Ralph ROOTE

1594 - 1666  (72 years)

• Name	Ralph ROOTE
  Born	5 May 1594	Maresfield, Sussex, England
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	ROOTES
  Migration	1635	“Abigail”
  Occupation	Overseer of Fences
  Immigrant?	Y
  Died	10 May 1666	Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I38192	Main
  Last Modified	2 Aug 2017

  
  

  Family	Mary WHITFIELD,   d. 15 Nov 1655, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Married	1615	St Giles, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
  Children	1. Sarah ROOTE,   b. 1633, England ,   d. ?
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2016
  Family ID	F13562	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Histories

  The Good Ship Abigail 1635 passenger list

  
  

• Notes

  Born about 1585 (aged 50 on 17 June 1635). Planter & husbandman who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1635 on the "Abigail" & settled in Boston. (On 17 June 1635, "Ralph Roote," aged 50, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the Abigail). Died in February 1666 . MARRIAGES: (1) By about 1633 Mary _____. "Mary wife of Ralph Roote" died at Boston on 15 November 1655. (probably) (2) Mary (Curtis) Ruggles, sister of William Curtis and widow of Thomas Ruggles. On 14 February 1675 , "Old Mother Roote who was Tho[mas] Ruggles widow afore" died or was buried at Roxbury. "She lived not only till past use, but till more tedious than a child. She was in her 89 year." "Mary Roote," aged 15, a servant of HENRY COLLINS , sailed for New England on the same vessel with Ralph Roote, but no place has been found for her in this family (although she might be the daughter who married in Lynn).  —— Ralph Roote came in the Abigail in 1635, aged 50 (Hotten's Lists), along with his daughter, Mary, age 15; his 1st wife Ann was a member of the First Church of Boston in 1639; his 2nd wife Mary d. 15 Nov. 1655 Boston*, as Mary the wife of Ralph Roote; after careful elimination he is the only Roote of the proper age and unmarried state, who could be the husband of Mary the widow of Thomas Ruggles after 1662. (Suff. I: 461) The nuncupative will of Ralph Roote mentions, as he had love and care of sonne and dau. Bolston with whom he lived, they to have all excepting ten shillings to his dau. Jeane Buttell (or Battell), and five shillings to his dau. at Lin. Proved 29 Mar. 1666. (Suff. IV: 265) The inventory of the estate of Ralph Roote was taken 27 Mar. 1666 by Jacob Elliott and Theophilus ffrarye, and was presented by James Balston his son in law; it was less than œ22. This verbal will does not mention his widow Mary, it was unnecessary to provide for her, as she was well taken care of by the estate of her first husband Thomas Ruggles. http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/n/e/u/Michael-R-Neuman-Costa-Mesa/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0095.html [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 37184535.