Nehemiah ROYCE

Abt 1636 - 1706  (70 years)

• Name	Nehemiah ROYCE  [2, 3]
  	Biography of Nehemiah Royce Early life He was born about 1636 in England, the son of Robert Royce (c1606-1676) and Mary (_____). He may have been the Nehemiah Royce christened on May 30, 1637 at St Michael the Greater Anglican Church, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. There was only one Nehemiah Royce in all of England, coincidentally christened 1637, whose parents coincidentally are named Robert and Mary. He died on November 1, 1706 at New Haven, Connecticut and is buried in Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford, Connecticut.[2] Marriage and family On Nov. 20, 1660, he married Hannah Morgan at New London New London County, Connecticut. They were the parents of nine children. She was born on July 18, 1642 at Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and died on June 19, 1677 at Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut. She was the daughter of James Morgan and Margery Hill. He married as his second wife, Esther Moss in 1678. Royce, a carpenter, joiner and blacksmith by trade, was one of Wallingford's original 38 proprietors authorized by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1667 to purchase land from Mantowese and Sunk Squa, daughter of the Great Sachem of the Quinnipiacs. On May 12, 1670, Wallingford was incorporated and about 126 people settled in the town. On May 11, 1693 Royce was elected deputy representing Wallingford to the Court of the Connecticut Colony [3]. Descendants Nehemiah Royce's descendants number in the thousands today. Some of his notable descendants include: Jonathan Brace,[4] (1754?1837) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Harwinton, Connecticut and graduated from Yale College in 1779. Clint Eastwood,[5] American film actor, director, and producer Millard Fillmore,[6] (1800?1874) was the 13th President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853 and the last member of the Whig Party (United States) to hold that office. Hamilton Jeffers,[7] (1893?1978) was a noted astronomer. John Robinson Jeffers,[8] (1887?1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. He is considered an icon of the environmental movement. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822?1903) was an American journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park in New York City. House Built in 1672, the Royce house is an example of American colonial saltbox architecturial style[9] and is the oldest extant house in Wallingford. George Washington visited the house in 1775, when he was on his way to take command of the Continental Army in Cambridge, Massachusetts (he passed through Wallingford again in 1789). He stopped in Wallingford to purchase gunpowder from a nearby mill and addressed the residents of the town in front of the house near the Elm. The Royce family occupied the house for over 200 years. The house was moved to its current location in 1924. For a time it was a museum and then was used as a residence by Choate Rosemary Hall, until the school donated the house to the Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust in 1999. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Notes ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://www.nr.nps.gov/. ^ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11711015 ^ Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776 ^ http://www.cslib.org/memorials/bracejo.htm ^ McGilligan, Patrick. Clint: The Life And Legend; New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002; pp. 13. ^ http://www.notablekin.org/gbr/eastwood.htm ^ <http://www.wargs.com/political/bush.html ^ http://www.wargs.com/political/bush.html ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=CPYfSsQ-WE4C&pg=PA503&lpg=PA503&d q=who+has+owned+the+Nehemiah+Royce+house%3F&source=bl&ots=H0FVp-3-oT&sig=hoxegL12iWrK_F7 K118tVG7_LRY&hl=en&ei=CcA7Srr9IaWoM97u7L0O&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&res num=1 VALORI SCHOBERGadded this on 11 Jan 2010 [1]
  Birth	Abt 1636	England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Fact	Son of Robert and Mary Royce   [1]
  Death	1 Nov 1706	New Haven, Connecticut   [1]
  Burial	Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I71294	Main Tree
  Last Modified	3 May 2022

  
  

  Father	Robert ROYCE   d. Bef 22 Sep 1676
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mary SIMS
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F09526	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah MORGAN,   b. 18 May 1642, Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts d. 19 Jun 1677, Wallingford, New Haven Co., Connecticut (Age 35 years)
  Marriage	20 Nov 1660  [2, 3]
  Children	1. Joanna ROYCE,   b. 1670   d. Abt 1688 (Age 18 years)  [Birth]   2. Lydia ROYCE,   b. 28 May 1680  [Birth]
  Family ID	F28856	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1636 - England Burial - - Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford, Connecticut  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S5305] Posted by Valori Schoberg @ ancestry.com, "Biography of Nehemiah Royce" . [S5304] Nathaniel H. Morgan, "Morgan Genealogy" A History of James Morgan, of New London, Conn. and His Descendants; From 1607-1869, (Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1869). [S9214] Richard Anson Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut.