elisha, born August 1645, baptized 8 March 1646, who died 19 May, 1672; Mary, 4 March 1647, John, 14 November 1648; Thomas, 1, another record says 11 April 1654; and Ezekiel, 30 November 1656, who died young; and died 13 November 1657.  His widow married 1663, Andrew Newcome.  This name, often appearing in old records Rick or Ricks, is still found in New Hampshire.

 

THOMAS ROACH, New London 1651, married 12 December 1661, Rebecca Redfield, daughter of William Redfield, who died 16 August 1670; but he was living to testify in 1708, as Miss Caulkins tells in her History. 

WILLIAM ROACH, Lynn, married Hannah Potter, daughter of Nicholas Potter, had William, born 12 August 1692; Hannah, 12 October 1694; Elizabeth, 16 April 1697; and Mary, 26 October 1699.

 

WILLIAM ROANES, or WILLIAM ROBERT, perhaps of York about 1672, married Wilmott, widow of Edward Start, died leaving two children, and John Parker senior was made administrator in 1678.

 

ROBERT ROATH, Norwich, married October 1668, Sarah Saxton, eldest daughter of Richard Saxton of Windsor, had John, born November 1669; Sarah, August 1672, who died 12 March 1695; Mary, November 1674; Elizabeth, March 1677, died next year; Hannah, April 1679; Daniel, 1 February 1681; Peter, 17 February 1684; and his wife died 20 March 1687.

 

BENJAMIN ROBBINS, perhaps of Wallingford, married 29 August 1687, Sarah Brooks, daughter of John Brooks, died 1689, and his widow married 10 December 1692, Nathaniel Tharpe. 

JOHN ROBBINS, Wethersfield 1638, by wife Mary, had Mary, born 20 January 1642; Hannah, 30 April 1643; Comfort, 12 October 1646; John, 29 April 1649; Joshua; all living in 1667; and Samuel, who died 1659, as did his wife, was Representative 1666, 7 and 9, and died 27 June 1660.

JOHN ROBBINS, Branford 1667, married 4 November 1659, Mary, widow of Robert Abbot.

JOHN ROBBINS, Bridgewater, son of Nicholas Robbins, married 14 December 1665, Jehosabeth Jourdaine, had Jeduthun, born 1667.

JOHN ROBBINS, Wethersfield, son of the first John Robbins, perhaps was of Lyme in 1671, by wife Mary, had John, born 1676, died in few years; Joshua, 1678; Samuel, 1680; John, again 1684; and Richard, 1687; made his will 1 July 1689, and died probably in November following, unless Hinman, 291, be right in prolonging his days.

JOSHUA ROBBINS, Wethersfield, brother of the preceding, was in office in the town 1678, 9, 81, 2, 9, 90, and 3, yet Hinman, ut Supreme says he died young, perhaps confusing the brothers or removed,  And was not found there after death of his father.  But the town record proves that he took Elizabeth 1680, and possibly he had children.  Frequently the name of members of this family is with single born

NATHANIEL ROBBINS, Cambridge, probably son of Richard Robbins, by wife Mary, had Mary, who died 30 November 1676; and perhaps others; was freeman 1690, died December 1719, in 71st year.

NICHOLAS ROBBINS, Duxbury, 1638, by wife Ann, had John, Mary, Hannah, and Rebecca, all mentioned in his will of 9 February 1651.

RICHARD ROBBINS, Charlestown 1639, with wife Rebecca, of the church 24 May 1640; removed to Boston, soon after to Cambridge, had John, baptized 31 May 1640; Samuel, born 22 May 1643; Nathaniel; and Rebecca; of which the last three were baptized at Cambridge, Mitchell's church register tells, as the first had been at Charlestown.  He was living April 1683.  Rebecca married John Woodward.

ROBERT ROBBINS, Concord 1678.

SAMUEL ROBBINS, Salisbury, in his will of 22 August 1665, names father John Robbins, mother Esther, and brother Joseph Robbins of Thedingworth in Leicestershire, England, and therefore I suppose he was only transient not permanant inhabitant.

SAMUEL ROBBINS, Cambridge, probably son of Richard Robbins, was freeman 1680, when he lived at the village now Newton.

THOMAS ROBBINS, Duxbury 1643, may be he of Salem 1650, whose widow married Michael Spencer of Lynn.

THOMAS ROBBINS, Salem, had wife Isabel, who died 9 October 1674, and married 11 March following Mary Bishop, a widow sworn in 1675, that he was 55 years old.

WILLIAM ROBBINS, Reading, freeman 1691, perhaps died at Boston 1693; but Winsor names a William Robbins of Hingham, who married 1665, Susanna Lane.  Thirteen of this name had been graduates at Yale, nine at Harvard, and seven at other New England colleges in 1834.

 

DAVID ROBERTS, Woburn, married 3 October 1678, Joanna Brooks, had Eunice, born 28 October 1679; David, 24 October 1681; Giles, 16 January 1687; Joanna, 13 February 1694; Sarah, 15 January 1697; and perhaps he removed.

ELI ROBERTS, New Haven, a proprietor 1685.

GEORGE ROBERTS, Exeter 1677, in 1690 desired jurisdiction of Massachusetts

GILES ROBERTS, Scarborough 1662, perhaps brother of David Roberts, had five children of which none but Abraham is named.  His will of 25 January 1667, only five days before the inventory, does not enlighten us, except by calling Arthur Auger, and William Sheldon, his brothers-in-law.

HUGH ROBERTS, Gloucester, married 8 November 1649, Mary Caulkins, daughter of Hugh Caulkins, removed to New London, where he was a tanner, and had Mary, born 9 December 1652; Samuel, 25 April 1656; and Mehitable, 15 April 1658; in 1667, with others of the oldest settlement, went to Newark, New Jersey.

JOHN ROBERTS, Roxbury, came, says the church record "in 1636, brought his aged mother, wife, and children Thomas, Edward, Elizabeth, Margery, Jane, Alice, Lydia, Ruth, and Deborah.  He was one of the first fruits of Wales that came to New England called to Christ by the ministry of that Reverend and worthy instrument Mr. Wrath."  In its proper place the record has this: "7 January 1645/6, old mother Roberts, a Welch woman, died in the 103rd year of her age.  She was about 90 years old when she left her native country."  He was freeman 22 May 1639, died 27 November 1651.  Of not one of the seven daughters do I find the marriages or deaths.

JOHN ROBERTS, Marblehead 1668.

JOHN ROBERTS, Dover, son of Thomas Roberts of the same, married Abigail Nutter, daughter of Hatevil Nutter, had Joseph; probably Hatevil; Thomas; and Abigail, who married 8 November 1671, John Hall junior of the same.  He was active against the Quakers 1662, Marshall 1680, member of a whig convention 1689, and died 21 January 1695.  Belknap in Farmer's ed. I. 91, 122.

JOHN ROBERTS, Boston, freeman 1671.

JOHN ROBERTS Northampton, killed by the Indians 29 October 1675.

JOHN ROBERTS, Roxbury, a soldier killed by the Indians at Sudbury fight, under Wadsworth, April 1676.

JOHN ROBERTS, Hartford, married Elizabeth Stone, daughter of Reverend Samuel Stone, the divorced wife of William Sedgwick (Goodwin, 212, says Samuel, errononsly), had John, to whom in her will 1681, his grandmother Stone gave some estate.  He removed about 1684, to Newtown, Long Island, and with wife was living 1695.  It is not known who was his father, when he was born, or when he died, but he was an unfortunate man.

JOHN ROBERTS, Gloucester, probably son of Robert Roberts of Ipswich, married 4 February 1678, Hannah Bray, daughter of Thomas Bray, had Nathaniel, born 26 March 1679; and John, 12 December 1680; Samuel, 1685; Thomas, 1687; Ebenezer, 1690; Mary, 1696; and Job, 1701.  He died 10 January 1714, and his widow died 23 March 1717.

JOHN ROBERTS, Hadley, who took oath of allegiance 8 February 1679, was perhaps son of John Roberts of Northampton. 

JOHN ROBERTS, Boston, by wife Experience, had Sarah, born January 1686, died young.

JOSEPH ROBERTS, perhaps of Portsmouth, sent by Captain Mason 1632, in the Lion, arriving at Boston, 16 September.

ROBERT ROBERTS, Boston 1640, by wife Eunice, had Timothy, born 7 August 1646; was of Ipswich 1648, died about 19 July 1663, leaving widow Susanna, and eight children of which the eldest was John, and the youngest two were Abigail, born 27 March 1658; and Patience, 20 February 1661.  His widow married Thomas Perrin.

ROBERT ROBERTS, Rowley 1676, perhaps son of the preceding.

SAMUEL ROBERTS, Ipswich, died June 1670, probably for his inventory is of 21 that month.

SAMUEL ROBERTS, Norwich, son of Hugh Roberts, by wife Elizabeth, married 9 December 180, had Samuel, born 20 October 1682, who died next month; Hugh, 26 October 1683, died under six years; Mary, 22 March 1685; Samuel, 9 May 1688; Elizabeth, 12 October 1690; and his wife died 9 April 1692.

SIMON ROBERTS, Boston, married 18 July 1654, Christian Baker, daughter of Alexander Baker, had John, born 27 April 1655; Simon, 22 November 1656; Samuel, 18 March 1658; Joseph, 18 September 1662, died young; Elizabeth, 28 December 1665; Ann, 18 July 1669; Benjamin, 8 January 1671; and Joseph, again, 24 January 1673.  In Genealogical Registrar X. 303, may be read a fine specimin.  Of the wretched vanity that was exhibited on the death of a grandson 1774, which often characterized the obituary notices of people bearing the same surnames as members of noble houses in England or France.

THOMAS ROBERTS, Dover, probably settled there with the Hiltons, 1623, was President of the Colony chosen in opposition to noted John Underhill, had John, born 1629; Thomas, 1633; Esther; Ann; Elizabeth; and Sarah; and died after 27 September 1673 the date of his will, probated 30 June following.  Esther married John Martin; Ann married James Philbrick; Elizabeth married Benjamin Heard; and Sarah married Richard Rich.

THOMAS ROBERTS, Boston, perhaps son of John Roberts of Roxbury, where he first lived and member of that church, by wife Eunice, had Timothy, Elizabeth, Lydia, and Eunice, this last born 18 August 1653; Artillery Company 1664; freeman 1645; died probably July 1654; and his widow Eunice, married 22 October 1656, Moses Maverick, as his second wife.

THOMAS ROBERTS, Duxbury, 1640, married 24 March 1651 (Winsor, 286), or more probably 1656, Mary Paddock, daughter of Robert Paddock, may have removed to Eastham.

THOMAS ROBERTS, Roxbury, a 1645, son probably of John Roberts, but I presume he removed after or before death of his father.

THOMAS ROBERTS, Providence 1650, is in the list of freeman there 1655, married a sister of William Harris, but died at Newport, without children, early in April 1676.

THOMAS ROBERTS, Dover, son of Thomas Roberts the first, by wife Mary Leighton, daughter of Thomas Leighton, had sons Thomas and Nathaniel, perhaps other children.  Thomas died unmarried, but the name was perpetuated there by Nathaniel.

THOMAS ROBERTS, a soldier under Captain William Turner, killed by the Indians at the Falls fight, 19 May 1676.

WILLIAM ROBERTS, Milford 1645-1669, was Representative 1689.  

WILLIAM ROBERTS, Dover 1645, had a family and with his son-in-law was killed by the Indians in 1675.  But whether he had son or not, is unascertained by the indefatigible Mr. Quint, to whom, for all information about Dover, antiquaries are so much indebted.

WILLIAM ROBERTS, Charlestown 1648, may have removed to New Haven, there been proprietor 1685. Perhaps by wife Joanna, he had William; Zachariah; Alice and Lydia, twins; Ann, and Abigail.  His son William perpetuated the family.  See Dodd.

WILLIAM ROBERTS, Boston, married at Hingham, October 1667, Elizabeth Tower.

 

JOHN ROBERTSON, was killed by the Indians 21 October 1676, at Salisbury, as Coffin informs Farmer.

NICHOLAS ROBERTSON. See Robinson.

WILLIAM ROBERTSON, is named by Shattuck as at Concord 1670.

 

ANDREW ROBIE, or ANDREW ROBY, Hartford, married 19 November 1691, Abigail Curtis, perhaps had Mary, born 4 November 1692; and Elizabeth, 19 July 1694.

EBENEZER ROBIE, or EBENEZER ROBY, Sudbury, son of William Robie of Boston, a physician, studied under the celebrated Boerhave, was much esteemed, and died 1 or 4 September 1772.

HENRY ROBIE, or HENRY ROBY, Hampton 1678, had been at Exeter, it is said, and Farmer had the date 1639, in which year he thought he removed from Dorchester, but the name at Dorchester was mistaken for Kibby; died 1688, leaving wife Sarah, and children Thomas, Samuel, Ichabod, John, Judith, and Ruth.  His will of 10 January 1687, with codicil of 3 April 1688 was probated 5 June following.  But he had been married 19 February 1674, as 3rd husband of Elizabeth Philbrick, widow of John Garland, daughter of Thomas Philbrick, who had first been wife of Thomas Chase; and he may have been that man, born as in the Bible of his brother Thomas, at Castle Dunnington, was written 12 February 1618/9, adding that he went and lived in New England.

JOHN ROBIE, or JOHN ROBY, Haverhill, son of the preceding, died probably June 1691.

JOSEPH ROBIE, or JOSEPH ROBY, Boston, son of William Robie, by wife Priscilla, had Henry, born 3 October 1722; Joseph Robie, 12 May 1724, Harvard College 1742; Hannah, 9 January 1726; and William, 5 June 1727.

RICHARD ROBIE, or RICHARD ROBY, Marblehead 1674.

SAMUEL ROBIE, or SAMUEL ROBY, in the Bible of his brother Thomas Robie, which Dr. Ebenezer copied from at Castle Dunnington, the family seating is marked born 12 February 1628/9, with the addition "went to New England", but I have never heard of his arrival and fear that his intention may have been defeated by the civil war.  No more recent accounts of him have been told, unless he were the inhabitant of New Hampshire, who prayed for jurisdiction of Massachusetts 1690, and perhaps brother of Henry Robie.

THOMAS ROBIE, or THOMAS ROBY, Salem, son of William Robie, had been librarian of the College and for some short time a fellow of the corporation, preached a little, but in consequence, probably of malignment, reports spread about, as in a dedication of a sermon to President Leverett, preached at College where he printed "that his sermons were only heathenish discourses, no better Christianity than was in Tully," he withdrew from the pulpit and became a physician, married Mehitable Sewall, daughter of Major Stephen Sewall, had William, who died young; Mehitable; and Thomas; both married and died 28 August 1729.

WILLIAM ROBIE, or WILLIAM ROBY, Boston, son of Thomas Robie, born in England 26 April 1648, probably at Castle Dunnington, in the East riding of Yorkshire, came hither, perhaps at man's age, and married Elizabeth Greenough, daughter of William Greenough, had Mary, born 19 October 1687, died young; Thomas Robie, 20 March 1689, Harvard College 1708; William, baptized 1 November 1690; John, 6 December 1691; Joseph, 20 August 1693; Samuel, 1 November 1694; Dorothy, 29 March 1696; Mercy and Ann, twins 19 September 1697; Sarah, born 6, baptized 11 December 1698, died young; Ebenezer Robie, 29 September baptized 5 October 1701, Harvard College 1719; Henry, 18, baptized 21 February 1703, died at 18 years; and Mercy, again, 29 August baptized 3 September 1704; and perhaps more, for tradition says, he had fifteen.  Probably one was Mary, who married a Thomas; and Elizabeth who married James Barnard was another.  He was constable 1684, and died 23 January 1718.  Mercy married 18 September 1722, John Goodwin of Boston.

WILLIAM ROBIE, or WILLIAM ROBY, Boston, son of the preceding, by wife Lois, had William, born 16 February 1721, and his wife died 4 days after, and he married 15 May 1722, Ann Pollard.

 

ABRAHAM ROBINSON, Gloucester, not son (as reported worthless modern tradition) of famous John Robinson of Leyen, nor I can never believe that Prince, so full as well as accurate, would have mentioned nothing of him, and no son of this name was born to the great teachings of non-conformists, had Abraham (said most improbly to be the first born of the town, for his father-in-law's will, April 1662, calls him under 21 years), and perhaps other children, and died 18 February 1646, which may be the earliest preserved record of death there, yet we must presume that earliers are lost.  His widow Mary, married 15 July 1646, William Brown, and Henry Walker, 26 September 1662, died 17 April 1690.

ABRAHAM ROBINSON, Gloucester, son of the preceding, married 7 July 1668, Mary Harraden, daughter of Edward Harraden, had Mary, born 20 August 1669; Sarah, 17 September 1671; Elizabeth, 12 September 1673; Abigail, 4 January 1676; Abraham, 15 October 1677; Andrew, 2 October 1679; Stephen, 9 December 1681; Ann, 1684; Dorcas, 1685; Deborah, 1688, Hannah, 1691; and Jane, 1693.  His life is traced by Mr. Babson down to 1730, so that he was old man when he died, yet it was less than the statement of descendants who would make it one hundred and two years, probably he was one or two years under 90.

ANTHONY ROBINSON, An unprofited apprentice punished by the Court 1636.

DANIEL ROBINSON, New Haven, married 3 February 1664, Hope Potter, daughter of William Potter, had Mary, born 14 December following; and Daniel, 27 November 1666. 

DAVID ROBINSON, Exeter 1657-83, was perhaps son of John Robinson of the same.  He perhaps had son David, who married 1 January 1706, Sarah Sanborn, daughter of Josiah Sanborn, of Hampton.

EDWARD ROBINSON, Newport, one of the freemen 1655. 

FRANCIS ROBINSON, Saco 1643, in 1645, was called on by Vines in the interest of Gorges, as a counsellor, but we learn nothing more of him. 

FRANCIS ROBINSON, Boston, freeman. 1671.

GEORGE ROBINSON, Rehoboth 1646-77, in 1668, had part in the division of Attleborough lands, and served in Philip's war.  Baylies II, 217, and IV. 84.

GEORGE ROBINSON, Boston, married 3 October 1657, Mary Bushnell, perhaps daughter of John Bushnell of the same, had George born 30 March 1658; John 1661; and Martha, 31 March 1665; was one of the first Company to act with fire engines, 1678. 

GEORGE ROBINSON Swanzey, Winsor says married 12 November 1680, Elizabeth Gaille (so strange a name that I think it may be a mistake of Colony record and serve scrutiny might discover Cole, or another word), had John, born 5 September 1681; but probably by a former wife whose name I see not, had Nathaniel, born 1 November 1673, buried one week after; Samuel, 16 November 1679.

GEORGE ROBINSON, Boston, probably son of George Robinson the first, by wife Elizabeth, had George born 28 December 1680; John, 13 June 1684; and perhaps more. 

GEORGE ROBINSON, Watertown, by wife Sarah, had Beriah, born 7 January 1684; George 1 July 1685; John, 4 March 1688; Ebenezer, 22 September 1692; Samuel, 13 October 1695; and his wife died 5 May 1703.  He married 4 August following Sarah Behoney, daughter of Peter Behoney, under fifteen years old, had David, 5 May 1704; and Jonathan, 4 February 1706 

ISAAC ROBINSON, Plymouth 1630, son of blessed John Robinson, the apostle of Leyden, came probably with his mother in the fleet with Winthrop.  See letter of Sherley, 8 March 1629-30, to Bradford.  He was taxed 1634, when perhaps he lived on Duxbury side, but was freeman of Scituate 1636, there married 1636, Margaret Hanford, sister of Reverend Thomas Hanford, niece of Timothy Hatherly, sold his estate 1639, and with Reverend Thomas Lathrop removed to Barnstable, had Susanna, baptized at Scituate 21 January 1638; and John, at Barnsbable 5 April 1640; Isaac, 7 August 1642, Fear, 26 January 1645; and Mercy, 4 July 1647, all remembered except Susanna, probably dead.  In the will of Timothy Hatherly in 1664.  His wife was buried 13 June 1649, with a daughter prematurely born the week before.  Fear was wife of Samuel Baker.  Isaac, the younger, was married in 1666, but drowned 6 October 1668.  Mercy married 16 March 1669, William Weeks.  He married a second wife whose name of baptism is not, I think, given by the tradition which calls her sister of famous elder Faunce, but our record proves, that he had Israel, baptized 5 October 1651; and Jacob, 15 May 1653.  Peter and Thomas are added by Mr. Otis.  By the teachings of his worthy father as well as his experience, he gained the wisdom through which he was opposition to Governor Prince's policy of severity against the Quakers, 1659, and was disfranchised.  Deane says.  But he would have him counted an Assistant wherein he was wrong.  He may be more correct in saying he lived 93 years.  In some of his latter years he was of Martha's Vineyard, Mr. Otis says.  Prince is very careful (p. 238 of Hale's ed. of the Annals, Boston 1826), after saying that he "lived to above 90 years of age," to add that he had often seen him, and that he "left male posterity."   His greater reverence for the Leyden paster convinces me that he would equally have mentioned, were such the opinion as to Abraham; yet the fact that nothing is ever seen of the widow mother in any earlier writer, militates somewhat with my opinion.  Still no reason thence can be deduced in favor of Abraham being son of the glorious John, and the opinion or suggestion of Mr. Babson in the note of careful Mr. Deane, Bradford, 247, as to the obsecurity of Mrs. Robinson on our side of the water, is not to be explained by her supposed residence at Salem, where, in Felt's list of members of the church is a widow Ann Robinson, joined in 1637.  The greater probability appears to me, that she died very soon after reaching our shores; yet she must be inquired for, not at Cape Ann, but on the other side of the Bay of Massachusetts, unless some appearance of tradition in favor of Abraham be found, as it has not been, in the first, second third, or fourth generation of her descentants. 

