Mary (Curtis) Roote (abt. 1589 - 1674)

Born about Mar 1589 in Nazeing, Essex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Ruggles — married 1 Nov 1620 in Nasing, Essex, England

Descendants

Died 14 Feb 1674 at about age 84 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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Biography

Mary Curtis the daughter of Thomas Curtis and 1st wife Mary Camp married Thomas Ruggles 1 November 1620 in Nazeing, Essex, England per John William Linzee citing Parish registers.^[1] After Thomas Ruggles died she married second to Ralph Roote.^[2][3] She was baptized on Mar 1589 in Nazeing, Essex, England.^[4] She died on 14 February 1674/5 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.^[3][5]

Sources

1. ↑ John William Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and their Ancestors and Descendants (Boston, Mass. : J.W. Linzee, 1913) page 452
2. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 3:588. Mary the widow of Thomas, m. aft. 1662, a Roote, whose name of baptism is unknown and of her, at the date of her bur. 14 February 1675, Eliot writes thus: "Old mo. Roote, wh. was Thomas Ruggles' wid. afore. She lived not only till past use, but till more tedious than a child. She was in her 89th yr."
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Ralph Roote, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), VI:93. On 14 February 1674/5, "Old Mother Roote who was Tho[mas] Ruggles widow afore" died or was buried at Roxbury. "She lived not only past use, but till more tedious than child. She was in her 89 year" [RChR 181; Parker-Ruggles 448].
4. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, Editor, and N. Grier Parke (Compiler and Publisher). The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth. (Woodstock, Vt.: N.G. Parke, 1960), 204.
5. ↑ Boston Records Commissioners Reports (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchhill, City Printers, 1884) Vol. 6. Roxbury Land and Church Records p 181 link

• Bailey, Franklin. The Genealogy of Thomas Ruggles of Roxbury (Boston, 1896) Page 5

• Find A Grave: Memorial #37184560 Mary Ruggles Roote - No Burial, no stone - Gives date of baptism as 28 March 1589