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Descendants of William? Rossiter


Generation No. 5


5. EDWARD5 ROSSITER (NICHOLAS 4, PHILIP 3, RICHARD 2, WILLIAM? 1)1 was born 1575 in Combe St. Nicholis, Somerset, England, and died October 23, 1630 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He married COMBE Abt. 1598.

Notes for EDWARD ROSSITER:
References: Files of Stephen M. Lawson [Email Steve@lawson.net or lawson@tscnet.com]; New England Historical and Genealogical Resister, Vol. 138 (1984), pages 4-16; Search for the Passengers of Mary & John 1630, Vol. 17 (1992) pages 133-135 and for more information refer to: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, by Robert Charles Anderson (Boston, 1995).

His name is found in English records as early as 1597 as paying taxes on his father's property. He was last taxed in 1628/9. He and his household left Plymouth March 20, 1630 on the 'Mary and John' as a settler and stockholder in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Edward was to receive 50 acres of land for each person he brought with him. The total of 13 persons including 5 childern (all except Dorothy), the wife of Bryan, and the wife and children of Nicholas. Edward died within a month of arriving in Massachusetts, his death being reported by Thomas DUDLEY (future governor) thus: "Within a month after, died Mr. Rossiter, another of the associates, a godly man and of good estate."


Notes for COMBE:
Little is known of the wife of Edward, except that she was the daughter of John Combe of Combe St. Nicholas and sister of Joseph Combe.

       Children of EDWARD ROSSITER and COMBE are:

6. i.   NICHOLAS6 ROSSITER, b. Abt. 1599, Comb St. Nicholas, England; d. June 08, 1650, Comb St. Nicholas, England.

  ii.   DOROTHY ROSSITER, b. Abt. 1608, Comb St. Nicholas, England; m. MARTIN GROUT, February 12, 1629/30.

7. iii.   DR. BRAY ROSSITER, b. Abt. 1610, Comb St. Nicholas, England; d. September 30, 1672, Guilford, CT.

  iv.   JANE ROSSITER, b. Abt. 1614, Comb St. Nicholas, England; d. June 01, 1691, Taunton, MA; m. THOMAS GILBERT, March 23, 1639/40, Taunton, MA.

  Notes for JANE ROSSITER:
She was still living in 1685 when she asked for aid from the government.


Notes for THOMAS GILBERT:
Son of John Gilbert of Combe St, Nickolas and Taunton, Massachusetts.


8. v.   HUGH ROSSITER, b. Abt. 1615, Comb St. Nicholas, England; d. Comb St. Nicholas, England.

9. vi.   JOANE ROSSITER, b. Abt. 1616, Comb St. Nicholas, Somerset, England; d. June 09, 1691, Plymouth Colony, MA.


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