ISAAC ROBINSON. Lynn 1637, came in the Hopewell, Babb, master, late in 1635, aged 15, was perhaps early dead, at least Lewis gives nothing of him. 

ISAAC ROBINSON, Tisbury, son of the first Isaac Robinson, was baptized Israel, as Mr. Otis, with much sagacity argues, and that after the drowning of his first Isaac, he called this son for him, as the name Israel is no more heard after 1668, and Isaac died 1728, making his will 5 February which was probated 1 October following.

JACOB ROBINSON, New Haven, married 1690, Sarah Hitchcock, had John, born 3 December 1691; Thomas, 5 December 1693; Sarah, 24 December 1695; Hannah, 24 February 1698; Mary; and Eliakim, 2 April 1706. 

JACOB ROBINSON, Tisbury, son of Isaac Robinson, died before 19 November 1733, when, on division of his estate are mentioned wigr Experience, and children Jacob, Isaac, and Mary. 

JAMES ROBINSON, Boston, married 21 February 1654, Martha Buck, had Sarah, born 24 March 1660; John, 17 September 1662; James, 21 July 1667; and Elizabeth; was a mariner.  I suppose both sons died young, for he gave his estate in 1673 to John Hull and Thomas Brattle in trust for himself for life, next for wife Martha for life, and then to use of his daughters Elizabeth and Sarah. 

JAMES ROBINSON, Dorchester, married 27 September 1664, Mary Alcock, daughter of Thomas Alcock, had James, born 8 November 1665; Thomas, 15 April 1668; Samuel, 4 September 1670; Mary, 17 March 1673, died young; John Robinson, 17 April 1675, Harvard College 1695, minister of Duxbury; Henry, 21 June 1678, died very soon; and Ebenezer, 5 January 1682, who was killed 27 May 1707, at Port Royal, in the abortive siege; was freeman 1690, and died 18 April 1694.  His widow died 13 March 1718, aged 73. 

JAMES ROBINSON, Boston, by his will, 3 September 1676, probated 3 days after, names no wife nor children, but gives estate to brothers Thomas, Joseph, and sister Mary, one half, and other half to aunt Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Rock, and cousin Hannah, wife of James Brading.  This proves, that he was son of Deacon Thomas Robinson of Scituate. 

JAMES ROBINSON, Newcastle 1683, then of the grand jury, had lived at Scarborough 1666, there married Lucretia Foxwell, daughter of Richard Foxwell, had four daughters, and removed on the Indians hostilities 1675 to Newcastle, whence they did not return. 

JOHN ROBINSON, Salem 1639, in Felt's list of church members where also appear Ann, a widow and Isabella, both 1637.  He was probably the freeman of 2 June 1641, may have removed to Boston, and in a will of 2 June 1653, gives his property to mother or sister if alive; but this condition seems hardly consistant with the probability that the female church members of Salem 1637, could be those.  His inventory was returned November 1653.

JOHN ROBINSON was of New London 1646-9, yet Caulkins could only tell of his house lot; and he may have died at Ipswich, 1 March 1657, if Farmer have the date right.

JOHN ROBINSON of Ipswich, wheelwright, who in his will of 27 February probated 30 March 1658, names no children and to swell the confusion, another

JOHN ROBINSON was there living 1660.

JOHN ROBINSON, early at Haverhill, removed to Exeter 1657, perhaps father of David, Johnathan, and Stephen.  Was killed by the Indians as Hubbard tells, September 1675. 

JOHN ROBINSON, Salem, son of William Robinson of the same, married 16 October 1665, Sarah Mason, daughter of Elias Mason, had Elias, born 25 January 1667; John, 25 November 1668; Joseph, 27 September 1670; and Sarah, 18 February 1673; was living in 1677. 

JOHN ROBINSON, Barnstable, perhaps eldest son of Isaac Robinson, married May 1667, Elizabeth Weeks, had John, born 20 March 1668; Isaac, 30 January 1670; Timothy, 30 October 1671; Abigail, 20 March 1674; and Fear, 16 June 1676; the last three with Joseph, Mercy, and Mary, who were younger, all baptized 21 October 1688; besides a son by 12 December 1683, and a daughter 1 May 1688, each died soon after.  He was Representative for Falmouth, C.C. 1689, 90, and 1, but in April 1714 removed to Connecticut.

JOHN ROBINSON, Falmouth, C.C., was Representative at Plymouth 1689 and 90, in fair presumption may be reckoned the same as preceding, until further investigation disproves it.  A supposidly mythical, or tradition John, assumed by the late Professor James F. Dana to be brother of Isaac, and settled at Gloucester, and father of Abraham, second his relation to Farmer, is not sustained by the slightest probability, as Mr. Babson assures me, to be acquired from the records. 

JOHN ROBINSON, Duxbury, son of Samuel Robinson, not James Robinson, as Winsor, 184, had it, gives also wrong date of birth, probably of Dorchester, ordained 13 November 1702, married Hannah Wiswall, daughter of Reverend Ichabod Wiswall, his predecessor, the patriotic agent in London, of the Plymouth Colony who was overborne or circumvented by the cunning management of Increase Mather, the Massachusetts agent, had Mary, born 23 February 1706; Hannah, 2 November 1708; Alithea, 26 May 1710; Elizabeth, 28 September 1712; John, 16 April 1715; Ichabod; and Faith, 1718.  His wife with eldest child Mary was drowned 22 September 1722, at Nantasket, on their voyage to Boston; and he died 14 November 1745; more than 7 years after separation from his cure, at the residence in Lebanon of the first Governor Jonathan Trumbull, who had married his youngest daughter.  He was a man of more wit than discretion in his parish management. 

JOHN ROBINSON, Narraganset, son of Rowland Robinson of the same, married Mary Hazard, had Mary, born 1705; Sarah, 1707; Ruth, 1709; and probably more.  He died before his father.

JOHN ROBINSON, Newbury, son of Robert Robinson, by wife Susanna, had John, born 6 September 1690; Samuel, 2 December 1692; Daniel, 14 March 1695; and died March 1699.

JONATHAN ROBINSON, Exeter 1657-83, perhaps was son of John Robinson of the same. 

JONATHAN ROBINSON, Guilford, brother of Thomas Robinson of the same, died 1684. 

JOSEPH ROBINSON, Salem, eldest son of William Robinson, had settled in Barbadoes before 1676. 

JOSEPH ROBINSON, Andover, married 30 May 1671, Phebe Dane, daughter of Reverend Francis Dane, had wife Dorothy, who died 23 September 1675; Dane; and perhaps more; was freeman 1691. 

NATHANIEL ROBINSON, Boston, by wife Damaris, had Nathaniel, born 29 August 1655; Elizabeth, 24 February 1657; Daniel, 10 February 1667; Mary, 22 June 1668; Robert, 28 July 1671; and Damaris, 29 December 1674; was after of Cambridge, freeman 1673.  An earlier

NATHANIEL ROBINSON was he of Boston, who in his will of 2 March 1667, names no wife or children. 

NICHOLAS ROBINSON, a passenger in the Blessing from London, 1635, aged 30, called them Robertson, is thought by me to mean Robinson, because in the same voyage came Elizabeth, 32; Catherine, 12; Mary, 7; John, 5; and Sarah, 1 1/2; all spelled in the latter form, and may have been, especially if we imagine his years were two or three more, his wife and children. 

PETER ROBINSON, Tisbury, son of Isaac Robinson, married a daughter of John Manton, Mr. Otis says, and that he was of Chilmark in 1706, and of Norwich 1710, after at Windham, had seven sons who all married and had families and seven daughters but no names are heard, nor dates given. 

RICHARD ROBINSON, Charlestown, the freeman of 2 June 1641, may be supposed to be brother of John Robinson, administered to the oath on the same day, by wife Rebecca, had John, baptized 31 May 1640; but in the valuable list of church members in Budington, the name is given Robbins.  Yet I presume one person is meant, and the Colony record or the church record is so far wrong.  Having examined the original I testify, that Robinson is as plain as any name in the volume. 

ROBERT ROBINSON, Newbury, married 26 October 1664, Mary Silver, daughter of Thomas Silver, had Mary, born 18 November 1665; Daniel, 9 October 1667; John, 12 December 1669; Samuel; Thomas, Sarah; Hannah, 21 December 1683; and Robert, 5 May 1686.  Coffin says he was born 1628, and from the births of children, we should confidently believe, that he was not the Robert, who came from London in the Christian, early in 1635, aged 45, but of him no discovery is obtained. 

ROWLAND ROBINSON, Narraganset, born says Potter, about 1654, came 1675, married Mary Allen, daughter of John Allen, but whose John we ask in vain, had John; Elizabeth, who married 1707, William Brown; Mary, married 1709 a Mumford; Sarah, married 1704, Rufus Barton; Mercy, who married 1714, John.

 

JOSEPH ROCK, Boston, by wife Elizabeth Coggan, daughter of John Coggan, who brought him good estate, had Elizabeth, born 5 February 1652; Sarah, 17 January 1653, died next year; Rebecca, 16 March 1655, died at 6 months; John 2 November 1656, died August following; Joseph, 1 February 1658; Benjamin, 9 September 1659, died soon; Lydia, 21 April 1661; Samuel, 17 May 1662; Benjamin, again, 3 September 1663; and Elisha, 16 February 1667; was freeman 1652; one of the founders of the 3rd or Old South Church.  In his will of 18 January 1683, probated 3 January following, he mentioned daughter Hannah, who was married 9 October 1657, and her husband James Brading; grandchildren James and Joseph brothers, and great grandchild Elizabeth Bromfield.  That Mary Rock who died 13 September 1713, in her 81st year I presume was his second wife.

THOMAS ROCK who died at Weymouth, 15 July 1642, is called servant to Edward Smith.

 

BENJAMIN ROCKETT, Medfield 1678, Wrentham 1680, perhaps son of Nicholas Rockett, by wife Judith, had Bethia, born 4 July 1679, at Medfield; Judith, born at Wrentham 17 March 1681; Mary, 2 October 1683; Patience, 20 May 1686; and Hezekiah, 26 August 1688, who died 1689. 

JOHN ROCKETT, Dorchester 1633.

JOHN ROCKETT, Mendon, son perhaps of Richard Rockett, had John, born at Braintree, 18 August 1663, who was killed by the Indians when they burned the town in 1675; removed to Medfield, there had Joseph, with perhaps two or three more; but certainly Trial, 28 February 1677; and Deliverance, 31 October 1678; in the interval suffered much from Indians and still had wife and six children to support. 

JOSEPH ROCKETT, Rehoboth, married 5 January 1681, Mary Wilmouth, had Mary, born 14 December following posthumous, for the father was buried 21 July of that year, unless the record be confused. 

JOSIAH ROCKETT, Medfield, probably son of Nicholas Rockett, married 9 May 1677, Mary Twitchell, daughter of Benjamin Twitchell of Dorchester, had Israel, born 25 February 1678; Mary, 3 August 1681; Bethia, 21 February 1684; Mehitable, 14 October 1686; Hannah, 24 October 1691; and Joanna, 28 December 1693.  His wife died 15 September 1699, and he married 10 November 1703, Sarah Wheelock.  He had served in Philip's war. 

NICHOLAS ROCKETT, Dedham 1640, in the part made Medfield, was freeman 1666, had by wife Jane, Samuel, born probably at Braintree; Benjamin, 8 September 1651 at Medfield; Josiah; and his wife died 15 December 1654.  He married 16 July 1656, Margaret Hollbrook, not, as given Holliocke, in the copy of Medfield record Genealogical Registrar XIII. 217, but Hollbrook, daughter of John Hollbrook the first, had Elizabeth, born 3 April 1657; Joseph, about 1659; John, 12 February 1662; and Nathaniel, 3 February 1665.  This wife died 23 April 1670; and by third wife Silence, who died 9 November 1677, he had Isaac, born 22 July preceding but who died before his mother, and the father died 26 January 1680.  Elizabeth married John Partridge the younger, of the same.

RICHARD ROCKETT, Dorchester 1635, perhaps brother of John Rockett, removed to Braintree, where by wife Agnes Bicknell, who died 9 July 1643, he had John, born 1 December 1641.  Perhaps his wife was daughter of Zachary Bicknell, whose estate they sold to William Read.  See Colony record I. 189.  Often this name is Rockwood.

 

ABRAHAM ROCKWELL, Windsor, of unknown parentage, married 4 December 1640, Mary, whose surname is unknown and who died 8 July 1677, without children.

JOHN ROCKWELL, Windsor, one of the first settlers, may therefore have been first at Dorchester, was infirm or old enough in 1649, to be exempt from watch and training, died 1662, leaving two daughters Mary, who married 10 December 1646, Robert Watson, and one who married Zachary Sanford of Saybrook, besides son Simon, who died 1665, unmarried, and gave to his sister his estate and possibly other sons.

JOHN ROCKWELL, Windsor, son of William Rockwell, probably born in England, married 6 May 1651, Sarah Ensign, perhaps daughter of James Ensign, had Sarah, born 12 May 1653; Ruth, 5 March 1655; and Lydia, 27 November 1656.  His wife died 23 June 1659.  He married 18 August 1662, Deliverance Haynes of Dorchester, removed to Stamford, had John, born 6 September 1663; Hannah, 30 May 1665; Joseph, 8 July 1668; and Elizabeth, 5 February 1671; and he died 3 September 1673, aged 46, all his children except John, being then living.  Sarah, married 8 October 1676, John Crampton of Norwalk, unless Hall, in his History 188, be wrong.  But Stiles, 762, says that she married David Hall; Ruth, married Daniel Mix; Lydia married Joshua Atwater, 24 June 1680, and husband and wife died next year; Elizabeth married 1 February 1694, James Ward. 

JOHN ROCKWELL, Greenwich, or Rye, died probably 1676, leaving wife and children.  See. Trumbull, Colony record II. 313. 

JONATHAN ROCKWELL, Norwalk 1687-94. 

JOSEPH ROCKWELL, Middletown, son of John Rockwell the second, may have first lived at Norwalk, married 1 February 1694, Elizabeth Foster, and had John and Joseph, twins born 1694; Edwin and Elizabeth twins 1700; William, 1702; Hannah, 1704; was a Deacon.

JOSIAH ROCKWELL, Norwich, perhaps son of William Rockwell, had lived at New London several years, and had there most of his children, perhaps even the eldest, Hannah, 6 September 1658, died at 3 years; Josiah, June 1662; Joseph, March 1665; John, December 1677; Mary, February 1669; Hannah again, 23 August 1672; and Samuel, posthumous 30 September 1676.  He was killed by the Indians near the end of January 1676, at the same time with young John Reynolds; and his son Josiah was taken by them, and soon restored.

JOSIAH ROCKWELL, Norwich, son of the preceding, married 8 April 1688, Ann Bliss, daughter of Thomas Bliss, had Daniel, born 24 October 1689; John, 3 April 1692; Jerusha, 6 March 1695; Hannah, 6 June 1698; and Elizabeth, 19 April 1700.  His wife died 19 February 1715; and he died 18 March 1729.

SAMUEL ROCKWELL, Windsor, son of William Rockwell, perhaps born at Dorchester, freeman of Connecticut 1657; married 7 April 1660, Mary Norton of Saybrook, had Mary, born 18 January 1662; Abigail, 23 August 1664; Samuel, 19 October 1667; Joseph, 22 May 1670; John, 31 May 1673; Abigail, again, 11 April 1676; and Josiah, 10 March 1678. 

WILLIAM ROCKWELL, Dorchester, father of John Rockwell the first.  Came probably in the Mary and John, required administration as freeman 19 October 1630, and was sworn 18 May following, was one of the first two Deacons, removed to Windsor in its second year, there died 15 May 1640, leaving widow Susanna (probably second wife to which History of Dorchester gives the surname Chapin), who married Matthew Grant, and children John; Samuel; Joan, who married 15 November 1642, Jeffrey Baker; Ruth, who married 7 October 1652, Christopher Huntington; Mary; Joseph; and Sarah, who married 22 March 1658, Walter Gaylord, as his second wife.  Stiles makes Mary marrying Jeffrey Mahon; but I doubt the outlandish surname, and suspect the baptized name was borrowed from the husband of Joan.  Of this name, ten had in 1829 been graduates at Yale and one at Dartmouth.

 

SAMUEL ROCKWOOD, eldest son of Nicholas Rockett (see Rockett), Medfield, freeman 1682, married 15 December 1671, Hannah Ellis, daughter of John Ellis of Medfield, had Hannah, born 1 October 1673; Susanna, 31 October 1675; Samuel, 11 April 1677, died at seven years; Abigail, 17 May 1679; Eleazer, 18 April 1681; died at 12 years; Patience, 14 May 1682; died soon; Joseph, 8 September 1686; and Deliverance, whose birth or that of the preceding must be wrong in Morse.  His wife died 7 May 1717, and he married another wife Sarah, and died 17 December 1728.  Six of this name, in the early time often written Rockett (from which much doubt is caused) had been graduates in 1828, at Harvard, Dartmouth, and Middlebury. Two at each.

 

RODGERS, whose name of baptism is unknown, a young man sent from England with Allerton early in 1628, to be minister at Plymouth, but sent back next year as disordered in brain.  Massachusetts History Collection IV 109.  It is often spelled without died

JOHN RODGERS, Bristol, a selectman 1686, patriotic to resist Andros, Representative 1689.  3 Massachusetts History Collection VII.171.

 

JOHN RODMAN, younger brother of Thomas Rodman, came, says tradition, from Barbados, bringing wife Mary; but no more is told of him, except that he had son Thomas, removed to Block Island next to New Jersey, and died at Flushing, Long Island. 

SAMUEL RODMAN, Newport, son of Thomas Rodman, married 17 March 1723, Mary Willet, had Thomas, born 29 December following; Hannah, perhaps 22 July 1725, died soon; Charity, 15 November 1727, died young; Samuel, 31 January 1730, died after 2 years; William, 18 January 1732; Elizabeth, 28 March 1736; Ann; Mary; and John; and died 27 December 1748. 

THOMAS RODMAN, Newport, brother of John Rodman, came from Barbados, a surgeon, married Hannah Clark, daughter of Governor Walter Clark, but she was, I presume, second wife, for the Friends' record of Newport shows his marriage 7 June 1682, with Patience Easton, widow of Robert Malins, daughter of that Peter Easton, who died on her birth day, at the age of 35; and Governor Walter Clarke's daughter was than rather too young. Whether he had children by the first wife I know not; but by Hannah came Hannah, born 9 September 1694; Clark, 29 September 1698; John, 29 July 1701, died in few months; Samuel, 23 May 1703; Patience, 5 April 1706; and William, 12 September 1708, who died next year.

 

ANTHONY ROE, Falmouth or Scarbrough 1663-83, of good repute in 1670, as by the court with another he was made conjointing Constable of both towns. 

EDWARD ROE, Exeter, swore allegiance 30 November 1677. 

ELIAS ROE, Charlestown, married 17 July 1656, Rebecca Long, daughter of Robert Long, had John, baptized 27 November 1670.  He died 18 January 1687, his wife having died earlier. 

HUGH ROE, Hartford 1661, removed perhaps to Salem, but, in 1669, is on the freeman list of Connecticut, and before 1678, was at Suffield, there died 5 August 1689, and his wife Abigail died 3 September following.  He had first lived at Weymouth, and there his daughter Esther died 11 July 1655; and his son Samuel was born 14 January following who died the year before his father, and other children named in his will were Peter, Mary Denslow, Elizabeth Merrill of Saybrook and Abigail Taylor; grandchild Abigail Kent; and three Warners.

JOHN ROE, Charlestown, probably son of Elias Roe, by wife Ruth, had Elias, baptized 26 August 1688, died in few days; John, 27 October 1689; and Ruth, 5 April 1691.

MARK ROE, York 1666, served that year on the grand jury.

PETER ROE, Suffield, son of Hugh Roe, married 1689, Sarah Remington, daughter of Thomas Remington, and had several children. 

RICHARD ROE, Charlestown, brother of Elias Roe, who had administration of his estate after he perished November 1666, by casualty at sea.  Sometimes, but rarely, these names are enriched with a w

 

ANDREW ROGERS, a passenger from London 1671, in the Arabella, of whom no more is heard in our country.  DANIEL ROGERS, Ipswich, son of President John Rogers, married Sarah Appleton, daughter of the first John Appleton, though the Appleton memoirs page 16, makes her wife of Samuel Rogers, had Sarah, who died infant; Sarah, again, born 27 April 1694, died soon; Sarah, again, 29 Mary 1695; Margaret, probably 8 January 1699; Elizabeth; Priscilla; Mary; Daniel Rogers, 17 October 1706, Harvard College 1725, the minister of Littleton; John, 16 September 1708; Patience, 4 September 1710; and Nathaniel, 6 August 1712, died in few days.  He was school master, town clerk and registrar of probate, though his handwriting is ill, and he perished in a cold snowstorm on Hampton Beach, 1 December 1722.  See Genealogical Registrar VI. 70.

