John ROLFE

Notes:

Tombston Inscription:

A Memoriall of Mortality

Mr. John Son Of
ye reverend Mr.
Benjamin Rolfe
Died September
ye 15th 1699 Aged
19 Days

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 1684; Graduated from Harvard College
• Residence: 1689, Chaplain to the forces at Falmouth
• Residence: 1694, Ordained as the second minister of Haverhill, Mass.

Notes:

Benjamin, his wife and the youngest child were killed by Indians

Daughters, Mary and Elizabeth were saved from death at the hands of the Indians by the coolnees, inrepidity, shrewdness and faithfulness of Hagar, a negro servant, who concealed them and herself in the cellar.

Benjamin married Mehitable ATWATER on 12 Mar 1693/4. Mehitable (daughter of John ATWATER and Mehitable WAINWRIGHT) was born about 1662 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 29 Aug 1708 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; was buried in Pentucket Cemetery, Haverhill, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of John Atwater and Mehitable Wainwright

Notes:

Tombstone Inscription:

Mehetible Ye Wife
Of Ye Reuerend
Mr. Beniamin Rofe
Who Was Barbar
ously Murdered
By Enemies On
August ye 29 1708
& In ye 46 Year
Of Her Age.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Weaver
• Fact: 1659, Admitted Freeman

Benjamin married Apphia HALE on 03 Nov 1659. Apphia (daughter of Thomas HALE and Thomasine DOWSETT) was born in 1642 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 24 Dec 1708 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Joshua Atwater and Mary ?

John married Mehitable WAINWRIGHT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Corporal Francis and Wainwright and Phillippa ?

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Between May and Jun 1606, Watton-Apud-Stone, Co. Hertford, England
• Baptism: 15 Jun 1606, Parish Church at Watton
• Residence: 1635, Came to Newbury, Massachusetts
• Residence: 1637, Came to America in the Ship "Hector" with wife Thomasine and 2 children
• Death: 1682

Notes:

Excerpts from "McCall-Tidwell and Allied Families": Thomas Hale was in Newbury in 1638. August 10, 1638, he and John Baker were by vote of the town appointed "haywards till the town shall appoint new". In 1639, he signed with some others, a memorial to the General Court against Mr. Edward Woodman, for his speeches against Mr. Parker and Mr. Woodbridge. He adhered throughout to the Parker party as a member of the Church, his son Thomas taking the other side, but without break between them. By consent of all Freemen at a "Generalle Towne Meeting", the stinting of the commons in 1642 was referred to Henry Short, Edward Woodman, Edward Rawson, Thomas Hale and John Woodbridge, according to their best judgments and discretions. He seems to have removed to Haverhill in 1645 or 1646, to have returned to Newbury before January 15, 1652; to have removed to Salem before Jan. 28, 1658; to have returned to Newbury, Nov. 9, 1661.
Thomas Hale was named as a landholder in Haverhill, and noted as from Newbury. Head the list of the first selectmen chosen in Haverhill in 1646. Appointed to keep a ferry in 1648. In 1650, appointed to meet men from Salisbury to layout bounds between that town and Haverhill. Constable in 1649 and later. His name first on records at assessments in Haverhill, 1646. In Felt's Annals of Salem, his name appears in list of glovers in Salem in 1659. (Vol.2, page 169). "Little River" is called "Thomas Hale's River" in History of Haverhill in 1651.

Thomas married Thomasine DOWSETT on 11 Dec 1632 in St. Helena's, Bishopgate, London. Thomasine (daughter of Gabriel DOWSETT and Mercy ?) was born about 1605 in England; died on 30 Jan 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Thomasine ?