Royce Robert b. ABT 1603 Somerset, England, U.K. d. 22 SEP 1676 New London, New London, Connecticut, USA

1603 - 1676

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Birth Abt 1603 Somerset, England, U.K.

Gender Male

_UPD 16 AUG 2009 13:24:54 GMT-5

Died 22 Sep 1676 New London, New London, Connecticut, USA

Person ID I1680 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Family Mary, b. Abt 1609, d. 04 Jul 1697, New London, New London, Connecticut, USA

Married 04 Jun 1634 Martock, Somerset, England, U.K.

Donald L. Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, 1922-1932, 3 volumes.

Children

1. Royce Sarah, b. Abt 1635, Martock, Somerset, U.K.

, d. 01 May 1711, Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA

Family ID F758 Group Sheet

Notes	Savage claimed the Robert Roice of Boston was identical with a man of the same name who appeared in Connectifcut some years later, but since the latter had wife Mary, and the only known wife of the Boston man was Elizabeth, who outlived him, this cannot be true. Joseph Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Originally published 1860. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: immigrants to New England 1620-1633, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995, Three volumes. Robert came from England in the Francis; settled at Stratford, CT, in 1644/48; at New London, 1660; Member of City Council. Robert was a freeman at Boston 1 Apr 1634, 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 Joseph Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Originally published 1860. Clarence Leslie Hewitt, Jr., argues in his article “Some light on the marriage of Robert and Mary Royce of Connecticut” in New Eng. Hist. Gen. Reg. 122 (1968): 274-277 that Mary, Robert’s wife was not Mary Sims, Simms, or Symmes, of Long Sutton, Somerset. There was a Robert Royce who married a Mary Sims in Long Sutton on 4 Jun 1624. Hewitt says the “1624 wedding hardly works out, credibly or chronologically, with their emigration to America or the birthday of their first born. ... It would therefore seem most unlikely that Robert and Mary would have remained continent or been barren from 1624to 1634 or that all their children born in that decade could have perished in infancy.” It remains a possibility, though, that they could have been married in 1624 and all their children from the first ten years died.