DAVID ROGERS, Braintree, had Ruth, born 3 January 1641; and he died 24 September 1642. 

ELEAZER ROGERS, Milford, was freeman 1669, and the name was perpetuated there to 1713. 

EZEKIEL ROGERS, Rowley, first minister there, son of Richard Rogers, a distinguished Puritan divine of Weathersfield, County Essex, who is assumed by the author of the members of family of Nathaniel Rogers, but with slight, or, as I think, not even slight, support for his assumption to be son of him burned at the stake 1555, was bred at Cambridge, where in 1604, he was of Corpus Christi, when he had his A.B. and of Christ's College in 1608, on record his A.M., came in 1638, with his wife Sarah Everard, daughter of John Everard, citizen of London, who died in ten years.  He had served long after 1621, with great reputation and favored Archbishop  Matthews, in that parish in Yorkshire, whose name was adopted here by the people who accompanied him; and in a commission out of chance for inquisition into misapplication of funds given by the Queen, he was included by her Majesty, as first among seven clergymen.  After the Archbishop of York, the Earl of Cumberland, three baronets, six knights, and eight esquires.  See Oliver's History of Beverly, 195, 6.  He was freeman 23 May 1639, had for second wife a daughter of Reverend John Wilson, who died before given born to her first child, and the third wife Mary, who survived him was wife of Thomas Barker, married 16 July 1651; but when he died 23 January 1661, leaving good estate there was no children to inherit; nor is it known that he ever had a son.

EZEKIEL ROGERS, Ipswich, son of Reverend Nathaniel Rogers, married Margaret Hubbard, widow of Thomas Scott, daughter of William Hubbard, and sister of the historian, had Martha; Nathaniel, born 14 August 1664; John, 12 June 1666; Ezekiel, 4 June 1667; Timothy and Samuel; and died 5 July 1675.  His widow died 1678, and her will of 22 June was probated 17 September of the same year, in it she speaks of being executrix of her son Thomas Scott's estate and gives £40 to the son Rogers, and daughter Snelling of her daughter Snelling, the name of who died was, I believe, Margaret. 

GAMALIEL ROGERS, Boston, son of Simon Rogers, by wife Mercy, had Jane, born 3 January 1689. 

GEORGE ROGERS, Maine, was of the jury 1650, but of what town I see not. 

HENRY ROGERS, Springfield, took the oath of allegiance 1678.  It is not known whether he came from England or was born here, but probably the latter; and he married 30 December 1675, Mary Exell, eldest daughter of Richard Exell of Springfield, had Mary, born 23 December 1676, died within 4 years; John, 5 March 1678; Dorothy, 5 September 1679; Mary, 8 Aug, 1681; a died April 1683, died soon; and Henry, 28 December 1687, and died 26 September 1724.  His widow died 23 October 1732.  Both his sons had families.  Mary married 1702, Samuel Cooper; and Dorothy married 1704, James Taylor the younger.

JAMES ROGERS, New London, is by Miss Caulkins thought to be that passenger in the Increase from London, 1635, aged 20, and was early at Stratford, there married Elizabeth Rowland, daughter of Samuel Rowland, removed to Milford, had Samuel, born about 1640; Joseph, baptized 1646; John, 1648; Bathsheba, 1650; James, about 1652; Jonathan, born 31 December 1655; and Elizabeth, 1658; soon after he removed to New London was the richest man in the settlement after Governor Winthrop freeman 1660, Representative 1661-8 and in 1676, began to make with his children much opposition to infants baptized, and died about 1688.  Bathsheba married 4 March 1670, Richard Smith of New London, and next Samuel Fox as his third wife, and Elizabeth married 9 February 1682, the second Samuel Beeby.  From this man, through his fifth son Jonathan, is derived the ancient imperfect volume containing the Psalms and New Testament, with a church Liturgy thought to be of the days of Edward VI. 

JAMES ROGERS, Newport 1638, administered freeman 1640, and is in the list of 1655, and was General Sergeant 1661-3.

JAMES ROGERS, Eastham, son of Joseph Rogers, married 11 January 1671, Mary Paine, daughter probably of the first Thomas Paine, had James born 30 October 1673; Mary, 9 November 1675; and Abigail, 2 March 1678; was a Lieutenant, and died 13 April following. 

JAMES ROGERS, New London, son of James Rogers of the same, a sea Captain, married 5 November 1674, Mary Jordan, daughter of Jeffrey Jordan, of which very pleasant tradition is told by Caulkins, page 202, though as nothing was ever heard of her father or mother or brother or sister, it may fail of truth in some particulars, had James, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Samuel, Jonathan, Richard, and William.  In 1677, his wife was fined for absence from published worship as established by the government, and soon after he and his wife were vexed for worship established by his father and friends.  He died 8 November 1713.

JEREMIAH ROGERS, Dorchester, married Mehitable Pierce, daughter probably eldest of John Pierce, and had three children, as in the will of their grandfather  Pierce in 1661, is mentioned viz. Margaret, baptized 1653; Mehitable, born 6 October 1658; and Ichabod, baptized 27 May 1660, brought to Dorchester for the ordination from Lancaster, whither his father had removed, besides probably that Sarah, who by record of Dorchester died 21 September 1657.

JOHN ROGERS Duxbury 1634, probably of Plymouth 1631, Representative 1657, by wife Frances, had John, Joseph, Timothy, Ann, Mary, and Abigail.  In his will of 1 February 1661, he calls himself of Marshfield, names wife and the six children besides grandchildren George and John Russell.  Ann married John Hudson; and one of the other daughters married the second George Russell.  He may have been brother of the first Thomas Rogers. 

JOHN ROGERS, Watertown 1636, freeman 17 May 1637;

JOHN ROGERS, Weymouth, married 16 April 1639, Ann Churchman, daughter probably of Hugh Churchman, had Lydia, born 27 March 1642, removed 1644, to Scitutate, going thither, with Reverend Mr. Witherell.  This led Deane, he says, to conjecture that he was a descendant of him of Smithfield, whose martyrdom was about 99 years before, and perhaps a slighter conjecture never was brought in aid of a trifling tradition.  A tradition probably equally worthless, to sustain that, is given by Deane that the mother of Witherell was also a descendant of the martyr.  He had also John, Thomas, and Samuel, probably the first, if not more, born in England, and went back to Weymouth, there died 11 February 1662.  The Weymouth man was a Deacon, and his will of 8 February 1661, probated 30 April following, satisfied me.  That Deane had confused two if not three Johns into one.  (See Geneal, Reg. X. 265-6).  It gives estate to wife Judith, son John, daughters Mary Rane, i.e. probably Rand, wife of John, Lydia, who married 19 September 1660, Joseph White; Hannah married the same day, Samuel Pratt, and Sarah.  The husband of Mary was John.  So that we may be sure that Scituate man, with sons Thomas and Samuel, was another, and that Deane misled Barry in his History of Hanover; and Winsor in his History of Duxbury. 

JOHN ROGERS, Watertown, freeman 13 March 1639, married 1640, Priscilla Dawes at Boston, who on her joining the church is called maid servant of our Elder Thomas Oliver, had John, born 11 September 1641; Mary, 26 October 1643; Thomas; Daniel; Nathaniel; and probably several daughters, was perhaps a baker, removed to Billerica, there his daughter Abigail married Arthur Warren of Chelmsford; Priscilla, who married 19 January 1682, Simon Coolidge, as second wife was probably another.  His son John was killed by the Indians 5 August 1695, was also, on the same day, his brother Thomas, and his son Thomas, aged 11 years.  Both these sons as well as Daniel and Nathaniel, and daughter Priscilla are named in his will, made three days after that date, of who Thomas and Nathaniel were executors.  From this we learn also that he had second wife, for he gives to his wife's son George Brown, and her daughter Mary Brown, and he died 25 January 1686.  But another

JOHN ROGERS, probably older, was of Watertown, as early perhaps as the preceding, and may have been of Dedham 1636, married so late as November 1653 (but it may have not been first wife), Abigail Martin, had Abigail, born 21 January 1657; and he died 22 December 1674, aged 80.  Dr. Bond supposed he was father of Billerica John Rogers.

JOHN ROGERS, Scituate, son of John Rogers of the same, probably born in England, married at Boston, 8 October 1656, Rhoda King, daughter of Elder Thomas King of Scituate, had John, and perhaps Abigail, or others, but not, I think, the Mary, or Elizabeth or Hannah ascribed to him by Deane, as they were daughters of the Weymouth Deacon; Mary was sister of her who married Joseph White of Scituate, and of the other two probably, unless the dates for marriages of these three were by him intended to mean dates of birth.  Confusion in Deane, is here evident, but what he should have said is uncertain.  Abigail married 1678, Timothy White of Scituate. 

JOHN ROGERS, Milford 1646, died 1684.  His will of 1 December 1683, names children Eliezer, Jabez, Abigail, who was wife of Ephraim Stiles, John, and grandchild Ruth Beardsley. 

JOHN ROGERS,  Huntington, Long Island, administered 1664, freeman of Connecticut and in 1669, had been two years perhaps of Branford, died before 1676, probably without being married or at least without children, for his brother Noah inherited his estate.

JOHN ROGERS, Ipswich, eldest son of Reverend Nathaniel Rogers, born in England early in 1631 (not 1620, as Genealogical Registrar X. 148), probably at Coggeshall in Essex, where lived the father of his mother, but Farmer says at Assington in Suffolk was both physician and preacher after leaving College 1649, and some years I believe, was of Boston, but of so common a name, a mistake is very easy; freeman 1674; married Elizabeth Dennison, only daughter of Major-General Daniel Dennison, had Elizabeth, born one according to Says 3, another 26 February 1662; Margaret, 18 February 1664,; John Rogers, 7 July 1666, Harvard College 1684; Daniel Rogers, 25 September 1667, Harvard College 1686; Nathaniel Rogers, 22 February 1670, Harvard College 1687; and Patience, 13 or 25 May, 1676; preached occasionally as aid to Cobbett and Hubbard, was chosen  President to succeed Hoar, 1676, but declined, and his classmate Oakes was appointed but after death of Oakes, he was again chosen 1683, when Mather and Torrey had declined the offer, and died 2 July 1684, less than one year from entering on his office.  His widow died 13 June 1723.  Elizabeth married 23 November 1681, John Appleton; Margaret, married 28 December 1686, Dr. Thomas Berry, and next, 25 November 1697, Honorable John Leverett, and died 7 June 1720; and Patience, married 15 April 1696, Benjamin Marston of Salem, and died 22 May 1731.  Never, I think, is heard any suggestion that he was of the stock of the martyr of Smithfield, when it might have been difficult to avoid that topic of congratulations, had any of his realtives or friends believed it. 

JOHN ROGERS, Duxbury or Marshfield, perhaps son of Thomas Rogers of the Mayflower, and left at home some years Winsor says, had Elizabeth, who married 17 November 1668, Nathaniel William of Taunton; Abigail, who married a Richmond; and Hannah, married 23 November 1664, John Tisdale; beside, I presume, that Thomas, baptized at Scituate, 6 May 1638.

JOHN ROGERS, Duxbury, married November 1666, Elizabeth Peabody, daughter of William Peabody, had Hannah, born November 1668; John, 22 September 1670; Ruth, 18 April 1675; Sarah, 4 May 1677; and Elizabeth.  He may be the same whose death is recorded at Marshfield, 7 May 1717, in his 85th year, if liberal discount be allowed for exaggeration.  Far more probable is it that the other John Rogers of Duxbury was thus long living.

JOHN ROGERS, Eastham, son of Joseph Rogers, married 19 August 1669, Elizabeth Twining, perhaps daughter of William Twining, had Samuel, born 1 November 1671, died soon; John, 1 November 1672; Judah, 23 November 1677; Joseph, 22 February 1679; Elizabeth, 23 October 1682; Eleazer, 18 May 1685; Mehitable, 13 March 1687; Hannah, 5 August 1689; and Nathaniel, 3 October 1693.  His widow Elizabeth died 10 March 1725.

JOHN ROGERS, New London, son of James Rogers the first, married 17 October 1670, Elizabeth Griswold, daughter of Matthew Griswold, had Elizabeth, born 8 November 16571; and John, 20 March 1674; began, before the end of this year to assert opinions and follow forms in religion which disgusted his wife, who desired divorce next year, and after 18 months gained the reluctant assent of the Court which allowed her to retain both the children.  Yet as the children grew up, they took to their father, perhaps because the mother had married 5 August 1679, Peter Pratt, and, in 1691, a third husband Matthew Beckwith.  He was founder of a new sect called Rogerenes, but though he had the glory of knowledge that his writings were condemned and burned as pestilent heresies, yet without causing much light to be spread, the schism went off soon after his death which was 17 October 1721.  A second wife Mary Ransford caused him more trouble than the first. 

JOHN ROGERS, Boston, of whose estate administration was given 25 April 1672, to his widow Elizabeth.

JOHN ROGERS, Weymouth, perhaps son of John Rogers of the same, married 8 February 1663, Mary Bates, had Mary, born 3 April 1664; Lydia, 1 March 1666; Experience, 29 November 1667; and Hannah, 23 July 1670; was freeman 1671. 

JOHN ROGERS, Salem, married 29 October 1674, Elizabeth Baxter, daughter perhaps of Daniel Baxter, was, in 1681, a glazier.

JOHN ROGERS, Bristol, was Representative 1689.  

JOHN ROGERS, Ipswich, eldest son of President John Rogers, was ordained 12 October 1692, as colleague with his uncle Hubbard Rogers, married 4 March 1691, Martha Whittingham, daughter of William Whittingham, had John Rogers, born 19 January 1692, Harvard College 1711, minister of Kittery; Martha, 20 November 1694; Mary; William, 19 June 1699; Nathaniel Rogers, 22 September 1701, Harvard College 1721, minister of Ipswich, colleague with his father; Richard, 2 December 1703; Elizabeth 1705 died young; Daniel and Elizabeth twins 28 July 1707, of who Daniel Rogers was Harvard College 1725, minister of Exeter; and Samuel Rogers, 31 August 1709, Harvard College 1725.  He died 28 December 1745, and his widow died 9 March 1759.

JONATHAN ROGERS, Huntington, Long Island, administered freeman of Connecticut 1664.

JONATHAN ROGERS, perhaps of Westerly before 1680, married Naomi Burdick, daughter of Robert Burdick.

JONATHAN ROGERS, New London, youngest son of James Rogers the first, died 1697, leaving large family but only son Jonathan. 

JOSEPH ROGERS, Plymouth, son of Thomas Rogers, brought by his father in the Mayflower, 1620, had two shares in the division of lands 1624, probably on account of his father who died in the first six months, but in the division of cattle had single share in the Company with Governor Bradford, lived at Duxbury, there had Sarah, born 6 August 1633, died soon; Joseph, 19 July 1635; Thomas, 29 March baptized 6 May 1638; Elizabeth, 29 September 1639; John, 3 April 1642; Mary, 22 September 1644; James, 18 October 1648; these six lived says Bradford, in 1650; and Hannah, 8 August 1652; was some time at Sandwich, but as early as 1655 at Eastham, was Lieutenant, and died at Eastham 1678.  Elizabeth married 9 January 1660, Jonathan Higgins.

JOSEPH ROGERS, Eastham, son of the preceding, married 4 April 1660, or February 1661, as in Genealogical Registrar VI. 235, is said, though I think with mistake of the month by its numeral, 2, which in another and higher authority College record following by Genealogical Registrar III. 379, stands 4 April 1660, Susanna Deane, daughter of Stephen Deane, had Joseph, perhaps posthumous, for the father died 27 December or January following by injury in a fall.  His widow married 28 October 1663, Stephen Snow. 

JOSEPH ROGERS, Salem, died about 1668. 

JOSEPH ROGERS, Boston, son perhaps of Simon Rogers, by wife Elizabeth, had Susanna, born 4 December 1688.

JOSEPH ROGERS, New London, second son of James Rogers the first, died 1697, leaving large family.

JOSHUA ROGERS, Boston, married 12 October 1653, Ann Fisen, if that be not an impossible name, had Joshua, born 20 February 1655, but the record notes his death on 15 of that month.

NATHANIEL ROGERS, Ipswich, second son of Reverend John Rogers of Dedham, County Essex, England, fondly reported in modern times with very little, or rather no probability to be descendant of the first martyr in Queen Mary's day, was born about 1589 at Haverhill, where his father was then minister, bred at Cambridge University where he was matriculated of Emmanuel, 1614, had his degrees 1617 and 21, first preached at Bocking in Essex, next at Assington in Suffolk, where were Gurdon and other puritan gentry, the Bishop of the diocese, after filled by Wren, the puritan-disturber, having comfortable respected him five years.  He married Margaret Crane, daughter of Robert Crane, a gentleman with good estate of Coggeshall, County Essex, at whose house perhaps, the eldest child John Rogers was born January 1631, Harvard College 1649; had also Nathaniel, born at Assington, 30 September 1632; Samuel, 16 January 1635; Timothy, 9 November 1638, at Ipswich; and Ezekiel Rogers, Harvard College 1659; besides Margaret, who was, no doubt, born in England, and here married William Hubbard, the Historian, he came from London to Boston, arriving November 1636, and on 20 February 1638 was ordained as colleague with Norton, to succeed Nathaniel Ward, who strangely gave up his profession; was freeman 23 May 1639, though the Magistrate at Ipswich had authority to administer him 6 September preceding, and died 3 July 1655, a century after the faggot's blaze in Smithfield, and about a hundred years before the earliest surmise of the derivation from the hero of it, of the numerous and honorable families here of the same name.  His will, numcupative, was probated 26 September in the hand-writing of Ezekiel Cheever, first master of the grammar school at Ipswich.  He had carefully kept a diary, but was wise enough to see it burned before his death.  Thus he, or his kinsman, Ezekiel, were descentants of the celebrated Smithfield martyr, might seem to be justified by the note of Hutchinson I 190, who cites Hubbard, though the earliest history says nothing like it.  Into such carelessness Hutchinson does not often fall.  Hubbard, who married the only daughter of this Nathaniel, clearly enough calls him son of Reverend John Rogers of Dedham, which he honarably marks as the famous preacher as if "it might be honor enough to say" of Nathaniel, "that he was the son of Mr. John Rogers" "yet heir of a double portion of his spirit, and worthy to have transmitted more honor to his posterity than he received from those before him by reason of his eminent learning, singular piety, holy zeal, with other ministerial abilities."  See Hubbard, 554.  Surely the historian could not intend a slur upon the learning, piety, holy zeal, or ministerial abilities of him who glorified his master in the martyr's fire; and the irresistible inference is, that he, though so intimately related to Nathaniel, had never heard of his descent from the protomartyr of Queen Mary.  Though he is wholly silent as to John's progenitor, hardly can it seem possible that our Ispwich Historian should not have stated the propagation of the martyr's seed on our side of the water, when himself married (as idly reported) a granddaughter, and his sister (both named Margaret), married Ezekiel, a grandson.  It would have been equally sure to be mentioned by him, if these two males had been of the fourth or fifth generations, no less than of the third as asserted.  Neither Johnson, who expends verse upon both of the minister of Ipswich and Rowley, then living nor the more judicious and equally affectionate contemporary annalist, Governor Winth, nor garrulous Mather in his Magnalia all-gathering, especially of doubtful reports, nor Chief Justice Sewall, jealous for the honor of puritans, nor Prince, the pattern of accuracy in minute detail, hint at any such glorious ancestors more than Hubbard.  I presume the tradition has no older origin than Hutchinson's day; and perhaps he got it, as may have also Dr. Eliot, from their common friend, Reverend Daniel of Littleton, whose father Daniel was perhaps so named out of reverence to Major-General Daniel Dennison, father of this mother whose only daughter she was, rather than of Daniel, son of the martyr of Smithfield, whose memory puritans would gladly forget, as he was a courtier, and did not keep the godly simplicity of the sufferer.   My admirable friend, the late Dr. Eliot, who in his Biographical Dictionary gave currency to the tradition as if it were authentic, had assisted, he tells us, the Reverend Daniel, some months in his pulpit; and the gravestone at Littleton over the clergymen that died November 1782, shows now the sleeper there accepted the honor.  But the four generations of silence on our side of the ocean, added to the prior eighty years stillness of the mother country, forbid me to entertain any respect for the report first heard in the fifth age of our own history.  All the evidence is indeed of a negative character, but so many facts are ascertained quite inconsistently with the assumption founded on the modern tradition that it seems a far safer conclusion maybe dropped, than if half a dozen pieces of positive testimonies were laid for its substratum.  From the silence of Giles Firmin, who had lived at our Ipswich under the preaching of Nathaniel Rogers, and who tells how his grandmother became wife of famous Richard Rogers, author of the seven treaties, and father of our Ezekiel, though he is very copious in accounts of both Richard and Dedham John, yet being wholly silent about the witness of Smithfield fire, my friend, Charles Deane, the scrupulous antiquary at Cambridge, is strongly inclined to disbelieve, that either of these prominent Essex divines could be grandson much less own son of the martyr.  His valuable argument on the assumed point of genealogy may be seen in the Cambridge Chronicle of 3 January 1850.  Resort is had by the diligent writer in Genealogical Registrar V. 101, to the "identical bible which belongs to the protomartyr, printed in 1649," "owned by a descendant at Lunenburg".  That volume had been often and once or twice with severest, not unaided scutiny, examined by me.  It may be premised, that no English bible, printed in 1549, by Carwood and Jugge printers of our Lunenburg exemplar, after diligent search for one hundred years had been discovered; and all competent judges are now agreed, that the opinion formerly thrown out, as to such an editor is without support.  But the Lunenburg copy is very clearly ascertained to be of the year 1651, the earliest English bible, indeed, of Elizabeth's reign, yet six years after Rogers was burned at Smithfield, infallible proof of this was furnished by Mr. Stevens of London, and another modern distinguished biblical bibliographer George Offer of London, on a part of the volume sent from this country; and by collation, in many hours by myself, with a sheet of the bible of 1651, sent hither from London, by Mr. Offer to his friend George Livermore, Esq. of Cambridge, the perfected identity is exhibited in the printer's monogram, the pictures, and the minutest parts of single words, and letters, in the text, correct as well as erroneous.  So that this relic, however valuable in itself, affords no proof to the claim of descent from him, any more than it does to the wild tradition that the noble martyr held this same precious copy in his hand, when suffering at the stake.  In proof of the fable, Genealogical Registrar III. 373, truly says the Volume "is much burnt,?" and it might have added that it better would have pleased the partakers of the triumph to have burned the book instead of the man.  But of the burnt part, which very slightly affected the printed Queen Elizabeth in her service book of 1661, suffers most, as I testify.  Many of us know of volumes, burnt in part, that never were in the hands of martyrs in Smithfield.  From every long protract, inquiry, in order to sustain or reverse my first express of better belief in the descent of our New England posterity of Nathaniel Rogers, the closest approach to any exact relation with the martyr amounts only to this:  the father of Reverend William Jenkin of London, who was minister of Sudbury, when William was born 1612, and of course the predecessor of our John Wilson, was grandson of a daughter of the sufferer of 1555, and he had studied under the old puritan, Richard Rogers of Wethersfield.  See Palmer's Non-Conform. Mem. Volume I.  Slight indeed, and very remote will his relationship appear; but no nearer connection can be found, I think, between any of our innumerable Rogerses and the glorious sufferer John, the editor of Tyndall's bible.  Encouragement to adhere to the illusion, against the strong array of Mr. Deane's logic, was felt by some of the supporters of tradition for the holy martyr's descent, on hearing that Mr. Hunter of London was slow in deciding adverse to the claim.  No judgment, on such a point, could outweigh his.  He says in a letter to me October 1866, "The subject has been so long absent from my mind, that I really do not now understand, how the question rests at present, or even what I may have written about it" -- "I know nothing but what I learned from America; and, on the other hand, I never saw in English document any evidence of the descent which they claim, which may, for any thing I know be correct, though I should like to see the evidence on which it rests.  Something beyond tradition is now demanded in all claims to ancestral honors."  Only will I add that this tradition is very modern.  In the mass of MS gatherings by Candler to illustrate the Puritan History of England though he is so copious upon the East counties' confessors, no reference to the descent of John of died was perceived by Hunter, and this since the tradition was first mentioned within twenty years.  The name was most widely diffused in England.  Perhaps there were near a hundred ministers in the days of Elizabeth named Rogers, of which one or more may well have been son of the proto-martyr of the preceding reign.  In the Register of the single diocese of Salisbury by Sir Thomas Phillips, from 1297, to 1810, which he gave me, are recorded the institutions of Nicholas Rogers 1565; of Ambrose Rogers 1569; and of John Rogers 1582.  So natural is it to infer that the blood of the sufferer should in the second and third generation be blessed, that the writer of a Memoir of the family of Reverend Nathaniel Rogers, claiming to be a descendant in Genealogical Registrar V. 105, most copiously carried out, makes his father John Rogers of Dedham, to be grandson of the martyr, and a student so diligent as Dr. Allen, in the second Ed. of his Biographical Dictionary made even Nathaniel the grandson whereas from the monument inscription on John, the Dedham minister, we learn that he was not born before 1571 or 2, 16 or 17 years after the solemn scene of his supposed father's martyrded in the midst of London.  In his third Ed. however, the father of Nathaniel is made grandson of Smithfield John.  No tradition that the father of Nathaniel was descendant of the hero of 1555, had ever reached his successor at the altar, or the hearers in Dedham, before It was told by me in 1842.  See 3 Massachusetts History Collection VIII. 309.  Good account it not to be any where found of the ten children, male and female, of the noble sufferer at Smithfield, except Daniel, mentioned by Fox, the martyrologist.  He got promotion at Court, under patronage of some civilian of Elizabeth and may hardly have encouraged the puritan tendency of any relative.  See Hunter's Suffolk Emigr. 3 Massachusetts Histo. Collections X. 165.  There was a John Rogers in the church, one generation later than Nathaniel's father blessed John of Dedham, so strong a puritan, as to give offence to Cromwell, who imprisoned him at Lambeth, and after at Windsor; but the religion of the great soldier partook little of the fierce sincerity of Queen Mary, and he was too sagacious, if not humane, to put the confessor to death.  See Brooks Lives III. 326.  One John Rogers of our own days was minister at Rendham, in County Suffolk not long since, and may still be.  

NATHANIEL ROGERS, Ipswich, son of the preceding, served in the cavalry in Philip's war 1676, and died 14 June 1680, probably unmarried, for the careful author of the family Memoirs tells that his nuncupative will gave his property to nephew John Rogers, son of his brother John Rogers.

NATHANIEL ROGERS, Portsmouth, youngest son of President John Rogers, ordained 3 May 1699, died 3 October 1723.  He had by wife Sarah, eight children of which some attained distinction, as in Genealogical Registrar V. 325. 

NOAH ROGERS, Branford, youngest son of John Rogers of the same, whose property he inherited, married 8 April 1673, Elizabeth Taintor, daughter of the first Michael Taintor, had Mary, born 14 April 1675; John, 8 November 1677; Josiah, 31 January 1680; Hezekiah; Noah; Elizabeth; and Ann; but the last four names are obtained from his will of 22 December 1724, which mentioned all the seven. 

OBADIAH ROGERS, Southampton, Long Island, 1673, where Thompson thinks he was in 1640, which would compel us to suppose, that he removed from Lynn, to that place.  In 1683, at the neighboring town of Southold are found Obadiah, and Obadiah junior, among the tax payers. 

PETER ROGERS, Windsor, died 13 June 1651, as Stiles, 767, tells, but adds no more, subtracting final s.  Of him, or John, or Joseph, both of Salem, it would be good to learn the father.

RICHARD ROGERS, Dover 1642.

ROBERT ROGERS, Newbury, by wife Susanna, had Robert, born 28 April 1650; Thomas, 9 July 1652; John, 13 March 1654; Susanna, 6 February 1657; Joshua, 1 August 1658; and died 23 December 1659; and his widow married William Thomas, 

SAMUEL ROGERS, Ipswich, son of Reverend Nathaniel Rogers, born in England probably at Assington, brought in infant, was town clerk 1653, married 12 December 1657, Judith Appleton, daughter of the first Samuel Appleton, who died July 1659; and he next married 13 November 1661, Sarah Wade, daughter of Jonathan Wade, had Sarah, who died soon; John died soon; John, again, born 29 April 1667; Susanna, 17 March 1669; Jonathan,  29 March 1671; Mary, 10 September 1672; Margaret, 29 October 1675; Elizabeth, 1 October 1678; Abigail, 5 July, 1681; and Sarah, 30 September 1682; and he died 21 December 1693.  His widow married Henry Woodhouse of Concord.  In the genealogy of Nathaniel Roger's son Samuel, Genealogical Registrar V. 316, there seemed several points of doubtful exactness, though the great article is a very valuable one.  One of the daughters should be called Martha, for she administered 1696, the estate of her brother John.  Samuel had charged his property with annuity of £10 to his widow. 

SAMUEL ROGERS, New London, eldest son of James Rogers the first, had good estate by devise of his grandfather Samuel Rowland, married 17 November 1662, Caulkins says, page 297, but on page 202 says 1664, Mary Stanton, daughter of Thomas Stanton the first, had perhaps a family though I find no mention of it in the history, but he had daughter Mary, who married 2 October 1684, Captain Samuel Gilbert, and died 30 September 1756, aged 90; and he died 1 December 1713. 

SIMON ROGERS, Boston, came in the Defence 1635, aged 20, from London, was a shoemaker, lived first at Concord, where his wife Mary died 1 August 1640, freeman 13 May 1640, removed to Boston, and by wife Susanna, had Nathaniel, born 14 February baptized 12 March 1643, who died before his father; Lydia, 1, baptized 7 December 1645; John, baptized 12 July 1648 about 5 days old; Simon, 28 April 1654; Gamaliel, 26 March 1657; and Joseph, 29 July 1662; perhaps others; in Boston was a tanner.  In his will of 1 April 1678, probated 3 January 1680, names wife Susanna, eldest son Gamaliel, and Joseph, and daughter Elizabeth Rust. 

THOMAS ROGERS, Plymouth, came in the Mayflower 1620, with son Joseph, and died early next year.  But Bradford informs us that "the rest of his children came over, are married and have [1650] many children." 

THOMAS ROGERS, Watertown, 1636, freeman 17 May 1637, died or was buried 12 November 1638, aged 50, says Bond, and his widow Grace married William Palmer. 

THOMAS ROGERS, Scituate, son of the first John Rogers of the same, Deane says, had a family of which have descendants to our day. 

THOMAS ROGERS, Saco 1652, was constable 1659.  His husband was burned by the Indians October 1676.

THOMAS ROGERS, Eastham, son of Joseph Rogers the first, married 13 December 1665, Elizabeth Snow, had Elizabeth, born 8 October 1666; Joseph, 1 February 1668; Hannah, 20 March 1669 or 70; Thomas, 6 March 1671, died in few days; Thomas, again, 6 May 1672; Eleazer, 3 November 1673; and Nathaniel, 18 January 1676.  His wife died 16 June 1678. 

THOMAS ROGERS, Newbury, son of Robert Rogers, perhaps in 1691 taxed at Rowley, married 18 May 1677, Ruth Brown, had Thomas, born 14 August 1678; Ruth, 16 April 1680; Susanna, 17 March 1682; Robert, 5 April 1684; John, 11 July 1686; Isaac, 21 June 1691; Stephen, 20 August 1693; Daniel, 14 November 1695; and Jonathan, 18 June 1702.

TIMOTHY ROGERS, Boston, son of Reverend Nathaniel Rogers, a merchant 1665-88, was not among householders  1695. 

WILLIAM ROGERS, York, was administered freeman 1652.

WILLIAM ROGERS, Boston, Farmer says, had several children born there, and died 13 July 1664; but I doubt he relied on information that has not reached me.

WILLIAM ROGERS, Boston, merchant, by wife Susanna, if that name be not wrong, had Mary, born 9 April 1667; perhaps had second wife at least married 22 April 1676, inventory of his estate was taken by his widow Margaret, who had one son by him, and who on 4 May following was appointed administrater, and she had before 30 January following married William Snelling. 

WILLIAM ROGERS, Charlestown 1678, may have removed to Reading. 

WILLIAM ROGERS, Nantucket, married Martha Barnard, daughter of Robert Barnard, had Experience, a daughter born 23 July 1673; Ebenezer, 5 January 1676; Orange; Martha; and Mary; and died 23 March 1718.  In his MS Farmer observed that of this name 54 had been graduates of which 37 were of Harvard; 10 of Yale; and that 15 of these were clergymen of who I count 12 at Harvard.

 

ISAAC ROISE or ISAAC ROYCE, New London, son of Robert Roise, married 15 December 1669, Elizabeth Lothrop, eldest daughter of Samuel Lothrop, had Robert, and three other children, and removed to Wallingford, died 1681.  His widow married 1690, Joseph Thompson of the same.

JOHN ROISE or JOHN ROYCE, Willimantic 1686. 

JONATHAN ROISE or JONATHAN ROYCE, Norwich, son of Robert Roise of New London, married June 1660, Deborah Caulkins, daughter of Hugh Caulkins, had Elizabeth, born January 1662; John, 9 November 1663; Sarah, October 1665; Abigail, September 1667, died next year; Ruth, April 1669; Hannah, April 1671; Abigail, again, April 1673; Jonathan, August 1678; Deborah, 10 August 1680; and Daniel, 19 August 1682. 

NATHANIEL ROISE or NATHANIEL ROYCE, New London, son of Robert Roise, freeman 1669, removed to Wallingford before 1674.  He married Abigail, widow of David Hoyt, after her return from captivity in Canada. 

NEHIMIAH ROISE or NEHIMIAH ROYCE, New London, probably brother of the preceding, married 20 November 1660, Hannah Morgan, daughter of James Morgan, was freeman 1666; removed to Wallingford. 

ROBERT ROISE or ROBERT ROYCE, of Boston, as early as 1631 or 2; freeman 1 April 1634, by wife Elizabeth, had Joshua, born 14, baptized 16 April 1637; Nathaniel, baptized 24 March 1639, though town record had born 1 April; and Patience born 1 April 1642, died in one week, was one of the disarmed 1637, as a supporter of Mrs. Hutchinson in her revelations, or of Wheelwright in his opinions; had removed before 1657 to New London, perhaps in 1650 was of Stratford, but constable in 1660 and in 1661, Representative for New London where he lived in good repute, and his daughter Ruth married 15 December 1669, John Lothrop; and Sarah married John Caulkins.  Of his sons Nehemiah, Samuel, Nathaniel, Isaac, and Jonathan, the four first removed to Wallingford, after marrying in New London, and Lothrop also removed to Wallingford.  He died 1676, and his widow Mary was living on his estate 1688. 

SAMUEL ROISE or SAMUEL ROYCE, New London, son of the preceding, married 9 January 1667, Hannah Churchwood, daughter of Josiah Churchwood of Wethersfield, freeman 1669, removed to Wallingford.  Often the same appears Rise or Rice, and may have been sometimes confounded with Rose.

 

JOHN ROLESTONE, JOHN ROWLSTONE, or JOHN ROULSTONE, a soldier in Philip's war, at Northampton 1676, was probably he of Boston, who by wife Mary, had Thomas, born 28 July 1686; Joseph, 28 November 1688; and Mary, 29 September 1690.

 

BENJAMIN ROLFE, Newbury, weaver, grandson of Henry Rolfe, says Coffin, whose only son John must then be inferred to be father, but reason is found for calling him brother of John Rolfe, and son of Henry Rolfe, was born between 1637 and 1640, freeman 1659, or more probably 1670, by wife Apphia, who he married 3 November 1659, had John, born 12 October 1660; Benjamin Rolfe, 13 September 1662, Harvard College 1684, chaplain to our forces at Falmouth 1689, the second minister of Haverhill, ordained January 1694, killed by the Indians 29 August 1708; Apphia, 8 March 1667; Mary, 16 September 1669, died young; Samuel, 14 January 1672; Mary, again, 11 Nov 1674, died young; Henry, 12 October 1677; Elizabeth 15 December 1679; Nathaniel, 12 November 1681; and Abigail, 5 May 1684.  His wife died 24 December 1708, and he died 10 August 1710.

DANIEL ROLFE, Ipswich, son of Robert Rolfe, who came not probably to this country, married Hannah Bradstreet, daughter of Humphrey Bradstreet, had, perhaps, Daniel, Ezra, and other children, and may have died at Salem, June 1654.  His widow married 12 June 1648. Nicholas Holt of Andover, and died 20 June 1665.

DANIEL ROLFE Ipswich, son probably of the preceding, may be that son-in-law of Robert Collins, killed in Philip's war. 

EZRA ROLFE, Haverhill, son probably of Daniel Rolfe the first, married 2 March 1676, Abigail Bond, daughter of John Bond, had Abigail, born 17 September 1677; Ezra, 24 November 1680; Daniel, 14 February 1685; Mary and Martha, twins 23 November 1687; and he was wounded, and captured by the Indians 17 October 1689, and died 3 days after. 

HENRY ROLFE, Newbury, one of the early settlers probably from County Wilts, with wife and children of who John, Benjamin, and Hannah, who married the first Richard Dole, are known; died 1 March 1643; in his will of 15 February preceding, besides wife and children, he names brother John Rolfe and nephew John Saunders, and calls Thomas Whittier, kinsman.   Perhaps his widow was Honour, who died at Charlestown, 19 December 1650. 

JOHN ROLFE, Newbury, brother of the preceding, came in the Confidence 1638, from Southampton, aged 50, in the custom house called husbandman of Melchit Park, Wilts, with wife Ann, daughter Esther, and servant  Thomas Whittier, called Whittle in Genealogical Registrar V. 440, and XIV. 335, was freeman 6 September 1639, by our Secretary spelled Roffe, as at the Southampton custom house.  Mr. Somerby in Genealogical Registrar V. 440, assures us it was Roaf, correcting Mr. Steven's eyesight in II. 109, Mr. Drake says, Genealogical Registrar XIV. 335, it was Roaff, vindicating the honor of Mr. Somerby's vision; in each of the three cases, no doubt, following the sound, as it reached the ear of the subordinate official, became one of the earliest proprietors of Salisbury, there taxed 1650 and 2; perhaps had second wife Esther, who died 3 June 1647; in July 1663, he was one of the proprietors of Nantucket, and died 8 February 1664.  His daughter Esther married John Saunders.

JOHN ROLFE of Newbury, probably son of Henry Rolfe, we hear that he married 4 December 1656, Mary Scullard, possibly daughter of Samuel Scullard, had Mary, born 2 November 1658, died next month; Mary, again, 16 January 1660; and Rebecca, 9 February 1662; and Coffin thought him brother of Henry Rolfe, to which I discern objections.

JOHN ROLFE, Nantucket, may have gone from Newbury, but at the first named place had John, born 5 March 1664; Samuel, 8 March 1665; Sarah, 2 December 1667; Joseph, 12 March 1670; and Hannah, 5 February 1672; possibly may have gone back to Newbury, and been the man who Coffin says died 30 September 1681.

JOHN ROLFE of Newbury, if he be not one of the preceding, Coffin tells us that he had wife Dorothy, and sons John, born 24 March 1691; and Jonathan 2 August 1695.  Farmer names Thomas Rolfe of Ipswich 1648, but he eludes my search, unless he be the man of Guilford, who had married Elizabeth Disbrow, and for some heinous offence ran off for refuge to the Colony of Rhode Island, and so his wife obtained divorce, 1 October 1651, by the jurisdiction of New Haven Colony, resumed her maiden name, and married John Johnson of the same town, and she died 23 December 1669.  Four of this name had, in 1834, been graduates at Harvard, and three at the other New England colleges.

 

ALEXANDER ROLLO, Middletown, one of the earliest proprietors of East Haddam, died 22 July 1709.

 

ROBERT ROLLOCK, Sandwich, died probably September 1669.

 

JOHN ROMAN, Cambridge, died 19 December 1638.  Of this solitary name not other occurrence is known.

 

JOHN RONALLS, JOSIAH RONALLS, and SAMUEL RONALLS, perhaps brothers at Wickford 1674, may have spelled variously.

 

THOMAS ROOD, Norwich, had several children before living there; Sarah, born October 1649; Thomas, March 1651; Micah, February 16. 1653; Rachel, February 1655; John, September 1658; Joseph, March 1661; Benjamin, February 1633; Mary, March 1664, died soon; and Samuel, June 1666.  His wife died happily March 1668, for his daughter Sarah was whipped, and he executed 18 October 1672, as in Trumbull.  Colony record II. 184, has detail.  Perhaps the name was changed to Rudd or Rude. 

JOHN ROOD, with this latter spelling was a petitioner 1686, for Preston township.

 

WILLIAM ROOKER, Hadley, petitioner against imposts, 1668, took the oath of allegiance 8 February 1679.

 

JOHN ROOKMAN, came in the Abigail, 1635, aged 45, with wife Elizabeth 31, and son John, 9; but the name is never found in any of our settlements.

 

JOHN ROOME, or JOHN ROME, Portsmouth 1638, is among freeman 1655, and is named in the Royal Charter 1663.  See Haz. II. 612.  He was from Bristol, England, probably, for by his will he devised house and land in that city to his wife Ann, who in 1669 gave her grandson William Cory, power to sell it.

 

CALEB ROOT, Farmington, son of John Root the first of the same, married 9 August 1693, Elizabeth Salmon, daughter of Thomas Salmon of Northampton, had Mary, born 6 March 1695, baptized 4 April 1697; Caleb, 14 March 1698; Thomas, 16 January 1702; Elizabeth, 8 April 1706; and Samuel, 20 November 1712; and died 1712. 

HEZEKIAH ROOT, Northampton 1678, son of Thomas Root the first, freeman 1690, died before his father, married 1682, Mehitable Frary, daughter of Sampson Frary of Deerfield, had Benjamin, born 1686; Mehitable, perhaps the second daughter of the name, 1688; and Mercy 1689, who was killed at Deerfield, with her grandfather Frary, 29 February 1704, by the French and Indians.  His widow married about 1702, Jermiah Alvord.

