Ruth COTTON

Rowland married Elizabeth SALTONSTALL on 22 Sep 1692. Elizabeth (daughter of Nathaniel SALTONSTALL and Elizabeth WARD) was born on 17 Sep 1668 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died on 08 Jul 1726 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried on 14 Jul 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Nathaniel Saltonstall and Elizabeth Ward

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From NEHGR 1853, Vol. 7, p. 305
"Boston, Saturday, July 9, 1726. Yesterday morning deceased here, aafter a short illness of a fever, and this evening is decently iterred, Mrs. Elizabeth Cotton, only daughter of the late Hon. Col. Nathaniel Saltonstall, Esq. of Haverhill, and sister to the late Hon. Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq., of Connecticut, Governor." She was born 15 Sept. 1668; m. 1 Rev. Mr. John Denison of Ipswich, who d. Sept. 1689, by whom she had the late Col. John Denison, Esq. of the same town; 2. Rev. Mr. Roland Cotton of Sandwich, who died in March, 1721-2. By him she left ten children, (five of whom were sones,) who followed her to the grave. On the demise of her husand, she moved to Boston, where she resided till her death. "She was known to be a person of very superior wit, knowledge and virtue, from her youth up."

John married Joannah ROSSITER on 07 Nov 1660 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. Joannah (daughter of Bray/Bryan ROSSITER and Elizabeth ALSOP) was born in Jul 1642 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 12 Oct 1702 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Dr. Bryan Rossiter and Elizabeth Alsop

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Nathaniel Saltonstall, born Ipswich, Massachusetts about 1639, graduate harvard College 1659, freeman 1665, Representative 1666, Town Clerk of haverhill 1669 to 1671, Colonel of Essex Regiment 1679 to 1686, Assistant 1679 to 1686, 1689-1692, Member of Council, Judge Oyer and Terminer Court 1692, refused to serve in witchcraft trials, died 21 May 1707.

Nathaniel married Elizabeth WARD on 28 Dec 1663 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born on 1 Apr 1647 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 29 Apr 1714 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of John Ward and Alice Edmunds

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• Fact: Son of Rowland Cotton

John married Sarah HAWKREDD before 03 Oct 1632. Sarah (daughter of Anthony HAWKREDD and Isabel DOWSE) was born in England; died on 27 May 1676 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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.

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• Fact: Son of Sir Richard Saltonstall and Grace Kaye

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Migrated to Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630, age 20, with his widowed father, siblings Rosamond, 18, Samuel 16, Robert, 13, Henry 11, and Grace 8. His father and most of his siblings (Richard and Samuel remained) returned to England in April 1631. Richard, himself, embarked for England from Nantasket on the Lyon on 23 November 1631, remaining about four and a half years. In the summer of 1635, now 25 (although listed as age 23 in the passenger lis), with his wife "Merriall', age 22, and daughter 'Merriall' aged '9 months,' he embarked at London on the 'Susan and Ellen' and settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts. Richard traveled back and forth between England and New England multiple times over the next decades, the final return in 1688.

Maj. Richard Saltonstall, born at Woodsome 1610, matriculated as 'Mr. Fellow Commoner' in Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, 14 Dec 1627; emigrated with father in 1630, before taking a degree, admitted freeman 18 May 1631, resided Watertown, embarked for England 23 Nov 1631 and remained there four years, in April 1635 embarked at London in the 'Susan and Ellen', with wife Muriel, and daughter Muriel, settled Watertown, Massachusetts, 1630, returned to England 1631, returned with wife Muriel and young daughter to settle at Ipswich, Massachusetts, Deputy of Ipswich to the General Court 1635-7, Assistant from 1637 to 1649, in 1664 and from 1680 to 1683, visited England several times, visited Holland with son Henry in 1644, when Richard's portrait was painted, it is said, by Rembrandt, in 1672 in England (when his three daughters were living married there), and the last time in England in 1683, died at Hulme, co. Lancaster, the seat of his son-in-law Sir Edward Moseley, on 29 Apr 1694.

Richard married Muriel GURDON on 4 Jul 1633 in Allhallows, Honey Lane, London. Muriel (daughter of Brampton GURDON, Esq. and Muriel SEDLEY) was born in 1613 in England; died on 21/22 April 1688 in Hulme, Lancashire, England; was buried on 25 Apr 1688 in St. James' Church, Didsbury, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Brampton Gurdon, Esq. and Muriel Sedley