Bray Rossiter (1610 - 1672)

Born 1610 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Alsop) Rossiter — married 1635 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 30 Sep 1672 at about age 62 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut

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Biography

Bryan Rossiter immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Bray (Bryan) Rossiter arrived in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1630 aboard the Mary & John from England, with his father. Bray Rossiter settled in Windsor, Connecticut, where he practiced as a physician, became a landed proprietor of the settlement, its first town clerk and registrar, and later moved to Guilford, Connecticut in 1652. He performed the first post-mortem in the colony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Wells_Rossiter

"Bray" Rossiter became a Massachusetts Freeman 18 May 1631.^[1]

"Bryan" Rossiter died in Guilford, 30 Sep 1672.^[2]

Bray Rossiter once the owner of land and a farm in Dorchester near Boston, which he had purchased from the Natives and granted by the town [Lechford 157] At 1639-40 this land was in the hands of the William Hutchinson family. ^[3]

His will dictated to John Allyn and Joseph Faines on 30 September 1672 was presented in New Haven County court on 2 October and was approved on 13 November 1672.^[4] His inventory was taken on 6 November 1732.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet. Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts bay in New England. Boston, W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1853 p. 366
2. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Guilford. (Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.)
3. ↑ by subscription Page 479 Vol. 3 Anderson, R C, The Great Migration Begins...
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} “New Haven Probate Records, Vol. 1-2, 1647-1703”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-G9NJ-6 : 8 March 2021), New Haven, Connecticut, FHL microfilm 007626739, image 157-158. New Haven Probate Record, 1647-1687, Vol. 1, Part 2, page 31-32.

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