JACOB ROOT, Northampton, brother of the preceding, married a 1680, Mary Frary or Mercy Frary, daughter of Sampson Frary, had Joanna, born 1681; Daniel, 1684; Jacob, 1687; Mercy, 1690; Margaret, 1692; William, 1695; Hezekiah, 1697; Ruth, 1699; Nathaniel, 1702; and Jonathan, 1705; was freeman 1684, but removed, to Hebron, and died 1731.  His will, 1728, names all the children except Hezekiah, though some were dead leaving heirs.  Of this family was the late Honorable Erastus Root of Albany. 

JOHN ROOT, Farmington, married Mary Kilbourne, daughter of Thomas Kilbourne, had John; Thomas, Samuel; Joseph; Caleb; Stephen; Mary, who married Isaac Bronson; and Susanna, married October 1683, Joseph Langton; was freeman 1657, and died 1684, leaving good estate, and his widow died 1697, aged 70.  His first three sons settled at Westfield.  In the History of the Kilbourne family pages 42 and 3, exhibit the extraordinary diligence of P.K. Kilbourne, some slight differences may be found. 

JOHN ROOT, Farmington, son of the preceding, married 18 October 1664, Mary Ashley, daughter of Richard Ashley of Springfield, and settled at Westfield soon, there had Mary. born 22 September 1666; Sarah, 24 September 1670; John 28 December 1672; Samuel, 16 September 1675; Hannah, 9 December 1677; Abigail, 26 June 1680; Joshua, 23 November 1682; and Mercy, 15 March 1684 or 5; and he died 1687, having been made freeman 1669.  All his children were living in 1710. 

JOHN ROOT, Deerfield, son of Thomas Root the first, married Mehitable, the widow of Samuel Hinsdale, had Thankful, born 1677, and was killed by the Indians 19 September that same year. 

JOHN ROOT, Fairfield, son or nephew of Richard Root, by wife Dorcas, had John, Susanna, Mary, and Sarah, all baptized April 1685 at Woodbury, where probably some of them were born, for certain he had removed thither three or four years before, besides Josiah, baptized March 1688; Bethia, December 1691, died under 9 years; John, again, born 9 June 1693; Joseph, baptized June 1698; and Bethia born 7 February 1703; as Cothren, who has confused in my opinion the stock, as if he were son of the first John Root of Farmington, though he speaks only of probably on that point.  His wife died 15 May 1720; and he died 25 May 1723. 

JONATHAN ROOT, Northampton 1680, son of Thomas Root of the same, freeman 1690, married Ann Gull, daughter of William Gull of Hatfield, had Elizabeth, born 1681; Esther, 1683; Hannah, 1687; Ann. 1690; and Hannah, 1695; and he died 15 December 1741. 

JOSEPH ROOT, Northampton, brother probably eldest, of the preceding, married Hannah Haynes, daughter of Edmund Haynes, had Hannah, born 1662; Joseph, 1665; Thomas, 1667; John, 1669; Sarah, 1672; Hope, a son 1675; and Hezekiah, 1677; for second wife had Mary Burt, widow of Henry, and died 19 April 1711. 

JOSEPH ROOT, Farmington, brother of Caleb Root, married 1691, Elizabeth Warner, had Elizabeth, born 22, baptized 26 June 1692; Mary, 22, baptized 28 January 1694; Joseph, 27 August 1699; and took second wife 3 March 1727, Ruth Porter, widow of Samuel Smith, daughter of Thomas Porter; and died 18 December 1739. 

JOSHUA ROOT, Salem, 1637, when he had grant of land, and Felt quotes the record of his being drummer 1657.

JOSIAH ROOT, Salem, came in the Hercules, 1635, from Kent, after joining the church 1648, had baptized Josiah, Bethiah, John, and Susanna, 24 September of that year, and Thomas, 16 February 1651; was one of the founders of Beverly church 1667.  Susanna was imprisoned in the witchcraft madness; but me may hope that her father was dead before. 

JOSIAH ROOT, Boston 1673, mariner, may have been son of the preceding. 

RALPH ROOT, Boston, came in the Abigail, 1635, aged 50.  His wife Ann. joined our church 1639.  But our record mentioned daughter of his wife Mary (probably second wife), 15 November 1655.  In 1660, he gave daughter Sarah, and her husband James Balston, his house orchard, and garden, to secure maintenance of himself for residue of life; but he had two other daughters, to each of whom a few shillings were given, and he died February 1666.  See the nuncupative will in Genealogical Registrar XV. 76.  Mary Root, aged 15, who came in the Abigail, was perhaps his daughter. 

RICHARD ROOT, Lynn, was of Salem church 1636, freeman 9 March 1637, may have removed to Fairfield, where the record of his name always has s final.  He there died before 1653, when his widow Margaret married Michael Try. 

ROBERT ROOT, Newport 1639.

SAMUEL ROOT, Westfield, son of John Root the first, was freeman 1680, and died 27 November 1711, leaving widow Mary, but no children. 

STEPHEN ROOT, Farmington, brother of Caleb Root, married Sarah Wadsworth, daughter of John Wadsworth of Farmington, had Timothy, born about 1681; John, about 1685; Mary, about 1691; all baptized 17 May 1691; Sarah, 17 December 1693; and Hannah, who died unmarried, and perhaps others; and he died 1717.  His widow died 20 March 1740. 

THOMAS ROOT, Salem 1637, when he had grant of land that he probably slighted, as he was of Hartford 1639, or earlier, had large family, was a waver, and removed about 1659, to Northampton, where he was one of the seven pillars for foundation of the church 1661, and died at great age, 17 July 1694, in his will naming progeny, Joseph, Thomas, John (who was born 10 June 1646, and had died but left daughter Thankful), Jonathan, Jacob, Hezekiah (who was dead, but left children), and Sarah, wife of Samuel Kellogg of Hatfield. 

THOMAS ROOT, Northampton, son of the preceding, married 1666, Abigail Alvord, eldest daughter of Alexander Alvord, had Thomas, born 1667; Abigail, 1669; Samuel, 1673; and Hezekiah. 1676, who died young; and after 1700, removed probably to Coventry. 

THOMAS ROOT, Westfield, son of John Root the first, married 1670 Mary Gridley, probably daughter of the first Thomas Gridley, had Thomas, born 1 September 1671, died at 18 years; and Mary 21 October 1673.  Soon after his wife died in that year, married 7 October 1675, Mary Spencer, had John, born 25 December 1676; Samuel, 16 February 1679; Elizabeth, 16 February 1681; Sarah, 27 July 1683; Timothy, 3 December 1685; Joseph, 16 June 1688; and his second wife died 4 November 1690.  Early in 1693 he married third wife Sarah, widow of Josiah Leonard, had Thankful and Mary, twins 12 November 1693, and this wife died 3 January following, and he died 16 August 1709.  Not a few errors are seen in the account of his mothers and children in Genealogical Registrar VI. 267.

THOMAS ROOT, Boston, mariner, married Elizabeth Gale, daughter of Ambrose Gale of Marblehead, had Mary; and in his will 18 September 1683, probated 31 January following, in which he says he is made on voyage to Jamaica, names only that wife, children, and father-in-law.  This name often is spelled Rootes.

 

RICHARD ROOTEN, or RICHARD ROWTON, Lynn, embarked at London in the Susan and Ellen, April 1635, aged 36, with wife Ann of the same age, and child Edmund, 6 months.  No more is known of any of the family but that one record tells that he died 20 September 1663, another that the will of 12 June preceding probated in November names no children, but does the wife and kinsman, Edmund Rooten, who died 8 April 1675.  He had moderate estate.

 

BENJAMIN ROPER, a soldier in Philip's war, whose residence perhaps was Dedham, killed by the Indians 18 September 1675, with the flower of Essex, under Captain Lothrop.  He may have been son or grandson of Walter Roper; though in Farmer he is made twin brother of Ephraim Roper. 

EPHRAIM ROPER, son of John Roper of Dedham, served as a soldier under Captain Turner in Philip's war, was in the Falls fight.  His first wife was killed by the Indians, and he married 20 November 1677, Hannah, probably the widow of Stephen Goble, had Ruth, born 7 March 1681; and Elizabeth, 17 March 1683.  He with wife and one daughter was killed by the Indians 1697. 

JOHN ROPER, Dedham 1639, when his wife and daughter Mary, joined with the church, was freeman 2 June 1641. 

JOHN ROPER, Dedham, possibly son of the preceding came, 1637, aged 26, with wife Alice, 23, and two children Alice and Elizabeth, a carpenter from New Buckenham, County Norfolk, as says that the record [See 4 Massachusetts History Collection I. 99.]  At Dedham by wife Alice, he had Rachel, born 16 March 1640, died next year; Hannah, 5 baptized 9 April 1642; Ephraim, and Benjamin, born 23 February though the record of baptism has Ephraim and Nathaniel twins 2 March 1645; and I would gladly tell more if known to me.  An Alice Roper became perhaps third wife of John Dickinson of Salisbury. 

JOHN ROPER, Charlestown, 1647-58, may be he wh. removed to Lancaster, and was killed by the Indians early in 1676, on the same day when all the other inhabitant gave up their residences to conflagr. 

WALTER ROPER, Hampton, 1639, had Mary, baptized 22 August 1641, freeman 18 May 1642, removed to Ipswich before 1666, was after of Andover, but died in Ipswich 15 July 1680, in 68th year.  His will names wife Susan, children John, Nathaniel, Mary, Elizabeth, and Sarah; besides grandchildren Elizabeth, Margaret, Susan, Rose, Sarah Sparks, and John Dutch, son of Mary, wife of Robert.  John, his son died 27 November 1709, in 60th year.

 

GEORGE ROPES, Salem 1637, by wife Mary, had George, who may have been among the youngest, and unmarried, when killed by the Indians 18 September 1675, at Bloody Brook, in the flower of Essex under Lothrop; Jonathan, baptized 5 June 1642, died at 19 years; Sarah, 3 November 1643, died soon, perhaps, for the church record makes Mary, baptized 3 November 1644; John 4 July 1647; William, 28 December 1651; Abigail, 29 October 1654; and Samuel, 15 March 1657; was constable 1665, and died June 1670, leaving no will.  His widow who had administration died 1691.  The daughter Mary married 17 November 1663 John Norman. 

JAMES ROPES, Boston, by wife Sarah, had Sarah, born 22 November 1680 and James, 30 January 1688. 

JOHN ROPES, Salem, son of George Ropes, married 25 March 1699 Lydia Wells, had Benjamin, born 22 March 1670; Lydia, 16 December 1672; Mary, 21 August 1675; John, 3 September 1678; Abigail, 20 April 1681; Sarah, 23 February 1685; Samuel, 24 January 1687; Elizabeth, November 1689; and Nathaniel 1692, who was father of Nathaniel Ropes, Harvard College 1745, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Province.  Some of the dates vary from those in the Essex Institute.

RICHARD ROPES, Salem, probably brother of the preceding, married 7 June 1670, Ruth Ingersoll, daughter of John Ingersoll, had Richard, born 20 April 1674; and John, 16 August 1678.  The preceding sentence in Essex Institute III. 96, is wholly given to R. Ross, who would be an easy mistake for Ropes in old chirography, but I hardly dare to suppose such an error in a Salem man. 

SAMUEL ROPES, Salem, perhaps brother of George Ropes, signed petition against impost 1668. 

WILLIAM ROPES, Salem, brother of the preceding, married 26 July 1676, Sarah Ingersoll, died probably of John Ingersoll, had Jonathan, born 4 November 1680; Sarah, 9 January 1685; William, 5 March 1686; George, 12 August 1688; Richard, 1690; Joseph, 11 January 1693; John, 24 January 1695; and Ruth.

 

DANIEL ROSE, Wethersfield, son of Robert Rose, freeman 1665, married 1664, Elizabeth Goodrich, eldest daughter of the first John Goodrich, had Elizabeth, born 15 April 1665; Daniel, 20 August 1667; Mary, 11 February 1669; Hannah, 12 August 1673; Jonathan, 20 September 1679; Sarah, 2 November 1681; Abigail, 14 September 1683; Dorothy, 3 May 1687; and Lydia, 2 April 1689; was called 66 years old in 1696, and so may be presumed to have been born in England and brought by his father.

DANIEL ROSE, Wethersfield, son of the preceding, married at Colchester, 14 May 1706, Mary Foote, daughter of the third Nathaniel Foote, and settled at Colchester. 

GEORGE ROSE, Braintree, one of the founders of the church there, 17 September 1639, removed to Concord, freeman 13 May 1640, died 20 May 1649. 

GEORGE ROSE, New Haven, by wife Constance, had John, baptized May 1662; and Daniel, November 1663; both in her right, but the days of both are given wrong in Genealogical Registrar IX. 362, neither being Sunday. 

GIDEON ROSE, Scituate, son of Thomas Rose of the same, had Jabez and Jermiah,

HENRY ROSE, came in the James from Southampton 1635; but no more is known of him. 

JEREMIAH ROSE, Scituate, son of the first Thomas Rose, married 1698, Elizabeth Collamore, daughter of Anthony Collamore, had only Thomas, and died 1699.  His widow married Timothy Symmes. 

JOHN ROSE, Watertown 1636, removed to Branford, was of the jury, perhaps, in 1649, and was living there 1667.  He had married the widow of William Luddington in 1663, and died in the spring of 1683, and Porter advises me that the name should be Ross; and he adds to the issue, Elizabeth, born 21 December 1665; and Hannah, 24 August 1668; but his children by former wife were Martha, who married William Luddington; John; Mary, who married a Bates; and Hannah, wife probably of Edward Frisbie.  In his will, of 18 April 1683, these are all mentioned as is granddaughter Elizabeth Rose.  He may have been son of Robert Rose, and father of that John, who the Cambridge record says died 12 December 1640. 

JOHN ROSE, Scituate, son of Thomas Rose, killed by the Indians 15 Mary. 1676, in Rehoboth fight, under Captain Pierce. 

JOHN ROSE, New Haven, called junior married August 1670, Phebe, widow of Joseph Potter, probably had died Elizabeth 

JOHN ROSE, Marshfield, perished 13 February 1677, with cold, when shooting on the beach. 

JONATHAN ROSE, Branford 1667, son of John Rose of the same, and married a daughter of John Charles, and died 1684. 

JONATHAN ROSE, Wethersfield son of Daniel Rose the first, married 26 February 1707, Abigail Hale, daughter of Ebenezer Hale.

JOSEPH ROSE, Marshfield, son of Thomas Rose, married 6 June 1654, Elizabeth Bumpus, perhaps daughter of Edward Bumpus. 

RICHARD ROSE, Salem 1668.

ROBERT ROSE, Wethersfield 1639, but he went, it is thought, from Watertown, came in the Francis from Ipswich, County Suffolk 1634, aged 40, with wife Margery, 40, and children John, 15; Robert, 15; Elizabeth, 13; Mary, 11; Samuel, 9; Sarah, 7; Daniel, 3; and Dorcas, 2; was constable 1640, Representative 1641, 2 and 3; removed before 1648 to Stratford, where the list of freeman 1669 bears his name, unless it be of his son.

ROBERT ROSE, which is more probably for one Rose (James Rose, as Mr. Whitmore, in Genealogical Registrar XII. 301, says), died at Branford, leaving good estate in 1664 or 5; and I judge the younger was among early settlers at Easthampton, Long Island, 1650.  His will of 25 August 1664, and inventory of good estate 2 June following.  His wife Rebecca, children Jonathan, Hannah, John, Mary, Elizabeth, and five others.  Mary, daughter of the younger Robert, married about 1676, Moses Johnson of Stratford; and Hannah married Isaac Stiles junior. 

ROGER ROSE, Boston, 1663, a mariner, and servant of William Hudson, married at Watertown about 1661, Abigail Grant, daughter of Christopher Grant, and probably at Watertown spent most of his days, living there 1693. 

THOMAS ROSE, Scituate, before 1660, had John, Gideon, both before mentioned, Thomas, and perhaps others; married second wife 1666, Alice Hatch, widow of Jonas Pickels, daughter of Elder William Hatch, and had Jeremiah.

THOMAS ROSE, New London, married before 1683, Hannah Allyn, daughter of Robert Allyn, was one of the grantees of Preston, 1686. 

THOMAS ROSE, Marblehead 1673, may be the same as the preceding, or quite as likely of Billerica 1679, unless this be wrongly written for Ross. 

THOMAS ROSE, Scituate, son of Thomas Rose the first, had Gideon, born 1702; and probably others.  At Block Island in 1678, some Rose, with a wild spelling termed Rose, in  another place, Tormot Roosse, was a townsman, as in the diligent extract of Genealogical Registrar XIII. 37.  In the Index his name became Ross.

 

ALEXANDER ROSS, New Hampshire, 1688. 

DANIEL ROSS, and EZRA ROSS, Ipswich 1648, of who no more is known, but marriage of a Daniel Ross with Mary Knight, youngest daughter of Philip Knight of Topsfield, 5 June 1677, is recorded at Salem. 

GEORGE ROSS, New Haven, married 1658, Constance Little, perhaps daughter of Richard Little, was freeman 1668.  Sometimes his name is Roose, sometimes Rawse. 

JAMES ROSS, Sudbury, by wife Mary, had Mary, born 25 December 1656.  He, or the succeeding, may have been that soldier, whose wife Mary, in the spring, of 1676, says her husband went to Narraganset, under Captain Mosely, of course in December before, was near 70 years old, was still in the service, and his family suffered so that she begged for his release.  Sudbury James Ross had daughter Dorothy, who married 11 April 1687, Eliezer Whitney from Watertown.

JAMES ROSS, Falmouth 1657, married Ann Lewis, eldest daughter of George Lewis, had James, born 1662; and other children, all taken by the Indians 11 August 1676.  After 1678, with his family he went back to Falmouth, lived at Back Cove; but at the second destruction of the town in 1690, again was taken and carried to Canada, whence in October 1695, one of the name, probably the son was ransomed, and after lived says Wilis, at Salem.

JOHN ROSS, Cambridge, married 7 May 1659, at Boston, Mary Osborn, daughter of John Osborn of Weymouth, had Sarah, born 21 May 1660; and at Malden had Mary, 24 April 1675.

JOHN ROSS probably of Ipswich, married 28 August 1663, Deborah Osgood, daughter of Christopher Osgood the first.   

KILLECRISS ROSS, or KILLCROSS ROSS, who may be the same as some name nearer to a common one, perhaps Gilchrist, was of Ipswich 1678.

THOMAS ROSS, Cambridge. 1659, married 16 January 1662, Seth Holman, daughter of William Holman, had Thomas, who died 19 January 1663; Margaret, baptized May 1665; Thomas, again, baptized 1 July 1666; and other children of which one or more settlerd at Billerica, where Seth, his widow, was killed by the Indians 5 August 1695.

 

BRAY ROSSETER or BRAY ROCHESTER or BRYAN ROSSETER or BRYAN ROCHESTER, Guilford 1642, had been of Dorchester, son probably of Edward Rosseter, and brought by his father in the Mary and John, 1630, freeman 18 May 1631, was the first town clerk at Windsor, 1639, and served as a physician many years with good reputation.  After some years resided at Guilford, removed to Killingworth, but returned soon, and there his wife Elizabeth and daughter Sarah died August 1669; made his will 30 September 1672, and died 30 September of that year.  He had Joanna, who married at Wethersfield, 7 November 1660, Reverend John Cotton, after of Plymouth; Susanna, born 18 November 1652, who married Reverend Zechariah Walker; John and Josiah, besides four who died young.

EDWARD ROSSETER or EDWARD ROCHESTER, Dorchester 1630, came in the Mary and John, arriving from Plymouth 30 May, had been chosen as an Assistant in London, 20 October 1629, when Winthrop was first chosen Governor Humfrey, Deputy, and Salstonstall, Johnson, Dudley, Endicott, and thirteen others Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, but was never present at any meeting, as he resided far in the West.  He had good estate probably in County Somerset or Devon, for Hutchinson I, 17, by which alone any information is gleaned (even the exquisite diligence of Prince fails to add anything to his master Winthrop) says his son (as if he had only one) lived at Combe, in Devon, and his grandson Edward was a Deacon 1682, in the disented church of Taunton in Somerset.  Faithfully he attended the first in August and September second and third meetings at Charlestown of the Assistants, but was not present on the next 19 October and died on 23rd of that month in the first year.  In 1685 his youngest surviving child, widow Jane Hart, praying aid from our government, said she was 70 years old. 

HUGH ROSSETER or HUGH ROCHESTER, Dorchester, not probably son of the preceding, though he had grant of small lot in 1635, was of Taunton 1637, among the earliest settlers  [Baylies, I. 286], had Jane, who married before 1643, Thomas Gilbert, and Baylies, II. 281, thought this the first marriage in town, and 267, that he had gone to Connecticut perhaps, or New Haven; but it may well be thought as his name is not found in either Colony that he went home, or died. 

JOHN ROSSETER or JOHN ROCHESTER, Killingworth, son perhaps eldest, of Bryan Rosseter, was in 1669, one of the selectmen, married Mary Gilbert, daughter of Jonathan Gilbert the first, had John, born 12 May 1670; and died September 1670.  His widow married Samuel Holton Northampton. 

