Person:Samuel Rockwell (2)
Samuel Rockwell
b.28 Mar 1631 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.1710/11 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)
Parents and Siblings
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m. 14 Apr 1624
  1. Joan Rockwell
  2. John Rockwell
  3. Samuel Rockwell
  4. Ruth Rockwell
  5. Sarah Rockwell
Spouse and Children
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m. 7 Apr 1660
  1. Mary Rockwell
  2. Abigail Rockwell
  3. Deacon Samuel Rockwell
  4. Sergeant Joseph Rockwell
  5. John Rockwell
  6. Abigail Rockwell
  7. Josiah Rockwell
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Samuel Rockwell
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 28 Mar 1631 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 7 Apr 1660 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Norton
Alt Marriage 9 Apr 1658 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Norton
Will[3] 8 Aug 1711 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Will[3] 9 Aug 1711 Codicil.
Death[1][2] 1710/11 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)
Estate Inventory[3] 26 Sep 1711 £331-18-10. Taken by Joshua Willes, Sen., John Strong and John Stoughton, Sen.
Probate[3] 1 Oct 1711 Will exhibited.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 William Rockwell, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    3:1596.

    "Samuel (Rockwell), b. 28 March 1631 [Grant 63]; …"

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 William Rockwell; Fam. 3. Samuel2 Rockwell, in Stiles, Henry R. History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (1892): including East Windsor, South Windsor, Bloomfield, Windsor Locks and Ellington, 1635-1891. (Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1892)
    2:648. 49.

    "Samuel (Rockwell), b. 28 Mch., 1631, in Dorchester."
    "Fam. 3. Samuel2 (Rockwell) (Dea. William1), m. 7 Apl., 1660, Mary (dau. Thomas and Grace Wells) Norton of Guilford. W. Rec. date this m. 1658. He was among the first settlers of E. W.; was adm. to W. Ch. 6 Apl., 1662 (O. C. R.); contrib. 2s. to Conn. Fund for Relief of Poor of other Colonies, 1616 [error for 1676 (see, also, p. 165, Vol. I). He d. 1711.─O. C. R."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Rockwell, Samuel, Windsor, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:281.

    "Probate Records. Vol. VIII, 1710 to 1715. Page 76-7.

    Rockwell, Samuel, Windsor. Invt. £331-18-10. Taken 26 September, 1711, by Joshua Willes, Sen., John Strong and John Stoughton, Sen. Will dated 8 August, 1711.

    I, Samuel Rockwell, Sen., of Windsor, do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament: I give to Mary my wife the third part of my dwelling house, barn, and all my upland and meadow, during her natural life, and also £12 in current pay out of my personal estate, to be at her own dispose. I give to my son Samuel Rockwell a certain tract of upland in the woods, in length 2 1-4 miles and in breadth 5 1-2 rods, and also £8 in current pay. I give to my son Joseph Rockwell land adjoining my son Samuel. I give to my son John Rockwell land adjoining to Joseph's land. I give to my son Josiah Rockwell my dwelling house, barn, orchards on the upland and pastures. I give to my daughter Mary Loomis, besides what she hath received, £6. I give to my daughter Abigail Smith, besides what she hath received, £14. I make my son Josiah Rockwell sole executor.

    SAMUEL ROCKWELL, LS.

    Witness: Job Drake, John Stoughton, Sen.

    A codicil, dated 9 August, 1711: Upon further consideration, and by good advice, I do hereby declare it to be my will and pleasure that Mary my wife shall have the use and improvement of all my estate, both real and personal, that I am now in possession of, during her natural life.

    SAMUEL ROCKWELL, LS.

    Witness: Job Drake, Matthew Grant.

    Court Record, Page 38—1st October, 1711: Will exhibited by Josiah Rockwell, and inventory approved."

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