Sarah ROSSITER

Sarah married Aaron EVARTS on 5 Sep 1744. Aaron (son of Daniel EVARTS and Mary WEST) was born on 20 Jan 1718 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 21 Apr 1804. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Benjamin EVARTS was born on 26 Apr 1745 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died on 17 Dec 1819.
2. David EVARTS was born on 23 Jan 1748 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died in Feb 1821.
3. Sarah EVARTS was born on 2 Feb 1751 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
4. Mary EVARTS was born on 5 Mar 1755 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
5. Aaron EVARTS was born on 24 May 1758 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 27 Oct 1776 in in the Army.

Nathaniel married Anna STONE on 8 Jul 1714. Anna (daughter of Lieut. Nathaniel STONE and Mary BARTLETT) was born on 17 Jun 1692 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 20 Apr 1776 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Josiah married Sarah S. SHERMAN before 1677 in Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of Samuel SHERMAN and Mary Sarah MITCHELL) was born on 8 Feb 1654; died on 30 Mar 1712/13 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Mary BARTLETT on 10 Jul 1673. Mary (daughter of Deacon George BARTLETT and Mary CRUTTENDEN) was born on 1 Feb 1654/5 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 5 Nov 1724. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Edward of Boston, Mass.
• Fact: 18 May 1631, Made a Freeman

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Son of EDWARD ROSSITER and his wife ? Comb. Edward, a stockholder in the Dorchester company, died at Dorchester in October 1631. Bray's brothers, Nicholas (and his family) and Hugh, returned to England; sisters Jane and Joan remained in New England and married respectively, Thomas Gilbert and Nicholas Hart.

MILITARY: In April 1640 the Connecticut records show that "Mr Rocester of Wyndsor" was made ensign for the "several bands in the said Townes."

COURT: Bray Rochester served on the jury at the Connecticut court in July 1640 and was frequently a party in court. In 1643 he sued the widow Hutchinson for L2w40. In 1650 he sued Henry Wolcott over a debt for treatment of his son. He lost a suit for defamation against Nicholas Hoit and withdrew one for slander against Peter Tilton that same year. In September 1652 he was in the Guilford Plantation Court stating that he had agreed to arbitration regarding his suit against Edward Sewers for false imprisonment.

OCCUPATION: Physician, surveyor, agitator. He was admitted to the practice of medicine at Windsor after "being first tried and approved by Mr. Hooker, Mr. Stone and old Mr. Smith of Wethersfield." At the time of his removal to Guilford in 1651, he is said by historians to have been the only physician in Connecticut colony, but John Winthrop, Jr., was probably already practicing there, too. In March 1662/3 Rossiter performed the first autopsy known in Connecticut on the body of an eight-year-old girl, Elizabeth Kelly, who hd died in a delirium after accusing a neighbor, Goody Ayres of bewitching her. By the time Rossiter got there, the girl had been dead for five days. he was asked to determine whether she died of natural or preternatural causes. Because he had expected the body to be stiff and it was limber, he reported it as a preternatural sign. Seventeenth century medical knowledge of 'rigor mortis' was limited by today's standeards, and Rossiter was evidently unaware that stiffness abates in about 36 hours. The court allowed Dr. Rosseter "Twenty pounds, in reference to opening Kellies child, and his paynes to visit the Dep: Govern', and his paynes in visiting and administering to Mr. Talcot."

Bray/Bryan married Elizabeth ALSOP before 1639. Elizabeth was christened on 15 Feb 1613/14 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England; died on 29 Aug 1669 in Guilford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Daughter of Rev. John Alsop of Crewkerne, Somerset. She had four brothers in England, three of whom were ministers She was mentioned in the wills of brothers: john Alsop, B.C., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, dated 6 September 1647, who left to his brother Josiah half of his books, and "to my Sister Elizabeth and her Children Fifty Pound to bee payed as soone as yow may with Conveniency of which probably she is or y shee bee dead her Children may stand in greate need"; timoth Alsop, Esquire, of St. Mary Somerset, London, dated 25 July 1664, gave "to my sister in New England one hundred and fifty pounds to be paid within a twelve month"; Rev. Josias Alsop of St. Clement's Eastcheap, London, dated 12 August 1666, gave L100 to "M' Elizabeth Rosseter, my sister in New England, or to her children if she be dead" and L50 to"my brother Mr Timothy Alsop's children". It is not known when or how Elizabeth came to New England, although there were a number of families from Crewkerne who came in 1630, and it has been suggested she might have been one of the servants in Edward Rossiter's party.

Samuel married Mary Sarah MITCHELL in 1640 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Mary was christened on 14 Oct 1621 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Matthew Mitchell and Susan Wood Butterfield

John married Mary ?. Mary died in 1687. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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I originally had Deacon George Bartlett as the son of Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren. It was done many years ago when my genealogy skills were just beginning to develop. At that time, I relied on other's family trees. I have since learned to find vital resources. Sorry for the misleading of this family.

Editor's post 3 Mar 2018

Excerpt from American Ancestors: New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Deacon George Bartlett is said to have been a brother of John Bartlett who lived in Windsor. he was a Guilford Soon after the settlement of the plantation. His name appears as a witness in the first Court record, Aug. 14, 645, and it would seem as if he had been there then a considerable time. At a Court, Oct. 9, 1645, he was appointed, with three others, "to make and finish ye pound within ye time of 3 weeks under ye fine of 20 shillings." He seems to have been a man of education and consequence in the community, and was frequently a witness in the Courts.

At a General Court, on May 22, 1648, "Mr." Bartlett was given the "Freeman's Charge." In the Book of "Terriers," his name is tenth, with a homelot containing four and a half acres, allowed for four, at the South-west corner of the Green. he was chosen overseer of highways on May 22, 1649, and on June 9, 1653, one of the townsmen. He succeeded Gov. William Leete as Secretary of the Plantation, on June 5, 1662, and at the same time became one of the Deputies to hold the Particular Courts. he was chosen on April 23, 1665, with John Fowler, as one of the first representatives sent by Guilford to the General Assembly of Connecticut, by which colony the New Haven jurisdiction had just been absorbed. On July 6, 1665, he was appointed Lieutenant of the Train Band at Guilford. Prior to that date, but after 1660, he and John Fowler were made the first deacons of the Guilford Church.

On June 23, 1654, New Haven Jurisdiction raised a company numbering 133, commanded by Capt. Seeley, to cooperate with an army of 800 from all the United Colonies of New England, and George Bartlett was appointed to command the Guilford contingent of 17, with the rank of sergeant. On June 9, 1651, he was elected Marshal of the Plantation, succeeding Thomas Jones. In 1665 he was appointed, with Robert Kitchel, as "commissioner" for Guilford, and "invested with magestratical power." In 1649, he and John Hoadly, were appointed by the town of Guilford to build a cart bridge over East River, receiving L3 in English commodities, the rest in "country pay or works." A year previously he had been one of three men appointed to build a fence to keep the young cattle from the "herd's walk". Deacon Bartlett was married, by Mr. Samuel Desborough, to Mary, daughter of Abraham Cruttenden on Sept. 14, 1650. He died Aug. 2, 1669, and was buried the next day. His wife did not long survive, but died on Sept. 10, 1669.

George married Mary CRUTTENDEN on 14 Sep 1650 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Abraham CRUTTENDEN and Elizabeth ?) was born in 1632 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England; died on 11 Sep 1669 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]