JOSIAH ROSSETER or JOSIAH ROCHESTER, Guilford 1685, probably son of Bray Rosseter, married Sarah Sherman, only daughter of the first Samuel Sherman, had Sarah, born 26 November 1677, died next year; Elizabeth, 16 May 1679; Josiah, 31 May 1680; Samuel, 28 January 1682, died soon; Timothy, 5 June 1683; John, 13 October 1684, died young; Samuel, 18 February 1686; David, 17 April 1687, died at one year; Jonathan, 3 April 1688; Nathaniel, 10 November 1689; Sarah, 26 February 1691; Patience, 6 April 1688; Nathaniel, 10 November 1689; Sarah, 25 February 1691; Patience, 6 April 1692; Joanna, 23 April 1693, died at 10 years; Mary, 3 September 1694; Theophilus, 12 February 1696; Susanna, 13 June 1697; and Ebenezer Rosseter, 4 February 1699, Yale College 1718, minister 40 years of Stonington; was Representative 1701-11, and died 31 January 1716.  He may be that man ordered to be administered freeman of Dillingworth 1669.  Six of this name had been graduates at Yale in 1756, besides three in later years spelt Rossiter.

 

JOHN ROSWELL, or JOHN ROSEWELL, New Haven, perhaps brother, perhaps son of Richard Roswell or of William Roswell, died 1688. 

RICHARD ROSWELL, or RICHARD ROSEWELL, New Haven, son of William Roswell, (but Porter denies it) by first wife married 22 December 1681, then under 16 years of age, Lydia Trowbridge, daughter of Thomas Trowbridge, had Sarah, born 5 December 1682; Dorcas, 21 December 1684; Lydia, 21 August 1687; Elizabeth, 5 September 1690; and Catharine, 16 December 1695; and died March 1702, leaving good estate.  He was engaged with his father in large trade to West Indies.  His widow died 10 December 1731. 

WILLIAM ROSWELL, or WILLIAM ROSEWELL, Branford, merchant, removed to Charlestown, there was inhabitant 1658, and Frothingham, 145, says, married 29 November 1654 (though Judge Smith of Guilford makes the date many years later, and perhaps is should be, by ten years nearly), Catharine Russell, daughter of Honorable Richard Russell of that place, but removed soon after to Branford, where he, in January 1668, partook in the new combination for church after withdrawal of Reverend Abraham Pierson to New Jersey, and very soon removed to New Haven, and was active in business, sent in 1673 to the Dutch, after they had retaken New York, to inquire about their further purpose, named Captain of the horse in Philip's war, but declined to accept, was a Judge of the County before during, and after the usurption of Andros, but out in 1690; and in 1692, with Edward Palmes and Gershom Bulkley, opposed the Charter, Governor, and died 19 July 1694, aged 64, as the gravestone tells, and his widow died 1698.  He had Maud, born 21 August 1688; and William, 16 June 1670; both at New Haven, besides the Richard, who probably was born at Charlestown; and perhaps by another wife, Elizabeth, 1 October 1679.  This called By Caulkins "only child of William Roswell" became second wife of Governor Saltonstall, had five children and died soon after birth of the last.  It must be that "only child" means only survivor.  My information is derived chiefly from Judge R.D. Smith of Guilford, after diligent scrutiny of records.

 

HENRY ROTHERFORD, HENRY RUDDERFORD, or HENRY RUTHERFORD, New Haven 1643, by wife Sarah, had Sarah, born 31 January 1641, baptized 1 October 1643; Lydia, August 1644, died soon; John, baptized 19 July 1646; Mary, born 23 February 1650; Elizabeth, 19 June 1652, died soon; and he died September 1668, leaving widow Sarah, who married 11 December 1670, Governor William Leete, and died soon after making her will, 12 February 1674.  Mary married 16 November 1670, Daniel Hall, and next, 23 August 1681, John Prout; and Sarah, married 24 June 1657, Thomas Trowbridge.

 

PHILIP ROUNDY, PHILIP ROUNDEE, or PHILIP ROUNDAY, Salem, married November 1671, Ann Bush, and died 1678, for his inventory of estate £7.10.6 only, was taken 24 June of that year.  Mary Roundy, perhaps his daughter married 19 April 1695, Thomas Walter.  Perhaps Mark Round, one of the soldiers under Captain Hill, against East Indies 1699, was his son.

 

ALEXANDER ROUS, ALEXANDER ROUSE, or ALEXANDER ROWSE, probably of Cambridge, before Groton, by wife Judith, married 15 May 1672, had Judith and Elizabeth twins born 2 February 1673, both died soon; Elizabeth again, died soon; and Sarah, 16 July 1686.  Butler. 

EDWARD ROUS, EDWARD ROUSE, or EDWARD ROWSE, Gloucester 1651. 

FAITHFUL ROUS, FAITHFUL ROUSE, or FAITHFUL ROWSE, Charlestown 1641, administered of the church 1 July 1643, his wife Suretrust having joined the year before, and daughter Mercy in December after him; was freeman 1644, and died 18 May 1664, aged 75; in his will of 9 April probated 21 June following, names wife Suretrust and daughter Mercy Sweat, probably wife of John Sweat. 

JOHN ROUS, JOHN ROUSE, or JOHN ROWSE, Duxbury, married Annis Peabody, daughter of John Peabody, had Mary, born 1640, who married a Price; John, 1643; Simon, 1645; George, 1648; Ann, who married 1678, Isaac Holmes; and Elizabeth, who married 10 April 1681, Thomas Bourne, and died 9 April 1701.  His will Winsor says, was of 1681.  He lived in Marshfield chiefly, and there died 1684; but Deane claims him, probably by mistake, for some time, at Scituate, where he should suffer whipping and banishment as a Quaker, but came back 1658.

JOHN ROUS, JOHN ROUSE, or JOHN ROWSE, Marshfield, son probably of the preceding, married 13 January 1675, Elizabeth Dotey; and died October 1717. 

SIMON ROUS, SIMON ROUSE, or SIMON ROWSE, Little Compton 1691, a Representative unless this distinction belongs to son Rowley Rous. 

WILLIAM ROUS, WILLIAM ROUSE, or WILLIAM ROWSE, Boston, goldsmith, by wife Sarah, had Mary, born 20 September 1676; William 25 May 1678; and died 1705 in 65th year. 

WILLIAM ROUS, WILLIAM ROUSE, or WILLIAM ROWSE, Boston, probably son of the preceding, mariner, charged with several others, in 1706, for a high misdemeaner in trading with the enemy, and on imprisonment, was, by Chief Justice Sewall, refused his habeas corpus, suffered a year and a half in gaol.  Probably this was to spite Governor Dudley, against whom bitter railing and false reports were raised out of the circumstances. See the official papers in 2 Massachusetts History Collection VII. 240; Hutchinson II. 1654-162; and the wonderful letters of Increase and Cotton Mather to Dudley with his reply in 1 Massachusetts History Collection III. 126-137.  Sewall relates in his Diary, that his minister the famous Ebenezer Pemberton, who we may suspect that the parishioner had favored with a perusal, said to him, that "if he were Governor he would humble Cotton Mather, though it cost him his head."  In our whole Provincial history nothing is more curious than the outery about trading with the enemy at this time, and the results, partly cruel, partly ridiculous.

 

JOHN ROWDEN, Salem 1652-68, married after August 1676, the widow of Richard Hammond, killed at that time, with Captain Lake, by the Indians at Kennebeck.  See petitition of his wife to Sir Edmund Andros, for redress in the destruction of the property by Major Waldron.  3 Massachusetts History Collection VII. 181.

 

HUGH ROWE, Gloucester, son of John Rowe, married 10 June 1667, Rachel Langdon, had Rachel, born 10 November 1668; Ruth, 26 January 1671; and Mary, 5 February 1674.  His wife died 7 of next month, and he married 10 September following Mary Prince, daughter of Thomas Prince, had next year Margaret, who died soon; Abigail, 19 December 1677; and another daughter besides Joseph; Benjamin; Abraham, 26 April 1689; Isaac; and Jacob. 

JOHN ROWE, Duxbury, early took oath of fidelity says Winsor; but when was early, is not told, nor anything else.  I suspect the name means Rowse. 

JOHN ROWE, Gloucester 1651, died 9 March 1662; in his will of 15 October 1661, probated 24 June following, names wife Bridget, and sons John and Hugh, the latter called 20 years old in 1665.  The widow married 14 November 1662, William Colman, outlived him a fortnight, died 2 May 1640. 

JOHN ROWE, Gloucester, elder brother of Hugh Rowe, freeman 1673, married 27 September 1663, Mary Dickinson, daughter perhaps of Philemon Dickinson, had John, born April 1665; James, 25 December 1666; Thomas, 26 November 1668; Mary, 11 February 1671; Elizabeth, 21 May 1673; Stephen, 26 September 1675; Samuel, 26 March 1678; Ebenezer, 19 August 1680; and Andrew, 1683, who died at 17 years.  His wife died 1701, by whom he had four more children of which only Rebecca outlived youth. The father died 25 September 1700. 

JOHN ROWE, New Haven, son of Matthew Rowe, married 14 July 1680, Abigail Alsop, daughter of Joseph Alsop, had John, born 23 October 1681; Matthew, 14 February 1684; Stephen, 1 July 1687; Abigail, 13 August 1689; Hannah, 11 February 1691; and Sarah, 15 October 1700. 

MATTHEW ROWE, New Haven, had Elizabeth, born 10 August 1650; Daniel, 4 January 1652; both died young; John, 30 April 1654; Hannah, August 1656; Joseph, 20 February 1659; both d,. young; and Stephen 28 August, but another account says 6 June 1660; and died 27 May 1662. 

MOSES ROWE, Boston, died January 1663, probably unmarried. 

NICHOLAS ROWE, Portsmouth 1640, had wife Elizabeth. 

RICHARD ROWE, Dover, 1650, had Thomas; Edward; and Jane, who married John Dame.

THOMAS ROWE, Hampton, 1678, probably some of his name may be spelled Roe, and often Row.  A goodman Rowe at Bristol 1689, had ten children.

 

JACOB ROWELL, Amesbury, only son of Thomas Rowell of Ipswich, had Moses, born 29 November 1699. 

NATHANIEL ROWELL, Salisbury 1640. 

PHILIP ROWELL, Amesbury 1677. 

THOMAS ROWELL, Ipswich 1652-8, had been of Salem 1649, Salisbury 1640, and married Margery, widow of the first Christopher Osgood, who after death of Rowell married Thomas Coleman of Nantucket; died at Androver, 8 May 1662. 

THOMAS ROWELL, Boston worsted comber, where probably he resid. very short time, made his will, 10 September 1658. 

VALENTINE ROWELL, Salisbury, married 14 November 1643 Joanna Pindenn, daughter I presume, of Henry Pindenn, had John, born 1645, died young; Philip, 8 March 1648; Mary, 31 January 1650; Sarah, 16 November 1651; and John, again, who died 18 February 1656; was a carpenter, and died 17 May 1662.

 

HENRY ROWLAND, Fairfield 1650-70, freeman 1669, perhaps was father of that Elizabeth who about 1640 married James Rogers; and certainly his daughter Rebecca married Eleazer Smith.  In his will he names four daughters. Elizabeth Wheeler, who had been wife of James Rogers; Abigail, wife of Thomas Johnes; Rebecca Smith; and Mary, wife of Daniel Frost.  He died in 1691; and Jonathan who left a widow and Henry who was unmarried, both his sons died the same year.

JOHN ROWLAND, Hingham, but possibly may be another spelling, for somebody, unless he were the Plymouth man of 1632, whose baptized name in the tax of January 1633, is lost. 

JOSEPH ROWLAND, Fairfield, a probably of Henry Rowland, was 48 years old in September 1691. 

RICHARD ROWLAND, Salem 1648, was of Marblehead 1673 and 4.  His wife was Mary Smith, daughter of James Smith, and children Samuel, Mary, Joseph, and two more. 

SAMUEL ROWLAND, Stratford, may have been father of Henry Rowland, but possibly his daughter Elizabeth married to before 1640 James Rogers, to whose eldest son Samuel he gave large estate.  Five of this name had been graduates at Yale, in 1829, and three of other New England colleges, none at Harvard.

 

JOSEPH ROWLARDSON, Lancaster, son of Thomas Rowlardson, born probably in England, was the first minister there, the sole graduate of 1652 at Harvard in two years, went to Lancaster to preach, but was not ordained before 1660, though highly reputed, married Mary White, daughter of John White, a woman of uncommon discretion and firmness, as he.  Narrative of that doleful captivity which followed the assault by the Indians 1 February 1676, when one or more of the family were killed and the rest taken except himself, who had gone to Boston for succor, must fully exhibited.  They had Joseph, who died soon; Joseph, again, born 2 March 1662; Mary 16666; Sarah, 1669; perhaps one or two more; for her distress leaves some indistinctness in the story of her fate.  After the utter destruction of the town, he preached in Boston and elsewhere, though unsettled until called to Wethersfield April 1677, where his time was but short, 3, 23 or 24 November 1678.  Of the curious work of Mrs. Rowlardson, usually called the Removes, Mr. Willard in 1828 published the sixth edition with copious illustration, and some strange matter of youthful indiscreet, in the husband.  He had, of all his family. only wife and Joseph and Mary, liberated at the time of his death.  The books in his inventory were valued of £89 which must be regarded as extraordinary amount after so short a time from his loss.

JOSEPH ROWLARDSON, Wethersfield, son of the preceding, married Hannah Wilson, daughter of Phineas Wilson, had large property with her, who died 1704, aged 29.  He died 22 January 17123, leaving descendants there for about a century. 

THOMAS ROWLARDSON, Ipswich 1637, freeman 2 May 1638, then spelled Rawlinson, as often in town records it is Rolenson, had Thomas, Joseph, and perhaps other children, some, if not all, born in England, died at Lancaster 17 November 1657. 

THOMAS ROWLARDSON; Salisbury, son of the preceding, born in England, married 17 May 1653 or 4, as the record says, Dorothy Portland, though where this name was found, is quite a mystery to me.  Had Elizabeth, born 7 June 1654, died next year; Thomas, 5 July 1656; Sarah, 5 August 1658; Elizabeth again, 26 February 1661; Joseph, 18 February 1664; Mary, 24 August 1665; Martha, 24 August 1666; John, 20 March 1668; and Ann, 16 March 1669.  His will of 7 July 1682, just before his death, names son Joseph and four daughters.  Sarah married 5 December 1684, Nicholas Bond.

 

RICHARD ROWLE, inserted among inhabitants of Newbury 1678, in Genealogical Registrar VII. 349, is by me confidently thought to be misprint for Lowle or Lowell, because the age is 76, which is the exact number of years of Lowell, then liberated at Newbury, and his name does not appear in that list. 

ROBERT ROWLE, Marblehead 1668.

 

HENRY ROWLEY, Plymouth 16312, perhaps came in the Charles, with Hatherly, was of Scituate 1634, with his wife partook in gathering of First Church there, 8 January 1635, and removed to Barnstable with Lathrop 1639, married 17 October 1633, Ann, widow of Thomas Blossom, probably as his second wife, for I suppose Sarah, who married 11 April 1646, Jonathan Hatch, was his daughter. 

JOSEPH ROWLEY, Barnstable 1655, perhaps was son of the preceding.

MOSES ROWLEY, Barnstable, brother perhaps of the preceding, married 22 April 1652, Elizabeth Fuller, had Mary, born 20 March 1653; Moses, 10 November 1654; a child born and died 15 August 1656; Shubael and Mehitable, twins 11 January 1660; Sarah, 10 September 1662; Aaron, 1 May 1666; John, 2 October 1667; was Representative 1692, probably under new Charter, removed to Haddam, there died 1705, leaving widow Elizabeth and children Moses, Matthew, and Mehitable, wife of John Fuller. 

SHUBAEL ROWLEY, East Haddam, son of Moses Rowley, died in March 1714, leaving widow Catharine Crippin, daughter of Thomas Crippin, and she, 5 February 1719, in deed, calls Edward Fuller her son-in-law.

SIMON ROWLEY, Little Compton, Representative 1691, by Baylies, IV. 142, called perhaps correctly Rouse. 

THOMAS ROWLEY, Windsor, married 5 May 1669, Mary Denslow, daughter of Henry Denslow, had Mary, born 16 April 1670; Martha, 213 May  1677; John, 27 October 1679; Abigail, 10 February 1686; and Grace, 5 August 1692; besides Thomas and Samuel, whose dates, probably intermedate are unknown.  He was freeman 1669, and died 4 August 1708. 

THOMAS ROWLEY, Windsor, son of the preceding, married 16 March 1699, Violet Stedman, had Hannah, born 5 July 1700, died young; Ann, 24 September 1703; Thomas, 5 December 1705; Sarah, 17 September 1708; Samuel, 11 March 1710; Daniel, 11 October 1717; and Hannah, again, 11 February 1720.  Sometimes the name is Rowell in the records.     

 

RICHARD ROWTON, came 1635, in the Susan and Ellen from London, aged 36, with wife Ann. 36, and child Edmund, 6.  He is called in the England records husbandman, but I hear not of him on this side of the water.  See 3 Massachusetts History Collection VIII. 260, with correction in X. 128; but also in Genealogical Registrar XIV. 311.

 

JOHN ROY, Charlestown, by wife Elizabeth Phipps, probably daughter of Solomon Phipps, had there baptized Elizabeth, 9 October 1670; Solomon, 16 February 1673; Mary, 7 March 1675, perhaps died soon; and Mary, 22 August 1680.

 

ISAAC ROYAL, or ISAAC RYALL, Dorchester, carpenter, married Ruth Tolman, daughter of Thomas Tolman, had Ruth, born 2 November 1668; Mary, 8 September 1670; Samuel, 21 July 1677; and William, 17 March 1680; built the new church edifice 1676, and bought the old one for £10, though the new was not accepted before November 1678; was freeman 1690, but the wife died 1 May 1681, and by another wife he had, says Genealogical Registrar XIV. 249, Isaac, 10 May 1682; Jerusha, 15 January 1684; and Robert, January 1688. 

JOHN ROYAL, or JOHN RYALL, York, son of William Royal the first, married Elizabeth Dodd; was there in 1680, to take oath of allegiance to the King but in 1688 was taken by the Indians at North Yarmouth; yet was liberated in Boston, 1695. 

JOSEPH ROYAL, or JOSEPH RYALL, charlestown,by wife Mary, had one child baptized 21 January 1683, she having joined the church the week before, and a daughter 15 July following, but neither of these named in the records, yet one was Sarah probably, besides Phebe, 16 June 1690, was of Boston 1695.  Sarah, married William Tyler.

SAMUEL ROYAL, or SAMUEL RYALL, Boston 1665, brother of John Royal, a cooper, had wife Sarah, and was remembered in the will of Samuel Cole. 

WILLIAM ROYAL, or WILLIAM RYALL, Sasco 1636, had been sent by the Governor and Company to Captain Endicott at Salem from London, as noted in their letter to him, 17 April 1629, as a "cleaver of timber." See Young's Chronicles of Massachusetts 164, or the noble first quarto of our Colony record 396.  Part of the town of Sasco was early called Ryall side, or Ryall neck.  He purchased of Gorges 1643, on East side of Wescustogo, now Royall's River in North Yarmouth, and liberated near its mouth, married perhaps at Boston, or Malden, Phebe Green, daughter of that widow Margaret, who became second wife of Samuel Cole of Boston, had William, born 1640; John; and Samuel.  To this last, out of regard for his grandmother, Cole gave, in 1653, an estate in Boston and confirmed it in his will.  In 1673, he conveyed his East principality to sons William and John, for support during life of self and wife.  See Willis I. 195.

WILLIAM ROYAL, or WILLIAM RYALL, North Yarmouth, son of the preceding, was driven by the Indians to the West, and at Dorchester spent some years, freeman 1678, and died 7 November 1724.  He had Isaac, born about 1672, and other children, but their names are not known nor their fortunes, except that one daughter married Amos Stevens of North Yarmouth; that Jemima, daughter of William and Mary, aged 17, died at Dorchester, 9 November 1709; and that the eldest son after near 40 years resided in Antigua, came home, July 1737, and died at his beautiful residence in Medford, 7 June 1639.  His son Isaac was chosen a Provincial Counsel, and served a long period as Representative, but standing for the crown on the outburst of the Revolution, he went to England, and died October 1781.  Sabine says, in American Loyalist, 582, that his property was confiscated.  If so, the claws of the harpies employed did not reach all, for he enjoyed a patriot gentlemen's revenge, and showed his resentment in making gifts of more than 2,000 acres in Worcester County to Harvard College, where he had not been educated, as foundation of the royall Professorship of Law.

 

ROYCE.  See Roise.

 

GABRIEL ROYLE, Plymouth 1643, unless this be, as I fear, a misprint.

 

JOHN RUCK, Salem, son of Thomas Ruck of the same, born in England, married Hannah Spooner, daughter of Thomas Spooner of the same, had Elizabeth, born 1 February 1653;  and Hannah, 17 March 1654, both baptized 18 May 1655; John, 1 April 1655, died in few days; Sarah, 12 August baptized 17 December 1656; John, again, 30 August baptized 6 September 1657; Thomas, 23 October 1658, baptized 16 June 1659; and his wife died 29 January 1661.  He married 17 September following Sarah Flint, perhaps daughter of William Flint, had Abigail, 28 October 1662; Mary, 30 July probably, though Essex Institute III. 95, gives August but she was baptized 6 August 1665; Bethia, 8 April 1668; besides Rebecca, September 1671, who married 1689, John Appleton; was freeman 1665, in 1684 was aged 57, Representative 1685, 90 and 1; selectman 1686.  His wife died 4 May 1672.  He married 26 December following for third wife Elizabeth Price, widow of John Croade, daughter of Walter Price, had Ruth, 20 October following; John, again, 20 May 1675; and Samuel, 24 June 1676; but in Volume II. 127 and 184 of Essex Institute Historical Collections his name is given Burke.  Hannah married 24 October 1676, Benjamin Gerrish.  He had the unhappy distinction of being foreman of that grand jury which found one of the five indictments against Bridget Bishop, the first sufferer under the infernable delusion of 1692.  See Mather’s brief extract from Hale, more full in Calef, best in Essex Institute II. 139. 

SAMUEL RUCK, Boston, was freeman 1683, and possibly was again sworn 1690. 

THOMAS RUCK, Charlestown 1638, removed with wife to Salem, freeman 13 May 1640, had Stephen, baptized 17 April 1642, and probably others, died 1670, as did, I suppose, his widow for her inventory was taken in November of that year. 

THOMAS RUCK, innholder at Boston 1651, married 22 July 1656, Margaret Clark, and in 1675 had wife Elizabeth and children of these several ages; Elizabeth, 18, being born 11 May 1657; Thomas, 16, born 9 July 1659; Sarah, 14; Abigail, 11; Peter Ruck, 9, who was Harvard College 1685; John, 6; and Margaret, 4. 

THOMAS RUCK, Boston son of Thomas Ruck of the same, died in England about 1652, in his will made there, of which administration was given 16 June 1653, names father Thomas Ruck, sister Joane Ruck, wife of George Halsey, and Samuel and John, perhaps cousin of Salem.  It is impossible, I fear, exactly to discriminate these Rucks.

 

JONATHAN RUDD, New Haven, perhaps 1640, certainly took oath of fidelity 1 October 1644, Saybrook 1646, administered freeman 1651 at Hartford, married in the winter of 1647, by John Winthrop of New London, who acted under commissioner from Massachusetts there, and made the young couple meet him half way, because the snow was so deep, and he had no authority at Saybrook.  See Trumbull, Colony record Ii. 558.  Miss Caulkins, New london 48, tells the story, with document in full, and has also commended it in verse.  He probably died 1668.  His daughter Patience married 7 October 1675, Samuel Bushnell.  Other children probably were Mary, supposidly first born, who married 12 December 1666, Thomas Bingham; Jonathan; and Nathaniel. 

JONATHAN RUDD, Norwich, probably son of the proceeding, by wife Mercy, married 19 December 1678, had Mercy, born 8 October 1679; Jonathan, 18 March 1682; Nathaniel, 22 May 1684; Mary, 15 October 1686; and Abigail, 2 February 1688. 

NATHANIEL RUDD, Norwich, probably brother of the preceding, married 16 April 1685, Mary Post, had Jonathan, born 22 May 1693; Mary, 3 February 1696; Lydia, 22 June 1697; and his wife died November 1705.  By second wife married 31 January 1706, he had Nathaniel, 6 April 1707; Joseph, 31 October 1708; and eight more children, and he died April 1727.

 

JOLLIFF RUDDOCK, or JOLLIFF RUDDYK, Boston, perhaps son of John Ruddock, died September 1649. 

JOHN RUDDOCK, or JOHN RUDDYK, Sudbury, freeman 13 May 1640, one of the first settlers at Marlborough, and town clerk 1660, also Deacon.  The Ruddock family I think of Trowbridge,Wiltshire.

 

JOHN RUEL, Saco, married 1668, Emma Seely, daughter of William Seely.

 

DANIEL RUGG, Lancaster, son of John Rugg, married 1704, Elizabeth Priest.

JOHN RUGG, Maine, swore allegiance to the King 1665. 

JOHN RUGG, Lancaster 1654, freeman 1669, by first wife Martha Prescott, daughter of John Prescott, who died soon after having, 1655, two children who both died, married 4 May 1660, second wife Hannah, had John, born 4 June 1662; Mercy, 11 July 1664; Thomas, 15 September 1666 Joseph, 15 December 1668; Hannah, 2 January 1671; Rebecca, 16 May 1673; Daniel, 15 November 1678; and Jonathan, 10 February 1681; died about 1696, at least his will was prepared that year, and next year his widow was killed by the Indians.  Hannah married 1690, John Ball; and Rebecca married Nathaniel Hudson. 

JOHN RUGG, Lancaster, son of the preceding, by wife Elizabeth, had John, who died young; Samuel; Nathaniel, born 1701; David; Jonathan; Benjamin; Mary; and Abigail.  He died 1712.

JONATHAN RUGG, Marlborough, youngest brother of the preceding, married Sarah Newton, daughter of John Newton, had Bathsheba, born 26 October 1703; removed to Framingham, and had Sarah, 2 October 1705; Hepzibah, 18 January 1708; Abraham, 27 April 1710; and his wife died 7 May following.  He married 22 December after Hannah Singletary, daughter of Nathaniel Singletary, had Mehitable, 15 September 1711; Hannah, 28 November 1713; Jonathan, 27 November 1716, died young; John, 20 June 1718; Ebenezer, 22 July 1720; and Jonathan, again, about 1722.  He had third wife Elizabeth liberated at his died 25 December 1653. 

JOSEPH RUGG, Lancaster, brother of the preceding, with his wife and three children, and his mother Hannah, was killed by the Indians 1697.

ROBERT RUGG, Connecticut 1646, of who no more is known, but that he was then bound to keep the peace.  Perhaps he was a transient person. 

THOMAS RUGG, Lancaster, son of John Rugg the first, by wife Elizabeth, had Thomas, born 6 December 1691; William, 16 November 1693; Elizabeth, 20 January 1695; Hannah, 26 April 1697; Abigail, 15 March 1699; Sarah, 12 February 1702; Mary, 30 May 1703; Ruth, September 1706; Tabitha, 10 September 1708; Millicent, 11 November 1710; and Martha, 20 November 1713.  Barry thinks he liberated at Lexington.  This name belongs to an ancient family in County Norfolk, England, two of whom, says Lord Baybrooke, were aldermen of Norwich.

 

BENJAMIN RUGGLES, Suffield, son of the fourth John Ruggles, but third of Roxbury, had seven children to leave when he died 7 September 1708, only 32 years old.

GEORGE RUGGLES, Boston 1633, weaver, freeman 4 March 1634, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, baptized 8 December 1633; Mary, 3 January 1636; John, 31 December 1637; removed to Braintree, there had George, born 5 May 1640, died next year; Rachel, 15 February 1643; Sarah, 29 September 1645; Samuel, 3 March 1649; and Mehitable, 16 July 1650; came back to Boston, and died before 1670, when his widow gave share to his daughter Sarah, widow of John Wilmot, mariner.   His daughter Elizabeth married 24 April 1655, William Brown, and Rachel married Philip Squire.

JEFFREY RUGGLES, Boston, arriving in the fleet with Governor Winthrop 1630, and died before the year end.  He was from Sudbury in County Suffolk, and therefore had been a near neighbor in their native land, had wife Margaret, who was number 47 on our list of church members. 

JOHN RUGGLES, Boston 1630, freeman 3 July 1632, had wife Frances, number 37 among church members, and a daughter who died January 1631, aged 11 years, of who Governor Dudley writes well.  See in Prince II 17 and 69.  Whether he had other children, or when he died are unknown.  But his inventory was of 22 January 1657.  Perhaps he was brother of the preceding. 

JOHN RUGGLES, Roxbury, came in the Hopewell, Captain Bundock, from London 1635, aged 44, with wife Barbara, 30, and first born child John, 2; a shoemaker form Nazing in County Essex, a 20 miles from London, was freeman 18 April 1637.  His wife died January 1638, in giving birth to a stillborn child, and to a second wife Margaret, by whom he had no children, he gave half his estate, was Representative 1658, 60, and 1, and died 6 October 1663.  His will that names only child John, was probated January following.

JOHN RUGGLES, Roxbury, son of Thomas Ruggles, born in England, came in the Hopewell, 1635, aged 10, with his uncle John Ruggles, but brought by Philip Eliot, says the church records, married 14 January 1651, Abigail Crafts, daughter of Griffin Crafts, had John, born 16 October following, died soon; John, again, baptized 22 January 1654; Thomas Ruggles, 28 January 1655, Harvard College 1690, and Samuel, born 16, baptized 23 August 1657; was freeman 1654; a Sergeant, and died or was buried 15 September 1658.  In his will of 9 August proceeding, printed in Genealogical Registrar IX. 139, he names the wife and three children.  His widow married Edward Adams.

JOHN RUGGLES, Roxbury, son of the first John Ruggles of the same, born in England, married 3 April 1655, Mary Gibson, daughter of John Gibson of Cambridge, and had John, born 19 may 1657; Mary, baptized with her brother John, 30 January 1659, the wife having joined to the church the week before; Rebecca, born 20, baptized 28 September 1662; Joseph, 25, baptized 26 December 1669; was freeman 1674.  His wife died 6 December 1674, as with great minuteness Eliot tells in his church record, and 15 March after he married Sarah Dyer of Weymouth, had Benjamin Ruggles, born 22 August 1676, Harvard College 1693, the minister of Suffield.  His wife died 2 May 1687, and he took third wife Ruth, who died 11 April 1710, and he died 25 February 1712.  Perhaps his daughter Mary married 6 June 1682, John Searle. 

JOHN RUGGLES, Boston, a butcher, son of George Ruggles, freeman1663, removed in his latter days to Braintree, in his will of 10 November 1707, probated 11 November 1709, gave son John his estate in Boston, and the rest of his property to son Joseph, daughter Elizabeth Belcher, son-in-law, Jonathan Hayward, and grandchild Sarah Hayward, son-in-law Jonathan Jones, and grandchildren Sarah Jones and Ruth Jones, wife Rebecca, and grandchild John Ruggles.

JOHN RUGGLES, Roxbury, son of John Ruggles second of the same, a miller, married 2 September 1674, Martha Devotion, daughter of Edward Devotion, had Abigail, born 5 June, 1675; his wife died, and he married 1 May 1679, her sister Hannah Devotion, had John, 16 March 1680; Edward, 16 November 1683, died young; rebecca, 14 March 1685; Martha, 21 December 1686; or Sarah, 28 February 1687; perhaps Dorothy, 20 February 1688; and Edward, again, 2 October 1691.  He died 16 December 1694; and his widow died 17 December 1700, but one tradition is that she married a Paine.  Perhaps he liberated at Muddy River and so the Roxbury record was neglected. 

JOHN RUGGLES, Roxbury, son of John Ruggles third of the same, married 4 November 1676, Mary May, daughter of John May, had Mary, born 24 September following, died young; Hannah, 15 July 1680; Mary, again, 23, baptized 25 December 1681; Sarah, 28 February 1687, unless it should be Martha, 21 December 1686; and perhaps Dorothy, 20 February 1688; and I am unable to discriminate by the records.  Great care was needed among the earlier Johns; but of the last two, I know not which was the freeman of 1690.  Four, five or six different ones are called junriors, and sometimes both deaths and marriages are inadequate guides; for I greatly fear that both Hannah and Martha, was of one or the other John, as also part of their children respectively, are here interchangeable confusing. 

NATHANIEL RUGGLES, Boston, a mariner, whose father I cannot trace, unless he were son of Samuel Ruggles the first of Roxbury, in his will of which I discover not the date, but it was probated 15 December 1702, after committing his "soul into the hands of my Creator and Redeemer the land Jesus Christ," a strange confusion of terms guarded against by the creed of St. Athanasius, he gives to his "mother Ann and to Sarah Paine, my intended wife, all my estate in Roxbury" and makes Joseph Belknap junior, and William Paine executors. 

SAMUEL RUGGLES, Roxbury, son of Thomas Ruggles, brought from England by his father, married 10 January 1655, Hannah Fowle, daughter of George Fowle of Charlestown, had Hannah, born 21 Jan1656, died in few weeks; Mary, 10 Jan1657, died young; Samuel, 1 January baptized 20 February 1659, the father having joined the church the week before; Joseph, 12 baptized 19 February 1660; Hannah, again, perhaps 2, baptized 22 December 1661; Sarah, 18, baptized 22 November 1663, died next year; Mary, again 8 December 1666, baptized next day; and Sarah, again, 30 August baptized 5 September 1669; in that year his wife died 24 October, and daughter Hannah died on 6 November, and daughter Sarah died on 16 November of the same year.  He married 16 May 1670, Ann Bright, daughter of Henry Bright of Watertown, had Thomas, born 10, baptized 12 March 1671; Ann, 30 September baptized 6 October 1672; Nathaniel, 22, baptized 29 November 1674, died young; Elizabeth, born 1 May 1677; Henry, 7 July 1681 died at 21 years; and Huldah, 4, baptized 6 July 1684; was Lieutenant, Representative 1689-92, and died 15 Aug 1692; and his widow died 5 September 1711.  Full details of his being struck by lightning, 1666, while driving a team, of which the cattle were all killed, is seen in Mather’s Remarka. Providen. 78. 

SAMUEL RUGGLES, Boston, son of George Ruggles, a weaver, in his will of 22 December 1689, probated 12 June 1697, names wife Sarah, sons John, Samuel, and Jeremiah, and sister Mehitable Richards.

SAMUEL RUGGLES, Roxbury, son of Samuel Ruggles of the same, married 8 July 1680, Martha Woodbridge, daughter of Reverend John Woodbridge, had Samuel Ruggles, born 3 December 1681, Harvard College, 1702, minister of Billerica; Lucy, 8 September 1683; Timothy Ruggles, 3 November 1685, Harvard College 1707, minister of Rochester; Hannah, 16 April 1688; Patience 9 November 1689; Martha, 1 February 1692; Sarah, 18 June 1694, or January 1695; Joseph, 21 July 1696; Mary, 20 September 1698; and Benjamin Ruggles, 4 July 1700, Yale College 1721, minister of Middleborough; and died 25 February 1716.  His widow died 1738, at her son's in Billerica. 

THOMAS RUGGLES, Roxbury, elder brother of John Ruggles first of the same, and probably cousin of the first John Ruggles of Boston, came in 1637, with wife Mary, and children Sarah and Samuel; their first son had died in England, and the next, John, was brought two years before by Philip Eliot; freeman 22 May 1639; died 15 November 1644.  His will, made six days before gives estate to wife and children John, Samuel, and Sarah.  In his record of the church Eliot inserts his name among the buried next to that of John Graves, and adds, "he died of a consumption.  These two brake the knot of the Nazing Christians that came from the town in England.  There he had been, probably their spiritual guide.  Mary the widow of Thomas, married after 1662, a Roote, whose name of baptism is unknown, and of her, at the date of her burial 14 February 1675, Eliot writes thus:  "Old mother Roote, who was Thomas Ruggles' widow afore.  She lived not only till past use, but till more tedious than a child.  She was in her 89th year". 

THOMAS RUGGLES, Guilford, son of John Ruggles the second of Roxbury, ordained 1695, had Thomas Ruggles, Yale College 1723; and other children, for this who succeeded his father in that pulpit, called himself eldest son, died 1 June 1728.  Sixteen of this name in 1834, had been graduates at the New England colleges.

 

RUM.  See Ram.

 

DANIEL RUMBALL, Salem 1644-1666, blacksmith, had 80 acres of land laid out 5 February 12644, was liberated 1681. 

THOMAS RUMBALL, Stratford, came to Boston in the Truelove, 1635, aged 22, was out in the Pequot war next year under Lyon Gardiner, so we may believe he was of Saybrook at that time.  His daughter Bethia married 12 June 1661, Robert Stewart of Norwalk, as Hall, 186 tells.

 

SIMON RUMRILL, SIMON RUMERELL, or SIMON RUMMERELL, Enfield, married February 1692, Sarah Fairman, had Sarah, born February 1693; Simon, 1696; Ebenezer, 1702; and John, 1704; perhaps more.  See Hinman 18.

 

ROBERT RUMSEY, or ROBERT RUMSIE, Fairfield, before 1670, had a family. There continued after 1700. 

THOMAS RUMSEY, or THOMAS RUMSIE, Boston 1678, an impostor, married 1 July 1679, Rebecca Rawson, daughter of our Seer Edward Rawson, carried her to London, and there abandoned her immediately.  See Coffin's Newbury, 398, or Genealogical Registrar III. 298.

 

WILLIAM RUNDLE, Greenwich 1672.

 

CHARLES RUNDLET, CHARLES RUNLET, or CHARLES RANLET, Exeter, taken by the Indians.

 

JOHN RUSCO, JOHN RESKIE, JOHN RESKOE, or JOHN RESCUE, Norwalk, perhaps son of William Rusco, born in England, married at Hartford, 2 January 1651, Rebecca Beebe, had in 1672 five children but their names or dates are unknown except one, perhaps Thomas, who with father was liberated 1694. 

NATHANIEL RUSCO, NATHANIEL RESKIE, NATHANIEL RESKOE, or NATHANIEL RESCUE, Hartford, brother probably elder of the preceding, born in England, married 11 November 1645, Joanna Crolet, if the surname be not mistaken, had Nathaniel, was freeman 1654, a surveyor 1661, died 1673.

NATHANIEL RUSCO, NATHANIEL RESKIE, NATHANIEL RESKOE, or NATHANIEL RESCUE, Hartford, son of the preceding, was propounded for freeman 1668.

WILLIAM RUSCO, WILLIAM RESKIE, WILLIAM RESKOE, or WILLIAM RESCUE, Cambridge, came in the Increase, 1635, aged 41, with wife Rebecca, 40; and children Sarah, 9; Mary, 7; Samuel, 5; and William, 1; his wife died early, perhaps on the voyage, and in 1636 be married widow Esther Musse or Must.  Removed early to Hartford, where he was an original proprietor, had Samuel, again, born 12 March 1648, and kept the prison in 1650.  He came from Bilericay in County Essex.  His daughter Sarah married 10 December 1646, Henry Cole; and Mary married 19 August 1647, Hugh Wells.

 

JASPER RUSH, Dorchester, freeman 1644, by wife Elizabeth, had Preserved, born 24 September 1651; Elizabeth, 24 October 1653, died at 4 years; and Thankful, 21 October 1657, died next month.  He married second wife Judith, 24 March 1664, and died 23 February 1669.

 

THOMAS RUSHMORE, Hempstead, Long Island, 1663, was under jurisdiction of Connecticut, but would not serve as constable.

 

JOHN RUSS, Newbury 1635, had perhaps Nathaniel, born about 1640; John, 24 June 1641; Mary, 16 February 1644; removed next year to Andover, there had Jonathan, Thomas, Josiah, and Joseph.  His wife Margaret died 10 July 1689, and he died 4 March 1692, aged 80.  Mary married 7 June 1662, Andrew Foster.

JOHN RUSS, Andover, son of the preceding, probably the freeman of 1692, married 20 August 1663, Deborah Osgood, perhaps daughter of John Osgood, had Joseph, who died 10 June 1687; probably Sarah, and other children. 

RICHARD RUSS, a soldier, perhaps of Weymouth, was wounded in 1675, in the fight when Captain Lathrop was killed, and was relieved of the bullet by a Dutch surgeon in 1678.

 

BENJAMIN RUSSELL, Cambridge, 1670, son of William Russell, by wife Rebecca, had Rebecca, who died 2 February 1673; Jason, 10 May 1674; Benjamin, born and died April 1676; Joyce, 14 May 1677; and Sarah, 4 July 1679; perhaps removed soon after 1694. 

DANIEL RUSSELL, Charlestown, second son of Richard Russell, freeman 1676, was a preacher after leaving College for a short time, perhaps at New London, in 1675, where his townsman Bradstreet was the minister, and invited to settle at his native town 1678, but died January of next year.  He had married about 1676, Mehitable Willis, daughter of Samuel Willis of Hartford, and had only child Mehitable, who had from him good estate, and married Reverend John Hubbard of Jamaica, Long Island, 12 June 1701; and after him married 9 December 1707, Reverend Samuel Woodbridge.  Her mother married 1680, Reverend Isaac Foster, and next, his successor in the parish, Reverend Timothy Woodbridge as his first wife, and clergyman on the death of Daniel is preserved. 

ELIEZUR RUSSELL, Boston, goldsmith, son of Reverend John Russell of Hadley, died late in 1690, unmarried as we judge, for his will of 26 December in that year names not wife or children, but gives all to Rebecca Russell, daughter of his brother Jonathan Russell of Barnstable, and Chief Justice Sewall notes his funeral on 2 January following. 

GEORGE RUSSELL, Hingham 1636, came in the Elizabeth from London, 1635, aged 19, was of Hawkhurst, County Kent, married 14 February 1640, Jane, widow of Philip James, had Mary, baptized 1 April 1641; Elizabeth, February 1643; and Martha, 9 October 1645; removed to Scituate next year had, also, George and Samuel, born to him by first wife, and he died probably at Hingham, says Deane, before 1668. 

GEORGE RUSSELL, Scituate, son of the preceding, married a Rogers, daughter of John of Duxbury, died 1675, leaving sons George and John.

GEORGE RUSSELL, Boston 1679, youngest son probably of William Russell, fifth Earl of Bedford, and created first Duke of Bedford 1694, had been bred at Magdalen College Oxford, as Wood's Fasti shows, taking his A.M. February 1667, by order of our General Court 4 February 1680, administered freeman "if he please to accept," and the record says that 13 February following he took the oath before the Governor and Assistant, but probably went home before the execution in 1683, of his brother the celebrated martyr, Lord William, married Mary Pendleton, the daughter of a London merchant, and died 1692, leaving son William, who died unmarried.  See the note in Hutchinson I. 332, and Collin's Peerage, Volume I. 268, of Ed. 5. 

HENRY RUSSELL, Weymouth 1639, made his will 28 January 1640, probated 9 October following, names wife Jane, and only child Elizabeth.

HENRY RUSSELL, Ipswich 165, said then to be 55 years old.  He was possibly of Salisbury 1652, perhaps of Marblehead 1668-1674, though I think this was much younger man, the brother of John Russell, who in his will, 26 August 1663, gave him portion of his estate.

HENRY RUSSELL of New Hampshire, on the grand jury 1684, may have been his son of the preceeding. 

JAMES RUSSELL, New Haven 1643 or earlier, died 21 January 1673, and his widow Mary died 21 August 1674.  He is though to have had son William, perhaps born in England, the father of Noadiah Russell.

JAMES RUSSELL, Charlestown, eldest son of Honorable Richard Russell, married Mabel Haynes, daughter of Governor Haynes of Connecticut, had Mabel, born 1 May 1665, perhaps at Hartford, and may have died there; James, baptized 5 April 1668; Mabel, again, 23 January 1670; Richard, 17 March 1672, died at 17 years; John, 29 June 1673; Maud, 25 June 1676; Mary, 10 October 1680; and Daniel, born 30 November 1685; but the last two were by second wife Mary Wolcott, daughter of Henry Wolcott the second, was freeman 1668, Representative 1679, Treasurer of the Colony, and an Assistant 1680 and onwards, named counsellor in the new Charter, was a Judge of Probate and Treasurer of the Province.  He had third wife Abigail Curwin, daughter of George Curwin, widow of Eleazer Hathorne, and died 28 April 1709. 

JASON RUSSELL, Cambridge, son of William Russell, married 27 May 1684, Mary Hubbard, had Hubbard, born about 1687, and perhaps more. 

JOHN RUSSELL, Dorchester, died 26 August 1633, and in his nuncupative will, gave to his brother, son Henry Russell, and Thomas Hyatt, half his estate and half to the children of Dorchester, and set free his man servant. 

JOHN RUSSELL, Cambridge, freeman 3 March 1636, town clerk in 1645, constable in 1648, brought, no doubt, son John Russell, born about 1626, Harvard College 1645, removed soon after to Wethersfield, where had raged a very unpleasant quarrel between Reverend Henry Smith and a part of his people, ending in 1648 by his death.  He next year married Dorothy, the widow of Mr. Smith, and the son succeeded him as minister.  By former wife he had also Philip, born perhaps in England, perhaps at our Cambridge; removed 1659 to Hadley, and died 8 May 1680, aged 83.  Hinman calls him a Representative 1646-8, but though he says nothing else of him, page 70, I suppose that is wrong.  In neither of those years does Trumbulls Colony record so honored him, indeed he was not made freeman before 1655, nor was he ever so chose.  If my conjecture would benefit the eye of a reader of those records, he might see the name that mislet Hinman to be John Bissel, sometimes Byssel, who was more than half the time that Russell liberated in Connecticut one of the Representatives. 

JOHN RUSSELL, Charlestown 1640, one of the first settlers of Worburn, freeman 1644, was shoemaker and Deacon, had wife Elizabeth, who died 16 December 1644, son John, perhaps born in England, and daughter Mary, who married 2 December 1659, Timothy Brooks; and no others are mentioned in his will of 27 May 1676, five days before he died.  But he had married second wife 13 May 1645, Elizabeth Baker, perhaps daughter of William Baker of Charlestown, and she died 17 January 1690.  Some distinction is justly claimed for him as one of the founders of the First Baptist Church of Boston, 1669, gathered first in Noddle's Island some years earlier, and was its elder or Deacon. 

JOHN RUSSELL, Marshfield, 1643-51.

JOHN RUSSELL, Wethersfield, son of John Russell of the same, born in England, married at Hartford, 28 June 1649. Mary Talcott, daughter of John Talcott, had John, born 23 September 1650 (by the false record in Genealogical Registrar XII. 197, said to be baptized that day, which was Monday), who died at 20 years; and Jonathan Russell, 1655, Harvard College 1675, but this son may have been by second wife Rebecca Newbury, daughter of Thomas Newbury of Windsor, who died 21 November 1688, aged 57.  In 1650 he was made freeman but after long controversy that may seem to have been the pastor's inheritance from his predecessor in 1659, he had removed to Hadley, and carried both sons with major part of the church, had Samuel Russell, born 4 November 1660, Harvard College 1681; Eleazer, 8 November 1663, who died before his father; Daniel, 8 February 1666, died next year; and he died 10 December 1692, aged 66.  At his house in Hadley were long concealed the regicides, Whalley and Goffe, who died there some years apart, and both corpses were buried in his ground close to the foundation of his house where, to contradict an absurd tradition of removal of the bones to New Haven, the authentic remains were, a few years since ascertained by removal of the cellar wall for the railroad. 

JOHN RUSSELL, Woburn, son of John Russell of the same, born perhaps in England, a shoemaker, married 31 October 1661, Sarah Champney, perhaps daughter of John Champney of Cambridge, had John, born 1 August 162; Joseph, 15 January 1664; Samuel, 3 February 1667, died at 10 months  Sarah, 10 February 1671; Elizabeth, 19 February 1673; Jonathan, 6 August 1675; and Thomas, 5 January 1678.  After the loss of their teacher, Gould, by the First Baptist Church in Boston, to which he had united himself earlier than his father perhaps 1666, he was engaged and removed to Boston, was ordained 28 July 1679, but died 22 December 1680.  His widow returned to Woburn, and died 25 April 1696.

JOHN RUSSELL, Cambridge 1652, by wife Elizabeth, had Martha, who died 7 November 1675; was probably freeman 1681, though as both senior and junior of Cambridge were then administered, it maybe uncertain, who of the two was the son of William. 

JOHN RUSSELL, New Haven 1664 perhaps had been employed in iron works at Taunton, by wife Hannah, had Hannah, born 19 March 1671; William, 2 September 1676, died young at sea; another child August 1679, or 1674, to another eyesight, died soon; and John, 1 November 1680; and died 1681, says Dodd, and his widow Hannah married Robert Dawson. 

JOHN RUSSELL, Dartmouth, who served as Representative 1665-83, except 1666 an 73, and was on the important Committee for distributing the charitable contributions from Ireland 1657, could not have been the same as the preceding, for he was son of Ralph Russell of Dartmouth, and died 13 February 1695.  His wife Dorothy died 18 December 1687.  By her probably he had Joseph, born 6 May 1650, perhaps John, for in the list of townsmen 1686, he is called senior. 

JOHN RUSSELL, Woburn, son of John Russell the second of the same, married 21 December 1682, Elizabeth Palmer, had John, born 20 September 1683, died at 14 years; Joseph, 3 October 1685; Stephen, 15 August 1687; Elizabeth, 21 June 1690; Samuel, 16 July 1692; Sarah, 15 October 1694; John, again, 19 August 1697; Ruth, 16 January 1699; Jonathan, 7 November 1700; Mary, 2 March 1703; and Thomas, 26 June 1705, and died 26 July 1717.  His widow died about 1723. 

JOHN RUSSELL, New Haven, son of Ralph Russell, married 17 August 1687, Hannah Moulthrop, daughter of Matthew Moultrop, had Hannah, born 18 February 1689; Lydia, 18 September 1692; John, 15 January 1695; Abigail, 19 May 1701; Rachel, 15 December 1703; Mabel, 14 July 1706; and Sarah, 25 February 1712; was a Captain, and died 13 February 1724. 

JONATHAN RUSSELL, Dartmouth, perhaps brother of John Russell senior of the same, took oath of fidelity 1684.

JONATHAN RUSSELL, Barnstable, son of John Russell of Hadley, married Martha Moody, daughter of Reverend Joshua Moody, as is said, had Rebecca, born at Hadley 7 July 1681; and at Barnstable where he was ordained 19 September had Martha, 29 August as Baylies IV. 83, says, baptized 16 September 1683, died at 3 years; John Russell, 3 November 1685, Harvard College 1704; Abigail, 2 October 1687; Jonathan Russell, 24 February baptized 16 March 1690, Yale College 1708; Eleazer, 12, baptized 17 April 1692; Moody, 30 August baptized 2 September 1694; Martha, again, baptized 24 January 1697; Samuel, 1, baptized 7 May 1669; Joseph and Benjamin, twins 11 October 1702, both died 12 February following; and Hannah, 12 September 1707.  He died 20, or as Baylis has it, 2 February 1711, and his widow died 28 September 1729. 

JOSEPH RUSSELL, Cambridge, son of William Russell, born in England, married 23 June 1662, Mary Belcher, daughter of Jeremy Belcher (not as in Volume I. 155 called Andrew), who died 23 June 1691; and the daughter Martha died three days after.  He had first Mary, baptized 8 Jan1665; also Abigail, baptized 17 May 1668, several others, as Walter, Samuel, Jeremiah, John, and Prudence of dates unknown, and made his will 14 November 1694, named brother Benjamin executor.  His daughter Abigail married Matthew Bridge second of Cambridge. 

JOSEPH RUSSELL, Dartmouth, son of John Russell of the same, by wife Elizabeth, had Joseph and John, twins born 22 November 1679.  His wife died 25 September 1737; and he died 11 December 1739, aged 89.

JOSEPH RUSSELL, New Haven, son of Ralph Russell, married 1687, Jane Blackman, had Joseph, born 1687, died young; and Samuel, 23 April 1697. 

NATHANIEL RUSSELL, Duxbury 1657, says Winsor, who tells no more. 

NOADIAH RUSSELL, Middletown, son of William Russell of New Haven; in a few weeks after entering at College, the General Court of Connecticut concluded that it was "more advantagous for the said Noadiah that his house and land be sold, and the pay record be improved for the bringing of him up in College learning than to leave his learning and enjoy his house and ladnd, he being likely to prove a useful instrument in the week of God," permit the sale of estate "let him by his grandfather and father".  Trumbull Colony record II. 323.  After October 1683, he prepared the Cambridge Almanac, 1684, taught the grammar school at Ipswich, until the end of February 1687, then went to Middletown, and was ordained 24 October 1688, being Wednesday, the usual day of the week for such solemnity, was one of the founders of Yale College.  He married 20 or 28 February 1690, Mary Hamlin, daughter of Giles Hamlin, Esquire, had William, born 1690; Noadiah, 1692; Giles, 1693; Mary, 1695; John 1697; Esther,  Daniel, 1702, Mehitable, 1704; and Hannah, 1705; and of the value of his service we may be instructed by the doleful verses reprinted in the Middletown newspaper of 7 February 1854.  Of the children we learn by Field's Statistical account of Middlesex, 44, that the eldest and the youngest, William and Daniel, were ministers, bred at Yale, of which the former succeeded his father at Middletown 1 June 1715, and died 1 June 1761. 

PHILIP RUSSELL, Hatfield, younger brother of Reverend John Russell of Hadley, married 4 February 1664, Joanna Smith, daughter of Reverend Henry Smith, whose widow had married his father.  She with a daughter Joanna, born 31 October died 28 December following, and he married 10 January 1666, Elizabeth Terry, daughter of Stephen Terry, had John, born 1667; Samuel, 169; Philip, 1671; and Stephen, 1674; she was killed by the Indians 19 September 1677, with her youngest son, and Samuel was killed by them on their road to Canada.  He married 3rd wife 25 December 1679, Mary Church, daughter of Edward Church, had Samuel, again, 1680; Thomas, 1683; Mary, 1685, died soon; Mary, again, 1686; Philip, 1688; and Daniel, 1691.  He was a glazier, and died in April or May 1693.  His son Thomas was killed by the Indians 19 July 1704; when four brothers and one sister survived. 

RALPH RUSSELL, Dartmouth, had come from Pontipool, County Monmouth, was one of the first settlers at Dartmouth, had been, I think, of Taunton, England in the iron works with the leonards, is called ancestor of the family of Russeslls at New bedford, who recorded its name, from a descentant in the fourth generation.  He had son John. 

RALPH RUSSELL, New Haven, married 12 October 1663, Mary Hitchcock, daughter of Matthew Hitchcock, had John, born 14 December 1664; Joseph, 20 March 1667; Samuel, 1671; and Edward, February 1673, who died soon, and he died 1676, not 1679, and Dodd gave it to Farmer, for his inventory bears date, says Mr. Judd, 28 February of the earlier year.  His widow married 29 December 1679, John Potter.

RICHARD RUSSELL, Charlestown, came with newly married wife Maud, 1640, from Hereford, as commonly is told, where he was born 1611, son of Paul Russell.  But apprentice 4 October 1628, at Bristol.  They were administered of the church 22 May 1641; and he was freeman 2 June following, had James, born 1 October 1640, baptized 30 May following; Daniel Russell, Harvard College 1669; Catharine; and Elizabeth, born 12 October 1644; but neither the births nor baptisms of either of the two preceding, is known.  His wife died 1652; and perhaps 1655, he married Mary, widow of Leonard Chester of Hartford, had no children by her, and died 14 May 1676, in this 65th year, having by will provided for several good works.  The widow died 30 November 1688, aged about 80 says gravestone.   His daughter Catharine married 29 November (of the year who Frothingham 145, calls 1654, by mistake) William Roswell; and Elizabeth married 24 or 29 August 1664, Nathaniel Graves or Greaves; and next, 15 October 1684, Captain John Herbert of Reading, and died 18 October 1714, aged 70 years.  He began early to be much esteemed, was selectman 1642, Artillery Company 1644, Representative 1646, and many years more, speaker 1648, and often after Treasurer of the Colony twenty years, and Assistant 1659, to his death.

ROBERT RUSSELL, Andover, married 6 July 1659, Mary Marshall, freeman 1691, had Robert, who died 27 May 1689, perhaps other children, and died 1710, in his 80th year having 5 sons as Farmer says; but names and dates are deficient. 

ROGER RUSSELL, Marblehead, in 1674, may have been son or brother of Henry Russell of the same. 

SAMUEL RUSSELL, Branford, son of Reverend John Russell of Hadley, at Deerfield, there, I presume, served several years, married Abigail Whiting, daughter of John Whiting, about 1685, had John, born 24 January 1687; Abigail, 16 August 1690; Samuel, 28 September 1693; Timothy, 18 November 1695; Daniel, 29 June 1698; Jonathan, 21 August 1700; and Ebenezer, 4 May 1703; was ordained March 1687, and died 15 June 1731, says Farmer; and his widow died 7 may 1733. 

SAMUEL RUSSELL, New Haven, son of Ralph Russell, married 27 February 1696, Esther Tuttle, had Samuel, born 1697; Esther, 4 May, 1699; Mary, January 1701, died soon; one, died 17 August 1702; Ralph, born 12 August 1703, died next year; Joseph, born 19 August, died December 1706; Daniel; and Abel; and died 26 June 1624. 

THOMAS RUSSELL, Charlestown, a gentleman with prefix of Mr. in the church record when he was administered 23 January 1676, was made freeman next month, married 30 December 1669, Prudence Chester, daughter of Leonard Chester, had Mary, born 27 September baptized 2 October 1670, her mother having joined the church 12 June preceding; Thomas, born 30, baptized 31 March 1672; and Prudence, baptized 28 March 1675; and he died 20 October 1676, said to be 35 years old.  His widow died 21 October 1678.  He is called Captain but whose son he was is not told, nor does his gravestone mentioned the age.  As the mother, the daughter of Richard's second wife, he may have been son of Richard, perhaps brought from England, perhaps born here, for his adminstration to the church was 3 months only before that of Daniel. 

THOMAS RUSSELL, Marblehead 1674.

WILLIAM RUSSELL, Cambridge, 1645, or few years earlier, a carpenter, brought wife Martha and son Joseph, born about 1636, baptized in England says the register of matchless Mitchell, had, perhaps, Phebe, who died 8 July 1642; and probably born on this side of the water, Benjamin; John, 11 September 1645; Martha; Philip, about 1650; perhaps that Thomas who died 21 July 1653; William, 28 April 1655; Jason, 14 November 1658; all but Thomas baptized at Cambridge; Joyce, 31 March baptized 13 May 1660; and he died 14 February 1662.  He made his will 13 days preceding.  His widow married 24 March 1665, Humphrey Bradshaw; and next, 24 May 1683, Thomas Hall, and died about 1694.  Joyce married 13 October 1680, Edmund Rice of Sudbury. 

WILLIAM RUSSELL, New Haven, baptized in England 11 October 1612, by wife Sarah Davis, daughter of William Davis, had Samuel, baptized 16 February 1645; Hannah, born 29 July, baptized 4 August 1650; John, 10 November 1653, died young; and Noadiah Russell, 22, baptized 24 July 1659 (not as printed in Genealogical Registrar IX. 362, 25 July, which was Monday), Harvard College 1681.  His wife died 3 December 1664, and he died next year, though by one report he died 24 December 1664, and she soon after.  Hannah married 21 November 1670, Samuel Potter of Wallingford, and removed soon to New Jersey. 

WILLIAM RUSSELL, Boston, a mason, married 7 September 1653, widow Alice Sparrow, had Elizabeth, born 22 April 1659, was liberated in 1662.  One of the same name was of Southampton, Long Island, 1673; and Eaton makes one William Russell to be among early settlers of Reading. 

WILLIAM RUSSELL, Salem, married 25 October 1678, Elizabeth Russell, daughter of the first Francis Russell, had Mary, born 22 October 1680; and John, 9 August 1682. 

WILLIAM RUSSELL, Cambridge, son of William Russell of the same, married 18 March 1683, Abigail Winship, daughter of Edward Winship, had perhaps other children besides Abigail, who died 20 June 1710, aged 21 years and 1/2; and Edward, who died 21 January 1696, aged 11 months. 

WILLIAM RUSSELL, New Haven, son of John Russell of the same, died 1700, at sea, but leaving children John and Hannah.  In 1834, twenty-nine of this name had been graduates at Harvard, fifteen at Yale, and fourteen at the other New England colleges, among which Farmer reckons only 13 clergymen.

 

EDWARD RUST, Dedham, administered of the church 1 October 1665. 

HENRY RUST, Hingham 1635, freeman March 1638, removed to Boston before 1651, on 31 March of which year he was recorded to be an inhabitant. 

ISRAEL RUST, Northampton, married 9 December 1669, Rebecca Clark, daughter of William Clark, had Nathaniel, born 1671; Samuel, 1673, died at 29 years; Sarah, 1675; Experience, 1677; Israel, 1679; Jonathan, 1681; besides Rebecca, and John; and died 11 November 1712. 

NATHANIEL RUST, Ipswich, freeman 1674, was Representative 1690 and 1.  It may seem probable that he was brother of Israel Rust.

NICHOLAS RUST, Springfield, took the oath of allegiance 1678. 

SAMUEL RUST, Boston, a soldier under Captain Sill in Philip's war, in a memorandum 15 April 1676, asked for his wages, says he had served 9 months, had a wife and family, but the name is not found in the records of Boston, and perhaps he lost his life in the war.

 

VINCENT RUTH, freeman of Massachusetts 1645, as says the record, which I do not believe.  Neither can any hesitation be felt in admitting the probability of a conjecture of Reverend L.R. Paige, that it stands for Vincent Druce, the Hingham man.  See that name.

 

RUTHERFORD, or RUDDERFORD.  See Rotherford.

 

JOHN RUTTER, Sudbury, came 1638, in the Confidence from Southampton, aged 22, as servant of Peter Hodges, by wife Elizabeth, had Elizabeth, born 6 October 1642; John, 7 July 1645; Joseph, 1 May 1656; and probably others.  His widow married that Thomas Plympton who was killed in Sudbury fight. 

JOHN RUTTER, Marborough, son of the preceding, probably was the high whig 1689, mentioned In Revolution in New England Justif. page 30.

 

EDWARD RUTTY, Milford 1677, removed next year to Killingworth, married 6 May 1678, Rebecca Stevens, daughter of Thomas Stevens of the same, had Mercy, born 1679; Edward, 1680; Rebecca, 1685; Phebe, 1687; Cary, 1689; Thomas, 1691; Abigail, 1696; and died 1 May 1712.  His widow died 26 February 1737.

 

WILLIAM RYALL.  See Royall.

 

JOHN RYDEAT.  See Rediate.

 

JEREMIAH RYLAND, Dorchester 1654, very poor. See History 183.